(/) P. 60. — ' God spake in me oft, and I knew it not.' This is the touching bur- den of the early chapters of Augustine's Confessions.
(/*) P. 61. — ' Ballarmine makes this objection,' &c. An ignorat eos aperire non posse? An stultus non esset, qui ostium vicini pulsaret, si certo sciret neminem intus esse qui aperire posset. Bell, de gratia et lib. : arbit. lib. i., cap. xi.
{g) P. 74. — ' She is now desirous to pity herself, and needs no Peter to stir her up to it.' The allusion is to Mat. xvi. 22. In our translation it is rendered, ' Be it far from thee. Lord,' which obscures the pathos of the devoted apostle's mistaken, but most loving appeal. It should be ' Pity thyself.' Hence Sibbes's reference.
(h) P. 84. — ' It was a good speech of Ignatius the martyr,' &c. There are various sayings resembling this in the epistles of Ignatius, e.g., to the Ephesians, c. xviii., to the Trallians, c. ix-xi., to the Eomans, c. ii.-iv., and vi. Probably Sibbes refers to the ancient narrative of the ' martyrdom of Ignatius.' Cf. § 2. Patnim Apostolicorum Opera, ed. Hefele. 8vo. 1847.
(i) P. 93. — Hebrews xii. 1. Cf. Sibbes's translation, with Alford, Webster and Wilkinson, and Dr Sampson, in loc. He repeats this and other renderings in his various books.
(y) P. 121. — 'Austin was forced to speak in his time against the Donatists.' For a very masterly accoyjit of this and other of the great fathers' controversies, consult Wigger's ' Historical Presentation of Augustinism and Pelagianism from the Ori- ginal Sources,' (ed. by Emerson. Andover, 1840. 8vo).
(k) P. 125. — ' He [the Lord] . . . would have their [disciples'] society and grayer*.' This is the popular view, but, like the popular understanding of Thomas, thrusting his fingers into the side and nail-prints of the risen Saviour, (See note a, vol. i., p. 101), is probably a popular mistake. Our Lord sought the society of his disciples certainly ; but nowhere do we read of his asking any one to pray for him. It is an awful peculiarity of the divine man ' Emanuel,' that he never did that, — one of a multitude of subsidiary assertions of his divinity.
(Z) P. 132. — '" What is truth?" saith he, in a scornful, profane manner.' This, almost verbatim the opening words of Bacon's Essay on ' Truth,' reminds one, with others, of Sibbes's intercourse with him, noticed in our memoir.
(m) P. 149. — ' So should we now .... have ideas of Christ framed to our souls,' &c. For a very valuable, and, in many respects, remarkably acute and suggestive discussion of the question of framing ' ideas of Christ,' a subject keenly debated in the last century in Scotland, consult the following little-known book, by Ealph
Erskine — ' Faith no Fancy ; or a Treatise of Mental Images shewing that
our imaginary idea of Christ as Man (when supposed to belong to saving faith, whether in its act or object), imports nothing but ignorance, atheism, idolatry, great
falsehood, and gross delusion.' Edinburgh, 1745, 12mo. This little work
may be pronounced the pioneer of the philosophy known as Scottish. Apart from its bearing on the passage of Sibbes, it will be found to contain much uncommon thought on 'ideas,' equal, to say the least, to the subsequent writings of Eeid.
(n) P. 153.—' All hung upon his lips, as flip phrase is in the gospel.' The refer- ence is to Luke iv. 20, which is hei-e given in the original, to confirm Sibbes's
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remark, — Ka^ "rru^ag to jSi^Xiov d'Todovg rui i/TJjgtr?;, ix.ddicre xa! irdvruv iv rfi awayuy^ o'l 6fida}.,tio! ^sav drhiZ^TOvig aOrw. dnvrig = 'intent,' 'earnestly fixed,' from tuvm, cf. xxii. 56. Acts iii. 12, x. 4, xiv. 9.
(o) P. 153. — ' In the learned language, the same word signifieth speech and reason.' Query — Is the allusien to Xoyoj ?
[p) P. 154. — ' His belly In the Hebrew it is used for the inward affec- tions.' See prefatory note to the present treatise of ' Bowels Opened.'
{q) P. 160. — ' When Pilate sent him to him, [Herod] made nobody of him, as the •word in the original is.' Sibbes's reference is to Luke xxiii. 11, rendered in authorised version, ' set him at nought,' but literally runs, ' having set him at nought,' i.e., etymologically, treated him as if he were nobody, or of no consideration. The verb is l^oySsvsw,
(r) P. 169. — ' Heavy will the doom be of many that live in the church's bosom, to
whom it had been better to have been born in America, in Turkey ' The
juxtaposition of America and Turkey is in curious contrast with the present position of America among the Christian nations of the world. Yet with all this idea of the ' barbarousness ' of America (which was common to Sibbes with his contemporaries), the Puritans shrank not from exiling themselves thither when the question of their religious liberties came up. Hooker, Davenport, Cotton, Stone, and numerous others of Sibbes's friends thus expatriated themselves.
(s) P. 169. — ' They are lilies, being clothed with the white garment,' &c. It is pity to destroy the ' fine fancies ' of Sibbes on the supposed ' whiteness ' of the lily ; but he was thinking of the home, not of the eastern ' lily,' which is purple coloured, not ' white.' The ' purple ' gives greater vividness to the Lord's allusion to the imperial robes of Solomon, Mat. vi. 28, 29.