(f) P. 303. — ' And so we might go on in other resemblances.' To all wishing to see the analogy carried out with wealth of quaint thought and illustration, we would commend the ' Soul's Sickness' of Thomas Adams (Works, Vol. I., pp. 471-506) ; also, as not at all inferior, and indeed abounding in even more recondite lore and unex- pected flashes of wit. Bishop Gr. Williams, ' Of the Misery of Man,' in his ' Seven Golden Candlesticks.' (Folio, 1635. pp. 565-661.)
(g) P. 337. — ' As we see now in these wars of Germany.' Cf. Memoir, Vol. I., pp. Ivii.-viii. The ' now' from 1620-21. onwards.
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(h) P. 347. — ' Man is, as it were, a sum of all the excellencies of the creatures ; a little world indeed.' This idea will he found worked out in quaint fasliion hy Bishop Earle, in his ' Micro-cosmography,' and hy Capt. T. Butler, in his ' Little Bible of Man.' 164Q.
(i) P. 349. — 'The word in the original is a "standard-hearer,"' Titus iii. 8. . . . Of. Ellicott, m loc, together with extracts and illustrations given in Kypke, Ob- serv. ii. 381 ; Loesner, Obs. p. 430. The word is rr^o/ffr-/;,(i/. The noun, rr^oCTarnc = a leader, champion. Wycliffe renders it ' Be bisie to be ahouen other in good werkis ' (Hexapla .... Bagster) ; and, perhaps, ' standard-bearer' catches the idea, if it departs from the exact wording.
(fj P. 350. — ' The fragrancy of the smell is smelt of passengers as they sail along the coast.' One of Eichard Sibbes's hearers, John Milton (see our Memoir, VoL I., p. liii.) , has finely put this : —
' .... As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambique, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the sjncy shore Of Arahy the blest.'— Paradise Lost, B. IV., 159-163.
(k) P. 351. — ' The church of God riseth out of the ashes of the martyrs, which hitherto smells sweet, and puts life in those who come after, so precious are they both dead and alive.' The sentiment is preserved by the poet, concerning the ' actions of the just,' in the familiar lines : —
' . . . . The actions of the jiist Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.'
(James Shirley, ' Death's Final Conquest ').
Shirley was a ' student ' of Catharine College, Cambridge.
(l) P. 355. — ' Monica, St Austin's mother, .... he was converted o/itfr her death.' &c. This is a somewhat singular blunder on the part of Sibbes. Augustine was ' converted' before his mother's death, as the touching narrative in the ' Confessions ' has made immortal. Cf. B. VIII., 30 ; B. IX., 17, et alibi.
(to) p. 370. — ' Calvin and Luther .... burn their bones,' &c. If this does not apply literally to Calvin and Luther, it yet holds good of many like-minded. Every one remembers what was done to Wycliffe's ' bones,' and also Fuller's characteristic conceits upon the scattered ashes, to which none will refuse Dr Vaughan's approving ' Well-spoken— Honest one ! ' Cf. Vaughan's John de "Wycliffe, D.D., a monograph (4to. 1853), pp. 521, seq. To Wycliffe may be added Bucer, concerning the ' burn- ing of whose bones I take the following verses from Faithful Teat's rare ' Ter Tria ' (ISmo. 1669, 2d edition, pp. 142, 143).
' What though revengeful papists burne Dear Bucer's bones ? still hope's his urne, Till's ashes to a phoenix turne.
And live afresh.' (From ' Hope.')
(n) P. 377. — ' The abominable distinctions of the papists of Latria and Dulia.' That is, Xar^sia and dovXsia, commonplaces in the popish controversy. Cf. Faber. • Difficulties of Romanism,' and almost any of the standard treatises ^ro and con.
(o) P. 378.—' Calleth them dunghill-gods, and Abel, as it is in this book, vanity,' &c. The allusion of Sibbes in the former is perhaps to Beelzebub, worshipped by the Philistines of Ekron = the fly-god, i. e., dunghill-bred fly. ' Abel ' means ' vanity,' and the reference is not to Abel — the proper name of Adam's second-bom son — but to Hosea xii. 11.
(p) P. 379. — ' Coster himself, a forward Jesuit.' That is, John Costenis or Costerius in his • Comment .... pro Catholicae Fidel Antiquitate et Veritate,' (Paris, 1569).
(q) P. 379. — ' Late worthies of our church.' The following are the principal works on the popish controversy, by the eminent writers enumerated : —
1. Bishop Jewel. — (1.) ' Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae,' 1562. (2.) 'An Apology for Private Mass ; with a learned annswere to it by Bishop Jewell,' 1562. (3.) Various ' Answers ' to Hardinge and others.
2. John Rainolds, D.D. — ' The summe of the Conference betweene John Eainoldes and John Hart, touching the Head and Faith of the Church,' &c., &c., 1584, and various «ditions.
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3. "William Fulke. — Very many works. For list, consult Watt's Bibl. Brit, suh nomine.
4. L)r William Whitaker. — Cf. our Memoir of Sibbes, pp. Ixxxi-ii.
5. Andrew Willet. — His great work is his ' Synopsis Papismi,' 1600 ; but he is author of other masterly, if somewhat vehement, treatises on the controversy. Con- sult ^V'att sub nomine.