(m) P. 97. — ' The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.' This familiar apophthegm originated with TertuUian ; but runs more literally, ' Blood is the seed of Christians.' ( Apologeticus adversus Gentes, c. 1.) The original is 'Plures effici- mur quoties metimur a vobis ; semen est sanguis Christianorum.'
(n) P. 98, — ' Some Greek copies,' &c. Cf. Alford, in loc. (Greek Testament, vol. ii.)
(o) P. 99. — ' It is an excellent speech, solus Christus.' For the passage, see vol. I. footnote, page 369.
(p) P. 100. — ' It is read in the margin, and most go that way,' &c, Cf. Alford, as in note n.
(q) P. 104. — ' A man need not to whip himself, as the Scottish papists do.' The reference is probably to the ot'cr-zeal of the Scottish papists at the period contem- porary with Sibl>es, which manifested itself in a morbid observance of the extremest austerities of popery.
(r) P. 108.—' When he hears of any calamity of the church, whether it be in the Palatinate, in France, in the Low Countries,' &c. Sibbes, as stated in our Memoir, took the deepest interest in the ' foreign ' Protestants, and especially in the perse- cutions in the Palatinate. Cf. ' Memoir,' c. vii., and ' Sword of the Wicked, vol. I. pp. 115, 116.
(r*-) P. 114. — ' It were offensive to name what distasteful things they will take to do them good.' In Stehelin's ' Eabbinical Literature ; or, the Traditions of the Jews, contained in the Talmud and other mystical writings, &c. &c. (2 vols. 8vo, 1748); Dr Wotton's 'Miscellaneous Discourses relating to the Traditions and Usages of the Scribes and Pharisees in our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ's Time ;' &c. &c, (2 vols. 8vo, 1718), and scattered throughout Lightfoot's ' Talmudic,' and other ' Illustrations,' will be found many singular confirmations of the text of Sibbes in relation to Scripture ; while Timotliy Brighf/s ' Treatise, wherein is de- clared the 'Sufficience of English Medicines forcure of all Diseases' (1615). preserves, with all the quaint wit of bis ' Melancholie ' (the prototype of Burton's great book), the ' distasteful things' to which Sibbes's contemporaries submitted. Consult also the various liistories of the early ' Materia Medica.'
(.s) P. 117.—' A learned Hebrician Capne,' &c. John Reuchlin, one of the fore- most names of Germany, alike in relation to the Pieformation and the Eestoration of Letters, has recently received the splendid eulogium— enriched with accumulated
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' testimonies' — of Sir William Hamilton. Consult his ' Discussions on Pliilosophy and Literature; &e. &c. (2d edition. 1853), pp. 212, seq., 216, 237, 239, seq. His student-visitors will remember how Sir William was wont to exhibit, as one of the greatest prizes of his collection, the interesting holograph letter of Reuchlin, first published in above ; and with what glowing appreciation he expatiated upon its writer. Sibbes calls him by his later name of Capne. He translated, in the fashion of the day. his guttural German into the more euijlionious Greek, — both signifying the same thing, viz., ' smoke ' {Der ranch and '/.aTvoc), as Philip Schwartzerde be- came Philip Melancthon. He was born at Pforzheim, 1400 ; died, 1522. He was the preceptor of Melancthon ; and Luther acknowledged to him that ' he only fol- lowed in his steps, — only consummated his victory, with inferior strength, indeed, but not inferior courage, in breaking the teeth of the Behemoth.' Epist. ad. Eeuchl., lib. ii., sig. C. iii., and in De Wette's Luther's Briefe, i. 196.
(i) P. 121. — ' The word is very signiiicant in the original,' &c. The expression is intensive, i^arroor^'rivai = to be utterly at a loss, or absolutely without a way (To'eoj) of escape. Cf. Dr Charles Hodge, in loc.
(m) p. 121. — 'The schoolmen say,' &c. Query, Aquinas? He speaks of the ' Magnitudo doloris Christi' as arising from his body being ' optime complexionatus.' Leigh, in his ' Body of Divinity,' so cites it, and gives as the reference ' Aq. Part 3. Qusest. 46., Art. 6.'
(v) P. 129. — ' As the heathen man could say,' ' There is not the oldest man but he thinks he may live a little longer, one day longer.' The ' heathen man' is Cicero, who says, ' Nemo enim est tam seuex, qui se annum non putet posse vivere.' De Senectute, c. vii. § 24.
(w) P. 133. — ' They renounce their own religion at the hour of death, as Bellar- mine did.' The authority for this statement is Bellarmine's own work on Justifica- tion, lib. V. c. 7. After defending the Romish doctrine on this subject in opposition to the Protestant Evangelical, he makes this concession, which speaks more for his piety than his consistency : ' Propter incertitudinem propriae justitisB et periculum inanis glorias, tutissimum esse in sola misericordia Dei et benignitate fiduciam suam reponere.' If I err not, a like confession is made in his ' Last Will.'
(z) P. 134. — ' Coster saith, and saith truly, if Christ be not there, we are the greatest idolaters in the world.' Cf. Note p, vol. IL p. 434.
(y) P. 137. — ' Saith St Austin, ' I dare say, and stand to it, that it is profitable for some men to fall ; they grow more holy by their slips.' The sentiment will be found in the following quotations : —