(1.) ' Audeo dicere, superbis continentibus expedit cadere,' &c. — Be Divers. Scrm. cccliv. cap. ix, tom v. col. 1378. Bened. ed. fol. Par. 1679 sqq.
(2.) ' Audeo dicere, superbis esse utile cadere in aliquod apertum manifestiimqne peccatum, unde sibi displiceant, qui jam sibi placendo ceciderunt.' — De Civ. Dei. xiv. 13.
Cf. footnote vol. I. 324, and Jeremy Taylor, ' Sermon on Lukewarmness and Zeal ; or Spiritual Fervour.' Edition of Works by Eden, iv. 149.
(z) P. 138. — ' As the heathen man said, that great emperor, " I have been all things, and nothing doth me good now," when he was to die. " Omnia fui, nihil expedit' is ascribed to the emperor Septimus Severus on his deathbed (a. d. 211).
(aa) P. 149. — ' St Bernard, a good man in evil times,' saith he, ' I consider three things in which I pitch my hope and trust, charitatem adoptionis, the love of God in making me his child ; and veritatern promissionis, the truth of God in performing his promise,' &c. Sibbes paraphrases the following : ' Tria igitur considero, in quibus tota spes mea consistit, charitatem adoptionis, veritatem promissionis, potestatem redditionis.' — Sermon i\\..de panibus, 8.
{bb) P. 154. — ' It is a seizon, as a piece of earth,' &c. Sir William Blackstone (' Commentaries,' b. ii. c. 20.) explains this : ' This livery of seisin is no other than tlie pure feodal investiture, or delivery of corporeal possession of the land or tene- ment ; which was held absolutely necessary to complete the donation.' — Cf. also Richardson, sub voce.
{cc) P. 170. — ' Deliverance is promised upon ill terms ; that they may redeem their lives if they will, by denying God and religion — an ill bargain.' The 'perse- cutions' of the early Christians furnish many illustrations of the text. They were called merely to ' sprinkle a little incense on the altar' [i. e., of the gods), and a free pardon would ensue. The stern ' Covenanters' of Scotland, under Charles II. and James II., were repeatedly offered their ' lives,' if they would say, ' God save the king.' Neither earlier nor later was the ' ill bargain' acceded to.
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(dd) P. 170. — ' Tlint thoy carry not tlu'msplves unfomcly in IroiiLlos, but so as is meet tor the credit vi tlio triitli wliicli tluy seal wilii tlieir blood.' The ])l(jasant mossiijjo of the iiroto-murtyr of the Kcfonnatiou, Jolm Kogcrs, to llooiicr — who was confined in another a])artnient — on the nij,'lit before his death, is perhaps the most striking illustration of the text in English history. There is abundant evidence of the ' credit' his stout-hearted bearing brought to ' the truth.' Rogers' most recent biograi)her observes : ' To the other condemned preachers still in prison, the news of Rogers' constancy came like a sudden burst of sunliglit from a heavy cloud. If they wavered under the doom that threatened them, tbey did so no longer. He had set them an examjih^ wortliy of imitation, and whither he had led tlie way, they could now more confidently follow. We lind Bradford, in a letter to Cranmor, Rid- ley, and Latimer, written four days after Rogers' death, rejoicing that tlieir ' dear brother' had ' broken the ice valiantly.' Ridley writes thus to Bradford : ' I thank our Lord God and Heavenly Father by Christ, that since I heard of our dear bro- ther Rogers' departing and stout confession of Christ and his truth, even unto the death, my heart, blessed be God, so rejoiced of it, that, since that time, I say, I never felt any lumpish heaviness in my heart, as I grant I have felt sometimes before.' — Cf. Chester's ' Life of John Rogers,' pp. 213-14. 8vo, 1860,
*^t*' P, 182. — ' As St Austin saith well, God hath made the rich for the poor, and the poor for the rich : the rich to relieve the poor, and the i)oor to pray for the rich ; for herein one is accepted for another.' The words are, ' Fecit Deus paupcrem, ut jwobet divitem ; et fecit Deus divitem, ut probet ilium de paupere,' In Psalm cxsiv, Eiiarrat in fine.
{ee) P. 184. — ' That great divine Paulus Phagius, who was a great Hebrecian,' &c. Paulus Fagius was born 1504, died 1550. The words quoted by Sibbes form part of his " Concio valedictoria,'' which will be found both in German and Latin, in Melchior Adam's Lives of German Theologians, page 209. The German begins thus, ' Hir jungen bittel Gott,' &c. The liatiu thus, ' A''o3 juniores orate Deum, Forte enim vos facilius exaudiet quam qui plus peccatorura admiserunt.'
(ff) P. 191. — ' Therefore you know the Grecians accounted that a chief blessing.' Sibbes probably refers to the many praises of hyhia, and to the axiomatic summary of every 'blessing,' i] Vifi to <Su[iol xai 7'/}v -^v^riv vylsia, (Isocrates, 234 B) which has passed into the Latin (rnens sana in corpcre sano), and all other civilized lan- guages, Hygieia, the goddess of health, received abundant ' worship.'
{gg) P. 208, — ' The original word in the Old Testament that signifies the heart, it is taken for the conscience.' Cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus (preferable to his ' Lexicon'), under 7^ and its syuonymes, with Liddell and Scott, and Robinson, under xa^dia