(utt) P. 274.— Therefore Luther was wont to say, ' Good works are good, but to trust in good works is damnable.' This is a frequent saying of the Colloquia Mensalia, which in the great folio of Captain Henrie Bell (1652), was a special favourite with the Puritans. Our copy bears the autograph of the famous ' Puritan' worthy and statesman Sir Nathaniel Baruardiston, a presentation copy to his son, ' Ex dono T. B. meo filio.' Sibbes seems to have derived the greater number of his Luther quotations from the ' Colloquia Mensalia.'
{vv) P. 275. — ' Graces, not as habits, as it was the proud term of the philosophers to call it.' The reference appears to be to the Greek term ri&og, a custom, but taken to signify a virtue — hence ethics. So also the Latin term mos.
(ww) P. 284.—' It was a proud term as I said.' Cf. page 275, and note
vv as above.
{xx) p. 288.-' Saith the heathen man Tully, " I thought myself wise, but I never was so." ' This must be a vague recollection of Cicero. I have not been able to trace it.
{yy) P. 209.—' As that wretch said himself, when he came to die, " That he had provided for all things but for death." ' See note z above.
(zz) P. 301. — ' For I think not that he means his former epistle,' &c. Modern scholarship agrees with Sibbes. Cf. Deans Stanley and Alford.
{aaa) P. 302.—' As you know in a war of theirs with the Turks, the story is well known,' &c. The Turk was Amurath. He made a treaty of peace for ten years with Ladislas, king of Hungary. Julian, the pope's legate, persuaded Ladislas to break the peace, absolving him from his oath. Amurath was engaged in another war, and
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was thus tnkon at a disadvautago. A battle was fon;::lit at Varna, lOtli November 1444. At first the victory inclined to the side of the Christians ; ui)on which Aniurath, seeing his great danger, plucked from his bosom the treaty which had thus been broken, ami holding it in his hands, with eyes upraised to heavi-n, made the following appeal : ' Behold, thou crucified Christ I this is the league that thy Chris- tians in thy najne made with me ; wliicii they have without any cause violated. Now, if thou be a (>od as they say thou art, and as wo dream, revenge the wrong uow dono unto thy name and me, and shew thy frown upon thy perjured people, who by their deeds deny thee their God.' Au attack was immediately made, and the battle, wiiicli was almost lost to the Turks, was restored. The Hungarian king was killed, and his head i)laced ujion a sjtear. Two-thirds of the Christian array perished ; and yet the Turks lost 20,000 men, so dreadful was the slaughter. 1 find above abstract of Sibbes's reference, in the Life of the great Iluniades of Hungary, who was taken prisoner in this battle, and who afterwards became regent during the minority of Ladislas, the successor of Ladislas IV.
{I>/>1>) v. 302. — ' The old principle of Isidore is constantly and everlastingly true, " Conceive," ' &e. Isidore (Hispaleusis) died 636. ' Quacunque arte verborum quia juret, Deus tanuaj, qui conscientire testis est, hoc accipit sicut iste cui juratur in- telligit.' — Libri duo Synonymorum, lib. ii.
(ccc) P. 306. — ' That hope should stir up some endeavour to pray for them, seeing their estates are not desperate,' &c. Cf. note c, vol. I. page 171. In a long, very characteristic (un])ublished) letter of John Nowton, addressed to the late Professor Lawson of Selkirk, in our possession, the following paragraph occurs, and is a beau- tiful commentary upon Sibbes's counsel. He is speaking of the sudden death of Eobinson of Cambridge, in the house of Dr Priestly, and says : — ' I think Dr Priestly is out of the reach of human conviction ; but the Lord can convince him. And who can tell but this unexpected stroke may make some salutiiry impression upon his mind? / can set no limits to the mercy or (he power of our Lord, and therefore I continue to pray for him. I am persuaded he is not farther from the truth now t/um I was ance.'
(ddd) P, 327. — ' " That you might have a second benefit," saith the last transla- tion.' ' The last translation ' was our present or King James's version, first issued in 1611. "Wo find ' benefit ' in the text, and ' grace ' in the margin, as described by Sibbes.
(eee) P. 331. — ' Therefore St Austin doth well define predestination ; it is an or- daining to salvation, and a preparing of all means tending thereto.' The original is as follows : — ' H?ec est Prsedestinatio sanctorum, nihil aliud ; prascientia scilicet et prreparatio beneficiorum Dei, quibus certissime liberantur, quicumque liberantur.' — De Dono Perseverantiaj, c, xxv.
(fff) P. 340.—' Saith St Ambrose, " Et nobis mains," ' &c. I have failed to dis- cover the saying in Ambrose. Sir Philip Sidney uses it with great efl'ect (without naming Ambrosej, in his memorable Letter to Elizabeth, dissuading her from her proposed marriage.
(ggg) P. 350. — ' Cave, time, &c., saith the holy man St Austin.' One of the me- morahilia of the ' Confessions.'