{PPP) P- ^^7. — ' It is somewhat uncertain whether ever Peter were at Rome.' For a full and scholarly examination of this matter, consult ' The Que.stion, " Was St Peter ever at Rome?" Historically Considered, By Augustus Scheler.' (1 Vol. 12rao. 1849. Nisbet.) Scheler's conclusive treatise, which returns a negative to the question, is at once an expansion of the ' 1st Petrus in Rom und Bischof der romischen Kirche gewesen,' and a gathering together of data scattered through the writings of Scaliger. Salmasius. Spanheim, Bost, and Malan.
ill'l) -P- ^'^- — ' -^^t as Cyprian saith well, " It must be consent in the truth." ' Perhaps the fallowing may be the passage referred to : ' Quare si solus Christus au- diendus est, non debemus attendere quid alius ante nos faciendum esse putaverit, Bed quid qui ante omnes est, Christus prior feeerit. Neque enira hominum consue- tudinem sequi oportet, sed Dei veritatem.' — Ep. 63, Ad Gcecilium de Sac. Dom. Cal
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t'rrt) P. 374. — ' It sots liim down that lio cnn say iidtliiiig, but tliat it is divine truth, bcciiuso ho find-s it so.' On tho force of personal 'experience' as an 'evidence' of tho truth of Christianity, consult tho excellent treatise of Wardlaw thereupon — wortliy son of a worthy sire.
{sss) r. iM^).—' How we may know that our church was before Luther's time or no.' Cf. Nolo d, vol. II. p. 248. I take this opportunity of giving the exact title- pago of Logic's rare tractate : — ' Cum Bono Deo. Eaine from the Clouds upon a Clioicke [siV] Angel : or, A returned Answero to that common Qua^ritur of our Adversaries, Where was your Church before Luther? Digested into several Medita- tions, according to the dillerence of Points, Extorted off the Author, for stilling the incessant and no Icsse clamorous coassation of some Patmicke Froggi.s, against the lawfulnesse of our Calling. Aberdeene. Imprinted by Edward llaban, Dwelling upon tho Market-place, at the Towncs Armes, 1G24, cum privilegio.' 4to. 1634, in Note (/, vol. It. is a misjtrint for 1624. A copy of this singular tractate is preserved in Peterborough Cathedral Lilirary ; and I have to acknowledge the kindness of the Kev. Thomas Hutton, M.A., Keetor of Stilton, in securing to me unrestricted access to its treasures, of which privilege after-volumes will shew the benefit.
[ttt) P. 377. — ' The most of the points of popery, wherein they differ from us, nay, not any of them, were never established by a council till the Council of Trent, except transubstantiation, by the Council of Lateran, which was a thousand years after Christ.' The Councils of Lateran were held in the Basilica of tho Lateran, at Kome. Of these Councils, there were five. The ' fourth,' on church affairs gene- rally— attended by 400 bishops and 1000 abbots — was held in 1215. Innocent III. presided.
[uuu) P. 379. — 'Luther saith, If they [the papists] live and die peremptorily in all the points professed in the Tridentino Council, they cannot [be saved].' Cf. Note uu.
{vvv) P. 382. — ' There is some diversity in reading the words.' Cf. Alford in loc.
(www) P. 412. — 'As David, Ps. cxix., if it bo his.' Consult S. F. Thrupp's ' In- troduction to the Study and Use of the Psalms' (2 vols. 8vo, 1860). He accepts Bishop Jebb's suggestion of Daniel being the author of this the most splendid tribute to the Word of God anywhere to be found. See vol. II. pp. 244-256.
[xxx) P. 417.— ' Take the counsel of that blessed man . . . Luther, I mean, . . . Go to God in Christ, in the promises.' From the ' Colloquia Mensalia.' See Note uu concerning this storehouse of quotable sayings.
{yyy) P. 436, — ' Remembering always that of St Ambrose, that there must not be striving for victory, but for truth.' See note fff.
(zzz) p. 437. — ' Your Ancipites, as Cyprian calls them, your doubtful flatterers of the times.' Cyprian seems to employ the vivid word in its etymological sense of having two heads, two natures, double = undecided, changeable. Lucan speaks of ' ancipites animi' (9, 46).
[aaaa) P. 440. — ' As yon have it storied of Papinian, an excellent lawyer.' For an interesting notice of Papinian, consult Mr Long's article in Dr Smith's ' Diction- ary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ;' also Dio. Cass., lib. Ixxvii., with note from Spartianus, Caracc. c. viii.
{bbbb) P. 451. — 'They gave this answer, Christiamis sum, I am a Christian.' This is recorded in all the early 'Apologies,' e. ^., Justin Martyr, Tertullian (Apolog. c. ii.).
(cccc) P. 460. — ' Pella, a little village, w^as delivered when the general destruction came upon Jerusalem.' Pella was the place whither the Christians fled before the destruction of the ' Holy City.' Cf. Eusebius H. E. iii. 5 ; Epiphanius de Mens, et Ponder, p. 171 : Eeland, Palaestina, p. 924; also Croly's ' Salathiel.'
{dddd) P. 464.—' 1 John v. 7, 8.' With reference to the ' Three Witnesses ' of the present passage, it is only necessary to refer to Orme's admirable and well known 'Memoir' of the 'Controversy' (1830, 12rao) ; and to the works of Travis, Bur- gess, Middleton, and Wiseman in favour of, and Person, Marsh, and Turton against, the retention of the disputed clause. It is now usually enclosed in our Greek Testa- ments in brackets ; and perhaps it were well if it were similarly marked in our English Bibles. Cf. Webster and Wilkinson in loc, and Tregelles in Home, iv., c. xxxvi. (10th ed., 1856J.