Chapter LXII: Preface: To the Reader (2)

The doctrine shall be this: “Tribulation doth either accompany or follow after the work of reformation or purging of the house of God.” So it was when Christ himself came into his temple: Luke xii. 49, 51, “I am come to send fire on the earth. Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division;”—so it was when the Apostles were sent forth into the world: Peter applieth to that time the words of Joel, “And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,” Acts ii. 19, 20. The meaning is, such tribulation shall follow the gospel, which shall be like the darkening of the great lights of the world, and, as it were, a putting of heaven and earth out of their course, so great a change and calamity shall come. The experience both of the ancient and now reformed churches doth also abundantly confirm this doctrine. Neither must we think that all the calamities of the church are now overpast. Who can be assured that that hour of greatest darkness, the killing of the witnesses, is past, and all that sad prophecy, Rev. xi., fulfilled? And if some be not much mistaken,(1414) it is told, Dan. xii. 1, that there shall be greater tribulation about the time of the Jews’ conversion than any we have yet seen: “At that time,” saith the angel to Daniel, “there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”

I make haste to the uses; and, first, let me give unto God the glory of his truth. If we have been deceived, surely he hath not deceived us; for he hath given us plain warning in his word, and hath not kept up from us the worst things which ever have or ever shall come upon his church. And now when the sword of the Lord hath gotten a charge against these three covenanting and reforming kingdoms, is this any other than the word of the Lord, that when Christ cometh into his temple, “Who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap.”

And for the invasion of Scotland by such an enemy after a reformation, is it any new thing? May we not say, that which is hath been? Did not Sennacherib invade Judah after Hezekiah’s reformation? 2 Chron. xxxii. 1. And though, after the reformation of Asa, and after the reformation of Jehoshaphat also (2 Chron. xiv. 9; xx. 1), the land had a short rest and a breathing time, yet not long after a foreign invasion followed both upon the one reformation and the other. Nay, look what is the worst thing which hath befallen to Scotland as yet;—as much, yea, worse, hath formerly befallen to the church and people of God toward whom the Lord had thoughts of peace, and not of evil,—to give them an expected end. I say it not for diminishing anything either from the sin or shame of Scotland; the Lord forbid:—we will bear the indignation of the Lord, because we have sinned against him; we will lay our hand upon our mouth, and accept the punishment of our iniquity; we will bear our shame for ever, because our Father hath spit in our face, our rock hath sold us, and our strength hath departed from us;—but I say it by way of answering him that reproacheth in the gates, and by way of pleading for the truth of God. Some have objected to our reproach, that when the Lord required the Israelites to appear before him in Jerusalem thrice a year, he promised that no man should invade their habitations in their absence, Exod. xxxiv. 23, 24; “which gracious providence of his, no doubt (says one(1415)), continues still protecting all such as are employed by his command;” yet it hath not been so with Scotland during the time of their armies being in England. I answer, besides that which hath been said already, even in this the word and work of God do well agree; and that Scripture ought not to be so applied to us, except the Canaanites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites of our time had been all cast out of our borders (we find this day too many of them lurking there, and waiting their opportunity); for the Septuagint, and many of the interpreters(1416) read that text thus: “For when I shall cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders, no man shall desire thy land when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year:” and this is the true sense, read it as you will; for the promise is limited to the time of casting out the nations, and enlarging their borders (which came not to pass till the days of Solomon). It is certain that, from the time of making that promise, the people had not ever liberty and protection for keeping the three solemn feasts in the place of the sanctuary; as might be proved from divers foreign invasions and spoilings of that land for some years together; whereof we read in the book of the Judges. But I go on.

In the second place, let God have the glory of his just and righteous dealings. Let us say with Job, “I will leave my complaint upon myself,” [and say unto God,] “Show me wherefore thou contendest with me,” Job x. 1, 2. But, by all means, take heed you conceive not an ill opinion of the covenant and cause of God, or the reformation of religion, because of the tribulation which followeth thereupon. Say not it was a good old world when we burnt incense to the queen of heaven, “for then we were well and saw no evil.” “But (said the people to Jeremiah) since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine,” Jer. xliv. 18. To such I answer, in the words of Solomon, “Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this,” Eccl. vii. 10. Was the people’s coming out of Egypt the cause why their carcasses did fall in the wilderness? Or was it their murmuring and rebelling against the Lord which brought that wrath upon them? If thou wilt inquire wisely concerning this thing, read Zephaniah, chap. i. In the days of Isaiah, even in the days of Judah’s best reformation, the Lord sent this message by the Prophet: “I will utterly consume all things from off the land,” Zeph. i. 2; “And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung,” ver. 17. What was the reason of it? It is plainly told them (and let us take it all home to ourselves), because, notwithstanding of that public reformation, there was a remnant of Baal in the land, and the Chemarims, and those who halt between two opinions; who swear by the Lord (or to the Lord, which is expounded of the taking of the covenant in Josiah’s time), but they swear by Malcham also, ver. 4, 5. There are others who do not seek the Lord, nor inquire after him, and many that turn back from the Lord in a course of backsliding (ver. 6); others clothed with strange apparel (ver. 8); others, exercising violence and deceit (ver. 9); a number of atheists also, living among God’s people (ver. 12). For these and the like causes doth the land mourn. It is not the covenant, but the broken covenant; it is not the reformation, but the want of a real and personal reformation, that hath drawn on the judgment. Blessed are they who shall keep their garments clean, and shall be able to say, “All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant,” Psal. xliv. 17.

Thirdly, Give God the glory of his wisdom. Many are now crying, “How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?” Psal. lxxxix. 46. Your answer from God is, that the rod shall be indeed removed, and even cast into the fire in your stead, but when? It shall be “when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion, and on Jerusalem,” Isa. x. 12. If the judgment have not yet done all the work it was sent for, then “they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them” (Ezek. xv. 7), saith the Lord. God is a wise refiner, and will not take the silver out of the fire till the dross be purged away from it. He is a wise father who will not cast the rod of correction till it have driven away all that folly which is bound up in the hearts of his children: “Behold, therefore (saith the Lord) I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you,” Ezek. xxii. 19, 20. He speaks it to those who had escaped the captivity of Jehoiakim, and also the captivity of Jehoiachin, and thought they should be safe and secure in Jerusalem when their brethren were in Babylon: I will gather you, saith the Lord, even in the midst of Jerusalem, and when you think you are out of one furnace, you shall fall into another; and, if you will not be refined from your dross, you shall never come out of that furnace, but I will melt you there, and leave you there: which did so come to pass; for the residue that escaped to Egypt, and thought to shelter themselves there, as likewise those that remained in Jerusalem, and held out that siege with Zedekiah,—even all these did fall under the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence, till they were consumed, Jer. xxiv. 8, 10. Let those that are longest spared take heed they be not sorest smitten. Say not with Agag, “The bitterness of death is past.” The child chastised in the afternoon weeps as sore as the child chastised in the forenoon. Remember the Lord will not take away the judgment till he have performed his work, yea, his whole work, and that upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem itself. It is no light matter; the rod must be very heavy before our uncircumcised hearts can be humbled, and the furnace very hot before our dross depart from us. We have need of all the sore strokes which we mourn under, and if one less could do the turn, it would be spared, for the Lord doth not afflict willingly: we ourselves rive every stroke out of his hand.

But, in the fourth and last place, let us give God the glory of his mercy also; he means to do us good in our latter end. It is the hand of a father, not of an enemy: it is a refining, not a consuming fire. The poor mourners in Zion are ready to say, “Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts” (Ezek. xxxvii. 11); we are like to lie in this fire and furnace for ever, because our dross is not departed from us; we are still an unhumbled, an unbroken, an unmortified generation; yea, many like Ahaz, in the time of affliction, trespassing yet more against the Lord, many thinking of going back again to Egypt. To such I have these two things to say for their comfort: First, There is a remnant which shall not only be delivered, but purified, and shall come forth as gold out of the fire. The third part shall be refined, and the Lord shall say, “It is my people,” Zech xiii. 9. And a most sweet promise there is after the saddest denunciation of judgment: Ezek. xiv. 22, 23, “Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters; behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their ways and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all the evil that I have brought upon it. And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God;” Dan. xii. 10, “Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” After the promise of delivering those that were carried away to Babylon, there is another promise added of that which was much better: Jer. xxiv. 7, “I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart;” Psal. cxxx. 8, “He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities;” Zeph. iii. 12, 13, “I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord. The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth.” Let your souls now apply these and the like promises, and cry, Lord, remember thy promise, and let not a jot of thy good word fall to the ground. Secondly, As the promises of spiritual and eternal blessings, so the promises of peace and temporal deliverances are not legal, but even evangelical. If we be not refined and purged as we ought to be, that is a matter of humiliation to us, but it is also a matter of magnifying the riches of free mercy: Isa. xlviii. 9-11, “For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For mine own name’s sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it.” The Lord is there arguing with his people, to humble them, to convince them, and to cut off all matter of glorying from them; and among other things, lest they should glory in this, that whatever they were before, they became afterward as silver refined seven times in the furnace:(1417) Nay, saith the Lord, I have refined you in some sort, but not as silver, not so as that you are clean from your dross; but I have chosen you, and set my love upon you, even while you are in the furnace not yet refined; and I will deliver you, even for my own name’s sake, that you may owe your deliverance for ever to free mercy, and not to your own repentance and amendment. A land is accepted, and a people’s peace made with God, not by their repentance and humiliation, but by Christ believed on: Mic. v. 5, “This man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land.” There were sin-offerings and burnt-offerings appointed in the law for a national atonement (Lev. iv., xiii., xxi.; Num. xv. 25, 26) which did typify pardoning of national sins through the merit of Jesus Christ. We must improve the office of the Mediator, and the promise of free grace, in the behalf of God’s people, as well as of our own souls, which, if it be indeed done, will not hinder, but further a great mourning and deep humiliation in the land. And so much of tribulation.

The third thing held forth in this text (of which I must be very short) is mortification. This also is a refining fire: Matt. iii. 11, “He shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire;” Mark ix. 49, “For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.” He hath been before speaking of mortification, of the plucking out of the right eye, the cutting off the right hand, or the right foot, and now he presseth the same thing by a double allusion to the law,—there was a necessity both of fire and salt; the sacrifice was seasoned with salt (Lev. ii. 13), and the fire upon the altar was not to be put out, but every morning the wood was burnt upon it, and the burnt-offering laid upon it (Lev. vi. 12, 13). So if we will present ourselves as a holy and acceptable sacrifice to God, we must be seasoned with the salt, and our corruptions burnt up with the fire of mortification.

The doctrine shall be this: “It is not enough to join in public reformation, yea, to suffer tribulation for the name of Christ, except we also endeavour mortification.” This mortification is a third step distinct from the other two, and without this the other two can make us but “almost Christians,” or, “not far from the kingdom of God.” In the parable of the sower and the seed, as we find it both in Matthew (chap. xiii.), Mark (chap, iv.), and Luke (chap, viii.), this method may be observed, That of the four sorts of ground, the second is better than the first, the third better than the second, but the fourth only is the good ground, which is fruitful, and getteth a blessing. Some men’s hearts are like the highway, and the hardbeaten road, where every foul spirit, and every lust hath walked and conversed, their consciences, through the custom of sin, are, as it were, “seared with a hot iron;” in these the word takes no place, but all that they bear doth presently slip from them. Others receive the word with a present good affection and delight, but have no depth of earth; that is, neither having had a work of the law upon their consciences for deep humiliation, nor being rooted and grounded in love to the gospel, nor, peradventure, so much as grounded in the knowledge of the truth, nor having counted their cost, and solidly resolved for suffering; thereupon it comes to pass, when suffering times come, these wither away, and come to nothing. There is a third sort, who go a step farther; they have some root, and some more solid ground than the former, so that they can suffer many things, and not fall away because of persecution, yet they perish through want of mortification. One may suffer persecution for Christ, not being sore tried in that which is his idol lust, yet enduring great losses and crosses in other things: of such it is said, that “the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful,” Mark iv. 19. Mark that, “the lusts of other things;” that is, whether it be the lust of the eyes, or the lust of the flesh, or the pride of life; and he speaks of the “entering in;” meaning of some strong tentation coming upon a man to catch him in that which is the great idol of his heart, and his beloved lust, whatever it be; such a tentation he never found before, and therefore thought the lust had been mortified, which was but lurking. Did not Judas suffer many things with Christ during the time of his public ministry? Did not Ananias and Sapphira suffer, for a season, with the apostles and church at Jerusalem? What was it then that lost them? They neither made defection from the profession of the truth, nor did they fall away because of persecution; but having shined in the light a sound profession, having also taken up the cross, and borne the reproach of Christ, they made shipwreck at last upon an unmortified lust.

I shall enlarge the doctrine no further, but touch upon some few uses, and so an end.

First, Let all and every one of us be convinced of the necessity of our further endeavouring after mortification. The best silver which cometh out of the earth hath dross in it, and therefore needeth the refiner’s fire; and the whitest garment that is worn will touch some unclean thing or other, and therefore will need the fuller’s soap. The best of God’s children have the dross of their inherent corruptions to purge away; which made Paul say, “I keep under my body, and bring it unto subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway,” 1 Cor. ix. 27. It is a speech borrowed from reprobate silver which is not refined from dross, and so is the word used by the Septuagint, Isa. i. 22, τὸ ἀργύριον ἰμῶν ἀδόκιμον “Thy silver is become dross.” The Apostle therefore sets himself to the study of mortification, lest, saith he, when I have been refining and purifying others, I myself be found to be drossy silver. And as there is _inherent_ dross, so there is _adherent_ uncleanness in the best; and who can say that he hath kept his garments so clean that he is “unspotted of the world” (Isa. i. 27), or that he hath so separated himself from the pollutions of the world as that he hath touched no unclean thing: so that there is an universal necessity of making use both of the refiner’s fire, and of the fuller’s soap.

Secondly, Let us once become willing and contented, yea, desirous to be thoroughly mortified. A man’s lusts and corruptions are indeed so strongly interested in himself, and his corruptions are his members, therefore, when we leave off sin, we are said to live no more “to ourselves,” 2 Cor. v. 15; and mortification is the greatest violence that can be done to nature, therefore it is called a cutting off of the chief members of the body (Mark ix. 43, 45, 47), a salting with salt, and a burning with fire (ver. 49), a circumcision (Col. ii. 11), a crucifying (Rom. vi. 6): so that nothing can be more difficult or displeasing, yea, a greater torment to flesh and blood. Yet now art thou willing, notwithstanding of all this, to take Christ on his own terms? to take him not only for righteousness and life, but to take him as a refiner’s fire, and as fuller’s soap? O that there were such a heart in thee! When Christ bids thee pluck out thy right eye, and cut off thy right hand, say not in thy heart, How shall I do without my right eye, and my right hand? Nay, thou shalt do well enough, thou shalt even enter into life without them, thou shalt be a gainer, and no loser. Say not thou, How shall I go through this refining fire? Fear not, thou shall lose nothing but thy dross. Thus get thy heart wrought to a willingness, and a condescending, in the point of mortification.

Lastly, If you say, But after all this, how shall I attain unto it? Put thyself in the hands of Jesus Christ, trust him with the work; if you mark the text here, and the verse that followeth, Christ is both the refiner, and the refiner’s fire: thou shalt be refined by him, and thou shalt be refined in him. Thou deceivest thyself if thou thinkest to be refined any other way but by this refiner, and in this refiner’s fire. The blood of Christ doth not only wash us from guilt, but purge our consciences “from dead works, to serve the living God,” Heb. ix. 14; “And they that are Christ’s, have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.” Gal. v. 24. Here you may see the thing is feasible and attainable, and not only by an apostle or some extraordinary man, but by all that are Christ’s. Being his, and in him, they are enabled, through his strength, to crucify the flesh, with the affections and lusts thereof.

FOOTNOTES

1 It is right to state that a large proportion of those who ultimately
formed the presbyterian party, had been brought up in the Church of
England, and had received episcopal ordination.

2 There is another anecdote commonly repeated respecting a signal
defeat which Gillespie is said to have given to one of the
Independent divines, when recent from his travel to London. That he
did repeatedly refute their arguments is quite certain, of which
both Lightfoot’s notes and his own record many instances, but no
such event could have occurred as that with which the anecdote is
commonly introduced; for both Henderson and Gillespie arrived at the
same time, and were received formally, and with great respect into
the Assembly, before any of the controverted points had begun to be
discussed at all. It is easy to conceive how imaginary incidents may
be added by tradition, to an anecdote essentially true; and our
endeavour has been to restore the anecdote to its true position and
character. We may add that Gillespie’s expression, “Can ye not admit
a pinning?” is one which tradition has preserved; but we find the
same word used in his Aaron’s Rod, in a similar sense, which
confirms the tradition.

3 The present Erastian Establishment in Scotland might do well to
consider whether theirs be the church of which Gillespie was a
distinguished minister.

4 The above anecdote is sometimes given with this variation:—that when
the youngest member consented, he requested the rest to engage in
prayer, while he retired to make the attempt. They did so, and in a
short time he returned with the answer exactly as it now appears. We
prefer the anecdote as given in the text, both as equally likely,
and as much more beautiful.

5 These interesting documents are printed in this Series at the
conclusion of the Part containing his “Sermons and Controversial
Pieces.”

6 Preface to Stevenson’s History.

7 This refers to his opposition to the intrigues of the Engagers, and
their invasion of England under Hamilton.

8 Gillespie must have left London at that time to attend the General
Assembly which was summoned to meet at Edinburgh on the 22d of
January, 1645.

9 The death rattle in the throat of the dying man.

10 Bodin. Meth. Hist., cap. 4, p. 47.

11 Rep to the Ans. p. 269.

12 Enar in Luc. xvii.

13 De Civ. Dei., lib. 18, cap. 51.

14 Lib. contra Const. Aug.

15 Synops. Papis., cont. 13, quest. 7, p. 593.

16 Davenant. in col. 2, 8, p. 186

17 Osiand. Hist. Eccles., cent. 4, in Ep. Dedic.

18 Lib. 5, cap. 20.

19 Enarrat in Matt. xv.

20 Eccl. Pol., lib. 5, sect. 65.

21 Praef. of the Answ., p. 14.

22 Popish Praejud., cap. 10.

23 Cent. 2, cap. 2, col. 109.

24 Cron. Turcic., tom.3, lib. 4, p. 63.

25 Aug. de Civ. Dei. lib. 3, cap. 25.

26 Ib., cap. 26.

27 Ovid. Metam., lib. 15.

28 Apud Binium, tom. 4; Concil., part 1, p. 630.

29 No Peace with Rome, sect. 2.

30 Lib. Epist., col. 298.

31 Medit. in Rev. ii., iii.

32 Hist. Eccl. lib. 3 cap. 11.

33 Eccl. Pol., lib. 1, sect. 10.

34 Natal. Comit. Mythol., lib. 2, cap. 7.

35 Praelict., tom. 1, p. 367.

36 Ibid., p. 372.

37 Sermon on John xvi. 7.

38 Apolog., cap. 4.

39 Conrad. Pscilen. Clav. Theol., art. 9, p. 373.

40 Comm. in Eph. v. de subject.

41 Of the Church, lib. 4, cap. 34.

42 Aquin., 1a, 2a, quest. 43, art. 1; Stella in Luke xvii. 1.

43 Speed. Hist. of Brit., book 6, chap. 9, sect. 9.

44 Lactant., lib. 5, cap. 20.

45 P. Mart. in 1 Reg. 8. de Templ. dedic.

46 Epist. to the Pastors of the Church of Scotland.

47 Serm. at Perth Assem. insert. by Dr Lindsey.

48 Practic. Def. cap. 3, sect. 20.

49 Dr Forb. Iren. lib. 1, cap. 5, sect 6; cap. 7, sect. 1, 9; cap. 9,
sect. 6.

50 Cassand. Ang. p. 270, 11.

51 Ans to the Repl. pref. p. 43.

52 Ib. p. 53.

53 De Cas. Cons. lib. 4, cap. 11, cas. 3.

54 Ubi supra.

55 De cult. Sanct. cap. 10.

56 De Orig. Fest. Christian. cap. 2.

57 Repl. to the Ans. p. 258.

58 Calv. Com. in hunc locum.

59 De Exam. part 1, de Bon. Oper. p. 180.

60 Synt. part 2, disp. 27, thes. 30.

61 Bell. Enerv. tom. 1, lib. 3. cap. 7.

62 Ubi supra, thes. 31.

63 Annot. in Act. xv. 29.

64 Cens. lit. Angl. cap. 2.

65 Comm. in 1 Cor. vii. 23.

66 Synt. part. 2, disp. 44, thes. 33.

67 Ubi supra.

68 Hom. 1, in Ep. ad Tit.

69 Synt. Theol. lib. 6, cap. 38.

70 Instit. lib. 3, cap. 19, sect. 7.

71 Ib. cap. 10.

72 Chem. Exam. part. 2. de rit. in adm. Sac. p. 33.

73 Zanch. comm. in Col. ii. 20.

74 Apol. part. 3, cap. 1, sect. 5.

75 Comm. in 1 Cor. vii. 23.

76 De haeret. Baptiz.

77 B. Lind. Epist. to the Pastors of the Church of Scotland.

78 Spots. Sermon at Perth Assembly.

79 Of the Cross, cap. 5, sect. 11.

80 Of the Church, lib. 4, cap. 34.

81 Apol. part 3. cap. 1, sect. 4. So Dr Forb. Iren. lib. 1, cap. 11,
sect. 5, 6.

82 Manuduct. p. 42.

83 Thes. Theol. de Libert. Christ thes. 10.

84 Prel. in Mat. xviii. 7, tom. 2. p. 340.

85 Ubi supra.

86 Ubi supra.

87 Sermon of the worshipping of Imaginations.

88 Til. Synt. part. 2, disp. 27, thes. 38.

89 Thuan. Hist. lib. 124, p. 922.

90 Of the Church, lib. 4, cap. 33.

91 De Cens. lib. 1, cap. 2.

92 Treat. of Cons. cap. 2, sect. 3.

93 Theol. Cas. cap. 2.

94 Ames. de Cons. lib. 1, cap. 3.

95 Instit. lib. 4, cap. 10, sect. 5.

96 Synt. part. 2, disp. 32, thes. 4.

97 De Rep. Eccl. lib. 5, cap. 2, n. 12.

98 Til. Synt. p. 2, disp. 27, thes. 39.

99 Chem. examp. 2, de Bon. Oper. p. 179.

100 Marc. Ant. de Dom. de Rep. Ec. lib. 6, cap. 10, num. 67.

101 Apud Field, of the Church. lib. 4, cap. 34.

102 Animad. in Bel. contr. 3, lib. 4, cap. 16, nota 87.

103 Synt. p. 2, disp. 27, thes. 39.

104 Instit. lib. 4, cap. 10, sect. 32.

105 Decr. part. 1, dict. 61, cap. 8.

106 Ubi supra, art. 21.

107 De Cons. lib. 1, cap. 2.

108 Theol. Casuum. cap. 2.

109 Synt. per Theol. disp. 35, thes. 19.

110 Ames. Bell. Enerv. tom. 1, lib. 3, cap. 7.

111 De Pol. Christ. lib. 5, cap. 1.

112 De Orig. Fest. Christ, cap. 2.

113 Comm. in 1 Cor. xiv. 40.

114 Thes. Theol. de Libert. Christ. thes. 11.

115 Treat. of Cons. cap. 2, sect. 8.

116 Theol. Cas. cap. 2.

117 Synt. part. 2, disp. 27, thes. 9.

118 Calv. Resp. ad Libel. de pii viri officio, p. 413.

119 T. Bez. Conf. cap. 5, art. 18. Perk. ubi supra, et Meisner Philos.
Sobr. part. 3, sect. 2, quest. 12.

120 Of the Church, lib. 4, cap. 33.

121 De Pont. Rom. lib. 4, cap. 20.

122 Ubi supra.

123 Of the Cross, cap. 5, sect. 14, 15.

124 Præl. tom. 1, de Potest: Eccl. cont. 2, p. 371.

125 Ibid. p. 366.

126 Par. Com. in Rom. xiv. dub. 7.

127 Par. Com. in Rom. xiv. dub. 7.

128 In Dan. vi.

129 De Pont. Rom. lib. 4, cap. 20.

130 Ubi supra.

131 Com. in 1 Pet. v. 3.

132 Euchyrid. class. 3, cap. 14.

133 Synt. pur. Theol. disp. 35, thes. 17.

134 Comment. in Rom. xiv. 5.

135 Theol. Cas. cap. 2.

136 Enchyr. class. 2, cap. 7.

137 Bald. de Cons. Cas. lib. 1, cap 8.

138 De Cons. Cas. lib. 1, cap. 7.

139 1 an. 2 an. quest. 19, art. 5.

140 Ames. de Cons. lib. 1, cap 4.

141 Manual. lib. 4, cap. 4.

142 Zanch. Comm. in Illum Locum.

143 Ubi supra.

144 Ubi supra.

145 Perth Assem. p. 8-10, and B. Lindsey, in the Proceedings set down by
him, p. 63, 64.

146 Park, of the Cross, cap. 5, sect. 10.

147 Camer. Prael. tom, 1, de Potest. Eccl. contr. 2.

148 Apol. part. 3, cap. 1, sect. 25.

149 Exam. part. 3, de Ceclib. Sacer. p. 38.

150 Animad. in Bel. cont. 3, lib. 4, cap. 16.

151 Hist. of the Coun. of Trent, lib. 2.

152 Polit. Christ, lib. 5, cap. 3.

153 Ep. 64.

154 In Apologet.

155 Chem. Exam. part. 1, de Bon. Oper. p. 180.

156 Synt. pur. Theol. disp. 49, thes. 72.

157 Magd. cen. 1, lib. 2, cap. 4, co. 443.

158 Decr. part. 1, dist. 12, cap. 1.

159 Aquin. 2, 2 ae. 4, 147, art. 4.

160 Comm. in 1 Cor. x. 15.

161 Comm. in 1 Thes. v. 21.

162 Eccl. Pol. lib. 5. n. 71.

163 Par. æs. ad Sco. cap. 16. p. 64.

164 Comm. in Illum Locum.

165 Præl. in Eundem Locum.

166 Pro. in Perth Assem. par. 3, p. 13.

167 Ubi supra.

168 Ib. p. 26, 27.

169 Apud Bald. de Cas. Cons. lib. 2, cap. 12, cas. 1.

170 Prael. tom. 1, de Pot. Eccl. contr. 2.

171 Ubi supra, p. 16.

172 Ag. the Rhem. annot. on Gal. iv. 10.

173 Ubi supra, p. 16, 17.

174 Paran. ad Sco. cap. 16, p. 64.

175 Ubi supra, p. 25.

176 Ibid. p. 17.

177 Ibid. p. 27.

178 Calv. Comm. in illum locum.

179 Zanch. Comm. ibid.

180 Proc. in Perth Assembly, part. 3, p. 43.

181 Annot. on Col. ii. 16.

182 Annot. on Gal. iv. 10.

183 Annot. ibid.

184 De Cult. Sanct., cap. 10.

185 De Orig. Fest. Christ. cap. 2.

186 De Templ. et Fest. in Enchyrid contr. inter Evang. et Pontif.

187 Ubi supra.

188 Epist. 118, ad Januar.

189 De Orig. Fest. Christ. cap. 2.

190 Paren. ad Scot. cap. 16, pp. 66.

191 Comm. in illum locum

192 Annot. in Gal. iv. 3.

193 Comm. in illum locum.

194 Ubi supra, p. 40.

195 Comm. in Col. ii. 17.

196 Infra. part 3, in the arg. of Superstition.

197 Anim. in Bel. cont. 3, lib. 4, cap. 16, nota 20.

198 Comm. in illum locum.

199 Annot. ib.

200 Anim. ad Bel. contr. 3, lib. 4. cap. 16, nota 32.

201 Ubi supra.

202 Bell. de Euch. lib. 6, cap. 13.

203 Annot. on Matt. vi. 15, sect. 5.

204 Comm. in Col. ii. 16.

205 Ubi supra, p. 7.

206 Supra, cap. 7, sect. 7.

207 Infra, part. 2, cap. 2.

208 Paræn. ad Scot. cap. 16. p. 65.

209 Cent. 2, cap. 6, col. 119.

210 Lib. 5, cap. 22.

211 Lib. 12, cap. 32.

212 Lib. 7, cap. 19.

213 In Gal. iv.

214 Hospin. de Orig. Fest. Christ p. 71.

215 Annot. on Matt. xv. 9.

216 Ubi supra.

217 Part 3.

218 Calv. Ep. et Resp. edit. Genev. an. 1617, col. 137.

219 Ibid. 138.

220 Ib. col. 119.

221 Paraen. cap. 16, p. 68.

222 Sermon, Jer. iv. 2.

223 Ubi supr, p. 84.

224 Alsted. in Cronol. Testium Veritatis.

225 AEn. Sylv. apud Didocl. alt. Damasc. p. 707.

226 Paraen., cap. 16, p. 64.

227 Sermon at Perth Assembly.

228 Ubi supra, p. 83.

229 Ibid. p. 138.

230 Ubi supra, p. 91.

231 Ibid. p. 41.

232 Ibid. p. 95.

233 Ubi supra, p. 83.

234 Calv. Ep. et Resp. col. 592.

235 Serm. at Perth Assembly insert. by B. Lindsey.

236 Ans. to the Repl. praef. p. 43.

237 Repl. to the Ans., p. 270.

238 Cassand. Ang., p. 46.

239 Ib. p. 23.

240 Ibid., p. 8.

241 Ib., p. 9-11.

242 Infra, part 3. chap. 1.

243 Ubi supra, p. 24, 28.

244 Ibid. p. 52.

245 Ibid. p. 28.

246 Ibid. p. 62.

247 Ibid. p. 63.

248 Page 67.

249 P. 68-70.

250 Page 85, 93, 110.

251 Hist. of the Wald., part. 3, lib. 1, cap. 6. Thuan. Hist. lib. 6, p.
189.

252 Thuan. ibid. p. 186.

253 Alsted. Chron. Rolib. p. 550.

254 See his treatise entitled _Vera Ecclesiæ Reformandæ Ratio._

255 Alsted. ibid.

256 Sleid. Com., lib. 21, p. 388.

257 Sleid., ibid., p. 393.

258 Polan. Synt., lib. 7, cap. 17.

259 Calv. Inst., lib. 4, cap. 10, sect. 32.

260 Chem. Exam. par. 2, p. 121.

261 Fenner Theol., lib. 2, cap. 2.

262 Pareus in 1 Cor. xiv. 26.

263 Calv. Ep. et Resp., col. 478.

264 Calv. in 1 Cor. x. 23. Taylor on Tit. i. 15, p. 295.

265 Ubi supra, p. 55.

266 Pareus in 1 Cor. vi. 12.

267 Calv. in 1 Cor. x. 23, & Pareus ibid.

268 Serm. on Job xvi. 7.

269 Serm. at Perth Assembly.

270 Fresh Suite, cap. 2, p. 12.

271 In 1 Cor. x. 23.

272 Thuan. Hist. lib. 39, p. 367.

273 Pareus in 1 Cor. viii. 13.

274 Page 44, 45.

275 Pareus in 1 Cor. x. 23.

276 Alsted. Theol. Cas. cap. 12, 199.

277 Pareus in Rom. iii. 8.

278 Page 210, 211.

279 Ubi supra.

280 Bald. de Cas. Cons., lib. 4, cap. 11, cas. 3.

281 Sleid. Com. lib. 21, p. 381.

282 Ibid. lib. 25, p. 485.

283 Partic. Def. cap. 1, sect. 1.

284 Paraen., cap. 16, p. 65.

285 Proc. in Perth Assembly, part 3, p. 7.

286 Ibid. P. 121.

287 Apol. part 3, cap. 3, sect. 45, 51.

288 Sleid. Com. lib. 20, p. 365, 371. Alsted in Chron. Religionis, an.
1548.

289 Sleid. Com. lib. 21, p. 377.

290 Ibid. p. 388.

291 Ibid. p. 393.

292 Reg. Eccles. lib. 7, cap. 12, num. 107.

293 Ibid. num. 120.

294 Ibid. num. 132. See to the same purpose D. Potter, in his book
called, “Want of Charity justly charged,” p. 76.

295 Field, of the Church, append. to the third book, cap. 11, p. 298. B.
Andr. Serm. on Jer. xxiii. 6, p. 79-82.

296 Sleid. Com. lib. 21, p. 377.

297 De Laicis, cap. 19.

298 Annot. 1 Tim. vi. 20.

299 Rep. Eccl. lib. 7, cap. 12, num. 134.

300 Park., of the Cross, part 2, p. 80.

301 P. 32.

302 Ibid. p. 34.

303 Ibid. p. 41.

304 Ibid. p. 42.

305 Jun. Animad. in Bell. de Cult. Sanct. lib. 3, cap. 5.

306 Natal. Comit. Mythol. lib. 1, cap. 15.

307 Bell. de Effect. Sacram. cap. 31.

308 Hooker, Eccl. Pol. lib. 4, num. 1.

309 Hospin. Epist. Dedic. Praefix. Libris de Orig. Monach.

310 Censur. Liturg. Angl. cap. 9.

311 Exam. part 2, de Rit. In Administ. Sacr. p. 32.

312 Com. in John iv. 24.

313 Popish Prejud. cap. 10.

314 Calv. Com. in Exod. xx. 5.

315 Com. in illum locum.

316 De Divers. Grad. Ministr. Evang. contr. Bez. cap. 24, sect. 25.

317 Popish Prejud. cap. 10.

318 Camero, ibid.

319 Hospin., ubi supra.

320 Rev. xvii. 7.

321 Com. in illum locum.

322 Praef. of the Ans. p. 17.

323 Sarav. N. Fratri et Amico, art. 17.

324 Socrat. lib. 3, cap. 12.

325 Decr. part 2, caus. 7, quest. 1, cap. 36.

326 The Pastor and the prelate, p. 36.

327 Hist. of the Waldenses, lib. 1, cap. 3.

328 Calv. Epist. et Resp. col. 132.

329 Way to the Church, ans. to sect. 33.

330 Epist. ad Regin. Fes. lib. 1, Epistol. p. 112.

331 Of the Cross, cap. 9, sect. 1.

332 Expos. Conf. Ang. art. 37, et problem, 2 de prædest.

333 Maldon. Com. in Matt. viii. 3.

334 De Verb. Dom., serm. 6.

335 Conrad. Schlusselburg. apud Park. of the Cross, part 2, p. 97.

336 De Cas. Consc., lib. 4, cap. 11. cas. 3.

337 De Laicis, cap. 19.

338 Calv. Epist. et Resp. col. 451, 452.

339 Plutin In vita Innoc. VII.

340 Sleid. com. lib. 21, p. 376.

341 Epist. to the Pastors of the Kirk of Scotland.

342 Sarav. N. Fratri et Amico, art. 17.

343 Park., of the Cross, cap. 6, sect. 21.

344 Ibid. sect. 22.

345 Serm. At Perth Assembly.

346 Part 1, p. 63.

347 Ibid. p. 64.

348 Nature Hist. lib. 10. cap. ult.

349 Serm. on 1 Cor. xi. 16.

350 Thuan. Hist. lib. 16, p. 506.

351 Plin. Natur. Hist. lib. 4. cap. 1.

352 Com. in Matt. lib. 2 lib. 15.

353 Synt. Theol. lib. 6 cap. 3 col. 19.

354 Aquin. 2, 2 an. quest. 43 art. 1 Marc. Ant. de Dom. de Rep. Leel
lib. 5 cap. 10 num. 44.

355 Marc. Ant. de Dom. de Rep. Eccl. lib. 1, cap. 11, num. 18.

356 Com. In 2 m. 2 an. quest. 43, art. 7.

357 Hemming. Enchir. Theol. class. 3, cap. 17, Magdeburg cont. 1, lib.
2, cap. 4, col. 448, 449.

358 Ames, lib. 5, de Consc. cap. 11, quest. 6.

359 Ames. Ibid. quest. 3.

360 Camero, Prael. In Matt. xviii. 7, de scand.

361 Com. in illum locum.

362 Com. ibid.

363 Com. ibid.

364 Of the Cross, part 2. p. 57.

365 Eccl. Pol. p. 246.

366 Supra, cap. 1.

367 Maldonat. Com. in illum locum.

368 Pareus, Com. ibid.

369 Com. in Eph. iv. 13.

370 Polan. Synt. Theol. lib, 6, cap. 3, col. 19.

371 Aquin. 2, 2 an. quest. 43. art. 2.

372 Marc. Ant. de Dom. de Rep. Eccl. lib, 1, cap. 11, num. 18.

373 Cent. 1, lib. 2, cap. 4, col. 450.

374 Com. in Dan. i. 8.

375 De Rep. Eccl. lib. 5, cap. 10, num. 44.

376 Com. in 1 Thes. v. 22.

377 Of the Cross, cap. 3, sect. 6.

378 Annot. on Gal. iv. 10.

379 Confer. with Rain. cap. 8, div. 2, p. 408, 410.

380 Com. in 1 Cor. x. 28.

381 Lib. 1, epist. 41.

382 Can. 5.

383 Ubi supra.

384 Bald, de Cas. Cons. lib. 2, cap. 14, cas. 7.

385 N. Fratri et Amico, art. 13.

386 Annot. on Acts viii. sect. 5.

387 Park, of the Cross, part 2, p. 57; 1 Thes. v. 14; Rom. xiv. 16; 1
Cor. lx. 12; 1 Thes, ii. 7; Acts xx 34; Matt xviii. 6.

388 Cornel Jansen. Conc. Evang. cap 71.

389 Aug. de Morib. Manich. lib. 2, cap. 14; Rom. xiv. 30.

390 Ames lib. 5, de Consc. cap. 11, quest. 6.

391 Dr Forebesse, Iren. lib. 2. cap. 20, num. 27.

392 Alt. Damasc. cap. 9, p. 556.

393 Parker, of the Cross, part 2, p. 75.

394 Com. upon this place.

395 Tom. 1, an. 55, num. 39.

396 De Rep. Eccl., lib. 1, cap. 11, num. 18.

397 Serm. at Perth Assembly.

398 “Non enim solum scandalizure, sed ... dulizari peccatum est, quia
... est,” saith Maldonat upon Matt. xviii. 7.

399 2 2an., quest. 43, art. 1.

400 Pareus, Com. la. illum locum.

401 Epist. to the Pastors of the Church of Scotland.

402 Com. in 1 Cor. viii. 9.

403 Lib. 2, cap. 20, num. 5, 6.

404 Supra, sect 4-6.

405 Ibid., num. 7.

406 Num. 10-14.

407 Num. 15, 16.

408 Num. 17.

409 Iren., lib. l. cap. 10, sect. 2.

410 Supra, cap. 8, sect. 6.

411 Ibid. lib. 2, cap. 20, num. 14.

412 Supra. cap. 8, sect. 5, cap. 9, sect. 10.

413 Ibid, sect 7.

414 Mosney Myster. of Iniq. In the conclus.

415 Aquin. 3, quest. 66, art. 8, Rhein Annot. on Matt. xvi. sect. 5,
Bell de Pontif. Rom., lib. 4, cap. 18; and De Sacrif. Missæ, lib. 6,
cap 13.

416 Eccl. Pol., lib. 4, 11, 12.

417 Cap. 1, sect. 3.

418 Expos. of the Creed, Art. of Christ’s Birth.

419 Com. on Gal. iv. 10.

420 Parker, of the Cross, cap. 6, sect. 10.

421 Sect. 7.

422 Apol., part 3, cap 5.

423 Com. in Matt. xviii. 6.

424 Com. 1 Cor. viii.

425 Ames., lib. 5, de Consc., cap. 11.

426 Supra, cap. 1.

427 Cent. 1, lib. 2, cap. 10, col. 560.

428 De Auserib Papae, consider. 12.

429 Com. in illum locum.

430 Ubi Supra, p. 441.

431 Of the Cross, part 2, p. 79.

432 Serm. on John xvi. 7.

433 Pareus, Com. in Rom. xv. 1.

434 Serm. on John xvi. 7.

435 Fresh Suite ag. Cerem., cap. 9, p. 96, 100.

436 Lib. 1, de Vit. Ext. Cult. Oppos., col. 501, 502.

437 Aquin. 2. 2, quest. 92, art. 1.

438 Syn. Pur. Theol., disp. 44, thes. 53.

439 Cent. 4, cup. 6, col. 427.

440 De Cas. Consc., lib. 2, cap. 12, Cas. 13.

441 Concil. Laodic., can. 58.

442 Hist. of the Waldenses, part 3, lib. 1, cap. 6.

443 Eccles. Pol., lib. 5, sect. 3.

444 Apud Aquin. 2. 2, quest. 93, art. 2.

445 J. Rainold’s Confer. with J. Hart, cap. 8, divis. 4, p. 489.

446 Stella, Com. in Luke xvii. 20.

447 Eccl. Pol., lib. 5, 70.

448 Ibid., sect. 69.

449 Ibid., sect. 65.

450 Of the Lawfulness of Kneeling, cap. 3.

451 Aquin. 3, 4, 25, art. 4.

452 Ubi Supra, cap. 15, p. 42.

453 Ibid., p. 41.

454 Aquin. 2. 2, quest. 95, art. 2.

455 De Vera Eccl. Reform., p. 367.

456 Annot. on Matt. xv., sect. 5.

457 3, quest. 68, art. 6.

458 2. 2, quest. 147, art. 4.

459 3, quest. 66, art. 10.

460 De Sacr. Missae, lib. 6, cap. 13.

461 De Pont. Rom., lib. 4, cap. 18.

462 Conc. Evan., cap. 60.

463 Iren., lib. 1, cap. 5, sect. 6; cap. 7, sect. 7.

464 Apud Zanc. Epist., lib. 1, p. 111.

465 Eccl. Pol., lib. 5, sect. 60.

466 Hist. of the Counc. of Trent., lib. 2.

467 Confess., cap. 5, art. 41.

468 Proc. in Perth Assembly, part 3, p. 18.

469 Alt. Damasc., cap. 10, p. 878.

470 Ubi Supra, p. 29.

471 Ibid., p. 28.

472 Theol., lib. 6, cap. 3

473 Synt., lib. 6, cap. 51, p. 433.

474 Syn. Pur. Theol. Disp. 21, thes. 7.

475 Fresh Suite, cap. 5, p. 59.

476 Comm. in 1 Reg. viii. de Tempt. Dedic.

477 Hist. of the Waldenses, lib. 1, cap. 1.

478 Cent. 4, cap. 6, col. 480.

479 De Orig. Temp., lib. 4, cap. 2.

480 Cent. 4, cap. 6, col. 409.

481 Com. in Mal. i. 11.

482 Eccles. Pol., lib. 5, sect. 16.

483 Confer. with J. Hart, cap. 8, divis. 4, p. 491.

484 Ubi Supra.

485 Eccl. Pol., lib. 5, sect. 69.

486 Annot. on 1 Tim. iv. 5.

487 De Cult. Sanct, cap. 10.

488 Ubi Supra, p. 21.

489 Ep. to the Pastors of the Church of Scotland.

490 On P. 5.

491 Bonifac. VIII., de Reg. Juris, reg. 51.

492 Hook. Eccl. Pol., lib. 5, sect. 12.

493 Serm. on Matt. vi. 16.

494 Ubi Supra, p. 25.

495 De Cult. Sanct, cap. 10.

496 Zanc. in 4 Præc, p. 682.

497 Pareus Com. in Gen ii. 3.

498 Ubi Supra, p. 20.

499 Ubi Supra p. 29.

500 On Præc. 4.

501 See Serm. on Gal. iv. 4; Serm. on Luke ii. 10, 11; Serm. on Lam. i.
12; Serm. on John xx. 19; Serm. on Job xix. 23; Serm. on John xx.
17; Serm. on Heb. xiii. 20, 21; Serm. on Matt. vi. 16; Serm. on Acts
ii. 16; Serm. on John v. 6, &c.

502 P. 67.

503 Ubi Supra, p. 23.

504 Serm. on Matt. xii. 39, 40.

505 Serm. on Luke iv. 18, 19.

506 Serm. on Matt. vi. 16.

507 Synop. Pur. Theol., disp. 19, thes. 30.

508 Manduct, lect. 2, p. 38.

509 Com. in illum locum.

510 Jude 23.

511 Com. In Thess. v. 22.

512 Anal. in illum locum.

513 Expos. upon Rev. ii. 14.

514 In Praec. 2, p. 534.

515 Annot. on 1 Cor. x. 21.

516 Com. in illum locum.

517 Anal. in 1 Cor. x.

518 Ibid.

519 Annot. Ibid.

520 De Bono Conjugall, cap. 16.

521 Com. In illum locum.

522 Apud Wolphinm, com. in 2 Reg. xviii. 4.

523 Calv. Epist. et Resp., p. 79.

524 Serm. on Phil. ii. 10.

525 Com. in illum locum.

526 G. Sanctus, com. ibid.

527 Com. in 2 Reg. xxiii. 6.

528 Com. in Isa. xxvii. 9.

529 Calv. Com. in Exod. xxiii. 24.

530 Ubi Supra.

531 N. Fratri et Amico, art. 17.

532 Iren. lib. 1. cap. 7, 9, 6.

533 Resp. ad Versipel., p. 41-44.

534 Ubi Supra.

535 Supra, cap. 1, sect. 11.

536 Com. in Deut. xii. 2.

537 In 4 Praec., col. 709.

538 Magdeb., cent. 4, cap. 16, col. 1538, 1539.

539 Cent. 6, cap. 15, col. 1511.

540 Danæus Polit. Christ., lib. 3, p. 229; Polan. Synt. Theol., lib. 10,
cap. 65.

541 Epist. Hist., lib. 1.

542 Com. in 2 Reg. x. 27.

543 Calv. Res. ad Versipel., p. 413.

544 De Imagin., col. 402.

545 Tho Naogeorgus in 1 John v. 21.

546 Calv. Epist. et Resp., p. 86.

547 Ibid., col. 136.

548 Com. in Col. ii. 17.

549 De Imagin., col. 403.

550 Com. in 2 Kings xviii. 4.

551 Proc. in Perth Assembly, part 2, p. 120.

552 Com. in illum locum.

553 Aquin. 2, 2 an., quest. 43, art. 1.

554 Confer, with J. Hart, cap. 8, divis. 4, p. 509.

555 Apol., part 3, cap. 4, sect. 15-17.

556 Supra, sect. 9.

557 Supra, sect. 6.

558 Epist. ad Regin. Elizab. Epistolar., lib. 1, p. 112.

559 Ibid., p. 111.

560 Sleid. Com., lib. 25, p. 481.

561 Apol., part 3, cap. 4.

562 Proc. in Perth Assembly, part 2, p. 118, 119.

563 Ibid., p. 22.

564 Ration., lib. 5, Tit. de Prima et lib. 6, Tit. de Die Sancta Pasc.

565 Annot. on Matt. viii., sect. 3; and on 1 Cor. xi., sect. 18.

566 Way to the Church, Answer to sect. 51.

567 Exam. Conc. Trit. de Euchar., can. 6, p. 86.

568 Of the Lawfulness of Kneeling, cap. 21, p. 65.

569 Ibid., p. 69.

570 Concil. Laodicaen., can. 19. See also Conc. Tolet. 4, can. 17.

571 Ubi Supra, p. 61.

572 Ubi Supra, p. 118.

573 Ubi Supra.

574 Eccl. Pol. lib. 4, sect. 6.

575 Apol., part 3, cap. 4, sect. 5.

576 In Praec. 2, p. 543.

577 Com. in illum locum.

578 Ubi Supra.

579 Eccl. Pol., lib. 4, sect. 6.

580 Ubi Supra.

581 Com. in Lev. xix. 27, 28.

582 Aquin., 2, 2ae, quest. 103, art. 4.

583 De Cas. Cons., lib. 2, cap. 14, cas. 7.

584 Com. in illum locum.

585 Annot. ibid.

586 Ag. the Rhem., Annot. on 1 Cor. x., sect. 8.

587 Apud Gratian. Decr., p. l, dist. 37, cap. 15.

588 De Corona Militis.

589 Partic. Def., cap. 1, sect. 1.

590 Magd., cent. 3, cap. 6, col. 147.

591 Concil. Laodicen., can. 37.

592 Apud Theod., lib. 1, cap. 10.

593 Epist. 86, ad Casulan.

594 Lib. 1, epist. 41.

595 Apud Bell. de Effect. Sacr., lib. 2, cap. 31.

596 Conc. African., can. 27; Conc. Tolet. 4, can. 5, et 10; Conc. Brac.
2, can. 73.

597 Magd., cent. 4, cap. 6, col. 458.

598 Eccl. Pol., lib. 4, sect. 7.

599 Can. 5.

600 Can. 40.

601 Sims. Hist. of the Church, lib. 4, cent. 6.

602 Eccl. Pol., lib. 3, sect. 1.

603 Decr., part 2, causa 26, quest. 7, cap. 13.

604 Ibid., cap. 14.

605 Ibid., cap. 17.

606 Aquin. 1, 2ae, quest. 102, art. 6, resp. ad 6m.

607 Ibid., resp. ad 11m.

608 Baruch. 6, 3 Reg. xviii.

609 Ibid., resp. ad 8m.

610 Rhem. Annot. on 2 Cor. vi. 14.

611 Rhem. on 1 Tim. vi., sect. 4.

612 Rhem. on Apoc. i. 10.

613 Rhem. on 2 John x.

614 De Effect. Sax., lib. 2, cap. 31.

615 Magd. Cent. 4, cap. 6, col. 406.

616 Hosp. de Orig. Templ., lib. 2, cap. 7, p. 115.

617 Confer. with J. Hart, divis. 4, cap. 8.

618 Antith. Pap. et Christ., art. 9.

619 In 2 Praec., col. 363.

620 Com. in Psal. xvi. 4.

621 Com. in 1 Cor. x. 14.

622 Synops. Purior. Theol., disp. 19.

623 Usher, of the Relig. Prof. by the Anc. Irish, cap. 4.