Chapter V (16)

451 [The friendly salutation which the steward of Joseph addressed to
his master’s brethren, when they went a second time to Egypt to
purchase corn, was (מכל מולש Shalom leikoum) “Peace be to you.”
After the lapse of so many ages, it is interesting to know that this
still continues to be, with little variation, the common salutation
of friends in the East. Salam aleikoum, “Peace be with you,” is
immediately acknowledged by a similar greeting, Aliekoum salam, “To
you be peace.”—_Ed._]

452 [To sit an offer is, not to accept it.—_Ed._]

453 [Reception.—_Ed._]

454 [The heathen mythologists represented the Sirens to be three in
number, and described them as effecting the destruction of mariners,
by luring them from their course with their singing.

—They the hearts
Enchant of all, who on their coast arrive
The wretch, who unforewarn’d approaching, hears
The Sirens’ voice, his wife and little ones
Ne’er fly to gratulate his glad return;
But him the Sirens sitting in the meads
Charm with mellifluous song, although he see
Bones heap’d around them, and the mouldering skins
Of hapless men, whose bodies have decay’d.

_Hom. Od._ lib. xii. v. 39. Cowper’s Translation.]

455 [That is, one tune from another.—_Ed._]

456 [Or gifts of nature.—_Ed._]

457 [See note, page 595.—_Ed._]

458 [In the ancient Scottish dialect as in this instance, _always_ is
frequently synonymous with _although_, _however_,
_notwithstanding_.—_Ed._]

459 [That is, coldly.—_Ed._]

460 [Natural.—_Ed._]

461 [Fallen out or quarrelled.—_Ed._]

462 [Some words are omitted here, which may be supplied thus:—though
_they_ said _this_, they perverted God’s meaning of the law,
&c.—_Ed._]

463 [Serves the purpose.—_Ed._]

464 [Imperfect attempts.—_Ed._]

465 [A Scottish forensic word corresponding to _Surety_.—_Ed._]

466 [Acknowledge this.—_Ed._]

467 [A name formerly given to bankrupts in Scotland.—See Act. James VI.
par. 23, cap. 18.—_Ed._]

468 [Attending the church.—_Ed._]

469 [Aim at.—_Ed._]

470 [Near the command.—_Ed._]

471 [A belief in the prevalence of witchcraft at this time seems to have
pervaded all ranks and classes. An Act of Parliament was passed
against it on the 1st of February, 1649.—_Ed._]

472 [Portal, or gate.—_Ed._]

473 [Exempted.—_Ed._]

474 [The illustration of the second proposition found in the text,
“There is a faith feigned, and a faith unfeigned, a true and a false
faith,” (p. 602) is omitted. We may conclude that this was the
subject of a separate sermon, which has been lost.—_Ed._]

475 [Deposes or testifies.—_Ed._]

476 [That is, foresee or anticipate.—_Ed._]

477 [Charges, or accusations.—_Ed._]

478 [Than.—_Ed._]

479 [Gates.—_Ed._]

480 [Remove.—_Ed._]

481 [Always.—_Ed._]

482 [A proverbial expression signifying food and raiment.—_Ed._]

483 [Much less.—_Ed._]

484 [The sect of _Seekers_ hold that there are not at this time, neither
have been for many ages past any true ministers or ambassadors of
Christ. (Gillespie’s Miscellany Questions, p. 1. Edinburgh, 1649.) A
few years before this, Laurence Clarkson, a _Seeker_, published a
pamphlet entitled “The Pilgrimage of Saints.” Edwards, in his
Gangræna (Part I, p. 24, Part II, p. 6. London, 1646) refers to it
for an account of the opinion of the Seekers. Clarkson declared that
in these days there ought to be no churches built, no sacraments
administered, that the saints as pilgrims, wander here as in a
temple filled with smoke, not being able to find religion, and that,
on this account, waiting for a church and for the coming of the
Spirit as the apostles did, they ought to seek knowledge of any
passenger, of any opinion or tenet whatsoever.—_Ed._]

485 [See note page 607.—_Ed._]

486 [Kindred alliance.—_Ed._]

487 [Or, in the third place.—_Ed._]

488 [Notwithstanding.—_Ed._]

489 [A cold desire.—_Ed._]

490 [That is a glimmering or slight degree of desire.—_Ed._]

491 [This was the exclamation of Archimedes the celebrated geometrician
of Syracuse, (ευρηκα, ευρηκα), after discovering, when in the bath,
a method of detecting the quantity of alloy, which a fraudulent
artisan had mixed with the gold of Hiero’s crown. (Plut. Mor. et
Phil. Op. p. 1094.) An exclamation somewhat similar was uttered by
Cicero, when, searching for the tomb of Archimedes in the
neighbourhood of Syracuse he at length perceived it covered with
thorns and brambles (Cic. Tusc. Quest lib. v. cap 23.) But if they
had cause to be delighted, much more surely had Philip the apostle
reason to be so when addressing Nathanael, he cried out in
ecstasy—We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets
did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph! John i. 45.—_Ed._]

492 [In the present world.—_Ed._]

493 [Specify or enumerate.—_Ed._]

494 [Acknowledging.—_Ed._]

495 [Path or way.—_Ed._]

496 [Than.—_Ed._]

497 [Fix upon.—_Ed._]

498 [That is, no thought of eternity.—_Ed._]

499 [Quid non mortalia pectora cogis
Auri sacra fames?

_Virg. Æneid_, lib. iii. ver. 56.

“O sacred hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?”

_Dryden’s Translation_.

Nihil enim est fam angusti animi, tamque parvi, quam amare divitias
nihil honestius, magnifi entrusque, quam pecuniam contemnere, si non
habeas si habeas, ad beneficentiam liberalitem que conferre. “There
is no surer characteristic of a narrow and little mind than to love
riches, nothing more amiable and noble than to despise money if you
possess it not—if you possess it, to be beneficent and liberal in
the use of it.” Cic. De Offic. lib. i. cap. 20.—_Ed._]

500 [That is, “It is difficult things that are admired.”—_Ed._]

501 [Excites.—_Ed._]

502 [From these, as from mount Pisgah.—_Ed._]

503 [That is, not “by a leap.”—_Ed._]

504 [Intrusted.—_Ed._]

505 [Too little.—_Ed._]

506 [That is, bedecks.—_Ed._]

507 [That is, has no interest in the world.—_Ed._]

508 [That is, _the way in which you will take or receive._—_Ed._]

509 [That is, the duty of sobriety.—_Ed._]

510 [Much more.—_Ed._]

511 [It must be perceived that the reading ought to be “overcome _like_
the Archangel.”—_Ed._]

512 [It is no less obvious that for “the prince Gabriel” we ought to
read, _the prince Michael_. See Dan. x. 13, 21; Jude 9; Rev. xii.
7.—_Ed._]

513 [That is, the prospective glass.—_Ed._]

514 [Or tutelage.—_Ed._]

515 [Declining.—_Ed._]

516 [That is, disposed. The word, though now obsolete, is found in
Hooker.—_Ed._]

517 [That is, that hang _low_, and take a _sweep_ of every thing by the
way.—_Ed._]

518 [A single word appears to have dropped out here, the absence of
which materially changes the meaning of the author, and makes him
contradict himself. The sentence, it is conceived, ought to run
thus:—faith and a good conscience scarce sail _but_ in one bottom,
that is, _in one ship_.—_Ed._]

519 [That is, insipid.—_Ed._]

520 [Upon the earth.—_Ed._]

521 [“It is hard to find many who are not tipplers or common drunkards,
or will _drink drunk_ on occasions and with company.” Causes of the
Lord’s Wrath, p. 17. printed in the year 1653.—_Ed._]

522 [That is, a convenient time or place.—_Ed._]

523 [Or, till the evening.—_Ed._]

524 [That is, _insane_ worldlings.—_Ed._]

525 [Property.—_Ed._]