NOTES. P. 363. If there were wanting other evidence.] The learned reader should turn to Strabo's Geography, and Pliny's Natural History. P. 364. Laodicea.] See p. 228. of Dr. Chandler's "Travels "in Asia Minor." Edit. 2. in 1776. Ibid. besom.] Isaiah, xiv. 23. Ibid. A serious traveller.] See a work entitled, “Thomæ "Smith, Septem Asia Ecclesiarum Notitia." p. 27. "Hic primo intuitu subibat animum, quantum vetustas "valuisset, quantum terræ motus, quantum belli furor, sed "præcipuè quantum NUMINIS IRA, quæ hasce intulit cladem. "Triste erat spectaculum, nec tantæ urbis ruinis illachrymari "puduit." This Notitia, written in 1672, was republished at Rotterdam in 1716. P. 365. laden.] Isaiah, i. 4. Ibid. vessels.] Rom. ix. 22. Ibid. Newton.] See Bishop Newton's "Dissertations on "the Prophecies." Ed. 4. vol. iii. p. 41. P. 367. Speculative Delineators.] See "Hobbes's Levia"than," Latin Edition, p. 171., and "Harrington's Oceana," Ed. 1771. p. 420. P. 368. Leading religion.] The expression "Leading "Religion" occurs in the "Characteristics" of Lord Shaftesbury, who lived in the seventeenth century. He saw the utility of a "Leading Religion." 66 Ibid. Religion of nature.] Wollaston's Religion of "Nature Delineated." Ed. 7th, in 1750. p. 230. Ibid. contrary to Gospel truths.] In the second volume of his "Travels in North America," Captain Hall notices the prevalence of Unitarianism in that country. In the edition of 1829, p. 119., the author speaks thus of that doctrine: -- "Unitarianism, as I heard it laid down at Boston, and I "am acquainted with it in no other shape, may, I conceive, be "fairly called, without any thing disrespectful, the democracy "of religion; for while it affects to teach men to cherish en"tire mental independence, it disentangles them totally from "that allegiance and reliance on the merits of their Saviour, "which revelation inculcates on the minds of all those who be"lieve in His Divinity, as the surest, indeed the only solid "ground-work of their hope; whereas the doctrines referred "to above, send us back to a vicious circle of unsubstantial "reasonings, to the shallow fountains of our own unassisted "thoughts for what certainly cannot be found there." P. 372. Church of Sardis.] Rev. iii. 2. P. 373. Impressions made.] A very ingenious and entertaining dialogue, written after the manner of those, which we find in the works of Plato and Cicero, introduces Mr. Locke as urging cogent reasons against sending our young Englishmen into foreign countries, with the mistaken view of completing their education. Under the character and in the objections of that philosopher, the author of the dialogue delivers his own rightly conceived opinions. SeeMoral and Political Dialogues," by the Rev. Dr. (afterwards Bishop) Hurd. Ed. 1771. vol. iii. In p. 76. is this remark:-" In general the man depends "entirely on the boy; and he is, all his life long, what the im"pressions he received in his early years have made him." Subjoined is this passage from the IxsTides of Euripides; 'Α δ' αν μάθοι τις, ταυτα σώζεσθαι φιλεῖ προς γηρας. "Quæ verò didicit aliquis in pueritiâ, ea servare solet ad "senectam." Markland, Ed. 1775. Vers. 916. In p. 170. of the Dialogue is proposed this question : — "Would you train up your son in a way that is likely to indispose him, right or wrong, to the institutions of his 66 own country?" 66 P. 374. Tract.] It was anonymous; but known to have been written by the Rev. Mr. Charles Blackstone, rector of Widley, Hants. The title was, "Serious Considerations on "the Signature of Testimonials for Holy Orders." On the occasion to which this work refers, particularly deserving of attention is this advice, "Qualem commendes, "etiam atque etiam aspice." Hor. 1. L. Ep. 18. 76. P. 377. Writer.] Gibbon. Ibid. Ephesian converts.] ix. 19. Acts of the holy Apostles, P. 379. Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Locke.] Boyle, Addison, Johnson, Beattie, Lord Littleton, West, Reid, Sir William Jones, all laymen, were firm believers in the truth of Christianity. Ibid. belong essentially and exclusively to mind.] In his Παρασκευη Ευαγγελική, Eusebius introduces a considerable portion of what Plotinus urged against the stoical doctrine, which ascribed to the body faculties of the mind. Plotinus says thus: Αγνοούσι (i. e. the Stoics) ότι το Νοεῖν, Αισθανεσθαι, Λογιζε σθαι, Επιθυμεῖν, Επιμελεῖσθαι εμφρόνως και καλως άπαντα, Αλλην Ουσιαν Ζητει, οf which three last words VIGERUS gives this interpretation: "Aliam omnino quàm corporis essentiam requirunt." Editio Nova, 1688, p. 832. C. 66 P. 380. justly be ascribed.] See Reid on the "Intellectual "Powers of Man." p. 13. Ed. 1785. Ibid. De Augmentis.] See Lord Bacon's Works, Fol. Ed. 1730. "De Augmentis Scientiarum," vol. i. p. 30. P. 381. propagation of Infidelity.] "Wonderful was the assiduity with which the philosophers of France laboured, in "their grand performance, the Encyclopédie,' for the "subversion of revealed religion; mathematics, astronomy, "natural history, all were brought forward with a view to "efface the proofs of revelation, or to discredit its doctrines. "The researches into these departments of science, being made "under the bias of scepticism, or absolute unbelief as to all "religious subjects, and with a view to undermine the found"ations of Christianity, produced deplorable effects, even 66 upon well-intentioned readers, as well as upon those whose "minds were already tainted by false philosophy.”—“ Van "Mildert's" Sermons, preached for "Boyle's" Lectures. Ed. 1806. p. 377. vol. i., in which, with much historical knowledge and judicious arrangement in bringing it forward; with much pertinent observation and sensible reflection, the very excellent author (now Bishop of Durham) has traced and set forth the progress of infidelity, and the efforts of opposition to the Gospel, exerted in successive periods. P. 381. Example of France.] During the French revolution, between 1793 and 1800, a very seasonable and instructive work, having this title, was published by Arthur Young, Esq. P. 382. to places.] At Thebais in Egypt was a library, which had on it a remarkable inscription. "Diodorus Sicu“ lus,” speaks of it thus ; Εξης δ' ὑπαρχειν την ἱεραν Βιβλιοθήκην, εφ' ής επιγεγράφθαι ψυχης Ιατρειον. Diod. Siculus. Ed. Fol. Wesseling, vol. i. p. 58. Earnestly were it to be wished, that on every place, in which there is a collection of books, could with truth be affixed, as taken in a moral sense, the same motto! Ibid. Bad books.] See Lord King's "Life of Locke," published in 1829. The whole sentence is in p. 107. P. 383. "Illuc."] Hor. 1 B. Sat. 1. 108. P. 384. Righteousness.] Prov. xiv. 34. Ibid. Walk circumspectly.] Eph. v. 15. Col. iv. 5. |