FOOTNOTES:
1. Grace Abounding, No. 3.
2. George Herbert, in that admirable poem called 'The Temple,' introduces his reader tot he church porch thus:—
'Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance
Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure;
Hearken unto a verser, who may chance
Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.'
3. 'An husband,' c. i. 12.
4. 'Set abroach,' in a posture to run out, or yield the liquor contained.—Ed.
5. 'An ephah,' a measure containing three pecks and three pints.—Calmet.
6. Similar to Christian's exclamation, when calling to Faithful to stop and bear him company. See Pilgrim's Progress, Part 1st.
7. These lines, and those on the next page, 'The eye's the light o' th' body,' remind one of Bunyan's style in his Apology for the Pilgrim's Progress,—
'Dost thou love picking meat? Or would'st thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee?'—Ed.
8. A cover, a booth, bower, or hut made of the boughs of trees.—Ed.
9. 'He owes,' a contraction for 'he owneth.'—Ed.
10. The word translated 'divine,' means to eye subtly, to search, to try. Verse 5 may be rendered, 'And he will search deeply for it'; and in verse 15, 'Know ye not that a man like me would search deeply,' alluding to the certainty of detection, but not by divination.—Ed.
11. 'So naught,' so corrupt, bad, or worthless.—Ed.
12. The mourning of Egypt.—Ed.
13. By a typographical error, in the original edition, it is misprinted CHAP. XLVI.
14. How admirably does Bunyan enlarge upon this in his 'Peaceable principles yet true.'
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An Exposition on the FIRST TEN CHAPTERS OF GENESIS, And Part of the Eleventh
An unfinished commentary on the Bible, found among the author's papers after his death, in his own handwriting; and published in 1691, by Charles Doe, in a folio volume of the works of John Bunyan.