[[5]] He here refers to the Full and Candid Acknowledgment of Sin, for Students and Ministers, drawn up by the Commission of Assembly in 1651, and often reprinted since.
[[6]] See this characteristic sermon in the Remains.
[[7]] The Acceptable Year of the Lord was one of these Anniversary Sermons, preached November 1840.
[[8]] Compare Zechariah 4:12 with John 15:5.
[[9]] Baxter (Reformed Pastor) says, "I dare prognosticate from knowledge of the nature of true grace, that all godly ministers will make conscience of this duty, and address themselves to it, unless they be, by some extraordinary accident, disabled."
[[10]] The first text he gave to be thus hidden in the heart was Isaiah 34:15; Until the Spirit be poured out from on high."
[[11]] "Gration est pulchro veniens e corpore virtus."
[[12]] Baxter's words are not less than the truth: "Recreation to a minister must be as whetting is with the mower, that is, only to be used so far as is necessary for his work. May a physician in the plague-time take any more relaxation or recreation than is necessary for his life, when so many are expecting his help in a case of life and death?" "Will you stand by and see sinners grasping under the pangs of death, and say, God doth not require me to make myself a drudge to save them? Is this the voice of ministerial or Christian compassion, or rather of sensual laziness and diabolical cruelty?"—Ref. Past. 6:6
[[13]] Εγω μεν δη κατανοων του ανδρος την τε σοφιαν και την γενναιοτητα, ουτε μη μεμνησθαι δυναμαι αυτου, ουτε μεμνημενος μη ουκ επαινειν. Ει δε τις των αρετης εφιεμενων ωφελιμωτερω τινι Σωκρατους συνεγενετο εκεινον εγω τον ανδρα αξιομακαριστοτατον νομιζω.
[[14]] It is a somewhat curious occurrence, that the remnants of this Bible were found and drawn up from the bottom of the well, in July 1843, by Dr. Wilson and his fellow-traveller, who employed a Samaritan from Sychar to descend and examine the well.