Footnote 75:

Vide Sermon on Colossians ii. 8.
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Footnote 76:

Matthew xix. 3-10.
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Footnote 77:

Tenders of pardon and life were made to the whole human race, through a Mediator, and the church at first included the whole family of Adam; but this did not long continue. Cain, enraged that his offering was not accepted, slew his brother, and "went out from the presence of the Lord"—left his father's house, in which God was worshipped, and where his ordinances were administered—cast off religion, and taught his children to disregard it. His progeny were not deficient in worldly wisdom. They cultivated the arts of life, and made improvements in them, as appears from the sketch of their history given by Moses. [124] But they were without God in the world; having cast off his fear, and the apprehension of his presence, and their accountableness, which often follow the dereliction of the divine institutions.
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Footnote 78:

Matthew xxvii. 53.
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Footnote 79:

Luke xviii. 1, &c.
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Footnote 80:

Witherspoon's Sermon on Education.
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Footnote 81:

Vide Henry and Brown's Dictionary.
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Footnote 82:

Mr. Henry undertakes to assign the reasons of all these injunctions; but as none can be assigned which are not merely conjectural, we choose rather to leave each one to make his own conjectures, as he may find occasion.
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Footnote 83:

James v. 19, 20.
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Footnote 84:

Preached at the house of one made a widow by her husband's desertion; who left her in straitened circumstances to provide for a young family.
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