7. 'Letteth;' hindereth or obstructeth: now obsolete.—ED.
8. 'Slow bellies;' gluttons, drunkards, slothful, idle, eating the bread of others without working.—ED.
9. Margin.
10. Fox 1st edit., p. 1432.
11. 'Raillery;' jesting, merriment.
12. A Christian parent has peculiar and solemn duties to perform, in addition to those of every other class of Christians. This ought to lead him perpetually to seek wisdom from his heavenly Father; and in such close communion he becomes as peculiarly blessed as he is burthened.—ED.
13. Bunyan was in the habit of visiting London, the seat of government, and doubtless saw a sad change in the conduct of many professors, under a profligate monarch, to what it had been under the pious protector.—ED
14. 'His points;' an heraldic term, expressive of the exact position of the various bearing on the shield—a scrupulous or superstitious niceness as to points of doctrine.—ED.
15. These are faithful words, giving offence to bigots of every sect. The church of England excluded all from her communion except conformists—Independents held no fellowship with Baptists, nor Baptists with Independents. Happily, Christians are coming to their senses. The Test Act is repealed—nor dare we now call that unclean which God has cleansed.—ED.
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