[29] The remorse and stings of conscience seducers will feel in the next life, for being the instruments of so much wickedness and desolation in others, will prove to them a thousand hells.—Mason.
[30] Ungodly, Christless, prayerless families are little hells—filthy fountains, whose waters cast up mire and dirt; they are the blind and willing captives of sin and Satan, going down to the chambers of death and endless despair.—Ed.
[31] 'In grain,' material dyed before it is manufactured, so that every grain receives the colour, which becomes indelible.—Ed.
[32] By 'a piece of money' is here meant two hundred pounds. It probably means a portion or piece of his fortune.—Ed.
[33] From the Anglo-Saxon 'Eggian,' to incite, urge.—Ed.
[34] The Genevan or Puritan version of this passage is very striking: 'he that feedeth the gluttons, shameth his father.'—Ed.
[35] This is one of the numerous passages of Holy Writ which are more expressive without than with the words supplied in italics: women are not exempt from the 'rags' which must ever follow drowsiness.—Ed.
[36] 'Glout,' to pout or look sulky; obsolete.—Ed.
[37] This is one of the hardest lessons a disciple has to learn in the school of Christ; not to hate the sinner, but the sin; especially under circumstances of such cruel deception.—Ed.
[38] Mixed, impure. ''Tis true, the cause is in the lurch Between the right and mongrel church.'—Hudibras.—Ed.