‘Which Cambell seign, though he could not salve,
He done undoe, yet for to salve his name
And purchase honour to his friend’s behalve,
This goodly counterfesaunce he did frame.”
—Spenser’s Faery Queen.
6 We cannot remember all God’s benefits, but how prone we are to forget them all!—Ed.
7 Christian, in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, was thus exercised: —“I took notice that now poor Christian was so confounded that he did not know his own voice; and thus I perceived it:—Just when he was come over against the mouth of the burning pit, one of the wicked ones got behind him, and stepped up softly to him, and whisperingly suggested many grievous blasphemies to him, which he verily thought had proceeded from his own mind.” See also Grace Abounding, No. 100-102.—Ed.
8 “Warm gleads;” from Saxon glow, anything heated or hot.
“My destiny to behold her doth me leade,
And yet I know I runne into the gleade.”—Wyatt.—Ed.
9 Many misspend their time in poring upon their own hearts, to find out some evidence of their interest in Christ, when they should rather be employed in receiving Christ, and walking in him, by a confident faith grounded on the Divine testimony.—Mason.
10 How striking are Bunyan’s illustrations! The devil, as a roaring lion, is in pursuit of the flying sinner; he would flee faster than his infirmities will let him. We cannot wonder that modern preachers borrowed so vivid and truthful a figure.—Ed.
11 A Christian is “never safe but when watchful;” he should keep a jealous eye on his own weakness, and a believing eye on the promise and power of Christ, and he shall be preserved from falling.—Mason.
12 “Let him;” hinder him. See 2 Thessalonians 2:7. Obsolete.—Imperial Dictionary.—Ed.