2. This is a solemn truth, which ought ever to be recollected when studying the mysteries of electing love. Election is as much to a holy life as it is to eternal glory.-ED.
3. How much is it to be feared that some towering professors, upon impartial self-examination, will find upon themselves some of these black spots; all of which are utterly inconsistent with that humility which is the proper and only becoming garb of a Christian.—Ryland—ED.
4. Selfishness is the great enemy to happiness. A heart steeled against all, naturally brings upon itself the hostility of all. Love to the Redeemer, for emancipation from that great curse, is the only antidote to selfishness.—ED.
5. 'Power of things;' the influence of convictions and hopes named in the six divisions on the preceding page.—ED.
6. Plato says that some men are impotent by reason of sin; but Christianity alone develops the awful fact, that sin has poisoned our nature, and that its effects are felt in the holiest of saints. The reference to the experience of Paul in Romans 8 is conclusive of the fact.—ED.
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.