[107] Alluding to the classical ordination, which the Presbyterian church has adopted, instead of that by Bishops.
[108] Geneva, the cradle of Calvinism. The territories of the little republic, dum Troja fuit, were bounded by its ramparts and lake.
[109] Alluding to the recall of the Edict of Nantz, and persecution of the Huguenots. See [Note IX.]
[110] Which is usually distinguished by an act of grace, or general pardon.
[111] Nimrod.
[112] Jesus Christ.
[113] King James II.
[115] Our author recollected his own Philidel in "King Arthur:"
An airy shape, the tenderest of my kind,