[378] Tenison Hobbes’s ‘Creed Exam.,’ p. 65.
[379] Spanheim, Dub. Evan. in loc.
[380] Non mirum est Christum permisisse se circumduci a diabolo, qui permisit se a membris sui crucifigi.—Gregorius.
[381] Aquinas, Sum. part 1, q. 114, art. 2. Homines instrumentaliter, mundus materialiter, Satanas efficienter.—Sclater on 1 Thes. iii. 5.
[382] Piscat., in loc.
[383] O Fratres adjuvate me, ne peream, nonne videtis Dæmonum agmina, qui me debellare, et ad Tartara ducere festinant, quid his astas cruenta bestia?—Cl. Senarclæus in Epist. ad M. Bucerum, &c., tells of a country man, at Tribury, [‘Friburg’?—G.] in Germany, to whom the devil appeared in the shape of a tall man, claiming his soul, and offering to set down his sins in a scroll.
[384] Putting into a ‘dilemma.’—G.
[385] Eccles. Hist., lib. iii. cap. 11.
[386] Antiochus put Eleazer and the Maccabees in mind of this excuse, If it be a sin to do contrary to your law, compulsion doth excuse it.—Josephus on the lives of the Maccabees.
[387] Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.