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APPENDIX.

Note (A), Page 7.

"He that by nature would withstand vice, either by natural will or reason, he doth in vain garnish the time of this life, and attaineth not the very true virtues; for without the worshipping of the true God, that which seemeth to be virtue is vice.”— Fifth Homily of the Church of England, quoting St. Ambrose.

Note (B), Page 7.

"Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke xviii.) See also Isaiah v. and Psalm lxxx.

Note (C), Page 7.

.... some infants are in their infancy in union with Christ, they have faith in the seed, though not in the fruit; grace in the gift, though not in the use; they have the Spirit dwelling in them, and are a part of his temple, though they know him not. Neither need this seem strange; it is very reasonable to believe that a supernatural power may do as much as a natural one; the image of God, which, if Adam had stood, would have passed to infants by natural generation, may well be derived to them by spiritual regeneration.

"Some infants, though baptized, never are in union with Christ. Some divines conceive that all

baptized infants are regenerate; but common observation opposes this: multitudes there are of infants baptized, who at years of understanding shew forth nothing at all of a divine principle; reason and will appear, but nothing of grace. It may be reasonably expected in regenerate persons, that the seed of God should spring up, that the supernatural principles should come forth into act in some measure; but when there is no print or footstep of grace, no dye, or tincture of it in the life, it cannot well be imagined, that there is any such thing as regeneration in them."-From a work entitled, "Christus in Corde," by Edward Polhill, Esq., a gentleman of considerable family and estate at Burwash in Sussex; he was a very learned man, and a justice of the peace, about the year 1680.

Note (D), Page 9.

See the service for ordaining of Priests in the Church of England.

Note (E), Page 19.

Let me beg the reader to give some time to the patient and serious study of the following Scriptures, all of which seem to point to that great event, which is the subject of this Sermon; Gen. xlix. 8-12; Num. xxiv. 12-19; 2 Sam. xxiii. 1-7. See Bishop Horsley's Translation. Job xix. 23-27; Psalms xxxvii., xlv., xlvi., xlvii., xlviii., lxvii., lxxii., xcvi., xcvii., xcviii., ex., cxxxii., exlix.; Isaiah ii., vi., xi., xxiv., xxxii., xxxiii., xxxiv., xxxv., xlix., lx., lxi., lxii., lxiii., lxiv., lxv., lxvi.; Jer. xXX.,

xxxi., xxxii., xxxiii.; Ezek. xxxiv., and the fourteen following chapters to the end of the book. Dan. ii., vii., xi.; Hosea iii.; Amos ix. ; Obadiah; Micah iv., v.; Zephaniah iii.; Haggai ii.; Zechariah ii., viii., xiv.; Matt. v. 5; xiii. 1-52, xvi. 21-28, xxi. 33-44, xxiv., xxv.; Mark xiv. 22-25; Luke i. 46-55, and 67-79., ii. 25-35, xiii. 18-35, xvii. 20-37, xix. 1-27, xxi.; John xii. 23-50, to be read in connection with Isaiah vi.; Acts i. 3; viii. 12, xvii. 1-12, xxvi. 1-23. xxviii. 16-31, to be read in connection with Isaiah vi.; Rom. viii. 14-25.; 1 Cor. vi. 1-3; 2 Cor. iv. 5-14; Gal. iii. 7—17; iv. 21—31; Eph. i.; Philip. iii. 7—21; Col. i. 9-23; 1 Thess. i. 9, 10, ii. 19, 20, iii. 12, 13, iv. 13-18; v. 1-10; 2 Thess. i. 11; 2 Tim. ii. 7-21; Titus ii. 11-15; Heb. i., ii, iii., iv. 1-13; xi., xii.; James v. 1, 2; 1 Peter i. 3-13; 2 Peter iii.; 1 John iii. 1-3; Jude 14-25; Rev. i. 1-7; xix. 2-21.

Note (F), Page 19.

"The subject of this general joy is, as before in Psalm xcvi. 13, the advent of Messiah to reform the world, to execute judgment upon the wicked, and so establish a kingdom of righteousness upon the earth. We expect his second advent to restore all things, to judge the world, to condemn his enemies, and to begin his glorious reign. Then shall heaven and earth rejoice, and the joy of the redeemed shall be full."-Bishop Horne on Psalm xcviii. 4-7. From a selection from his Commentary on the Psalms in the Parochial Lending Library of the Society for

promoting Christian Knowledge, attached to Salehurst Church.

Note (G), Page 21.

"......... that there shall be such a happy period as the Millennium, that the kingdom of heaven shall be established upon earth, is the plain and express doctrine of Daniel, and all the prophets, as well as of St. John: and we daily pray for the accomplishment of it, in praying thy kingdom come.

"Prudence, as well as modesty, requires that we should forbear all curious enquiries into the nature and condition of this future kingdom,-as, how Satan should be bound for a thousand years, and afterwards loosed again; how the raised saints shall cohabit with the living, and judge and govern the world; how Christ shall manifest himself to them, and reign over them; how the New Jerusalem, the city and church of the living God, shall descend from heaven to earth; how Satan shall at last deceive the nations, and what nations they shall be. These are points which the Holy Spirit hath not thought fit to explain; and folly may easily ask more questions about them than wisdom can answer."-Bishop Newton on the Prophecies, Vol. I.

Note (H), Page 29.

"But, as I said, I say again, that the apostle here simply affirms that there shall be a renovation and deliverance from corruption, not only of man, but also of all and of every part of the whole world; of every part, I say, meaning parts indeed, and not such as rather are vices, and added for plagues than

for parts. For by reason of sin, many spots and corruptions are come into the world, as is all that is hurtful and filthy in the creatures, also all that cometh of corruption.

"This renovation of all things, the prophets seem to promise, when they promise new heavens and new earth. For a new earth seems to require no less renovation of earthly things, than new heavens do of heavenly things. Both these things the apostle plainly affirms that Christ will restore, even whatsoever are in heaven, and in earth. (Col. i.)

"Therefore, methinks it is the duty of a godly mind to acknowledge, and thereof to glory in the Lord, that in our resurrection all things shall be repaired for eternity, as for our sin they were made subject to corruption.

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"The antient writers have as it were agreed to this sentence of Peter, 2 Pet. iii., that the shape of this world shall pass away, through the burning of earthly fire, as it was drowned with the flowing of earthly waters. These are St. Augustine's words; and he further saith, The qualities of the corruptible elements which agreed with our corruptible bodies shall utterly be burned with that same worldly conflagration, and burning, as I said; but the substance itself, by a marvellous change, shall have those qualities, which agree with our bodies, that the world changing into the better, may openly be made fit for man, when returned in the flesh into the better state?"-From a Letter on Rom. viii. 19. by John Bradford, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Martyr, A. D. 1555.

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