Notes

NOTES

1. This quotation from Horace is thus translated by Boscawen: — “‘Tis your own interest that calls

When flames invade your neighbor’s walls.”

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2. Merchants who have lived in Portugal inform us, that the King had a large building filled with diamonds; and more gold stored up, coined and uncoined, than all the other princes of Europe together.

3. The title which the Inquisition of Portugal (if not in other countries also) takes to itself.

4. What security is there against all this, upon the infidel hypothesis? But upon the Christian, there is abundant security: For the Scripture prophecies are not yet fulfilled.

5. This quotation from Ovid is thus translated by Dryden: — “When all his blazing worlds above shall burn,

And all the inferior globs to cinders turn?”

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6. Let this pleasing mental error remain. — EDIT.

7. Thus translated by Francis: —

“You treat adventurous, and incautious tread

On fires with faithless embers overspread.”

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8. These quotations from Virgil are thus translated by Pitt: — “Thus o’er the corn, while furious winds conspire, Rolls on a wide-devouring blaze of fire;

Or some big torrent, from a mountain’s brow,

Bursts, pours, and thunders down the vale below,” — “And” rolls “resistless o’er the levell’d mounds.” — EDIT.

9. This was wrote before the Princess Dowager went abroad.

10. What I am reluctant to express. — EDIT.

11. You are yourself also a log of wood. — EDIT.

12. Scandalizing the nobility. — EDIT.

13. See Woodrow’s “History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland.”

14. If the famous Middlesex election was an exception to this, yet observe, one swallow makes no summer.

15. This has already been put to the proof. — EDIT.

16. Rudely insulted by a turbulent mob, as he was going into the House.

17. See Mr. Hargrave’s Plea for Somerset the Negro.

18. Thus translated by Pitt: —

“O check your wrath, my sons; the nations spare;

And save your country from the woes of war;

Nor in her sacred breast, with rage abhorr’d,

So fiercely plunge her own victorious sword!”

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19. Or writers. For I am informed by a correspondent in Bristol, that this letter as wrote by two Anabaptist Ministers, assisted by a gentleman and a tradesman of the Church of England.

20. That is, in connection with the Lords and Commons.

21. See a tract, entitled, “Thoughts upon Liberty.”

22. This quotation from Horace is thus translated by Boscawen: — “Sense, morals, ‘gainst such laws unite,

And public good, true source of right.”

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23. Thoughts on the Origin of Power.

24. But many of them are of a better mind.

25. This quotation from Horace is thus translated by Boscawen: — “How fine this house, or that estate;

How great a favorite dancer’s skill,

Whether he caper well or ill.”

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26. This quotation from Virgil is thus translated by Pitt: — “Not those insulting empty vaunts I dread;

No; but the gods with fear my bosom move,

And he, my greatest foe, almighty Jove.”

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27. This quotation from the same poet is thus translated by Pitt: — “But, Heaven against us, all attempts must fail.”

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28. This was published at the beginning of the late rebellion.

29. This was wrote during the late rebellion.

30. (——) Here mention the particular persons you would pray for.

31. (——) Here mention the particular persons you would pray for.

32. (——) Here you may mention any particular mercy received.

33. Ignatius.

34. I follow him, but at a great distance. — EDIT.

35. Rude and inhospitable to foreigners. — EDIT.

36. Nay, I would have proclaimed it aloud, giving the glory to God, for the comfort of all that were present.

37. I do not regret his not living to write those tracts; because I despair of seeing any in the English tongue superior to those extracts from Abbe Fleary and Mr. Poiret, published under the title of “Instructions for Children.” I have never yet seen anything comparable to them, either for depth of sense, or plainness of language.

38. This quotation from Tibullus is thus rendered by Dr. Grainger: — “A secret grace his every act improves,

And pleasing follows wheresoe’er he moves.”

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39. I verily believe, if he had then gone to London, he would have been alive at this day. But I blame no one for thinking otherwise.

40. It is not to be understood, that Mr. Wesley’s sentiments concerning Christian Perfection were in any measure changed after the year 1777. This tract underwent several revisions and enlargements during his lifetime; and in every successive edition the date of the most recent revision was specified. The last revision appears to have been made in the year 1777; and since that period, this date has been generally continued on the title page of the several editions or the pamphlet. — EDIT.

41. This is too strong. Our Lord himself desired ease in pain. He asked for it, only with resignation: “Not as I will,” I desire, “but as thou wilt.”

42. This is far too strong. See the sermon “ On Wandering Thoughts.”

43. Frequently this is the case; but only for a time.

44. For a time it may be so; but not always.

45. Sometimes they have no need: at other times they have.

46. Sometimes they do not; at other times they do, and that grievously.

47. Not all who are saved from sin; many of them have not attained it yet.

48. Is it not astonishing, that while this book is extant, which was published four-and-twenty years ago, anyone should face me down, that this is a new doctrine, and what I never taught before? — (This note was first published in the year 1765. — EDIT.)

49. That is, unto those alone, exclusive of others; but they speak to them, jointly with others, almost continually.

50. More rarely, I allow; but yet in some places very frequently, strongly, and explicitly.

51. I mean, it is not the condition either of present or future salvation.

52. The advices which follow were published in a separate tract in the year 1762, under the tifle of “Cautions and Directions given to the Greatest Professors in the Methodist Societies,” with the following motto: — “Set the false witnesses aside,

Yet hold the truth for ever fast.”

It was evidently intended to guard the people against the mischievous extravagances of George Bell and his friends, a particular account of whom is given in Mr. Wesley’s Journal about that period. — EDIT.

53. This quotation from Horace is thus translated by Boscawen: — “How many years give sanction to our lines?” — EDIT.

54. Volume 5, Page 202, Of The Present Edition. — EDIT.

55. At what time this answer was written, it is perhaps impossible exactly to ascertain. It appears to have been sent as a private letter to Mr. Dodd, before he had become a Doctor of Divinity; and not to have been published till the year 1782, when it was inserted in the Arminian Magazine. — EDIT.

56. Dr. Dodd was executed for forgery, June 27th, 1777; and this account was published in July, 1783. — EDIT.

57. In the year 1743 Mr. Wesley published a small pamphlet under the title of, “Thoughts on Marriage and a Single Life.” It was afterwards superseded by the tract now before the reader; which embodies the principal sentiment contained in the former publication. — EDIT.

58. The Arminian Magazine for 1788. — EDIT.

59. To excite ill-will. — EDIT.

60. Thus paraphrastically translated by an anonymous writer in the Arminian Magazine: —

“Six hours for sleep the human frame requires;

Hard students may to seven incline;

To eight, the men whom toil or traveling tires;

But lazy knaves will all have nine.”

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