Notes

NOTES

1. ‘st for est.

2. Tetuli, for tuli.

3. Dixti, for dixisti.

4. Induperator, for imperator.

5. Viden’ for videsne.

6. Claudier, for claudi.

7. GREEK pro ejus, ipsius, vel illius, indeclinabile, et significat ipsum, ipsam, ipsos, ipsas.

8. Vol. V., of the present edition. — EDIT.

9. Vol. V., of the present edition. — EDIT.

10. This tract, which is deduced from by Toplady’s translation of a treatise by Zanchius, was overlooked in the arrangement of Mr. Wesley’s publications on the Calvinistic controversy. It should have been inserted in Vol. 10. That it was written by Mr. Wesley, though it has not been included in any previous collection of his Works, will appear manifest, on comparing the paragraph with which it concludes, with the argument of the tract entitled, “The Consequence Proved,” Vol. 10. — EDIT. (1831.)

11. It is very probable that the following list will be found not to contain all the tracts that Mr. Wesley abridged and adopted from different writers. It is as complete as I have been able to make it; and will serve to show, when viewed in connection with his own writings, the astonishing mass of information which he placed within the reach of general readers, and of comparatively poor people. — EDIT.

12. “Florentius, in a conversation with Thomas à Kempis, observed to him three temptations to which beginners in a spiritual life are exposed. The first was, when a person, recently converted, returns to associate with his worldly friends on the pretense of endeavoring to convert them. Of ten who yield to this temptation, scarcely one (Florentius used to say) does not relapse into his former habits. The Second is, when a lowly layman wishes to enter into holy orders. This, according to Florentius, proceeds too often from a secret pride, which makes the layman wish for a higher occupation than that of his humble lot. The Third temptation is, when a Priest, who is gifted with talents and learning, seeks for the dignities of the Church only from a wish, as he flatters himself, of being useful to his neighbors. This was often described by Florentius as a most dangerous illusion. To seek for dominion over others, he used to say, is a strong mark of reprobation.” — EDIT.

13. In his Chronicle of M. Agnes, c. 26.

14. N.B. This word is preferable to “self-denial” on two accounts:

1. Because it is a more general term, including both “self-denial” and “taking up the cross:”

2. Because it is a more literal translation of our Savior’s expression, Aparnhsasqw eauton, Abrenuntiet sibi ipsi.

15. “It is the finest work,” says Fontenelle, “that hath proceeded from the pen of man; the Gospel being of Divine original.”

16. Historia Ecclesiastica, lib. iii., c. 36.

17. Mr. Wesley’s explanation of the word Methodist, in this Dictionary, is worthy of notice. It is, “One that lives according to the method laid down in the Bible.” — EDIT.

18. From how great expectations am I fallen! — EDIT.

19. At no future time. — EDIT.

20. Preface, page 6.

21. What his method is, any one may see in the last edition of the “Primitive Physic.”

22. This tract, and the nineteen which follow it, were inserted by Mr. Wesley in a uniform edition of his own Works. — EDIT.

23. This quotation from Ovid may be thus tendered: — “Woe is me, that no medicinal herbs are capable of curing love!” — EDIT.

24. ‘Aparnhsasqw eauton. Matthew 16:24.

25. Marquis de Renty.

26. Prior’s “Henry and Emma.” — EDIT.

27. So it was in the first edition. Many of these are now taken into the text.

28. The particle of breath divine. — EDIT.

29. This line from Ovid is thus translated by Dryden: — “A creature of a more exalted kind

Was wanting yet, and then was man design’d:

Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast.”

— EDIT.

30. Except in a very few cases.

31. In the year 1743 this Hymn Book was reprinted with the second, mentioned page 319, so as to form one volume with it. — EDIT.

32. This expression, and several others which follow, are far too strong, as Mr. Wesley afterwards perceived and acknowledged. They are corrected and qualified in Volume 11, pp. 379; 380, of this edition of his Works, where a part of this preface is quoted. —EDIT.

33. These four Hymn Books have each the same title; but they are distinct publications; and at present are very rarely to be met with. They contain several of the hymns which have always been in general use among the Methodists; not a few of which are stated to be translations from the German. The late very intelligent daughter of Mr. Charles Wesley informed me, that none of these translations were understood to be made by her father; but by her uncle, Mr. John Wesley. — EDIT.

34. The greater part was composed by the Rev. Charles Wesley. — EDIT.

35. This Letter should have been inserted, Volume 9. page 173, but was overlooked at the proper time. — EDIT.

36. This quotation from Horace is thus translated by Smart: — “Which either inattention has dropped, or human nature has not sufficiently provided against.” — EDIT.

37. Volume 8, of the present edition of Mr. Wesley’s Works. — EDIT

38. The following Letter should have been inserted, Volume 13. page 411. — EDIT.

39. This short Address was inserted on the cover of the first number of the Arminian magazine, published in January, 1778. — EDIT.

40. This letter was printed in the form of a tract, and stitched up with the first volume of the Arminian Magazine. — EDIT.