486, 487, note. See
likewise Faithful Witness-bearing Exemplified, preface, p.
iv.--_Ed._]

130 [See page 527.--_Ed._]

131 [See page 527.--_Ed._]

132 [See page 528.--_Ed._]

133 [Ibid.--_Ed._]

134 [The word _reduce_ is here used in its literal etymological sense,
as signifying _to bring back_ or to _restore_.--_Ed._]

135 [The allusion here appears to be to the doctrines of the Quakers
who, in Binning's time, were increasing in the west of Scotland, and
accustomed to rail, with impunity, at ministers in the face of their
congregations. See Baillie's Letters, vol. ii., pp. 393, 413,
419.--_Ed._]

136 [That is _felt_.--_Ed._]

137 [These terms were made use of as descriptive of themselves by the
sect called the Familists. See Discovery of Familism, p. 7 _apud_
Baillie's Anabaptism, pp. 102-127, Lond. 1647.--_Ed._]

138 [That is, propound a nice question.--_Ed._]

139 [That is, careless.--_Ed._]

140 [The heathen poet whose words these are, ("We move towards what is
forbidden"), describes well the perversity and the imbecility of our
nature. Vid Ovid Amor. lib. iii. eleg. 4 ver. 17 Met. lib. vii. ver.
20.--_Ed._]

141 [That is, the most natural.--_Ed_]

142 [That is, a twist or undue bend.--_Ed._]

143 [That is, "His will stands for reason." Juv. Sat. vi. ver.
222.--_Ed._]

144 [Mr. Binning was a Supralapsarian. In this and the two following
Lectures he treats of the "high mystery of predestination," the
consideration of which, though it should be handled with special
prudence and care, (West. Conf. of Faith, ch. 3) is nevertheless,
full of sweet pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons.
Art. of Ch. of Eng. Art. xvii. His views of this mysterious doctrine
are stated with singular clearness, and the objections to it, which
he notices and answers, are brought forward with the utmost
ingenuousness and candour and expressed, it must be admitted, as
strongly as a caviller could desire.--_Ed._]

145 [The reader will remember that at this time the country was
convulsed from one end of it to the other.--_Ed._]

146 [That is, Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.--_Ed._]

147 [This was the only consolation which one learned Roman could
administer to another on the death of a friend. "This is hard," said