he, "but what cannot be remedied is more easily borne, with
patience." Hor. Carm. lib. I. carm. xxiv.--_Ed._]

148 [Or _by the by_.--_Ed._]

149 [That is grains or particles.--_Ed._]

150 [What a sublime answer was that which one of the deaf and dumb
pupils of M. Sicard gave to the question, "What is eternity?" It is
"a day," said Massieu, "without yesterday or to-morrow,--un jour sans
hier ni demain." The thoughts of our author on this boundless theme
are hardly less sublime.--_Ed._]

151 [That is, to have the same desires and aversions, that, in a word is
strong friendship--_Sallust in Catil._ c. xx.--_Ed._]

152 [That is, twist.--_Ed._]

153 [Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, made no law against ingratitude, it
is said, because he conceived that no one could be so irrational as
to be unthankful for kindness done to him.--_Ed._]

154 [That is, quarter.--_Ed._]

155 [The discourse ends so abruptly here, as plainly to show that it is
an unfinished production, and was not designed by the learned and
pious author for publication.--_Ed._]

156 [Perhaps the word ought to be museum, used in the sense of a place
for study.--_Ed._]

157 [That is, not to speak of.--_Ed._]

158 [This simple vernacular expression, which is used by other Scottish
theological writers of the period as employed here, is particularly
expressive. It signifies a place where either foes or friends have
agreed to meet. Is that place the temple of the Lord? There surely
will peace and harmony prevail. Is our Daysman there? He will make
intercession for us and reconcile us to God.--_Ed._]

159 [That is, orders us into his Son.--_Ed._]

160 [The following baneful and impious doctrines, which were, in
England, in those days, openly proclaimed from the pulpit, and
disseminated through the press, were, it seems, not altogether
unknown in the northern part of the island:

1. That the moral law is of no use at all to a believer, no rule for
him to walk or examine his life by, and that Christians are free
from the mandatory power of it.

2. That it is as possible for Christ himself to sin, as for a child
of God to sin.

3. That a child of God need not, nay ought not, to ask pardon for
sin, and that it is no less than blasphemy for him to do this.

4. That God