ned in one of the maxims of Hippocrates: Ultimus
sanitatis gradus est morbo proximus. "The highest state of health is
as near as possible to disease."--_Ed._]

236 [The first of Francis Quarles, Emblems Divine and Moral, is the
picture of a heart. A representation of the globe covers the whole
of the heart with the exception of the three angles or corners on
each of which a syllable of the word Tri ni tas is imprinted.

Frances Quarles was secretary to Archbishop Usher. He died in
1644.--_Ed._]

237 [That is, slight.--_Ed._]

238 [These are two adages. The former is quoted by Cicero as an ancient
proverb in his days (De Senect. cap. iii.). The meaning of it is,
that, "equals or persons of the same age and rank, flock together."
The literal meaning of the other is "like take pleasure in like." It
({~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}) is as old as the days of
Aristotle.--Ethic. Nicom. lib. ix. cap. 3.--_Ed._]

239 [That is, compound.--_Ed._]

240 [That is, "the darkness of too much light".--_Ed._]

241 [That is, a defect.--_Ed._]

242 [That is, genius.--_Ed._]

243 [That is, who look upon a part or portion of the gospel, as if that
were the whole of it.--_Ed._]

244 [A celebrated English preacher, who was cotemporary with Binning
makes a similar remark: "No question but those that have been so
bold as to deny that there was a God have sometimes been much afraid
they have been in error, and have at last suspected there was a God,
when some sudden prodigy hath presented itself to them and roused
their fears. And whatsoever sentiments they might have in their
blinding prosperity, they have had other kind of notions in them in
their stormy afflictions, and like Jonah's mariners, have been ready
to cry to him for help, whom they disdaine