d to own so much as in
being, while they swam in their pleasures. The thoughts of a Deity
cannot be extinguished, but they will revive and rush upon a man at
least under some sharp affliction. Amazing judgments will make them
question their own apprehensions." (Charnock's Works, vol. 1, p. 42
Lond. 1682). An ancient historian relates, concerning Caligula the
Emperor of Rome, whose licentiousness knew no bounds, and who
professed the utmost contempt for the gods of his country, that,
when it thundered, he was accustomed from fear of the gods he
derided, to shut his eyes, cover his head, and even conceal himself
under a bed.--Suet. in Calig. cap. 51 Seneca de Ira, lib. i, cap.
16.--_Ed._]

245 [That is, place or station.--_Ed._]

246 [That is, judge.--_Ed._]

247 [That is, to sue for.--_Ed._]

248 [Many of the speeches and actions of Philip, who was the father of
Alexander the Great, are worthy of being remembered. A collection of
his most memorable sayings has been made by Erasmus, in his
Apothegmata Opus (pp. 268-279, Lutetiae 154). The conduct of Philip,
in many respects however, was very unlike that of a wise and
virtuous prince. Like mankind in general, though he was reminded
daily of this, he too often forgot that he was mortal.--_Ed._]

249 [There is no fact, connected with the history of former times, which
can be more easily proved than this that religious sacrifices were
prevalent throughout every part of the Gentile world. Animals, which
were deemed suitable for sacrifice by one nation, might be
considered improper for such a purpose by another. But in the most
remote countries victims of one kind or another, and not
unfrequently human victims were seen bleeding on the altars of
superstition, and with the death of these, the idea of substitution,
or of presenting life for life, was almost invariably connected.
When sacrificing her victim, Ovid makes his votaress exclaim--"I like
heart for heart, I beseech thee, take entrails for entrails. We give
to thee this life for a better one"--

Cor pro corde, precor, pro obras sumite fibras.
Hanc animam vobis pro meliore damus
Fast lib. vi. v. 161

But "as Kennicot observes from Delaney, whatever practice has
obtained universally in the world, must have obtai