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he days Wednesday and Thursday.] [Footnote 220: Explain the meaning of this sentence.] [Footnote 221: You, or you, addressing different persons.] [Footnote 222: "The truth shall make you free."--_John_, viii. 32.] [Footnote 223: Antinomianism, the doctrine that the moral law is not binding under the gospel dispensation, faith alone being necessary to salvation.] [Footnote 224: "There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that--to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail." GEORGE ELIOT, _Middlemarch_, lxxvi.] [Footnote 225: Explain the use of _it_ in these expressions.] [Footnote 226: Stoic, a disciple of the Greek philosopher Zeno, who taught that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy and grief, and should submit without complaint to the inevitable.] [Footnote 227: Word made flesh, see _John_, i. 14.] [Footnote 228: Healing to the nations, see _Revelation_, xxii. 2.] [Footnote 229: In what prayers do men allow themselves to indulge?] [Footnote 230: "Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast." MONTGOMERY, _What is Prayer?_ ] [Footnote 231: Caratach (Caractacus) is a historical character in Fletcher's (1576-1625) tragedy of _Bonduca_(Boadicea).] [Footnote 232: Zoroaster, a Persian philosopher, founder of the ancient Persian religion. He flourished long before the Christian era.] [Footnote 233: "Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die."--_Exodus_, xx. 19. Compare also the parallel passage in _Deuteronomy_, v. 25-27.] [Footnote 234: John Locke. (See note 18.)] [Footnote 235: Lavoisier (1743-1794), celebrated French chemical philosopher, discoverer of the composition of water.] [Footnote 236: James Hutton (1726-1797), great Scotch geologist, author of the _Theory of the Earth_.] [Footnote 237: Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English philosopher, jurist, and legislative reformer.] [Footnote 238: Fourier (1772-1837), French socialist, founder of the system of Fourierism.] [Footnote 239: Calvinism, the doctrines of John Calvin (1509-1564). French theologian and Protestant reformer. A cardinal doctrine of Calvinism is predestination.] [Footnote 240: Quakerism, the doctrines of the Quakers or Friends, a society founded by George Fox (1624-1691).] [Footnote 241: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-17
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