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[12] of: So in ed. 1605; omitted in edd. 1629, 1633. [18] i Cor. xiii. 

 12. [23] Ps. xix. i. [25] Isa. viii. -20. [29] Matt. v. 44, 45. [33] it 

 ought to be applauded: i.e. this applause ought to be given. [Ib.] 

 Virg. Jn. i. 328. 



P. 254. [4] Ovid, Met. x. 330. [5] Plutarch (Alex. 65) calls him 

 Dandamis, Strabo (xv. 64) Mandanis. [28] Comp. with this paragraph 

 Hooker, Eccl. Pol. i. 8, 9; iii. 8. 9. [31] Rom. xii. i. 



P. 255. [i] non-significants and surd characters: See p. 169, in the 

 paragraph on ciphers. [22] grift: grifte in edd. 1605, 1629; graft* 

 in ed. 1633. 



P. 256. [20] This and the three following paragraphs are consider 

 ably modified in the Latin. [31] John iii. 4. 



P- 2 57- [ ! 1 John xvi. 17. [5, 6] an opiate to stay and bridle, &c. 

 The metaphor is better preserved in the Latin : utpote qua futura s&amp;gt;it 

 instar opiatce cujusdam medicine, quee non modo speculationum quibus 

 schola interdum laborat inania con&opiat, verum etiam controversiarnm 

 furores quce in ecclesia tumultus dent nonnihil midget. [13] if men : of 

 men in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata. [14] i Cor. vii. 12. [15] i Cor. 

 vii. 40. [17] i Cor. vii. 10. [21] Prov. xxvi. a. 



P. 258. [3] further: Some copies of ed. 1605 have sounder, others 

 4 furder. [7] With this paragraph compare Ess. iii. Of Unity in 

 Religion, and the notes upon it. [15] Ex. ii. 11, 12. [17] Ex. ii. 13; 

 Acts vii. 26. [22] Matt. xii. 30. [24] l.uke ix. 50. [25] John 

 xix. 23. [26] garment: Some copies of ed. 1605 have garmente, 

 others gouernment. [27] Ps. xlv. 10 (Prayer Book version). [29] 

 Matt. xiii. 29. 



P 2 59- [3] In tne Latin Bacon explains that he treats here only of 

 the method, not of the authority, of interpretation, which is founded 

 upon the consent of the church. [6] John iv. 13, 14. [11-13] Tne 

 former ... corrupt : Omitted in the Latin. [18] Paragraphs 11-13 

 are omitted in the Latin. [30] the Master of the Sentences: Peter 

 Lombard, bishop of Paris; so called from his Sum of Theology, 

 in four books, entitled The Sentences. [33] Tribonianus, was 

 successively quaestor, consul, and master of the offices to Justinian . . . 

 In A.D. 530 Tribonianus, then qux-stor, was commissioned with sixteen 

 others to compile the Digest or Pandect. (Smith s Diet, of Biog.) 



P. 260. [12] the weaker do you conclude: i. e. the weaker are your 

 conclusions. [22] Rom. xi. 33. [24] I Cor. xiii. 9. [3.1] in the Latin 

 the substance of paragraphs 14 and 15 is much condensed. 



P. 261. [2] curious : So some copies of ed. 1605 ; others have ruinous. 

 [12] From the Vulgate of Prov. xxv. 27. [14] Ex. xxxiii. 20. [Ib.] 

 Prov. viii. 27. [16] John ii. 25. [18] Acts xv. 18. [20] two of these: 

 So ed. 1605; of these two in edd. 1629, 1633. [24] i Cor. xiii. 12. 



P. 262. [8] the latter; i.e. the philosophical exposition. [9] The 



