216 Ib. xxv. 15.
217 "The grace" i.e. the grace of the priesthood.
218 S Luke viii. 6.
219 S. Matt. xiii. 5.
220 Ib. vii. 26.
221 Eccles. x. 16.
222 Prov. xxix. 20.
223 Ib. xxv 3.
224 Ps. xxiv. 3.
225 Isai. xl. 12.
226 Ib. lxvi. 1.
227 Ib. xl. 18, 25.
228 Ps. xxxiii. 6.
229 Eccles. vii. 24.
230 Ib. i. 18.
231 Ps. xxvi. 7 (lxx).
232 Ib. xviii. 12; civ. 6.
233 1 Tim. vi. 16.
234 Exod. xxxiii. 19.
235 S. Matt. xxii. 13.
236 Ps. xxii. 11.
237 Ib. xix. 10; cxix. 103.
238 Prov. ii. 3.
239 2 Cor. xi. 23.
240 Ps. cvii. 40.
241 Princes, a!rxontaj. i.e. The office of the priesthood, which is one of dignity, has been brought into contempt by the unworthiness of those ordained to it, who have, by their want of the virtues requisite for their office, made it an empty name - and, not only so, but have been actively vicious.
242 Knowledge, &c. cf. the ironical passage, §§ 49, 50.
243 1 Cor. ii. 10.
244 Ib. vi. i. 7.
245 S. Matt. vii. 6.
246 Ps. cvi. 39.
247 Deut. xxiii. 3.
248 Ps. cxviii. 19.
249 Ib. x. 7. cxl. 3.
250 Gen. i. 2.
251 Isai. xxiv. 2; Hos. iv. 9.
252 Ps. cxxix. 3 (lxx.).
253 1 Cor. iv. 9.
254 Eph. vi. 12.
255 S. James ii. 19.
256 Isai. lii. 5; Rom. ii. 24.
257 Phil. iii. 3.
258 Eph. vi. 11.
259 Exod. xvii. 11.
260 Josh. v. 14.
261 1 Sam. xvi. 16; xvii. 49.
262 Ps. xviii. 39.
263 Ib. cxliv. 1.
264 1 Sam. vii. 5.
265 Joel ii. 17.
266 Ezek. xiv. 14, 20.
267 Judah, etc., cf. Orat. vi. 7; xxxii. 4.
268 Lam. iii. 28.
269 Ib. iii. 19.
270 Mic. ii. 3.
271 Deut. xxxii. 15.
272 Jer. iii. 14.
273 Hos. x. 1.
274 Jer. ii. 21; x. 16.
275 Ps. lxv. 10.
276 Isai. lxii. 3.
277 Ezek. xxviii. 12.
278 Ib. xxiii. 42.
279 Phil. iii. 21.
280 Ps. xl. 2; lxix. 2.
281 Rom. vii. 23.
282 Exod. xxiv. 1, 2.
283 Ib. xix. 16.
284 Heb. xii. 18.
285 Exod. xxiv. 15, 18.
286 2 Cor. iii. 6, 7.
287 Lev. x. 1.
288 1 Sam. ii. 12, 15, 23.
289 2 Sam. vi. 6.
290 Lev. xxi. 17.
291 Ib. xxii. 19.
292 Ib. viii. 31.
293 Exod. xxx. 33, 38.