Volume 2 / Part 2 — Part II. s. 1.
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But as in casting account, three or four men together come short in account of one man placed by himself below them, &c.
Thus 1,965. But why is the 1, said to be placed below the 965?
S. 7.
Let me be nothing, if within the compass of myself, I do not finde the battaile of Lepanto, passion against reason, 'reason against faith', faith against the devil, and my conscience against all.
It may appear whimsical, but I really feel an impatient regret, that this good man had so misconceived the nature both of faith and reason as to affirm their contrariety to each other.
Ib.
For my originale sin, I hold it to bee washed away in my baptisme; for my actual transgressions, I compute and reckon with God, but from my last repentance, &c.
This is most true as far as the imputation of the same is concerned. For where the means of avoiding its consequences have been afforded, each after transgression is actual, by a neglect of those means.
S. 14.
God, being all goodnesse, can love nothing but himself; he loves us but for that part which is, as it were, himselfe, and the traduction of his Holy Spirit.
This recalls a sublime thought of Spinosa. Every true virtue is a part of that love, with which God loveth himself.
{Footnote 1: Communicated by Mr. Wordsworth.—Ed.}
{Footnote 2: A mistake as to Ænesidemus, who lived in the age of Augustus—Ed.}