NOTES
NOTES
1. Bishop C. J. Ryle, Five Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century, first published 1868 (Banner of Truth edition, 1960), p. 28.
2. J. J. Gurney’s memoir of an afternoon spent in Cambridge with Simeon in 1831, recorded in Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, ed. William Carus (Hatchard, 1847), p. 674.
3. George Whitefield’s Journals, first published between 1738 and 1741 (Banner of Truth edition, 1960), p. 60.
4. Sermon 975 in Horae Homileticae (1819).
5. Recorded in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, vol. IV.
6. Commentary on Acts 8:31 in the Oliver and Boyd edition, p. 247.
7. The Construction of Deeds and Statutes, first published by Sweet and Maxwell in 1939 (fourth edition, 1956), p. 27.
8. The Apostolic Fathers ed. J. B. Lightfoot (Macmillan, 1891), p. 279.
9. Comment on Galatians 4:22, William Princle’s translation (Calvin, Translation Society, 1854), p. 136.
10. The italics are Simeon’s. The quotation comes from a letter to his publisher Mr. Holdsworth (undated, although apparently 1832) in Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, 2nd edition, ed. William Carus (Hachard, 1847), p. 703.
11. J.Gresham Machen What Is Faith? first published 1925 (Hodder edition, n.d, p. 24.
12. The Construction of Deeds and Statues, p. 39.
13. Article XX Of the Authority of the Church from the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles.
14. The debate is recorded near the beginning of Book 4 of John Knox, The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, unfinished edition 1587, first complete edition 1644, p. 314.
15. Consider the use of the words “shadow” and “copy” in Heb. 8:5; 9:24; 10:1 and Mark’s editorial comment in 7:19.
16. Gal. 3:7, 9, 13, 14, 29; cf. Rom. 4:13, 16. In verse 13 God’s promise to Abraham and his descendants is that he would be heir of the world,” cf. 1 Cor. 3:21–23.
17. Eph. 2:21–22; cf. 1 Cor. 3:16. Consider also how James saw the Gentiles’ inclusion in the church a fulfillment of God’s promise through Amos to rebuild the ruins of David’s dwelling. Acts 15:13–18; Amos 9:11–12.