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50 APPENDIX. which is,- and abides; and which, because it is the substance ( uod stat subtus; that which stands beneath, and, as it were, supports the appearance), the outward senses cannot recognize. Tertullian had good reason for his assertion, that the simplest Christian, if indeed a Christian, knows more than the most accomplished irreligious philosopher."-CoLERIDGE. "Certainly people of the dullest minds can understand, that many states of pleasure, and in particular the highest, are the most of all removed from merriment, or from the ludicrous....So mysterious is human nature, and so little to be read by him who runs, that almost every weighty aspect of truth will be found at first sight startling, or sometimes paradoxical. No man needs to search for paradox in this world of ours. Let him simply confine himself to the truth, and he will find paradox growing everywhere under his hands as rank as weeds. For new truths of importance are rarely agreeable to any preconceived theories; that is, cannot be explained by these theories; which are insufficient therefore, even where they are true. And universally it must be borne in mind, that not that is paradox which, seeming to be true, is upon examination false, but that which, seeming to be false, may upon examination, be found true."-DE QUINCEY. "Whosoever shall do the will of God, the B L. 491. same is my brother, and my sister, and my mother."-MARK iii. 35; MATT. xi. 50, LUKE Viii. 21. "As many as resist not this light, but receive the same, it becomes in them an holy, pure, and spiritual birth, bringing forth holiness, righteousness, purity, and all those other blessed fruits which are acceptable to God. By which holy birth, to wit, Christ Jesus formed within us, and working his works in us, as we are sanctified, so are we justified, in the sight of God, according to the apostle's words:' But ye are