The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3

Decem dierum vix mihi est familia. Heaut. v. i. – Ed.

48

Hendrick Nicholas and the Family of Love. – Ed.

49

Göttingen, 1821. The few following notes are, something out of order, inserted here in consequence of their connection with the immediately preceding remarks in the text. – Ed.

50

By Thomas Plume. Folio, 1676. – Ed.

51

Ea omnia super Christo Pilatus, et ipse jam pro sua conscientia Christianus, Cæsari tum Tiberio nuntiavit.

Apologet, ii. 624. See the account in Eusebius. Hist. Eccl. ii.2. – Ed.

52

See M. T. Ciceronis de Republica quæ supersunt. Zell. Stuttgardt. 1827. – Ed.

53

See supra. – Ed.

54

Folio. 1693. – Ed.

55

See The Church and State. – Ed.

56

The references are here given to Heber's edition, 1822. Ed.

57

The page however remains a blank. But a little essay on punctuation by the Author is in the Editor's possession, and will be published hereafter. – Ed.

58

See Euseb. Hist. iii. 27. – Ed.

59

'Vindication, &c. Quer.' 13, 14, 15. – Ed.

60

See the form previously exhibited in this volume, p. 93. Ed.

61

Mark viii. 29. Luke ix. 20. Ed.

62

1 Pet. v. 13. Ed.

63

Lightfoot and Wall use this strong argument for the lawfulness and implied duty of Infant Baptism in the Christian Church. It was the universal practice of the Jews to baptize the infant children of proselytes as well as their parents. Instead, therefore, of Christ's silence as to infants by name in his commission to baptize all nations being an argument that he meant to exclude them, it is a sign that he meant to include them. For it was natural that the precedent custom should prevail, unless it were expressly forbidden. The force of this, however, is limited to the ceremony; – its character and efficacy are not established by it. Ed.

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The Author's views of Baptism are stated more fully and methodically in the Aids to Reflection; but even that statement is imperfect, and consequently open to objection, as was frequently admitted by Mr. C. himself. The Editor is unable to say what precise spiritual efficacy the Author ultimately ascribed to Infant Baptism; but he was certainly an advocate for the practice, and appeared as sponsor at the font for more than one of his friends' children. See his Letter to a Godchild, printed, for this purpose, at the end of this volume; his Sonnet on his Baptismal Birthday, (Poet. Works, ii. p. 151.) in the tenth line of which, in many copies, there was a misprint of 'heart' for 'front;' and the Table Talk, 2nd edit. p. 183. Ed.

65

Deut. xiii. 1-5. xviii. 22. Ed.

66

Galat. i. 8, 9. Ed.

67

Pp. 206-227. Ed.

68

With reference to all these notes on Original Sin, see Aids to Reflection, p. 250-286. – Ed.

69

Aids to Reflection, p. 274. – Ed.

70

Ante. 'Vindication, &c.' p. 357-8.

71

Ibid.

72

Dupliciter vero sanguis Christi et caro intelligitur, spiritualis ilia atque divina, de qua ipse dixit, Caro mea vere est cibus, &c., vel caro et sanguis, quæ crucifixa est, et qui militis effusus est lancea.

In Epist. Ephes. c. i.

73

See Table Talk, p. 72, second edit. Ed.

74

Ipsum regem tradunt, volventem commentaries Numæ, quum ibi occulta solennia sacrificia Jovi Elicio facta invenisset, operatum his sacris se abdidisse; sed non rite initum aut curatum id sacrum esse; nee solum nullam ei oblatam Cælestium speciem, sed ira Jovis, sollicitati prava religione, fulmine ictum cum domo conflagrasse.

L. i. c. xxxi. Ed.

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"This also rests upon the practice apostolical and traditive interpretation of holy Church, and yet cannot be denied that so it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Christendom suspected. To these I add the communion of women, the distinction of books apocryphal from canonical, that such books were written by such Evangelists and Apostles, the whole tradition of Scripture itself, the Apostles' Creed, &c. … These and divers others of greater consequence, (which I dare not specify for fear of being misunderstood,) rely but upon equal faith with this of Episcopacy,"

&c. Ed.

76

S. xxvi.

77

S. iv. 4. Ed.

78

P. 98, &c. of the edition by Murray and Major, 1830 Ed.

79

Prefixed to an edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, by R. Edwards, 1820. – Ed.

80

The second of two 'Letters written to persons under trouble of mind.' Ed.

81

Sermon of the certainty and perpetuity of faith in the elect. Vol. iii. p. 583. Keale's edit. – Ed.

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Of Queen's College, Cambridge, 1660.

83

See ante, p. 291. Ed.

84

He died on the 25th day of the same month.