[Footnote 5:  See more in chap. 10, sect. 1.]

[Footnote 6:  R. Park, de Polit.  Eccl. 1. 2, cap. 42.]

[Footnote 7:  Malcolm.  Com. in loco.]

[Footnote 8:  Calvin in loco.]

[Footnote 9:  Chrys. wisheth—­“But, O that there had not wanted one that would have delivered diligently unto us the history of the apostles, not only what they wrote, or what they spake, but how they behaved themselves throughout their whole life, both what they did eat, and when they did eat, when they sat, and whither they went, and what they did every day, in what parts they lived, and into what house they entered, and whither they sailed, and that would accurately have expounded all things; so full of manifold utility are all things of theirs.”—­Chrys., Argum. in Epist. ad Philem.  And elsewhere he affirmeth,—­“Nor hath the grace of the Holy Ghost without cause left unto us these histories written, but that he may stir us up to the imitation and emulation of such unspeakable men.  For when we hear of this man’s patience, of that man’s soberness, of another man’s readiness to entertain strangers, and the manifold virtue of every one, and how every one of them did shine and become illustrious, we are stirred up to the like zeal.”  Chrys. in Gen. xxx. 25.  Homil. 57, in initio.]

[Footnote 10:  “For this cause, therefore, the conversation of these most excellent men is accurately related, that by imitation of them our life may be rightly led on to that which is good.”—­Greg.  Nyssen, lib. de Vita Mosis, tom. i. p. 170, vid. tot. lib.]

[Footnote 11:  Perkins on Matth. vi. 16.  See him also on Heb. xi. 6, p. 28, in fol. col. 2, B, C, &c., and on Heb. xi. 22, p. 131, col. 2, D, and notably on Heb. xii. 1, p. 200, col. 2, C, D, &c., and on Rev. ii. 19, p. 313, col. 1, B, and his Art of Prophesying, p. 663, col. 1 and 2.  Vide Pet.  Martyr in lib.  Jud. p. 2, col. 1, and in Rom. iv. 23, 24.  And Calvin in Heb. xii. 1; and in Rom. iv. 23, 24, and in 1.  Pet. i. 21, &c.]

[Footnote 12:  Park. de Pol.  Eccl. 1. 2, c. 42.]

[Footnote 13:  2 Cor. x. 8, and xiii. 10.]

[Footnote 14:  Matt. xvi. 19, and xviii. 15-18; 1 Cor. v. 4, 5; 2 Cor. x. 8, and xiii. 10.]

[Footnote 15:  2 Tim. iii. 16, 17; 1 Tim. iii. 14, 15, with all places that mention any thing of government.]

[Footnote 16:  Eph. iv. 8, 11, 12; 1 Cor. xii. 28; Matt. xxviii. 18-20; John xx. 21-23; Matt. xvi. 19; 2 Cor. x. 8.]

[Footnote 17:  Matt. xvi. 19, and xxviii. 19; John xx. 21, 23; 2 Cor. x. 8, and xiii. 10.]

[Footnote 18:  Matt, xxviii. 18-20; Acts vi. 4; 2 Tim. iv. 2.]

[Footnote 19:  Matt, xxviii. 18-20; 1 Cor. xi. 24.]

[Footnote 20:  Matt, xviii. 15-17; Tit. iii. 19; 1 Tim. v. 20; 1 Cor. v. 4, 5, 13; 2 Cor. ii. 6:  1 Tim. i. 20; 2 Cor. ii 7, 8, &c.]

[Footnote 21:  1 Cor. iv. 1.]

[Footnote 22:  2 Cor. x. 8, and xiii. 10.]