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says, "Sir John Parker hath promised more than you have signified: but words are women, and deeds are men." It was no doubt an adoption of the worthy knight, and I shall leave it to others to trace out the true author--hoping it may never be ascribed to an ancestor of BOLTON CORNEY. _Passage in St. Mark_ (Vol. iii., p. 8.).--Irenaeus is considered the best (if not the only) commentator among the very early Fathers upon those words in Mark xiii. 32. "[Greek: oude ho huios?]" and though I cannot refer CALMET further than to the author's works, he can trust the general accuracy of the following translation:-- "Our Lord himself," says he, "the Son of God, acknowledged that the Father only knew the day and hour of judgment, declaring expressly, that of that day and hour knoweth no one, neither the Son, but the Father only. Now, if the Son himself was not ashamed to leave the knowledge of that day to the Father, but plainly declared the truth; neither ought we to be ashamed to leave to God such questions as are too high for us. For if any one inquires why the Father, who communicates in all things to the Son, is yet by our Lord declared to know alone that day and hour, he cannot at present find any better, or more decent, or indeed any other safe answer at all, than this, that since our Lord is the only teacher of truth, we should learn of him, that the Father is above all; for the Son saith, 'He is greater than I.' The Father, therefore, is by Our Lord declared to be superior even in knowledge also; to this end, that we, while we continue in this world, may learn to acknowledge God only to have perfect knowledge, and leave such questions to him; and (put a stop to our presumption), lest curiously inquiring into the greatness of the Father, we run at last into so great a danger, as to ask whether even above God there be not another God." BLOWEN. "_And Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a Grin_" (Vol. i., p. 384.).--This line is taken from Dr. Brown's _Essay on Satire_, part ii. v. 224. The entire couplet is-- "Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin." Dr. Brown's Essay is prefixed to Pope's "Essay on Man" in Warburton's edition of Pope's _Works_. (See vol. iii. p. 15., edit. 1770, 8vo.) _Dr. Trusler's Memoirs_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--The first part of Dr. Trusler's _Memoirs_
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