[9] Those who are interested in the historic parallels supplied by Christian biography, will find a similar instructive dream in the Life of General Burn, vol. i. pp. 127–130.[11] Ivimey’s Life of Bunyan, pp. 51–53.[30a] Remains, vol. iii. p. 391.

[32a] Pascal was an exception. D’AubignÉ, so far as writing in French makes a Frenchman, is another. Their works are full of fancy, but it is the fancy which gives to truth its wings. The rocket is charged, not with coloured sparks, but burning jewels.[32b] Here, again, exceptions occur, and the greatest of our Scottish preachers is a contradiction to the characteristic style of his country.