Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.

The Post-script.

NOTE 1. For the distick in Italian Character Page 748. Take this following if you think it fit.

Infants (of both Sexes some) Suffered bloudy Martyrdom.

Though some Interpreters say that the Male Children onely suffered; but that could hardly be: See the Text in Jer. 31.18. And Reverend Bishop Hall, in his Contemplations of Herod and the Infants, saith thus: All the Infants of Bethlehem shall suffer for this one.

Note 2. The Salique Law is a Law of France, whereby the Crown of France cannot fall to a Woman; The Original and injustice of it, and how confuted and condemned from this President of Zelo∣phehad's Daughters, Num. 27. & 36. c. See in Dr. Heylin's description of the World, Edition 8. in Quarto, page 80. and in the Edition in Folio, pag. 177.

Note 3. Some take the Virgin Mary's Sister, spoken of John 19.25. to be the same with the Wife of Cleophas; for

thus the Text expresseth it, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. His Mother, and His Mothers Sister. Mary the Wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. And Calvin construes it, that this Mary (call'd her Sister) was her Cousin, and might be the Daughter of Cleophas, for any thing said in the Text, and the Trans∣lators put it in a different Character; But Aretius distinguisheth them, Adest Mater Christi, adest Soror ejus, Ad∣sunt aliae duae Mariae, Uxor Cleophae & Magdalenae. There was present (saith he) the Mother of Christ, there was present her Sister, there were pre∣sent two other Maries, the Wife of Cle∣ophas, and Magdalene.