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[1] So Washbourne, in his Divine Poems, 12mo. 1654:

"—— ere 'tis accustom'd unto sin,

The mind white paper is, and will admit Of any lesson you will write in it."—p. 26.

[2] This, and every other passage throughout the volume, [included between brackets,] does not appear in the first edition of 1628.

[3] Adam did not, to use the words of the old Geneva Bible, "make himself breeches," till he knew sin: the meaning of the passage in the text is merely that, as a child advances in age, he commonly proceeds in the knowledge and commission of vice and immorality.