cannot bee found that the word which signifieth Iustifying is euer vsed in the Originall Haebrew tongue otherwise then for Absoluing a person accused Neither in the New-Testament when our Iustification before God is spoken of hath it any other meaning and neuer found in this Argument to signifie of euill and vniust to make one iust and good Iustification sig Forgiuenesse of sins by the sufferings of Christ and imputation of Iustice by his obedience to the beleeuer Rom. 5 16. The guift is of many offences vnto Iustification verse 18. The benefit abounded toward all men to the Iustification of life Heere Iustification is strictly vsed 2 Whatsoeuer we haue from Christ either by Imputation of faith or by sanctification of the spirit effectually renewing vs. Tit. 3 7. That we being Iustified by his grace In this signification we find the word Iustifying vsed Rom. 8 30. Whom hee called them he Iustified Heere Iustification is vsed largely for Sanctification also What Iustification is Iustification is an action of God freely of his owne mercy and fauour absoluing a beleeuing sinner from the whole curse due to his sinnes and accounting him perfectly Iust in his sight vnto eternall life in heauen through the perfect obedience and sufferings of Christ Imputed to his faith vnto the euer-lasting praise and glory of Gods Iustice mercy and truth The efficient cause of Iustification is the grace of God The material is Christ our Redeemer The formall is Imputation The helping Instrumentall cause is Faith within and the Gospell without The finall cause is Gods glory The vtmost and our saluation the neerest end thereof Iustification before God is not knowne in all Scripture to be vsed for the infusion of the habite of Iustice into the soule of the elect at their first conuersion This is Popish and rotten Diuinity K. E. Kéepe sig TO hold fast and make sure 2. Tim. 1 14. Keepe that which was committed to thee 2 To reserue and hold fast in ones memory what is taught vs. Luke 2 51. Mary Kept these sayings in her heart Psal. 119 4. Thou hast commaunded to Keepe thy precepts diligently 3 To preferue protect and defend against enemies and euils spiritual and bodily Psal. 121 4. He that Keepeth Israell Iohn 17 11. Keepe them in thy Name 1 Pet. 1 5. to Kéep the word sig To beleeue the promises of Grace and to endeuour to doe the wordes of commaundement Luke 7 27. Blessed are they that heare the word of God and Keepe it Reuel 2 26. He that Keepeth my word to the end Euangelicall Keeping to Kéepe the Law sig To desire and take care how to performe and doe according to our power things commaunded 1 Iohn 2 3. If we Keepe his Commaundement Psalme 119 4 5 8. These be Euangelicall sentences and speake of Euangelicall Keeping 2 To performe fully and perfectly all the things required in the Law Math. 19 17. Hee that will enter into life let him Keepe the Commaundements This is impossible to be done through our weakenesse Rom. 8 3. Christ onely since mans fal hath done this Legall Keeping to Kéepe the Faith sig To holde fast without loosing both the guift and doctrine of Faith 2 Tim. 4 7. I haue Kept the Faith Key sig pro An Instrument made to open or shut the locke of a doore or of a Gate Iudg. 3 25. They tooke the Key and opened them 2 Great authority and power to commaund in the things that belong to this life Esay 22 22. I will lay vppon the shoulders of Eliakim the Keyes of the House of Dauid Heere by was shaddowed and represented the exceeding great authority and power which Christ exerciseth in his Church by commaunding forbidding punishing hardning calling c. Sée Reuel 3 7. Which hath the Keyes of Dauid Key of knowledge sig The guift and ability to Interpret Scriptures whereby an entrance is made to the knowledge thereof as by a Key an entrance is made into an House The sence of Scriptures is as it were lockt vp til it be opened by wise and sound Interpretation which is the Key of Knowledge Luke 11 52. Ye haue taken away the Key of knowledge The Key saith Chrisost. is the opening of Scripture whereby the Gate of truth is opened Key is the exposition of the law saith Turtullian Opening the Scripture is the Key saith Hierom. Keies of the kingdome sig The ministry of the Gospell euen the whole power thereof which was equally committed to Peter and the rest of the Apostles and after them to the Ministers of the Church to whom it belonges by the commission of Christ to open and shut to binde and loose to retaine and remit sins also to teach to reprooue to exhort Mathew 16 19. To thee I giue the Keyes of the Kingdom ver 19. and Chapter 18 18. Tell it vnto the Church Reuel 1 16. The Gospell is the power of God to Saluation Keyes of the Kingdome are two-fold 1. Key of knowledge 2. Key of power and gouernment Papists falsly imagine these Keyes to be tyed onely to Peters Girdle Keies of the bottomlesse pit sig Power and gouernment ouer the deepest darknesse of Hell Reuel 9 1. And to him was giuen the Key of the bottomlesse pit Sée Dictionary on Reuelation K. I. Kindnesse sig Readinesse and facility in doing good it is that vertue whereby a good man becomes beneficiall and profitable euery way to such to whom hee can be helpfull 2 Cor. 6 6. By Kindnesse c. 2 The benignity of God readily doing good to his Creatures Rom. 2 4. The riches of his Kindnesse King sig pro Any Ruler or Gouernour of others Gen. 36 31. These are the Kings that raigned in Edom. Iudg. 17 6 In those daies there was no Kinges in Israell that is no ordinary Magistrate They had no Ruler at all 2 A person that hath cheefe rule and power vnder God in his Kingdome ouer his peoples liues and goods to gouerne them according to good and wholesome Lawes and the reasonable customes of that Countrey where he raignes Prou. 8 15. By me Kings raigne 1 Kings 4 1. King Salomon was King ouer all Israell This is a Politicall K. and is set vp eyther by lawful election succession or Conquest 3 The Soueraigne-Emperour and Ruler ouer the whole World Psal. 24 10. Who is the King of Glory This is a Celestiall and Vniuersal King ouer the World And thus God the Father Sonne and Spirit be King 1 Tim. 1 17. Now to the King euerlasting 4 A person that hath spiritual rule euen ouer the Conscience to appoint Lawes to his Church to saue and destroy to commaund and forbid vpon paine of eternall death finally to protect against all Enemies and to blesse with good things of all sorts Psal. 2 6. I haue set my King vpon Sion Psal. 110 1 2. Psal. 45 1 5 6. This is a spirituall King ouer the Church And such an one is Christ the Mediator and he
Obey them who haue the ouer-sight of you and submit your selfe to Obey the doctrine sig To beleeue it and liue after it when our reason minde conscience will affections and members are brought vnder it to stoope to it and be gouerned by it Rom. 6 16. Ye haue obeyed from the hart the Doctrine c. to Obey Parents Magistrates and Maisters sig Willingly to performe their iust commaundements patiently to beare euen their vniust corrections Ephe. 6 1. Ye children Obey your parents to Obey the lusts of sin sig In will to consent vnto and in workes to practise the euill and sinnefull desires of our hearts Rom. 6 12. That ye should Obey the lusts of sin Oblation sig Some externall thing offered giuen vnto God to pacifie and appease his anger against sinne or to witnesse thankefulnesse for some benefit Psal. 51 19. Burnt Offering and Oblation Obseruation sig Outward pompe and shew of Maiestie to bee knowne by Luke 17 20. The Kingdom of God commeth not with Obseruation to Obserue dayes sig To attribute holinesse and vertue to dayes which belongs not to them or to put Religion in difference of dayes Gal. 4 10. Ye Obserue daies months c. to Obserue the tradition of men sig To keepe and hold superstitiously the rules and precepts deliuered vnto vs by men Mark 7 8. Ye Obserue the Traditions of men Obeysance sig Ciuill reuerence by bowing the body in token of the regard which wee owe to some person of dignity and worship for his yeares gifts or place Exod. 18 7. And did Obeysance Odour sig The efficacy of Christes death appeasing the wrath of God for the sinnes of the elect causing themselues and their Prayers to be acceptable to God Reuel 8 3. Much Odors was giuen vnto them Ephe. 5 2. A Sacrifice of sweet smelling Odors 2 The workes of Charity which being done in Faith are vnto God through Christ as a pleasant Odor Phil. 4 18. That which came from you was an Odor that smelleth sweete Of. sig Efficient cause or Author and chiefe worker of a thing Mat. 1 18. And she was found to be with childe of the Holy-ghost Rom. 11 36. Of him are al things 2 The Instrumentall cause Acts 19 11. God wrought Myracles by the hand of Paule 3 The materiall cause or matter whereof anie thing is made Rom. 1 4. Borne of the seede of Dauid Offence sig A stone blocke or some other thing whereat men may stumble 2 Euery occasion of sinning giuen to others Math. 18 6. Whosoeuer shall offend one of these little ones verse 7. Woe bee to them by whom Offences come Rom. 14 21. 1 Cor. 8 13. Giue no Offence to the Church of God Euery hinderance in the course of godlinesse offered vnto vs by another is an Offence and as it were a stone cast in our way to make vs stumble This is an Offence giuen 3 Euery hinderance and let in our course not offered by others but laide holde of by ourselues without iust cause as when the Iewes were offended with Christs Doctrine Mat. 15 12. The Pharises are Offended in hearing this saying Iohn 6 61. Doth this Offend you 4 Euery sin or fault against God or our neighbor how secretly or priuately soeuer done Rom. 5 15. The gift is not so as is the Offence 5 Knowledge of an Offence Rom. 5 20. The Law entred that the Offence might abound Rom. 3 20. For by the Law comes the knowledge of sinne to Offend sig To do any sinne in thought worde or deede Iames 3 2. He that Offends not with his tongue is a perfect man Psal. 19 12. Who can tell how oft he Offendeth Math. 23 16. 2 To Minister or giue occasion of sinne either by word or example 1. Cor. 8 13. That I may not Offend my brother 3 To take occasion of sinning when none is giuen as the Pharises at the disciples plucking the eares of Corne on the Sabbaoth Marke 2 23. As before Math. 15 12. They were offended at that saying Office sig pro Some function or calling which binds to dutie 2 Some duty which is to be done in regarde of some charge or function which we bear in church Common-wealth or family Rom. 12 7. He that hath an Office let him waite on his Office Officers sig Seruants and Ministers which attend vpon Magistrates to expect their Commandements Mat. 26. The Officers of the High-Priest Acts 5 22. wilde Oliues sig Gentiles which were strangers from Gods Couenant Rom. 11 17 24 right Oliues sig The Iewes which were the people of his Couenant Rom. 11 17 24 Oliue branches or Plants sig Children which as Oliue Branches are an Ornament and delight to their Parents Psal. 128 3. As Oliue branches round about his Table Old-man sig Our naturall disposition to euill Sée Man Old vessels sig A mind nourished in blinde superstition and Idle Ceremonies Math. 9 17. Neither do wee put new Wine into Old vessels Old things sig Naturall corruption and the fruites of it 2. Cor. 5 17. The same is meant by Old Leauen Once and twice sig Often or many times 62 11. God spake once or twice Once sig A thing which being doone is not iterated or gone ouer againe Thus Christ is saide to be Once offered to haue died Once to haue suffred Once Rom. 6 10. Heb. 9. two last verses Hebr. 10 10. Once and no more Therefore the Sacrifice of the Masse is abominable charging Christs death with insufficiency and the worde with vntruth Their distinction of bloudy and vnbloody Sacrifice is also directly against the Scripture which teacheth there is no remission without shedding of bloud Heb. 9 22. One sig One onely so as there is no more of that kind as One God One Mediator One Oblation c. 1. Tim. 2 5. 1. Cor. 8 4. Heb. 10 14. One accord sig Common agreement and vnity of minde in Religion Actes 2 46. And they continued daily with One accord One heart sig Consent in Religion and affection Ezek 11 19. I will giue thee One heart One sheepe sig One Catholick Church consisting of beleeuing Iewes Gentiles Iohn 10 16. And One Sheepfold One spirite sig Spirituall vnion being knit to God by one spirit 1. Cor. 6 17. Is one spirit One thing is needfull sig The sound and sauing knowledge of Christ by the word preached Luke 10 42. There is One thing needfull Psal. 27 4. One thing haue I desired One way sig The Doctrine of Godlinesse which is but One as there is but One God Ier. 32 39. I will giue thē One way O. P. to Open. sig pro To vnlocke something shutvp and lockt fast from vs. 2 To giue vnto vs what wee desire in Prayer Thus God openeth to vs. Math. 7 7. Knocke and it shall be opened 3 To let in and receiue Christ to dwell in our hearts by Faith Thus we open to Christ. Reuel 3 20. I stand at the doore and knocke if any man open c. Psal. 24. 9.
the word then it is an euill thought whatsoeuer good pretence it haue Math. 15 19. For out of the heart comes euill Thoughts 2 Our counsels touching matters to be done or not done Psalme 146 4. Then his Thoughtes perish 3. The griefe of an afflicted minde Psal. Amidst the Thoughts of my heart thy comforts haue refreshed my Soule 4 Reasoning inwardly in the Soule Luke 9 46 47. When Iesus saw the Thoughtes of their harts 5 Purpose ioyned with indeuour Gen. 50 20. When you Thought to doe me euill 6 Carking or immoderate care or care with anxiety Math. 6 31. Take no Thought Mat. 19. Take no Thought what ye speake Referred to God 7 The will counsell purpose or decree of God touching all things which he will doe or not doe Psalme 33 11. The Thoughts of his heart shall stand for euer It doth sometime signifie Gods disposition when his purpose is executed and brought vnto effect As Gen. 50 20. But God Thought c. So Tremelius translates it Thousand yeares sig The space of ten hundred yeares 2 An exceeding large space of time a finite number being put for an indefinite Psalme 90 4. A thousand yeares is but as yesterday when it is past 2 Pet. 3 8. A thousand yeares as one day Through or by in the doctine of iustification sig The cheefe efficient cause to wit the grace free fauour of God Rom. 3 24. Wee are iustified freely by or Through his grace 2 The outward meritorious cause to wit Christ Iesus our redeemer Reu. 3 24. Through the redemption which is in Christ. Ephe. 1 7. Through his bloud 3 The inward instrumentall cause to wit our Faith Rom. 3 28. We are iustified Through Faith without the workes of the Law Verse 25. Through Faith in his Bloud 4 The signes and fruits of our iustification to wit good workes Iames 2 21. Was not Abraham iustified Through workes Through him sig By his administration or powerfull gouernment Rom. 11 36. Through him are all things Thorny ground sig An heart stuffed with the cares of this World which choake the seede of the word as Thornes choake the Corne springing out of the ground Mat. 13 22. That which fell among Thornes or thorny ground Threatning sig A denunciation of some iudgement temporall or eternal from God 2 Hard and cruell speeches from one man to another Actes 14 17. Let vs Threaten and charge them 1 Pet. 2 23. When hee suffered he Threatned not to Thresh the Mountaines sig To destroy and afflict greeuously euen strong and mighty enemies Esay 41 15. Thou shalt Thresh the Mountaines and bring them to pouder Throne sig A high Seate full of Maiesty and glory fit for earthly Kinges or Iudges 1 Kings 10 18. Then the Kings made a great Throne of Iuory and the Throne had sixe steps 2 Some visible token or representation of Gods power and Maiesty Reue. 4 9. They gaue honour to him that sate on the Throne Reuel 15 1. Metaphor Thunder sig A great noyse and sound caused in the Clouds by the breaking out of hot and dry exâ—alations beating against the edge of the Cloud Psalm 18 13. The Lord Thundred in the Heauen Exo. 16 19. There were Thundrings and lightnings Thunder is a witnesse of Gods power and serueth to strike terrour and feare in men that the godly may bee humbled and the better subdued vnto God and the wicked confounded and left without excuse T. I. Time sig pro Some certaine space as houre day weeke yeare c. Dan. 2 21. Hee changeth the Times and seasons Dan. 4 20. And let his portion be among the Beastes till seauen Times passe ouer him that is seuen yeares Exod. 2 23. 2 Tearme period and shutting vp of ones life Psalme 31 15. My Times are in thy handes O Lord. 3 Opportunity or fit and conuenient season to doe thinges in Iohn 7 6. My Time is not yet come Acts 1 7. The Times and seasons 4 The whole tearme or space which a man liueth Psal. 90 10. The Time of our life is threescore yeares and ten c. Time and times and part of time sig Three yeares and ten daies Dan. 7 25. And they shall bee giuen into his handes vntill a Time and Times and the diuiding or part of Time Tithes sig The tenth part of our goods Deut. 14 28. Heb. 7 8. Men that did receiue Tithes T. O. To. sig The meanes that lead to the end Ephe. 2 11. Created To good workes 2 The end and finall cause Rom. 9 22. Prepared To destruction 1 Thess. 5 9. Appointed To saluation Ephe. 1 6. To the praise of his grace To day sig All the time that the doctrine of grace is Preached Psalme 95 7. To day if ye will heare his voice the morrow sig Time to come Mat. 6 34. Care not then for the Morrow Tongue sig pro The prinicipall instrument of speech Psalme 45 verse 1. My tongue is the pen of a ready Writer Iames 3 5. The Tongue is a little member 2 Speech itselfe Iam. 3 6. The Tongue is fire Iere. 18 18. Smite him with the Tongue A Metonimie of the cause for the effect 3 Strange language or the guift of speaking with a strange language 1 Cor. 14 2. He that speaketh a Tongue deceitfull Tongue sig A tongue vttering crafty and guilefull wordes Psalme 52 4. Thou louest all wordes that may destroy ô deceitfull Tongue that is a man speaking deceite with his Tongue Tongue imagineth mischiefe sig The Tongue to bee the Instrument to vtter that mischiefe which the heart hath thought and imagined Psalme 52 2. Thy Tongue imagineth mischiefe Tongue of the learned sig That singuler skill which Christ had in his owne person aboue measure and which hee gaue to his Ministers according to measure that they might know how to comfort and pacifie afflicted consciences Esay 50 4. The Lord hath giuen me a toong of the learned Tongues of men and Angels sig Such an excellent faculty of speach as might not only become men but euen the Angels if they could speake yet were it nothing worth vnlesse it were imployed through loue vnto the edification of others 1 Cor. 13 1. If I could speake with the Tongue of Men and Angels and had not loue I were as sounding Brasse and tinkling Cimball An Hiperbole to smite with the Tongue sig To vtter malicious and slanderous words which hurt a mans name as blows or strokes hurt a mans body Ier. 18 18. Let vs smite him with the toong Metaphor to Touch. sig To feele a thing lightly with the finger Luke 8 44. She Touched the Hâ—m of his Garment 2 To hurt or offer the least violence Psalme 105. Touch not mine annointed doe my Prophets no harme T. R. Tradition sig A doctrine first deliuered from God by speach and written downe afterward in his Booke for the vse of the Church 1 Cor. 11 2. And keepe the ordinances or Tradition for so it is in the Originall This is a written
be condemned Rom. 14 4. 6 The convicting or reproofe of ones wickednes and fault by the good example of another Thus the Niniuites shall condemne the obstinate Iewes Math. 2 41 42. Rom. 1 27. Shall condemne the c. to Confesse sig To acknowledge vs as his owne Thus Christ wil confesse the faithfull at the day of iudgement Luke 12 8. Him shall the sonne of man confesse before the Angels 2 To testifie or beare witnesse of one plainly and sincerely Iohn 1 10. Iohn confesseth and denyed not saying I am not that Christ. Luke 12 8. He that confesseth me before men Thus we confesse Christ. 3 To vtter and speake foorth ones prayse or to giue thankes Heb. 13 15. Offer to God the Calues of your lips confessing his name that is acknowledge his benefits and giue him thankes for them And in the Psalmes very often to confesse God is put for to praise God 4 Frankely and boldly to tell forth what we hold and beleeue in matter of Religion Rom. 10 10. With the mouth man confesseth to Saluation 5 To lay open our sinnes and offences either vnto God in priuate or publicke confessions or to our Neighbour whom we haue wronged or to some godly persons at whose hands we looke to receiue comfort being cast downe by some greeuous sin or finally to the whole Congregation when our fault is publicke 1. Iohn 1 9. We confesse our sinnes Psal. 32 5. I sayd I will confesse my sins Mat. 3 6. Iames 5 16. 6 To acknowledge a crime before a Iudge Iosh. 7 19. Confesse what thou hast done Touching Popish confessing of our particular finnes distinctly for number and circumstances euery year in the ears of a Massing-Priest vpon necessity of Saluation there is no one word in all the Booke of God For it is a meere deuise inuented for aduancement of the Apostaticall See of Rome Confession sig Profession or declaration either of the trueth of Doctrine or of the Innocency of his personne 1. Tim. 6 13. Who before Pontius Pylat witnessed a good confession 2 Inuocation or Prayer vnto God by Christ and all other workes of Religion Rom. 10 10. With the mouth man confesseth to Saluation This is expounded of Prayer verse 13. to Confirme sig To strengthen or make strong 1. Pet. 5 10. Confirme and strengthen you 2 To perfect or finish a thing Psal. 68 28. Confirme ô God the thing that thou hast wrought in vs. 3 To performe some word or promise 1. Cor. 1 6. The Testimony of Iesus hath beene confirmed in you that is truely performed vnto you by bestowing the guiftes of the Holy-Ghost which were promised before A worke of the Spirite strengthening faint and weake minds in faith and obedience vnto the end 1. Pet. 5 10. The God of all grace confirme strengthen ye God confirmeth as author or efficient cause of strength the Word Sacraments and Ministers confirme as Instruments and helpes Luke 22 32. Being conuerted confirme thy Brethren A man confirmes himselfe when hee takes heart to him in a good cause vpon hope of Gods helpe 1. Cor. 16 13. Example in Dauid 1. Sam. 17 34 45. No ground in Scripture for the Popish Sacrament of Confirmation which is a deuise of theyr owne braine to Confound sig To put one vnto shame by fome publick punishment and sometimes quite and vtterly to destroy and roote one out Psal. 31 1. I haue put my trust in thee let me not bee confounded Psal. â—2 5. They trusted in thee and were not confounded that is they were not forsaken and put to vtter rebuke and shame before men Confusion sig pro Affection of shame which appeares in the countenance by blushing or chaunging of the colour Dan. 1 7. Unto vs confusion of face or open shame c. 2 The casting downe of the conscience before God and man for some sin Psal. 119 6. Then shall no confusion come to mee 3 Peruerting of order and peace or disorder 1. Cor. 14 33. God is not the Author of confusion What Conscience is It is a faculty of mans soule taking knowledge bearing witnesse of a mans thoughts wordes and workes excusing them when they be good and accusing them when they be euill Rom. 2 15. Theyr Conscience bearing them witnesse and their thoughtes accusing or excusing If the Conscience bee not deceyued but beare a true witnesse then it is no erronious Conscience yet may bee an euill Conscience if it bee not Sanctifyed as well as enlightned Pure Conscience sig A Conscience not trobled and polluted with notorious and grosse crimes 2. Tim. 1 3. 2 A Conscience purged and made free from guilt and horror of death by faith in the blood of Christ. Heb 9 14. Purge your Conscience from dead workes Acts 15 9. Your hearts purified by faith Seared or burned Conscience sig A Conscience quite extinct and cut off or vtterly hardened 1. Tim 4 2. And haue their Conscience burned with an hot Iron Cleare Conscience sig A Conscience kept without offence and spot Acts 24 6. To haue a cleare conscience good Conscience sig A Conscience which obeyeth such light and direction as it doth thinke and take to bee true and sound light and direction Acts 23 1. In all good Conscience Consolation or Comfort sig That Inward spirituall refreshing and strengthening of the heart by the consideration and feeling of Gods mercifull promises in Christ. Psal. 119 50. Thy promises haue comforted me in my trobles 2. Cor. 1 4 God comforteth vs in all our trobles v. 5. Our consolation aboundeth through Christ. Rom. 1 11 12. Where Consolation and Strengthning are put the one for the other The Holy-Ghost beeing the worker of comfort is therefore called the Comforter by an excellency The promises of the word are the grounds of Comfort our beleeuing hearts are the seats of comfort Godly Ministers and the faithful are the helpers of our comforts Iohn 16 7. I will send the Comforter 1. Thes. 4 18. Comfort your selues one another with these words 2. Cor. 7 7. to Consecrate sig To sanctifie to dedicate vnto God or to separate and set one apart to execute some holy Function of Priest Leuite Nazarite Exo. 29 1. When thou consecratest them to bee my Priestes thus thou shalt doe Numb 6 18. and 8 13. The Consecration is by doing some Ceremonies appointed of God for such a purpose Constancy sig Continuance in a good thing to the end Psalm 8 5. Ephes. 6 18. With all Constancy or PerseueraÌ„ce to be Content sig To be well pleased and apaide with the condition of life and portion of goods which wee haue Hebru 13 5. Be content with those thinges ye haue 1. Tim. 6 6 8. When the mind is pleased with such thinges as God hath thought fit and meete for vs This is Contentment so as withall wee be readie to vndergoe a meaner and hard estate if God will euer iudging our present condition best for vs. Continency what it is It is
the Flesh. Rom. 8 12 13 14. to be condeÌ„ned in the Flesh. sig To haue the wicked naughtinesse of our Nature mortified and subdued 1 Pet. 4 6. That they might be condemned according to men in the Flesh. 1 Cor. 5. Flocke sig pro A great company of Sheepe gathered together into one Pasture Ier. 49 29. 2 The whole Church of Christ vpon Earth Can. 1 7. Get thee forth by the steps of the Flocke Metaphor 3 Some particular Church Acts 20 20. Take heede to the Flocke 4 An Hoast of men or a rude and vnskilfull multitude Iere. 49 20. The least of the Flocke shall draw them out Flood sig pro The ouerflowing of waters as Noahs flood Gen. 6 Psa. 93 3 4. 2 Extreame dangers and violent troubles stirred vp by wicked men against Gods Children or such great euils as be otherwise sent of God Psal. 42 7. All thy Floods and Waues are gone ouer mee Reuel 12 15. The Serpent cast waters like a flood out of his mouth Psal. 69. 15. 3 Mighty Kings and people who for strength and power are like vnto a Flood Esay 59 19. For the Enemy shall come like a flood Metaphor 4 Great store rich plenty of good things bodily and spirituall Esay 41 18. I will open the Floudes of the tops of the hils Iohn 7 38. Out of his belly shall flow Floods or Riuers of Waters of life Metaphor Floore sig The visible Church as it containes good and bad like Wheate and Chaffe in a Barne-floore Math. 3 21. He hath his Fan in his hand and will purge his Floore Metaphor Florishing sig The outward fraile estate and short prosperitie of wicked men Psal. 37 35. I haue seene the wicked strong and flourishing or spreading like a greene Bay Tree Psalme 103. As a Flower of the fielde so flourisheth he 2 The happy prosperity of the godly Proâ—er 14 11. The Tabernacle of the iust shall flourish 3 Spirituall liuelinesse and vigor Psal. 92 14. They shall be fat and flourishing Flowing sig Plentifull encrease either of earthly blessings or of spirituall graces Iohn 7 38. Out of his belly shall flow the water of life Psal. 23 4. My Cup doth Flow or run ouer Flower sig Fraile and vanishing men which flourish for a while and suddenly vanish like a Flower that withereth in a day Esay 40 8. The Grasse withereth and the Flower fadeth Metaphor 2 Riches prosperity and all good things of this life Iames 1 10. For as the Flower of the grasse hee shall vanish away That is his riches and plenty of worldly good shall fade as a Flower sadeth F. O. Fold sig pro A Sheep-coate or Sheepe-house to keep them safe from the cruelty of Wolues or other wilde Beasts 2 The inuisible Catholike Church of Christ consisting of beleeuing Iewes and Gentiles Iohn 10 16. I haue other Sheepe which are not of this Folde The elect are gathered into the Church as Sheepe into a Fold by the Ministry of the Pastors A Metaphor seauen-fold sig Manifolde or aboundantly also often times Psal. 79 12. Andrender to our Neighbours seauen-fold hundred Fold sig Plentifully or very much Mat. 19 29. He shall receiue an hundred Fold to Follow sig pro To come after one which goeth before 1 Sam. 25 27. Let it bee giuen them that Follow my Lord. Math. 4 19. As Seruants Follow and goe after their Maisters 2 To imitate or to doe as another giues vs an example Math. 10 38. He that takes vp his Crosse and Followes me 1 Cor. 11 1. Be ye Followers of me as I am of Christ. 3 To beleeue and obey Iohn 10 27. My Sheep heare my voice and Follow me 1 King 18 11. 2 Pet. 1 16. And in al places where men are said to Follow strange Gods it doth signifie to put trust in them and rely vpon them yeelding them seruice 4 To endeuour and striue towardes the obtayning of some thing Phil. 3 12. I Follow and verse 14. I Follow hard which is expounded in verse 13. I endeuour 5 To dye with one Iohn 13 36. Thou canst not follow me now that is dye with me Foole or Foolish sig pro An Idiot or one destitute of wit of little or no capacity and discretion 2 A sinner and wicked man who dispising the wisedome of the word followes his owne lustes and the sinnefull vaine customes of this wicked world In this sence the word is vsed throughout the Prouerbs of Salomon also Psalme 14 1. The Foole hath said in his hart and often else-where as Psalm 73 3. I fretted at the foolish to see the prosperity of the wicked 3 A couetous worldling Luke 12 20. O Foole this night shall thy Soule be taken from thee 1 Sam. 25 25. It is put for an Idolatour In Rom. 1 2. They became Fooles 4 A man that is vnprouident without foresight Math. 7 26. He that heares these wordes and dooth them not shall bee like vnto a Foole which built his House c. 5 One who though he be godly yet hath much ignorance and vnbeleefe remaining in him Luke 24 15. O ye Fooles and flow of heart to beleeue It is also put for all vnbeleeuers which wholie want faith Mat. 25 2. Fiâ—e were Fooles 6 One possessed with naturall ignorance from his birth In which sence all men yea young infants naturally be fooles Titus 3 3. We were fooles or vnwise 7 A name or worde of reproach Mat. 5 22. Whosoeuer shall say Foole. A Sinechdoche Euerie word of disgrace as Knaue Asse c. vnderstood by this one 8 One which dooth see and acknowledge his owne spirituall foolishnesse 1. Cor. 3 18. Let him be a Foole that he may be wise 9 One accounted a foole by the worlde 1. Cor. 4 10. We are fooles for Christ. Foolish words sig Such words as be void of reason and godlinesse hauing in them no edification Ephe. 5 4. Neither filthinesse nor foolish talking Foolish things sig Such things as the world esteemeth for foolish 1. Cor. 1 27. God hath chosen foolish things to confound the wise Foolish Questions sig Questions or doubts mooued about things curious and vnprofitable 2. Tim. 2 23. Put away foolish questions Foolishnes or folly sig All naughtinesse whatsoeuer generally Pro. 22 15. Foolishnesse is bound vp in the heart of a Child 2 Some perticuler hainous sin as Incest Idolatry and such like 2. Sam 13 12. Commit not this folly Iosh. 7 15. 3 That which men do account most absurd and foolish 1. Cor. 1 23. We preach Christ crucified vnto the Grecians foolishnesse 4 That which is indeed and truth most foolish and absurd 1. Cor. 3 19. The wisedome of the worlde is Foolishnesse with God For. sig An efficient cause of a thing Rom. 8 2. Rom. 3 23. And elsewhere very often this word For is a Causall particle 2 A sign or a consequent of a thing Luke 7 47. Many sinnes are forgiuen her For shee loued much Heere this particle For noteth the consequent and that