keepes a Souldiers Armor fast to his body Girdle of truth sig Integrity or soundnesse of a good Conscience Ephe. 6 14. Your loynes girded about with truth your loynes girt sig The tucking vp or keeping short our wicked lustes by Mortification or an vtter abstaining from all thinges which hinder the Christian traueller in his iourney toward Hierusalem which is aboue 1 Pet. 1 13. Luke 12 35. Let your loynes be Girt about It is a speech borrowed from the common vsage of the East Countries where men did weare long Garments could not trauaile vnlesse their Cloaths were girt and tuckt vp So it signifieth the exercise and practise of Mortification and repentance G. L. Glory is a singuler and high opinion which one conceiueth of the excellency and worthinesse of another Glory sig Praise encreased and abundantly published Lu. 2 14. Glory bee to Godon high Math. 6 1â— Rom. 11 36. To him bee Glory for euer And else-where often 2 Exceeding shining brightnesse 2 Cor. 3. 7. For the Glory of his countenance 3 Earthly pompe and Maiesty seruing to make Kings Glorious and renowned before men Math. 6 29. Salomon in all his Glory was not like one of these 4 The mercy of God Ephe. 3 16. That hee may graunt you according to the riches of his Glory that is according to his rich mercy 5 The Arke of the Couenant which was a witnesse of the Glorious presence of GOD who did there heare the prayers of his people and giue foorth his Oracles whence the Temple was called the house or habitation of Glory Psa. 26 8. Rom. 9 4. The Adoption and the Glory 1. Samuell 4 22. 6 Riches authority sumptuous buildings and garments c. which because they are glorified and praysed of men and make their possessours glorious before men are therefore called Glory in the phrase of Scripture Psalme 49 16. When the Glory of his House is encreased Ester 1 4. To shew his Glory 7 The Soule of man and his tongue which are his most glorious parts Gen. 49 6. My Glory bee not thou ioyned with their assembly Psal. 108 1. And so is my Glory also that is my tongue 8 An ornament that which adorneth and honoureth one 1 Cor. 11 7. The man is the glory of God but the woman is the glory of the Man 9 An honest name or good report Psal. 7 5. And lay my Glory or Honour in the dust 10 Goodnesse or the worke of Gods mercy in defending and blessing his people which turnes to his Glory Psa. 90 17. Thy glory vpon their Children 11 Dignity excellency 1 Cor. 15. There is one glory of the Sun another of the Moone 12 Worship and renowne Psalme 3 3. Thou art my Buckler and my glory Luke 2 32. The glory of his people 13 Grace of regeneration or the renewing of Gods glorious Image 2. Cor. 3 18. From Glorie to glorie that is from one measure of grace to another This is Sanctification As Grace is somtime put for Glorie so on the other-side Glory dooth signifie Grace as the way to glory and wherein God is glorified by his free giuing and continuing it 15 A glorious victory by ouer-comming ones selfe Psal. 73 24. And afterward receiue mee into Glorie Glory of God sig The God-head or diuine essence Exod. 33 18. Shew me thy Glory 2 The Doctrine and myracles of Christ which were signes and tokens of his Diuine power Iohn 1 14. We saw his Glory Iohn 2 11. 3 The manifestation of Gods omnipotency and goodnesse Iohn 11 40. If thou diddest beleeue thou shalt see the Glory of God that is Gods might and mercy manifested 4 The glorious and most admirable presence of God witnessed by some visible token 2. Kin. 8 11. The Glorie of the Lord filled the house of the Lorde This Glory was a visible cloud full of light and brightnesse as a token of Gods wonderfull presence 1. Sam. 4 22. Luke 2 9. And in this sence it is written that Christ shall come vnto Iudgement with Glory 5 Religion or worship of God Rom. 1 23. They turned the Glory of the incorruptible God into the similitude of corruptible man 6 The celebrating or setting forth of his praise Iohn 11 4. This sicknesse is not to death but for the Glory of God Rom. 3 7. 7 The perfect righteousnesse of the man Christ the free imputing whereof vnto beleeuers turneth greatly to Gods Glory Esay 40 5. The Glory of the Lord shall be reuealed In this sence are expounded those words of the Apostle Rom. 3 23. All haue sinned and are depriued of the Glorie of God 8 Felicity in heauen or life eternall which consistes in the participation of Gods glory Luke 24 26. Rom. 5 2. And reioyce vnder the hope of the glory of God father of Glory and God of glorie sig The true God who alone is truely Glorious and the Author of all glory to his creatures Ephe. 1 17 That father of Glorie Acts 7 2. The God of Glorie appeared to our Fathers that is God full of Glorie and Maiesty to Glory in God sig To attribute all good thinges vnto God with praise and Thankesgiuing 1. Cor. 1 31. Hee that glorieth let him Glorie in the Lord. Ier. 9 33. This place shewes what it is to Glory in the Lorde to confesse and praise his mercifulnesse righteousnes and iudgement to Glorie concerning God sig To reioyce and triumph inwardly in our hearts because we haue the great God to bee our Father through Christ. Rom. 5 11. Wee Glory concerning God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Thus it is to be read after the Originall to giue glorie to God sig To acknowledge God the searcher of all harts and iust auenger of all wickednesse by confessing plainly what thou hast done Ioshua 7 19. My son giue Glory to the Lord of Israel 2 To beleeue and praise the truth of God that he is such an one as he keepes promise and is able to performe that which he hath promised Rom. 4 20. And gaue Glorie to God 3 To confesse God the Author of euerie good worke Iohn 9 24. Giue Glory to God this man is a sinner Glorie of his grace sig Glorious or renowned grace Ephe. 1 5. To the praise of the Glory of his grace Glory ioy sig Matter or cause of glorying or reioycing 1. Thes. 2 20. Ye are our Glorie and ioy spirite of Glory sig That Glory or renowne whereby the spirit doth beautifie constant Christians which suffer reproch for Christ. 1. Pet. 4 14 For the spirit of Glorie and of God resteth vpon you Glorifie sig To make glorious Rom. 8 30. Whom he iustified them also he glorified Thus God glorifies the elect by adorning them with gifts of grace in this world and celestiall Glory in the world to come 2 To make knowne ones fame and Glory Mat. 5 16. That they may see your works and Glorifie your Father which is in Heauen Thus the elect Glorifie God when they greatly praise
their owne house and to recompence their Kindred Sée godlinesse Pilgrime sig One that trauaileth far from home in Forraign Countries without any certaine or setled dwelling place Gen. 47 9. The whole time of my Pilgrimage c. 2 Euery godly person which dwelling heere in earth as touching his body hath his desire loue and hope fixed in heauen as in his proper Country Heb. 11 13. They confessed that they were strangers and Pilgrimes in earth Psal. 39 12. For popish Pilgrimes and pilgrimage there is no ground and footing in all the Scriptures Pillar of truth sig The Church of Christ on earth 1 Timo. 3 15. The Piller and ground of truth which is the church of the liuing God In this Metaphor he borroweth his speech from an old custome of the Gentiles who were wont to write their Lawes in Tables and so to hang them vpon Pillers as we doe Proclamations on posts that they might be read hereby to teach vs that the Church is but a witnesse preseruer and no rule of truth as Papists say as the Pillar was not the Law but that whereon the Law hung so the true Church lesse the false Romish Church is that which shewes the truth vpholds it by her Ministry but it self is not the rule of truth for that is the holy Scriptures Pit sig Any mischiefe or affliction either spirituall or bodily temporall or eternall psalm 7 15. They digged a pit and themselues are fallen into it Mat. 15 14. If the blinde lead the blind they shall both fall into the pit or Ditch P. L. Place sig A portion of ioy in the kingdome of Heauen or a roome in that kingdome Iohn 14 3. I goe to prepare a place for you 2 A portion of torment in the kingdome of hel or a roome there Act. 1 25. That he might go into his owne place 3 A Tent House Citty or dwelling Gen 18 33 Abraham returned to his place Gen. 19 13. Plague sig Any great iudgement of God sent for sinne as Famine Warre Sword Sicknesse or any other Iudgement of God psal 38 11. My friends stande aside from my plague In this sence the ten Iudgements of Egypt are called plagues 2 That infectious disease commonly called the Pestilence 2 Sam. 24. 25 15. A Plant. sig The people of Israell which were as Plantes sowneand set in the Vineyard of the Church Esay 5 2. And planted it with the best Plants 2 Any false calling false Doctrine or Worship Math. 18 13. Euery Plant that my heauenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out 3 Children Psal. 44 12. Thy sonnes shall bee as Plants to Plant. sig pro To remoue and translate young trees from one earth to another that they may encrease and fructifie 2 To bring a people from one Countrey into an other Countrey there to place and settle them that they may encrease and multiply Psal. 44. 2. Thou hast planted them 88. 8. Thou hast planted it This is a terrestriall and earthly Planting 3 To vnite and ioyne the elect beeing taken out of the rotten stocke of old Adam vnto Christ and his Church by the spirit and faith Psal. 92 13. Such as be Planted in the house of the Lord. Rom. 6. 5. For if wee be Planted with him into the similitude of his death This is a spiritual inward planting of God himselfe 4 To preach the word plainely and easily for the entraunce of the ignorant into the knowledge of Christ. 1. Cor. 3 6. I haue Planted and Apollâ—s hath watered This is an outward Planting by the Ministers of God 5 To denounce and foretell the will of God for the continuance and prosperity of kingdomes and people Ierem. 1 10. I haue set thee ouer nations to build and to Plant. Planted by the riuers of waters sig One rooted into Christ by the grace of regeneration that drawing from him liuely iuyce and continuall moysture of the spirit he may be abundantly fruitfull in good works Ps. 1. 3. Hee shall be like a tree Planted by the riuers of waters to Plead ones cause sig To vndertake the defence of ones cause against his enemy Psalme 35 1. Plead thou my cause O Lord c. to Plead sig To expostulate or quarrell or contend and stand in strife against one Rom. 9 21. O man who art thou that Pleadest with God Michah 6 2. He will plead with Israell to Please sig To conforme as much as we may our thoughts words and deeds to Gods will Col. 1. 9. That you may Please God in all things When wee allow that which God allowes and hate that which God hateth This is to Please God 2 To purpose and will to doe some thinges or not to doe other things Psal. 115. 3. Our God is in heauen he doth whatsoeuer he Pleaseth Psalme 135 6. Whatsoeuer pleased the Lord c. to be Pleased sig To accept and approoue in mercy such duties as are done to God Heb. 13. 16. With such sacrifices God is Pleased to be well Pleased sig To be throughly satisfied and fully pacified in respect of a price payed vnto iustice for sinne Mat. 3 17. This is my beloued sonne in whome I am well pleased God looking vpon Christ crucified and vs in him layeth aside his whole displeasure wrath conceyued against vs for sinne Pleasure referred to men sig Any manner of sinfull delight agreeable to our corrupt nature 2. Timoh 3 4. Louers of Pleasure more then of godlines 2 Honest delights seruing for the solace and comforts of mans life Genes 49. 20. Hee shall giue Pleasures for a king 3 The most free and iust decree and determination of God touching all things Mat. 11 26. Euen so father because so it was thy Pleasure And not because men were worthy All merits of works is shut out by the doctrine of grace rightly vnderstood good Pleasure sig The free and louing purpose of God for the saluation of the elect Ephe. 1. 5. According to the good Pleasure of his will The high and first mouing cause of election 2 The delight and contentment which God taketh in the woorke of his purpose regenerating and creating faith in his elect 2 Thess. 1 11. Our God fulfil all the Pleasures of his goodnes and the work of faith with power Pleasures of gods house sig Euery spirituall blessing Psal. â—65 4. Satisfied with the Pleasures of thine house Pleasures of sinne sig Such delightes benefites and commodities of this life as bee kept and held with sinnefull conditions Heb. 11 25. To enjoy the Pleasures of sinne Ploughe sig The preaching of Christ and the profession of Christianity Luke 9 26. Hee that puts his hand to the Plough That is either to preach or professe Christ. to Plucke vp sig To destroy and ouerthrow Math. 15 13. Shal be Plucked vp 2 To denounce and foretell destruction Iere. 1 10. I haue set thee ouer Nations to Pluck vp Policye sig Counsell or aduice either good or euill Proue 21 30. There is
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
vanisheth away Hence it is called Olde Heb. 9 13. New Couenant Is made with Christian people published by Christ most clearely wherein more persons are renewed and more Graces bestowed being alwaies to endure one and the same Hence it is called New Heb. 9 13. Ier. 31 31. I will make a new Couenant with the house of Israel Couenant of Salt Sée Salt Couenant breakers sig Such as be vnmindfull of promises and bargains Rom. 1 30. Couenant breakers Couenant with death and hell sig Agreement with them So do wicked men imagine Esay 28 15. Couenant of Leui. sig The agreement which God hath made with the Leuites to blesse them with peace and life if their duties be performed in their place Mal. 2 8. Ye haue broken the Couenant of Leui. Verse 5. Book of the Couenant sig The Writing which did containe the Articles and conditions both on Gods part what hee promised to do to the people and on the peoples part what duties they were to performe to God according to the tenor of the Couenant Exod. 24 7. After he tooke the Booke of the Couenant and read it Couering sig The Roofe of an house a Vayle or ought else which serues for defence or keeping close 2 The Husband who is called the Couering of his Wife in respect of his dutie towards her by protecting her and of his Authoritie ouer her in gouerning her for the vayle and couering which women did weare was a signe of their subiection 1. Cor. 11 6 7. Gen. 20 16. 3 Stopping or making dumbe and silent Prou. 10 6. Iniquity shall couer the mouth of the wicked Couering of sinnes sig The forgiuenesse of sins for the death of Christ which is as a Mantle to couer them from the eyes of Gods Iustice. Psal 32 1. Blessed is the man whose sinnes are couered 2 Concealing keeping close or secret when we do not tell a thing abroad Prou. 10 12. Loue couereth a multitude of sinnes which by a charitable priuate reproofe are hid and couered from the punishment of God and shame of men to Couer the feete sig To do ones easement or to go to Stoole Iudges 3 24. Surely he hath couered his feet 1. Sam. 24. 4. An vnhonest thing vttered in honest words to Couet sig pro To loue or desire money or earthly goods for themselues either our own or others Ioshu 7 21. 1. Tim. 6 9 10. The desire of Money is the root of all evill 2 To desire spirituall blessings or heauenly glory 1. Cor. 12 31. Couet after the best things Phil. 1 23. I couet to be loosed and to be with Christ. This is a good Couetousnesse when spirituall blessings or celestiall blessednesse is euer greedily eagerly desired Other things we may desire no further or otherwise then as helpes to these Couetousnesse sig Desire of hauing more or the inordinate loue of money Heb. 13 5. Let your conuersation be without Couetousnesse This is called Idolatry Colos. 3 5. Ephes. 5 5. Because the Couetous man not onely prefers his treasure before God but doth place his life in his substance Luke 12 15 16 17 c. Counsell sig The wisdome and direction of Gods Spirit and word gouerning our course of life Psalm 73 24. Thou wilt guide me by thy Counsell Psal. 16 7. 2 An action of the whole and holy Trinity deliberating and determining before the world of all things which should be or not be especially of the saluation of Angels and men Ephe. 1 11. He worketh all things after the Counsel of his will This counsel dependeth vpon Gods will as the supreame and onely mouing cause and not vpon foreseene fayth or workes Rom. 9 11 18. 3 Aduise taken about things to be done Prou 20 18. Establish thy thoughtes by Counsell And by Counsell make Warre Exod. 18 19. This kinde of counsell is eyther good or euill subtle or carnall 4 The beginning and first degree of sinne to wit euill lusts and desires Psal. 1 1. Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the Counsell of the vngodly 5 A company of men assembled into a certaine place to consult or take aduise of publicke matters Acts 22 30. And all the Counsell to come together Acts 23 1. 6 The place where men are met together for common consultation Acts 24 20. Whiles I stood in the Counsell 7 The Iudgement which stood and consisted of twenty three Iudges who had the hearing and deciding of the waightiest matters of life and death Math. 5 22. Shall be worthy to be punnished by the Counsell Counseller sig One who giueth all sound aduise as Christ doth by the Doctrine of Scriptures which therefore be called our counsellers or men of our counsel Psal. 119 14. Esay 6 6. Counseller Count. sig Sée Imputation Countenance sig Loue liking fauour or dis-fauour witnessed by the countenance Gen. 31 5. I see your Fathers Countenance is not towards me as was wont 2 Gods fauour witnessed and shewed foorth in his graces and benefits Psal. 4 6. Lift vp the light of thy Countenance 3 Gods displeasure witnessed by withdrawing the signes of his fauor or by sending some iudgements Ps. 13 1. How long wilt thou hide thy Countenance frō me because mē by their countenance bewray their anger or loue Hence it is that being attributed to god it signifies his displesure or his gracious fauor 4 The face or looke of a man Psal. 104. Oyle to make the Countenance cheerefull Light of Gods Countenance Sée Light Countrey sig pro A Region or Land where people dwel Heb. 11 9. As in a strange Countrey verse 15. 2 A certaine compasse of ground without a Citty Marke 16 12. As they walked into the Countrey 3 Heauen where the Saints shall dwell for euer Heb. 11 16. They desire an Heauenly Countrey Courage Sig Valor and strength of minde a good heart being wisely bold and confident in a good cause Iosh. 1 7 9. Be of good courage Court Sig pro The first entrance into an house a yard or comming in 1. Kings 7. 12. 2 The roomes and places of the Temple into which Gods people might assemble for publique worship and hearing the Law Psal. 84 2. My soule fainteth for the Courts of the Lord. Psal. 116. 19. 3 All those seuerall spaces distances of ground which were in the Temple before yee came to the Holy of Holiest or to the most holy-place of these spaces or Courts there were sixe in number euerie Court was twelue steppes one aboue another and of euery one there was a seuerall vse 2. Chron. 4 9. And he made the Court of the Priests 1. Kings 6 36. 4 That space of grounde which was within the vtmost Rayles being called the first or the vtter Court Reuel 11 2. But the Court which is without the Temple meete it not Into this Court because the Heathen and prophane people might come to see and heare therefore it signifies in the former Scripture Reuel 11 2. All Infidels and straungers from Christ.
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
innumerable Cittizens of the Church-Militant cheering reioycing themselues with the ruine and fall of Babylon Reuel 19 1. I heard a great Voice of a great multitude in Heauen Uoice of many waters and of strong thunders sig An effectuall Voice very terrible piercing and striking like Thunder and making great noise like many Waters together strongly prouoking both the Iewes restored and the vnbeleeuing Gentiles to sound forth the praises of God for his infinite mercies in Christ and his great iudgements against the great Whore Reuel 19 6. I heard a Voyce as the Voice of many Waters and as the Voice of strong Thunders a Uoice out of y◠throne sig A most sweete Exhortation vttered by some of those Angels which are said to bee amiddest the Throne and about the Throne of God stirring vp the Seruants of God to praise him Reuel 19 5. Then a Voyce came out of the Throne saying prayse the Lord. Uoyce out of the temple sig The faithfull Prayers of the Saintes preuailing with God for the executing of his iudgements vpon his and their accursed enemies in Antichristes Kingdome Reuel 16 1. And I heard a great Voice out of the Temple Others vnderstand this of Gods owne voice immediatly thundring out of Heauen the Temple of his holinesse which cannot agree seeing the Temple signifieth the Militant Church in Earth As Chap. 11 1. W. A. to Walke sig TO be alwayes present in the middest of the church to blesse enrich guide and protect the Ministers and members thereof Reuel 2 1. And Walketh in the middest of the seauen golden Candlestickes If Christ be alwayes resident with his Church himselfe to look into euery thing what need a Vicar 2 To line or to order our life according to the direction of the word which is a light to our steps Reuel 21 24 And the people shall Walke in the light of it Wall sig The strength defence and safety of the Church which is as a Cittie that hath walles for defence Reuel 21 12. And had a great Wall on hie Wares sig Not onely outward Merchandise and stuffes as Silkes 〈…〉 precious stones Pearles Purple Scarlet 〈…〉 The value whereof shall much abate at the fall of 〈…〉 but spirituall Marchandize as Masses Dirges and such trash which shall wax vile and nothing worth Reuel 18 11. Warre sig Battell hostility or enmity against the true preachers and professors of the word stirred vp against them by Romish Antichrist who is therefore sayd to be the Beast that commeth out of the bottomelesse pit because his beastly and sauage power and Tirany is from hell which hee shall exercise with bloudy cruelty Reuel 11 7. The Beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall make war against them Reuel 13 7. Make Warre against the Saints This warre is that hot opposition and bitter enmity which the Tridentine Counsell with the Popes and Emperors forces made against the Protestants in Germany as the learned collect by comparing euents with prophesies There is another battaile mentioned chap 19 verse 19 20 c. wherein the Beast shall ouercome and be taken to Wash long robes sig To haue being conuerted vnto Christ by faith the holinesse and righteousnes of Christ alone imputed to them Reuel 7 14. And haue Washed their long Robes Wa◠and is not c. sig The diuers condition of the Roman Empire according to the change of 4. seuerall times 1. flourishing in Maiesty power vnder the raign of the first Emperors Iulius Augustus Tiberius Claudius c. 2. Ecclipsed and diminished in glory and power vnder the succeeding Emperors Nero Galba Domitian c. 3. But reuiued and raised vp againe in the Popes 4. and finally in Gods iust Iudgement to be thrust down into vtter destruction Reuel 17 8. The Beast which thou hast seene was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit and shall go to perdition Some other Diuines vnderstande this wholy of Antichrist the Popish Empire which began after S. Iohns time in the end of the raigne of Constantine the Great 2. afterward by an incursion of Barbarians Rome and Italy being miserably wasted the pontificall Authoritie and Sea seemed as it were not to be 3. But this hurt wound was afterward cured by Iustinian and Phocas in the time of Pope Gregory the second which exercised a greater power both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall then any of his predecessors had done 4. Yet this newly-recouered dignitie was not alwaies to last but to be diminished by little and little as we see this day till it wholy be extinct which posteritie must see That this is the truest interpretation may appear by verses 10. and 12. of this chap. which make it manifest This Beast heere spoken of not to haue beene then when hee wrote this prophesie nor had not then receiued his kingdome and power Therefore they are vtterly deceiued which expound this verse of the Deuill or which doo seeke for the beginning or seate of Anti-christ any where but at Rome where all the foure former mutations and chaunges are euidently knowne to haue happened whether we vnderstand these changes ioyntly of the Heathenish and Popish Monarchie or of Ecclesiastical Empire alone as it seemes that it ought to be for the former reason to Watch. sig To shake off security and sluggishnesse with great care to preserue our Garments of faith innocency Reuel 16 15. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepes his Garments Waters sig Peoples and multitudes and nations toongs at a word Countries of euery language obeying Rome as their Queene or Mistris Reuel 17 15. The Waters which thou sawest are peoples and multitudes c. 2 All impediments and lets which hinder passage and accesse to a Region Reuel 16 12. And the Water thereof was dried vp 3 The Doctrine of Gods word which is like sweet and wholesome waters but being infected by corrupt Teachers they become bitter as wormwood Reuel 8 11. Many died of the Waters because they were bitter Reuel 22 1 17. 4 Superstitions errors Haeresies as a flood of water to drowne the Church Reuel 12 15. Way sig Commodity or opportunity of dooing something Reuel 16 12. That Way might be prepared for the Kings W. E. Well of the water of life sig The sweetenesse of Christ and his aboundant graces ouer-flowing to the satisfying of euerie thirsty soule earnestly desiring to Communicate with the good things of Christ Reuel 21 6. I will giue to the thirsty of the Well of the Water of life freely Weeping sig Shedding of teares together with sorrowes and calamities the cause of teares Reuel 18 19. And cry Weeping and wayling W. H. What Citty like sig No Citty at all to be compared with Rome being most ancient flourishing in wealth and friends for many generations accounted first the Queene of Nations and afterward the Chaire of Peter the terror of the world Who would not haue thought this Citty farre enough and free enough from
essence and power he is neuer absent from his Creatures Psal. 77 7. Will the Lord absent him-selfe for euer Hence come those phrases in the Psalmes elsewhere of hiding his face turning his back departing returning and such like To Abstain from sig To seperate or estrange turne our mind from a thing with an hatred of it 1. Pet. 2 11. Abstaine from fleshly lusts that is crucifie the wicked desires of corrupt Nature From Aboue or aboue sig That which is from heauen Acts ◠19. Esa. 6 11. 2 That which is excellent and of great account also heauenly and spirituall Galat. 4 26. Ierusalem which is from aboue 3 Things which belong to the heauenly life Col. 3 1. Seeke things which be aboue Aboue all sig One who hath the chiefe authority rule ouer the Church Eph. 4 6. Which is aboue all Iohn 3 31. Abundance of the heart sig An heart abounding and stored with thinges good or euill Mat. 12 24. Of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh To abound sig To know and feele the force of a thing aboundantly and plentifully Rom. 5 20. Where sin aboundeth To Accept vs. sig To receiue vnto fauour and to bee well pleased with our persons being through sin estranged from God Ephe. 1 6. He hath accepted vs freely in his beloued This is the acceptation of our persons 2 To approue graciously our vnperfect spotted workes by the free forgiuenesse through Christ of those wants and faultes which sticke vnto them 1. Pet. 2 5. Psal. 51 19. Then thou shalt accept our Sacrifice c. This is the acceptation of our works Acception of person Sig Respect or fauour giuen to one before another for some outwarde quality as of Nation Riches Kinred Honour friend-ship and such like Acts 10 34. God is no accepter of persons for in euery Nation he that feareth God is accepted Rom. 2 11. There is then no cause why any should deny the eternall election of God depending vppon his owne good pleasure alone as the moouing cause least he bee counted an accepter of persons Accesse sig A drawing toward or comming neerer Rom. 5 2. We haue accesse vnto this grace c. that is wee may approch into his gracious presence being now reconciled to God hauing our sinnes forgiuen vnto vs through Christ apprehended and laid holde on euen by faith To Acknowledge sig To take knowledge of Gods worde to rule our selues by it also of his prouidence What it is that he doth to vs either in anger or in mercy Pro. 3 6. In all thy wayes acknowledge God 2 To ioyne and adde knowledge vnto knowledge or to increase our knowledge whē we know a truth more certainly and clearely then wee were wont to do Luke 1 4. That thou maist Acknowledge c. Tit 1 1. 3 Openly and frankely to vtter and shew foorth our knowne sinnes or Gods owne perfections 1. Iohn 1 6. If we acknowledge our sins Psalme 32 5. 4. Then I acknowledged my sins vnto the c. 4. To take others for such as they are louing them and hauing them in due account Thes. 5 12. Acknowledge them that admonish you and haue them in singular loue for their Worke. Note this generally that words of knowledge doo many times comprehend affections in them According to God sig With God or hauing God going before vs Iohn 3 21. That they are wrought according to God according to his will in his worde which must go before vs in doing duties as a guide or a Lantherne One accord sig Agreement or consent of hearts Phil. 2 2. Of one accord Acts 4 32. that is of one iudgement wil. To Accuse sig To lay an euill or fault to ones charge This is done either truly or falsely secretly or openly Ioh. 8 10. Woman where are thine Accusers Actes 24 13 19. Men accuse God one man accuseth another and Sathan accuseth the Bretheren also our owne thoughts do accuse vs. Reuel 12 Rom. 2 15. Accursed sig Seperate from all humaine vse and appoynted to temporall destruction Ios. 6 20 21 Keepe yee from the accursed thing 2 Seperate from Christ and appointed to eternall destruction Gal. 1 9. Let him be accursed Rom. 9 3. I would be accursed or seperate from Christ for my Kinsmen In these words holy Paule maketh no such prayer or wish that hee might perish for this had beene vnlawfull and vaine too both agaynst the constant purpose of God and his owne assurance testified Rom. 8 38 39. Neither was Paule bound to loue the Iewes saluation more then christ and his grace but by this manner of speech beeing conditionall hee bewrayes his deepe affection for the Iewes his kinsmen in that if it could haue bin hee was ready to haue redeemed their eternall destruction with his owne A. D. Adde sig To put vnto Reuel 22 18. If any man shall adde to these things in this Booke c. Prou. 30 6. Put nothing his word Deut. 12 32. Men adde to the word of God when they put some-thing to the seruice of God which he hath not commaunded for his Seruice or do make that to be Scripture which is not Scripture putting to it somewhat which is false or taking from it somewhat which is true Thus do the Romanists as a man halfe blind may see 2 To cast in some-thing as a surplusage and ouerplus Mat. 6 33. All other things shall bee added or ministred vnto you 3 To inflict some heauy Iudgement or to plague one with encrease of wrath Reuel 22 10. I wil adde vnto him all the plagues c. To Adiure Sig To command a thing by interposing the authority and name of God or Christ Acts 19 13. Wee adiure you by Iesus 2 To demand an oath of one for more safety certainty Marke 5 7. Where the same worde is in the Greeke as in former place of the Acts. Administration sig A publicke function or charge 1. Cor. 12 5. There are diuersities of administrations Admonitiō sig A warning by worde or speech when wee are wisely earnestly and louingly put in mind of some duty to be done or some sin to bee left vndone 1. Thes. 5 14. Admonish one another This is priuate admonition Verse 12. speaketh of publicke admonition Also Titus 3 10. 2 A warning by example 1 Cor. 10 11. These things came for ensample were written to admonish vs. Adoption sig The purpose of God eternally decreeing to make some his children Gal. 4 5. This is adoption of Gods purpose 2 A taking or admitting one actually to be a son by fauour who is none by nature and to adopt is actually to take him for a son who was the childe of wrath by nature Rom. 8 15. Ye haue receiued the spirit of adoption Actuall adoption 3 The dignity of being Gods people Rom. 9 4. To whō pertains the adoption This is external adoption Spirite of Adoption sig A speciall guift of the spirit certifying vs of our adoption Rom. 8
C. R. Craft Sig Trade or occupation Acts 18 3. For that was their Craft Heere it is taken in good part 2 Deceite guile and fraud Eph. 4 14. By the deceite of men and with Craftinesse Heere it is taken in ill part Create sig To make something of nothing Gen. 1 1. God created heauen and earth Hebr. 11 2. The thinges we see were made of things which did not appeare 2 To giue and worke Grace where it is not Eph. 1 16. Created to good workes 3 To restore Grace as touching the feeling and fruite of it Psal 51 10. Create in me a cleane hart 4 To be the Author and worker of a thing Esay 45 7. I make peace and create euill I the Lord do all these things faithfull Creator sig God who safely and faithfully keepeth them whom hee hath once made and taken charge of 1. Pet. 4 19. As to a faithfull Creator Creature sig The whole frame of Heauen and earth and sometimes some particuler worke of God Rom. 8 20. Because the Creature is subiect to vanity Also verse 21 22 23. It is put for one particuler worke or thing created Rom. 8 39. 2 All men whether Iewes or Gentiles Marke 16 15. Preach the Gospell to euery Creature new Creature sig That quality of holinesse created in the heartes of the Elect at their first conuersion to God 2. Cor. 5 17. He that is in Christ let him be a new Creature This is called the New man and Spirit and Law of the minde Crooked sig pro That which is contrary to streight or to right Eccles. 7 15. 2 All swaruing from the straight and right line of Gods word Psal. 119 3. Surely they worke no Iniquitie or Crooked thing for so it is in the Originall Crum sig The least and lowest degree or measure of Gods grace Math. 15 17. The whelpes eate the Crums c. Crosse. Sig That Tree or Wood whereon Christ dyed beeing made in forme of a Crosse. Math. 27 32. They made Simon of Cyrene to beare his Crosse. Come down from the Crosse. The Papistes without all reason adore the Reliques of it and attribute Vertue to it being but a Creature if it were extant 2 The whole passion of Christ from his Cradle to his death but especially his sufferings vppon the Tree Heb. 12 3. Who for the Ioy was set before him endured the Crosse. Metonimie 3 The Doctrine of the Gospell that is of free Saluation by Christ crucified 1. Cor. 1 18. The preaching of the Crosse to vs that be saued is the power of God Also Verse 17. Gal. 5 11. 4 The preaching of Christ crucified Gal. 6 11. They woulde not suffer persecution for the Crosse of Christ. 5 Euery greeuous or painfull thing sent of God eyther to our minds or bodies Math. 10 38. Take vp thy Crosse and follow me Metaphor This is the generall Crosse common to all men as they bee men 6 Such afflictions as the faithfull suffer for Christ and for Righteousnesse Gal. 6 14. God forbid that I should reioyce but in the Crosse of Christ. This is a speciall Crosse peculiar to Christians Crowne Sig pro A round Garland set vppon the head in Token of victory or that which Princes weare vpon their head at their Coronation 2. Tim. 2 5. Hee is not crowned except he striue lawfully 2 Kingly or Royal dignity and power Ps. 132 18. But on him his Crowne shal flourish Metonimie 3 Whatsoeuer excellencie or glory wee haue in vs or without vs. Reuel 4 10. They cast their Crownes before his Throne Lam. 5 16. The crowne of our head is fallen 4 That which either bringeth or encreaseth our Renowne Comfort and Glory before men 1. Thes. 2 19 20. Ye are our Crowne of reioycing Ye are our Glory and Ioy. Prou. 12 4. Crowne of Righteousnesse Crowne of life Sig Eternall life which is giuen as a free reward to such as lead a righteous life which the God who is most righteous hath promised and will also performe 2. Tim. 4 8. Henceforth there is laide vp for mee a Crowne of Righteousnesse Rom. 6 16 23. This is also called the Crowne of life Iames. 1 12. Reu. 2 10. Because in the life eternall there shall bee honour and glory vnspeakeable whereunto Good-works are the way but are not the cause Hence the Papists do corruptly gather the merit of workes Sée their Annotat. on 2. Tim. 4 8. Crowne of Glory sig That most excellent glory which the Saints haue in Heauen shaddowed vnto vs by a kingly Crown which of all earthly things is most glorious 1. Pet. 5 4. Ye shall receiue an incorruptible Crowne of glory 2 A glorious and honorable thing Prou. 16 31. Age is a Crowne of Glory Crowne of Gold sig A most ample and glorious Kingdome such as Dauid had ouer Gods people Psal. 21 4. Thou hast set a Crowne of Gold vpon his head Crowne of Thornes sig A Crowne made of Thornes set vpon Christes head in derision and to encrease his paine Math. 27 29. They put a crowne of Thornes on his head to Crowne vs with Compassiō sig To make vs famous and glorious by merciful deliuerances as if he should set a Crowne vpon our head Psalme 103 4. He crowneth vs with compassion to Crucifie sig pro To fasten one to the Crosse there to languish till death Math. 27 35. Crucified him 2 To mortifie or kill sinfull lusts by little little Gal. 5 24. Haue Crucified the flesh 3 To lay open Christ vnto the scorne and mocke of the world Heb. 6 6. Crucifie Christ. 4 To despise the world and to be despised and set at naught by the world Gal. 6 14. Cry sig Most earnest desires in Prayer arising from the feeling or feare of some misery Psal. 40 1. Hee heard my Cry Exod. 14 15. Wherefore diddest thou Cry vnto me 2 Loud and boystrous speech or roaring Ephe. 4 31. Put away crying from you 3 Weeping and vehement sorrow or mourning Reuel 21 4. There shall be no more crying 4 Greeuous and bitter Complaints such as the poore make in their great distresses Iames 5 4. The cries of them are entred into the eares of the Lord. Cryer sig A publick Minister appointed and sent to proclaime as a Cryer the comming of the Messiah to work our Redemption Such an one was Iohn Baptist Math. 3 3. The voyce of a Cryer Iohn 1 23. to Cry sig To sigh in Prayer or with great earnestnesse to desire good things Psal. 22 2. O my God I cry by day Rom. 8 15. This is our crying to God 2 To reprooue sinne earnestly and to call sinners to repentance with great vehemency of voyce Esay 58. Cry aloud and spare not 3 To craue or demaund vengeance from Diuine Iustice. Gen. 18 20. The cry of Sodome is great Deut. 24 15. Iames 5 4. Gen. 4 10. C. U. Cup. sig pro A kinde of Pot Maser or Goblet whereby of olde time they did measure a portion of
countenance and good will of God Dan. 9 17. Cause thy Face to shine vppon the Sanctuary Also it comprehendes all benefites and deliuerances whereby God doth witnesse his fauour to his people Psal. 80 3. Cause thy Face to shine that we may be saued 5 The place of Gods worship whence his Face and fauour is to bee perceiued in the Doctrine of grace soundly taught applied Gen. 4 14. I shall be banished from thy face Heereof Dauid complains 1. Sam. 26 19. Ionas 1 3. 6 Seruice before God or in the presence of God Mat. 18 10. There Angels alwayes behold the Face of my father that is do seruice in his presence Ps. 51 11. Cast me not out from thy Face that is from doing seruice before thee as a King as thou didst cast out Saule who was King before mee c. to shew his Face sig To reueale lay open or make known vnto vs his most bright and glorious Maiesty this he doth to no man Exod. 33 20. and verse 18. Shew mee thy Glory and God answered Thou canst not see my Face 2 To manifest his fauour Thus he doth continually to his Saints Psal. 80 19. Shew vs thy Face and we shall be whole Psal. 4 6. to hide his Face sig Not to take knowledge of vs and of our sinnes with dislike and meaning to punish them Psal. 51 10. Hide thy face from my sinnes that is looke not vpon them to punish them 2 To withdraw his countenance and shew forth his displeasure in some iudgement and affliction Psal. 27 9. Hide not thy Face from me to séeke Gods Face sig To aske counsell of God in things doubtfull and to pray vnto God in cases daungerous Psal. 27 8. Seeke ye my Face thy Face Lord I will seeke Face to face sig Familiarly and plainly Deut. 5 4. The Lord talked with you Face to Face Exod. 31 11. 2 Perfectly and fully 1. Cor. 13 12. Then shall we see Face to Face to fall vpon the Face sig To adore and worship God groueling vpon the ground Iosh. 7 6. And fel to the earth vpon his Face Mat. 17 6. Face of Iesus Christ. sig The knowledge which we haue of God by and through our Lord Iesus Christ who is the liuely expresse Image of his father 2. Cor. 4 6. In the Face of Iesus Christ. Colos. 1 15. Who is the Image of the inuisible God Faire How the Church is Faire sig pro Beautifull or one of good fauour goodly to see to Ioh. 42 15. Dan. 4 4. 2 The Church which is faire beautifull glorious within Cant. 4 1. Thou art Faire my loue Faire shee is for shee hath the perfect holinesse of Christ her husband imputed to her by faith that she might be without spot or wrinkle Ephes. 5 27. Also she hath the Spirit of sanctification to begin holinesse in her selfe 1. Pet. 1 2. 2. Cor. 6 11. So as she is Faire both Imputatiuely and incoatiuely and at length shall be Faire perfectly and all this spiritually For outwardly she is blacke afflicted crossed and persecuted in the world Cant. 1 4. Faith sig pro Truth and constancy in wordes and promises when that is performed in deede which in wordes was spoken and promised Rom. 3 3. Shall our vnbeleefe make the faith of God of none effect Psal. 25 10. Ps. 86 15. And in all other places where God is commended for Mercy and Truth The word in the Originall signifies Faith Gal. 5 22. Math. 23 23. 2 The Doctrine of Faith or the Gospell which we doo beleeue Gal. 1 22. Hee now preacheth the Faith which before he Destroyed 1. Tim. 1 19. and 3 9. Iude 5. 1. Tim. 4 1. and 3 9. A Metanimie of the Adiunct for the Subiect 3 Thinges promised or the accomplishment of Gods promises made in the Old Testament Gal. 3 23. We were shut vp vnto that Faith which afterwards should be reuealed 4 A naked knowledge of God ioyned with an outward profession of his religion and Faith Iam. 2 17 24. Faith if it hath no workes is dead This is Historicall or Dogmaticall Faith as Diuines call it 5 A certaine and sure perswasion of some wonderous and strange effects and workes to be done by the power of God 1. Cor. 13 2. If I had all faith Math. 17 20. This is an actiue myraculous faith which lasted but a short space 6 The knowledge and ioyful assent of the mind yeelded to Gods promises for a time till affliction come Luke 8 13. Which for a while beleeue but in time of temptation fall away Acts 8 13. This is Temporarie Faith 7 A firme and constant apprehension of Christ al his merits as they are promised and offred in the word Sacraments Ro. 1 17. The iust shall liue by Faith Gal. 3. 11 14. And in al those places of scripture where Righteousnesse Iustification life Eternal and Saluation are attributed to it This is Iustifying or sauing Faith because it enables the elect soule to receiue Christs perfect Iustice vnto Saluation in heauen This Faith once had is neuer vtterly lost as Papists fancie 8 Fidelity and faithfulnesse in doing duties to others without fraud and deceit Titus 2 10. That they may shew all good faith that is Faithfulnesse 9 Hope 1. Pet. 1 5. We are kept through Faith vnto saluatiō Yet this properly belongs to hope which is a certaine expectation of saluation promised A Metanimie of the Cause for the Effect 10 A confidence of obtaining some earthly and bodily good thing after a myraculous sort Actes 14 9. When he saw that hee had Faith to bee healed This is a passiue miraculous Faith 11 A firme knowledge and assurance of that liberty which Christians haue in thinges indifferent Rom. 14 1 22 23. Whatsoeuer is not of Faith is sin 12 Feruent study desire and zeale to practise maintaine Christian Religion and Doctrine Rom. 1 8. Your Faith is published throughout all the world 13 Righteousnesse or Iustice. Psal. 119 75. Thou hast afflicted mee in Faith or in righteousnesse and iustly 14 A Promise or Vowe 1. Tim. 5 12. They haue forsaken their first Faith Sée the word First 15 Constancy and faithfulnesse in performing duty or inconstancy and vnfaithfulnesse indifferently 1. Sam. 26 23. The Lord will rewarde euery man according to his Righteousnesse and Faith or faithfulnesse 16 Christ being apprehended by faith Rom. 9 32. Also Rom. 3 28. A man is iustified by faith So it is put and taken in the Treatise of Iustification wheresoeuer Faith is written without expresse mētion of Christ. Faith of the Elect. sig That Faith which is proper to the elect Titus 1 1 2. Acts 13 44 48. which none can haue but the elect and chosen children of God dead Faith sig A fruitlesse and vnworking Faith Iames 2 26. Faith without workes is Dead like a Dead-man a barren wombe a withered Tree effectuall Faith sig Such a knowledge of Christ as is not idle but worketh by
which followeth forgiuenesse of sinne to wit the earnest loue of Christ and doth not note the cause why her sinnes were forgiuen her which was her faith in Christ. Math. 25 34 35. Come ye blessed of my father For when I was hungry Heere likewise the particle For noteth not the cause but the signes and tokens of blessed persons or the fruite by which they were discerned and knowne Heere it is a particle redditiue rendring the reason of the fore-going sentence Reuel 14 13. Rom. 4 2 3. 3 In behalfe of another or in ones stead to ones benefit or good as to suffer for the Gospell or for the name of Christ to die For the brethren and to be separated from Christ For the bretheren and Christ dyed For vs and such like Whereof all doo note the impulsiue cause 4 The finall cause or end As Rom. 11 36. All things For him that is his owne glory is the end to which all things both made of him and gouerned by him are referred and disposed Prou. 16 4. God made all things For himselfe Foreknowledge sig pro A bare fore-sight of things to come or to bee done heerafter which in God is euer ioyned with his counsell or determination Actes 2 23. Being deliuered by the determinate counsell and Fore-knowledge of God 2 Gods eternall loue or good pleasure Ro. 8 29. Whom he knew before c. Rom. 11 2. 1. Pet. 1 2. Elect according to the Foreknowledge of God Such as seuer Gods will from his fore-knowledge or do make his fore-knowledge of thinges the highest cause of their existence whereas God fore-knoweth what things shal be because he hath first decreed they shall be or which will haue foreknowledge of faith and works to be causes of election they are deceiued to Forget sig To let things slip out of mind This is the generall signification 2 To let God his worde and benefits slip out of minde whereof followeth disobedience neglect of Gods worship and wicked contempt of God as a fruit consequent of such Forgetfulnesse Iudg. 3 7. They did wickedly and forgot the Lord. Psalme 78 42. Thus men Forget God the wicked wholy the Godly in part 3 To cast off one to cease to loue care and prouide for him Psal. 77 9. Hath God forgotten to be mercifull Esay 49 15 16. Thus God Forgets the wicked and the godly doo sometime thinke that they are thus Forgotten yet are not so Psal. 107 5. If I Forget thee ô Ierusalem that is if I cease to loue thee 4 To deferre or put off the punnishment of the wicked and to remoue punishment from the godly Psal. 74 23. Forget not the voice of the enemie Amos. 8 7. I will not for euer Forget any of their workes that is I will not alway deferre to punnish them though it may seeme I haue Forgotten Ieremy 32. god Forbid sig A forme of deniall with a loathing of the thing obiected Rom. 3 31. Also 6 2. This is vsuall with Paule so often as he iudgeth cauils vnworthy of a direct refutation to Forget his labour sig Not to be moued nor trobled with remembrance of calamities past Gen. 41 51. God hath made meâ— Forget all my labors to Forget that which is behind sig Not to think vpon or mind that which one hath done or suffered for Christ or his Gospell looking forward to things which are to bee done heere after Phil. 3 15. I Forget that which is behind land of Forgetfulnesse sig The place and estate of the dead who Forget the liuing and the liuing them Psal. 88 12. And thy righteousnesse in the land of Forgetfulnesse or Obliuion to Forget thy fathers house sig To renounce and abandon all carnall worldly affections which spring from in-bred corruption and whatsoeuer may hinder our faith and loue to Christ. Psal. 45 11. Forget thine owne people and thy fathers house Forgiuenes See Remission sig The pardoning of our sins done against God as if one should crosse a debt booke Ps. 32 1. Whose sinnes are Forgiuen 2 A Forbearing to reuenge trespasses done against vs being ready to take vnto fauour such as wrong vs vpon their repentance Mat. 18 35. Except yee Forgiue from your hearts Col. 3 13. Forme sig Fauour beauty outward dignity glory Esay 53 1. He hath no Forme 2 Substance or essence Heb. 1 3. The engraued Forme of his person Forme of God sig God himselfe or one who is God and that truly and in very deed of the same substance and glorie that God is Phil. 2 6. Who being in the Forme of God that is Forme Nature or Substance bee all one in this argument Forme of a seruant sig A very man one hauing the true nature of man being like a man in all things sin excepted Phil. 2 7. He tooke the Forme of a Seruant and was made like to a man that is he took the substance nature properties affections and infirmities of a man all except sinne Heb. 3 17. and 4 15. Formed sig Fashioned framed Christ is saide to be formed in vs either when the liuely faith of Christ is at our new birth engendred in vs or is renued after some great fall Gal. 4 19. Tâ—ll Christ be Formed in you FornicatioÌ„ sig The vncleannesse of vnmarried persons about generation Gal. 5 19. The workes of the Flesh are manifest Adultery Fornication c. 2 All vncleannesse that way by whom-soeuer married or vnmarried or howsoeuer 1. Cor. 6 9 18. He that committeth Fornication sinneth against his owne body This is bodily Fornication Sinecdoche Sée Math. 5 32. Fornication put for Adultery 3 Idolatry or strange worship which is spirituall Fornication wherein the faith plight with God as with an husband to worship him onely after his owne will is violated and broken Ezek. 16 15. Thou hast powred out thy Fornications and else-where very often in this and other Prophets As Ier. 3 9. Iudah hath committed Fornication with stockes and stones to Forsake referred to God sig Not to with-draw his essence or power from his creature for they be euery where present but his grace blessing which is done diuersly in respect of them whom he doth forsake 2. Chro. 15 2. Ifye Forsake him he will Forsake you This is the general signification 2 Wholy and for euer to take away from men all such graces as he had giuen them leauing them altogether to Satan and their owne lust This is called a giuing vp or deliuering vp to vile affections Rom. 1 24 Thus God forsakes wicked men and Hippocrites Thus did he forsake Cain and Iudas Saul 1. Sa. 16 14. The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saule 2. Sam. 7 15 And thus wil not God forsake his people 1. Sam. 12 22. The Lorde will not Forsake his people for his names sake 3 To take away some particular grace and that for a time onely Thus was Dauid forsaken hauing lost after his grieuous sinne cleannesse of heart peace and ioy of conscience
Satan euen whatsoeuer by counsell or force hee is able to do Math. 16 18. The Gates of Hell shall not preuaile against them 5 That godly conuersation whereby an entrance as by a Gate is ministred into the Kingdome of heauen Math. 7 13. Narrow is that Gate that leadeth to life 2. Pet. 1 11. 6 The Iudges and Princes which sat in the Gate to exercise Iudgement Esay 3 26. Then shall her Gates mourne and lament that is the Gouernours and Rulers Ier. 14 2. Gate of heauē or house of God sig A place worthy and fit to be consecrate and set apart for Prayer and the seruice of God Gen. 28 17. It is the house of God and the Gate of heauen Gates of Sion sig The open assemblies of the Church where the publicke ministry is exercised Psal. 9 14. Within the Gates of the Daughter of Sion Gates of righteousnesse sig The Temple which is called the Gate of righteousnesse either because only iust and righteous persons were to enter there to worship the righteous God or else because by the Doctrine and Religiō there taught an entrance was made to come vnto God and to attaine true righteousnes Psal. 118 19 20. Open vnto me the Gates of righteousnes Gate of death sig Death itselfe or grieuous daungers threatning Death Psal. 9 13. Psal. 107 18. broad Gate narrow Gate sig The enterance and passage to destruction to bee very easie but very hard to life and glory Math. 7 13 14. Broad is the Gate and narrow is the way Gates of brasse sig The strongest helps and defences Psal. 107 16. He hath broken the Gates of Brasse to raise one in the gates sig To commend one publikely in the open meetings amongst the Elders Pro. 31 31. Her workes praise her in the Gates to Gather sig pro To bring or bind together things which are scattered Leuit. 19 9 10. 2 Cor. 8 15. 2 To collect for the poore when the guiftes of many do meet together to help one 1 Cor. 16 1 2. Concerning the Gathering for the Saints 3 To bring elect Sinners like stragling sheepe into the Folde of the Church that they may at length meete altogether in Heauen Ephe. 4 12. For the Gathering of the Saints Also to call the reprobate by the outward ministry Mat. 23 37. How often would I haue Gathered thee and thou wouldst not 4 To destroy and ouerthrow Psal. 26 9. Gather not my soule with the Sinners 5 To search and examine our hearts prouoking our selues vnto repentance Zeph. 2 1. Gather your selues c. to Gather with Christ sig To further and aduance true Religion Gods kingdome Mathew 12 30. He that Gathereth not with me scattereth Gazing-stocke sig A publike reproach 1 Cor. 4 9. Wee are made a Gazing-stocke to the world Nahum 3 5. G. E. Genealogy sig A pedigree linage stocke or race 2 Vaine and vnprofitable questions and things 1 Tim. 1 4. Giue no heede to Genealogies Generations sig A History or Narration of things which happen vnto any persons Gen. 6 9 25 19. 2 The Originall or first beginning of a thing Gen. 2 4. These are the Generations c. 3 Ancestors and Forefathers Math. 1 1. The Booke of the Generation of Christ. 4 Persons or people which liue in some one age Heb. 3 10. I was grieued with that Generation Mat. 11 16. Eccle. 1 4. Math. 23 36. also 24 34. For an age or men of that age 5 A kinde of men Luke 16 8. Wiser in their Generation from Generation to generation sig In all times both past and to come for euer and without end Psal. 90 1. Thou hact been our refuge from Generation to Generation 2 For a long time Exod. 1◠16 The Lord sware I will haue warre with the Amalekites from Generation to Generation Genesis sig Birth Originall or first beginning of any thing Hence the first Booke of Moyses is called Genesis because it describes both the beginning of the World and the Church of God Gentile or Gréeke sig Euery one who is not a Iew. Rom. 2 28. Rom. 9 30. 2 One who being a Iew by Nation was a Gentile in behauiour being full of impiety and vnrighteousnesse Psal. 59 5. O Lord awake to visite all the Gentiles or Heathen 3 The Iewes which were scattered amongst the Greekes Iohn 12 20. There were certaine Greekes amongst them which came for to worship Gentlenes sig That gift which makes vs curteous and tractable ready to giue milde words and with reason to yeeld others easie to be spoken to and to bee entreated apt to please loath to displease with reason Gal. 5 22. The fruits of the Spirit is Gentlenes long suffering Faith c. G. H. holy Ghost sig The third person in Trinity proceeding from the Father and the Sonne being himselfe most holy the worker of holinesse in all Angels and good Men. Math. 28 18. Baptizing them in the Name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Iohn 15 20 Rom. 8 9. G. I. Gift sig Euery good thing which is giuen vs of GOD. Iames 1 17. Euery good Gift is from aboue 2 Christ who by an excellency is called that gift worth all other Gifts being the head and cause of them all Iohn 4 10. If thou knowest the Gift of God 2 Cor. 9 15. 3 Patient suffering for Christ. Phil. 1 19. It is giuen you to suffer with Christ. Where suffering for Christ is called a Gift 4 Gods eternall election and such spirituall good thinges as flow from thence to wit Remission of sinnes Faith Sanctification perseuerance in grace and eternall life Rom. 11 29. The Gifts of God are without Repentance 5 An almes or reliefe bestowed vpon the Saints 2 Cor. 8 7. That ye may abound also in this Gift 6 Iustification or imputed righteousnesse Rom. 5 16 17. The Gift of that righteousnesse 7 The Holy Ghost and his miraculous Giftes Acts 8 20. That the Gift of God may be obtained by many 8 A thing giuen from man to man eyther to testifie good will and loyall affections then it is taken in good part as 1 Sam. 19 27. or to gaine good will from some Ruler to helpe our suit then it is taken in ill part Exod. 23 8. Thou shalt take no Gift to neglect a Gift sig To suffer it to l◠idle and vprofitable as a sword that rusteth in a sheath Timo. 4 14. Neglect or despise not the Gift in thee the gift of ones hand sig That which is in ones power to giue or the giuing after ones ability Deut. 16 17. Euery Man shall giue according to the Gift of his hand to giue sig To elect or in his decree of election to giue Iohn 6 37 37. All that the Father giueth me c. 2 Actually to bestow and franckly Psalme 2 8. Iohn 3 16. That he gaue his Sonne 3 To consecrate and offer vp 2 Cor. 8 5. These gaue themselues to the Lord. Exod. 22. Girdle sig pro That which
Soules aliue Thus Tremellius reades it Humaine Creatures sig All ciuill Magistrates who therefore be stiled Humaine Creatures because howsoeuer they bee appointed of God yet their kindes number and order are not so of God laide out but that Man may make more or fewer of greater authority or lesse as occasions of places times and disposition of the people require 1 Pet. 2 13. Submit your selfe to euery Humaine Creature So it is read in the Originall word for word and not ordinance of man as our Translations render it I. D. Idle sig HIm that may worke and will not but ceaseth to labour through loue of ease Exod. 5 17. Ye are too Idle 2 One that is vnoccupied because hee lackes worke Math. 20 3 6. Why stand ye heere all day Idle Because no man hath hired vs. The former are Idle voluntarily but these latter necessarily Idoll sig Any Image or visible representation of false or true God though it be not worshipped nor made with any intention of worship 1. Iohn 5 21. Keep your selues from Idols 2. Cor. 6 16. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Deut. 4 15. Exod 32 4. doth manifest the truth of this For the Image which the Iewes made of the true God is condemned of God himselfe Exod. 32 8. And they that made it were punished as Idolaters 1. Cor. 10 7. Neither be ye Idolaters as were some of them with whom God was not pleased 1. Cor. 10 5. Finally in the fore-named place of Deut. 4 15. the only making of an Image of God is precisely forbidden and learned Diuines both affirme proue that both Scriptures and Fathers haue in differently vsed the worde Idoll and Image for one and the selfe-same thing Witnesse that one place of Tertullian amongst many vpon those words of 1. Ioh. 5 21. Iohn saith he doth not write thus Keep your selues frō Idolatry that is from the seruice of them but From Idols that is from the very Image of them It is therefore a dotage in Popery to distinguish betweene Idoll and Image and to make the picture of a false God onely to be an Idoll Idoll is nothing sig The false and faigned Goddes of the Heathen 1. Cor. 8 4. An Idoll is nothing Gen. 31 19 30. 2 An Idoll to be as an empty and vaine Dreame not in respect of the matter whereof it is made for that is somthing but in respect of the forme which doth counterfaite and falsify true things making them seeme to be what they are not Also in respect of the vaine minde of the Idolater who wickedly imagineth some Diuinity to be in the Idol whereas there is but one true God in the world Therefore worthily is an Idoll saide to be nothing being a false and lying signe a very fixion being nothing for signification though something for substance a peece of wood or stone c. 1. Cor. 8 4. Idolatry sig The worshippe or adoration of an Image or of God before and by an Image 1. Cor. 10 7. Neither be Idolaters as they were Deut. 5 9. Thou shalt neuer bow to them nor serue them 2 The making of any Image or likenesse of God or of any creature in heauen or earth for a Religious end Deut. 5 8. Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image or likenesse c. Gal. 5 20. Idolatry Witch-craft 1. Cor. 6 9. 3 All humain inuentions thrust into diuine seruice Deut. 12 32. Whatsoeuer I command you that do put nothing thereto 4 Setting the heart inordinately vpon any creature by fearing louing trusting in it more then in God and aboue him Thus is Couetousnes called Idolatry Col. 3 5. And wantons make their Belly their God Phil. 3 19. I. E. Jealousie sig Griefe for suspition of dishonesty in married yoake-fellowes Husbands or Wiues Num. 5 14. If he bee moued with Iealousie and be Iealous of his Wife 2 An earnest loue of others in respect of their welfare and good ioyned with great greefe for their hurt 2. Cor. 11 2. With a godly Iealousie 3 Hot displeasure and indignation of GOD. Psal. 79 5. Shall thy Iealousie burne like fire Jealous sig One greeued with suspicion of dishonesty in the married yoak-fellow with desire of reuenge Thus are men Iealous and thus also is God saide to bee Iealous when the marriage betweene him and his Church is violated and broken Deut. 5 9. For I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God that is so grieued with Idolatry as I study to reuenge it 2 One which seemeth to bee much greeued for others but it is out of a loue to him-selfe for his owne commoditie sake Gal. 4 17. They are Iealous ouer you amisse This he writeth of the false Apostles who for their owne gaine and credite did loue the Galathians Heere Iealous is taken in euill part 3 One which loueth others truely not for lucre and glory to him-selfe but for the benefit of the persons loued 2. Cor. 11 2. I am Iealous ouer you Thus Paule and all Godly Ministers are Iealous ouer the Flocke Heere Iealous is taken in good part Jehouah sig An eternall selfe-being one that hath his essence of himselfe from euerlasting and is the cause of existance or being to all things creatures which are of him by him and for him Exod. 6 3. But by my name Iehouah was I not knowne to them Acts 17 28. Rom. 11. verse last Jesting sig Pleasant and witty words being offensiue and hindering edification Ephe. 5 4. Iesting Jesus sig A Sauiour one that saueth his people from their sinnes Math. 1 21. He shall be called Iesus It is a name of his benefites to wit saluation had by Christ. Jew outward sig He that is a Iew by Nation Name and profession onely Rom. 22 8. A Iew which is one outward Jew inward sig One who is a Iew in truth though he be not so by name or Nation Rom. 2 29. He is a Iew which is one within that is to say one who professeth himselfe to be one of Gods people and is so in deede and before God in spirit and in heart Jerusalem sig Either the Citty as Psal. 125 2. 122 2 3. or the Inhabitants Math. 3 5. Or all the faithfull people of God through the Worlde Iewes and Gentiles Ioel. 2 32. I. G. Ignorance sig Want of the true knowledge of God of heauenly things Ephe. 4 18. Thorough the Ignorance that is in them This ignorance is either simple when meanes of knowledge be wanting or willfull and affected when one may know will not Ignorance being in it selfe a sinne against the first Commandement cannot excuse sin that it should be no fault at all 2 Vnbeleefe which followes Ignorance as a Companion or fruite 1. Pet. 1 14. Fashion not your selues to the former lusts of your Ignorance that is of your blinde vnbeleefe A Metanimie of the cause 3 Error through want of iudgement and right deseruing of things Leuit. 3 2. If any
flesh Rom. 14 1. Math. 26 41. Thus is sinne called because it makes the Soule weake to doe good and withstand euill Metanimie 3 A priuation and want of all strength as touching godlinesse Rom. 5 8. When we were Infirme or of no strength Christ dyed for vs that is that naturall imbecility which we all bring with vs into the World which Paul cals vngodlinesse Rom. 5 6. 4 Afflictions reproaches persecutions 2. Cor. 12 10. Therefore I take pleasure In Infirmities Also it signifies inward tentatious feares distrusts c. 2 Cor. 12. Which shew how weake we are and Infirme 5 A vile contemptible and abiect estate Gal. 4 13. Through Infirmity of the Flesh I preached the Gospell vnto you 1 Cor. 12 22. 6 Vnablenesse to free from sinne and death Heb. 7 18. Because of the weaknesse thereof Iniquity sig That which is writen or crooked swaruing from the straight line of Gods word it is put eyther largely for any sinne and thus euen our Birth-sin is iniquity Psal. 51 5. I was borne In Iniquity Or more strictly it is put for some hainous and grosse offence Psal. 119 3. They worke no Iniquity Psal. 90 8. Thou hast set our Iniquities Exo. 20 5. Visiting the Iniquities of the Fathers 2 Workers of Iniquity or wicked men Iob 5 16. Iniquity shall stop her mouth 3 The punishment due to Iniquitie Leuit. 5 1. Hee shall beare his Iniquity And very often elsewhere worker of Iniquity sig One which walketh after the lustes of corrupt Nature wholy following them as guides in all and euery action of life Math. 7 23. * Innocency sig A meere voydnesse of fault and freedome from all Sin In this estate Adam was created This is perfect Innocency by Creation 2 A certaine measure of this estate in all regenerate persons who endeuour to serue God In Innocency of life hauing also Christes Innoceny imputed to them Psal. 26 6 11. I will wash my hands In Innocency This is Innocency of a person restored 3 Vprightnesse in some speciall or particular cause Psal. 7 8. According to the Innocency that is in me that is Innocency of cause when one is cleare and free of some fault whereof he is accused Innocent sig pro One which doth none hurt nor harm vnto others Math. 10 16. Be Innocent as Doues 2 One that is free from some one particular fault or crime or one that is guiltles in this or that thing Gen. 24 8. If the Woman will not follow thee thou shalt be Innocent or discharged of thine Oth. Ion. 1 14. Lay not vpon vs Innocent blood Exod. 23 7. Gen. 10 5. 3 A iust and righteous person which liueth vprightly Iob 4 7. Who euer perished being Innocent 4 One that is free from punishment or one vnpunished Pro. Though the wicked ioyne hand In hand yet they shall not be Innocent 1 Kinges 2 9. But thou shalt not count him Innocent that is thou shalt not free him from punishment Also Exodus 34 7. Not making the wicked Innocent Intercession or request sig The request which the death of Christ maketh for beleeuers after they haue sinned that their sins may be pardoned for his merit or it is the merit of Christs death comming betweene our sins and Gods Iustice to appease it as an Aduocate that pleads for his Client 1. Iohn 2 2 3. Rom. 8 34. And maketh request for vs. Heb. 9 24. He appeares in Heauen for vs. Christ is our Intercessour foure waies First by appearing for vs in the fight of God Heb. 9 24. Secondly by the force of his Sacrifice once offered to make full satisfaction to Gods Iustice Hebr. 10 12 14. Thirdly by his constant will that for the merit of that Sacrifice God would be pacified towards the elect Heb. 10 10. Lastly by the assent and agreement of the Father resting in this will of his Sonne for vs. Iohn 11 42. Mat. 17 6. Popish intercession of the Virgin Mary and other Saints doth dishonor Christ the onely Intercessour 2 The request which we make one for another in the name of our Intercessour Christ eyther for good thinges to be giuen or euill things to be remoued from vs. 1 Tim. 2 2 3. Prayers Intercession and giuing of thankes c. These be charitable mutuall Prayers of the godly while they liue together Interpretation sig A translating or turning out of one tongue into another 1 Cor. 14 13 26. If any speak with strange tongues let him pray that he may interpret 2 An opening or declaring darke Scriptures or prophesie 2 Pet. 1 20. No Prophesie is of priuate Interpretation Scriptures must bee interpreted by Scriptures 3 Expounding Visions or Dreames Gen. 40 8. Are not Interpretations of God 4 A speaking and teaching some thing euidently and plainely Iob 33 23. If there be an Interpreter with him Interest sig Encrease or gaine taken for the lending of Money vpon fore-agreement and compact Pro. 28 8. He which increased his Riches by Usury and Interest c. Here the word Interest is taken in ill part For the word in a good sence signifieth that benefite which a mercifull and free lender taketh for his owne Indemnity to repaire such losse whereof the borrower by his default was an effectuall cause by the keeping of Money borrowed in his hand longer then he ought to the certaine dammage of the lender I. O. Ioy. sig pro A sweete motion of the Soule in regard of some present or hoped for good This good if it bee worldly then is the Ioy but natural worldly if it be heauenly good or tending and leading thereto then is the Ioy spirituall and heauenly Psal. 51 13. Restore to me the Ioy of my Saluation Rom. 5 3. We reioyce in tribulation Iohn 15 11. That your Ioy may be full 2 The matter or cause of Ioy. 1. Thess. 2 20. Ye are our Crowne and Ioy. Iob 3 22. Psal. 48 2. 3 The most comfortable and full happinesse of Heauen Math. 25 21 23. Enter into thy Maisters Ioy. Sée Enter 4 A godly boasting and glorying 1 Cor. 9 15. Least any man should make my Ioy or reioycing vaine 5 Those good thinges eyther earthly or spirituall for the which we vse to reioyce Iohn 16 22. And your Ioy none shall take from you 1 Cor. 7 30. Rom. 15 13. The God of hope fill you withall Ioy that is with euery good guift whereof ye may reioyce plentifully and abundantly Iames 1 2. And elsewhere often Metanimie of the cause 6 That cheerefulnesse and alacrity which we shew forth towards our neighbour Gal. 5 22. The fruit of the Spirit is Ioy peace c. 7 Ioyfull speech or Songs of thankes-giuing and praise Psalm 126 2. And our tongue with Ioy. Metanimie of the cause for the effect For prayse commeth of Ioy as Ioy commeth of good things 8 The hauing or possessing of any good thing from whence Ioy springeth Iohn 3 29. This my Ioy is fulfilled Iohn 15 11. And that my Ioy
haue Power 13 Wicked or good Angelles which are of exceeding strength and haue leaue and Commission of God to doo mighty thinges and therefore are called powers Col. 1 16. By him were created Powers Principalities Ephe. 6 12. We wrestle against Principalities and Powers 14 Excellent and singular guifts of the Spirite Acts 6 8. Steuen full of faith and Power did signes and Myracles c. 15 Kingdomes and Nations which haue great power Luke 3 6. All this Power will I giue thee all Power sig Vniuersall power ouer euery thing in heauen earth without exception of any Math. 28 18. All Power is giuen vnto me This Power the Father as God giues the Sonne as Mediatour receiues it Power of God sig The most mighty and powerfull God Mat. 26 64. Sitting at the right hand of the Power of God 2 That notable Vertue and might giuen to the Apostles not onely to work Myracles but also to tame and bridle the wicked 2 Cor. 6 7. By the Power of God Powers of heauen sig The Heauens or Celestiall Orbes and Sphears being exceeding firme and strong creatures and exercising great strength vppon these inferiour earthly bodies Math. 24 29. And the Powers of heauen shall be shaken to Pour out sig To giue and bestow liberally and franckly Esay 53 12. He Powred out his soule to death Acts 2 17. I will Poure out my Spirit vpon all flesh Poyson of Aspes sig Malicious and bitter wordes cast out against such as be absent to their great hurt Rom. 3 13. The Poyson of Aspes is vnder their lips Poyson of Dragons sig The wicked vngracious workes of vngodlye men which are as vnpleasant to God as the poyson of Dragons to men Deut. 32 33. Their Wine is the poison of Dragons P. R. Praise sig A confession and due acknowledgement of the great and manifolde excellencies and perfections that be in God Ps. 136 1. Praise the Lord because he is good for his mercies endure for euer Psal. 117 1 2. 103 1 2 3. 2 Commendation and speaketh forth the good things that be in other men Prou. 27 2. Let another man praise thee 3 The matter argument occasion of praise Exod. 15 2. The Lord is my strength and praise Psa. 118 14. Prayer sig The whole seruice of God and euery part of it Math. 21 13. An house of Prayer 2 That one part of his worship called Prayer Petition Iam. 5 15. Prayer of faith to Pray sig To desire some lawfull thing of God alone with trust to haue it for the merit of Christ only Actes 10 9. Peter went vp on the house to pray Math 6 9. After this manner pray ye Actes 12 12. Marke 11 24. 2 To craue some-thing with the voice onely without Faith in Christ. Luke 18 10. They went vp into the Temple to Pray Verse 11. This is vocall Prayer onely and the former is both Vocall and Mentall 3 To worship God A Sinechdoche of part for the whole Luke 19 46. A house of Prayer Prayer what it is Prayer is a worke of the beleeuing soule desiring of God alone things lawfull and needfull with confidence to obtaine them through the alone mediation of Christ to the praise of the mercy trueth and power of God Prayer is eyther priuate or publicke for our selues or others for the hauing of good things or remoouing thinges euill Whence ariseth the difference and diuers kinds of Prayers mentioned 1. Tim. 2 2. Let supplications and Prayers Intercession and giuing of Thankes be made for all men to preach sig To declare the will of God by voice for the instruction of the Church Marke 1 49. He Preached in their Synagogues what Preaching is Preaching is an action of the Minister of the word soundly interpreting and opening the sence of the Scriptures by the Scriptures with application of them vnto the vse of the Church by Doctrin Exhortation reprofe conuincing comfort Mar. 2 2. He Preached the word to thē Lu. 4 18 19 20 21. He tooke vp the booke and read and said this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares Also 1 Cor. 14 3. He that professeth that is Preacheth speaketh to men to edifying to exhortation to comfort Sée Nehe. 8 8. And he reade in the booke of the Law and gaue the sence according to Scripture Acts. 9. 20 22. Hee Preached Christ confirming that Iesus was this Christ that is to say Hee compared Scripture with Scripture conferring them together as cunning Craftsmen which ioyne all partes together to make them agree one with another This is Preaching in the ordinary phrase of the Scriptue Indeed euery declaration of Gods wil eyther by afflictions blessings readings and creatures or otherwise may generally and improperly be called Preaching Predestination sig The fore-appointment of euery thing to certaine ends Acts. 4 28. 2 The fore-ordaining of some persons to obtaine eternall life by Christ. Rom. 8 30. Whom he Predestinated them he called Predestination what it is Predestination is a most righteous decree of God freely according to his own good pleasure without any respect of forseene faith or works as mouing causes ordaining from all eternity out of the whole lumpe of lost mankind a certaine number to obtaine eternal life in heauen by Christ hauing first called Iustified and Sanctified them vnto the praise of his glorious grace Rom. 8. 28 29 30. Eph. 1. 5 6 7. Predestination is the most wise purpose of God whereby he hath before all eternity constantly decreed to call those whom hee hath loued in Christ to the adoption of his children to Iustification by Faith at the lēgth to glory thorow good works that they may bee made like to the Image of the Son of God and that in them should bee declared the glory and mercy of the Creatour to Predestinate sig To determine and appoint before most firmely some persons to be saued by Christ. Rom. 8 29. Prepare sig pro To make a thing ready before hand Math. 26. 17. Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee 1 Chro. 29 19. To build the house which I haue prepared Math. 20 23. 2 To fit effectually and mightily the elect of God vnto that blessednesse which they were appointed vnto from euerlasting Rom. 9 23. Vessels of mercy which hee hath prepared to glory And to make meete the Reprobates vnto that wretchednesse vnto which they were ordained before Rom. 9 22. Vessels of wrath prepared to destruction Or thus more breifly to purpose make meete heauen for the elect and the elect for it Math. 25. 34 41. Prepared for you c. Also Hell for the Reprobate and them for it Prepared for the deuill and his Angels Rom. 9. 22. 23. 3 To make vs meete or fit eyther for doing good duties or for suffering afflictions 1 Chron. 29. 18. Prepare their hearts vnto thee 4 To make ready eyther some things which belonges eyther to Gods seruice or to the seruice of the Saints 2. Cor. 9
brought them out of Aegipt and that here they had no abiding place Iohn 7 2. Now the Feast of Tabernacles drew neere Leuit. â—3 34. Table sig pro A frame of Wood made to eate meate vpon 2 All earthly benefits seruing for necessity or honest delight and ornament Psal. 23 5. Thou hast prepared a Table for me Psal. 69 22. Table of Deuils sig Fellowship with Deuils by being present at the Sacrifices offered vnto Idols 1 Corin. 10 20 21. These thinges that the Gentiles Sacrifice they Sacrifice to Deuils Ye cannot be pertakers of the Lords Table and the Table of Deuils to eate and to drinke at Christs table sig To communicate and haue fellowshippe with Christ in heauenly ioyes Luke 22 30. That ye may drinke at my Table in my Kingdome the table of the Lord. sig The company of Gods people assembled to partake in the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 1â— 21. Ye cannot partake of the Lordes Table that is yee cannot haue society and fellowshippe with Christ and his members in the Sacrament of the Lordes Supper if you partake of the Table of Deuils What reason haue Papists to scoffe at our Communion-Tables seeing Scriptures beare out this Name Haue not we cause rather to abhorre their sacrificing Altars to sit or be at Table sig To partake or haue society with others in eating and drinking Iohn 13 28. But one of them that were at Table knew for what cause hee spake it vnto him to spread or prepare a Table sig To make liberall prouision of meat and drinke and of other necessaries for this life Psalm 78 19. Can God prepare a Table in the wildernesse Tables of testimonie sig The two Stones as two Tables wherein the Law was written which bare testimony of Gods will Exod. 32 15. And Moses returning descended from the Mountaine with the two Tables of testimony in his hand to Take in ill part sig To wrest wordes and actions to an ill purpose when they might bee taken well Rom. 1 29. Taking all things in euill part to Take the armour of God sig To put on all our spirituall Harnesse fitting it close to our hearts and vsing it for our defence and safety against sinne and Sathan Ephe. 6 13 11. For this cause take to you the whole Armour of God to Take the Foxes sig To remooue or take out of the way whatsoeuer hurteth the Church in doctrine or manners Cant. 2 15. Take the Foxes to Take héede sig To be wary or watchfull for the preuenting of some sin or danger Ephe. 5 15. Luke 12 28. Take heede and beware of Couetousnesse to Take thought sig To vex and disquiet the hart with feare griefe Luke 12 25 26. Why take you thought for the remnant to Take in vaine sig To abuse a thing by vsing it rashly or to wicked purpose Exod. 20 7. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine that is eyther lightlie or wickedly tale-bearer sig One that goeth about as a Pedler with wares with reports and tales Leuit. 16 19. Prou. 20 19. Talent sig A certaine peece of Golde which weyed sixtie pound as the common Talent did or 120 pound as did the Talent of the Temple 2 Samuel 12 30. Exod. 25 39. Of a Talent of pure Golde thou shalt make it 2 A free and franke guift of God bestowed on men in a certaine portion and measure to be vsed to his owne glory and the profit of others Mathew 25 15. And to one hee gaue fiue Talents There is no man but hath some Talent committed to him whereof he must make vse heere and account heere-after Tares sig pro A kinde of graine in the East-Countries so like to Wheate whiles it is in the blade as hardlie the one can be discerned from the other being also a very hurtfull thing 2 The Children of this World but especiallie Hypocrites Math. 13 36. The Tares are the Children of that wicked one 3 All offences in manners and doctrine being so coloured and disguized as hardly can vertues be knowne from vices and errors from truth Mat. 13 25. And sowed Tares among the Wheate False doctrine when it is disguized is fitly signified by Tares both because it is the root and seede of wicked men Also for that it doth besot the minde as Tares being taken in drinke or bread doe make giddy the braine to Tast. sig pro Take some slender tryall of meates or drinkes how good they be before we receiue them into our bodies 2 Slightly to know and beleeue generally the doctrine and promise of Christ as a man that Tasteth of a Cup and drinks not or as a Cooke who Tasteth the meate and eateth it not or lastly as a sicke man who doth Tast meate which he dooth puke backe or cast vp againe Heb. 6 4. 5. For it is impossible that they which were once enlightned and haue Tasted of the heauenly gift 3 To take experience of a thing hauing indeed tried it Psalm 34 9. Tast and see how good the Lord is to Tast death sig To die or to feele death Mat. 16 28. There be some heere that shall not tast of death T. E. to Teach sig To cause to learne which God doth effectually by enlightning the hart vnto knowledge faith of the word and men instrumentally by interpreting the word and by propounding instructions to the outward eare Iere. 13 13. They shall be all taught of God Psalm 119 26. Teach me thy Statutes Acts 20 21. Math. 28 9. Goe Teach all Nations Teaching is by publike and priuate persons by words workes signes and Creatures c. Teacher sig A publike Minister which by wholesome Doctrine instructeth the Church beating downe errours Ephe. 4 11. He gaue some to be Teachers 2 Such as by priuate instruction helpe others to know the thinges of God Titus 2 3. Teachers of honest thinges Thus Parents and Maisters and common Christians are Teachers The former by publike the latter by priuate authority Teare sig pro A Water issuing out of the eye from the moystnesse of the braine as witnesse of some inward griefe Psal. 6 6. I water my couch with my Teares And 42 3. My Teares are c. 2 Sorrow and afflictions the cause of Teares Reue. 21 4. All Teares shall bee wiped from their eyes Psal. 126 5. If ye sow in Teares c. to Teare in péeces sig To destroy vtterly and vnrecouerably as when a Lamb is torne in peeces of a Lyon or Beare Psalm 50 22. Least I Teare you in peeces temperance sig A moderation of the minde in the vse of outward blessings holding vs backe from excesse causing vs rather to refraine from that we may lawfully haue then in our delights and pleasures to go so farre as our abilities estates and the times would giue vs leaue 2 Pet. 1 6. Ioyne with your knowledge Temperance Gal. 5 23. Sée Sobrietie Temple sig Material house built of Stone Timber to worship God publikely therein Actes 7 48.
Tradition wee are bound to beleeue this absolutely 2 An humaine ordinance not written in the word but deliuered from man to man Math. 15 2. The Tradition of the Elders Tradition so taken is either good or euill according to the subiect matter and intention of men This is an vnwritten Tradition This we must beleeue conditionally as it agreeth with the word Transgression sig That which goes beyond and exceedes due bounds and limits 2 Euery sinne small and great 1 Iohn 3 4. Transgression of the Law is sinne Hebr. 2 2. Sinne is called Transgression because it exceedes the boundes and markes which God by his Law hath appointed vnto vs for the moderattng of our desires and actions Trauaile sig Iournying or passing on foot or by Horse from place to place 2 The paine of Child-birth 1 Thess. 5 3. As trauaile vpon a woman with Childe 3 Troubles dangers and euils which happen in ones iourney Exod. 18 8. He told all the trauaile had hapned to them Treasure sig Some earthly thing of price which men make great account of and therefore lay it vp till afterward Math. 6 19 21. Lay not vp Treasure for your selfe in Earth Math. 13 44. An earthly Treasure 2 The wholesome precious doctrine of the word 2 Cor. 4 7. We haue this Treasure in earthly Uessels Metaphor An heauenly Treasure 3 Euerlasting life with the graces and good workes that lead thither and shall be there freelie rewarded Math. 6 20. Lay vp Treasures for your selues in Heauen When Christians do carefully imploy their graces fludying to abound in good workes they doe heerein Treasure and hoord vp ioyes in life heauenly and euerlasting Good and euill Treasures sig The abundance eyther of graces or vices stored vp in the hearts of men good and euill to bee vented and vttered by their Tongues Mat. 34 35. A good Man out of the good Treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things c. to treasure vp sig To gather together into one heape Rom. 2 5. Ye Treasure vp vengeance against the day of vengeance The meaning is that wicked men by continuing in sinne heape and stacke vp punnishment euen as worldly men doe heap vp and gather treasure Transubstantiation sig A change of one substance into another as of Bread into the body of Christ of Wine into the bloud of Christ according to that monstrous doctrine of Popery contrary to the wholsom words of Christ which teach Sacraments to bee not the things themselues whereof they bee pledges and Seales Tree sig pro A Plant growne vp to a great height and measure 2 Euery person Man or Woman good or bad Math. 3 10. Euery Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit Metaphor Corrupt Trées sig Vngodly persons that are vnfruitfull and good for nothing like to rotten and dead Trees Iude 12. Corrupt Trees and without fruit tree of knowledge of good and euill sig The miserable experience of good lost and of euil which should come vpon Adam and Eue and all mankind by breaking Gods commaundement in eating of that Tree which was forbidden them to eate of Gen. 2 9. The Tree of Knowledge of good and euill many trées sig A multitude of people to bee refreshed with the spirituall water of the word Ezek. 47 7. At the brinke of the Riuer were very many Trees Trée of life sig That happy life that Adam receiued of God by Creation wherein he was to be confirmed by eating the Tree of life which was appointed to be a Sacrament thereof Gene. 2 9. And the Tree of life in the middle of the Garden 2 Christ Iesus who himselfe is the eternall life and from whom the faithfull receiue it Reue. 2 7. Was the Tree of life trée planted by the Riuers c. sig A faithfull person ingrafted into Christ to bee made one with him by regeneration and to become fruitfull in good workes Psalme 1 3. Hee shall be like to a Tree planted by the Riuers of Water Trées of righteousnesse sig Righteous Men and Women who being iustified by Faith in Christ doe liue righteously and bring foorth much good fruit Esay 61 3. That they may be called Trees of righteousnesse Trespasse sig An hurt do one to our Neighbour in his estate name or person Numb 5 6. Leuit. 6 2 4. Mat. 6 15. If you doe not forgiue Men their trespasses 2 Any sin or offence eyther against God or man Math. 16 15. Neither will your Father forgiue you your trespasses To Try sig To search examine and prooue euery thing to finde out what is good what euill what true what false that wee may embrace the one and eschew the other Thes. 5 21. Try all thinges 1. Iohn 4 7. Try the spirit 2 To looke into one neerly to take knowledge of him and his cause Psal. 26 2. Proue me try me O Lord. Triall of Faith sig Afflictions which are sent of God for tryall and proofe of our faith 1 Peter 1 7. The Tryall of your faith being much more precious then Gold Fiery tryal sig Most sharpe bitter and grieuous afflictions 1 Pet. 4 12. Thinke it not strange concerning the fierie Triall tribulation sig A temporall affliction in this life eyther inward to the Soule or outward to the body Rom. 5 4. We reioyce in Tribulations This sometime hapneth for tryall sometimes is a fore-runner of Hell 2 Part of that eternall paine and torment reserued for the wicked in Hel. Rom. 2 9. Tribulation and anguish shall be vpon the Soule of euery Man that doth euill Tribute sig A summe of Money paid vnto Princes for their better maintenance according to the proportion of mens substance Rom. 13 6. For this cause yee pay Tribute * Trinity sig The distinction of the persons in the Vnity of the God-head one and the selfe-same God in Essence being for substance three to wit the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost 1 Iohn 5 7. And these three are one How three remaining three may yet be one and one abiding one be three all this at once This is a Mystery rather to be religiously adored then curiously searched into requiring rather faith to beleeue then reason to comprehend and iudge it Trumpet sig An hollow Instrument of Siluer Brasse or some other Mettall â—giuing a great sound through the breath of a mans mouth wherewith publicke Magistrates are wont to proclaime their Lawes in the time of peace Dan. 4. 2 3 4. After the example of God Exod 19 16. And the sound of the Trumpet exceeding loud Also Captaines were wont to encourage their Souldiers in the time of warre after the example of Gedion Iudges 7 18. And Hippocriticall Pharises did call the poore together to receiue their Almes Mat. 6 2. When thou giuest thine Almes make not a Trumpet to be blowne before thee This is a materiall Trumpet whereof we reade in Scripture of their good vses and of one abuse 2 The Prophets Apostles and Ministers of the word which are commaunded to publish
Path or Way to go out of the Way sig To turne aside and play Apostate from God his Law and worship Idolatry Rom. 3 12. They are al gone out of the way Waies of iudgement sig Approued and righteous wayes such as can abide the tryall of the light Prou. 2 8. That shey may keepe the wayes of Iudgement These also in ver 13. Are called the Wages of righteousnesse the Way of man sig The successe or euent of a mans purposes or actions Ier. 10 23. The Way of man is not in himselfe the Way of peace sig A peaceable quiet life Rom. 3 17. And the way of peace they haue not knowne to come in the way of righteousnesse sig To lead a righteous life being of vpright life and good conuersation Math. 21 33. For Iohn came in the way of Righteousnesse their Way sig The euent and successe of their course of life Psal. 49 13. This their Way vttereth their foolishnesse W. E. Weake sig One who is made feeble brought low with sicknesse Psal. 6 2. Haue mercie on me Lord for I am weake And 38 8. Bodily weakenesse 2 One of little faith and knowledge Rom. 14 1 He that is weake in the Faith receiue vnto you Spiritual weaknesse in part 3 One who wants all strength bodily and spirituall 1 Cor. 15 43. It is sowne in Weakenesse Rom. 5 6. When we were yet weak or of no strength This is spirituall Weakenesse totally vnto which al men from their birth be subiect Weak flesh sig Corruption of Nature which makes vs Weake either to do good or to resist euill Math. 26 41. The flesh is Weake Metonimie of the cause Weaned Childe sig One of a lowly and humble mind Psal. 131 2. I am in my selfe as one that is Weaned Weapons sig pro Instruments of Warre 2 All the faculties of soule or bodie fighting eyther for sinne in a man vnregenerate or against sin in one regenerate Rom. 6 12. Neither giue your members as weapons of vnrighteousnesse to sinne but giue your Members as Weapons of Righteousnesse to God 3 Preaching of the Word Prayer Patience in suffering c. 2 Cor. 10 3. The Weapons of our warfare are mighty through God Weary sig pro One made faiâ—t with labour and ttauell Iohn 4 6. He thus sate on the well Weary Bodily Wearinesse 2 A soule faint and burdened with the loade of sinne being as desirous of ease by forgiuenesse as a wearie man is of rest after great labour Mat. 11 28. Come vnto me all ye as are wearie Spiritual wearinesse 3 Slacke carelesse and fainting in well-doing Gal. 6 7. Be not Weary of well-doing Carnall Wearinesse Wedding Garment sig Christ Iesus himselfe whom we put on by faith Math. 22 11. Which had not on the wedding Garment Rom. 13 14. Put ye on the Lord Iesus The Papists do erre in iudging loue and Good-Workes to be this Wedding Garment Weeke sig The space of seauen dayes 1 Cor. 16 1. Euerie first day of the Weeke 2 The number of seauen yeares Thus seauenty Weekes in Leuit. 25 8. signifies seuenty times seuen yeares Also Dan. 9 25 Welles of saluation sig Eyther the Doctrine of the Gospell wherewith afflicted Consciences are refreshed as with water out of a Well or the plentifull graces of the Spirit powred out as water out of a Well Esay 12 â—3 Ye shall draw waters out of the Welles of Saluation Wel of water springing vp sig The exceeding rich loue of God continually ministring to the faithfull new supply of healthfull graces Iohn 4 14. Shall bee in him a Well of water springing vp to eternall life Wels with out water sig False Prophets which be voide of wholesome Doctrine 2 Peter 2 17. These are Welles without water W. H. Wheate sig pro A precious Graine whereof bread is made for the strengthening of mans heart 1 Cor. 15 37. Bare Corne of Wheate or some other 2 All elect and faithful persons which are fruitfull in good workes Math. 3 12. The Wheate hee will gather into his Barne Wheele sig An Instrument of wood or Iron turning round seruing either for worke or punishment 2 Punishment it selfe inflicted vppon malefactors Prou. 20 26. A righteous King will turne the Wheele vpon the vngodly 3 The whole masse and body of all things vnder heauen subiect to continuall change and mutation Ezek. 1 15. There appeared a Wheele vnto me vpon the earth by the Beastes hauing foure faces Wherefore sig A Consequent or that which followes as an effect of some foregoing cause Rom. 1 24. Wherefore also God gaue them vp c. Heere it is an Illatiue particle 2 A cause or reason of some thing Rom. 1 21. Wherefore or because when c. to Whet the sword sig To prepare and make readie some great Iudgement Psal. 7 12. He hath whet his sword Whetting their teeth sig Indignation or wrath of the wicked Psalme 112 10. The wicked whets his teeth at the Righteous White sig pro A colour bright and lightsome contrarie to blacke 2 That which is pure without blemish or glorious without infirmity Reu. 3 18. White Rayment Math. 28 3. His Rayment white as Snow It is vsual in Scripture by white to signifie Purity and Glory Sée Rayment and Robe 3 Ripe and ready to be cut downe and carried into the barne Iohn 4 35. They are white already to the Haruest white horse sig The Ministers of the Gospel made pure by Christ and preaching Christ purely Reuel 6 2. Loe there was a White horse Wholesom sig Sound or healthful making spiritually sound or bringing health to the soule 1 Tim. 6 3. And consented not to the wholesome words of Christ. Tit. 2 1. Wholesome Doctrine Whore sig An vnchast woman taking money for the vse of her body Deut. 23 17 18. There shall bee no Whore of the Daughters of Israell nor any hyre of a whore brought into the house of God 2 The Sinagogue of Anti-christ or the Romish Church as it standeth now corrupt with horrible Idolatry and Heresie obstinately maintained Reu. 17 1. I will shewe thee the condemnation of the great Whore Whoredom sig The vncleannesse of such as make their bodies common for money Deut. 21 23. 2 Generally all vncleannesse about generation Heb. 13 14. Hosea 4 11. Whoredome and new Wine take away the heart 3 Idolatry in the worship of strange Gods or in the strange worship of the true God Reu. 17 5. That Mother of Whoredome Ezek. 16 25. And multiplyed thy Whoredome Verse 17. And madest to thy selfe Images of men and diddest commit whoredom with them to go a Whoring sig To fixe our affection vpon the creatures more then the Creator and especially to put our trust confidence in worldly men and worldly thinges Psa. 73 27. Thou destroyest all them which go a Whoring from thee All confidence in the creature It is a spirituall whoredome 2 To fall in loue with Idols and to worshippe contrary to our faith plight with God
Wombe shall be as the morning dew from the Wombe sig From the time of our birth euer since we were borne Psal. 58 3. The wicked are strangers from the Wombe to shut and open the womb sig To make one barren and Childlesse or to giue one Children 1 Sa. 1 6. The Lord had shut her womb Wonder sig Some strange vnwonted worke of God moouing and deseruing admiration Actes 2 19. I will shew wonders in Heauen aboue Acts 4 30. lying wonders sig A false iugling wonder or a true wonder and miracle done to confirme false doctrine 2 Thess. 2 9. With all power and signes and lying wonders Word Some speach vttered by the mouth to declare the intent and meaning of the heart Psalme 52 4. Thou louest all words c. This is a naturall word 2 The Sonne of God the second person in the Trinitity by whom the will of God is declared to the Church as our mindes are exprest to other men by our wordes Iohn 1 1 14. The Word was made Flesh. This is the Essentiall Diuine and vncreated word 3 The Scriptures of Old and New Testament Luke 11 28. Blessed are they that heare the Word Acts 11 19. This is the inspired and created word 4 The decree ordinance will and becke of God touching any thing that he wil do or not do Mat. 4 4. Man liues by euery word that comes out of the mouth of God Heb. 1 3. Beareth vp all thinges with his mighty Word This is the word of Gods ordinance and purpose 5 The diuine Law teaching and commaunding good things and forbidding euill Psal. 119 101. I haue refrained my feete from euery euill way that I might keepe thy word This is the Word of precept and commaundement 6 Euery promise of God touching any good things temporall and eternall But especially the promise of free Iustification by Christ receiued by faith Psa. 119 8 9. I Waite for thy word Also V. 25 Thy Word hath quickned me Luke 1 38. Eph. 5 26. By the washing of water through the Word This is the word of free promise whereof in Rom. 10 8. 7 A word of prediction or fore-telling thinges that are to come Esay 2 1. The Worde which Esay saw vpon Iudah Ezek. 3 4. Declare vnto them my Words This is the word of Prophesie 8 A Commandement for dooing anything in the matters of this life Luke 5 5. At thy Word wee will let downe our Nets Luke 7 7. Say the Word my Seruant shall be whole This is a worde of Authority charging things to be done effectually 9 A Graue wise and pithy sentence Prou. 1 6. To vnderstand the Words of the wise and their darke sayings Eccl. 10 11. The Words of the wise are like Goads Acts 20 35. This is a word of godly instruction and perswasion 10 Anything or matter that is either sayde or done Luke 1 65. And all these Wordes were noysed abroad throughout all the Hill-Country 11 The voice of God calling a man to do the worke of a Prophet Ier. 1 4. Ezek. 1 3. This is the word of Vocation the Word of faith sig The Gospell or the Doctrine of free saluation vpon condition we beleeue Rom. 10 8. This is the Word of faith which we preach ydle Word sig A vaine vnprofitable speech whereof there is no vse for soule or body for this life or the life to come for ourselues or others Math. 12 36. Men shall giue an account for euery idle worde which they speake A Worke. sig Some outward deede or action Diuine or Humaine Good or Euill Gen. 2 2. When God had made an end of all his Worke. Iames 2 18. Thou hast the Faith and I haue Workes Shew mee thy Faith out of thy Workes Reuel 2 23. I will render to euerie one of ye according to your Workes 2 The free rewarde which followes Good-workes in life euerlasting Reuel 14 13. And their Workes follow them 3 Such seruile worke as is proper to euerie mans calling which may be done in the six daies Exod. 4 5. Also Exod. 20 9. Thou shalt doo all thy workes 4 Merit or deseruing by works Ro. 3 20. Therefore by the Workes of the Law shall no flesh be iustified Verse 28. Chap. 4 2. Also 11 6. If it be of Grace no more of workes Thus is Worke taken in all places where it is opposed and set against Faith or Grace 5 VVicked and vnhonest manners Titus 1 16. They deny him in their Workes 6 Stuffe or matter needfull to builde withall Prou. 24 27. Prepare thy Worke without Workes of darkenesse sig Sinfull workes which come from ignorance and vnbeleefe Ephe. 5 11. Sée Darkenesse Worke of faith sig A true liuely faith which is the worke of Gods wonderfull power in the elect 2 Thess. 1 11. The Worke of Faith with power Iohn 6 29. This is the Worke of God that ye beleeue in him whom hee hath sent Workes of the flesh Sée Flesh. Workes of God sig Such deeds as God commands allowes loues and will reward Iohn 6 28. What shall we doo that we might Worke the workes of God 2 The actions of Gods mercies toward the Elect and of his iudgement toward the wicked Psa. 145 17. The Lord is holy in all his workes Also verse 5 and 10. All thy Workes praise thee Good-Workes sig All maner of duties inward and outward as wel thoughts as words and actions towarde God or man which are commanded in the Lawe of God and come from a pure heart and faith vnfaigned being referred to Gods glory Ephe. 2 10. Created to Good Workes Blinde Christians which think only Almes deeds to be Good-works or our outward actions at vtmost be deceiued Worke of the ministry sig The whole duty which a Minister by vertue of his calling is bound to performe to his Flocke as to Preach to Rule to Pray to administer the Sacraments to exhort and comfort priuately c. Ephe. 4 12. For the Worke of the Ministry according to our workes sig As our VVorkes shall be good or euill so shall our iudgement and doome be Rom. 2 6. Who will reward euery man according to his Workes Psa. 62 12 Mat. 16 27. Howsoeuer the forme of the sentence at last day shall passe according to the condition of our workes yet workes merit not as causes but witnesse as Tokens to Worke referred to God sig To execute and fulfill something decreed from euerlasting in Gods Counsell Eph. 1 11. God worketh all things after the Counsell of his will 2 To gouerne and rule the world by ordinarie administration Iohn 5 17. My Father worketh hitherto and I worke 3 To do some extraordinary thing which may in a speciall manner declare either Gods mercy or wrath Actes 13 41. I Worke a worke in your dayes a worke which ye will not beleeue if a man would tell it you to Worke referred to men sig To do some good action approoued of God and pleasing to him Iohn 6 28. That we
haue the mighty God for their Lorde and are professors of the glorious Gospel of Christ. Col. 1 10. That ye might walke worthie of the Lord. Phil. 1 27. As becommeth the Gospell Worme sig pro A contemptible base creature creeping vppon the ground c. 2 A person contemned in the world and had in vile account Psal 22 6. But I am a Worme and not a man a shame and contempt of men Worship sig Ciuill reuerence due vnto men for their authority and gifts Math 9 18. There came a certain Ruler and worshipped him This is ciuill worship 2 Outward religious seruice due vnto God for the greatnesse of his Maiestie Math 4 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God This is outward Diuine worship 3 Inward Religious honour of the heart sincerely louing fearing and trusting in God because of his infinite knowledge mercy and power Iohn 4. 24. Must worship him in Spirit and Truth This is inward diuine worship 4 Immoderate reuerence towardes Creatures Acts 10 25. He fell downe at his Feete worshipped him Reuel 22 8. Neither Cornelius nor Iohn did take Peter or the Angell to be God they fayled in excesse of reuerence and were rebuked to Worship the Church sig To giue honor to Christ dwelling and raigning in his Church and to honor the Church in Christ her head Esay 49 23. They shall Worship thee with their Faces toward the earth Reuel 3 9. And worship before thy Feete W. R. Wrath. sig Iust Vengeance taken vpon sinners in this world Psal. 9 11. Who knewes the power of his Wrath Eph. 5 6. Rom. 3 5. Which punisheth 2 Eternall death in hell fire 1 Thess. 5 9. God hath not appointed vs to wrath 1 Thess. 1 10. Which deliuereth vs from that Wrath to come Rom. 2 5. 3 The perturbation of minde which mooueth men to reuenge their owne wrongs Gal. 5 30. Hatred Debate Wrath. Children of wrath sig Those that are guilty of eternall death through the iust anger of God against sinne as all men be by nature and birth Ephes. 2 3. And were by Nature the Children of wrath as well as others to Wrestle sig To striue together one man with another which should ouercome the other by strength Ge. 32 24. There Wrestled a man with him till the breaking of the day 2 To fight and striue against the spirituall enemies of our saluation Eph. 6 12. We Wrestle against Principalities and Powers to be written in earth sig To bee forgotten before God and his Church Ier. 17 13. All that forsake thee shall be written in the earth to be written in Heauen sig To bee predestinated and elected eternally by the firme counsell of God to obtaine saluation by Christ. Luke 10 20. Reioyce that your names be written in heauen to be written in the booke of remembrance sig To be loued respected cared for rewarded remembred of God Mala. 3 16. A Booke of Remembrance was Written before him for such as feare the Lord. See Remembrance to suffer Wrong sig To beare and put vp quietly and patiently any harme doone vnto vs without seeking reuenge 1 Cor. 6 7. Why rather suffer ye not wrong Y. E. Yeare sig pro THe space of twelue months Luke 3 23. Iesus began to be about 30. Yeares of age 2 The whole space and time of our life Psal. 60 9. We haue spent our Yeares as a thought Y O. Yoake sig pro An Instrument of Wood or Iron to ioyne men or Oxen or other creatures together seruing eyther â—o tame or to punish A materiall yoake 2 Afflictions for sinne or the Crosse sent from God Lam. 3 27. It is good for a man to beare the Yoake from his youth This is the Yoake of Tribulation 3 Our greeuous sinnes which be the cause of our afflictions Lamen 1 14. The Yoke of my transgressions is bound vpon my hands This is the Yoake of our sinnes 4 The cruell bondage wherein Tyrants keepe Gods people Esay 9 4. Thou hast broken the Yoake of their burden This is the yoake of oppression 5 Fellowship or agreement in any thing good or euill 2 Cor. 6 14. Beare not the Toake vnequally with Infidels 6 Gods Commandements that we should beleeue in Christ and liue vprightly Mat 1 29. Take my Yoake vpon you Also verse 30. This is the Yoke of Gods promises and Precepts which is not heauy to the regenerate man 7 The Law of Moses with a strict condition of performing it perfectly Acts 15 10. To lay a Yoake vpon them whith neither our Fathers nor we were able to beare This is the Yoke of perfect obedience to the Law A Metaphor Y. R. Yron barre sig That which is hard to be broken or ouercome Prouerbs Yron Furnace sig Carefull griefe anguish and sorrow of hart for great and greeuous thraldome and slauery Deut. 4 20. The Lord hath brought you out of the Yron furnace Yron sinew sig An obstinate sinner which wil not yeeld to the worde of God no more then an Yron sinnew will yeeld Yron yoake sig A Yoake most strong and heauy that is some greeuous and cruell bondage Deut. 28 48. And he shall put an Yron yoake vpon thy necke Yong men sig Such as for yeares were but young being grown past Child-hoode and entering into mans estate 1 Sam. 21 5. The Uessels of the Young men were holy 2 The first borne of the Israelites which executed the holy things till Priestes and Leuites were consecrated Exod. 34 5. He sent Young men of the children of Israell which Offered burnt Offerings Z. E. Zeale sig INncrease of affections as of griefe ioy hatred loue Iohn 2 17. The Zeale of thy House hath eate me vp Reu. 3 19. Bee Zealous and amend 2 An honest and commendable desire kindled in our harts to imitate or go beyond others in well doing 2 Cor. 9 2. Your Zeale hath prouoked many Titus 2 14. Zealous of good workes 3 An earnest desire of doing good things belonging vnto vs and of hindering euill things being ioyned with sound knowledge and hearty loue of Gods glorie and of our Neighbours good 2 Cor. 7 11. Yea what Zeale Col. 4 13. I beare him record that he hath a great Zeale for you Thus far it is taken in good part 4 Earnestnesse of affection in good thinges when neither the maner nor end of doing is good Such was the Zeale of Iehu 2 Kinges 10 6. And of the Iewes Rom. 10 2. They haue the Zeale of God but not according to knowledge Also of Paule being a Pharisie Actes 22 15. And was Zealous towardes God 5 Fierce and fiery bitternesse when men are earnest and hot in a bad cause Phil. 3 6. Concerding Zeale I persecuted the Church Here it is taken in ill part 6 Enuy indignation Actes 5 17. Also 7 9. And 17 5. The Iewes mooued with Zeale or Enuy. The Greeke word translated Enuy or Indignation doth signifie Zeale in ill part 7 The most earnest loue of God for the good
Temple whereinto the Leuitical Priests only were wont to come Reuel 15 6. Cloathed in pure and bright Linnen He alludeth heerein to the Cloathing of the Priests vnder the Law Exod. 28 42. Some vnderstand by this pure Linnen the Equity and Integrity of Gods iudgment vpon his Enemies Iunius writeth that this kind of Cloathing with fine pure Linnen it was of olde time a signe of royall and Priestlie Dignitie to lift vp the hand to heauen sig To sweare or by oath to confirme a thing It was a gesture of old vsed by such as did swear and at this day is in vse with the Aethiopians Reuel 10 5. He Lift vp his hand to Heauen Very often in the Old Testament Lifting vp the hand is put to signifie swearing Gene. 14 22. Numb 14 30. Ezek. 20 5. To these Texts doth Iohn allude little booke sig A speciall Booke concerning the affaires of Gods Church which is kept with Christ the Redeemer out of which he took this Apocalipse Thus Maister Iunius Reuel 10 2. And he had in his hand a little Booke open 2 The holy Byble which though a large booke considered by it selfe yet if it bee compared with the huge volumes of Popish ordinances and decrees it is but little Maister Gifford takes it thus 3 All Diuine Mysteries which to reueale is in Christs power Claudius doth thus interpret it 4 All consolatarie Scripture or Euangelicall promises which are written in a Booke that they might be extant to comfort Christians in all Ages And because they lead as directly a readie way to the Throne of grace through one Mediator and not by long windlesses and circuits therefore it is saide to be a little Booke Maister Fulke expoundes it thus 5 An vncertaine woorke or Booke written very anciently touching the estate of latter times affirming that as the doctrine of grace was preached first to the Iewes then to the Greekes and lastly to the Latines so contrariwise it should returne from Latines to the Greekes and so backe againe to the Haebrewes whence it first came saith an vnknowne Authour 6 The slender meane and weake knowledge of diuine truth giuen to some one certaine Age whereof Iohn speakes Maister Bright-man takes it thus Let godly Readers take what sense of these they shall thinke meetest I most encline to Maister Giffords Exposition That the holy Byble which long had been shut vp from the people by the craft and malice of Antichrist should at length be cleerly knowne to the people little season sig A short space of time wherein the tyranny of Antichrist should last which of the learned is accounted to be about 390. years or foure hundred In which time the Deuill let loose did deceiue the World with abhominable superstition Idolatry wicked errours and such strong delusions as was wonderfull Reue. 20 3. And afterward he must bee loosed a little season Liuely fountaines sig All good thinges which the memory of former euils cannot diminish and to be led to these Fountaines signifies to bee partakers of all those good thinges and that by the Lambe Christ his Mediation onely Reuel 7 17. And shall leade them to the liuely Fountaines These wordes containe the cause of the felicity described in the former verses Sée Iohn 7 ver 33 39. What is meant by the Waters of Life All spirituall good thinges or graces of the spirit aboundantly shed vppon the thirsty Soules which desire them and feele an extreame need of them euery liuing thing sig All the worshippers of the Beast as well the Cleargy and Popish Teachers signified by the Sea as the Laicall Papistes signified by the earth one and other shall bee horribly slaughtered in the great day of Gods vengeance vppon them for which God is praised in the next verse euen as Fishes dyed in the Sea turned into blood in Aegipt and men were driuen to drinke blood when the fresh Waters were smitten Reuel 16 3. And euery liuing thing dyed in the Sea L. O. Locuste sig The false Prophets and all the worshippers of Mahomet in the East arising out of grosse errours and ignorance flying as it were by companies feeding not vpon their owne but the thinges of others like Locusts till they had in a maner deuoured and miserably wasted both the East Regions of the World and the West Countries of Europe Also by these Locustes are meant especially the great swames of Popish Priests Fryars Monkes and Cardinals euen the whole Popish Hirarchie pontificall Cleargy in the West These are fitly likened vnto Locustes which are a little and vile vermine springing as some say out of Smoake flying together by great heapes and swarmes eating vp and destroying greene things and fruites of the Earth beeing a very sloathfull and idle Creature Euen such for all the World are the Popish Clergy-men They are bred out of the Smoake and darkenesse of Hellish ignorance they are slow-bellies liuing vppon the Sweate of other mens browes whatsoeuer in any Region or Country is most pleasant they draw it vnto them and eate it vp laying wast all the green things in the Church * ouerspreading the Earth in great heaps and rablements â—tinging thousand thousands with their damnable deuises and diuellish inuentions Reuel 9 3. And there came out of the Smoake Locusts vpon the Earth which haue power as the Scorpions of the Earth haue power The Popish Writers themselues do acknowledge by these Locusts to be meant the Maysters of errors Hereticall Teachers such as should giue heede to spirits of errour and doctrines of Deuils bringing in dangerous errours and denying the Lorde as Franciscus Claudius a Carmelite Fryar hath expounded this place The Rhemists also vpon this Text confesseth thus much in their Marginall Notes Long white Robes Sée Robes to Loose sig To giue liberty and power more fully to execute his rage and cruelty against the truth and professors of it to vex them by all the meanes he can Reu. 20 3. He must be Loosed Lord of Lordes sig A Soueraigne Lord to whom belongs all power and Domination ouer all Emperours and Kinges of the Earth Reu. 17 14. For he is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings strong Lord sig Christ Iesus infinite in power which no earthly or hellish power is able to resist therefore howsoeuer it seeme vnpossible that Rome being proped vp with the might and riches of many great friends and confederats should bee destroyed yet it must be so sithence he that executeth the iudgement is so strong a Lord. Reu. 18 8. For be that condemneth her is a strong Lord. not to Loue their liues sig To preferre the truth of the Gospell and faith in Christ before their owne liues being prodigall to spend euen their blood rather then by any torments to be remoued from the Gospell Reu. 12 11. And they Loued not their liues vnto death that is not their Liues more then Christ. A comparatiue speech like that in 1 Cor. 1 17. Christ sent mee not to
interpret â—â—â—st Faith to bee vow of chastity without any ground from the Text * This childe like Fear may wel stand with certainty of saluation so cannot seruile and perplexed Feare â—o wit if the Father were sick lunatick or absent from home then the eldest brother being of sufficient age did gouern the rest in his Fathers stead Thus Peter Martir on Rom. â— Vnbeleefe and all motions of the soul which bee euill all wicked desires all out wordes and workes done without grace how good holy or spirituall soeuer they seeme to be and shew for also our learning doctrine preaching prayers and what else soeuer commeth not of the spirite of Christ is called Flesh in the phrase of Scripture Therefore the Papists doo dote when they do heerupon gather yâ— loue good workes be the meritorious cause of forgiuenesse of sins whereas the forgiuing much debt is laide downe as the cause of much loue verse 42 43. Note Note this Gates of hell what they signifie Glory what it is Note God ha h protecting and blessing haÌ„ds 2. correcting hands 3. reuenging hands To fall into these it is fearefull Note Note God â—aâ—dens as a Iudge giuing vp Satan by inspiring men by resisting as authors Note this * See Doctor Fulke in his defence of our translations against Greg. Martine ch 3. * All worship of false Gods and false worship of the true God is Idolatrie Note * Image of the true God vnlawful aswel as the Image of a false God Note Note this Note also * To affirme Mary our lords mother the Saints to bee Mediatours of Intercession with God argues grosse ignorance is blasphemous Note Against the Papists Note Note * A speech borowed For Keyes were a signe of gouernment * Suppose the Popes were Peters successours yet these Keyes were vniustlie tied to their girdles which do not teach knowledge * Motions affections endeuours and actions which follow Knowledge are signified contained in wordes of Knowledge a Eph. 2 15 16 Heb 7 8 9 10 Chapters thoroughout Note this b Rom 4 5. Chapters Rom. 6 14. c Rom 7 4 5 6 d Rom 7 14 15 16 17 c. Rom 3 20 7 7. Psa. 119 v 105 a 1 Cor. 7 23. b 1 Cor 9. 19. Gal 5 1. Rom 8 1. c Rom. 7 4 5. Also Rom. 5 15. 16 17 18 d Rom 6 13 14 15. e Luke 1 74. Note Note Note * To offer vp propitiatory Sacrifice for fin no part of ministers duty * They erre which thinke the heauens earth shall bee brought to nothing Denial of Maiestracy and Oaths vnto Christians is the error of Anabaptists Christs bodily suffering not sufficient price of mans redemption Such as haue taught an absolute perfection of inherent grace in this life as if men could be without Sinn as Familists or keepe the whole Law as papistes â—â—ow they rise vp against the light both of Scripture and of their owne conscience which doth witnesse the contrary to euery man referred to God * Prayer being a chiefe part of Gods seruice may not be made to any creature * Thus Tremelius translates it out of the Hebrwes * Thus Maister Beza reads and expounds it according to the greeke Predestination what it is according to Peter Martyr Note this Note this * Christ his blood is the Christians Purgatory Note Note this * We haue Remission frâ— Christ both of fault and the whole punishment temporal eternall Reprobation for foreseede Infidelity and Sinners against Rom. 9 11 12 13. * Acts 3 21. Rom. 8 20 21 22 23. a To ascribe saluation in any part or mesure vnto workes of grace done by vs it is to make our selues our owne Sauiors Note Whatsoeuer belonges to faith or manners is sufficiently taught in Holy Cannonicall Scripture where all things be plaine which be necessary Papistes do wrongfully charge Scripture with imperfection darkenesse to make way for their vnwritten Verities and Traditions Note Seeking referred to God doth imply contain vnder it these fiue seuerall things Note Note Note Note Iere. 32. Of Popish Uowes Note Note Note Note When grace is offered wee may refuse it if we will and if we will wee may receiue it This is popish Diuinity Note Note * Some thinke it to be allusion to Dan. ca. 11 45. a the kingdom of Antichrist worthily called Babilon because it is a Kingdome of confusion Bellarmine lib. 4 de Rom. pont cap. 4. ☞ * Some think this Booke to be the whole Bible others thinke it to be the New Testament but they do erre ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ Bonifacius quintus Monachos assumit in suum Clerum Tacitus in the beginning of his History reckoneth fix for the seuenth was not in his time Plinius refert de Pardis seu pardaliâ— eorum odore solicitarâ— quadrupedes â—unctos sed capitis torâ—â—tate terreri quam oâ—… occultato â—â— reliqua dâ—lceâ—ine â—nuitatoâ— corripiâ—nt a Vâ—a secta minoritarum quadraginta prouincias obtinebat Sabel â—neid 9. lib. 6. Vâ—a haec Franciscanorum familia totum terrarum orbem impleâ—it Polidâ— Virgil. de Inuent lib. 7. cap. 4. * Distinct. 63. c. tibi domino Clement libr 2. titulâ— de Iure Iuraâ—dâ— Character indelebilâ—s S. Hierom thought this Mysticall name to be that inscription Rome aeterna As it was by Heathens called Vrbe aeterna of Papistes the aeternall rocke of the church Hic meus ardens preiectus in mare cum de dignitate honore dimi cabatur inter ecclesiasticoâ— tanquam pro aâ—â— locis De quare vide Canones Niâ—aeâ—i Conâ—tlij quibus de primatu statutum est Sixtus Papa se cum spiritu Sancto aequat Tom. 1. in Purgat Sixti See Esay cap. 44 22 ca. 5â— 10 63 11. * As Ribera the Iesuit doth
a long season Gene. 42 38. Yee shall bring my Gray-head with Sorrow to the Graue This is a naturall Sorrow 2 A griefe arising out of the feare of punnishment breeding desperation vnto Death 2 Cor. 7 10. Worldly Sorrow causeth death This is worldly Sorrow 3 The griefe and displeasure of minde which we feele for offending God our mercifull Father by our sinnes 2 Cor. 7 10. Godly Sorrow causeth repentance to Life This is godly Sorrow 4 Misery which is cause of Sorrow Reu 21 4. No more crying nor Sorrow A Metanimie of the cause for the effect Sorrow of death sig A death full of Sorrow both of body minde Actes 2 24. He loosed the Sorrowes of death Deadly Sorrowes such as a Woman is tormented with in her trauaile these were loosed by Christs victory ouer and deliuerance from death which for a time held downe Christ as one oppressed by those deadly soâ—â—owes Souldier sig One that fighteth in war against a worldly enemy Actes 10 7. Luke 7 8. I haue Souldiers vnder me 2 A Spirituall Warriour vnder Christ against Sinne and Sathan 2 Tim. 2 34. Suffer affliction as the Souldier of Iesus Christ. Such is euery Christian but especially the Ministers of Christ. Soule sig That spirituall and best part of man which is distinguished from the body whereby we vnderstand and discourse of thinges Gen. 2 7. Mat. 10 28. Which is able to destroy Body and Soule 2 The whole man consisting of body and soule Rom. 13 1. Let euery Soule be subiect c. Ezek. 18 20. The Soule that Sinneth shall dye By a Sinâ—â—â—doche of the part for the whole Gene. 46 26 27. Gen. 27 6. Also 1 Pet. 1 9. and 1 Pet. 2 ver last Byshop of your Soules 3 The will and affections whereof the Soule is the seat Luke 1 46 47. My Soule doth 〈◊〉 the Lord. 1. Samuell 18 1. The Soule of Ionathan was knit to the Soule of Dauid 1 Thes. 5 22. Gene. 34 8. A Sinecdoche of the whole for a part Heb. 4 12. 4 Life Psalme 16 10. Thou wilt not leaue my Soule in Hell that is suffer my life to bee alwaies opprest with Death Psalme 7 2. Least hee deuour my Soule And often else-where in the Psalmes Soule is put for Life for a mans person and selfe By a Metanimie of the cause The soule being cause of life 5 The breath which men breath in and out Acts 20 10. His Soule is in him 6 God himselfe Prouer. 6 16. Yea his Soule abhorreth seauen Soule in the Haebrew and Greeke tongue is often found to signifie the carcase or dead body of a man also any liuing thing As in Leuit. 19 〈◊〉 and 21 11. Reuel 16 3. To Sow sig pro To scatter Seede in the earth that it may grow and bring forth fruit Math. 13 3. The Sower went out to Sow 2 To disperse worldly goods among the poore 2 Cor. 9 6. He that Soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly 3 To distribute the word by preaching Luke 8 5. And as he Sowed c. to Sow iniquitie sig To performe and do wicked workes with diligence and pleasure Pro. He that Sowes iniquity shall reape affliction to Sow to the Spirit sig To doe good workes by the helpe and aide of the Spirit or to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 6 8. If ye Sow to the Spirit that is if yee doe wisely and carefully giue your selues to spirituall exercises that ye may bring forth fruits of the Spirit to Sow in teares sig To serue God through afflictions and heauines Psalme 126 5. They which Sow in teares doe reape with ioy Sower sig pro An Husbandman which Soweth and manureth his ground 2 A Minister who dispierseth the Seede of the word Math. 13 7. The Sower went out to Sow S. P. Span-long sig A short time or small continuance Psal. 39 6. Thou hast made my daies as a hand-bredth or Span long to Spare sig To forbeare such as haue sinned with offence to others not censuring them 2 Cor. 13 2. If I come I will not Spare Thus man Spareth man 2 To hold backe correction from Sinners Lam. 3 42. Thou hast not Spared Thus GOD Spareth Man to speak or to say sig pro To vtter some word with our mouth thereby to expresse the inward thought Gen. 34 3. And he Spake kindly to the Maid 2 To declare witnesse and signifie ones minde by another Psalme 62 12. God Spake once or twice Ier. 10 1. Exod. 21 1. God Spake these words c. Thus God Speaks by his Angels Ministers word workes and Signes 3 To vtter some weignty thing with deliberation Psa. 49 3. My mouth shall Speake of wisedome 4 To Preach Acts 14 1. He so Spake as many beleeued Actes 11 20. They Spake to the Graecians and Preached the Lord Iesus 5 To confesse with our tongue before men what we beleeue with our heart before God Psal. 116 1â— I beleeued therefore I Spake 2 Cor. 4 13. Wee beleeued therefore we Spake 6 To entreat or pray God for our selues or others 1 Sam. 1 12 13. For Anna Spake in her hart and verse 16. Of the aboundance of my griefe haue I Spoken hitherto 7 To thinke or muse vpon a thing The thought of the heart is an inward speach and the word of the mouth is as a thought outward or vttered Mar. 5 28. For shee said If I may but touch c. Math. 9 3. They said or Spake within themselues 8 To worke and effect somthing Heb. 12 24. The blood of Christ Speaketh better things Spéede sig Successe good or ill 2 Iohn 10. Neither bid him good Speede. to Spew sig To distast loath and detest or with loathing to reiect one Reue. 3 16. I shall Spew thee out of my mouth A speech borrowed from a stomacke euill affected which perbreakes and casteth vp that thing which offends it and is loathsome to it Spices sig The graces and fruites of the Spirit mentioned in Gala. 5. Which for their comfortable tast and delight are likned vnto Spices Cant. 4 16. That the Spices may flow out Spiders web sig A vaine or trifling thing which is of no value nor strength Esay 59 5. And Weaue the Spiders-Web Spirit sig pro The wind or ayre breathing or blowing vppon vs with might and secretly Iohn 3 8. The Wind or Spirit bloweth where it list 2 The whole Essence of the God-head as it is common to all the three persons Iohn 4 24. God is a Spirit Rom. 1 5. 1 Tim. 3 verse last 1 Pet. 3 18. Heb. 9 4. Iohn 6 63. 3 The third person in the Trinity 1 Iohn 5 6. That Spirit is truth and verse 7. Inspiring all good thoughts in our harts 4 The guifts and graces of the Spirit Luke 1 15. Iohn was filled with the Spirit Also Acts 6 5. and 2 18. 1 Cor. 14 32. Gal. 3 2. Receiued you the Spirit And else-where often A Metanimie of the cause for the effect 5
The worke of the Spirit to wit the new quality of holinesse created by the Spirit in the hearts of the elect Gala. 5 17. The Flesh lustes against the Spirit Also verse 25. If we liue in the Spirit let vs walke in the Spirit Rom. 8 1. This is a supreame worke of the Spirit peculiar to the elect 6 An excellent and most singuler efficacy and working of the Spirit vnto the sanctification of Christs humaine Nature filling it with holinesse aboue measure Rom. 8 2. The Law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Iesus that is the worke of perfect holinesse wrought in the Man-hood of Christ by his owne liuely quickning Spirit which is like a Law mightily gouerning and moderating 7 The spirituall worke of the Gospell beeing set against the carnall shadowish Ceremonies of Moses Law Gala. 3 3. That after you haue begun in the Spirit 8 An inferior worke of the Spirit generally and sleightly enlightning and reforming the reprobate 1 Sam. 10 10. The Spirit of God came vppon him 1 Thess. 5 19. Quench not the Spirit Hebr. 6 4. And were made partakers of the holy Ghost This is an inferiour worke of the Spirit common to the elect with many reprobates 10 The motions of the mind stirred vp by the Spirit Psal. 51 11. Renew a right Spirit within mee Roma 8 14. Luke 9 55. Iudges 3 10. And the Spirit of the Lord came vpon him that is hee was stirred vp or mooued by the Spirit to doe that hee did 11 Instinction or inspiration of the Spirit Mar. 22 43. How did Dauid in the Spirit Actes 28 25. Luke 2 26. It was declared to him by the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 14 14 15 16. 12 That which is spirituall or pure Iohn 3 6. That which is borne of the Spirit is Spirit that is cleane holy and pure like to the cause whereof it springeth 13 Reuelation of the Spirit 1 Cor. 12 12. By the Spirit we know what thinges are giuen vs of God For the Spirits reueale the hidden things of God Verse 10. 14 An holy Angel Heb. 1 verse 14. Are they not all ministring Spirits Also it signifies a wicked Angell to wit the Deuill Actes 12 43 45. Hee tooke seauen other Spirits 15 The Soule of man Luke 23 46. Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit 1 Pet. 3 19. And Preached to the Spirits that are in Prison that is to the Soules which were in the Prison of hel now at this time when Peter wrote this Epistle but were aliue at what time the Sonne of God did Preach vnto them by his Seruant Noah For in Hell there is no place of Preaching or repentance Roma 8 10. 16 That high and Noble facultie of mans soule called the vnderstanding or minde with the most inward cogitations thereof Luke 1. 47. My Spirit reioyceth Rom. 12 2. Be renewed in the Spirit of your minde 1 Thess. 5 23. 1 Cor. 2 11. And in all places where Spirit and Soule are mentioned together 17 Purpose thought will and consent 1 Cor. 5 3. But present in Spirit Also verse 4. 18 With all the heart or with a true affection Rom. 1 9. Whom I serue in my Spirit that is cheerfully and with a good will 19 The conscience sanctified and renewed by the Spirit Rom. 8 16. Gods Spirit beareth witnesse with our Spirit that is to our sanctified conscience 20 The meanes and deuises of men couered and cloaked with pretence of spirituall reuelation 2 Thess. 2 2. Nor be troubled neyther by Spirit nor by word 21 The spirituall worship of God Iohn 4 24. Must worship him in Spirit and truth Phil. 3 3. 22 The Gospell 2 Cor. 3 6. Hath made vs able Ministers of the Spirit 23 One that pretendeth to haue the guift of the Spirit to doe the office of a Prophet and Teacher yet indeede hath it not 1 Iohn 4 1. Beleeue not euery Spirit 24 Doctrine deliuered by him which is endewed with the guift of the Spirit for instruction of the Church 1 Iohn 4 2. Euery Spirit which confesseth that Iesus is come in the Flesh is of God Heere is meant both doctrine and person that bringes it 25 Spirituall exercises of Prayer Meditation hearing c. Gala. 6 8. Hee that Sowes to the Spirit that is he that exerciseth himselfe in spirituall duties 26 Skill of working in Gold Siluer Iron and Brasse Exod. 31 3. Whom I filled with the Spirit of God Spirits sig The most inward and secret conceptions and thoughts of the Soule 1 Cor. 12 10. To another discerning of Spirits Spirit of adoption sig An effect of the holy Spirit to wit a witnessing vnto the beleeuers that God hath adopted them and taken them for his Children Rom. 8 15. Yee haue receiued the Spirit of Adoption that is the spirit which witnesseth vnto you your adoption to be Gods Children to bee borne after the spirit sig To bee borne into this elementary World by the vertues of Gods promise and after a spirituall manner and not by ordinary course of Nature Gal. 4 29. Persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit borne of the spirit sig One regenerate and borne into the Christian World by the holy Spirit the Authour of our new-birth Iohn 3 6. That which is borne of the Spirit Earnest of the Spirit See Seale and Earnest spirit of fear sig An effect of the Spirit to wit feare and terror wrought in the hearts of Men by the holy Spirit in the Ministry and Preaching of the Law reuealing our sinnes and Gods wrath due vnto them Rom. 8 15. Yee haue not receiued the Spirit of feare againe Thus the Spirit of a sound minde the Spirit of wisedome and meeknesse the Spirit of knowledge the Spirit of grace and prayer the Spirit of Prophesie and such like signifie seuerall effects works and guifts together with the Authour and cause which is the holy Spirit and on the other side the Spirit of Pride Couetousnesse Fury vncleannesse and the like do signifie these vices and the Diuell that wicked Spirit the authour of them Spirit of the Gods sig A diuine force and vertue Gen. 41 38. In whom is the Spirit of Gods holy Spirit sig That Spirit of God which in himselfe is most holy and worker of holinesse in all others Eph. 1 â—3 Ye were sealed with the holy Spirit to bee led by the Spirit sig To follow the direction of the Spirit hauing his good motions for the guide and gouernour of our whole life Rom. 8 14. They that are led by the Spirit are the Sons of God Spirit lusting against the Flesh. Sée Lust. ministring of the spirit sig The Preaching of the Gospell whereby GOD giueth his quickning Spirit working the life of Grace in the elect 2 Cor. 3 8. How shall not the Ministry of the Spirit be more glorious meaning of the Spirit sig Inward sighes and earnest desires proceeding from the instinct of the Spirit Rom. 8 27. Know the meaning of the Spirit