Lat. Errare to Wander to be Deceived V. 749. Scape Get off save himself Of the Fr. Eschapper to come off to free himself V. 750. By all his Engins With all his Tricks and Contrivances The Word seems a Derivative of Ingenium Wit and Cunning of which a great deal is requisite to find out those strange Engines and Mathematical Machines useful in raising great Piles and vast Weights V. 751. With his Industrious Crew With his Gang of Cunning Artificers Industrius Lat. Diligent Laborious V. 752. The Winged Heralds Heraut Fr. and Heraldo Span. come all from the Ger. Herold an Officer in a formal and remarkable Habit sent either to denounce War or to propose Terms of Cessation and Truce always held sacred and secure as to their Persons in Honour of their Office which is very ancient derived of Heer Dut. Army and Held Commander as sent from the General or Commander in Chief Milton has given them Wings not only as Angels but to express their speed V. 755. A Solemn Council A general publick Meeting to consider and consult of their Affairs Solennis Lat. publick great Concilium Lat. for Council and the place it is held in V. 756. At Pandaemonium A Name feigned by our Poet for Lucifer's Palace the famous Fabrick described before of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for wise skilful knowing a word not always taken in an ill sense though the Devils are call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from their extraordinary knowledge and cunning All-Devil-Hall or Satan's Court. Ibid. The High Capital Satan's chief place of Residence of Capitalis as this of Caput the Head and thence used for Chief Thus Rome was styled Caput Orbis Rerum Maxima Roma V. 757. Their Summons Of Semonce Fr. a calling before one a Citation and this of Summoneo Lat. to give Notice of V. 758. Squared Regiment Full and compleat Carré Fr. of Quadrare Lat. a Square being a Figure whose four sides are equal Regimentum Lat. a Band of Soldiers from Râ—gimen the Government they are or ought to be kept under V. 761. All access was throng'd Every place that led to the Infernal Palace was crowded all the Avenues thronged Accessus Lat. for Passage or Way to V. 762. The Porches wide Open spacious Places whose Roofs were commonly supported by Pillars made to avoid the Violence of Sun or Showers in which the ancient Philosophers taught and disputed of Porche Fr. and this of Porticus Lat. V. 763. Where Champions c. A Champion is properly a Challenger who to maintain and defend anothers Claim or Right was wont anciently to defie all Opposers that durst dispute it and give 'em Combat by way of Decision of the Lat. Campus a Field in which enclosed on all sides the Encounter usually was made V. 764. At the Soldan's Chair Before the Turkish Emperour seated in his Chair of State Soldan or Sultan are esteemed to be of Arabian by others of Persian Original and to signifie Power Dominion yet the word seems more naturally derivable of the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Govern V. 765. Defi'd the best of Panim c. Challeng'd the stoutest of the Heathen Knights Defie of Defier Fr. to provoke to fight Panim of the Fr. Payen as this of Paganus Lat. a Countryman qui in Pagis degere solebat The Heathens were call'd Pagans because their Temples being Consecrated to Christ when his Holy Religion prevailed in the World and their Churches in all Cities sequester'd to his Service they were allowed their Idolatrous Worship only in Country Towns and Villages which being more ignorant and less apt to be enlighten'd continued longest there Ibid. Chivalry Horsemanship Gentlemen serving on Horsebaâ—k Chevalerie Fr. Knighthood and its cause Prowess of Cheval Fr. a Horse V. 766. To Mortal Combat To deadly fight Combat Fr. for Fight of Combatre to Fight of Con and Batuere Lat. to beat Ibid. Or Carreer with Lance Or running a Tilt a famous Exercise formerly in which Persons armed from Head to Foot and bravely mounted run full speed at one another and by breaking their Lances and continuing firmly seated in their Saddles shewed their Horsemanship Strength and Dexterity This sort of Encounter is by our Author distinguish'd from the Mortal Fray as being but Ludicrous and often used with great Pomp and Splendour at Feasts and Marriages Carriere Fr. running full speed on Horseback Lance of Lancea a Javeline a Spear ab aequâ Lance because poised before thrown or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the same V. 767. Thick swarm'd Flew about in swarms like Bees to which he compares them in the following Verses To swarm comes of the Teutonick Shwarmen to fly in great Numbers V. 768. Brush'd with the hiss Sounding with the Noise made by their whistling Wings Hiss is a word made of the Similitue of the Sound of which it is expressive of the Tut. Zischen of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make such a Noise as red hot Iron does when quench'd in Water So the Wind is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to whistle Ibid. Russling Wings Making a Noise sounding of the Belg. Ruysselen to make a hollow Sound a coined word V. 769. When the Sun with Taurus Rides When the Sun is in the Coelestial Sign named the Bull for which Taurus is Lat. placed by Jupiter among the Signs of the Zodiack in Memory of that Bull that transported his Mistriss Europa from Phoenicia to Crete Candidus auratis aperit cum Cornibus annum Taurus Georg. Lib. 1. in April V. 770. Pour forth their Populous Youth Send forth their Young Ones in vast Multitudes Populosus Lat. abounding full of People So Virg. Ut cum prima novi ducent examina Reges Vere suo Ludetque favis emissa juventus Georg. Lib. 4. V. 771. About the Hive in Clusters An exact Imitation of Homer describing the Crowds that followed Agamemnon after his Haranguing the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is exactly expressive of in Clusters of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Racemus a Bunch of Grapes V. 773. The Suburb of c. The Out-part of this little City thatcht with Straw Suburbia Lat. for Streets and Houses lying without the Walls of a City Citadelle Fr. is properly a small City also a strong Fort built within a City either to defend or curb it V. 774. New rubb'd with Baum Balm or as the Fr. Baulme is an Herb of a pleasing and grateful smell Its Name is Greek of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by contraction Balm of Bees being delighted by all Odoriferous Herbs and perfumed Flowers Virgil as well as Experience tells us Haec circum casiae viridos olentia latè Serpylla graviter Spirantis copia Thymbrae Floreat Ibid. Expatiate Flee to and fro wander about of expatiari Lat. to go
do that are generally more fruitful than the Hills Sibma A City in the Vale of Moab famous for Vineyards O Vine of Sibma I will weep for thee Jerem. 48. 32. V. 411. Eleale Another City of the Moabites rebuilt by the Reubenites Numb 32. 37. Ibid. Th' Asphaltick Pool The Lake Asphaltites so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bitumen there gathered in great quantities It is a black thick Pitchy Consistence sometimes used in Lamps of the Nature of Brimstone This Pool is often in Scripture called the Sea of the Plain Deut. 3. 27. and the Sea of Sodom of its Neighbourhood thereunto also the Dead Sea because no living Creature is or can live there or from its thickness as being unmoveable by the Wind. It is 32 English Miles long and 10 broad and like the Caspian Sea has no Outlet It lies to the Southward of the Desarts of Moab and in it the famous River Jordan loseth it self See Tacitus Lib. 5. Pag. 618. Ibid. Pool Properly a standing Water of the Belg. Poel from Palus Lat. Stagnum as that perhaps of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mud. V. 412. PEOR his other Name and more usual than Chemos which seems to be given this Idol by the Prophet Jeremiah by way of disgrace Chap. 48. 7 and 13. The Sacred Text often styles him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baal-Peor and the LXX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord of Peor a Mountain in the Territories of Moab beyond Jordan where he was worshipp'd even by the Israelites enticed thereunto by the Beauty and Embraces of the wanton Midianites Read Numb 25. 1 2 and 3. where by the Peoples eating and bowing down Moses means the Sacrifices and Feasts the Heathens made to the Infernal Gods for their dead Friends and Relatives which is evident They joyned themselves to Paal-Peor and did eat the Offerings of the dead Psal. 106. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoâ—â—in V. 413. In Sittim The last encamping place of the Israelites under Moses in the Pâ—ains of Moab whence came the Wood of which the Ark was made Numb 33. 49. Ibid. From Nile From Egypt of which this is often called the River Nilus Lat. is a vast River in Africa it had formerly seven Outlets Septemplicis Ostia Nili now reduced to four which run into the Mediterranean Sea on it the Fertility of Egypt depended Gurgite septeno rapidus mare summovet â—mnis Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis Aut Jovis in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo Luc. 8. V. 415. His Lustful Orgies His Lascivious and Wanton Feasts he extended even from Egypt as far as Jerusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Feasts and Sacrifices of the Drunken God Bacchus celebrated every three Years from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Anger because his Proselytes cloathed in Skins of Tigers and Panthers danced about expressing the Fury of this God who is reported in the shape of a Lyon to have torn the first Giant that assaulted Heaven in pieces Others fetch the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Mountains the Heathenish Sacrifices being usually made in High Places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoc. Idul 27. Nocturnique Orgia Bacchi Geo. 4. And Ubi audito stimulant Trieterica Baccho Orgia AEn 4. V. 416. Even to that Hill of Scandal This Hill was East of the Temple at Jerusalem something higher than that Opprobrious Hill where Moloch's Idol-Edifice stood termed Scandalous for the same Reason that the other was call'd Opprobrious And at Verse 443. Th' Offensive Mountain from Scandalum Lat. an Offence or a cause of Offence these were both built by Solomon as appears from 1 Kings 11. 7. And 2 Kings 23. 13. it is said to stand on the Mountain of Corruption in which Chapter there is a large account how the good King Josiah Son of Amâ—n by Jedidah drove these daring Monsters from Jerusalem to Hell V. 417. Homicide Manslayer Murderer of Mankind of Homicida Lat. from Homo a Man and Caedes Slaughter a fit Epither for the Devil the designing Destroyer of all Mankind V. 420. Of old Euphrates now Aferat and by the Arabians call'd Frat is one of the most Celebrated Rivers in the World springing from the Mountains of Armenia Major washing Mesopotamia on the West and South and dividing it from Syria and Arabia Deserta hence by our Poet rightly styled The Bordering Flood It joyns with the Tygris and with it loseth it self in the Persian Gulph Well may this River pass for old since remembred so long ago in the History of the Creation by Moses Gen. 2. 14. compared with whom these are Neotericks that speak of him as Virg. Caesar dum Magnus ad altum Fulminat Euphratem Bello Geor. 4. And Ovid Arsit Euphrates Babylonicus Met. 2. Ibid. To the Brook that parts Some Anonymous River such as Fuller mentions crossing the Desart of Shur and calls a River of Egypt near Rinocolaura entring the Mediterranean See his Map of Symeon Pag. 227. V. 421. Egypt AEgyptus so named of one of its ancient Kings is by the Turks its present Masters call'd Misir retaining something of the Hebrew Misraim It is the most ancient and most fruitful Kingdom of Africa the famous Nile runs the whole length of it and annually overflowing it in the Month of June extreamly enricheth it Ibid. From Syrian Ground From Syria a vast Country in the greater Asia containing Phoenicia Palestina and Syria properly so called V. 422. Of Baalim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Plur. of Baal By this Idol whose Name expresseth Lord the Sydonians and many other Nations worshipp'd the Sun the seeming Supreme Visible Lord of the Universe Now Baalim is here put for the other Luminous Stars in general as is evident from 2 Chron. 30. 3. He reared up Altars to Baalim and made Groves and worshipp'd all the Host of Heaven Hence Plato derives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to run the Grecians as well as the Phoenicians having worshipp'd for Gods the Sun Moon and Stars whose motions are strange and unaccountable Ibid. Ashtaroth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plur. Hebrew for Herds Flocks Kimchi tells us it was the Name of certain Images in the shape of Sheep which the Sydonians adored as Goddesses But doubtless the Holy Writ does by this word express the Host of Heaven Judg. 11. 13. Judge 10. 6. They forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth Baalim was expressive of those more mighty and vigorous Stars and Constellations that govern'd Men as Ashtaroth signified the more weak and Feminine which influenced the She-Sex as our Author well observes Male belonging to Men from Mas Lat. V. 423. These Feminine Belonging to Women Foeminius Lat. V. 424. Can either Sex assume Can take upon themselves which Sex they please Sexus Lat. kind Assumere Lat. to take to or upon ones self V. 425. Uncompounded Simple not mixt and made up of divers and different things
Incompositus Lat. V. 426. Not manacl'd Not tied together with Joynts and Ligatures of Nerves and Sinews Manacles of the Fr. Manicles from the Lat. Manicae Irons fastned about the Wrists of Malefactors of Manus For Spirits can make choice Of which Sex likes 'em best or both so easie So clear and unmixt are these Heavenly Beings Not linkt to Limbs or bound with Sinews up Or weakly underpropt with brittle Bones Like heavy Clods of Clay but in what Forms They please larger or less shining or sad Their Undertakings quickly bring to pass Shewing themselves our Friends or Enemies Non me latet alium ex hisee verbis sensum elici posse nimiâ—â—â— de succul is â—lgâ—nus Daemen Qâ—â—m à Poetae 〈◊〉 puritate alienum judiâ—o missum facio V. 428. Like Cumbrous Fiesh Heavy uneasie burthensome that incumbers us with many Pains and Diseases of the Ger. Kummer misfortune loss others think better of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a diminutive of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Burden of a Ship But Incumber may be well enough fetcht from Incumbere to lie hard upon to press upon V. 429. Dilated or condens'd Enlarged or contracted bigger or less of dilatâ—re to spread out to extend and condensare to thicken to crowd together used commonly to express the thinness and lightness or the thickness and consequently the gravity of the Air. V. 430. AEry Purposes Their quick Designs easily executed by such AEry Beings of the Fr. Propos as that of the Lat. Propositum an aim Execute perform of Exequor Lat. to bring to pass V. 433. The Race of Israel The Off-spring the Children of Israel Race corruptly of the Lat. Radix a Root the first of a Family Tribe or People from whence Posterity springs and grows up V. 434. Unfrequented left Forsook God's Holy Altars left 'em unattended Infrequentatus Lat. unresorted to forsaken V. 435. To Bestial Gods In the Forms of Brure Beasts Bestialis Lat. belonging to a Beast Bestia V. 437. Of despicable Foes Of contemptible Enemies Despicabilis Lat. fit to be despised and slighted Read how many Kings the Israelites slew under the Conduct of Joshua and what mighty Nations they subdued while they served the living God Josh. 12. and compare this Story with what is related Judg. 2. from Verse the 11th to the end V. 438. Came Astoreth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Idol of the Phoenicians representing the Moon by the LXX named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Kings 11. 5 and 33. styled the Queen of Heaven Jer. 7. 18. Jer. 8. 2. mention is made of a City call'd Astoreth Josh. 12. 4. and 9. 10. 1 Chron. 6. 71. the Royal Seat of Og King of Basan and Gen. 14. 5. and in other places her Temple was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is translated 1 Sam. 31. 10. where the Philistines hung up the Armour of Saul as a Trophy to their God who whether he borrowed his Name of this City or the City its Name of this Idol is uncertain though the first is most usual It matters not that this Idol is in Holy Writ call'd the God of the Sidonians and therefore not to be understood of the Moon for the Sacred Text no where concerns its self with the Sexes of Idols nor do the Mysteries of the Heathen Iniquities any where distinguish ' em The Romans had their Lunus and Luna And Arnobi contra Gentes Lib. 3. tells 'em they used to begin their Addresies to their false Gods Sive tu Deus Es sive tu Dea. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. Lib. de Isid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lucian Venus Syria in whose Temple the Sidonian Dames performed those Wanton Rites to which the Influences of her Increases did so often incline them Who desires to heat his Head with more Quotations and to fill it with more Uncertainties may consult the Learned Selden Syntag. 2. Cap. 2. Ibid. Phoenicians Inhabitants of Phoenicia one of the three Provinces of Syria so called from Poenix Son of Agenor King of that Country and Founder of that Nation V. 439. With Crescent Horns which increasing and decreasing she wears Tertia jam Lunae se cornua Lumine Complent AEn 3. Crescens Lat. encreasing growing greater A Cressent is a Wexing Moon the Turkish Arms à Crescendo for the Omen sake though now God be praised upon the Wain V. 441. Sydonian Virgins Maids Natives of Sydon a famous City of Phoenicia not far from Tyre seated on the Mediterranean V. 443. On th' Offensive Mountain The Mount of Olives as many think because full of Idols thence called as before Opprobricus and the Hill of Scandal and the Mountain of Corruption 2 Kings 23. 13. where it is observable that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mons Corruptionis differs from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mons Olivarum seu Unctionis by one Letter only and the additionalâ— that there might remain an Intimation of its true Name not without a lasting Memorial of Reproach Offensive of Offensio Lat. for displeasure fault V. 444. Uxorious King Solomon a King indeed so Uxotious that his fair Egyptians Wives took off all his Affections from his God so mislead by Women that he had 700 Wives Women of Quality and 300 Concubines Of his adoring Asteroth the Goddess of the Sydonians consult 1 Kings 2. Uxorious of the Lat. Uxorius doating on fond of a Wife So Horat. calls the Tyber because fond of Ilia Uxorius amnis Carm. Lib. 1. Od. 2. Ibid. Whose Heart though large Capacious as to his Understanding larger and more enlighten'd than any of his Predecessors or those that were to succeed him 1 Kings 3. 12. Largus Lat. great spacious V. 445. Idolatresses By his Women that worshipp'd Idols Idololatrix Lat. for such an one of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for an Idol and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Worship V. 446. Thammuz 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Death or killing Ezek. 8. 14. a Syrian Idol by some esteem'd the same with Admis He was the Favorite of Vanus slain by a Wild Boar and by the Adorers of this Goddess lamented in the Month of June 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read the latter end of Metam 10 Lib. Others affirm Thammuz to have been a Priest wrongfully put to death by a King of Babylon who to make some amends for his Injustice appointed Anniversary Mournings for him V. 447. Whose Annual Wound The Commemoration of whose Death once every Year whose Death lamented every Year the Wound the Wild Boar gave him Annuus Lat. yearly done every Year 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Ovid Repetitague mortis imago Aunna plangoris per aget simulamina nostri Met. 10. Lebanon allur'd Libanus the biggest Mountain in Syria frequent in Scripture and famous for Cedars from the Confines of Arabia and Damascus where it takes its beginning It stretcheth 125 Miles to the Mediterranean where it ends near Tripoli Allur'd entic'd perswaded the Syrian Maids from ad and Ludere to
cheat into allicere V. 448. Damsels The young Syrian Ladies of the Fr. Damoiselle a word signifying a young Woman of Quality Ibid. To lament his Fate To bemoan his untimely Death Lamentor Lat. to bewail Fatum Lat. Death V. 449. In Amorous Ditties In Love-Songs made of Venus and Adonis Amoreux Fr. loving Ditty quasi dictum Songs composed and indited V. 450. Smooth Adonis As unwrinckled in his Flood as in his youthful Face Adonis is the Name of a River arising out of a Rocky part of Mount Libanus which runs bloody the Day his Death is commemorated on as Lucian tells us Hence this Rock is named Native from Nativus Lat. born Adonis is deducible from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesych the Son of Cinyra King of Cyprus by his Daughter Myrrha He was the Favorite of Venus and to her grief killed by a Wild Boar. Meta. Lib. 10. V. 451. Ran Purple Of a dark Dye as stain'd with the Blood of Thammuz yearly slain Purpura Lat. as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for that Colour V. 453. Infected Sions c. The Love-Story the Jewish Ladies to like pity moved Infected of Inficio Lat. to corrupt to stain V. 454. Whose Wanton Passions Whose loose behaviour in the holy Porch of the Temple c. Ezek. 8. is to be read Sacer Lat. holy Porticus Lat. for a place raised on Pillars and cover'd over head fit to walk under free from the Sun or Shower V. 455. When by the Vision led The two usual ways by which God made known his Will to his People under the Dispensation of the Old Law were Visions and Dreams Numb 12. 6. Visio Lat. for an appearance a shew This Vision our Author mentions is recorded Ezek. 8. and at the third Verse The Spirit lift me up between the Earth and the Heaven and brought me to Jerusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Visions of God V. 456. Survay'd Mark'd heedfully beheld from the old Fr. Surveoir quasi supervidere V. 457. Of Alienated Judah Departed from serving the Living God to worship Stocks and Stones To alien or alienate is a Law-Term for transferring the Property of an Estate to one who had before no Right to it from alienus Lat. a Stranger well applyed to shew how God's Children and Inheritance had alienated and made themselves over to Sin and Satan Judah was the fourth Son of Jacob by Leah from whom the Jews were call'd Judaei and the Land of Promise Judea Jer. 29. 35. V. 459. Maim'd his Brute Image Lamed his senseless Image Maim from whence this word is of Mancus Lat. Lame defective in one Member or other Ibid. Head and Hands lopt off A Metaphor taken from lopping and cutting of the Branches of Trees with which in a Man according to the Comparison of a Tree reverst the Hands and Feet seem to correspond Read 1 Sam. 5. 2 3 4 and 5. V. 460. On the Grundsel-Edge On the Foot-post of his Temple-Gate from the Sax. Ground the Earth next which it generally lieth V. 462. Dagon his Name Sea-monster 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is thought to have been half a Fish and half a Man a Monster like a Triton but with the Head of a Fish Idolum Dagon quod Colebatur à Philistaeis habebat caput piscis Ideo vocatur Dagon quia Hebraeum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat piscem Lyran. But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Corn and he was called Oannes and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Learned Selden tells us The clearest account we have of this Idol is from Helladius who relates that a Man cloathed in a Fishes Skin first taught the Syrians the manner of Tilling the Ground and Sowing of Corn for which he obtained a Temple and Divine Honours worshipp'd in the form of an Image upward a Man covered over with Ears of Corn and downward a Fish because of his Habit and his retiring every Night towards the Red-Sea a Mysterious involving perhaps of the share that moisture has in all the Productions and Fruits of the Earth Mention is made of this monstrous Idol Judg. 16. 23. 1 Chron. 10. 10. 1 Maccab. 10. 84. Ibid. 11. 4. V. 464. Azotus Ashdod once a principal City of the Philistins now a Village by the Turks named Alzete Of this and the other four that follow read 1 Sam. 6. 17. V. 465. Gath another of the five Regal Cities of the Philistins famous for its Champion Goliah 1 Sam. 16. 4. Ibid. Ascalon Scalona a City in the Holy Land on the Mediterranean Sea between Azoâ—us and Gaza one of the five chief Cities V. 466. Accaron or Ecron heretofore a famous City of the Philistins now a poor Village Ibid. Gaza's once a beautiful and rich City of Palestine taken by the Tribe of Judah Judg. 1. 18. It was the fifth Ruling City of the Philistins seated near the Shore of the Mediterranean on the Confines of Idumea towards Egypt and therefore called Frontier Bounds the Borders the Confines of a Country of the Fr. Frontiere as this of the Lat. Frons the Forehead V. 467. Rimmon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Sacred Language signifies a Pomegranate and is mentioned 2 Kings 5. 18. as the chief God of Damascus holding this Fruit in his Hand thence esteemed the Protector of the People who had it either in their Orchards or their Arms by some supposed Jupiter Cassius represented with a Pomegranate in his Hand worshipp'd on the Confines of Mount Cassius near to Damascus The Learned Selden thinks it more reasonable to derive the Name of this Idol of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 high and exalted because he finds in Hesychius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dissonancy between Raman and Rimmon after so many Ages not being worth taking notice of V. 468. Fair Damascus The principal and most ancient City of Syria seated in a Plain surrounded with Hills uncertain when or by whom built but because mentioned by Abraham Gen. 15. 2. The Steward of my House is this Eliezer of Damascus Fame will have it built by Abraham's Servants Ibid. Fertil Fruitful Fertilis Lat. encreasing abounding in Fruit Corn c. V. 469. Albana and Pharphar Two Rivers of Damascus 2 Kings 5. 12. Lucid clear of Lucidus Lat. bright V. 471. A Leper once he lost Naaman the Syrian 2 Kings 5. 14. Leper of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Leprosie of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. rough full of Scabs and Asperities like Scales of Fish Of this Disease and the care God himself took of it see Levit. 13. and 14 Chapters V. 472. Ahaz his sottish Conquerour His dull his foolish Conquerour to fall down and worship Gods he had vanquisht as it follows Read the Story 2 Kings 16. 10. V. 473. Gods Altar to disparage To slight and contemn To disparage is properly to undervalue a Person or Thing by a Comparison mean and disproportionate from the Detractive
of which every Beholder cannot conceive the Contrivance V. 728. Of Starry Lamps Of Lights that shone like Stars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from their shining Ibid. And Blazing Cressets And flaming Beacons Cresset an old Word for any great flaming Light Blazing of the High Dutch Blazen to blow because Flame and Fire are encreased by Wind. V. 729. Fed with Naptha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to disperse it self is so powerful a Composition or rather so unctuous a sort of Bitumen that if it approach either Fire or the Sun-Beams it immediately breaks out into a Blaze 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diosco l. 1. c. 102. The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the famous Sorceress Medea's Oyl Ibid. Asphaltus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a kind of soft fat oily Clay clammy like Pitch abounding with much fiery and flaming Matter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as incapable of being shaken or overturned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Asphaltus mixt with well-burnt Bricks and little Stones gave such a strength and security to Buildings that they became stronger and more durable than if made of Iron Suidas The Lake of Sodom abounded with this Bitumen thence called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 732. The Architect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Master-Builder the Chief Contriver Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principal and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Builder V. 733. By many a towred Structure high By many lofty Buildings adorn'd with Towers Structura Lat. a Building an Edifice V. 734. Where Scepter'd Angels c. Where Angels Regent kept their Courts Scepter'd allowed Scepters as Ensigns of their State and Command 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sceptrigeri Reges as Homer calls them I A. B. Sceptrum Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Angel of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Messenger these Spirits being God's Messengers Residence a Place of Abode Of Resideo Lat. to remain to abide Residentia both in the Canon and Common Law is the Continuance or Abode of a Parson or Vicar upon his Benefice V. 735. The Supreme King The most high Governor GOD Almighty the lofty One Lord over all Supremus Lat. highest V. 736. Exalted to such Power Raised to such Command Exaltare Lat. to lift up to advance Ibid. And gave to Rule And appointed them Rulers over the bright Orders of the Angels committed to their Holy Care Gâ—oe to Rule gave the Government of a Verb used for a Noun as Tibi duice dedit Deus ridere V. 737. In his Hierarchy In his Holy Government Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holy and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rule Principality Ibid. The Orders bright The several Ranks and Degrees of Glorious Angels there being without all doubt Order and Distinction in that Heavenly Hierarchy Ordo Lat. Degree V. 738. Unadored Not Worshipp'd Of In and Adorare Lat. to Worship V. 739. In ancient Greece Graecia so called of Graeâ—us Son of Câ—crops one of the first Kings of that large Country lying in Europe vast fruitful and populous the early Seat of Arts and Arms brought to a mighty height and noble pitch in about 2000 Years time now entirely over-run by Barbarity the Reproachful Name given by its Inhabitants to all other Nations in 200 Years by the Turks ill Government and Tyranny Ibid. Ausonian Land Italy part of which was so named of Auson Son of Ulysses by Calipso who is said to have Reigned there Others say the ancient Inhabitants of this Country were by the Greeks called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom the Latins styled Aruncos as Auruncos ita ferre senes AEn 7. by changing r into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 740. Mulciber So called à Mulciendo i. e. à Temperando ferro his more reputable Name being Vulcan the Son of Jupiter and Juno thrown out of Heaven for rescuing his Mother out of his angry Father's clutches as he relates his own Story 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 According to the Relation of him here given Others affirm his Father and Mother both gave him this unlucky lift by which he got his Lameness for his Ugliness and Deformity of which Homer makes him accuse them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Mystery of all this is that Thunder and Lightning begot in the Regions above by the influence of the Sun on the Air is thrown from thence in dismal Noise and terrible Claps down upon the Earth V. 741. They Fabled Told a pretty Story feigned a well-contrived Tale Of Fabula Lat. a Story a Fiction Ibid. Jove The Son of Saturn and Ops born in Crete at the same Birth with his Sister Juno whom he took to Wife He was privately brought up in Ida and Nurs'd by the Nymphs for fear of his devouring Father whom he expelled out of his Kingdom Jove is not so probable a Diminutive of Jupiter as a Derivative of the Venerable and Ineffable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Jupiter rather Jah Pater than Juvans Pater Jovem primò Deum Judaeorum fuisse existimat Varro As St. Aug. in l. 1. De consen Evang. V. 742. Sheer o're Quite over the bright Battlements of Heaven Sheer an old Word signifying Pure Bright Clear Ibid. Chrystal Battlements Chrystal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which they tell us is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Water frozen to a shining Consistence like Ice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrystal made of Water 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Battlements are properly Pinnacles and Ornaments of great Buildings to set 'em off and please the Eye they are also Defences on the top of a Garrison Wall to defend the Soldiers against the Besiegers V. 745. Dropt from the Zenith Fell directly down 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and corruptly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an Arabian Word for the Crown of the Head and from thence made to signifie the Pole of the Horizon the Point of the Firmament directly over our Heads wherever we are Ibid. Like a falling Star A Comparison well suted to a tumbling Deity So Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 746. Lemnos A considerable Island in the Archipelago about 600 Miles in circuit where Vulcan had a Temple and kept one of his Shops in which he made Thunderbolts hence called Pater Lemnius Haec Pater AEoliis properat dum Lemnius oris AEn 8. Ibid. Th' AEgean Isle An Island in the AEgean Sea part of the Mediterranean near Greece call'd now Archipelago It took its Name either of AEgeus Father of Theseus who drowned himself therein or of AEgis a City in the Island Eubaea as Strabo affirms Boreae cum Spiritus alto Intonat AEgaeo AEn 12. Ibid. Thus they relate Thus the Poets tell the Story Relate of Referro Lat. to report to tell whence Relation V. 747. Erring Mistaking Of the
abroad V. 775. And confer their State-Affairs Consider and advise of things concerning their Government according to the Opinion of Virgil and others that Bees have one and that Monarchical Solae Communes Natos consortia tecta Urbis habent magnisque agitant sub legibus aevum Et Patriam solae certos novere Nepotes Georg. 4. Regem non sic AEgyptus ingens Lydia nec populi Parthorum aut Medus Hydaspes Observant Rege incolumi mens omnibus una est Amisso rupere fidem Ibid. Confer of Confero Lat. to consult to consider of in common Ibid. The Airy Crowd The Light Spiritual Throng of Angels of AErius Lat. of Air. V. 776. Swarm'd and were straitn'd Increased and were confined in narrow room Strait of Estroit Fr. of strictus Lat. contracted crowded together V. 778. In bigness to surpass c. They who so lately seem'd in size t' exceed the Giant Off-spring of the Angry Earth sent to attempt on Heaven Surpass Fr. Surpasser to go beyond to out-do Brood of the Belg. Broeden to hatch Giant One of extraordinary bigness both for Bulk and Stature Lat. Gigas Geant Fr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Earth-born So Virg. Partu terra nefando Coeumque Japetumque creat saevumque Typhoëa Et Conjuratâ—s Coelum rescindere Fratres Georg. Lib. 1. And Hic genus antiquum Terrae Titania Pubes Fulmine dejecti AEn 6. These Giants were by the Poets made the Sons of Titan and the Earth who made War on Jove to revenge the Injury done their Father Elder Brother to Saturn by depriving him and consequently them his Descendants of his Kingdom V. 780. Like that Pigmean Race The Pigmies are said to inhabit about the East of India near the rising of the Ganges where the Cranes lay their Eggs They had their Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Fist as being about a Hand high Juven measures'em by the Foot Ubi tota cohors pede non est altior uno Sat. 13. Ad subitas Thracum volucres nubemque sonoram Pigmaeus parvis currit Bellator in armis Mox impar hosti raptusque per aëra curvis Unguibus à saevâ fertur grue Pygmaeos quoque haud longè ab his nasci quorum qui longissimi sint non longiores esse quam pedes duâ—â— quadrantem Aul. Gell. Lib. 11. Cap. 4. the tallest not exceed 2¼ Feet in height Race The Breed Off-spring from Radix Lat. a Root V. 781. Beyond the Indian Mount The Mountain Imaus the Northern Boundary of India Ibid. Or Faery Elves Or Dancing Sprights agreeable to the Old Wives Fables Fairies seem derivable from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ionic word for Fauns Satyrs and such like Wild Creatures as are Fabled to frequent the Woods Elf A Goblin a Nimble Spright from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to change according to the Erroneous Opinion that these Fairy Elves do sometimes exchange their Brats for others more Beautiful V. 782. Whose Midnight Revels Whom sporting and dancing at Midnight near some Wood or Waters-side a Swain going late home sees or imagines that he sees To Revel is properly to Dance or make Merry late or all Night from the Fr. Resveiller to Watch to be up late V. 783. Belated Peasant Some Country Swain out late at Night Paisant Fr. a Country-Man a Clown V. 784. Or dreams he sees So Virg. Aut videt aut vidisse putat per nubila Lunam AEn 6. V. 785. Sits Arbitress Governess of the Night looking on like a Judge and Beholder of their Pastimes Lucian in his Book De Deâ Syriâ calls the Moon Noctis Arbitram Arbiter is properly an Umpire a Private Judge chosen by Common Consent to determine between Parties but most properly it signifies a Looker on and is so used by Horace Non locus effusi late maris arbiter a Place that has a free and open Prospect to the Sea-ward Epist. Lib. Cap. 11. Ibid. And nearer to the Earth Beginning to decline and go down nearer to her setting or nearer to the Earth in regard of the Sun and Stars that fetch wider compass round it V. 786. Wheeles her pale course Makes her wan way drives her pale Chariot nearer to the Earth Pallidus Lat. faint whitish course Cursus Lat. Race Journey Way V. 787. Intent with Jocund Musick charm c. They wholly busie in their Sports and Dance with pleasing Tunes delight his charmed Ear. Intent earnest set upon a thing of intensus Lat. Jocund of Jucundus Lat. sweet pleasant To charm is to gain upon and as it were bewitch or inchant ones Ears so as to deprive him of the power to depart of Carmen Lat. for a Charm Carmina vel Coelo possunt deducere Lunam Virg. Ecl. 8. Musick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of Harmony whether Instrumental or Vocal A Musis Inventoribus V. 788. At once with Joy and Fear c. At the same time both pleased and scared delighted and affrighted his Heart within him leaps he feels at once the unequal Motions and Impressions that Fear and Joy make in his beating Breast Rebound of Rebondir Fr. to leap back again a Metaphorical Expression from the rebounding of a Ball. V. 789. Thus Incorporeal Spirits Thus Angels or Spirits not cloathed and clogg'd with gross Earthly Bodies for Incorporeal is Declarative of their Nature Incorporeus Lat. without a Body V. 790. Reduc'd their Shapes immense Lessen'd and contracted their vast Shapes to smallest size Reducere Lat. to restrain Immensus Lat. vast huge Ibid. And were at large And were at ease not crowded because contracted into less room so to go at large is to be at liberty to be free otherwise to be at large when they had lessen'd themselves would be a plain Contradiction V. 792. Of that Infernal Court Of Hell Lucifer's new Court Infernalis Lat. belonging to the nethermost deepest Hell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 793. In their own Dimensions Not lessen'd in Shape or Size but in their own Majestick make Dimensio Lat. Measure Proportion V. 794. Seraphick Is the singular of Seraphim and Cherubim the plural of Cherub the Rusing Lords of both which before V. 795. In close recess In strictest privacy Recessus Lat. Retirement a place to be in private Ibid. And secret Conclave Is a private place into which no Person can come without a Key a place appointed and set apart for secret Counsels of Con and Claudo to be shut up together Hence the place where the Election of the Pope is made at Rome is called the Conclave V. 796. A thousand Demi-Gods A great Assembly of consulting Seraphims called Demi-Gods as being Spirits approaching nearest to Divinity though infinitely short of it Demi of Dimidium Lat. half the word answers to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Heathen Illustrious Persons Aiders of Mankind and Maintainers of Virtue Heroes who deliver'd their Country from Oppression and Tyranny therefore reputed the Off-spring of the Gods and at
Law Word and in the Latin called Respectus a kind of Pause and Stop in a Suit allowing one time to look back or about him To slack the Pain to abate it to give some Ease untying as it were a Metaphor taken from binding strictly to make it less intense V. 463. Intermit no Watch Keep strict Guard be sure not to discontinue the Watchfulness against our Foes who are not to be surprized Intermittere Lat. to cease to give over V. 473. Stand his Rivals Be rank'd even with him be in the Opinion of the Vulgar esteemed his Equal Rivales Lat. for those that make Love to the same Woman Repute Reputation Honour of Reputer Fr. to esteem V. 478. Of Thunder heard remote Of Thunder at a distance Remotus Lat. removed farther off V. 480. Extol him equal In their Praises raise him equal to God the most Highest Extollere Lat. to Praise excessively Extollere vires AEn 11. to praise and magnifie the Power V. 485. Their specious Deeds Lest ill Men should vaunt their seemly Deeds on Earth forc'd from 'em by Vain-Glory or Ambition cautiously concealed and covered over with godly Zeal Speciosus Lat. beautiful fair to outward appearance Speciosa quaero pascere Tygres Hor. of Europa ' Od. 26. Carm. lib. 3. Exercitare Lat. to excite to stir up V. 486. Or close Ambition varnish'd o're c. A noble Verse and highly expressive of those zealous Hypocrites our Author's Contemporaries an Age so impiously Godly and so zealously Wicked that Prayer was the Prologue to the Murder of a Monarch at his own Gate Varnish'd o're of the Fr. Vernice a Composition of Gum of Juniper Trees and Lineseed Oyl setting a Lustre on what it is laid admirably applied to Zeal which so glares in the Eyes of the Weak Populace that they are not able to discover the dark Designs that it too often hides Zeal of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be hot as it is too often V. 489. As when from Mountain As when from lofty Hills dark Clouds arise while the North Wind lies still and overspread Heaven's pleasant Prospect the thick condens'd Air threatens the Earth o'recast with Snow or Rain V. 490. The North Wind sleeps A Wind that generally clears the Air when it breaths and therefore is said to be at Rest while the assembling Clouds ascend 'T is usual with the Poets to lay the Sea asleep which can hardly be if any Wind be awake Saeva quierant aequora AEn 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where Jupiter is said to lay the Winds asleep before he covers the Mountains with Winter Snow V. 491. The Lowring Element The angry Sky to Lowre Sign to look awry upon a threatning Aspect as if by frowning and drawing down the Brows it were looking lower By Element is meant the Air commonly called one of the four V. 492. Scouls o're the darken'd c. With Showre or Snow threatens the darken'd Earth To Scowl is to look on one with Eyes half shut as if we endeavoured to hide our selves to see and not be seen well applied to the Cloudy Sky Lantskip of the Belg. Landschap the shape or appearance of Land hence we call a Piece of Painting where a prospect or view of Woods and Trees Gardens or Fountains with adjoyning Hills or Plains is imitated a Landskip but it is here meant a Country overcast by dark Clouds as by Heaven's chearful Face the clear Sky V. 493. If chance the Radiant Sun If it chance the shining Sun e're he take leave shews himself ere he sets the Fields recover Radians Lat. shining Extendere Lat. to stretch or spread out Revive of Revivisco Lat. to gain new Life to recover V. 495. And bleating Herds attest their Joy The very Beasts do with their various Voices joyn to express their general Joy Bleating comes of Balatus the Cry of Sheep or Lambs coined in imitation of the Sound Attest of Attestari Lat. to bear Witness V. 497. O Shame to Men Read Juvenal Sat. 15. about 16. Verses from the end Sed nunc Serpentum major concordia Parcit Cognatis maculis similis fera c. V. 498. Firm Concord Lasting Agreement Firmus Lat. fast stable Concordia Lat. V. 502. Levie War Raise wastful War of the Fr. Lever to raise hence to Levy Money V. 504. Induce us to accord Perswade us to agree and live in Peace Inducere Lat. to perswade to intice Accord of Accorder Fr. to agree a Musical Metaphor of ad and Chorda a String from the straining and tuning Strings up to the same Tone V. 507. The Stygian Counsel thus dissolved The Hellish Counsel thus broke up Stygian of Styx one of the Rivers of Hell whence Pluto its Governor was styled Stygius Stygii per flumina fratris AEn 9. Dissolv'd Dissolvere Lat. to break up to dismiss V. 509. Their mighty Paramount Their haughty Chief of Paramount a disused Fr. Word signifying Supreme V. 510. Alone th' Autagonist of Heaven Able alone to oppose th' Almighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Adversary more properly one that Contends in single Combat of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strife Contention Fight V. 513. A Globe of c. A Multitude a Troop of the Lat. Globus a great Company V. 514. With bright Imblazonrie c. With shining Ensigns and affrighting Arms Imblaâ—onrie of In and Blason Fr. for the Painting and Embellishing of Arms either on Flags Colours or Shields Horrent Horrens Lat. terrible Horrentia martis Arma. AEn 1. Acie densâ— atque horrentibus hastis In AEn 10. V. 515. Of their Session Of their Meeting and Sitting in Council Sessio Lat. for a Meeting or Sitting on public Business an Assize Result the Resolution that is taken what is done and resolv'd on of Resolvere as Consult of Consulere V. 518. The sounding Alchymie The sounding Metal Alchymy is an Arabic Word signifying Hidden of Al the Article and Chema to hide to conceal Hence the Alchymists and Chymists take their Name not so fitly from concealing the Secrets of their Art as because they cannot find their great Secret The Philosophers Stone which lyes hid and is concealed from them Now this Art endeavouring the Transmutation of ignobler Metals into more perfect and of higher Price our Author useth the word for Metal a Trumpet of Brass or Silver V. 521. Acclaim Acclamation abreviated a Shouting for Joy or in sign of good Liking and Concurrence of Acclamare Lat. to rejoyce or agree with V. 523. By false presumptuous Hope By Hope that often deceives us by promising and presuming too much Presumer Fr. of the Lat. Presumere to take before hand to be too forward and overweening Ibid. The ranged Powers disband The Infernal Forces that all this while had stood in Order of Battel as Book 1. Ver. 555. now disperse and go
search out his lonely way Explores of Explorare Lat. to search after to seek diligent Solitary Solitarius Lat. of Solus alone without a Companion V. 634. Now shaves with Level Wing Now cuts with downright Wing the Deep then rises aloâ—t up to the Flaming Vaulted Roof on high fetching a Fiery Compass Touring high taking a turn on high of Tour Fr. a Circle turn about of the Lat. Turris from its round Form V. 636. Concave Of Concavus Lat. hollow as Circular Vaults are Descried seen discover'd of discernere or of the Fr. Preposition des Lat. dis and the Vetb Cry to give Notice by Exclamation properly V. 637. Hangs in the Clouds by AEquinoxial Winds As when a Fleet discern'd far off at Sea seems hanging in the Clouds while heedfully they sail by Winds that blow about the Equinox through the Gulf of Bengala or from the Molucca Islands Ternate and Tydore whence our Merchants bring the East-India Spices The Sailers on the Wealthy Waves use all their diligence to make the Cape of Good-Hope yet warily by Night stand off through the vast Ethiopian Ocean towards the Southern Pole Ibid. AEquinoxial Winds By Winds that blow about the Equinoxes that is in Spring and Autumn March and September when Days and Nights are of like length Libra die somnique pares ubi fecerit horas Et Medium Luci atque umbris jam divider Orbem Virg. Geor. 1. Our Seamen call them Trade-Winds as our Poet does the Trading-Flood V. 638. Close sailing from Bengala The City of Bengala lies in a Bay to which it gives its Name and into which the famous Ganges empties his many Mouths about whose Borders the Kingdom of Bengala in the East-Indies is situate under the Dominion of the Great Mogul The Country is very fruitful and from thence and the Gulf of Bengala a vast Trade is driven with the European Nations Close sailing because of the vast disproportion between this Bay and the wide Ethiopean Ocean V. 639. Ternate and Tidore Two of the five small Islands called the Molucques on the Coast of East-India lying near the Line Machian Moties and Bachian are the Names of the other three from whence vast Quantities of Spice are sent all over the World V. 640. Their Spicy Drugs Their Spices or other Medicinal Plants used in Physick of which the Indies afford many Drug of the Fr. Drogue Herbs and Simples made use of in the curing Diseases V. 641. Ethiopian to the Cape Through the wide Southern Ocean to the Cape of Good-Hope call'd Ethiopian of AEthiopia the Lower the more Southern Part of Africa which it bounds Cape is a Promontory high Mountain or Headland running out into the Sea so call'd of Caput Lat. Head and that meant here is the Cape of Good-Hope it is a most famous Promontory in the most Southern part of Affrica first discovered by Bartho Diaz a Portuguese in the Year 1487. and call'd Cabo de Bona Speranza by Emanuel then King of that Country because he conceived hope by doubling this Cape a passage might be opened to the East-Indies as afterwards was effected V. 641. Ply stemming Nightly to the Pole Use their utmost diligence to make the Cape but for their security stand off every Night to Seaward towards the South Pole Ply of the Teur Pleyen to be diligent to take care of Stemming turning their Prows the Ships Heads towards the Pole for fear of Dangers in the Night of the Verb Stemm and that of Stem the Forecastle of a Ship from Stem to Stern as Sailors speak from one end of a Ship to the other Thus to Stem the Tyde a Ship is said when there is Wind enough to carry it against the Tyde V. 645. And thrice threefold the Gates Nine Gates three of Brass three of Iron and three of Rocky Adamant not for Ornament but Strength according to the usual Custom both of the Greeks and Latins who express those things that were most firm and strong by Adamant So Horace Si figit Adamantinos dira necessitas Clavos Virgil encompasseth his Hell with a threefold Wall Sub rupe sinistrâ Maenia lata videt triplici circumdata Muro AEn 6. And a little after Porta adversa ingens solidoque Adamante Columnae And Stat ferrea turris ad Auras Ibid. But his Barriers were but to keep in the wicked and condemned Sufferers thereof our Poet to confine and imprison the Fiends themselves yet for what he wants in Gates he has made good with the detestable River Styx Novies Styx interfusa coercet AEn 6. V. 647. Impenetrable impal'd c. Unpassable enclosed with surrounding Fire yet undecayed Impenetrable impenetrabilis Lat. not to be pierc'd through not to be broken through Impal'd encompass'd paled about enclosed of the Lat. Palus a Hedge-Stake Circling round on all sides of Circulus Lat. for a Figure compleatly round V. 648. A Formidable Shape A dreadful Figure Formidabilis Lat. affrighting terrible V. 650. In many a Scaly Fold Sin and Death are placed as Guardians of Hell-Gates which all the Power of Satan and his Infernal Legions never could have unbarr'd or broken through if Mankind by offending their Maker had not lent their helping Hands by the Commission of innumerable Sins subjecting themselves to Death and Hell This Description of Sin is genuine and exact resembled to a fair beautiful Woman down to the Waste but all below ending in many Snaky Folds deformed and ugly as the Night-Hag Intimating that how lovely and alluring soever Sin may seem in its first Approaches yet after Commission it ends in Nauseous Loathings and severe Remorse well express'd by a Serpents deadly Sting Sâ—aly Fr. of Escailles the Scales of Fishes V. 652. Voluminous and vast c. A twisting mighty Snake denoting the intricacy of Sin enticing us from less to greater till it involve us in Ruine inextricable Voluminous twisting and twining besetting us on all sides of Volumen Lat. the most proper word for the Turnings and Windings of a Serpent So Virg. Saucius at Serpens sinuosa volumina versat AEn 11. Vast of Vastus Lat. huge This seems an Imitation of Horace Ut turpiter atrum Definat in Piscem Mulier formosa superne De Arte Poet. or of the Story of Scylla following V. 500. V. 655. With wide Cerberian Mouths c. The yelling of these Hell-Hounds that never gave over Barking with Mouths as deep as the three-headed Cerberus their howling even when return'd and hid within the Womb that bare 'em denotes to us the never-ceasing Paâ—gs and dire Remorse of Conscience which though diverted and disturbed sometimes by Company Wine and other Artifices yet give us inward Pangs and secret Stings and break the Sinners meditated Mirth and amidst all their feigned Smiles and forc'd Jollities lash 'em within unseen and howl about their Heart-strings Cerberian Mouths as wide as those of Cerberus a Dog by the Poets feigned to lie at Hell-gate so called as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 greedy and devouring he
possible to change them for better So Jupiter's Message delivered to Juno and Minerva in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. V. 410. O unexampled Love O Love beyond all Example Precedent or Comparison Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our Sins 1 John 4. 10. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding Riches of his Grace in his kindness towards us through Jesus Christ Eph. 2. 7. V. 413. Shall be the copious matter Shall be the ample subject of my Song Copious Lat. Copiosus large plenteous Disjoyn part divide of Disjungere Lat. to separate V. 416. Above the Starry Sphear In highest Heaven above these lower Orbs spangled with Stars Starry full of Stars Star seems of kin to the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sphear any round or circular Body as those carrying the Stars of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. V. 417. Hymning Singing of Psalms and holy Songs of Praise of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Praise to Celebrate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 5. 19. V. 418. The firm opacous Globe The solid round and dark outside of the World Opacus Lat. dark used by Virgil as an Epithete of obscure Woods and darker Night Inter opacum allabi Nemus AEn 8. And Dono noctis opacae Ibid. Of Globe B. 2. V. 513. V. 419. Whos 's first Convex Whose outermost vast Circle separates the inclosed Orbs of Light from Chaos and dark Invasions of ancient and everlasting Night of Convex B. 2. V. 435. Luminous Luminosus Lat. bright shining full of Light Enclosed encompassed Inclusus Lat. shut in V. 423. A boundless Continent At a great distance it shewed like a round Ball but now at his alighting on it appears a vast unbounded Country its roundness being not very discoverable so near Continent Continens Lat. for firm Land not separated and interrupted by the Sea as Islands are V. 424. Under the frown of Night starless exposed Under the displeasure of Darkness without one glimmering Star laid open to the continual Storms and Attempts of Chaos roaring round it a severe and angry Neighbourhood Frowning implies not only a wrinkling and contracting the Forehead and Brows but hiding and darkening the Eyes excellently express'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Night may well be shaded by her Frowns when the dawning of the Day is expressed by the chearful Eye-lids of the Morn not only by most Heathen Poets but by the Poetic Book of Job His Eyes are like the Eye-lids of the morning ch 41. v. 18. Exposed Expositus Lat. laid out or open to V. 426. Inclement Skie Unmerciful cruel severe Climate of Inclemens Lat. merciless rigorous So it is used by the judicious Virgil Durae rapit inclementia mortis Georg. 2. Verùm inclementia Divûm Has evertit opes AEn 2. V. 431. A Vultur on Imaus A Vultur is a fierce and voracious Bird of Prey so named à Vultu from his haughty look Rostroque immanis Vultur adunco AEn 6. Pliny says they are constant followers of Armies and could presage approaching Battles and three days before death smell a future Carcass l. 10. c. 6. With whom in part agrees Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et quicquid nare sagaci AEra non sanum motumque cadavere sentit Nunqum se tanto Vulture caelum Induit Says Lucan of the bloudy Pharsalian Field l. 7. Homer mentions this Bird 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in the same Book he has a Comparison not unlike our Author's where the Eagle is named as here the Vultur Tyrants Both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Imaus one of the largest Mountains in the greater Asia now named Dalanguer rising at Mount Taurus near the Caspian Sea and stretching Southward as far as the Spring-head of Ganges then spreading it self East and West becomes the Northern Boundary to the Empire of the Greal Mogul V. 432. The Roving Tartar The Tartars are a People the most barbarous bloody and fierce of all Mankind Inhabitants of Tartary the greatest Country in all Asia they are here said to be Roving from their continual wandering up and down that Country fruitful in Pasturage with their Families in little covered Carts having anciently no Cities but living in Companies in the Fields called Hords This hardy course of Life has fitted 'em for War in which they have often proved themselves the Scourges of God on the Civilized World In this last Age one of their Princes broke in upon China and entirely Conquered it Roving wandering of the Fr. Roder to move to and fro as Vagabonds Thieves and Pirates do who are called Rovers V. 434. To gorge the Flesh To glut himself with the Flesh of tender Lambs or Kids new yean'd Gorger Fr. to Cloy to Gluttonize of Gorge Fr. the Throat the Gullet Yeanling new yeaned lately born or fallen V. 436. Of Ganges or Hydaspes Ganges at this day called Ganga is the greatest River of East-India by it divided into two Parts it riseth from Mount Imaus as the Ancients say from Emodus in the Confines of Great Tartary and running Southward through the Empire of the Great Mogul dischargeth it self by five Outlets into the Bay of Bengala So that Virgil seems not to have been so much mistaken as Interpreters suppose him when he said of this River Ceu septem surgens sedatis amnibus altus Per tacitum Ganges AEn 9. Quâ colitur Ganges toto qui solus in orbe Ostia nascenti contraria solvere Phaebo Audet adversum fluctus propellit in Eurum Luc. l. 3. Ibid. Hydaspes is a River of East-India thô Virgil calls it Medus Hydaspes Geor. 4. On its Banks stood Nysa the chief City of India when conquered by Alexander therefore by Lucan styled Nisaeus Hydaspes l. 6. From the disagreement among the Poets about the Native Place of this Rivet it came to pass that Horace calls it Fabulosum Vel quae loca Fabulosus lambit Hydaspes Car. l. O. 22. Ibid. Indian Streams Rivers of India so named from Indus its Principal River and Western Boundary Quâque ferens rapidum diviso gurgite fontem Vastis Indus aquis mistum non sentit Hydaspen Luc. l. 4. V. 438. The barren Plains of Sericana Cathay anciently called Serica Et Scythia extra Imaum the Habitation of the Silk-weaving Seres This Country is bounded on the East with the Ocean Westward with Tartary Northward with the Scythian Sea and on the South with China Ibid. Where Chineses drive c. Chineses the Inhabitants of China a vast Kingdom in the East of Asia a People for their Numbers Civility Learning and the Fertility of their Country preferible to all those of the Pagan World Some Parts of Tartary as well as China it self are so very flat and plain that Waggons are usually driven over them without any other Motive than that of Sails and
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Inde datum Nymphae Nyseides antris Occuluere suis lactisque alimenta dedere Meta. Lib. 3. V. 276. Where old Cham Ammon call and Lybian Jove Cham or Ham the second Son of Noah therefore styled Old Peopled Egypt and Lybia and was the most Ancient and Renowned of all the Jupiters He of the Grecians and Romans being an Upstart in Comparison living not long before the Trojan War as is evident by his Sons Castor Pollux Hercules Sarpedon and others employed in it Ammon therefore is not to be fetch'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Sand because his famous Temple was seated in the Sandy Desarts of Lybia but of Ham with the Greek Termination made Hammon and so Ammon Chammon or Chammoun in the Coptick Tongue though a seeming Derivative of the Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heat is undoubtedly to be referr'd to this great Cham. Templum Lybicis quod Gentibus unum c. Quamvis AEthiopum Populis Arabumque Beatis Gentibus atque Indis unus fit Jupiter Ammon Luc. Lib. 9. See the Description of this Temple in Q. Curt. Lib. 4. Gentiles Gentes Lat. the Nations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the People that knew not the true God the Heathen Idolaters V. 278. Hid Amalthea and her Florid Son c. Our Author follows the relation of Diodorus Siculus Lib. 2. Cap. 5. of this Lybian Jupiter who is said to have been a King of that Country Married to Rea the Daughter of Saturn from whose Jealous Eyes he hid his Mistress Amalthea and her Son Bacchus the Planter of Vines and Deity of Drunkards in the beautiful Island Nyse lying in the River Triton The same Story is translated by Sir Walter Rawleigh History of the World Book 1. Chap. 6. Sect. 5. Amalthea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. was a beautiful Lady whom in recompence of her Favours her beloved Jupiter made Queen of a fruitful Country which lying in the shape of a Bulls Horn gave occasion to the Proverb Amaltheae Cornu and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to grow rich Florid Floridus Lat. gay Iusty V. 279. Young Bacchus The famous God of Wine too well known all over the World and too much worshipp'd The Poets generally report him the Son of Jupiter and Semele c. as also Rhea the Wife of Saturn and Mother of Jupiter confounding their fabulous Histories of their dark Idolatries Stepdame a Mother in Law of Stief Belg. and Dame Fr. a Mistress a rigid stiff and cruel Mother V. 280. Where Abassin Kings Where the Kings of Ethiopia kept under sweet retirement their Royal Sons on Mount Amara encompass'd round with Alabaster Rocks a whole Days Journey high though this by some was taken to be Paradise under the burning Line by Niles long-hidden Head but distant far from this fair Syrian Garden c. The Upper Ethiopia the Dominion of Prester John was anciently called Abassine of its chief River Abas and Abissinia is the Name of one of its Kingdoms Issue of the Fr. Issue Children Successors of Issir and this of the Lat. Exire to go out from to proceed from as Children from their Parents Guard keep under Confinement of the Fr. Garder to watch to secure V. 281. Mount Amara Amara is a Province about the middle of the higher Ethiopia and one of the 70 petty Kingdoms formerly Tributary and now annext to the Abassin Empire In it there is a Mountain of the same Name Hamhar about 90 Miles in compass and a Day◠Journey high with one only access and that impregnably fortified The Summit of this shining Rock is adorned with many beautiful Palaces a most delightful Place and charming Prospect where the Emperours Sons are carefully guarded and as diligently educated from whence the Eldest is taken to succeed his Father and others to succeed him if he die Childless V. 282. Under the Ethiop Line Under the Equinoctial Line the Fertility and wonderful Pleasantness of the Country giving occasion to Tertullian Bonaventure and Durandus to place Paradise under this Burning Line formerly thought uninhabitable though by Experience found to be fanned daily by a Cool Eastern Breeze the Nights being temperate by the entire Interposition of the Earth that no place is to be found on Earth that approaches nearer to the Nature Beauty and Abundance of Paradise than this Climate This Country of the Abissins lies under the Torrid Zone stretching from the Tropick of Cancer beyond the Equator Ethiop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. scorch'd and thence black and burnt according to the Complexions of its discoloured Inhabitants of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to burn and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Countenance V. 283. By Nilus Head Near the Fountains of the Nile sought after by Sesostris Cambyses Alexander the Great and others though with small Satisfaction Non Fabula Mendax Ausa loqui de fonte tuo est ubicunque videris Quaereris Et nulli contingit Gloria genti Ut Nilo sit laeta suo Luc. Lib. 10. M. Thevenot tells us from the Report of an Ethiopian Ambassador he met at Grand Cairo that Nile has his Head in a great Well casting up its Water very high out of the Ground in a large Plain called Ovembromma in the Province of Ago This Well is 12 Days Journey from Gouthar the Capital of Ethiopia the Waters take their course Northward and pass by seven Cataracts before they enter Egypt The Country about this Well is so plain that there are no Mountains near it by three Weeks Journey It is on all Hands confirmed that the Cause of the Niles Annual Inundation is from the excessive Rains that fall in Ethiopia for three Months together in their Winter but the Egyptian Summer well affirm'd by Bapt. Scortia Lib. 2. Cap. 17. de Increm Nili Of Ethiopia being the Native Country of the Nile and of its rising by Rains the Ancients were of Opinion though not well assured AEthiopumque feris alieno gurgite Campos Et te terrarum nescit cui debeat Orbis Arcanum Natura Caput non prodidit ulli Nec licuit populis parvum te Nile videre Amovitque sinus gentes maluit ortus Mirari quam nosse tuos Consurgere in ipsis Jus tibi Solstitiis alienâ crescere brumâ Luc. Lib. 10. V. 284. Wide remote Far removed Remotus Lat. Assyrian Garden planted in Eden afterwards call'd Assyria bordering on Mesopotamia V. 289. Godlike erect Upright and tall not groveling on the Ground like other Creatures according to Ovid. Os homini sublime dedit Coelumque tueri Jussi erectos ad sidera tollere vultus Meta. Lib. 1. Well may he term our first Parents Godlike the Originals of Mankind made by God himself after his own Image it better suiting the Protoplast than its correspondent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any of the Homerick Heroes Erectus Lat. upright V. 290. In Naked Majesty A glorious Nakedness heightned and set off by spotless Innocence preferable to all the gawdy Disguises worn by
Executioners of his dark Designs Rulers of the darkness of this world Eph. 6. 12. V. 384. Son and Grandchild both Death because by Satan begot on his fair inchanting Daughter Sin according to the description Bo. 2. v. 817. Dear Daughter since thou claim'st me for thy Sire And my fair Son here shew'st me c. V. 387. Satan Antagâ—nist c. See Bo. 1. v. 82. and Bo. 2. v. 510. V. 393. Of easie Thorough fare Easie to be pass'd through Of Fare Vaeren Belg. to go over to pass Continent Bo. 3. v. 423. Triumphal Triumphalis Lat. belonging to a Triumph Bo. 1. v. 123. V. 402. Make sure the Thrall Be sure to make him the Slave Thrall Bo. 1. v. 149. V. 404. Plâ—nipotent on Earth Appoint you my Plenipotentiaries on Earth constitute you my Substitutes endued with full Power and Authority over the Earth and all its forfeited Inhabitants Slaves to Sin and Death Plenipotent of Plenus Lat. full and Potens Lat. Powerful A Title given to Persons sent with full Power to conclude a Treaty or to adjust all Differences between reconciled Kings and States Substitutes Bo. 8. v. 381. V. 405. Issuing from me Matchless indeed for might for the best of Mankind are often overcome by seducing Sin and all at last conquered by Death irresistible Issuing Issant Fr. proceeding from Of Issir Fr. to flow from V. 409. No Detriment need fear Need apprehend no Harm or Hindrance according to the Charge given to the Roman Consul Ut videret ne quid Respublica detrimenti caperet Detriment Detrimentum Lat. harm loss hurt V. 413. Planets Planet-strook c. The affrighted Stars look'd pale and the dim Planets blasted really lost much of their faded Lustre Planets Bo. 3. v. 481. Planet-strook 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Sideratus Lat. blasted Real Eclipse then suffered for the usual Eclipses of the Sun Moon c. seem only to bereave and rob them of their Light which by the interposition of some Opaque Body is hinder'd from descending on us Eclipse Bo. 1. v. 597. V. 415. The Causey Chaussée Fr. Calzata Ital. a way made over a boggy infirm Ground of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Flint with which it is made firm V. 416. Disparted Chaos c. The dark Abyss divided by the Bridge built over it on both sides roar'd Disparted Dispartitus Lat. divided in two Of Dis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. twice and Partire Lat. to divide Exclaim'd of Exclamare Lat. to cry aloud Rebounding Bo. 1. v. 788. Assail'd assaulted the Barricado which mock'd its impotent Anger scorn'd its infirm Fury Of Assaillir Fr. Assalire Ital. to leap upon of the Lat. Assilire V. 425. Of Lucifer by allusion to Satan paragon'd Of Satan styled Lucifer his bright Station in the Realms of Light resembling nearest that illustrious Star that leads Heaven's illustrious Herd His Count'nance as the Morning Star that guides The Starry Flock allur'd them Bo. v. v. 708. Pandaemonium Bo. 1. v. 756. Allusion likeness of Alludere Lat. to resemble Paragon'd of Paragonner Fr. to be equal to to be like of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Juxta and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Certamen An exact Idea or Likeness of a thing able to contest with the Original V. 431. From his Russian Foe by Astracan As when the wild Tartar retreats from his Muscâ—vian Enemy over the Snowy Plains by Astracan Russian of Russia Muscovy called generally Black to distinguish it from that Province called Red Russia and Ruthenia belonging to the Poles a vast Country in the North-East part of Europe anciently Sarmatia Europaea now by the Inhabitants Rutz separated from the Crim Tartars Southward by the Tanais Minor now the River Donetz Tartar Bo. 3. v. 432. Astracan is a considerable part of the Muscovian Czar's Dominion formerly a Tartarian Kingdom with a Capital City of the same Name near the Mouth of the River Wolga at its fall into the Caspian Sea V. 433. Or Bactrian Sophi Or the Persian Emperor named Bactrian of Bactria now Corasan one of the greatest and richest Provinces of Persia lying near the Caspian Sea The Kings of Persia are called Sophies or Shaughs of Ishmael Sophie Son of Guine Sophie the Chief of their Seventh Race of Kings V. 434. Turkish Crescent From their Turkish Enemies who bear the Horned Moon the Cressent in their Ensigns The Croissant of Crescere to encrease is the Turkish Arms first born as Justus Lipsius thinks by Mahomet the Great at the taking of Constantinople Ut signum victae Gentis penes quam Orientis imperium esset But GOD be praised this Turkish Moon is waning into a Decrease V. 435. The Realm of Aladule The Greater Armenia called by the Turks under whom the greatest part of it is Aladule of its last King Aladules slain by Selymus the First V. 436. To Tauris or Casbeen Tauris Tabresium Tauresium and by the Inhabitants Tebris is a great City in the Kingdom of Persia in the Province of Aderbuitzan now called Ecbatana â—ounded as the Persians boast in the Year of our Lord 786. Sometimes in the hands of the Turks but an 1603. retaken by Abas King of Persia. Casbeen Caswin Casbinum one of the greatest Cities of Persia in the Province of Ayrach formerly Parthia towards the Caspâ—an Sea where the Persian Monarchs made their Residence after the loss of Tauris from which it is distant 65 German Miles to the South-East V. 442. Plebcian Angel Militant Seeming one of the ordinary Angelic Bands Plebeius Lat. common ordinary of Plebs Lat. the common People Militant Militans Lat. Warfaring of Militare Lat. to serve as a Soldier V. 444. Of that Plutonian Hall Of that Hellish Hall Plutonian of Pluto the Brother of Jupiter and Neptune and Governor of Hell of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Riches because Hell was supposed to be in the Bowels of the Earth from whose Mines Riches Gold and Silver were dug where the inordinate and wicked Purchase and pursuit of which has with Millions of mistaken Wretches Peopled that dark Dominion V. 446. Of richest Texture Which was placed under a Canopy of State richly wrought Texture Textura Lat. weaving V. 449. Fulgent Head His shining Head and Shape Star-bright as described V. 425. Fulgens Lat. shining False Glitter false fading Light like that of Counterfeit Jewels of Glitzern Belg. to shine V. 457. Rais'd from their dark Divan Rising from their Infernal Council-chamber well liken'd to the Turkish Divan where their most secret Councils assemble V. 458. Congratulant Rejoycing at his happy Return Congratulans Lat. of Congratulari Lat. to rejoyce with Acclaim Bo. 2. v. 521. V. 471. Voyag'd th' unreal Deep Travel'd o'er the empty uncreated Deep of dire Confusion Unreal Unessential contrary to Creation void of Being The Void Profound of Unessential Night Bo. 2. v. 439. V. 474. To expedite c. To make the glorious March more easie of Expedire Lat. to forward to speed Uncounth Bo. 2. v. 408. V. 476.
for those that form the two Heads of Gemini are so placed that in the very minute of their Rising and Setting one of 'em is above the Horizon while the other is below Thence Virgil Si fratrem Pollux alternâ morte redemit Itque reditque viam toties AEn 6. Homer has recorded 'em both for the Sons of Jupiter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whom Horace follows Castor gaudet equis Ovo prognatus eodem Pugnis Hinc clara gemini signa Tyndaridae micant Sen. Her Furens V. 675. Up to the Tropic Crab Up as high as the Tropic of Cancer distant from the Equator 23 Degrees and 31 Minutes where when the Sun gets he is at his greatest Heighth and Power AEthiopum versemus oves sub sidere Cancri Virg. Ecl. 10. Cancer the Crab was made one of the Celestial Signs because in imitation of that Animal the Sun when got so high returns back and is Retrograde whence the Tropics took their Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to return This Tropic of Cancer being his farthest Stage Northward from whence he turns down Southward to that of Capricorn Octipedis frustra quaerentur brachia Cancri Ovid. Fast. lib. 1. V. 676. By Leo Lat. the Lion slain by Hercules in the Nemean Forest whose Skin he afterwards wore impenetrable like a Coat of Mail Juno who brought this Monster out of the Moon advanc'd him afterwards among the Stars Tu Crâ—ssia mactas Prodigia vastum Nemeae sub rupe Leonem AEn 8. His elisa jacet moles Nemeaea lacertis Met. l. 9. Nempe pro telis gerit Quae timuit quae fudit Armatus venit Leone Hydrâ Her Furens Nullus per urbes errat Arcadicas Leo. Her Oetae Ibid. The Virgin and the Scales Astraea Libra Justice well described by Chaste Virgin Purity and the exact Balance in which she weighs all things Before the Flood weary of this wicked World she flew up to Heaven where for her Equity she is placed in that part of the Zodiac where the Sun coming to the Scales proportions the Days and Nights in equal length Virgo caede madentes Ultima coelestum Terras Astraea reliquit Met. l. 1. Libra Die somnique pares ubi fecerit horas Et medium luci atque umbris jam dividet orbem Geor. l. 1. V. 677. As deep as Capricorn As low as the Southern Tropic A Constellation of many Stars where when the Sun arrives 't is Winter with those that live Northward named Capricornus Lat. the Horned Goat because from thence the Sun ascends like that Climbing Animal Capricorno Phaebe relicto Per juvenis curres signa gerentis aquam Fast. lib. 1. Chine Bo. I. Vers. 242. V. 682. Had unbenighted shon If the Sun had kept his constant rode along the Equator and never deviated from the Equinoctial Path either to the North or South those that had lived in the Neighbourhood of the Poles had known no Night because the Sun would have been always in sight rounding their Horizon but his company had been so cold though constant at so vast a distance that as Vallesius well observes it would have been little worth for their day would have been weak and as to warmth imperfect and unproductive Partes sub Polis sitae neque diem neque noctem haberent ullam sed in Horizonte solem semper cujus dimidium spectarent quod parum omnino abest ab aeternâ nocte Neque sol in Horizonte semper volutatus possit satis calefacere ac faecundare terras quas nunc cum viginti tres gradus supra Horizontem elevetur tamen calefacit tenuiter De Sacrâ Philo. c. 26. They had indeed known neither East nor West the Terms for the Suns Rising and Setting because he had been always visible to them though useless V. 686. From cold Estotiland Estotilandia Lat. is a great Tract of Land in the North of America towards the Artic Circle and Hudsons Bay part of Canada commonly called New Britain and Terra Laboratoris a Mountainous Country overgrown with Woods and over-run with Wild Beasts but very fruitful though very cold V. 687. Beneath Magellan Magellanica a Country in South America of large extent towards the South Pole which together with its Streights took their Name of Ferdinandus Magellanus a Portuguese who in the year 1520. first discover'd them V. 688. As from Thyestean Banquet Theystes and Atreus Sons of Pelops and Hyppodamia hated one another to that degree That Theystes having debauched the Wife of Atreus was by him entertain'd upon a pretended Reconciliation at a Feast where his slaughter'd Sons were served up and their Blood mixt with his Wine At this Bloody Banquet the Tragedians say the Sun ran back to the East for fear of seeing so horrid and detestable a Cruelty Caena Thyestae Aut humana palam coquet exta nefarius Atreus Hor. de Ar. Poet. Astra Thyestae Abstulit subitis damnavit noctibus Argos Luc. 7. Quo terrarum superumque parens Câ—jus ad ortus noctis opacae Decus omne fugit quo vertis iter Medioque diem perdis Olympo Sene. Cho. Thyest. Sol auroram videt occiduus Hocegit diem Aversum in ortus Ibid. Thest. Act. 5. His Course intended His wonted way intended usual fixt Of Intendere Lat. to settle Course Cursus Lat. Race V. 691. Avoided pinching Cold c. Had the Position of the Sphear been from the beginning the same that now it is and the Sun at his first setting forth taken the same way that now he does the habitable World must in Winter have been afflicted with extreme Cold and in Summer scorcht with violent Heat though Adam had never tasted the fatal forbidden Fruit Those contrary extremities seeming rather a Punishment consequent on the Sin than on the situation of Mankind in Sinless Innocency V. 693. Sideral Blast Blastings descending from the Stars shot from the squint Eyed Planets Sideralis Lat. Sideratio blasting a scorching withering heat Quid tempestates Autumni Sydera dicam Geor. 1. V. 695. Corrupt and Pestilent Hurtful and Pestilential Breath Corruptus Lat. unwholsome Pestilens Lat. Infectious Of Pestis Lat. the Plague V. 696. Of Norumbega Norumbega is a Province of the Northern America stiled Mexicana having its chief City of the same Name Ibid. The Samoed Shoar Samoieda is a Province in the North East of Muscovy upon the Frozen Sea on both sides of the River Ob a part of the antient Scythia or Sarmatia Samoedes the Russians tell us under whose Czars they are signifies Self-Eaters it being their Custom to Eat Mans Flesh and that of their nearest Relations mixt with Venison as Olearius relates I have seen a Man his Wife and two Children Samoedes in a little Island over against Archangel of whom the Earl of Carsâ—ile bought the Rain Deer presented to Kingâ— Charles the Second who hanging the Guts of
good Harbour on the Red Sea the ancient North-East Boundary of the Abyssine Empire V. 399. Mombaza and Quiloa and Melind Mombaza Monbaccia is a very great City in Affrica Capital of the Kingdom of the same Name in Zanguelar a Province of the Lower Ethiopia has a good Haven in the Eastern Ocean Quiloa Queillo a City in an Island giving Name to a Kingdom on the Eastern Shore of Africa between Mosambique and Melind South of Quiloa 150 Leagues Melind a City in Africa in the aforesaid Province The Kings of these are called Maritim of Maritimus Lat. belonging to the Sea because their little Dominions lay on the Ethiopic Ocean V. 400. Sofala thought Ophir Sofala or Zofala is a little Kingdom of Africa in the Lower Ethiopia in the Country of Cafraria towards the Ethiopic Ocean taking its Name of Sofala a strong City in the Borders of Zanguebara 50 miles from which there are rich Mines of Gold called the Mines of Manica Sofala by Purchas and others was mistaken for Ophir to which Salomon sent for Gold c. 1 King 9. 28. V. 401. Of Congo and Angola Congo is a little Kingdom on the Western Shoar of Africa in a very fruitful Soil South of which is Angola such another fertile and petty Realm and with divers others formerly made the Kingdom of Congo much harrass'd by the Portugueses V. 402. Niger Flood Niger or Nigir the greatest River of Africa arising out of a Lake of the same Name in the Upper Ethiopia It divides Nigritia into two parts whose Fertility is heighten'd by the Annual overflowing of this River 40 days as Heylin De Terrâ Nigritarum it runs into the Atlantic Ocean at six great Outlets At'as Bo. 4. v. 986. The Poet seems to mean At'as Minor now Errif parting the Kingdom of Fez from that of Morocco V. 403. Fez and Sus The Kingdom of Fez is in the West of Barbary in Africa bounded Northward by the Streights of Gibraltar and the Meaiterranean on the West by the Altantic Ocean South by the Kingdom of Morocco and East by that of Algier Sus Susa another African Kingdom so named of Sus its principal River V. 404. Marocco Algiers and Tremisen Marocco Marochium a Kingdom of the Moors in Barbary 90 miles from Fez to which the Royal Seat and the ancient Glory of its chief City is removed Tremisen Tremisa a Kingdom and a great City of Barbary Algiers a City and Commonwealth of Africa on the Borders of Barbary on the Mediterranean Sea over-against Minorca too well known by its Piracies These are said to have been the Kingdoms of Almansor the famous Moor Heroised by Mr. Dryden V. 405. Europe Bo. 10. v. 310. Rome Bo. 9. v. 671. Maxima rerum Roma AEn 7. V. 406. Mexico of Montezume Mexico Mexicum a rich Kingdom of North America whose Capital City is of the same name and seated in a Lake so called also The unhappy Montezuma the Second was King of it when Francis Cortez the Spanish General overcame him in the year 1521. Adam is said perhaps to have seen this in Spirit because it lay not within the compass of the Earth's Hemisphere nor within his Prospect as to the Site of the highest Mount of Paradise on which our Poet had placed him V. 408. Cusco in Peru Peruvia is a vast Country in South America rich in Gold and Silver Mines whose Royal City Cusco was at the Conquest of the Spaniards since depopulated and ruinous V. 409. Atabalipa and Guascar Were the Sons of Guaimacapa the happiest Peruvian King who extended his Empire to the vast Bounds it now has for which his Sons being at strife Francisco Pizarro a Spaniard of as base Conditions as Birth parted 'em by killing the first and taking the other Prisoners whom after he had ransom'd himself with a House full of refined Gold and Silver the Ignoble Hogherd murder'd V. 410. And yet unspoil'd Guiana And yet unrifled Guiana It is a large Country in South America directly under the Equinoctial Line the most fruitful part of Peru. Unspoil'd Inspoliatus Lat. unrob'd Ibid. Geryon's Sons The Spaniards For Geryon was King of Catalonia and a celebrated Hero Fabled to have had three Bodies because he commanded Majorca Minorca and Ebusa three Islands adjacent to Spain or of the unexampled Concord of his three Sons Gerunda a City of Catalonia is said to have been built and named by him He was overcome and spoil'd of his Herds by Hercules Nam maximus ultor Tergemini nece Geryonis spoliisque superbus Alcides aderat Taurosque hà c victor ageba◠Ingentes AEn 8. V. 411. Eldorado Otherwise Mancoa the greatest City of South America if not of the World Diego Ordas one of Cortez's Companions is said to have entred it at Noon and travel'd all the next day till night before he came to the King's Palace where he saw such abundance of Gold in Coin Plate Armour and other Utenfils that the Spaniards gave it the gawdy name of Eldorado the Golden City V. 412. The Film remov'd Remov'd the Mist from Adam's Eyes c. So Pallas cleared up Diomedes his Eye-sight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imitated by Virgil Aspice namque omnem quae nunc obducta tuenti Mortales hebetat visus tibi humida circum Caligat nubem eripiam AEn 2. Film is a thin white Skin or Membrane growing over the Eye-sight Of Velamen Lat. any thing that hides as if Vilm V. 414. Purg'd with Euphrasie and Rue c. Cleared the Organs of his Sight with Rue and Eyebright Enphrasie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Herb Eyebright so named of its clearing Virtue Rue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Herb whose warmth renders it Corrosive Visual Bo. 3. v. 620. Nerve Nervus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Instill'd drop'd into it of Instillare Lat. V. 417. These Ingredients Ingredients are called such Things as are mixed or blended together to make a Medicine or other sort of Composition Ingredientes Lat. as going into one another by the mixture V. 418. Of mental Sight To the Eyes of his Understanding to his Mind the inmost Seat of his Soul Mental Mentalis Lat. of Mens Lat. the Mind Intranst Bo. 1. v. 301. V. 426. Nor with the Snake conspired Nor agreed with the Devil nor consented to the tempting Serpent Of Conspirare Lat. to agree with V. 430. Part arable and tilth Part of which was plowed and sowed Arable Arabilis Lat. of Arare Lat. to Plow Tilth Till'd of Tilian Sax to dress to manure Ground V. 433. Rustic of Grassy Sord A plain Altar raised of Grassy Turf Rustic Rusticus Lat. clownish of Rus Lat. the Country whence Alá Rustique Fr. homely Draughts or Representations of Country Affairs Sord perhaps misprinted for Sod Turf of the Belg. Sode Ital. Terra Soda of Solidum or Solum Lat. But if there be any such word as Sord for dried Earth it must be a derivative of Swart Belg. black from its
upright Reason the Sourse and Soul of all true Liberty Twinn'd of the Ger. Twiinen to twist or double Individual Being cannot subsist separate from her Dividuus Lat. that may be separated V. 86. When Reason is obscur'd c. When a Man suffers his Reason to be discountenanc'd or slighted immediately an Invasion of violent Lusts and headstrong Desires an Insurrection of unruly Passions usurp upon her Soverignty and degrade the Man till that mad Minute free to meanest Slavery No wonder then if God in his just judgments suffer him to lose his outward Freedom also who has forfeited to such vile Powers his inward Liberty subject to Vice and self enslav'd Obscur'd Obscurare Lat. to darken Upstart an excellent Epithete for our Passions so suddenly rais'd and oftentimes from small and unknown Causes and of mean Original Servitude Servitudo Lat. Slavery Reduce Bo. 10. v. 727. Subjects of Subjicere Lat. to bring under Enthral Bo. 6. v. 181. V. 98. Virtue which is Reason Reason which is given us for our guide must be of kin to our Virtue otherwise she could not lead us right nor dictate what in the whole course of our Lives is fit and decent to be done Virtus est recta Ratio animi habitus naturae modo rationi consentaneus Cic. in Tusc. Decline so low debase themselves so far of Declinare Lat. to go down V. 99. Some fatal Curse annex'd Some Curse following their Folly as a just and necessary Punishment by Heaven's appointment Fatalis Lat. unavoidable Annex'd Annexus Lat. tied fixed to Deprives Bo. 9. v. 858. V. 101. The irreverent Son Witness C ham the Father of Canaan and shameful Son of Noah who for the Reproach done to his Father by discovering his Nakedness heard the heavy Curse pronounced by him on his wicked Posterity the Canaanites Cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren Gen. 9. 22 25. Avert of Avertere Lat. to turn away To Select Seligere Lat. to choose V. 113. A Nation from one faithful Man Abram I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great Gen. 12. 2. V. 115. Bred up in Idol-worship Bred an Idolater and living among them in Chaldea on this side Euphrates Bo. 1. v. 420. Residing living of Residere Lat. to abide remain The Opinion of Abraham's being Educated in Idolatry thô much controverted is grounded on Josh. 24. 2. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel The Fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nachor and they served other Gods Upon which Text Andreas Masius thus Comments Quod porro ait majores ipsorum trans fluvium coluisse Dcos alienos valet ad explicandam Dei benignitatem quam ille in Populum Israeliticum contulit Hoc enim solum agitur ut constet gratuitò ipsos esse à Deo adoptatos pro populo neque gratis solum verum cum etiam hostes essent divinum cultum atque honorem non vero Deo cui debebatur sed alienis falsisque diis adhiberent c. Neque enim eos audire possum qui magno conatu Abrahamum ab hoc Idololatriae turpissimo scelere vindicare nescio quibus argutiis student Quasi vero non tanto illustrior sit Dei gratia quâ illum est complexus quanto ipse fuit sceleratior minusque tanto dignus favore The sense of all which is That God by calling Abraham when he was an Idolater and leading him forth from among the Heathenish Chaldeans did thereby the more magnifie and manifest the Riches of his Free Grace both to him and to his Chosen People the Children of Israel his Descendents V. 117. While yet the Patriarch Noah who lived after the flood 350 years Gen. 9. 28. During whose Life time Abraham was born 292 years after the Flood as is evident from Gen. 11. 26. Stupid Stupidus Lat. senseless V. 121. To call by Vision Now the Lord said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy fathers house unto the Land that I will shew thee Gen. 12. 1. Which St. Steven interpreteth The God of Glory appeared unto our Father Abraham c. Acts 7. 2. Vision Bo. 1. v. 455. V. 126. All Nations shall be blest In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed Gen. 12. 3. and Acts 3. 25. V. 128. With what Faith he leaves his Gods c. This people are doscended of the Chaldeans and they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia because they would not follow the Gods of their fathers which were in the land of Chaldea but they left the way of their Ancestors and worshipped the God of Heaven the God whom they knew Judith 5. 6 7 8. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations Rom. 4. 3 18. and Gen. 15. 6. V. 130. Ur of Chaldaea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ur Uris now Horrea the chief City of Chaldaea had its Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Light because the Idolatrous Chaldeans its ancient Inhabitants worship'd the Sun Heaven's everlasting Light Chaldaea so named of Chaldeus the 14th King from Ninus was in Holy Writ stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now Curdistan a vast Province in Asia bounded West by Euphrates East by Tigris North by Turcomania and South by Alidulia Abraham's first Peregrination from this place is recorded Gen. 11. 31. V. 131. Passing the Ford to Haran Fording over the River Euphrates to Haran lying 60 miles from it Eastward Haran formerly a considerable City of Mesopotamia is by the Turks called Heren or Harran by Pliny and Ptolemy Charrae by St. Stephen Charran Acts 7. 4. remarkable for Abraham's sojourning here and burying his Father Terah in it before he went into the Land of Canaan Gen. 11. 31 32. as also for the slaughter of Crassus the rich Roman Miserando funere Crassus Assyrias latio maculavit sanguine Carras Luc. Phar. l. 1. Ford of the Ger. Fahren to go a place where People may pass over V. 135. Canaan he now attains He is now arrived at the Land of Canaan so called of Canaan the Son of Cham the Son of Noah Gen. 11. 18. Part of whose Territory reaching to Mediterranean Sea made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Canaanite to signifie a Merchant Attains Attinere Lat. to get to obtain V. 137. Sechem and the Plain of Moreh And Abraham passed through the Land unto the place of Sichem unto the Plain of Moreh Gen. 12. 6. Progeny Bo. 2. v. 431. V. 139. From Hamath Northward c. From Hamath now Hems a City of Syria North to the great desert of Arabia South call'd the Wilderness of Zin This shall be their North Border From the great Sea the Mediterranean to Mount Hor and from Mount Hor unto the entrance of Hamath Numb 34. 7
and 8. And the South quarter shall be from the Wilderness of Zin c. Ibid. v. 3. V. 142. From Hermon to the Western Sea From Mount Hermon to the Mediterranean or Western Sea was the East and West Boundary of the Promised Land Hermon a Mountain beyond Jordan on the North East the Boundary of the Tribe of Manasses From the River Arnon unto Mount Hermon Deut. 3. 8. V 144. Mount Carmel Carmelus a Mountain on the Mediterranean Sea fifty miles North of Jerusalem famous for Eliiah's confounding the Priests of Baal 1 King 18 19 20 c. V. 145. Jordan true limit Eastward The River Jordan its true Bounds on the East-Jordan Jordanus now Scheriah a celebrated River of the Holy Land rising in the Confines of Coelosyria from two Fountains Jor and Dan at the Foot of Mount Libanus thence here styled Double Founted Rising on the North of Canaan it runs Southward enclosing all the East-side of the Holy Land Then Lot chose him all the Plain of Jordan and Lot journied East Gen. 13. 11. And ye shall point out the East Border from Hazar Enan c. and the Border shall go down to Jordan Numb 34. 10 and 12. V. 146. Shall dwell to Senir Shall enlarge their dwelling places as far as Senir or Saner a long ridge of Hills call'd of its many sharp Rocks Trachonitis and Ituraea and Petraea on the East of Palestine some part of which was by the Jews named Hermon and Gilead by the Sydonians Syrion and by the Amerites Shenir Deut. 3. 9. Ponder Bo. 2. v. 421. V. 148. All Nations shall in his Seed be Blessed The earliest Promise of the Messiah made implicitely to Abraham Gen. 12. 3. which St. Paul so interprets Galat. 3. 8. Now to Abraham and his Seed were the Promises made he saith not and to Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ v. 16. V. 152. Whom faithful Abraham c. Who in due time when he shall be Born shall be called Faithful Abraham His Father Terah named him Abram 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great Father of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Father and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. High Excellent Gen. 11. 26. which God changed when he was 99 years old to Abraham 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consisting of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Nation a Father of many Nations Gen. 17. 5. whose Faith is much celebrated by St. Paul Rom. 4. V. 153. A Son Isaac the Son of Abraham by Sarah Gen. 21. 3. Ibid. A Granchild Jacob the Son of Isaac and Grandson of Abraham Gen. 25. 26. who with his twelve Sons went into Egypt Gen. 35. 22. Egypt Bo. 1. v. 339. V. 158. Disgorging at seven Mouths Emptying his seven wide Mouths into the Sea Nile Bo. 1. v. 413. Et septem gemini turbant trepida Ostia Nili AEn 6. Disgorging Bo. 2. v. 575. V. 160. Invited by a younger Son Thus saith thy Son Joseph God hath made me Lord of all Egypt come down unto me tarry not Gen. 45. 9. Sojourn Bo. 7. v. 247. Invited Invitatâ—s Lat. desired V. 163. Second in that Realm of Pharoa Only in the Throne will I be greater then thou Gen. 41. 40. Pharao Bo. 1. v. 342. V. 165. Suspected to a sequent King By their numbers grown suspected to a King that knew not Joseph least when War should happen they might join with the Enemies of Egypt and get them up out of the Land Exod. 1. 8 and 10. Sequent Sequens Lat. next that succeeded the Successor of Pharao V. 168. Kills their Infants Males And by the Artifice of the Midwives destroy'd their young Male Children Exod. 1. 17. Infant Infans Lat. a young Child V. 170. Moses and Aaron The Sons of Amram by Jochebed of the House of Levi Exod. 6. 20. and c. 2. 1. V. 176. To blood unshed c. Their Rivers must be turn'd into Streams of Blood Unshed not by slaying any Creatures living therein but by Moses's Miraculous Rod Exod. 7. 20. This first Plague had relation to the drowning the Innocent Hebrew Males in their Rivers therefore it pleased God to turn their Rivers into Blood For they have shed the Blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them Blood to drink for they are worthy Revel 16. 6. V. 178. With loath'd Intrusion With hateful importunity the Plagues of the Frogs Lices and Flies are Recorded Exod. 8. Intrusion Intrusio Lat. a pressing into Company of Intrudere Lat. to thrust in rudely V. 179. Of Murren Die Murrain is the Name for the Plague among Cattle as if Moriana of Mori Lat. to Die Exod. 9. 6. V. 180. Botches and Blains Imboss Swellings and Ulcers must raise all his Flesh tumid and rank like high Embrodery Exod. 9. 9 and 10. A Botch Bosse Fr. Bozza Ital. all of the Lat. Pusa Pusula and Pustula a Swelling as that of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Bladder Imboss of Embosser Fr. to rise in Bunches and great knobs A Word used by our Spencer Felt our feeble Hearts Embost with bale Fai. Q. Cant. 9. St. 29. V. 182. Must rend th' Egyptian Sky A Thundring Storm of Hail mixt with fire and flashing Lightning must tare the Egyptian Sky over-running all the Land and ruining all where ere it roul'd So there was Hail and Fire mingled with the Hail very grievous such as as there was none like it in all the Land of Egypt since it became a Nation Gen. 9. 24 and 25. This fiery Hail is said to wheel on th' Earth from its Rotundity and Orbicular Shape To Rend or Rent is to tare in pieces Of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to break in pieces V. 185. A Cloud of Locusts Exod. 10. 4 and 5. A Creature so distructiue that in Africa especially that part of it called Abissina they often desolate whole Countries and force the Inhabitants to dislodge by Famine well Styled by the Prophet Gods mighty Army Joel 2. 25. Locusta Lat. V. 188. Palpable Darkness c. Darkness that may be felt Exod. 10. 21. which by most Interpreters is taken as an Hyperbole expressive of the greatest and most gross darkness not to be overcome by Sun Moon or Stars or the Artificial Aids of Fire or Lamps expounded in the subsequent verse 22. And there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days which our Author says therefore were blotted out V. 190. All the first Born of Egypt must lie Dead It came to pass that at Midnight the Lord smote all the first Born in the land of Egypt Exod. 12. 29. V. 191. The River Dragon Pharao Who opprest the Children of Israel thought to be Cencres according to that of Ezekiel Behold I am against the Pharoah King of Egypt the great Dragon that lieth in the middest of his Rivers which hath said my River Nile is my own and I have made it for my self Chap. 29. 3. V. 194.