therefore deservedly here made second to Satan himself V. 82. Th'Arch Enemy called Satan the chief Enemy and therefore in Heaven call'd Satan the Enemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arch is an additional Particle by way of Preheminence set before many words as Arch Duke Arch Rogue from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chief principal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Satan an Adversary from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be against to hate the Enemy of God and Man V. 83. The horrid silence The dismal the dreadful silence which under the Astonishment and Amazement they were overwhelmed with till now was never broken Horridus Lat. for rough ugly Horrida jussa severe Commands AEneid 4. V. 84. If thou beest he If thou beest my Companion But how disguised how changed and alter'd by thy fall from him who in the happy Region of the Day invested with excessive Brightness didst outshine Millions tho' bright So Virg. Hei mihi qualis erat Quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore qui redit exuvias indutus Achillis Vel Danaum Phrygios jaculatus puppibus ignes AE 2. V. 85. Realms Regions Royaulme Fr. Kingdom the Realms of Light in Heaven V. 86. Transcondent Brightness Excessive Glory Transcendere Lat. to exceed surpass V. 87. Myriads Millions from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for Ten Thousand from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 infinite innumerable a certain for an incertain Number familiar with the Poets Ibid. If he whom Mutual League If thou beest he whom Solemn League and Covenant agreeing Thoughts and Resolutions mutual Hope and Danger in the Gallant Undertaking made my Companion once and now the same Misfortune has made my Miserable Associate in this fatal Downfal League Ligne Fr. à ligando A Confederacy or siding of Factious Subjects against their Sovereign of which the Holy League in France and its Spawn the Solemn League and Covenant in our Country are two abominable Instances Mutual Mutuus Lat. for alternate by turns Mutuaque inter se laeti convivia curant Georg. 1. They make merry and entertain one another by turns V. 88. United Thoughts and Counsels Designs and Counsed chosen and agreed to between us from unitus agreed joyned together V. 89. Enterprise An Undertaking Fr. Entreprinse an Attempt an Exploit V. 91. Into what Pit thou seest Thou seest how we are faln from Heavens bright Battlements into this low dark Dungeon V. 94. The force of those dire Arms Till taught by sad Experience who knew the fatal force of his hot Thunderbolts those dreadful Engins Dirus Lat. Cruel V. 95. The Potent Victor The Powerful Conqueror his Pride was still too superlative to allow God to be Omnipotent although he found him such to his ruine Potens Lat. mighty Victor Lat. Conqueror V. 96. Can else inflict Nor for what ever more he can lay on or load me with do I relent or alter my unchanged Mind though as to my Brightness and outward Lustre altered and abated Infligo Lat. to inflict to punish V. 97. In outward Lustre Though alter'd as to my External Brightness the abatement of my Beauty has not at all impair'd the Gallantry of my Mind Lustre Fr. shining glittering Ibid. That fixt Mind c. I alter not my firm Resolution nor that Noble Scorn proceeding from a sense of despised Desert which raised in me th' Ambition to engage with the most Highest and to the furious Encounter brought along infinite Aid of Angels numberless who boldly blamed his Government and preferring me before him with all their Might his utmost Strength attack'd in doubtful Battel on the Heavenly Plains and shook his Seat A vain boast of the Father of Lyes whom the Lord of Host had in derision Fixt Fixus Lat. firm stable stedfast V. 98. Injur'd Merit Wrong'd Desert abused Merit Injurior or injurio Lat. to do wrong to Meritum Lat. Desert Merit V. 99. To contend To strive with Contendo Lat. to make earnest Opposition so Contention for Strife Encounter Quis talia demens Abnuat aut tecum malit contendere Bello AEn 4. V. 101. Innumerable Without Number numberless Innumerabilis Lat. V. 102. Reign Government Power from Regner Fr. to Rule and both from Regnare Lat. Ibid. Me preferring Esteeming me before him from praefero Lat. to set by to make esteem of V. 103. With adverse Power oppos'd With open Force resisted Adverse from adversus Lat. against opposite to oppos'd Lat. Opponere to place or stand against V. 104. Dubious Dubius Lat. doubtful uncertain V. 105. His Throne His Royal Seat his Kingdom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Heaven is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jove's Throne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoer Idyl Z. But more truly by our Saviour The Throne of God Matth. 5. 34. Ibid. What though the Field be lost What though we have lost the Battel All is not gone our Wills inflexible th' Eternal study of Revenge and Hatred irreconcileable and dauntless Resolution ne'er to yield remain our own and still within our Power and what besides may not be overborn V. 107. Immortal Immortalis Lat. not subject to death or decay V. 108. Submit Yield submittere Lat. to yield to to humble ones self to V. 110. That Glory c. A Submission so glorious for him and base in me neither his Anger nor his Power shall force from me Gloria Lat. V. 111. Extort Force from Extorqueo Lat. to wrest by force Ibid. To bow and sue for Grace To cringe and like a Suppliant sue for Pardon on bended Knee and own him for my God who from th' affright this armed Hand of mine so lately put him in doubted his Imperial Power that were base and mean that were an Infamy and a Disgrace more vile and low than is this fatal Downfal Another of Satan's blasphemous Boastings and suiting well his cursed Character which our Poet holds up to the heighth of Luciferian Pride Grace Fr. Pardon V. 112. Suppliant Begging entreating Supplicare Lat. to beseech Ibid. Deifie Deifico Lat. to make a God of from Deus God and facio to make V. 113. Terrour Fright a Dread Terror Lat. V. 114. Empire Imperium Lat. Command Power V. 115. Ignominy Disgrace Dishonour Ignominia Lat. Infamy V. 116. Since by Fate Since by th'unalterable Laws of Nature we that are Gods and this our Heavenly Substance is not subject to decay Fate by the Heathen was used to express that Unchangeable and Eternal Series of Things which the Gods themselves could not disturb or alter Thus Juno Hoc regnum dea gentibus esse siqua fat a sinant AEn 1. Fatum à sando as if it were Quod de unoquoque fatus est Deus Heavens Decree But Hermes deseribes it better An Obedience of second Causes to the first Fate therefore is the Excuse of Fools who â—harge it with the greatest of their Follies Sin For if Fate or any irresistable Influence of the Heavenly Bodies or Cogency of the Stars did over-rule our Wills or over-reach our Reason just were that
reasons excellently ch 6. v. 6 and 7. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and how my self before the high God Shall I come before him with Burnt-offerings with Calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl Shall I give my First-born for my Transgression the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul No alas nothing less than the First-born of the Almighty The Image of the Invisible God and the First-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. could attone whom God ordained to be a Propitiation for us Rom. 3. 25. Atonement under the Mosaic Law was an Offering brought to appease God's Anger by Sacrifice out of the Herd or the Flocks which was to be slain by him that offered it Lev. 1. v. 4 and 5. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the Burnt-offering and it shall be accepted for him to make Atonement for him And he shall kill the Bullock before the Lord. The Word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies Redemption or Ransom all the Judaic Immolations being Types and Figures of that Immaculate Lamb Jesus Christ The Lamb of God who taketh away the Sins of the World John 1. 29. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood Eph. 1. 7. Atonement seems a Musical Metaphor like Accord to bring Jarring Differences and Diffonancies ad Toman into Tune V. 241. On me wreck all his Rage On me let Death revenge himself with his utmost Rage Wreck of the Sax. Wpaecan to be revenged V. 249. With Corruption there to dwell According to the Prophetic Psalmist For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither suffer thy holy One to see Corruption Psal. 16. 10. Illustrated and applied to our Saviour who rose the third day by St. Peter Act. 2. v. 20 21 c. V. 253. And stoop inglorious And be humbled and subdued disgraced and disarmed of his irresistible Dart. Positis inglorius armis AEn 10. Inglorious Inglorius Lat. disgraced V. 255. Maugre Hell In spight of Hell Maugre of the Fr. Malgré against ones will of the Lat. Malé and Gratum V. 256. The Powers of Darkness bound According to the Apostle to the Colossians ch 2. v. 15. And having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them confirmed by St. Luke ch 10. v. 17 and 18. Lord even the Devils are subject unto us through thy Name and he said unto them I saw Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven V. 259. Glut the Grave Satisfie cloy the wide gaping Grave that e're it be satisfied must devour all Mankind The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death 1 Cor. 15. 26. Glut of the Lat Glutire to swallow V. 269. Filial Obedience The Duty and Submission which as a Son he paid his Almighty Father exceeded only his everlasting Love to mortal Men Filial of Filialis Lat. belonging to a Son Obedientia Lat. Duty Obedience V. 273. Thus replied Answered thus Of Replicare Lat. to reply to speak again to V. 276. My sole Complacence My only Delight and Pleasure In whom alone I am well pleased Complacentia Lat. of Complacere to like well See before V. 168. of this Book V. 282. Their Nature c. Joyn and unite their Manhood to their Godhead Perfect God and perfect Man c. according to St. Athanasius's Creed V. 285. By wonderous Birth Behold a Virgin shall Conceive and bear a Son Isa. 7. 14. and Matth. 7. 18. V. 286. The Head of all Mankind thô Adam's Son The Answer to the Question with which our Saviour posed the Pharisees Matth. 22. 45. Christ is Adam's and David's Son as to his Humanity and David's and Adam's Lord as to his Divinity therefore in the holy Page styled The last Adam The first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. V. 287. As in him perish For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22. Restored of Restaurare Lat. to renew revive V. 291. Thy Merit imputed shall absolve Thy holy Life and meritorious Death accounted and imputed to Mankind shall obtain Pardon and Forgiveness for as many as renounce their own Deserts and through Faith lay Claim to thine For as by one man's disobedience many were made Sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 19. And therrfore it was imputed to him for Righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone Abraham that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe him c. Rom. 4. v. 22 23 and 24. Imputed of the Lat. Imputare to reckon to account Absolve of the Lat. Absolvere to absolve to acquit to free V. 292. Who renounce their own both Righteous For who can justifie himself before God We must all say as Job did If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will I not lift up my head I am full of confusion Job 10. 15. We are all an unclean thing and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa. 64. 6. But could we do all that is commanded us we are unprofitable Servants Luke 17. 10. Renounce of the Lat. Renuntiare to forsake to disclaim V. 293. Live in the transplanted Removed from the killing Letter of the Law to the gracious Gospel that brought Life and Immortality to light pursuing the Simile used before at V. 288. of Christ being a second Root by whom we are Regenerated Transplantari Lat. to be removed as Trees are into another place a better soil V. 304. Degrade thine own Debase dishonour of Degradare Lat. to disgrace V. 307. God-like Fruition All that God enjoys Fruition of the Lat. Frui to enjoy Quitted all left forsaken all of the Fr. Quitter to leave V. 313. This Humiliation This thy humbling and debasing of thy self to redeem lost Man The greatest Humiliation sure that ever was where the Son of God made himself of no Reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of Men And being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Phil. 2. v. 7 8. V. 314. Thy Manhood to this Throne According to our Creed As also 1 Tim. 3. 16. God was manifested in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World received up into Glory And Ye Men of Galilee why stand ye Gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Acts 1. 11. Hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the Clouds of Heaven Matth. 26. 64 V. 315. Here shalt thou sit Incarnate Here
is the Safeguard of the Sex not too stiff and incompliant yet inflexible and disdaining to descend to any Indecency or Indiscretion a little Pride being a necessary Ingredient to preserve both Body and Mind in their Native Cleanliness and Purity Coy Shy or Schewen Bel. to shun to avoid Reluctant of Reluctans Lat. struggling of Reluctari Lat. to strive V. 312. Nor those Mysterious Parts c. Those Privy Parts then were not hid All the Secrets of Heathen Religion and Philosophy were carefully concealed from the Vulgar and therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mysteries not exposed to common and profane Eyes but by constant Concealment made more Awful and Majestick Our Author has well applyed it to those Parts which all Civilized Nations are justly concerned to conceal Concealed of con and celare Lat. to hide V. 313. Guilty Dishonest Shame Unseemly Shame the Off-spring of Guilt and Sin Difhonest ugly disgraceful of dis the Privative Particle and honestus Lat. comely Shame of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because discoverable in the Face disordered by the guilty Blush V. 314. Honour dishonourable Nihil Naturale turpe is an Axiom most true That none of the Works and Acts of Nature are disgraceful yet Sinful Mankind have introduced among them Dishonest Shame and a Dishonourable sort of Honour the meer Shews and Pretences of Purity which in their first state of Simplicity and Innocence were Strangers to the World when Man absolute Master of himself of all his Thoughts and Passions that obey'd the Sovereignty of Reason dreaded no Indecency though naked because innocent still visible in Children that play naked without the Crimson Coverture of a Blush till they attain the sense of Guilty Shame V. 323. Adam the goodliest Man of Men c. That the Protoplast the first Man came most compleat out of the Hand of his Creator perfect in all the Powers and Faculties both of Body and Soul That his Consort and Derivative Eve was also accomplish'd in like manner in the full Bloom of Beauty and all the Charming Ornaments of which her Sex was capable is beyond all question That they were of Growth fit for Propagation and of Understanding capable of GOD's Commands is evident from the Benediction bestowed on 'em Gen. 1. Vers. 28. and the Injunction Gen. 2. Vers. 17. which gave rise to that Opinion of the Fathers that Adam was created of the Size that his Sons might arrive at about Fifty Years old Childhood and Youth inlarging and lessening in the times of different Longaevity and therefore doubtless they did not only excel all their Descendents as the first Originals of Mankind but as the most exact Image of their Maker while they continued in glorious Innocence which in their sinful Posterity is so defaced that the most accomplish'd of either Sex is but a dull dry Copy of those Master-Pieces of the Almighty There is in these two Verses something so plain and yet so full and so close couched that it is hard to be exprest so fully and yet so concisely Omnes stirpe suâ genitos superavit Adamus Frontis honore sui nivei dulcedine vultûs Omnes stirpe suâ genitas superaverat Eva. Hog Adamus Ante homines à se genitos pulcherrimus unus Inter formosas Eva formosissima natas Both short of the Beauty as well as Brevity of the Original V. 325. Under a Tuft of Shade Under a shady Grove that on a Green allowed the wanton Winds a whispering place c. Tuft of the Fr. Touffe de bois a little Grove Trees growing thick about a Country Seat V. 329. To recommend cool Zephyr To make the soft West-Wind more pleasing Zephyr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the reviving Wind that awakens the Spring in Lat. Favonius Genitalis Mundi Spiritus à fovendo dictus Plin. Lib. 16. 25. The Favourite of the Poets the Inhabitant of Alcinous his Garden celebrated by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sive sub incertas Zephyris motantibus umbras Virg. Ecl. 5. V. 330. Appetite more grateful Hunger more pleasant in being satisfied Hunger the best Sawce tho' seldom served to the best furnish'd Tables Appetite Appetitus Lat. of Appetere to desire to crave V. 332. Nectarine Fruits c. Delicious Fruits which the o'er-loaded bending Boughs reach'd down to them as leaning sidelong they sate on the soft yielding Bank bestrew'd with Flowers Nectarine of Nectareus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sweet like Nectar better suiting the delicious Fruits of Paradise than Helens perfumed Petticoat in Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Compliant willing yielding of the Verb to comply that is to yield to agree to V. 333. Sate recline Sate leaning as the manner of the Ancients was whence accumbere Lat. to dine Recline Reclinus Lat. leaning lying down on Defigunt tellure hastās Scuta reclinant AEn 12. V. 334. Damask'd with Flowers Cover'd all o'er with Flowers Damask'd of Damassé Fr. to be wrought in Flowers like Silk or Linnen first so made at Damascus a Syrian City of great Fame now call'd Damas. V. 335. The savoury Pulp they chew They eat the soft Juicy inside of the Fruit. Savoury pleasant to the taste of savour sapor Lat. taste Pulp of Pulpa Lat. the Pith or inside of any thing that is soft as Pulpa Cassiae Jun. V. 336. Scoop the Brimming Stream And in the hollow Rind lave and take up the Brimful Stream an expedient more seemly than that of Diogenes Drinking out of his Hand V. 338. Nor Youthful Dalliance c. Nor Sportiveness and Youthful Pleasure such as becomes Young Persons joyn'd in Matrimonial State when by themselves alone Dalliance Pleasure of the Verb to Dally to play to divert one derived by some of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to flourish Youth being the fittest time for Dalliance others of Delay to while and pass the time away alluding to the Fr. Phrase Passer son envie Nuptial League Marriage the Covenant enter'd into by the Married Couple Nuptialis Lat. of Nuptiae Lat. a Wedding V. 340. Frisking play'd Danced and play'd about 'em endeavouring to divert their Lords Frisque Fr. brisk lively nimble V. 341. Of all Chase Of all sorts of Game such as are hunted since either for Sport or Prey of Chasser Fr. to hunt to pursue V. 343. Sporting the Lyon Ramp'd The Lyon ramping sported and play'd standing upright A Lyon Rampant is by the Heralds drawn standing on his hinder Legs and pawing with the other two although it be derivable of the Fr. Remper to creep V. 344. Dandl'd the Kid Play'd with and danc'd the Kid of the Ger. Danten or the Fr. Dandiner to play with as Nurses do with Children 'T is the general Opinion and highly probable that before Adam violated the Command of his Maker there was an Universal Peace even among the fiercest Beasts throughout the whole Creation but Sin being the Parent of Death disturbed that
Imbuere Lat. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to fill V. 219. Nor Tongue ineloquent Nor does thy Tongue want fit and full Expressions Ineloquens Lat. that cannot speak readily and copiously V. 223. Each Word each Motion forms Whether thou speak or art silent Gracefulness and Comeliness wait on thee and form each winning Word and each becoming Motion V. 231. On Excursion Bo. II. V. 397. V. 235. Incens'd Incensus Lat. angry of Incendere Lat. to fire to anger Behests Bo. III. V. 533. Enure Bo. II. V. 216. V. 241. Barricado'd strong strongly barr'd and fortified of the Fr. Barriquer to fence or strengthen a place with Barrels fill'd with Earth against the Enemies Shot of Bà rrique Fr. a Barrel V. 244. Torment and loud lament c. Lament Bo. I. V. 448. Primisque in faucibus Oris Luctus ultrices posuere cubilia curae Ferreique Eumenidum thalami discordia demens AEn 6. V. 253. To Converse induc'd me The desire of conversing and discoursing longer perswaded me to this hard Undertaking Converse Bo. II. V. 184. Induc'd perswaded of Inducere Lat. to lead to V. 259. By quick instinctive Motion Till raised by powerful and provoking Motion I started up Instinctive stirring of Instinguere and Instigare Lat. to perswade whence Instinctus Lat. a natural Perswasion aad inward Motion V. 263. And liquid Lapse of Murmuring c. The moist motion the nimble gliding of pure purling Streams Lapse of Lapsus Lat. a sliding away a quick yet gentle motion At amnis Labitur labetur in omne volubilis aevum Hor. The motions of the Heavenly Bodies is express'd by the same word Cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu AEn 4. V. 267. My self I then perus'd I look'd my self all over heedfully Perus'd of Pervidere Lat. to look over V. 269. Witb supple Joynts With yielding Nerves Of Souple Fr. soft and bending of Sub and Plico Lat. to yield to bend as the Joynts Juncturae Lat. do V. 272. My Tongue obey'd And well it might as being the fittest Instrument of all Human Organs to signifie and express the conceptions of our Minds wonderful in its easie Motion as well as Situation in the very way of our Breath by the breaking of which against the Palate Teeth or Lips those many different and distinct Sounds are made Thô to speak be natural to all Mankind yet this or that Language is artificial and the difference of 'em arises from the consent of numbers of Men to understand such Things by such Names and Sounds That Adam spoke Hebrew is most probable as well as his Descendents till the confusion at Babel a Language whose Purity the Jews have by their frequent Captivities their being dispeopled and dispersed all over the World as well as by their upstart Pointings and Antichristian Depravations and blind Obstinacy quite lost V. 290. To my former State insensible To my First and Original Condition of Insensibility void of all Sense and Being of which I was able to give no account Insensible Insensibilis Lat. that comes not under the comprehension of Sense Unfelt not understood V. 291. To dissolve To be broken in pieces thinking my whole Frame as coming together beyond my knowledge was now forthwith like to be loosed and united Dissolve of Dissolvere Lat. to untie and from the breaking of those suttle Bands that bind Soul and Body together to die Adam as yet Sinless is supposed to have no notion of Death or but a very imperfect one What e'er death is some dreadful thing no doubt Bo. IV. Vers. 425. V. 292. Stood at my Head a Dream Where busie Fancy in which those strange dark Scenes are laid has its Seat and Residence according to Homer's Philosophic Observation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 293. Whose inward Apparition Whose Image working inwardly in my Imagination gently stirr'd my Fancy and perswaded me I was still in Being such as lately I survey'd my self Apparition Apparitio Lat. the appearance of any thing of Apparere Lat. to be seen V. 301. By the Hand he took me rais'd and over Fields c. The Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden Gen. 2. 15. On which Text Interpreters have these three Opinions That God either by some inward Admonishment directed Adam to Paradise as our Saviour is said To have been led up of the spirit into the wilderness Matth. 4. 1. Or by his Angel appearing to him conducted him as those did Lot out of Sodom While he linger'd the men laid hold on his hand and upon the hand of his Wife c. And they brought him forth and set him without the City Gen. 19. 16. Or lastly according to the Translation of Enoch Wâ—â— walked with God and was not because God took him Gen. 5. 24. And Philip who having baptized the Eunuch was caught away by the spirit of the Lord and found at Azotus Acts 8. 39 40. To this our Author seems to incline making Adam's unaccountable Progress from the Place of his Creation to Paradise like to a Dream and Fancy of the Night V. 311. As the Dream had lively shadow'd As my Dream had in the Images of my Imagination represented it express and plain Shadow'd is an admirable word setting forth the dark Resemblances of Dreams those imperfect Night-pieces dimly presented to our drowsie Senses V. 323. Whose Operation brings c. Forbear to taste of the Tree whose forbidden Fruit if thou presume to eat of contrary to my command will work in thee the Knowledge of Good and Evil Good lost by thy transgressing my Command and Evil brought on thy self by Disobedience Good lost by forfeiting my Favour and thy Innocence Evil drawn on thy self by Sin the bitter Consequence the sad Sequel of thy Offence the woful Effect of thy Folly Death Operation Operatio Lat. working Consequence Consequentia Lat. the Effect what follows necessarily V. 330. Inevitably die Shalt be sure to die thô not precisely on that day but from that day shalt become Mortal as our Author well interprets the Sentence recorded Gen. 2. 17. Inevitably unavoidably Inevitabilis Lat. that cannot be escaped V. 333. Sternly he pronounced the rigid Interdiction Severely he commanded the strict Forbearance Sternly awfully of the Lat. Austerus Pronounced Bo. II. V. 353. Rigid Bo. III. V. 212. Interdiction Interdictio Lat. a forbidding V. 335. Not to Incur Thô in my Power left to the choice and freedom of my Will not to offend against not to violate of Incurrere Lat. to run into or against Purpose Bo. III. V. 172 And thus his merciful Commands renew'd V. 344. To receive their Names Names according to the best Enquiries have no other relation to the Things they signifie than the common Consent of those agreeing so to difference and distinguish them thô the Jews pretended the Names of Animals in their Language for on those only Adam imposed them Gen. 2.
Wâ—en thou art seen least wise Whose greatest Wisdom is to observe thy weakness who sees most clearly her Advantages in thy fits of Folly V. 585. To subdue the Soul To conquer or overcome of Subdere Lat. to subdue V. 587. Attractive c. Whatever in her Conversation thou findest noble and reasonable and thence charming cherish still Attractive Attrabere Lat. to draw to to entice V. 591. In reason and is judicious Noble manly Love is guided by Reasonâ— not giddy and blind as that the Poets feign but rational and judicious adviseable able to choose and distinguish 'T is carnal and low Love of which Ovid said Nec in â—nâ sede morantur Majestâ—â— Amor. The Angelic Reason well advises Adam not to subject himself to his Desires nor to suffer Transported Passion to degrade the Majesty of Man Judicious of Judicium Lat. Judgment The Sealâ— the way up of Sealâ— Lat. a Laddâ—r V. 595. Half Abash'd Almost out of Countenance Abash'd of Esbahir Fr. to affright or Abbaisser Fr. to humble to render dejected shame disordering the Face and as it were casting down the Countenance V. 597. In Procreation Procreatio Lat. the begetting of Children or by Beasts their like of Procreare Lat. to beget V. 598. Of the Genial Bed Thô I have higher thoughts of the Propagation of Mankind and conceive there is something more Mysterious and Awful in it because thereby God's Image first on me imprinted is to be multiplied by my Posterity Genial Bed the Marriage Bed Genialis à Gignendo Lat. V. 601. Those Decencies Those many Graces that so wonderfully set off all her Actions and become her very words Decens Lat. comely becoming V. 605. Harmony to behold An Agreement more Musical and pleasant in a Wedded Couple than any Consort can be to the Ear. Harmony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an accord and consent of Voices in Singing of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to agree V. 617. Mix Irradiance virtual or immediate Touch. Mix they their pure Emanations like Streams of liquid Light twisting their bright Celestial Rays like the Sun 's subtil Beams darted at distance or by close Conjunction and mutual touch A curious Enquiry long since determined by our Saviour For when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage But are as the Angels which are in heaven Mar. 12. 25. 'T is an Opinion of the School-men that one End thô less principal of God's creating Man was to repeople Heaven emptied by the Fall of the wicked Angels of many of its Glorious Inhabitants by Creatures of another Mould the more to enhance the loss of those Rebellious Nimirum diminutio Angelorum ob ruinam malorum spirituum supplemento hominum erat resarcienda Perer. in Gen. c. 2. v. 18. At which our Poet hints Into our Room of Bliss thus high advanc'd Creatures of other Mould Earth born perhaps Not Spirits c. Bo. IV. Vers. 359. And further But lest his Heart exalt him in the harm Already done to have dispeopl'd Heav'n My Damage fondly deem'd I can repair That Detriment c. Bo. VII Vers. 150. Mirari licet cur Deus cum posset ruinas Angelorum novis à se creatis Angelis reaedificare c. Cur inquam homines alterius naturae conditionis fecerit quos reponeret pro Angelis Rupert From all which 't is obvious to infer that the Angels are reputed to be of one Sex otherwise they might have repaired their decrease by Propagation as our Author remarks in Adam's Complaint O why did GOD Creator wise that Peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine Not fill the World With Men as Angels without Feminine Bo. X. Vers. 888. Irradiance Irradiatio Lat. a darting or shining forth A word well chosen to express our little knowledge of Angelic Beings Virtual Virtualis Lat. powerful as things are said to be that act and are efficacious at a distance as the Sun is said to be Virtually in the Earth by the activity and force of his Light and Heat V. 624. In Eminence and Obstacle c. We enjoy to the heighth without any hindrance In Eminence Eminenter Lat. in the highest degree Bo. II. V. 6. Obstacle Obstaculum Lat. hindrance lett of Obstando Lat. to stand in the way of Membrane a thin Skin Membrana Lat. Parchment Exclusive Bars Bars that hinder and shut out the longing carnal Lover of Excludere Lat. to shut out V. 627. Total they mix Entirely they embrace and mix with one another without any opposition not as Flesh with Flesh and Soul with Soul Mediantibus corporibus but fully and freely as Air doth with Air. V. 632. Hesperean Sets But I can now discourse no longer the Setting Sun beyond Cape Verd and the Islands ever Green draws near the Western Ocean the time of my departure as before For these mid-hours till Evening rise I have at will Bo. V. Vers. 376. The Earths green Cape Cape de Verde Caput Viride the most Western Point of Affrica called anciently Hesperium Cornu Cape Capo Cabo Cap all of the Lat Caput the Head A Cape is the utmost End of a high Headland or Promontory which shoots it self far into the Sea Verdant Green Bo. VII Vers. 310. Hesperean Sets is setting in the West Hesperean of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Occidentalis the Western part of Heaven or Earth Hesperus the Evening Star rising there V. 637. Thine and of all thy Sons the Weal or Woe in thee is plac'd Weal of the Sax Well The Welfare the Happiness or Misery of thy Posterity depends on thee Prolis spes una futurae Exemplo est firmanda tuo sunt fata tuorum Te penes in te omnis domus instaurata recumbit AEn 12. V. 641. In thine own Arbitriment c. 'T is free and left to thy choice to stand upright of fall offending Arbitriment Arbitrium Lat. judgment choice Repell reject disdain of Repellere Lat. to resist V. 645. Benediction Benedictio Lat. Blessing Ibid. Since to part Since you must go Part of Partir Fr. to depart V. 649. Thy Condescention Thy Humility to discourse with me and answer my Enquiries has been free and familiar and shall be kept for ever in thankful Remembrance Condescention Condescentio Lat. a yielding to of Condescendere Lat. to stoop to as the Angel is here supposed to Man's inferior Understanding NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK IX Verse 5. VEnial Discourse unblam'd No more I shall relate where GOD or Angel his Messenger Guest-like was pleased to visit Man familiar as a Friend and with him share a homely Meal allowing him mean-while freedom of Speech without Reproof Venial Discourse Pardonable such as thô faulty yet might be pass'd by Venialis Lat. Pardonable of Venia Lat. Pardon V. 6. Those Notes to Tragic I now must change those softer Notes in which I sung the Angels good and gracious Admonitions to Enquiring Adam to others more dire and dismal such as suit the Tragedies
that Sin and Death brought on his wretched Offspring Tragic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Severe Unfortunate such as are the Subjects of Tragedies full of Death and Destruction V. 13. Death's Harbinger Low and mean Suspicion Faith forfeited on Man's behalf Rebellion and Disobedience On God's part Offended and Estranged Distance and Disgust Anger and just Reproof and Sentence given that filled this World with woe by bringing Sin into it and her Attendant Death and Misery manifold the sad forerunner of Mortality Alienated Bo. I. Vers. 451. Rebuke of Reboucher Fr. to reprove to silence by just Rebuke of Re and Bouche of Bucca Lat. the Mouth Harbinger Herberger Belg. an Officer that goes before a King's Retinue to provide Lodging well allow'd to Death the King of Terrors V. 15. Of stern Achilles Sad Undertaking yet a Subject much more sublime than the Wrath of fierce Achilles wreck'd on his Foe Hector that fled from him thrice round Troy's ancient Wall Achilles the Son of Peleus and Thetis the Valiantest of all the Grecian Hero's of whose Anger against Agamemnon Homer composed his Ilias He slew Hector the Son of Priam who avoided him by flying three times about the City before he durst abide him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imitated by Virgil in the Combat between AEneas and Turnus Quinque orbes explent cursu totidemque retexunt Huc illuc nec enim levia aut ludicra petuntur Praemia sed Turni de vitâ sanguine certant AEn 12. Troy Troja a City of Phrygia in the Lesser Asia famous for its Ruine after ten years War It was situated on the River Xanthus near Mount Ida three miles from the Archipelago Immortalized by Homer's Ilias and Virgil's AEneis Fugitive Lat. Fugitivus a Run-away V. 17. Of Turnus for Lavinia disespous'd A Theme more lofty than the Rage of Turnus for the loss of his betrothed Lavinia Turnus Son of Daunus and Venilia courted Lavinia only Daughter of King Latinus and Amata who betrothed her to him but divers Prodigies hindring the Match and the Oracles declaring Lavinia was to expect a Foreign Husband AEneas arriving in Italy slew Turnus and obtained her therefore said to be Disespoused Et consanguineo toties data dextera Turno AEn 7. V. 18. Or Neptune's ire or Juno's c. Or Neptune's wrath that for so many years toss'd and turmoil'd the Grecian Ulysses or Juno's Spleen that persecuted the Trojan AEneas Son of Venus Neptune Son of Saturn and Lord of the Sea was enraged against Ulysses for putting out Polyphemus his Eye his Son by the Nymph Thoosa and in Revenge thereof he Shipwrack'd him divers times in his return home from the Trojan War 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 19. Cytherea's Son AEneas Son of Anchises and Venus named Cytherea of Cythera an Island where she was worship'd was hated by Juno Sister and Wife to Jupiter for divers Reasons given by Virgil in the beginning of his AEn 1. Quo numine laeso Quidve dolens Regina Deum tot volvere casus Infignem pietate virum tot adire labores Impulerit c. Perplex'd vexed and disturbed of Perplexor Lat. to intangle Greek Graecus Lat. a Native of Greece V. 23. And Dictates to me c. Who nightly visits me unask'd and in my Dreams informs me or inspires me with my suddain Song Unimplor'd Non imploratus Lat. Uninvited of Un answering the Negative In Lat. and Implorare Lat. to entreat Dictates of Dictare Lat. to indite to tell one what he shall write Unpremeditated of In and Praemeditatus Lat. not much mused and thought upon but suddain and easie as inspired V. 25. Heroic Song Poema Heroïcum Heroic Poesie such as described the Actions of great Men. Hero's Bo. I. V. 552. consisting chiefly in Warlike Deeds Was hitherto the only Argument Heroic deem'd V. 28. Not sedulous by Nature Not naturally industrious Sedulus Lat. careful To indite Indicere Lat. to relate Slaughter and War as Bella horrida bella Arma virumque cano AEn 1. V. 29. Chief Maistry to dissect c. Where the chief Master-piece is to hack and hew in pieces Fabulous Hero's in feign'd Encounters the nobler and more commendable Courage of Patience and generous Suffering let slip uncelebrated Maistry of Maistrise Fr. cunning skill of Maistre Fr. a Master an Instructor To Dissect of Dissecare Lat. to cut in pieces Havoc Bo. II. V. 1009. Fortitude Fortitudo Lat. Manhood Courage V. 32. Heroic Martyrdom Noble and gallant Suffering for the sake of Truth and a good Conscience 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Witness a Testimony given to the Truth by Christians sealing their Faith by their Blood thence styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Witnesses in the highest sense as St. Stephen's whose early Suffering Acts 7. 59. gave him the Title of The Proto-martyr Acts 22. 20. V. 35. Impreses quaint Fine Devices and Inscriptions explaining the Figures and Emblems painted or carved on Shields With boastful Argument portray'd Bo. VI. V. 84. Impreses of Impresa Ital. a Design an Undertaking of the Lat. Impressio Emblazon'd Book V. Vers. 592. Quaint Bo. VIII V. 78. Ibid. Caparisons and Steeds Horses and their Warlike Harness Of the Fr. Caparasson or Ital. Caparisone as if Campestris apparatus Lat. the Furniture for the Field V. 36. Bases Foot-cloaths or houses any thing that hangs low of Bas Fr. low Ibid. Tinsel Trappings And their gawdy Ornaments Tinsel shining glittering of Estinceller Fr. to sparkle Gorgeous Bo. II. V. 3. V. 37. At Joust and Torneament At a solemn Tilting The same thing twice express'd Joust of the Fr. Jouster to run with Spear one against another in fierce or counterfeited Fight Some will have it of Justa Lat. Funerals because these Sports were at first Instituted on those occasions and called Funeral Games The Agmen Trojanum on the Anniversary of Anchises's Funeral performed by Jülus something resembling a Tilting Convertere vias infestaque tela tulere Inde alios ineunt cursus aliosque recursus Adversis spatiis alternosque orbibus orbes Impediunt pugnaeque cient simulacra subarmis AEn 5. Torneament Turnament of Torneamento and Torneare Ital. to come round to fetch a compass as those that run a-tilt do when they miss their Adversary renewing their Course and Encounter Ibid. Marshal'd Feast Then sumptuous Feasts in good order ranged and brought up in spacious Halls by Stewards and their Trains Marshal'd of the Fr. Mareschal the chief Commander of an Army from the care in ranging the Dishes at a Feast as judiciously as the Divisions in a Field against the Day of Battel often less dangerous of the two Sewers Persons that usher in the Meat to a King's Table and place it there of the Fr. Asseoir to set down anciently writ Asscours Seneshals Stewards Fr. Seneschal of Sind Ger. a Family and
AEn 7. Laurus erat tecti medio c. V. 925. Under Bann to touch Under Command and Injunction or under a Curse not to touch it Ban Fr. for a Proclamation Command or Edict solemnly publish'd Or Bann is of the Belg. Bannen to curse in the Fol. Edition it is misprinted Bane See V. 663. V. 934. Inducement strong Powerful Perswasion Inducement of Inducere Lat. to move or perswade Most probable it is that Adam had hopes of attaining to a higher degree of Life and Knowledge and that the Temptation attack'd him on that side as well as his weaker Eve for most Interpreters supposed that meant of him by way of Rebuke Job 28. 28. And unto the man he said Behold the fear of the Lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding V. 943. With us must fail dependent c. Sharing in our Welfare or Woe depending on our Condition as being made our Servants and thence subject to Vanity as the whole Creation is by St. Paul described Groaning and travelling in pain together until now Rom. 8. 20 21 22. Even as we our selves groan within our selves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body v. 23. Dependent Dependens Lat. subject to of Dependere Lat. to rely upon V. 954. If Death consort with thee If Death must be thy Portion thy Lot of Consors Lat. a like a Companion Cui communis sors est V. 963. Ingaging me to emulate Obliging me to imitate this high Example of thy Love AEmulari Lat. to endeavour to be like V. 977. Death menac'd would ensue Could I think Death wherewith we are threaten'd would follow upon our Eating would certainly overtake us Menac'd of Menacer Fr. of Minari Lat. to threaten Ensue Ensuyvre Fr. Insequi Lat. to persue to follow after V. 980. Die deserted Die alone forsaken and forlorn Desertus Lat. Deserere to forsake Pernicious Bo. I. Vers. 282. V. 989. Fear of Death deliver to the Winds Throw away and despise this vain fear of Death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec ferre videt sua gaudia ventos AEn 10. Tristitiam metus Tradas protervis in mare Creticum Portare ventis Hor. Carm. 1. Od. 26. V. 998. Not deceiv'd According to the Historical Relation of Moses he did not plead for himself that he was deceiv'd the Excuse of Eve cheated by the Serpent but rather inticed and perswaded by her The woman whom thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree and I did eat Gen. 3. 12. Whence St. Paul Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression 1 Tim. 2. 14. V. 999. Overcome with Female Charm Credendum est illum virum suae faeminae uni unum hominem homini conjugem conjugi ad Dei legem transgrediendam non tanquam verum loquenti credidisse seductum sed sociali necessitudine paruisse Aug. l. 11. de Genes ad litt c. 42. Which the holy Page styles Harkening unto the voice of his wife Gen. 3. 17. Improbe Amor quid non mortalia pectora cogis AEn 4. V. 1003. At compleating of the Mortal Sin Original For till Adam had transgress'd by eating the Forbidden Fruit the Original Sin that infected all the Nations of his Posterity was not accomplish'd See V. 782. Original Bo. VI. V. 511. Compleating of Complere Lat. to fulfil Mortal Mortalis Lat. deadly of Mors Death V. 1005. Nor Eve to iterate c. Nor Eve to repeat her Transgression Of Iterare Lat. to do over again So Horace Cras ingens iterabimus aequor Carm. l. 1. Od. 7. V. 1008. As with new Wine intoxicated As if disorder'd by new Wine Intoxicated of Intossicare Ital. to Poison Tossico and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Poison of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Bow because barbarous Encmies used to poison their Arrows at last Toxicum made Lat. was used to signifie any sort of Poison many of which as Phitra c. did disturb Men's Minds and made 'em mad Operation Bo. VIII V. 323. Display'd Bo. II. V. 10. V. 1013. Carnal Desire enflaming Blowing the Desires of the Flesh into a Flame Carnalis Lat. fleshly of Caro Lat. Flesh. V. 1014. Lascivious Eyes Wanton Looks Eyes full of Lust. Lascivus Lasciviosus Lat. lustful Dalliance Bo. IV. V. 338. V. 1017. Exact of Taste and Elegant Well skill'd and curious in thy Taste Exact Bo. VIII V. 539. Elegant Elegans Lat. Choice of Eligere Lat. to pick and choose Ut in epularum apparatu à magnificentiâ recedens non se parcum solum sed etiam elegantem videri volet eliget quibus ut atur Cice. de Orat. Sapience Bo. VII V. 193. of Sapere Lat. to taste to distinguish thence to be wise to know V. 1020. Savour we apply and Palate call judicious We use Taste in many Senses and apply Judgment to the Palate Palatum sagax in gustu Plaut Hic planè nihil sapit Cic. is an unfavory Fellow a Fool. Nec enim sequitur ut cui cor sapiat ei non sapiat Palatus Cic. de Fin. Savour Sapor Lat. Tincam multa ridiculè dicentem Granius obruerat nescio quo sapore vernaculo Cic. de Cla. Orat. So we say This savours of Atheism c. Judicious of Judicium Lat. Judgment so a Man is said to be a good Judge of Wine that has a good Palate Palatus or Palatum Lat. the Roof of the Mouth Purveyed Provided of Pourveoir Fr. Providere Lat. V. 1024. True Relish tasting Did not understand Taste in its heigth and perfection Relish of Relecher Fr. to lick over again as Hauts Gousts entice us to do V. 1036. Darted Contagious Fire Shot forth Infectious Fire Darted of Darder Fr. to fling a Dart. Contagiosus Lat. Infectious V. 1040. Pansies Violets and Asphodel c. Pansies of Pensée Fr. Viola Flammea of Tricolor called a Paunsie or a Fancy Violets Violette Fr. Viola Lat. Aspâ—odel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Daffodil Hyacinth Hyacinthus a Flower that sprang out of the Blood of a lovely Boy the Darling of Apollo slain by him by mischance See Bo. IV. V. 301. V. 1047. That with exhilerating Vapour bland As soon as that deceitful Fruit whose soft and pleasing Fume had fed their Fancies and play'd about their Animal Spirits had lost its force and having misled their Minds was now spent and evaporated Exhilerating of Exhilerare Lat. to delight to refresh Bland Bo. V. vers 5. Exhaled of Exhalare Lat. to breath out V. 1050. With Conscious Dreams encumbred Loaded and perplexed with guilty Dreams such as arose from an inward sense of their Transgression Encumbred of the Fr. Encombrer or Ital. Ingombrare to vex disturb of the Ger. Kummern to molest V. 1053. Soon found their Eyes how open'd Not as the Serpent had promised 'em To be as Gods Gen. 3. 5. but to be less than Men such as they were while Innocent They were naked before and were not ashamed Gen. 2. 25. Non quod eis sua
shall lead them unto living fountains of waters Rev. 7. 17. The fountain of the water of life Ibid. ch 21. v. 6. and ch 22. v. 1 17. Resorting of Ressortir Fr. to issue forth to repair to V. 84. O Sons like one of us Man is become And the Lord God said Behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil Gen. 3. 22. All Interpreters expound these words Ironically as referring to the false Promises of Satan in the Serpent Ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evil v. 5. To which our Author subscribes by Let him boast his knowledge But he has in part followed the Opinion of Hieron Oleaster that this usher'd in by this Adverb of Demonstration was spoken to the Angels In their State thô firm yet to confirm 'em more V. 71. Sec O my Sons how like to God deceived man has made himself Defended Fruit of the forbidden Tree of Defendre Fr. to forbid of Defendere Lat in the Law sense to Prohibit so used by Chaucer Where can you say in any manner Age That ever God defended Marriage V. 92. How variable and vain self left I know his Heart how foolish and fickle if left to its self and the guidance of his giddy Will Variable Variabilis Lat. changeable V. 95. And live for ever If Adam had not sinned he had never suffered Death which by sin entred into the world Rom. 5. 12. yet was he even in his Innocency Mortal that is under a possibility of Decay and Death from which God would have preserved him Sin then did not make him Mortal but with his Innocency bereaved him of God's wonderful Preservation and delivered him up to his natural Mortality Homo qui mortalis erat redigi natur aliter poterat in suum cinerem voluntate Dei viveret semper nisi peccatum obstitisset non est itaque per peccatum factus mortalis sed qui cum erat innocens voluntate Dei servabatur ob peccatum traditus est suae mortalitati Vall. c. 6. How this wonderful Preservation depended on the Tree of Life is hard to guess most probable it is that the Fruit of this Restorative Tree was most connatural to Man's Life easiest to be turned into and assimulated into his Substance endowed with a Preservative Power against all Decay by which our Lives had been lengthen'd out to a vast Longevity till it had pleased our Creator to have removed and transplanted us into Heaven For For ever does not imply Eternity but a long Duration of Time in Scripture as of the Servant whose Ear was bored through He shall be thy servant for ever Deut. 15. 17. So the Hills are styled Everlasting Gen. 49. 26. O King live for ever Dan. 3. 9. I will not eat flesh for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 8. 13. c. Now lest he put forth his hand and take also the tree of life and eat and live for ever Gen. 3. 22. This seems to manifest God's Compassion and Commiseration of lost Man lest eating of this enlivening Fruit he should prolong and lengthen out his miserable Life farther than what was fit at which our Author hinted telling us God provided Death for Adam a final Remedy lest by that long Life he was capable of he should Eternize his Wee that is live under it too long Ibid. Dream at least to live for ever Shews our Author did not understand the Tree of Life capable of making Adam live Eternally without Removal into the Heavenly Regions Rupertus believed this wonderful Fruit endued with a Power able to have made Adam Immortal if he had once tasted of it and that Satan and he were both ignorant that there was such a Preservative Plant in God's Garden for had the Devil known it as he made him miserable by Eating of the forbidden Tree so he would have endeavoured to have made that Misery perpetual by perswading him to have eaten of the Tree of Life Si enim vel ille scisset nunquam consilium suae malignitatis ita dimidiasset sed sicut illud lignum temerare persuasit ut miseros faceret sic istud praeripere suasisset ut aeternaliter miseros misere aeternos efficeret Com. in Gen. c. 30. l. 3. But he forgot what St. Paul tells us That God is faithful who suffers us not to be tempted above what we are able but will with the temptation make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. V. 98. To till the ground whence he was taken Gen. 3. 23. Michael Bo. 6. v. 44. Behest Bo. 3. v. 533. V. 102. Of flaming Warriours A choice Angelic Guard His ministers a flaming fire Psal. 104. 4. V. 103. To invade vacant Possession Attempt to possess himself of Paradise empty and void by Man's expulsion Invade Invadere Lat. to go into V. 111. Bewailing their Excess Sorrowing for their Sin Excess Excessus Lat. a going beyond Sin is a going beyond the bounds of our Duty set by God's Commands by the same Metaphor called Transgression Disconsolate comfortless of Dis and Consolari Lat. to comfort Reveal discover Revelare Lat. to shew by removing the Vail V. 115. Intermix my Covenant Bring in by thy Discourse my Agreement and Reconciliation made with them by the Atonement of my Son to be born of the Woman's Seed Gen. 3. 15. Intermix Intermiscere Lat. to mingle with Covenant Fr. Conventum Lat. an Agreement of Convenire Lat. to agree V. 120. Of a Sword the flame And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming Sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life Gen. 3. 24. Cherubic Watch c. a Guard of Cherubims armed with shining Swords shooting forth Flame God set a double Guard before his Garden Angels those vigilant Spirits and Ministers to forbid the Fiends and a flaming Sword to affright Adam and Eve the Expelled Offenders Thus the Angel that withstood Balaam is represented And he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand Numb 22. 31. In the same manner David saw the angel that smote the people 2 Sam. 23. 17. Cherubic Cherubicus Lat. of a Cherub Bo. 1. v. 157. Receptacle Bo. 7. v. 307. V. 125. Man once more to delude Lest Satan by tempting them with the Fruit of the Tree of Life and thereby promising them Exemption from Death the Sentence denounc'd against them might again delude 'em and interrupt their Repentance by a new Presumption Debuisse â— Paradisi aditu arceri Daemenem ne eum in locum penetrans decerperet fructum arboris vitae cujus promissione ac donatione mâ—rtales prorogandae vitae avidissimos curiosissimos falleret ad sui cultum obsequium adduceret Perer. l. 6. V. 127. The Cohort bright The bright Brigade Cohors Lat. was a Band of 555 Fooâ—-Soldiers and 66 Horse-men 10 of which constituted a Roman Logion V. 129. Like a double Janus Each
had four Faces like a twofold Janus According to Ezekiel's Vision And every one had four faces ch 1. v. 6. And their whole bodies and their backs and their hands and their Wings were full of eyes round about Ezek. 10. 12. Double Duplex Lat. twofold Janus was King of Italy in whose Court Saturn took Sanctuary for his great Wisdom he was inrolled among the Gods and Numa Pompilius built him a Temple in which his Image stood adorn'd with two Faces thence by some taken for Noah who saw the restor'd World as well as the destroy'd this being Renown'd also for teaching the Use of the Vine Others say he was called Biceps and Bifrons from his Skill in Things past being good at guessing at those to come His Temple stood always open in time of War and was never shut but when Rome was in perfect Peace which happen'd but twice in all the Progress of the Roman Power Saturnusque senex Janique bifrontis imago Vestibulo astabant AEn 7. V. 131. Of Argus Argus was a Shepherd feign'd to have had 100 Eyes to whose custody Juno committed the white Cow into which her wanton Jupiter had changed his Mistress Io. Aristoridae servandam tradidit Argo Centum luminibus cinctum caput Argus habebat Met. l. 1. V. 132. Charm'd with Arcadian Pipe The Angelic Eyes were more watchful than to be â—ull'd asleep by the Shepherds Pipe named Arcadian of Arcadia a part of Greece abounding in Pasturage and therefore resounding with the Pastoral Pipe To Drouze of Droosen Belg. to be sleepy Pastoral Pastoralis Lat. of Pastor a Shepherd V. 133. Of Hermes or his Opiate Rod Of Mercury who by the help of his Pipe and drowsie Rod charmed Argus fast asleep and struck off his Head Hermes Bo. 3. v. 603 Opiate drowsie of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Opium Lat. Poppy Juice of which sleeping Medicines are made This Rod was one of the Utensils of Mercury Virgamque potenti Sâ—mniferam sumpsisse manu Languida permulcens medicatâ lumina virgâ Met. l. 1. V. 135. Leucothea wak'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Morning the White Goddess as her Greek Name imports Cicero says her Latin Name was Matuta by which that the Morning was meant he proves out of Lucretius lib. 5. Tempore item certo roseam Matuta per auras AEtheris auroram defert lumina pandit Homer makes her a Sea-Nymph and a Friend to Saylors Day-break is a Darling no less at Sea than on Shore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Resalute to Revisit Resalutare Lat. Orisons Bo. 5. v. 145. Imbalm'd Bo. 2. v. 842. V. 139. So prevalent as to concern So powerful as to affect the Mind of God in Heaven ever happy Prevalent Bo. 6. v. 411. Ibid. Or to incline his Will Or to render him propitious to our Prayer Of Inclinare Lat. to bend often applied to God Humanitùs Let my prayer come before thee incline thine ear unto my cry Psal. 88. 2. Bow down thine ear O Lord hear me Psal. 86. 1. Encline thine ear O Lord and hear open thine eyes O Lord and behold Isa. 37. 17. Placable Placabilis Lat. reconcilable of Placare Lat. to appease V. 159. Eve rightly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to live Because she was the mother of all living Gen. 3. 20. He had named her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Woman the common Appellative of all her kind Gen. 2. 23. expressive of her Original Extraction out of Man Now he gives her a proper and particular Name denoting her Excellency above all her Sex that she was to be the Mother of all Mankind living here and of those that were to inherit everlasting life since Mother to her who bore our Saviour the Seed of the Woman Some think Adam gave his Wife this Name by way of Ironie and cruelest Reproach because Recorded by Moses just after their Sentence received when she deserved in the bitterness of his Soul to have heard her self styled the Mother of Death and Damnation Rupertus is of an Opinion more improbable that Adam seeing his Death not instant despised the Denunciation of it and slighting its Sentence styled his Spouse the Mother of all things living Dicenti Deo Pulvis es in Pulverem reverteris adeo non credidit â—t è contrario vocaret nomen â—xoris suae Evam id est vitam eo quod mater esset cunctorum viventium Lib. 3. c. 26. de Trinit But our Poet better applies it to the early Promise of the Victory over Satan by our Saviour the Seed of the Woman as do the most Judicious and Authentic Commentators Demeanour Bo. 4. v. 128. V. 169. The Sourse of Life The Well-spring of Life La Source Fr. the Fountain-head V. 178. Till Day droop Till Day decline or decay as Flowers do that droop hanging down their Heads withering V. 182. But Fate subscribed not But God's Eternal Decree consended not to her Desires Sed fata resistunt Geo. 4. Non se fata suis patiuntur ducere viam Auspiciis AEn 4. Subscribed of Subscribere Lat. to under-write thence to agree to Imprest mark'd made manifest Bo. 3. v. 388. V. 185. The Bird of Jove The Eagle a Bird sacred to Jupiter and feigned by the Poets to attend on his Thunder Fulmen non percutit è volucribus Aquilam Plin. l. 2. c. 22. Rubrâ fulvus Jovis ales in aethrâ AEn 12. Quem praepes ab Idâ Sublimem pedibus rapuit Jovis armiger uncis AEn 5. Ibid. Stoop'd from his aëry Tour Descended from his lofty Flight To stoop at is a term among Faulconers when a Hawk got up aloft on the Wings comes down at his Quarry Tour Fr. a wheeling such as Birds make in their flight Cycnos AEthereâ quos lapsa plagâ Jovis ales aperto Turbabat caelo AEn 1. V. 187. The Beast that reigns in Woods The Lion King of the Forrest V. 194. By these mute Signs By these dumb shews in Nature Adam was an early Augur and if any Observations were to be made upon the flight of Birds c. had the most Skill therein as being best acquainted with their Nature A Prediction of this kind Virgil has introduced Alto Dat signum caelo Quo non praesentius ullum Turbavit mentes Italas monstroque fefellit Namque volans rubrâ fulvus Jovis ales in aethrâ Littoreas agitabat aves turbamque sonantem Agminis aligeri AEn 12. V. 204. Darkness ere Day 's mind course Noctis faciem nebulas fecisse volucres Sub nitido mirata die Met. l. 1. V. 207. With something Heavenly fraught That comes down loaden with something from Heaven Fraught of the Fr. Freter to load a Ship whence our Fraight Jasper Bo. 3. v. 363. Alt Bo. 6. v. 532. Apparition Bo. 8. v. 293. V. 214. Jacob in Mahanaim The Vision that Jacob saw in Mahanaim of his Angelic Guardians was not more Glorious than this of the descending Angelic Host into