former Ages now the Word is applied to Guns and more especially to great Guns any number of which is called A Train of Artillery Fraught loaden of the Word to Fraight or Lade a Ship of the Fr. Fretes V. 716. Over the Caspian Over the Caspian Sea so called of the Caspii People of Scythia bordering on it Southward now called Mer de Bacu or de Sala V. 717. Hovering a space c. Delaying a while To hover is properly to fly about to and fro as Birds do about their Nests or young ones not to fix to make a feint as Armies sometimes do hovering about one place when they design the Siege of another Ibid. Till Winds the Signal blow Thunder seldom happens without Wind therefore described with Wings and compounded by Virgil with certain Portions of Wind. Radios rutili tres ignis alitis austri AEn 8. Fulminis afflavit ventis contigit igni AEn 2. V. 718. Their dark Encounter Their dismal Shock in the mid Sky Encounter of Encontre Fr. an Engagement a meeting and Shocking of Charging Enemies V. 719. So frown'd the mighty Combatants The mighty Champions Combatant of Combatans Fr. of Combatre to fight V. 722. To meet so great a Foe For never was either of them like to meet so great an Enemy but once more when our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ did at his Resurrection encounter conquer and triumph over both Death and Hell when he saw Satan like Lightning fall down from Heaven Luc. 10. v. 18. V. 723. Had been achiev'd Great things had been brought to pass Achiev'd done finish'd of the Fr. Achevé accomplish'd V. 724. The Snakie Sorceress Sin the sly insinuating Inchantress a short but significant Delineation of Sin in two Words Sorceress shews her Charms and bewitching Delusions Snakie admonisheth us of her sly Insinuations and the bitter Remorse and Repentance here or the everlasting Sting that follows it hereafter V. 735. The Hellish Pest The Infernal Plague Pest of Pestis Lat. Plague V. 737. So strange thy Outcry The Noise thou makest seems to me so strange and the Speech thou usest to part us is so strange also that my hasty Hand is with-held and forbears to shew thee by my Actions what I intend to do till thou acquaint me c. Interposest the Words thou usest to us are so odd Interponere Lat. to put between V. 741. Thou Double-form'd Of two such different Shapes described half Woman half Snake V. 650. V. 743. That Fantasm That Shadow Death that empty Apparition Fantasm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gra delusive Apparition like that of Ghosts expressive of what is said at V. 669. That Shadow seem'd V. 745. More detestable More hateful more loathsome Detestabilis Lat. abhorred abominable V. 750. With the Combin'd in bold Conspiracy Linked and joyned with them in the daring Design against GOD Almighty Combin'd of Combinare Lat. to agree together Conspiracy Conspiratio Lat. an Agreement against a Prince or State a joynt Undertaking V. 753. Dim thine Eyes and dizzie swum in Darkness Dimness seized thine Eyes and all things on a sudden seemed to turn round in thy disordered Cloudy Head a Graphical Description of that Error with which Satans Pride blinded his Understanding leading him into those dark Designs in which he lost himself and his Associates Dizzie Giddy like one that thinks the World turns round of the Belg. Duysigh astonish'd The Vertigo derived à vertendo from turning round is the swimming of the Head through the prevalency of Windy Vapours therein a Similitude well suiting Satan's giddy Pride V. 754. Thy Head flames thick and fast It is reckoned among the Symptoms of the Vertigo that before the Dimness and Dizziness comes to the height the Patient's Eyes seem to sparkle and strike fire 755. Till on the left side The left side was by the Romans counted unlucky Si mens non laeva fuisset Et saepe sinistra Cavâ praedixit ab ilice Cornix Ecl 1. As to Intonuit laevum Auguries were reputed lucky that came from the left part of Heaven because the Augurs turning their Faces to the South the Eastern Parts were on their left hand which were always reckoned most prosperous In the worst sense is Si quem Numina laeva sinunt AEn 4. And there is a general Unluckiness laid to the Charge of those that are but left handed V. 757. A Goddess armed Out of thy Head I sprung Sin that is hatch'd in the Imagination is said to be brought forth out of Satan's Brain-pan as Pallas armed Cap-a-pied by which the Poets meant Wisdom c. was fabled to have been the Offspring of Jove's Noddle This Description is so like Homer's of that War-like and sharp-witted Goddess that it seems Copied from it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 759. Back they recoil'd afraid at first There are but few who in the first entrance on an Evil Life and Wicked Practises do not feel some Reluctance till Folly grow familiar and Sin habitual Recoiled they fled back started back a sign of the Amazement that seized the Heavenly Host at the first entrance of it till disguised and varnished over with fair Pretences And well they might be startled at a Sight so ominously ill when Homer at the Birth of Pallas as described above tells us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amazement seized all the Beholders thô Gods V. 761. A Sign Portentous held me Esteem'd me an unlucky Sign Portentous Lat. Portentosus unlucky boding some Mischief of Portentum Lat. a Sign of bad Consequence Sed variis Portenta Deûm terroribus obstant AEn 8. V. 762. With attractive Graces won the most averse With my inticing Allurements gain'd the most unwilling to Comply Sin by degrees insinuates it self Nemo repente fit turpissimus We approach to its Pollutions at first afraid as Boys shivering enter a River by degrees till at last we plunge in out of our depth and swim down the Stream With attractive Graces by my powerful Charms Attractif Fr. alluring enticing of Attraire Fr. to draw to one of Ad Lat. to and Trahere to draw Grace Fr. Beauty Comeliness Averse the most backward those that were least inclinable to me at first Aversus Lat. froward untractable V. 765. Becamest Enamour'd Becamest in Love with me Inamour'd Fr. Inamouré Lat. Inamoratus in Love with V. 766. That my Womb conceived a growing Burden That thou begatest more Sins of me one Sin is the Parent of many more we pass from one Offence to another from a Fault to the concealing of it by a Lye and then to the disavowing of it by many Oaths and horrid Imprecations by Hypocrisie and Dissimulation and many succeeding Crimes that are linked together and hang in a Chain V. 770. Rout Disorder Confusion of the Fr. Route Lat. Ruptio the breaking to pieces of an Army V. 771. Through all the Empyrean Throughout all Heaven Caelum Empyraeum Heaven the Seat of Bliss
and Region of everlasting Light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. burning shining the Climate of never-dying Day So in Book 1. Ver. 117. he calls the Angelic Natures Empyreal Substance of their Purity and Brightness V. 776. These Gates for ever shut And they had been for ever so close kept and barricadoed on Satan and his accursed Crew had not Mankind fallen from their Maker by Disobedience and their Sins opened the dreadful Doors V. 777. Pensive here I sat Thoughtful and sad here I took up my Seat Pensif Fr. of Penser Fr. to think of Pensare Lat. to meditate and weigh things in ones Mind V. 780. Rueful Throes Sad Pangs Throws are properly the Pains Women feel in Child-birth of the Sax. Drorian to suffer Rueful lamentable painful of the Teut. Rew Repentance V. 781. This odious Offspring This hateful Issue of mine a true Description of Death Sin 's dreadful Offspring Sin when it is finished bringeth forth Death Jam. 1. v. 15. V. 784. Distâ—rted Drawn awry burst of Distortus Lat. deformed of Distorquere Lat. to writhe V. 785. Transformed Quite changed of a different shape from what I was before shewing well the different Aspects our Sins wear when Lust and heared Imaginations untamed Bloud and Thoughts ungovernable hurry us on they seem beautiful and alluring but when Sickness or old Age sets 'em in a true Light and shews 'em in a right Prospect when Death appears then Sin how Charming soever before shews snaky and distorted and with her ghastly end affright us Transform'd of Transformare Lat. to alter the Shape V. 786. Brandishing his fatal Dart Shaking his deadly Dart Brandir Fr. to shake Fatal of Fatalis Lat. deadly Telum fatale corruscat AEn 12. V. 789. From all her Caves and back resounded Insonuere cavae gemitumque dedere cavernae An imitation of Virg. AEn 2. Resounded of Resonare Lat. to return a Sound back as Eccho's do Resonantia longè littora Geor. 1. Resonabilis Eccho Ovid. V. 794. Ingendering with me Begot of me Engendrer Fr. of Ingenerare Lat. to beget as coupling Creatures do their young ones Rape a forc'd Enjoyment of Rapere Lat. to snatch by force V. 795. These yelling Monsters These hideous howling Monsters Yelling is properly the howling of hungry famelic Wolves and seems made of the similitude of Sound V. 796. Surround me Encompass and enclose me on all sides of Surronder an old Fr. word to hem in round on all sides V. 797. Hourly conceived and hourly born A fruitful and a fearful Birth excellently describing the perpetual Pangs the direful Agonies and gnawing Remorses that day and night incessantly corrode the Guilty V. 800. Their Repast Their Food their Feast Fr. Repas of Repaistre of re and Pascere Lat. to feed V. 801. With conscious Terrors With affrighting Guilt harass me on all sides Conscious of the Lat. Conscius knowing and thence guilty of Conscire whence Conscience The Word is used both in a good and bad sence Occiso pastore Lupus magnove juvenco Conscius audacis facti AEn 11. As also Mens sibi conscia recti AEn 1. V. 807. His End with mine involv'd That if he destroys me he must be no more for Sin the Provocation ceasing Death the Punishment must also cease Sublatâ causà tollitur effectus The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death Rom. 15. v. 26. Involv'd rouled or wrapt up together of Involvere Lat. to fold up V. 808. A bitter Morsel An unpleasant Bit and unsavory Mouthful of Morceau Fr. of Morsus Lat. for the same V. 809. So Fate pronounc'd So 't is decreed Sic fata Deûm Rex Sortitur volvitque vices is vertitur ordo AEn 3. Sic fata Jovis poscunt hic terminus hâ—ret AEn 4. Pronuntiare Lat. to decree to declare V. 812. Invulnerable Invulnerabilis Lat. free from Wounds that cannot be wounded V. 813. For that Mortal Dint That deadly Stroke none but Heaven's Eternal King can withstand Dint of the Sax. Dynt a Stroke used for Strength and Force By dint of Judgment by strength of Reason V. 815. His Lore soon learnt Quickly understood what was fit for him to say Lore an old word foâ— Learning of the Sax. Laeran to teach Ne would unto his Lore allured be Spen. F. Q B. 5. C. 11. St. 61. V. 827. This uncouth Errand sole Upon this dark Design alone alone I undertake this dismal Journey Errand is of the Sax. Errend a Messenger Ab Errando Uncouth an old word for Terrible of the Sax. Uncud unknown V. 829. The Unfounded Deep The wide Gulph between Heaven and Hell the vast Vacuity the boundless Vacuity Unfounded that has no Foundation Lucretius his Magnum per Inane Lib. 1. Ibid. Through the void Immense Through the vast Vacuity Per inane profundum Lucr. â— 1. Void Fr. Vuide Lat. Vacuus Empty Immensus Lat. Immensurable Immensasque trahi nubes Geo. 4. So Virgil Magnum per inane coacta Semina Ecl. 6. And he calls Hell Domos ditis vacuas inania Regna AEn 6. V. 830. With wandering Quest Diligently to search every where Quest Fr. Une Questâ— an Inquiry a Search hence an Inquest both of the Lat. Quaerere to make search after V. 831. And by concurring Signs By all agreeing Signs and Tokens Concurring of Concurrens of Concurrere Lat. to agree V. 833. In the Pourlieues of Heaven Hard by in the Neighbourhood of Heaven Purlieu is â— Fr. word as most of our Law Terms are of Pur Pure and Lieu a Place and denotes Ground adjoyning to and being accounted part of any Forest by Hen. 2. and other Kings was by Perambulation granted by Hen. 3. separated again from the same and adjudged Purlieu that is pure and free from the Laws of the Forest So Satan calls the World A Seat of Bliss bordering upon his Native Heaven V. 835. Perhaps our vacant Room To supply and fill the Places we have lost in Heaven Sedes vacantes Our Seats empty since our Rebellion V. 836. Surcharg'd with potent Multitude O'recharg'd o'restock'd with mighty Multitude Potens Lat. powerfull Surcharg'd of Surcharger Fr. to overload to overburthen V. 842. Wing silently the buxom Air Fly unperceiv'd thorough the yielding Air Buxom plyable yielding of the Sax. Bocrum tractable obedient Buxomness in Chaucher is put for Lowliness Humility Spencer makes it the Epithete of the Air And therewith Scourge the Buxom Air so sore F. Q B. 1. C. 11. St. 37. Ibid. Imbalm'd with Odours Scented and delighted with the sweet Fragrancy of the Spicey â—â—dian Air breathing Perfumes and Aromatic Odours Imbalm'd Embaumé Fr. put up and preserved with Balm and precious Spices as Princes and great Persons are at their Death á Word well applied to caress the ugly Fantom Odours of Odor Lat. for any sweet Smell or Perfume â—â— V. 846. Grin'd horrible a gastly Smile And grim Death grin'd out a frightful Smile Grin'd or Girn'd of the Ital. Grignare with open'd Mouth to shew ones Teeth between Smiling
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
grievous and more grating Aggravate Bo. 3. v. 524. Pennance the contraction of Penitence Penitentia Lat. Punishment or the fear of it being the Parent ef Repentance V. 557. Could not abstain Could not forbear Abstain of Abstinere Lat. properly to forbear eating to fast from Delude Bo. 9. v. 639. V. 560. That curl'd Megaera Hung thicker on those tempting Trees than curling Serpents on the dreadful Head of dire Megaera her hissing horrid Hair Megaera one of the three Snaky Sisters Daughters of Acheron and Night-Furies of Hell so invidious and detestable of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to hate Odit ipse pater Pluton odere sorores Tartareae monstrum tot sese vertit in ora Tam saevae facies tot pullulat atra colubris AEn 7. Tot Erynnis sibilat Hydris Tantaque se facies aperit Ibid. Quas Tartaream nox intempesta Megaeram Uno eodemque tulit partu paribusque revinxit Serpentum Spiris AEn 12 Curl'd Megaera Crinita Draconibus ora Met. l. 4. So Medusa's Hair was turn'd into curling Snakes Gorgâ—neum turpes crinem mutavit in Hydros Ibid. V. 562. Bituminous Lake where Sodom flam'd The Lake Asphaltites near which Sodom and Gomorrah burnt by Fire from Heaven Gen. 19. 24. were situated Josephus affirms the Shapes and Fashions of 'em and three other Cities called the Cities of the Plain were to be seen in his Days and Trees loaden with fair Fruit styled the Apples of Sodom rising out of the Ashes which at the first touch dissolved into Ashes and Smoak Bo. V. of the Wars of the Jews c. 5. This Lake is named Bituminous Bituminosus Lat. of Bitumen Lat. a fat clammy Slime gathered on the Lake See Asphaltic Bo. 1. v. 411. V. 563. This moâ—e delusive c. This fair Fruitage was more deceitful and disappointing than Sodom's cheating Apples which only deceiv'd the Touch by dissolving into Ashes but this endured the handling the more to vex and disappoint their Taste by filling the Mouths of the Damned with grating Cinders and bitter Ashes in stead of allaying their scorching Thirst provoking and inflaming it So handsomly has our Author improved their Punishment Gust Taste of Gustus Lat. the pleasure of Tasting V. 567. With spattering Noise As the manner of those is that disgusted by any ill Taste spit out its Cause with a spattering Noise A word coin'd of the Sound thereby made Rejected cast out of Rejicere Lat. to throw out V. 568. Drug'd as oft c. Vex'd as often with hatefullest Distaste Drug'd of the Sax. Drecan to vex to toyl whence a Drudge one employed in the vilest and most loathsome Offices Disrelish Disgust Distaste Bo. 5. v. 305. Illusion Bo. 4. v. 803. V. 572. Laps'd Fall'n Lapsus Lat. Of Labi Lat. to fall V. 578. Tradition they dispers'd They spread abroad some Account among the Gentiles Tradition Traditio Lat. an ancient Account of Tradere Lat. to deliver down as those of the Jews were from Father to Son Dispers'd Bo. 3. v. 54. Heathen the Idolatrous Gentiles of the Sax. Haeden or Ger. Heyden of Heyde Ger. a Heath because when Christianity was received in the great Cities the Heathen practised their wicked Rites in little Villages and Country Obscurities for a long time V. 581. Ophion with Eurynome c. And reported how the Serpent whom they disguised under the Name of Ophion with his Wife Euâ—â—nome that Govern'd far and near was the most ancient of all the Gods and Reign'd on Olympus till driven thence by Saturn and Ops long before Jove their Son was born and Nurs'd in Crete Ophion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Serpent was one of the Titans possess'd of the Empire of all things before Saturn but overthrown by him as he was at last by his Son Jupiter as Isacius reports Eurynome was the Daughter of the Ocean and Consort of Ophion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. wide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Law thence here styled The wide encroaching Eve who by her powerful sway over the Souls and Bodies of her Sons subjected 'em to Sin and Death encroaching and usurping wide on her Posterity involved both in her Crime and Punishment down to her last Descendent Haec arma Mimantis Sustinet hos onerat ramos exutus Opion Claud. de Raptu Proserp l. 3. V. 584. Saturn The Son of Caelus and Vesta espoused his Sister Ops on whom he begot Jupiter named Dictaeus of Dicte a Mountain in Crete Di nempe suâ—s habuere Sorores Sic Saturnus Opim junctam sibi sanguine duxit Met. l. 9. Dictaeo caeli regem pavere sub antro Geo. 4. V. 587. Once Actual When the first fatal Transgression was committed now in Body now personally present Actualis Lat. done ab Agendo V. 588. Habitual Habitant A constant Inhabitant Habitual of Habitus Lat. a custom a constant habit of Body or Mind Habitant Habitans Lat. of Habitare Lat. to dwell to aâ—ide constantly in a place V. 590. Not mounted yet on his pale Horse The first Generations of Men were so vicavious there Longevity being necessary to the Peopling the World that Death seemed as then to walk on foot and follow Sin but slowly He had not those dreadful Executions to do that have since required his mounting on Horse-back as he is described Rev. 6. 8. And behold a pale Horse and his name that sate on him was Death and Hell follow'd with him c. V. 592. Second of Satan sprung Death is said to be the second Offspring of Satan Sin being his first and Death her Son and his therefore styled the Sin-bred Monster V. 596. according to the Holy Writ When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death Jam. 1. 15. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. V. 599. Where most with Ravin I may meet Where I may best find wherewithal to glut my self Ravine of Rapina Lat. Pillage Spoil all Ravenous Creatures being violent and rapacious V. 601. This vast unhide-bound Corps This vast wide Womb of mine Death is so all-devouring that his Body may well be styled Not hide-bound as those Creatures are whose Leanness makes their Skin stick to their Ribs Death on the contrary seems of so loose a Constitution that thô he eats up all things nothing stays with him Maw of the Ital. Magone the Stomach Corps the contraction of Corpus Lat. a Body V. 602. Th' incestuous Mother Sin the Mother of Death by Satan her own Sire Incestucsus Lat. one that has carnal knowledge with a Person within the Degrees forbidden Of Incestare Lat. V. 605. No homely Morsels No course Fare Morsel of Morceau Fr. of Morsus Lat. a bit V. 609. And season him c. Season him with much Sinfulness thy sweetest and most delicious Dish the highest Morsel of Mortality Season Assaissonner Fr. Sasonare Ital. to relish with Salt or Spice V. 611. Or unimmortal
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
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
like fire Psal. 89. v. 46. And God himself is styled A consuming fire Deut. 4. v. 24. Heb. 12. v. 29. To appease Fr. Appaisir to asswage calm quiet by entreaty Deity Lat. Deitas the Godhead Invites calls of Invitare Lat. to bid to entreat V. 195. My Umpire Conscience An Umpire is one chosen to decide a Difference of which B. 2. V. 907. and Conscience will be an irreproachable one between God and every Sinner Their Conscience also bearing witness and their Thoughts accusing or excusing one another Rom. 2. v. 15. The answer of a good Conscience towards God 1 Pet. 3. 21. The Heathens had a noble sense of this awful Inmate Prima est haec ultio quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem Quos diri conscia facti Mens habet attonitos surdo verbere caedit Assiduum quatiente animo tortore flagellum Juv. Sat. 13 Conscience Conscientia Lat. the inward Witness of his good and bad Actions that every Man bears in his Breast of Conscire Lat. to be privy to Nil conscire sibi nullà pallescere culpa Juv. V. 196. Light after Light Instruction and Knowledge if employed to good uses they shall not fail of Information and Instruction are well express'd by Light To open thine Eyes and to turn them from Darkness to Light and from the power of Satan unto God Act. 26. 18. The People which sate in Darkness saw great Light and to them which sate in the Region and Shadow of Death Light is sprung up Matth. 4. v. 16. Attain obtain of Attinere Lat. to gain to arrive at or attain to V. 197. Persisting Standing stoutly enduring to the end of Persistere Lat. to stand firm to hold out He that endureth to the end shall be saved Matth. 10. v. 22. To them who by patient continuance in well-doing c. Rom. 2. v. 7. V. 199. They who neglect According to the Expostulation of St. Paul Despisest thou the Riches of his Goodness and Forbearance and Long-suffering not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance Rom. 2. v. 4. V. 200. But hard be harden'd As was Pharaoh by God's permission leaving him in his Obstinacy and Impenitency who thô under the Lash when he saw there was respite harden'd his Heart Exod. 8. v. 15. Ibid. Blind be blinded more According to the Psalmist Let their Eyes be darkened that they see not Psal. 69. v. 23. as they well deserve who shut their Eyes against the Glorious Light of the Gospel But after their Hardness and impenitent Hearts treasure up unto themselves Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the just Judgment of God Rom. 2. v. 5. V. 202. From Mercy I exclude None but the Obstinate and Impenitent that will neither hear the Check of their own Consciences nor the Voice of the Preacher that hate to be reformed and cast God's Laws behind them that will not hear his Voice but harden their Hearts as did the Israelites in the Provocation in the day of Temptation shall be shut out from Mercy Excludere Lat. to shut out to except from V. 204. Disloyal breaks his Fealty Faithless has broke the Obligation of his Obedience in which he stood bound to me his Maker and in so doing has forfeited my Favour Disloyal of the Fr. Desloyal Unfaithful that has thrown off his Loyalty as Rebels do Fealty is an Oath of Fidelity of the Fr. Feaultie of Fidelitas Lat. Faith and Truth There is a double Fealty one General due from every Subject to his Prince the other Special owing by every Tenant to the Lord of the Fee of whom he holds Hotom in Comment de verbis Feudal Fidelitas est fidei obsequii servitii ligamen quo generaliter subditus Regi particulariter vassallus Domino astringitur Spel. The Fealty God required of Adam the first great Tenant of the Universe seem'd as reasonable as it was easie He hath shewed thee O Man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Mich. 6. v. 8. agreeing with Deut. 10. v. 12. V. 206. Affecting Godhead Designing and desiring to be a God aiming at a Station above that he was placed in and equal to that of his Creator according to that lying Insinuation of Satan Ye shall be like Gods knowing Good and Evil Gen. 3. v. 5. Affecting of Affectare Lat. earnestly to endeavour after Affectare regnum Liv. A Word well chosen as in Ovid Affectasse ferunt regnum caeleste Gigantes Met. 1. An Affectation of like Folly and perhaps a Copy of this Original not understood by the ancient Poets V. 207. To expiate his Treason To make amends for to attone for his Treason and Unfaithfulness to his Maker Expiare Lat. of Ex and Piare to appeaâ—e by Sacrifice as Virg. Et culpam hanc miserorum morte piabunt AEn 2. Treason of the Fr. Trahison from the Lat. Traditio a betraying or giving up as here the Obedience and Fidelity due to God and his Vicegerents to the delusive Insinuations of Satan V. 208. To Destruction sacred and devote Made liable to Death and Destruction Sacred of the Lat. Sacer appointed dedicated Sacer Cybele Chloreus AEn 11. Devoted Lat. Devotuâ— destined Pesti devota futurae AEn 1. V. 212. The rigid Satisfaction Make full satisfaction make satisfaction to the utmost Death for Death The word Rigid seems to imply a stiffness an unrelenting satisfaction to be made to the Almighty Justice The Soul that sins must dye or some other as able and as willing Rigidus Lat. hard stiff Et rigidas motare cacumina quereus Virg. Ecl. 6. V. 216. Charity so dear Tantusne Animis caelestibus ardor Charity of Charitas Lat. as this of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LoveÌ„ Bounty V. 217. All the Heavenly Quire stood mute All the Angelic Audience kept silence Quire of the Fr. Choeur as this of the Lat. Chorus and both of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Company that sing Praises either Divine or Human. Laetumque choro Paeana canentes AEn 6. V. 219. Patron or Intercessor Patron of Patronus Lat. for an Advocate one who among the Romans pleaded the Cause and made a Defence for a Person accused and called in to Judgment Intercessor Lat. one who entreats for Pardon for an Offender of Intercedere Lat. to go between and entreat for V. 221. And Ransom set And pay the Ransom set on Man made liable to Death and devoted to Destruction by dying for him Ransom of the Fr. Rençon the Price paid for redeeming a Captive V. 231. Comes unprevented unimplored The Free Grace of God comes unask'd being justified freely by his Grace Rom. 3. 24. Unprevented nor foreslow'd by our Offences of Praevenire Lat. to come before to prevent Unimplored of Implorare Lat. to beseech to ask V. 234. Atonement for himself c. As the Prophet Micah
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.
1. cont Jovi Contrary to our Poet's Opinion sufficiently inferrable from Bo. VIII V. 510. To the Nuptial Bowre I led her blushing like the Morn And more plainly Bo. IV. V. 742. Nor Eve the Rites Mysterious of Connubial Love refus'd What ever Hypocrites austerely talk Of Purity and Place and Innocence Our Poet therefore by the Virgin Majesty of Eve means her Comely Blushes proceeding from some Unkindness conceived at his Advice V. 272. With sweet Austere Composure In a more serious yet sweet manner reply'd Austere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. serious grave Composure Order Mood of Componere Lat. to set in order V. 273. Offspring of Heaven and Earth Offspring of God thy maker and of Earth thy mould Gen. 2. 7. V. 278. At shut of Evening Flowers A natural Notation of the Evening the time when Flowers close their sweet-breathing Buds V 289. Misthought A thinking amiss of her Misthought a word seeming coyned by our Poet after the manner of Mistrust Misdeed Mistake c. V. 291. Daughter of God and Man Daughter of God thy maker and of Man the materials Gen. 2. 22. Ibid. Immortal Eve for such thou art from Sin and Blame entire Untainted by Sin and Unblameable Entire Entier Fr. Integer Lat. uncorrupted sound and unviolated by Sin as St. Paul By one man sin enter'd into the world and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. V. 296. Asperses with Dishonour Casts a Disgrace and Disesteem upon the Person tempted for the Temptation presupposes him 〈◊〉 whom the Tryal's made weak and infirm and liable to be prevailed on Asperses Aspergere Lat. to bespatter V. 300. Would'st resent Would'st be very sensible of would'st be extreamly concern'd at of Resentir Fr. to have sense of V. 302. I labour to avert Think not amiss then if I endeavour to prevent such a Disgrace from falling on thee when alone Misdeem judge not ill of of Mis and Deem Deman Sax. to judge To avert Avertere Lat. to put by Affront Bo. I. V. 391. V. 310. Access in every Virtue I from the influence of thy Eyes receive encrease in all the Powers of Soul and Body Access Accessus Lat. Addition Virtue Virtus Lat. Power V. 318. Domestiâ— Adam Careful of his Companion his Spouse from whose Society all Families and the World with them is filled Domestic Domesticus Lat. belonging to a Family of Domus Lat. a House Matrimonial Love as a loving Husband Matrimonialis Lat. of Marriage Lat. Matrimonium V. 333. From his Surmise prov'd false From his Opinion of us mistaken of Surmise Fr. an old disused word V. 336. Without exterior help sustain'd What is Faith Love or nicest Virtue to be valued while untried if not to be maintain'd without assistance of another Unassay'd Inessayè Fr. untry'd Exterior Lat. outward Sustain'd Soustenu Fr. supported of the Lat. Sustinere V. 339. To single or combin'd Let us not suspect our happy State to be left so imperfect and ill assured by God our wise Creator as not to be safe and out of danger when attempted either alone or together Singulus Lat. one Combin'd of Combinare Lat. to joyn together V. 342. Fervently Warmly concernedly of Fervere Lat. to wax warm Deficient Deficiens Lat. wanting V. 352. For what obeys Reason is free God endow'd Man with Free-will to listen to and obey the Dictates of right Reason without which he cannot be Master of his own Actions which are no otherwise his but by Election and Choice manifested and urged by God against Cain If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou do not well sin lieth at the door And unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him Gen. 4. 7. V. 353. And still Erect Reason ought to be watchful and standing on her Guard Erectus Lat. heedful V. 359. Firm we subsist c. Faithful thô yet we stand yet it is possible for us to stray Subsistere Lat. to stand to keep ones ground Swerve Swerven Belg. to go astray V. 361. Some specious Object suborn'd Something fair to appearance made use of by our Enemy to impose upon Reason our Guide Specious Speciosus Lat. fair plausible Suborn'd Subornare Lat. to instruct one how to deceive Deception Deceptio Lat. a Cheat. V. 366. Thou sever not If thou depart not from me Sever of the Ital. Scevrare Lat. Separare to separate Attest of Attestari Lat. to witness V. 373. Not Free absents the more For to stay against thy will is worse than thy Absence Absentare Lat. to withdraw V. 376. Thee Patriarch of Mankind So spake Adam the first great Father of Mankind Patriarch Bo. IV. Vers. 762. V. 377. Persisted yet submiss thô last c. But Eve unalter'd in Opinion meekly thus made reply Persisted of Persistere Lat. to stand firm to persist in ones Opinion Submiss Submissus Lat. gentle meek V. 387. Oread or Dryad Of Wood-Nymphs some took care of and were worship'd on the Mountains as the Oreades named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Mountain Quam mille secâ—tae Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades AEn 1. Others were called Dryades the Goddesses of Groves of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Oak She-Divinities that according to Pausanias were not esteem'd Immortal but of a Longevity equal to the Oaks they presided over Dryadum Sylvas saltusque sequamur Geo. 3. V. 388. But Delia's self surpass'd Delia. Diana the Heavenly Huntress Daughter of Jupiter and Latona named Delia of the Island Delos in the Egean Sea Illa pharetram Fert humero gradiensque deas supereminet omnes AEn 1. Borrow'd of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 392. Guiltless of Fire had form'd Such as Art simple and imperfect and which as yet had not profaned the Fire provided Fire which the Poets say Prometheus stole from Heaven Jove's Autbentic Fire Bo. IV. V. 719. was of so great use to Mankind and esteemed so Sacred that to employ it in forging destructive Arms was look'd on as a Profanation and Infection of its Purer Flame Hence the vast Veneration of the Romans for their Vestal Fire one of their Poets tells us Ast homini ferrum Lethale incude nefandâ Produxisse parum est cum rastra sarcula tantum Assueti coquere marris vomere lassi Nescierint primi gladios excudere fabri Juv. Sat. 15. And in the same Satyr speaking of Fire which he esteem'd of Kin to that Pure Etherial Element Hinc gaudere libet quod non violaverit ignem Quem summâ caeli raptum de parte Prometheus Donavit terris Elemento gratulor te Exultare reor Ibid. Rude Lat Rudis imperfect and unpolish'd V. 393. To Pales The Goddess of Shepherds and Pasturage celebrated by Virgil on that account Nunc veneranda Pales magno nunc ore sonandum Geo. 3. V. 394. Pomona when she fled Vertumnus Pomona the Goddess of Gardens Orchards and Fruit courted by many Admirers but obtain'd at last by Vertumnus
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
whole Sex as a Punishment not gentle easie and uncontested as Originally it would have been but uncasie and constrained and often exacted with too high a hand Proud and Imperious V. 198. Because thou hast harken'd c. Gen. 3. 17 18 19. V. 203. Thorns also and Thistles Grandia saepe quibus mandavimus hordea sulcis Infelix lolium steriles dominantur avenae Pro molli violâ pro purpureo Narcisso Carduus spinis surgit paliurus acutis Ecl. 5. V. 205. In the sweat of thy Face Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda Nec torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno Geor. 1. V. 210. Th' instant stroke of Death c. Deferr'd the immediate Execution of Death the Punishment denounced against them on the day of their Transgression Instant Instans Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. immediate that should have been presently inflicted by God's Justice if not mitigated by his Mercy in order to their Repentance and Pardon Gen. 2. 17. Denounc'd Bo. 2. v. 106. V. 214. The form of a Servant c. But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant Phil. 2. 7. As when he wash'd his servants feet John 13. from v. 4 to v. â—â— Disdain'd Desdaigner Fr. Dedignari Lat. to refuse to be too proud forâ— Assume Assumere Lat. to take upon him V. 216. As Father of his Family He provided Food for his offending Children Thou shale eat the herb of the field Gen. 3. 18. and Rayment The Lord God made coats of skins and cloathed them Ibid. v. 21. Not only to conceal the Reproach but to cover and cure the Inconvenience of their Nakedness against the Air that now must suffer change V. 217. With Skins of Beasts or slain Interpreters torment the Text Gen. 3. 21. with their curious Enquiries Who flew the Beasts Who flay'd ' em Quid ergo nunquid Dominus Deus sutor aut Pellifex erat impensâ artis operâ tunicas fecit pelliceas Fecit utique tunicas pelliceas quia sic praesens testatur scriptura non tamen cogit nos confiteri quod eo modo quem rideant sed eo modo quem flere debeant omnes tunicati fecerit illas fecit enim id est faciendi necessitatem illis imposuit Rupert 1. 3. c. 27. de Trinit The cold inclement Air now changed by pinching Frosts forc'd our first Parents to provide more substantial Covertures than Fig-leaves to guard their naked Bodies but with Skins of Beasts how slain By their own fierce Antipathies as our Author observes But Discord first Daughter of Sin among th' Irrational Death introduc'd through fierce Antipathy Of this Book V. 707. That the Skins of Beasts were the Primitive Cloathing of Mankind and the first intention of their being slaughter'd by 'em Plato testifies in his Protag So Lucretius Pellibus spoliis corpus vestire ferarum Lib. 5. Curia praetâ—xto quae nunc nitet alta senatu Pellitos habuit rustica corda Patres Propert. So Virgil describes some of his ancient Warriours Cui pellis latos humeros erepta juvenca Pugnatori operit caput ingens oris hiatus Et malae texere lupi cum dentibus albis AEn 11. V. 218. Or as the Snake c. Mercennus tells us Jonathan the Caldee Paraphrast was of Opinion that the Protoplasts first cloathed themselves with Serpents Skins which they naturally cast but certainly the sense of their Sin wrought by the Temptation of that subtle Animal which introduced the necessity of those dreadful Disguises must have given them the utmost horror and detestation for that Creature so as not to cover their Nakedness with any thing borrow'd from the occasion of their Crime Our Author better supposes there may be some Creatures that cast their Skins as well as Snakes of whose manner of putting off his old Cloaths read Plin. lib. 8. c. 27. Cum positis nâ—vus exuviis nitidusque juventâ Volvitur Georg. 3. Annosae pellem posuere senectae Met. 7. V. 225. Reassum'd Taken again into of Reassumere Lat. Appeas'd Appaisè Fr. pacified reconciled V. 229. E're thus was sin'd and judg'd Before Man had thus sin'd and God thus sentenc'd him Two Impersonals Recounted of Raconter Fr. Racontare Ital. to report relate V. 231. In Counterview Over-against one another gazing on one another Of Countre Fr. Contra Fr. Vâ—ne Fr. Visus Lat. sight Belching Bo. 1. v. 671. Outrageous Bo. 2. v. 436. V. 233. The Fiend The Devil Of the Teut. Feind or Viant an Enemy or the Sax. Fandian to tempt the Tempter of Mankind V. 241. By his Avengers By his Perusers those that take Vengeance on him Of the Fr. Vengeur a Revenger V. 246. Some connatural force c. Or some strange Power which by Nature does so influence and affect Things of like kind as to be able at the widest distance to bring 'em together with a secret force of Friendship by ways most unaccountable A description of Powerful Instinct Connaturalis Lat. natural to Sympathy Bo. 4. v. 465. Amity Amitie Fr. the contraction of Amicitia Lat. Friendship Love Kindness Conveyance of Convehere Lat. to carry to remove V. 250. Thou my Shade inseparable Thou my constant Companion must like my Shadow attend me where e'er I move for Death from Sin no Pow'r can separate Death is the Associate and Salary of Sin The Wages of Sin is Death Inseparabilis Lat. that cannot be parted of Separare Lat. to divide V. 261. For Intercâ—â—â—se or Transmigration In their passage to and fro or setling there our new Abode Transmigratio Lat. a removing V. 203. Attraction and Instinct So strongly drawn by this strange new-felt Power and Force irresistible Attraction Bo. 4. v. 492. Instinct Instinctus Lat. the unaccountable bent of Nature the Propensity of all Things towards the accomplishment of their End by Cicero often styled Divinus Instinctus V. 264. The meager Shadow Death that lean and empty Apparition thin like a Shadow Meager of Maigre Fr. lean V. 266. Nor err the way Nor miss my way Err of Errare Lat. to mistake V. 268. Such a scent I draw of Carnage I draw in so strong a smell of Slaughter Scent smell à Sentiendo Lat. Carnage Fr. murder killing c. V. 272. He snuff'd the smell of Mortal Change He drew in the scent of all Things changing to decay Snuff'd of the Ger. Snoeven to draw breath through ones Nose seeming to be made of the sound V. 274. Of ravenous Fowl Vultures Ravenous greedy voracious of Ravineux Fr. of Râ—pina Lat. violence See Bo. 3. v. 431. League Bo. 2. v. 486. Lur'd Bo. 3. v. 664. V. 277. Of living Carcasses Of Bodies which thô yet alive will suddenly be slain or by the smell strong enough from the multitudes of Men pent up in close Incampments Carcasses of the Fr. Carquâ—sse Quasi Caro cassa Flesh corrupted V. 279. So
of the third part of the World before America discovered of Europa Daughter of Agenor King of the Phanicians stolen by Jupiter in the shape of a Bull or transported in a Vessel adorned with the Image of one Read Met. l. 2. at the end Sic Europa niveum Doloso Credidit Tauro latus scalentem c. Mitte singultus bene ferre magnam Disce fortunam tua sectus orbis Nomina ducet Hor. l. 3. Od. 27. Asia another third part of the then known World so called of Asia the Wife of Japetus Daughter of Oceanus and Thetis Quibus actus uterque Europae atque Asiae fatis concurrerit orbis AEn 7. V. 311. Scourged th' indignant Waves Of the extravagant Pride and Vain-glory of Xerxes Juvenal takes notice Constratum classibus iissdem Suppositumque rotis solidum mare Ipsum compedibus qui vinxerat Ennosigaeum In Corum atque Eurum solitus saevire flagellis Barbarus Sat. 10. Tales fama canit tumidum super aequora Xerxem Construxisse vias multum cum potentibus ausus Europamque Asiae Sestonque admovit Abydo Incessitque fretum rapidi super Hellesponti Luc. l. 2. Indignant Angry as if foaming at the imposition of this new Yoke Indignantes Lat. as applicable to the Waves as by Virgil to the Winds Illi indignantes magno cum murmure montis Circum claustra fremunt AEn 1. V. 313. By wondrous Art Pontifical c. By the strange Art of raising Bridges Pontifical Pontificalis Lat. of a Bridge from Pons Lat. a Bridge and Facere Lat. to make Pontifex Maximus the High-Priest of the Romans had that Name à Ponte Quia sublicius Pons à Pontificibus factus est primùn restitutus saepe According to Varro their Successors the Roman Bishops thô they found this Infernal Bridge built to their hand have made bold to erect a Baiting-place of Purgatory by the way more Poetical and Fictitious than it of which Virgil gave 'em the first Draught Aliae panduntur inanes Suspensae ad ventos aliis sub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni c. AEn 6. V. 323. On the left hand Hell c. Relating perhaps to our Saviour's description of the Day of Judgment Then shall he say unto them on the left hand Matth. 25. 41. Interposed Interpositus Lat. placed between Confines Bo. 2. v. 396. Descri'd Bo. 2. v. 636. V. 328. Betwixt the Centaure and the Scorpion c. Between the Signs of Sagittary and the Scorpion flying aloft while the Sun rose in the Ram. Chiron the Centaure was the Son of Saturn and Philyra Tutor to Achilles who by chance having hurt one of his Feet by an Arrow stain'd with the Hydra's venomous Gore prayed the Gods to ease him of his painful Immortality which became Hereditary to him by his Father's side and was thereupon translated into the Zodiac where he is to be seen with the fatal Arrow in his hand Centaure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because on Horseback they follow'd and recover'd their fugitive Droves of Cattle Others tell us they were a hardy People inhabiting Mount Pelius in Thessaly who first serv'd on Horseback thence giving occasion to the Fable of strange Animals half Men and half Horses of these Phillyrides Chiron was one of the most famous Geo. 4. Scorpion Scorpius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one of the twelve Signs placed in the Zodiac for slaying the vain-glorious and vaunting Orion Quis fata putaret Scorpion aut vires maturae mortis habere Ille minax Nodis recto verbere saevus Teste tulit caelo victi decus Orionis Luc. l. 9. Est locus in geminos ubi brachia concavat arcus Scorpios Met. l. 2. Ipse tibi jam brachia contrahit ardens Scorpius Geo. 1. Teque senex Chiron gelido qui sidere fulgens Impetis AEmonio majorem Scorpion arcu Luc. Phar. l. 6. V. 329. In Aries Lat. for a Ram one of the Celestial Signs so named in memory of Phrixus swiming over the Hellespont on his back Stearing his Zenith Bo. 1. v. 745. guiding his Flight V. 335. All unweeting Much deceived thô much against her Intention Unweeting heedless of the old word Ween Sax. Wenan to think Ibid. Seconded upon her Husband Saw how his deceitful Deed took place prospered and succeeded against her Mate Secundare Lat. to prosper V. 348. Pontifice Bridge Pontificium Lat. à Ponte faciendo Stupendous wonderful of Stupere Lat. to admire to be astonish'd at V. 353. Inchanting His fair bewitching Offspring his dear deceitful Daughter Inchanting of Enchanter Fr. Incantare Lat. to charm to inchant or bewitch Bo. 2. v. 762. V. 355. Which thou view'st as not thy own Et quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco Met. l. 13. Trophies Bo. 1. v. 539. Architect Bo. 1. v. 732. V. 357. In my Heart divin'd For my Heart no sooner foretold me thy success c. Divinare Lat. to guess to foreshew Connexion Connexio Lat. a joyning together of Connectere Lat. to bind together V. 364. Such fatal Consequence c. A Chain so irresistible links us three together Satan the Seducer Sin and Death the fatal Alliance make an Irresistible triple League Consequence Consequentia Lat. is properly what upon things preceeding either in Argument or Act must necessarily follow as of Temptation if admitted Sin and its most certain Reward Death thô it follow Pede claudo V. 366. This unvoyageable Gulf This unpassable Deep Unvoyageable of Un answering the Negative Particle In Lat. and Voyager Fr. to travel Gulf Bo. 1. v. 52. Track Bo. 2. v. 1025. V. 371. With this Portentous Bridge Thou hast inabled us to lay this amazing Bridge over the black Abyss Portentous Portentosus Lat. monstrous and thence astonishing Si quando aliqua portentosa aut ex pecude aut ex homine nata dicuntur Cic. de Divinat V. 375. Our Foil Our Defeat our Overthrow Foil an old word of the Fr. Affoler to trample on or Foible Fr. weak feeble Alienated Bo. 1. v. 451. V. 381. His Quadrature from thy Orbicular World And henceforth divide the Dominion of all Things between him and thee parting by the Empyreal Heaven his Square Realm from thy Round World won from him by thy Valour The Empyreum or Heaven of Heavens the Supream Seat of Blessedness is by Gassendus and others of its Celestial Surveyors supposed to be of a four-square Figure Caelum Empyreum menâ—ium beatarum sedes habetur formae exterius quadratae quod Civitas sancta in Apocalypsi descripta Posita in quadro dicatur Rev. 21. v. 16. Gass in Prooe Instit. Astron. Of which our Poet. Undetermin'd square or round Bo. 2. v. 1040. Quadrature Quadratura Lat. a Square a Figure whose Sides and Angles are equal Orbicular Orbicularis Lat. round of Orbis Lat. a Circle V. 383. The Prince of Darkness Satan deservedly so styled when the Holy Leaf describes his inferior Angels wicked Spirits the
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.
Sheep or Oxen about their Necks like an Aldermans Chain would begin at one end and Eat 'em greedily with all their filthy Ordure V. 697. Bursting their Brazen Dungeon According to the general Opinion of the Poets that the Winds bred in and break out of the Cavern of the Earth Clauserat Hippotades aeterno carcere ventis Met. l. 4. Cavum conversa cuspide montem Impulit in latus ac venti velut agmine facto Quae data porta ruunt AEn 1. Flaw of Flatus Lat. a gust of Wind or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to break Gust a violent and suddain blast of Wind Of the Ger. Geissen to pour out a suddain floud of Wind. V. 699. Boreas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the North Wind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from its noise as well as violence Caecias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the North West Wind. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the River Caycus in Mysia Argestes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the North East Wind Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. white as clearing the Sky Thrascius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Thracius blowing from Thrace At Boreae de parte trucis cum fulminat Geor. 1. Thracio baccante magis sub interlunia vento Hor. Car. l. 1. Od. 25. V. 702. Notus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the South Wind Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Humidity moisture Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. sickness being a hot and moist Wind of evil mixture Afer or Africus the South West Wind bred and born in Africa Madidis notus evola talis Terribilem piceâ tectus caligine vultum c. Met. l. 1. Notusque ruunt creberque procellis Affricus AEn 1. V. 703. Serraliona Cap di Sierra Liona supposed to be the most Western Point of Africa known to the Ancients and is a vast ledge of Hills so call'd lying off the Atlantic Ocean 70 Leagues beyond the Southern Mouth of the River Niger V. 705. Eurus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the East Wind named Levant of the East so called of Levare Lat. because the Sun rises there as Zephr Bo. 4. V. 329. is called the Ponent of the West of Ponere Lat. where he sets Eurique Zephyrique tonat domus Geor. 1. V. 706. Sirocco and Libecchio The South East and South West called the lateral noise because rising on their sides Lateralis of Latus Lat. a side Sirocco Ventus Syrus Libecchio Ventus Lybicus Italian Terms used by Seamen of the Mediterranean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist. de Mundo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Adversi rupto ceu quondam turbine venti Confligunt Zephyrus Notusque laetus eois Eurus equis AEn 2. V. 708. Discord Daughter of Sin Disagreement and Dissention a Sister well suited to Death and Daughter resembling her ill favoured Mother Sin Discordia demens Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis AEn 6. Outrage Bo. 1. V. 501. V. 709. Fierce Antipathy Antipathy is a Natural Dread and Abhorrence which not only some Creatures have of one another but Mankind also fot some of them and for some kinds of Meats deservedly styled Fierce as altogether ungovernable and incurable for which as little Remedy as Reason is to be given Nor is this horrid Aversion only found among living Creatures but in Poisons and their Antidotes this Antipathy is discernable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. against and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Passion suffering whence that suddain recoiling of our Senses into a swound when we approach any of these our Natural Abhorrencies though undiscovered by us Irrational Irrationalis Lat. void of Reason brute Glared Gan began Bo. IV. Vers. 402. V. 717. To sorrow abandonn'd Given up to Grief Abandonné Fr. of Abandon Fr. full Liberty sorrow was let loose upon him to disburden to unload his labouring Mind V. 729. Is propagated Curse Is encreasing of my Curse and Misery multiplied on Mankind my Polluted Posterity Propagated Propagatus Lat. encreased spread abroad of Propagare Lat. to beget V. 735. Ill fare c. May ill betide our wicked and polluted Ancestor Adam May he be as unhappy as he has made me Fare of the Belg. Vaeren Of the Lat. Valere to be in Health Impure Impurus Lat. unclean and so wicked Execration Execratio Lat. a Curfe Ancestor Bo. II. V. 894. V. 739. Shall with a fierce Reflux c. Shall with a violent return like a Tide beat back and dash against my Head Reflux Refluxus Lat. a flowing back the return of a Tide Redound of Redundare Lat. to flow back again to return as Tides do all the many Wickednesses and Miseries of Mankind In meum redundabunt caput V. 741. Heavy though in their place Weighty and Oppressive though in their due place thrown all and devolv'd upon my head their Natural Center All heavy Bodies are by the Philosophers said naturally to descend in a Tendency towards the great Mass of Gravity the Earth as to their Center And it is a Famous Axiome Nihil in suo loco gravitare That nothing is heavy in its place found to be weighty only to that endeavour which would remove it thence But Adam's Case is different for the Sins of all Mankind if heaped upon his Head their spring and source would be too heavy for him to bear Ibid. O Fleeting Joys O all ye Joys of Paradise soon past departed and decay'd Fleeting flowing running away Of the Bel Ulieten and this of the Lat. Fluitare To Solicite Sollicitare Lat. earnestly to entreat V. 745. From Darkness to promote me From the dark Womb of my Original Nothing to bring me into Being Promote of Promovere Lat. to advance to bring forward V. 747. As my Wâ—ll câ—ncur'd not c. As my Consent was no way agreeing to my being made what I am so it seems but just at my desire to bring me back to my Primitive Dust That as I undertook not this Being by my own Consent I may not be constrain'd to keep it against my Will desirous to resign and give it up Concurr'd Bo. 2. v. 831. To Reduce Reducere Lat. to bring back Resigne Resignare Lat. to give up restore surrender Resigno quae dedit Hor. Car. lib. 3. Od. 29. V. 754. Inexplicable c. Thy Justice seems unaccountable unconceivable Inexplicabilis Lat. that cannot be explain'd or understood Contest argue of Contestari Lat. to dispute to reason the case V. 759. Then Cavil the Conditions Then sind fault with the Terms on which it was allow'd Cavil of Cavillari Lat. to wrangle to make small and trifling Excuses V. 761. And Reprov'd Retort And blamed turn thy own Argument against thee found faulty should throw in thy Teeth c. Reprov'd of Reprobare Lat. to disallow to find fault with Retort of Retorquere Lat. to cast back again V. 773. Fixt on this day The day as of my Disobedience so of my Doom as seeming so
appointed Gen. 2. 17. Fixt of Figere Lat. to sasten to to appoint Why do I over live Why do I out live it V. 784. That pure Breath of Life My Soul Divinae particula Aâ—rae V. 788. Die a living Death Be eternally miserable Living Death everlasting Misery V. 791. The Body properly hath neither the Body hath neither Life nor the Power of doing Good or Evil being only the Organ of the Soul therefore what had Life and the faculty of doing well or ill my Soul must Die All of me then shall Die. Ibid. Let this appease c. Let this calm my disquieted Thoughts let this set my troubled Heart at rest Appease Appaisir Fr. to restore to Peace to quiet V. 799. Strange Contradiction To make Deathless Death immortal mortality to make that everlasting and endless that must destroy and make an end of all Things is an amazing Contradiction implying Impossibility of being true a Proposition that contradicts and gain-says what it proposes Contradictio Lat. V. 800. Which to God himself impossible is held The Schoolmen tell us God can do Quicquid non implicat all things but those that imply a Contradiction for such are absolutely impossible since the one destroys the other Quod enim cum affirmatur negatur impossibile est Atque haec impossibilia non posse immensae est potentiae posse infirmitatis est An Argument of Weakness not of Power For of two Contradictories one must be a Non Entity a meer nothing Therefore it would imply the highest Imperfection and Impotency in the Almighty Power Operari nihil efficere to imploy it on that which can have no Existence Impossible to be brought into Being But Deathless Death that is Eternal Death as everlasting Punishment implies no Contradiction Argument Argumentum Lat. a proof V. 802. Finite to Infinite Will he for the sake of his Vengeance make me who am Finite and Mortal Infinite endless and everlasting Finitus Lat. ended limited Of Finis Lat. an end Infinitus Lat. endless Eternal Punisht of Punir Fr. Punire Lat. to afflict V. 803. To satisfie his rigour satisfied never To satisfie his Severity that never will be satisfied to fulfill his Anger that to all Eternity will be in filling V. 805. Beyond Dust and Natures Laws c. That would be to stretch his Sentence that to Dust I shall return beyond this Dust and beyond Natures Everlasting Law by which all other Agents work on their subject matter in proportion to it not to the utmost possibility of their own vast Power Natural Causes act in proportion to the subject matter which they actuate called Sphaera Activitatis Virtutis Orbis the compass of their Power Terminus Activitatis quem propter limitatam suam agendi virtutem praeterire non pâ—ssunt Extend of Extendere Lat. to stretch out The Reception of their matter the matter which they act upon Reception Receptio Lat of Recipere Lat. to receive according to the capacity of their subject according as their matter will admit Extent Extensio Lat. a stretching out the utmost compass of Bereaving Bo. 6. v. 903. Perpetuity Perpetuitas Lat. Everlastingness In Perpetuum for ever V. 813. Ay me Alas Ahime Ital. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. all of the sighing Sound that Mourners make V. 814. Comes Thundring back c. The fear of endless Misery comes rowling back as dreadful as a Thunderbolt upon my bare Head Revolution Bo. 8. v. 31. V. 816. And incorporate both Lodged both together in one mortal Body as St. Paul says even Spiritually having the sentence of death in our selves 2 Cor. 1. 9. Oh wretch man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Rom. 7. 24. Incorporate Incorporatus Lat. of the same Body V. 820. So Disinherited So rob'd of the Inheritance of Sin and Shame and double Death both Temporal and Eternal an unlucky and lasting Patrimony entailed upon my Sons Patrimonium Lat. the Estate that descends from Father to Son of Pater Lat. a Father Disinherited of Dis the Privative Particle In and Haereditare Lat. to possess V. 825. Both Mind and Will deprav'd For a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit Mat. 7. 18. Thence the Royal Psalmist's Confession Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 5. Death reigned from Adam even over them that had not sin'd after the similitude of Adam's transgression Rom. 5. 14. A designation of Original Sin even in Infants as the Commentators observe Nam peccante Adamo qui omnium Parens Princeps erat in eo omnes simul peccaverunt quia omnium voluntates consensus erant collocatae in voluntate unius Adami As all the Greek and Latin Fathers agree Acquitted discharged Acquitte of Acquitter Fr. to absolve to free from blame or guilt V. 830. All my Evasions vain c. All my frivolous Excuses vain Arguments all the sly ways I try t' avoid the imputation of my guilt lead me through all their intangled Turnings but to a plainer Proof and my own Confession Absolve Bo. 7. v. 94. Evasions Bo. 2. v. 412. Disputes Reasonings Arguing of Disputare Lat. to debate Mazes Bo. 2. v. 561. Conviction V. 84. of this Book Support undergo of Sub and Pâ—rtare Lat. to bear V. 840. Beyond all past Example c. That Adam as to the consideration of his being the first Offender of all Mankind and the spreading of the Pollution and Infection of his Fault over all his Posterity might reflect on himself as most sinful and thence most miserable of all Men his Sons and so exceeding all Examples of Futurity is not hard to be conceived But that he surpass'd all past Examples which could be only the fallen Angels must be understood as an aggravation of his Guilt and the excessive Sense of and Sorrow for it by which he was overwhelmed Refuge Bo. 2. v. 168. Future Bo. 2. v. 222. Lamented Bo. 1. v. 448. V. 852. Curs'd his Creation The Day on which he was created as Job did Chap. 3. of Tardy Execution of slow Dispatch Tardus Lat. slow V. 859. Mends not her slowest pace Sequitur pede Paena â—laudo Hor. V. 866. With stern Regard With an angry Countenance Stern Bo. 8. v. 333. Regard Fr. the looks V. 870. Colour Serpentine Color Serpentinus But that thy Milky Skin of the green Serpents colour might discover the hidden Falshood that lurks underneath that fair Disguise V. 872. Pretended to Hellish Falshood Lest thy Divine Angelic Beauty disguising thy Devilish Deceitfulness ensnare ' em Pretended Pretentus Lat. drawn over like a Curtain to hide Sicanio praetenta sinâ— jacet insula AEn 3. Morti praetendere muros AEn 11. Form Forma Lat. Beauty V. 886. More to the part sinister from me drawn Taken out of my left unlucky Side as leaning and inclining to my Enemy not determined by Gen. 2. 21. The right Hand and Side is every where accounted more honourable and happy God's Power
Incorporeal void of all Dimension Bo. 1. v. 793. V. 18. Where the Golden Altar fum'd And another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne And the smoak of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God Rev. 8. 3 4. Incense Bo. 9. v. 194. Fum'd smoaked of Fumare Lat. Intercessor Bo. 3. v. 219. V. 23. Implanted Grace From thy Grace rooted in his Heart Implantatus Lat. planted in Censer Incensoir Fr. an Instrument to burn Incense in ab Incendendo Lat. Manuring Bo. 4. v. 628. V. 33. His Advocate and Propitiation His Defence and Satisfaction let me expound his imperfect Prayers who am his Patron and Surety We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins 1 John 2. 1 2. Advocatus Lat. one that defends the Cause of his Client Propitiatio Lat. a satisfaction of Propitiare Lat. to appease V. 35. Or not good Ingraft A Gardening Metaphor used by St. Paul often Rom. 11. v. 17 19 23 c. place all his good Works or not good on me on my account my Merit shall compleat those and for the other my Death shall make satisfaction Ingraft of In and Greffer Fr. to put a slip of one Tree into another V. 38. The smell of Peace towards Mankind Accept me the Peace-offering for Mankind in me be reconciled to him The Peace-offering in the Levitical Law is frequently express'd by an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord Levit. 3. v. 5 16. and c. 4. v. 31. typifying that most acceptable Sacrifice of our Saviour who is our Peace Eph. 2. 14. Reconciled Reconciliatus Lat. restored to Favour His Days numbred his appointed Time short and sad Pauperis est numorare V. 41. To mitigate not to reverse Which I entreat to soften to render more easie not to repeal Mitigare Lat. to asswage To reverse as to reverse a Decree to make void a Sentence of Revertere quasi Retrovertere to abrogate V. 44. Made one with me c. That they may all be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one John 17. 21 22. V. 51. No Gross no unharmonious Mixture c. Those fine and undecaying Elements that in their mixture have no inequality or grossness will not endure him infected any longer but throw him off like a Disease The pure and well-proportioned Elements in Paradise and not improbably in all the World were so equally mix'd as to contribute to its Fruits Adam's Food that wholsom Temperament which was to have preserved him and his Posterity in an uninterrupted state of Health till it had pleased his Creator to have translated him Sinless into Heaven without tasting Corruption or seeing the Grave but having transgress'd he was to be driven out of that undecaying Garden into the distemper'd World to Air that now must suffer change to Earth affected with Cold and Heat scarce tolerable Bo. 10. v. 212 and 653. Gross to Air as gross and perishing Nourishment such as might introduce Decay and incline him daily to Dissolution and at last to Death Sins dire Distemper Gross thick foul Grosso Ital. of Crassus Lat. thick unfine Unharmonius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. disagreeing Eject of Ejicere Lat. to throw out Tainted Bo. 5. v. 704. Distemper disorder of Dis Negative and Trempe Fr. of Temperies Lat. the proportion and equality of Cold and Heat Dissolution Bo. 2. v. 127. V. 59. Happiness and Immortality God endowed Adam with two fair Gifts Happiness and Immortality not Absolute but depending on his Obedience Happy while obedient and Immortal while innocent because in a condition not to die But this possibility of Never Dying did not result from his Nature for by that he was Mortal and subject to Decay as living an Animal Life but had he kept his Innocence God would have so preserved and protected him that after a long Life here he would have translated him to immutable secure and unforfeitable Immortality in everlasting Bliss without passing through Corruption and the dark Grave as Enoch was that he might not see Death Heb. 11. 5. For had Man continued Sinless it is unimaginable how the World could have maintained if able to contain their vast Multitudes always here below Therefore Immortality imports a Longevity of undisturb'd Happiness and undistemper'd Health which should have transmitted Mankind into Heaven at God's appointed time But having lost his Happiness which depended on his Innocence Immortality would have proved a Punishment an everlasting Disease whose only Remedy and Cure is Death the Restorative of his Primitive State and Eternal Bliss Hence that of St. Paul To die is great gain Phil. 1. 21. Praeclusaque janua let i AEternum nostros luctus extendit in aevum Met. 1. Eternize of Eternare Lat. to make everlasting V. 63. Refin'd by Faith c. And after this Life spent in many Trials and sharp Afflictions and purified by Faith manifested by Works Death shall restore and give him up to a new and everlasting Life waked at the Resurrection of the Just Pure and Unspotted with Heaven and Earth renewed and refined by Fire Tribulation Bo. 3. v. 337. Refined Raffiné Fr. purged from his Dross A Metaphor from Metals by melting down Refined The fining pot for silver and the furnace for gold Prov. 17. 3. Refined is well applied to Afflictions and the Trials of this Life which our Saviour Typifies by Fire I am come to send fire on Earth Luke 12. 49. V. 65. The Renovation of the Just At the Resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. for as our Spiritual Resurrection from Sin here is frequently styled A putting off the old man and being renewed in the spirit of our minds Eph. 4. 22 23. So our Corporeal Resurrection at the last Day shall be a Renovation Renovatio Lat. a Renewing of our Mortal Bodies which shall then put on Immortality 1 Cor. 17. 53. V. 66. With Heaven and Earth renew'd I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Eph. 4. 22 23. Nevertheless according to his promise we look for new Heavens and a new Earth 2 Pet. 3. 13. Synod Bo. 2. v. 392. Peccant Peccans Lat. sinning of Peccare Lat. to offend V. 74. Heard in Horeb At the Promulgation of the Law Exod. 20. 18. And perhaps not to be heard again till the Day of Judgment When the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. Oreb Bo. 1. v. 7. Amarantinus Lat. of Amarant Bo. 3. v. 353. V. 79. By the Waters of Life The Lamb
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
As Ice more hardened after Thaw For Ice warm'd gently into a Thaw is made more receptive of those Saline and Nitrous Particles which fill the freezing Air and insinuating themselves into the Water already weakened are the cause of a harder Concretion Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis Geor. 3. Isicles freeze as they drop into a wonderful hardness V. 197. On dry land between two Chrystal Walls The Children of Israel went into the midst of the Sea upon the dry ground and the Waters were a Wall unto them on their right Hand and on their Left Exod. 14. 22. V. 198. Aw'd by the Rod of Moses c. Compel'd by the potent Rod of Moses to stand on either hand divided like a watry Wall Lift thou up thy Rod and stretch out thine hand over the Sea and divide it Exod. 14. 16. Rescu'd Bo. 11. v. 682. V. 203. By Day a Cloud by Night a Pillar of Fire The Lord went before them by Day in a Pillar of a Cloud to lead them the way and by Night in a Pillar of Fire to give them light to go by Day and Night Exod. 13. 21. which God performed by one of his Ministring Angels whom he appointed to be their Guardian The Angel of God which went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the Pillar of the Cloud went from before their face and stood behind them Exod. 14. 19. Obdurat Bo. 1. v. 58. V. 209. Will trouble all their Host Exod. 14. 24 and 25. And craze their Chariot Wheels break 'em in pieces of the Fr. Escraser to bruise or break as Exod. 14. 25. V. 214. And overwhelm their War Drown'd their whole Army as Exod. 14. 27. and 28. V. 216. Not the readiest way c. least War terrifie 'em inexpert God led them not through the way of the Land of the Philistines although that was near But God led the People about thorow the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea Exod. 13. 17 and 18. Terrifie Terrificare Lat. to affright Inexpert Inexpertus Lat. untrain'd undisciplined V. 219. Fear return them back to Egypt As is manifest by their Murmuring Expostulations with Moses when Pharaoh persued them Because there were no Graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the Wilderness Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt saying Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians Exod. 14. 11. and 12. V. 225. Found their Government and their Senate c. Exod. 18. 25. and 26. Found Fr. Fonder Lat. Fundare to lay the Foundations of to establish V. 227. Whose grey top shall tremble he descending Whose hoary Head shall shake while God comes down upon it Grey Lat. Canus is the usual Epithete of Mountains because the Snow lies longer there than in the Vallies and upon some of their lofty brows all the year long Gelidus canis cum montibus humor Liquitur Geo. 1. Sinai Bo. 1. v. 7. Of the Promulgation of the Law there with Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets Sound Exod. 19. 16 and 18. Tremble Trembler Fr. Tremere Lat. to shake V. 232. By Types and Shadows By Signs and dark Resemblances Type Typus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Mark or Impression made by striking a hard Body against one more yielding of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strike hence taken for obscure and Mystical Representations of things to come such Images as the Jewish Sacrifices were of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World Revel 10. 8. Read Hebr. 9. V. 238. And terror cease And the fear that fell on them by hearing the Almighties Dreadful voice might be remov'd They said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we Die Exod. 20. 19. Report Rapporter Fr. to relate V. 240. Without Mediator And Moses alone shall come near the Lord Exod. 24. 2. according to his own Testimony of himself Behold I have taught you Statutes and Judgments even as the Lord my God commanded me Deut. 4. 5. to which that refers The Law was ordain'd by Angels in the hand of a Mediator Moses Galat. 3. 19. One Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. Mediator Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that comes between the Offended and Offendor an Intercessor V. 241. Moses in Figure bears That Moses was a Type of Christ and the Deliverance of the Children of Israel from their Egyptian Bondage and their Purifications by Sacrifices a mysterious Representation of our Saviours Death and Redeeming us from the Slavery of Sin and Eternal Punishment is most manifest St. Paul draws the Parrallel very plain between 'em For Moses took the Blood of Calves and of Goats c. for Christ is not enter'd into the holy places made with hands which are the Figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9. 19. 24. V. 243. And all the Prophets And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he Christ himself expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself Luk. 4. 27. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet like unto me Deut. 18. 15. Propheta Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that foretels things to come Messiah Bo. 5. v. 664. V. 257. To set up his Tabernacle Let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them according to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 8 and 9. Tabernacle Bo. 15. v. 654. V. 250. By his Prescript a Sanctuary of Cedar According to his appointment Praescriptum Lat. form fashion Sanctuary Bo. 1. v. 588. of which the Ark and Mercy Seat Read Exod. 25. 8 9 10. 17 18 c. V. 252. His Testimony the Records of his Covenant In the Ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee Exod. 25. 21. Records Bo. 1. 361. Testimony Testimonium Lat. the Witness and Evidence of God's Covenant made with his People obliging them to Obedience and promising his Blessings Temporal and Eternal V. 256. Seven Lamps representing the Heavenly Fires And thou shalt make the Seven Lamps thereof Exod. 25. 37. This Sevenfold Candlestick was the Image of the Heavenly Sphere representing the Seven Planets as Philo Tropologizes on the Text. Mysticè Candelabrum hoc septifidum imago erat caelestis Sphaerae septilustris sive septem Planetarum Tabernaculum Typus Mundi◠Sanctum Sanctorum Typus Caeli Empyrei Beatorum V. 257. A Cloud by day a fiery gleam by night The Cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day and Fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their Journeys Exod. 40. 38. Gleame Bo. 4. v. 461. V. 264. And Nights due course adjourn By putting off and delaying the usual approach of Night To Adjourn Adjourner Fr. is to put off to another Day as Night was
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