calleth vs to him Psal. 95 7. To day if yee will heare his voyce at one Day sig Very shortly and at one instant Re. 18 8. The Plague shall come at one Day that is suddenly and in a moment Day and night sig Perpetually for euer and without any end Reuel 14 11. They shall haue no rest Day or night 2 Continually without ceasing so long as this world lasts Reuel 12 10. Which accuseth them before our God Day and night ten Dayes sig A small and short space of time as it were for ten dayes long Reuel 2 10. Ye shall haue tribulation ten Dayes that is a few dayes A definit and certaine number put for an Indefinite and vncertaine Day of temptation sig All the time wherein God tried his people Psal. 95 8. In the Day of temptation in the wildernesse Day of darkenesse sig Times of affliction and trouble or sharpe and hard times Ioell 2 2. A Day of darkenesse and of blacknesse euil Dayes sig Times full of sinnes and troubles or troublesom and sinfull times Eph. 5 16. For the Dayes are euil Gen. 47 6. 2. Tim. 4 2. D. E. Deacon sig A Steward of the Church Treasury beeing appointed to looke vnto the poore and to Minister vnto euery one of them as he had need 1. Tim. 3 8. Phil. 1 1. To the Byshops and to the Deacons Of their Office and election read Asts 6 1 2 3 4. c. Of their seuerall kinds Sée Rom. 12 8. Dead sig One whose soul is separated from his body either by naturall or violent death 1. Pet. 4 6. The Gospell was preached to the Dead that is such as were naturally Dead when this was Written of Peter but were aliue when the Gospel was preached to them 2 One whose soule and bodye is separated from Gods grace and Spirit Luke 9 60. Let the Dead bury their Dead Reuel 3 2. 1. Tim. 5 6. 3 One very neere to death Gen. 20 3. Thou art but Dead Iob. 27 15. His remnant shall bee buried in Death that is before they be wholy dead while life is in them they shall be buried Dead Workes sig All maner of sins Originall Actuall in thought word and deed Heb. 9 14. Purge your Conscience from Dead workes Heb. 6 2. Sinnes are thus called First because they come from persons spiritually Dead Secondly they deserue eternall Death and lead there-vnto without forgiuenesse What becomes of veniall Sinnes if all be deadly If euerie sinne euen the least is a work of Death and in strict Iustice be worthy of Destruction eternall then no sinne is so light and veniall as can bee doone away without the merit of Christs death onely by an aspersion of Holy-water or kissing the Pax c. Dead in trespasses sinnes sig All vnregenerate natural and vnmortified men euen all the elect as they be and sticke in the corruption of their Nature These are Dead in sinne first because through guilt of sinne they are voyde of true life and worthy of Death Secondly because they are vnder the power of their sinfull lusts as one that is drowned in the Water hauing no more power to do any duty of a godly life then a Dead man hath to do the duties of natural life Eph. 2 2. Being Dead in trespasses and sins you were quickned Eph. 4 1â— Ye were strangers of a godly life Dead to sin sig A mortified person one in whome the Death of Christ hath broken the force of sinne that it cannot raigne Rom. 6 2. How can they which be Dead to sinne c. Where the vigour and force of Sinne which is the life of sin is crushed extinct there sinne cannot bring forth such bitter fruits as it was wont before Sanctification to do therefore euen as men which haue so lost their bodily strength as it cannot be recouered are saide to bee dead while they liue so though sinne still liue in the Godliest yet they are dead to sinne because the power and old strength of sin is sore abated lessened daily Death sig A seperation of soule from body Heb. 9 27. After Death commeth Iudgement This Death is eyther naturall or violent and it is called a bodily and worldly Death 2 A separation of soule and body from Gods fauour in this world Luke 1 79. And sit in the shaddow of Death This is spirituall Death 3 A separation of the whol man from Gods heauenly presence and glory for euer Rom. 6 23. The wages of sinne is Death Reuel 20 6. They shall neuer see the second Death This is aeternall death Ro. 8 6. 4 A deadly thing 2. Kings 4 40. Death is in the Pot that is a deadly thing is there Rom. 7 23. Sin is there called the Body of Death because it is a deadly thing 5 All Calamities and miseries not onely of the world to come but of this life which be as the Harbengers and Fore-runners of death Gen. 2 17. Thou shalt die the Death that is thou shalt become subiect to death to all euils that brings vs to death 2. Cor. 1 10. Great death put for Great dangers 6 Destruction and ouerthrow Hosea 13 14. O Death I will bee thy Death that is thy destroyer and abolisher thy ouerthrow 7 Pestilence or plague which is a deadly sickenesse bringing Death Reuel 6 8. His name that sat thereon was Death 8 The perill or hazard of present Death 2. Cor. 11 23. In Death often c. 1. Cor. 15 31. 9 Things which being once created and liuing are now perished and Dead Iob. 28 22. Destruction and Death say c. second Death sig Eternal Death and damnation of soule and body in Hell as the first Death is the dissolution of the soule and body Reuel 2 11. He that ouercommeth shall not be hurt of the second Death to see or to tast Death Sig To die or depart this world Luke 2 26. I should not see Death heauie to Death and sorrowes of Death sig His most mortall and deadly heauinesse and sorrowes or a Death full of bodily greefes and soules torments Acts 2 24. He loosed the sorrowes of death Math. 26 38. My soule is heauy to Death Out of these sorrowes and death springes all true life and Ioy. no bandes vntill their Death sig The constant prosperity of the wicked liuing in a continuall tenor of welfare till they dye euen like a web of Cloath made of euen and strong Thred without knots or sâ—urles Psal. 73 4. There are no bands in their Death shaddow of Death sig Death shaddowish and darkesome full of discomfort and heauinesse Iob. 24 7. But the morning is euen to them as the shaddow of Death Luke 1 79. Psal. 23 4. Luke 1 79. Esay 9 2 3. Debate sig Strife or variance when men of contrary desires and opinions differ fall out amongst themselues Rom. 1 29. Debate c. Debt sig pro A sum of mony which we owe to another or that which is any way due to another
there to raign in most excellent glory and power for the good of his Church Ephe. 4 9 10 11. Being ascended that he c. To Ascend into heauen sig To go vp into heauen bodily and visibly Actes 1 9 10. Ephe. 4 9 10. When he ascended 2 To bee indued with light of spirituall vnderstanding Iohn 3 13. No man ascendeth vp c. To Aske sig To put a Question Luke 20 8. I alse aske you c. 2 To moue a petition or to desire something in Prayer Math. 7 7. Assembly sig A place for solemn meetings eyther Ciuil or Ecclesiasticall Mat. 23 6. The chiefe seat in assemblies To Assist. sig To minister ayde or helpe as it were to stand to one in his danger 2. Tim. 4 16 17. No man assisted yet the Lord assisted me Assurance sig That infallible certainty which an elect soule hath by Faith of her owne saluation and of the promise of grace that it is true and belongeth to her selfe Heb. 10 22. Draw neere in assurance of Faith Rom. 4 21 Being assured c. The Papistes are enemies to this assurance they grant a probable and coniecturall but deny infallible assurance because mans will say they is mutable whereas our assurance depends vpon the vnchangeable will of God 2 Charitable perswasions of other mens saluation 2. Tim. 1 5. I am assured it is in thee Full Assurance sig A certaine and strong perswasion of our owne saluation by Christ. Rom. 4 21. Being fully assured Col. 2 1. A speech borrowed from ships which be carried with full sayles A. T. To Attend. sig Earnestly to bend the minde vnto a thing taking great care of it and heede vnto it Acts 20 28. Attend therefore to all the Flocke whereof the holy Ghost c. To make Atonement sig To declare one to be purged from his sins and reconciled to God Leu. 5 10. The Priest shal make an attonement for him A. U. Author sig The beginner or first Inuenter and maker of a thing Heb. 12 3. Iesus the Author of our faith Authority sig Good estimation and opinion gotten by wisedome and wel-doing 2 Lawfull power enabling to do some publick works Luke 20 2. Tell vs by what Authority thou dost these things Mat. 20 25. 3 Maiesty power and efficacy Marke 1 22. He taught them as one that had authority A. W. To Awake sig pro To come or get out of a sleepe Mat. 8 25. 2 To come out of the sleepe of sinne by repentance as he that comes out of bodily sleepe by awaking Eph 5 14. Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead 3 To be prompt ready with a godly watchfull minde to performe good duties Psal. 108 2. I my selfe will awake right earely 4 To Minister and giue present succour after it hath beene long kept from vs as though God had beene asleepe and forgotten vs. Psal. 7 6. Awake for me O Lord. A. X. Are. sig pro An Instrument to hewe or cut downe Trees withall 2 The word of God which as a spiritual Axe cutteth downe spiritually wicked men and Hypocrites like rotten barren Trees This is it which is else-where meant by plucking vp destroying hardening binding retaining sinnes making the eares heauy and the hart fat c. Mat. 3 10. Now is the Axe laide to the roote of the Trees c. Some expound this not of spirituall iudgements threatned in his worde against vnrepentant sinners but of the power of the Romans which were the instruments of God to destroy vtterly the vnfaithful and wicked generation of the Iewes with a worldly destruction The former is the better exposition because of that which followes of casting into the fire B. A. Babes sig INfants whilst they be young and tender vnweaned from the breast Mat. 2 20. 2 Such as bee weake in faith and knowledge whether they be newly regenerated or long since 1. Cor. 3 1. Euen as vnto Babes in Christ. Heb. 5 13. Euery one that vseth Milk is a Babe that is one who is not ripe in knowledge Babylon Sig pro A famous Citty in Assyria whence Peter wrote his first Epistle 1. Pet. 5 5 13. 2 Rome euen the Ecclesiastical Rome where the Pope sits as head Reuel 18 2. It is fallen Babylon that great Citty In Rome are found the vices which were in Babylon Therefore by resemblance beares the name of Babylon Metaphor Sée fallen The Papists in their Testament printed at Rheimes to proue Peter to be at Rome doo take Babylon in 1. Pet. 5 13. to bee Rome mystically for resemblance to Babylon in Idolatry and cruelty yea and confesse also that Rome is meant by Babylon in the 16. and 17. of Reuel Therefore must needs bee the See of Antichrist Back parts sig So much of Gods glory as in this life we are able to see Exod. 33 23. Thou shalt see my backe-parts but my face thou shalt not see that is saith Luther Here we behold God in his words and in his creatures and in the face of Christ lesus our Mediatour But when this body is dissolued by death then wee shall see him face to face and knowe him as we are knowne 1. Cor. 13 9. 10 12. Backbiters sig Them which by false or true reportes hurt the credit of their Neighbor in his absence and behind his backe Rom. 1 30. Back-biters c. To be baptized with y◠Holy-ghost sig To receiue the giftes of the holy Ghost which sometime were in a visible manner bestowed in the primitiue church before or after Baptisme Act. 1 5. Acts 10 44. and 19 5. To Baptize sig pro To dippe into Water or to plunge one into the water 2 To plunge into afflictions or daungers as it were into deepe waters Math. 20 22. Can yee be baptized with the Baptisme wherewith I am baptised that is can ye suffer afflictions 3 To sprinckle or wash ones body Sacramentally Thus the Minister baptizeth Math. 3 11. I baptize you with water that is outward Sacramentall washing 4 To wash the Conscience spiritually purging it from the guilt and corruption of sinne by Iustification and Sanctification Thus Christ baptizeth Math. 3 11. Christ shall baptize you with the Holy-Ghost and with fire This is inward spirituall washing The Minister baptiseth by sprinkling with water God baptiseth by bestowing the guifts of his spirit The baptisme of Iohn and Christ were all one for Ceremony Action and Substance difference was in the persons Christ being man and God To bee Baptized for dead sig Not for the dead or ouer the graues of the dead but as dead euen to destroy and mortifie sin which is the true end of baptisme and necessarily proueth the hope of the resurrection 1. Cor. 15 29. Which are baptized for dead To be Baptized into the death of Christ. sig To receiue Baptisme as a Testimony of mortification and as an Instrument of the Holy-ghost for the extinguishing and the killing of sinne by the death of Christ. Rom. 6 3.
come Comming vp to heauen sig The following of Sinnes one after another and arising one of another in such sort that they at length grow to such a heap that they came vp euen to Heauen Reuel 18 5. Her sinnes are come vp to Heauen To Come out sig To forsake all fellowship with the vngodlie in there wicked manners but especially with Idolaters and Idolatry 2. Cor. 6 17. Come out from amongst them and separate your selues Reuel 18 4. Come out of her my people This is a spirituall separation onely when the bodily and locall separation cannot be had Comelines sig That which hath in it grauity and modesty and stirreth vppe to godlinesse 1. Cor. 14 40. Let all things be done in comelinesse Common sig That which is common for the vse of it land not in possession Acts 4 34. They had all thinges common and gaue to euery man as he had neede 2 Vncleane polluted vnholy and prophane Math. 15 11. Acts 10 14. The worde in the Originall Text is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Common or to make common Common hands sig Vnwashen hands Marke 7 2. Common Saluation sig That safety and freedome from sinne and eternall death purchased by Christ which is called Common Saluation because all the faythfull haue equall interest in it Iude. 2. To write vnto you of the common Saluation that is saith the Bible note of the things which belong to the saluation of vs all To Commune sig To talke together of some matter Gen. 34 6. To commune with him Communion sig pro A fellowship or agreement when diuerse ioyne and partake together in one thing 2. Cor. 6 14 16. What Communion What Fellow-ship What Agreement Communion with Christ. sig Our fellowship and partaking spiritually and in deede with Christ himselfe and all his merrites by faith vnto saluation 1. Cor. 10 16. The Bread which we breake is it not the communion of his body No wicked haue Communion with Christ whatsoeuer our Papists affirme otherwise then Sacramentally by profession or in the opinion of the Church Communion with God Sig Our being one with him or being vnited to him as a childe to the father 1. Iohn 1 3. If ye walke in the light ye haue communion with God Communion of the Spirit Sig The fellowshippe which the faythfull haue in the same graces and workes of the Spirit Phil. 2 1. If any fellowship of the spirit 2. Cor. 13 13. The communion of the Holyghost be with you all Communion of saints sig The fellowship which the Saints haue with Christ and all his benefits by faith and among themselues by loue which makes all their guifts touching the vse common to euery one 1. Iohn 1 4. That yee may all haue communion with vs and that also our communion may be with the Father and with his Son Iesus Christ. The Papists do vntruly restraine this communion to society with their Church which is no true Church Communication sig Speech or talke whereby we make our priuate thoughts common to others Eph. 4 29. Comparison Sig The putting or setting together in one sentence two equall or like thinges by the one to manifest and make plaine the other Mark 4 30. With what comparison c. 2 Applying the words to the matter that things taught and the kinde of teaching may be like 1. Cor. 2 13. Comparing spirituall things c. Compassiō sig Suffering together when two or three feele the same greefe and properly it is that motherly compassion pittifulnesse feeling and greeuing for the misery of her childe Esay 49 15. This is naturall compassion 2 The mercifull Nature of God infinitely enclined to pity and succour the miseries of his creature namely of his elect Psal. 103 13. The Lorde hath compassion on them that feare him 2. Cor. 1 4. God of all compassions This is diuine compassion 3 That mutuall pitty or fellow-feeling which Christians haue of each others misery as if they suffered together Luke 10 33. When he saw him he had compassion on him Hebr. 13 2. Remember them that are in bonds as if your selues were in bonds This is christian compassion Compleate sig Full whole or perfect Ephes. 6 11. Put on the compleat or whole Armour c. To comprehend sig To reach vnto a thing to lay hold on it to perceiue or acknowledge Iohn 1 5. They comprehended it not Phil. 3 12. That I may comprehend that c. To be comprehended of Christ. sig To be laide holde on by Christ shewing vs the way to heauen and giuing strength to walke in it Phil. 3 12. I am comprehended of Christ. Concord sig Agreement of heart and affections when being many we haue one heart and the same loue 2. Cor. 6 17. What concord c. 1. Cor. 1 10. Concubine sig Women which were as it were halfe Wiues as the Hebrew word signifies 1. Kings 11 3. and 300. Concubines Concupiscence sig The prauity or naughtinesse of our nature lusting after thinges forbidden of God Iames 1 14. But euery man is tempted when hee it drawne away by his owne concupiscence This is our Originall concupiscence which is the fountaine and roote of all wicked lusts and desires and of all Sinnes whatsoeuer being itselfe also a sinne properly euen after Baptisme in the regenerate contrary to the Papistes who deny this Sée Rom. 7 7. Also Rom. 7 14 15 16 17 c. 2 Euill desires and motions springing from the roote of this Naturall concupiscence whether they be consented to or not Rom. 7 8. Wrought in mee all manner of concupiscence This is Actuall Concupiscence which is eyther Vnvoluntary as the first motions before consent of will or Voluntary when consent of will commeth to the motion Both the one and the other bee properly sinne because they be the transgression of the Law hindering that perfect loue of God and of our Neighbour commanded in the Law and drawing vs to things contrary to the Law Rom. 7 15 16 17. 22 23. c. Condemnation or condemning sig pro The pronouncing of the sentence of punishment vppon any malefactor by some Iudge Iohn 8 10. Hath no man condemned thee This may bee done either iustly or vniustly Prou. 17 15. 2 A pronouncing of Sinners guilty and adiudging them to punishment vpon the conuiction of a fault Rom. 8 34. God Iustifieth who shall condemn◠Rom. 8 1. There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ that is they are freed from the damnatory sentence of the Law pronouncing a cursse to euery sinne 3 The punishment itselfe whereunto one is adiudged and condemned 1. Cor. 11 32. Because we should not be condemned with the world 4 The abolishing a thing and vtterly taking it away as if it were not Rom. 8 3. Condemned Sinne in the flesh 1. Pet. 4 6. 5 Pronouncing of a sentence or censure vncharitably or rashly of other mens persons and doings Luke 6 37. Condemne not and ye shall not
a departing first 1. Tim. 4 1. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith to be Depriued sig To be excluded or shut out Heb. 4 1. Least yee be Depriued The word properly signifies to waxe faint in running of a race and to giue ouer ere we come to the Goale in which sence al men through sinne are depriued of Gods eternall glory that is they can neuer attaine that Goale of Heauenly blisse without Christ and his righteousnesse imputed to faith Rom. 3 23. All haue sinned and are Depriued of the glory of God Depth or Deepe sig Some extreame misery and greeuous daunger Psal. 131 1. Out of the Deep haue I called vnto thee ô God 2 Destruction or torment aeternally suffered in the Deepe pit of hell Rom. 10 6. Who shall goe into the Deepe 3 The lowest nethermost parts of the world Esay 7 11. Aske it either in the Depth beneath c. 4 The most hidden thoughtes of God or men Prou. 12 4. Rom. 11 33. O the Depth of the Wisedome of God c. 5 The first matter of things the formlesse masse of earth and water confused at the first Gen. 1 2 Darkenesse was vpon the Deepe Déepenesse of riches sig Riches vnsearchable and most profound Rom. 11 33. O the Depth of his Riches Déepe thinges of God sig Things seâ—ret hid and kept close as it were in the breast of God till they bee reuealed to vs by the spirit and word of God 1. Cor. 2 10. The spirit searcheth the Deepe things of God Déepe waters sig Great dangers which threaten death like deepe Waters which ouer-whelme a man Psalme 69 2. I am come into the Deepe Waters that is deadly dangers 2 The most secret and most inward thoughtes and counselles of a mans heart Prou. 20 5. Counsell in the heart of a Man is like Deepe Waters Desart sig A Wildernesse or a forsaken place barren and voide of Inhabitants Exod. 19 2. They came into the Desart of Sinai and Camped in the Wildernesse Sée Wildernesse Descending sig pro Comming down from aboue or from some high place to a lower 2 Some visible signe of Gods presence and especially the assuming of our Nature in the person of his Sonne that hee might dwell visibly amongest vs. Iohn 3 13. No man hath ascended vp into heauen but he that descended from Heauen Iohn 1 14. Eph. 4 9 10. 3 To examine a cause or to enter into iudgment with good aduise and consideration Gen. 18 21. I will descend or go downo now and see c. 4 Sending downe from heauen Psal. 7 16. His cruelty shall descend or fall vpon c. 5 Comming without respect of place high or low Iohn 4 47. He besought to descend or go downe c. to Descend into hell sig To go downe into the graue and there to bee shut vppe vnder the power of death Gen. 37 35. Surely I will descend or go downe into hell or graue Psal. 16 7. 2 To be oppressed with sorrowe extreame and deadly of mind or body Gen. 42 38. Descention into hell what it is The extreame humiliation and abasement of Christ in his man-hood vnder the power of death and the graue beeing kept there as a prisoner in bands vntill the third day Acts 10 40. 1. Cor. 15 4. He was buried and rose the third day Christ his locall going into hell to draw out thence the soules of Patriarches c. is a meere popish dreame Desire sig Lawfull appetite after a lawfull thing Gen. 3 16. Thy Desire shall be to thy Husband 2 Vnlawfull lusting after things lawfull or after things forbidden 1. Tim. 6 10. The desire of money is the roote of all euill 3 The longing of a faithfull soul either for some bodily or spirituall good thing whereof it feeles a want Psal. 145 19. He will fulfill the desires of them that feare him 4 Vehement and continuall looking for a thing as it were with thrusting forth the head to see if we can spy it come Rom. 8 19. The feruent desire of the Creature Desolate sig Left alone heauy and comfortlesse Psal. 25 16. For I am desolate and poore Math. 23 38. Desolation sig The laying of a thing wast beeing brought to vtter ruine whereof followes discomfort and heauinesse Esay 6 12. And there be a Desolation in the middest of the Land 2 Eternall ruine when impenitent sinners at the end of their dayes are turned into that deep and vncomfortable pit of hell Psal. 73 18. And casteth them downe into desolation sudden Desolation sig Vnlooked for and most dreadfull Iudgement hurling downe and laying wast all things like a mighty fierce storme of Haile or suddaine rising of Waters bearing downe all before it Prou. 1 27. When your feare comes like sudden Desolation Iob. 30 14. abhomination of Desolation sig An abhominable Desolation Dan. 9 27. Sée Abhomination Despaire sig Want of hope it is eyther in opinion as when godly men thinke themselues to bee without hope in a pang of temptation as Dauid did or in truth as in wicked men who alwayes want hope and sometimes professe the want of it as Caine. 2. Cor. 4 8. We Despaire not Acts 27 20. We Despaired or All hope was taken away Despaire is contrarie to hope as vnbeleefe and diffidence is vnto faith to Despise when it is spoken of men sig To set at naught and lightly to account of any thing 2 To neglect the vse of a thing In this sence the wicked are saide to despise the bounty and patience of God Also the word of God Rom. 2 4. Despisest thou the bounty of God Acts 13 41. Behold ye Despisers Prou. 1 30. When men make no vse or profit of Gods Word Chasticements or Benefits thereby they declare how they despise them holding them as vaine things Thus Children are said to despise the Counsel of their Parents when they do not follow it to Despise referred to God sig His accounting vs vile in his owne sight or making vs vile in the eyes of men 1. Sam. 2 30. I wil honour him that honoureth me and him that despiseth me will I despise not to Despise sig To esteeme highly of a thing and to value it at a great rate Psal. 51 17. A Contrite heart ô Lord thou wilt not Despise Hebr. 12 5. In these places lesse is spoken then is meant to Destroy sig To pull down make wast a building or house making it eeuen with the ground not leauing a stone vpon a stone as it is written Luke 21 6. A stone shall not be left vpon a stone that shall not bee throwne downe 2 To take away a thing quite so as it bee no more In this sence Christ is saide to destroy sin Rom. 6 6. That the Body of sinne might be Destroyed For at length to wit at our death sinne shall bee quite taken out of our Nature 2. Tim. 2 10 18. 3 To bring men vnto a remedilesse downefall and misery both
place containing for the persons contained 4 Kindred Stocke or Linage Luke 1 27. Of the House of Dauid Luke 16 27. Send him to my Fathers House 5 Family and posterity 2 Sam. 7 18. What is mine House Exod. 1 21. Hee made them Houses that is he did encrease and prosper the Families Posterities Gen. 39 4. He made him ruler ouer his House and ouer all he had 6 Substance goods and worldly riches laid vp in Houses to be safe kept there Mat. 23 14. They deuour Widdowes Houses Gen. 39 5 6. God blessed the house of the Aegiptian That is all his substance which he had House of God sig Heauen where Saints and blessed Spirits shall dwel with God for euer Iohn 14 2. In my Fathers House there be many Mansions 2 Cor. 5 1. This is a Celestiall House 2 Euery particular assembly called the Church Militant where God dwels and vnto whom hee giues Lawes as an Housholder to his House 1 Tim. 3 â—5 That thou mayst know how to behaue thy selfe in the House of God This is a spirituall House 3 The vniuersall Church or whole company of the faithfull spread ouer the Earth Hebr. 3 2 5. Moyses was faithfull in all the House of God Also Verse sixe Christ is as the Sonne ouer his owne house 4 Euery faithfull and godly person in whome Christ dwels by Faith 1 Pet. 4 17. Iudgement must begin at the House of God Hebr. 3 6. Whose House we are 5 The true Religion of God taught and professed within the Church of God Psal. 69 9. The zeale of thine House hath euen eaten me 6 The Temple in Hierusalem Luke 19 46. My House shall be called the House of Prayer the house of Iacob or of Israell sig The people of Israell or the Nation of the Israelites Ex. 19 3. Also the whole Church of Christ euen all Gods people both Jewes Gentiles Psal. 115 12. He will blesse the House of Israell Luke 1 27. He shall rule ouer the House of Iacob for euer House of bondage sig Aegipt where the people of Israell were in great slauery Deut. 5 6. From the House of bondage fathers house sig The custody care and gouernment of Fathers Numb 30 4. Being in her Fathers House House of Prayer sig The place appointed to assemble in for the publike worship of God Whereof because Prayer is a cheefe part therefore the place of Diuine worship is called the House of Prayer as the people assembled in that place are called the house of God Math. 21 13. My House shall be called the House of Prayer The Papists idlely and foolishly wrest these wordes to prooue that Temples are thereby made for Sacrifice Others as foolishly abuse it to shut out preaching The best way is not to seuer what God hath ioyned House of Dauid sig The Visible Church House built vppen a Rocke sig Euery beleeuing Christian who relies by Faith vppon the Rocke Christ and declares the truth of his Faith by his ready obedience to the word Mat. 7 24. I will liken him to awise man who hath built his House vpon a Rocke House built vpon the Sand. sig Euery vnbeleeuing and disobedient person who relieth vpon men and not vpon Christ and serues his lustes and not God Math. 7 25. Which hath built his House vpon the Sand. to make Houses sig To build a House where none was 2 To establish increase and prosper ones Family and posterity Exod. 1 21. He made them Houses House of God sig The Sinagogues where the Iewes assembled to worship God but especially the Temple Eccle. 4. Verse last When thou enterest into the House of God H. U. Humble sig One lowly minded esteeming others better then himselfe ascribing all vnto God being little in his owne account euen as a weaned Child Mat. 18 4. Whosoeuer shall humble themselues as this little Child Psal. 131 1 2. Christ humbled himselfe sig His Incarnation in that he would be man and a Seruant subiect to death euen the death of the Crosse he being equall to God Phil. 2 5 6 7 8. He humbled himselfe Gods humbling or abasing himselfe sig His gratious louing care which he vouchsafeth to haue of vs most vile wormes and most grieuous Sinners himselfe being so glorious and holy Psal. 113 6. Who abaseth himselfe to behold things in Heauen and Earth to humble sig To put reproach vppon vs and cast vs downe from our dignity Luke 14 11. Hee that exalteth himselfe shall be humbled Thus God humbles in wrath Heroa Nebuchadnezzer thus humbled 2 To take down our courage and height of our pride and to make vs humble and meeke that we may haue confidence not in our selues but in God Thus God humbled Paule and Manasses in mercy And thus the godly by their endeuour humble themselues 2 Chron. 12 7. They haue humbled themselues Micha 6 8. 3 To submit and yeelde vnto our Superiors Gene. 16 9. Humble thy selfe vnder her hand 4 To defloure or defile one by force Deutro 22 24. Because he hath humbled his Neighbours wife Humility sig Lowlinesse and modesty of mind Pro. 22 4. The reward of humility c. 2 A low poore and meane estate Luke 1 48. He hath looked vpon the humility and poore estate of his Seruant There is humility of hart and of condition Hunger sig pro Earnest desire of food vpon some want beeing felt Math. 4 1 2. He was afterwards an hungry 2 Vehement desire after Christ his righteousnes forgiuenesse of sinnes and grace of his Spirit out of a want and extreame neede which wee feele of them Math. 5 6. Blessed are they that hunger after righteousnesse Luke â— 53. Thou fillest the hungry with good things 3 Any kind of danger Psalâ— 33 19. To preserue them against hunger or in Famine to hunger no more sig To be satisfied and fully contented Iohn 6 35. He that comes to me shall hunger no more That is in me and in me alone hee shall finde that which shall giue him full contentment and satisfaction to his Soule Hunter sig pro One which followeth wild Beasts to catch them and take their liues from them by Snares Dogs or otherwise Such an one was Esau. 2 A great Spoyler or Robber which by might oppresseth others Such an one was Nimrod Gen. 10 8 9. Nimrod a mighty Hunter before God 3 The Caldeans and Babilonians which GOD would send in fury to vex and hurt rebellious Enemies Iere. 16 16. I will send out many Hunters snare of the Hunter sig Any great danger whatsoeuer Psalm 91 3. He will deliuer thee from the Snare of the Hunter to Hunt after ones Soule sig To lay in waite to destroy one by taking away his life 1. Sam. 24 12. Thou Hunts after my Soule to take it 2 To put mens Soules in daunger and perill of perishing euerlastingly eyther by keeping away good doctrine or teaching false Ezek. 13 18. Will ye Hunt the Soules of my people that ye may preserue your owne
man shall sin through Ignorance A Metanimie of the cause 4 Any sinne whatsoeuer which commeth from such ignorance and error according to the vse of the Hebrew tongue which vnder Ignorance meaneth euerie sinne euen that which is witting and willing Hebr. 9 7. And for the Ignorances of the people A Sinechdoche of the part for the whole Ignorance may excuse a sinne that it be not so great a fault but it cannot so excuse as it shal be no fault at all Excusat à tanto non à tot◠lusts of Ignorance sig Blinde motions and euill desires of vnbeleeuing persons who lacke the true knowledge of Christ. 1. Peter 1 14. Fashion not your selues to the former lusts of your Ignorance Ignorance sig One which sinneth vnwittingly 1. Tim. 1 13. For I did it Ignorantly 2 One which doth a voluntary sinne knowing it to be so Heb. 5 2. To haue compassion of the Ignorant See Bible-note 3 One that careth not for other mens affaires matters Esay 63 16. Though Abraham bee Ignorant of vs. Men are carelesse of that where of they be ignorant 4 One that wanteth the knowledge of the true God and his worship Acts 17 23. Whom yee then Ignorantly worship not to regard the time of Ignorance sig To permit and passe ouer for causes known to himselfe the Ignorance of many thousand yeares Acts 17 30. And the time of this Ignorance God regarded not I. M. Image sig Any shape or portraiture drawne by Art to represent something by it for ciuill vse as Caesars Image was made to represent Caesar. Math. 22 20. Whose Image or superscription is this This is an artificiall Image made for ciuill respects as to distinguish Coines or beautifie Houses and it is lawfull 2 Some shape or picture made to the likenesse of God or of some creature for Diuine worships sake Exod. 20. 4. Thou shalt make thee no grauen Image Deut. 4 15. This is a Diabolicall Image being made for Religion sake and is vnlawfull Where such Images be there is no Religiō saith a Father The Scripture saith that God spake with a voice but shewed no Image to his people of himselfe Deut. 4. 3 All mens deuises commaunded as Gods seruice Exod. 20 4. This is also superstition 4 Our likenesse resemblance of God in righteousnesse and true holinesse After this Image Adam was created Gen. 1 26. Let vs make man after our Image and vnto this are all the elect restored againe by Christ. Ephe. 4 24. This is a spiritual or Celestiall Image 5 Our likenesse and resemblance with God in respect of rule and authority 1. Cor. 11 7. The man is the Image and glorie of God Hitherto of accidentary Images 6 A reall essentiall true and liuely expressing of the very substance of another In this signification is Christ saide to be the Image of God his Father Col. 1 15. Heb. 1 3. Also the Law is said not to be the very Image of the thinges Hebr. 10. 1. And it is written of vs that as wee haue bornethe Image of the earthly so we shall beare the Image of the heauenly man 1. Cor. 15 49. And the Reuelation of S. Iohn speaketh of the Image of the beast which all men shal adore Reuel 14 9. In all which places is meant the very things and substances themselues or the solid and true existence of the things These bee essentiall Images which haue the substance of the things wherof they be called Images 7 Any manner or resemblance whatsoeuer lawfull or vnlawfull liuely or painted true or immaginary Gen. 5 3. He begat a Childe in his own likenesse after his Image Psal. 73 20. Thou shalt make their Image despised Where the word Image signifieth an immaginary vanishing shaddow to set forth the lightnesse and vnconstancy of all earthly things which seeme and make shew to be the true goodes and felicity it selfe yet are nothing but a shaddow or vaine likenesse thereof therefore by the Apostle are called a shape fashion or figure 1. Cor. 7 31. Rom. 12 2. Image of God sig Christ in whom God is to be seene and beheld as touching his substance and glorious properties as a man is to be knowne by his Image or picture 2. Cor. 4 4. Which is the Image of God This is a consubstantiall Image respecting essence and substance 2 Dominion and perfect holinesse Gen. 1 27. In the Image of God created he him This Image is accidentall respecting qualities 3 Authority and power which by Gods ordinance the man hath ouer his wife 1. Cor. 11 7. He is the Image of God Immortall sig pro That which is not capeable of death or subiect to dye 2 An euer-during Nature which is so of it selfe without possibility of perishing or dying 1. Tim. 1 17. To God Immortall onely wise Thus is God onely Immortall 3 That which being once dead shall rise again neuer to die more as mens bodies 1. Cor. 15 53. Mortality must put on Immortality 4 That which shall neuer haue end though it haue a beginning as Angels and mens soules of which though it be not in expresse wordes saide in Scripture that they be Immortall yet inumerable places by good consequence prooue them to be so as 1. Cor. 15 19. 2. Cor. 5 1. Luke 16 22 23 24 c. Imortality sig Such an estate and condition wherein death hath no place nor power 1. Cor. 15 5 34. When mortall hath put on Immortality then death shall bee swallowed vp into victory Importunitie sig Continuance or constancy in Prayer when we pray and faint not Luke 11 8. Yet doubtlesse because of his Importunitie hee will giue him what he needeth Example of this Importunity is in Luke 18 2 3 4. c. The poore widdow Imposition of hands or laying on of hands sig Putting on of hands which is an ancient Ceremony vsed of the Iewes in two cases one in consecrating publicke Sacrifices as also Priestes and Leuites to declare such to be offered to God Leuit 4 4. And secondly in solemne benedictions and Prayers Gen. 48 14 17 20. Iacob put his hands vpon Manasses and Ephraim and prayed for them It was continued vnder the Gospell by Christ and his Apostles in time of Prayer and bestowing spirituall graces Also in time of admitting Church-Officers Ministers Deacons Mat. 19 15. Christ put his handes on little children and prayed Acts 6 6. The Apostles prayed and laid their hands on the Deacons Acts 8 17 18. Then they laid their hands on them they receiued the Holy-ghost and by a Metanimie of the signe it dooth signifie the whole Ministry of the Church and the order of Church-Gouernment Heb. 6 2. The Doctrine of Baptisme and Imposition of hands Touching the Papists Imposition of hands in the Sacrament of Order as they cal it there is no ground for it in the whole Scripture Imputation sig pro Accounting reckoning and allowing some thinges to another of fauour as Merchants who do not put the debt
of God signifies the sound vnderstanding of that truth concerning God and Christ which brings saluation with it that Knowledge sig A light in some particular truth which is reuealed to one and not to another 1 Cor. 8 7. Euerie man hath not that Knowledge rich in knowledge sig One endewed with great plenty and store of Knowledge 1 Cor. 1 5. Ye are made so rich in knowledge to spread Knowledge sig To giue instruction to others helping them to Know what they did not Know. to lay vp Knowledge sig To haue it laid vp that it may bee drawne out in time of neede Prou. 1◠14. A wise man layeth vp Knowledge to preserue Knowledge sig To Keepe maintaine and encrease vnderstanding of heauenly doctrine for the instruction of others Mal. 2 7. The Priests lippes preserue Knowledge to Know the words and waies of God sig Diuersly eyther to vnderstand them onely or to beleeue them to regard and approue them to obey and practise them according to the circumstances of the place Psal. 95 10. Psalm 147 20. Math. 13 23. L. A. to Labor sig PAines euen vnto wearinesse 1. Tim. 5 18. The Labourer is worthy of his wages Verse 17. They that Labour in the word 2 All euils both of sinne and misery Reuel 14 13. They rest from their Labours that is from paine care sorrow crying teares sinne death and whatsoeuer is euill In Ps. 90 10. it sig painfull greefe and sorrow 3 The diligence care and endeuour to do the workes of our calling well and constantly Prou. In all Labor there is abundance Prou. 10 16. The Labor of the righteous tends to life 4 The fruite and encrease which comes of Labour Exod. 23 16. When thou hast gathered in thy Labours Laden sig One groaning and mourning vnder the waight and burden of sinnes being seene and felt with great desire of forgiuenesse by Christ to the ease of his greeued soule Mat. 11 28. All that are Laden 2 One pressed down with a great waight of Iniquity being full of greeuous sinnes without feeling them Esay 1 4. A people Laden with Iniquitie Ladder of Iacob sig The iourney of Iacob wherein God would bee present with him in fauour by his Angels to lead him forth well and happily also to bring him back againe Gen. 28 12. Their stood a Ladder Sée verse 15 and 20. 2 Christ Iesus and his Mediation Iohn 1 51. Angels ascending c. Lake sig Some great standing water or deepe poole or hollow pit 2 Hell the place appointed for tormenting the Reprobate Reuel 20 14. Were cast into the Lake of fire 3 Great calamities and deadly daungers Psal. 30 3. Into the Lake or pit Verse 9. Elsewhere often Lambe sig A young Sheepe meeke and tractable apt for Sacrifice vnder the Law and alwaies for meat 2 A true Christian endowed with the spirit of Grace and meekenesse Esay 11 6. And the Wolfe shall dwell with the Lambe Iohn 21 15. Feede my Lambes 3 Antichrist counterfetting and making shew of meekenesse and loue to the Saints of God Reuel 13 11. Which had two hornes like a Lambe 4 Christ. Reuel 21 23. And the Lambe is the light of it that Lamb of God sig Christ who is likened to a Lambe for his perfect Innocency and meekenesse and because by the Sacrifice of himselfe he alone tooke away the sinne of the elect making a full satisfaction for them to Gods Iustice therefore he is called by an excellency that Lambe of God as being the truth and substance of all outward oblations Iohn 1 29. Behold that Lambe of God which taketh away the sins of the world Lampe sig A Torch to giue light in the night season 2 A true liuely faith working by loue Mat. 25 4. The wise tooke Oyle in their vessels with their Lampes In the night and darkenesse of this world our light whereby wee see our way it is our faith in the word of God 3 A dead faith or naked knowledge of God voide of loue and good workes Math. 25 3. The foolish Virgins tooke their Lampes but tooke no Oyle with them Land sig The whole Continent of the earth as it is distinguished from Sea Math. 23 15. Ye compasse Sea and Land 2 One particular Region or Countrey Mat. 9 26. The brute went through all that Land as the Land of Iuda of Moab of Aegypt of Philistims c. 3 The people and Inhabitants of any Land or Countrey Esay 37 18. The Kings of Assyria haue destroyed all Lands Gen. 41. 57. The Famine was sore in all Lands Land of the liuing sig The earth or the worlde which is the place of this life Psal. 116 In the Land of the liuing Language of Canaan sig The Haebrew tongue wherein God was serued by his people while they dwelt in Canaan 2 Fellowship with Gods people in Doctrine worship Esay 19 18. Fiue Cities shall speak the Language of Canaan pure Language sig Sound and true Doctrine Zeph. 3 9. Then will I turne to the people a pure Language Last sig The Gentiles which being last yet become first Mat. 19 30. The last shall be first The Iewes who were first being reiected for their vnbeleefe became last and the Gentiles beleeuing in Christ by the calling of God were accepted before the disobedient Iewes and so became first though they were last Last dayes or last times sig The times since the reuelation of Christ by the preaching of himselfe and of his Apostles 2. Pet. 3 3. In the last dayes shall come Mockers Iude 18. 1. Tim. 4 1. These dayes since Christ are called last because all was consummated ended which was before prophesied touching mans Redemption and there remaineth nothing else but the comming of the great Iudge to finish this pilgrimage and warfare of the Church Last day sig The day of Iudgement after which there shal be no more day nor time Iohn 6 39. And should raise it vp againe at the last day to Laugh sig To smile out of doubting Thus Sarah laughed Gen. 18 12. Then Sarah Laughed 2 To smile in Token of ioy out of a true beleefe Thus Abraham Laughed Gen. 17 17. Abraham Laughed Laughing or derision sig The contempt of God toward wicked men and all their attempts against him and how much it is from God to think of releeuing them in their extreamities Psal. 2 3. The Lorde shall haue them in derision or Laugh them to scorne to Laugh at ones destruction sig To conceiue extreme fury against any person or people euen to the rooting of them out Pro. 1 26. I will Laugh when their destruction commeth When God is sayde to Laugh at the wicked it is to shew these foure things First how little he regards thē Secondly how far he is from helping them Thirdly how easie it is for him to destroy them Lastly that he is exceeding hotly displeased with them Law sig That which hath the force of gouerning moderating our actions This is the generall property
to Open the eare sig To giue power vnto our soule to vnderstand obey what we heare of Gods will out of his word Psal. 40 6. to Open the eyes sig To giue light of Diuine knowledge to such as were wholy blinde before through Ignoraunce Acts 26 18. To open the eyes of the blinde 2 To help and encrease their knowledge which do already see that they may know the truth more fully then before Psal. 119 18. Open my eies that I may see the wonders of thy Law Luke 24 45. He Opened their vnderstanding c Sée fuâ—ther for this phrase in Eies Opening the hand sig The large bounty and rich liberality of God distributing good thinges to all liuing creatures Psal. 104 28. Thou Openest thy hand and fillest all things with thy blessing to Open the heart sig To enable and giue power to the soule to behold and through faith to embrace Christ as our Sauiour with good feeling of his sauing mercies Actes 16 14. God Opened the heart of Lydia Our hearts are lockt vp by vnbeleefe and Opened by Faith Opening of heauen sig The parting of the Firmament Acts 6 56. He saw the Heauens Open. to Open the lips sig To giue sufficient matter by blessings from God and ability by the spirite of God to vtter the praises of God Psal. 51 17. Our wickednesse lockes our lips which are set open by grace This is one Key The second Key is Gods benefits to Open the mouth in parables sig To vtter and speake Parables Sée Parables Mat. 13 35. I will Open my mouth in Parables to Open the scriptures sig To interpret make plain the true meaning of the scripture Lu. 24. He opened vnto them the scriptures Oportunity sig The fittest and most meete time for the dooing of any thing Rom. 13 11. Considering the Oportunity or season The time of preaching the Gospell is our Oportunity or season wherein to seeke our owne saluation Oppression sig The wringing and crushing of others when great ones of the world deale extreamly and cruelly with the poore and needy Esay 5 7. Beholde Oppression 1. Thes. 4 3. 2 Any violence offered either to mens bodies estates or consciences 1 Tim. 13. Before I was an Oppressor of them O. R. Oracle sig The aunsweres of the Heathenish Gods deliuered in prose or verse 2 The answeres of God declared to his people by the mouth of Moses or by his owne mouth euen the whole Couenant of the Law Acts 7 38. Who receiued the liuely Oracles to giue to vs. 3 The whol word of the Law deliuered to Moses from Gods mouth together with the promises concerning Christ and saluation by him Rom. 3 2 To them of credite were committed the Oracles of GOD. liuely Oracle sig Making aliue or giuing life Such the wordes of the Law are in their owne Nature and also to such as perfectly keepe them Actes 7 38. Rom. 7 10. The Commaundement was ordained to life If it be occasion of death to any it is their owne fault Order sig A meane of peace and of auoyding confusion 1 Cor. 14 verse last Let all things be done in Order It is Order for one to pray the rest to say Amen For one to speake and the rest to heare For many to sing together Ordinance sig Appointment decree and determination touching things to be or to be done or not to bee done Psal. 119 91. They continue to this day by thine Ordinance Exod. 18 16. And declare his Ordinances Thus Gods decrees are his Ordinances thogh vnwritten 2 Some function and estate of life appointed for the good of mankind Thus Magistracy Ministry Marriage be Gods ordinances Rom. 13 1 2. The powers that be are Ordained of God whosoeuer resisteth power resisteth Gods Ordinance 3 Any Commandement of God appointed as a path for vs to walk in Deut. 6 2. That thou shouldest keepe all his Ordinances and Commaundements Gen 26 5. Thus Gods written precepts are his ordinances to Ordaine sig To appoint and decree something to some speciall end Rom. 7 10. The Commandement was ordained to life Acts 16 4. Decrees Ordained of the Apostles c. Originall sinne sig That transgression which hath in it 1. Adams disobedience imputed to vs 2. want of his perfect righteousnesse 3. Corruption of Nature 4. Desert of punishment Psal. 51 45. Rom. 5 12. Oath sig A calling of the name of God the searcher of the heart to witnesse a needfull truth for the ending of strife and controuersies Hebr. 6 16. An Oath for confirmation is the end of all strife Deut. 6 13. The end and vse of an Oath is either for the ending of controuersies or for the performing of promises An Oath may be taken either publickly or priuately if cause be Ioshua 2. 20. Rom. 9 1. 2 A wicked or false taking God to witnesse for some euill end as either to do some wickednesse or to hinder some good thing Math. 14 9. For his Oaths sake Herods Oath Oath of God sig An Oath which God exacteth of his people and they willingly giue vnto God for performance of obedience vnto him Eccles. 8 2. Take heede to the word of the Oath of God They erre which denie vnto Christians the lawfull vse of an Oath Ouen sig The burning lusts of Adulterers Hos. 7 4. The Adulterers are as an Ouen heated And verse 6. Their heart is readie as an Ouen 2 The earnest hot desire of Innouation Hos. 7 4. The Adulterers are as an Ouen heated And verse 6. Their heart is readie as an Ouen fiery Ouen sig Gods burning Wrath consuming his enimies Psal. 21 9. Owne sig Gods chosen in Christ which Paule calles a peculiar people Tit. 2 14. Iohn 17 10. All thine are mine Iohn 13 1. For asmuch as he loued his owne 2 Such as beare the name of his people to wit the Israelites with whom God had made a Couenant and to whom he gaue his worde and Sacrifices Iohn 1 11. Hee came vnto his Owne and his Owne receiued him not Oxe sig The Minister of the worde which laboureth in the word and Doctrine 1. Cor. 9 9. Thou shalt not muzsle the mouth of the Oxe Hath God care of Oxen. O. Y. Oyle sig pro The iuyce of the Oliue which is naturall Oyle Ps. 104 15. And Oyle to make the face of Men to shine 2 That Oyle confected and made by Gods appointment to annoint the Priestes their Garments and holy things about the Tabernacle Exod 30 25 26. So thou shalt make of it the Oyle of holye Oyntment This was Artificiall and Typicall Oyle 3 The Holy-Ghost with his spirituall guistes whereby the soule is refreshed and cheared Psal. 45 7. Thou hast annointed him with Oyle of Gladnesse aboue his fellowes This is spirituall Oyle As Math. 25 4. Oyle in their Lampes 4 That Oyle wherewith the sicke were annointed in the Primitiue Church for healthes sake Iames 5 12. Annoint them with holy Oyle in the name of the Lord. This
refuge Psal. 59 16. Thou art my refuge in the time of trouble Psal. 32 7. Regeneration sig New birth after we are once born naturally to be borne againe spiritually Titus 3 5. By the Lauer of Regeneration or by the washing of New-birth 2 The day and time of the last Iudgement when our whole Nature being perfectly restored both body and Soule shall enioy the heauenly inheritance Mathew 9 28. You which haue followed mee shall in the Regeneration sit vppon Thrones c. Regeneration is commonly put and vsed by Diuines for Sanctification and Renouation and then it imports and signifies as much as the reformation of a Man which consists in the Mortification of sinne and newnesse of life Whereas if we speake exactly and as the thing is this renewing of our Nature is but an effect and fruit of our Regeneration which properly is our incorporation and ingrafting into Christ by Faith whereby wee haue our spirituall being of Children in the Kingdome of grace as by Carnall generation we haue Naturall being in the Kingdome of this world Sée Iohn 1 12 13 14. Regeneration may therefore thus be defined Regeneration what Regeneration is a worke or act of Gods wonderfull power begetting the elect againe to himself by the ministry of the word through the spirit that of the Children of wrath by the desert of sin they might bee made by grace through faith in Christ the Sonnes and Daughters of God Iames 1 18. Of his owne will begat he vs by the word of truth Titus 3 4 5 6. Therefore the confounding of Regeneration with Sanctification I doe take to bee an ouer-sight but I iudge it a grosse errour to thinke our selues to haue any stroke in our New-birth so much as to assent to it til of vnwilling we be made willing to be Regenerate sig To be borne againe by the Spirit that we may be the Children of God Iohn ◠3. Unlesse a Man be Regenerate and borne againe he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God Reioyce sig To take comfort and be made glad by the opinion presence or hope of some good thing earthly or heauenly 1 Thess. 5 16. Reioyce euermore Lu. 1 58. They Reioyced with her to reioyce in Christ. sig To rest wholy in him and his sufferings with full comfort and contentment of minde Gal. 6. 14. Phil. 4 4. Reioyce in the Lord. Religion sig Godlinesse euen that inward pietie of the heart whereby God is truely acknowledged and farred Iames 1 27. Pure Religion and vndefiled is this 2 The outward lawfull worship and seruice of God prescribed in his worde and professed by men Iames 1 26. That mans Religion is vaine 3 The Doctrine which teacheth Religion Acts 25 19. 4 The whole Iewish external worship of God as it was corrupted by the Tradition of the Pharisees Acts 26 5. I liued a Pharisie after the perfect Sect of our Religion 5 Superstition Col. 2 18. By the Religion of Angels verse 23. In voluntary Religion Religious sig A worshipper of God outwardly Iames 1 26. If any among you seeme Religious 2 A true worshipper of God or a godly person Acts 10 5. A Religious or deuout man one that feareth God 3 A person deuoted to Religion and studious to know better the way of Gods worship Actes 2 5. There were dwelling at Ierusalem Iewes Religious men 4 Superstitious hypocriticall persons which would seeme to be louers of Religion and be not Acts 13 50. They stirred vp certaiue Religious or deuout women against Paule to Remember sig Either to call to minde something past or to keepe in minde something for the time to come Exod. 20 8. Remember thou keepe holy the Sabaoth Math. 26 75. Then Peter Remembred the wordes of the Lord. 2 To make mention with liking to praise commend and celebrate a thing Psal. Remember the wonderous thinges that he hath done Psa. 6. 5. In death there is none Remembers thee Esay 26 8. Eccl. 1◠1. Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth that is worship and praise him 3 To trust or put confidence in another Psal. 20 7. Some trust in horses but we Remember thee O Lord. In this sence wee are commanded to eate the Lords Supper in Remembraunce of his death and passion For we are warned thereby stirred vp both to call to minde his sufferings and to trust in them for saluation 1 Cor. 11 25. to Remember as it is referred to God sig To care for one to deliuer succour and saue him God Remembred Abraham or thought vpon him Gen. 19 29. Also in Luke 23 41. Lord Remember me when thou commest into thy Kingdome Heb. 13 4. And in all places of the Psalmes where the Prophet prayeth to be remembred it hath this meaning to be blessed cared for and comforted If we speake properly there fals into God no forgetfulnesse but as men vse to helpe such as they remember and think vpon so the helpes blessings and comforts which God doth afford to his people shewes and makes it knowne that he Remembers them 1 Sam. 1 19. And the Lord Remembred Hannah 2 To punish or correct sinne Psal. 25 7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth that is Remember them not to punish me for them Iere. 31 34. I will not Remember your Iniquities 3 Graciously to accept and fauourably to fulfill Psal. 20 3. Let him Remember all thy burnt Offerings Rembrance sig A calling to minde or keeping in mind This is the proper signification 2 Memory good name and report Eccl. 9 5. Their Remembrance is forgotten Exod. 17 14. 3 Hauing in minde with faith and loue 1 Cor. 11 25. Do this in Remembrance of me Remission of sinnes sig Forgiuenesse of sinne when both the guilt and punnishment are freely pardoned for Christ alone to such as beleeue in him Acts 10 43. All that beleeue in him shall receiue Remission of their sinnes These are our spirituall debts which being wholy pardoned by Christ onely what place is there for Popish satisfaction 2 All the merits and benefits of Christ by a Sinecdoche of a part for the whole Math. 26 28. Which is shed for many for Remission of sinnes Vnder this one benefit is comprehended the whol Masse of his merits to Remit or forgiue sig To forgiue or not to require the paiment or debt of sinne at our hands Iohn 20 23. They are Remitmitted Thus God alone Remitteth authoratiuely 2 To declare and pronounce sinne to be forgiuen to such as shewe their faith by true Repentance Iohn 20 23. Whose sinnes ye Remit Thus Ministers are saide to remit declaratiuely as witnesses onely 3 To put wrong done vs out of our Rememberance Math. 18 21. And I shall forgiue or Remit him Thus one man forgiues another 4 To receiue an excommunicate person into the Church vpon his Repentance 2 Cor. 27. Yee ought rather to forgiue him And verse 10. Thus the Church forgiues scandalous liuers Sée Forgiuenesse Remaining sig A portion of
Superstition Thus the Heathen man tearmed the Religion of Moseâ— Supremacy sig That high and Soueraigne power and authority which Kinges and Princes haue vnder and from God immediatly as cheefe and Supreame Gouernours ouer all persons and in all causes temporall and Ecclefiasticall according to the word of God and good customes of seuerall Countries where they raigne This doth that man of Sin most falsly claim to himselfe by vertue of Succession to Peter the Apostle who was subiect to seculer power in his life and death to sup with Christ. sig To communicate in all the Spirituall delicates of Christ as they which sup together partake in bodily food Reuel 3 20. He shall Sup with me Christs supping with vs. sig His cheering and delighting himselfe with his owne graces and guifts of his Spirit bestowed vpon vs as one that eateth sweet and pleasant meat Reuel 3 23. I will come and Sup with him Supper of the Lord. sig The Sacrament of Bread and Wine ordained by the Lord. 1 Cor. 11 20. This is not to eate the Lords Supper This Sacrament is called a Supper because Christ ordained it at his last Supper Secondlie because it is a spirituall banquet or soule-Feast Mat. 26 26. And as they did eate Iesus tooke the Bread c. to sustaine or support sig pro To beare or hold vp a thing as a prop or shore to keepe it from falling 2 To vphold one eyther that hee take not a fall by sin and calamity or that he take no hurt by such fals Psal. 3 4. The Lord Sustained me Psalme 23 1 3. Sure sig Certaine firme and constant 2 Pet. 1 19. Wee haue a most Sure word of the Prophets Ver. 10. Make your election Sure that is firme to your selues Suretie sig One that vndertaketh for the debt of another Man Pro. 6 1. If thou be Surety for thy Neighbour 2 Christ who vndertooke to answere the debt of our sinnes to Gods Iustice by his obedience to death Heb. 7 22. Iesus is made Suerty S. W. to Sweare sig To vse the Name of God in mouth to witnesse some matter in controuersie for the ending of strife This may be done eyther vainely and falsely or reuerently and truely Math. 5 34. Sweare not at all Zache 5 3. Deut. 10 20. Eccle. 9 1. 2 To worship and serue God whereof lawfull Swearing is a part Deut. 6 13. Thou shalt Sweare by my Name to Sweare vnto yâ— Lord sig By sollemne Oath to binde out selues wholy vnto God to serue him onely with a pure heart 2 Chron. 15 14. And they Sware vnto the Lord. Also verse 15. to Sweare by the Lord sig To call vpon the name of the Lord as a witnesse and iudge against vs if we do not deale and speake truely Iosh. 2 12. to Sweare by Malchan sig To halt betweene the seruice of the true God and Idols Zeph. 1 5. Sweate of face sig Great labour and hard paines such as cause sweate and wearinesse Gene. 3 19. Thou shalt eate thy Bread in the Sweate of thy face Swéete sig Gratefull acceptable Leuit. 1 9. An offering of Sweete odour vnto the Lord. Here it is taken in good part 2 Pleasant and delightfull Thus is wickednes Sweete vnto the mouth of a wicked man Iob 20 12. Heere it is taken in ill part and Gods Statutes to the Soule of a righteous man Psal. 19 10. Swine sig Obstinate and desperate Sinners which scorne and deride the word of admonition rouling and tumbling with pleasure in the mire of their old filthy and rotten conuersation Math. 7 6. Cast not Pearles before Swine Sword sig pro A sharpe Instrument of Iron made for defence and offence Luke 22 49. Shall wee Smite with the Sword 2 The word of God Ephe. 6 17. The Sword of the Spirit c. Heb. 4 12. For the word of God is liuely and mighty in operation and sharper then any two edged Sword 3 An Instrument of Iustice or ensigne of publike authority Rom. 13 3. They beare not the sword in vaine 4 The iudgement of waâ—re Leu. 26 25. I will send a Sword 5 The sharp iustice and vengeance of GOD hewing downe Sinners Deut. 32 41 42. I will whet my glittering Sword and my Sword shall eat their flesh 6 Death executed by the Sword Exod. 18 1. And deliuered me from the Sword of Pharaoh to liue by the Sword sig To lead a restlesse life being driuen to maintain his owne by warre Gen. 27 40. He shall liue by the Sword T. A. Tabernacle sig A Place purposely built and appointed vnder the Law therein to doe Sacrifice and to serue God openly as afterward was done in the Temple and as we now vse to do in our Churches It was made like a Tent to remooue too and fro as occasion required it had in it one roome called the Holiest of al wherein the High-Priest entred once a year And another roome called the holy place Heb. 9 2 3 4. For the first Tabernacle was made wherein was the Candlesticke And after the second vaile was the Tabernacle which is called the holiest of all This was the publike Tabernacle for publike vses of diuine seruice 2 A place or Tent to dwell in Math. 17 4. Make vs three Tabernacles Psal. 132 3. This was a priuate Tabernacle for priuate vse of humaine life 3 Christs humaine Nature which is the true incorruptible Tabernacle wherein the Sonne of God dwelt substantially Heb. 9 11. And 8 2. And is a Minister of the Sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitcht and not man 4 Our naturall body wherein our Soule dwelleth for a time as in a fraile brittle Tabernacle 2. Corin. 5 1. When our earthly Tabernacles be dissolued 5 Heauen which is appointed to be the euerlasting Tabernacle and habitation for the Saints â—o dwell in Reuel 21 3. Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men he will dwell with them 6 The visible Militant Church-way faring as a Pilgrime heere vpon earth Psalme 15 1. Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle The Church is called a Tabernacle because of many mutations and changes it is subiect vnto and because it hath heere no abiding place Tabernacle of Congregation sig That part of the Tabernacle whether the people resorted and gathered together at an appointed time or else whether God resorted to speake with Moses and his Successours Exodus 27 21. Numb 7. 89. When Moses should enter into the Tabernacle of the Congregation to talke with God This part was called the Sanctuary Tabernacle of Dauid sig The Kingdome of our Lord Iesus Christ which is as a Tabernacle or place of refuge to the godlie howsoeuer it bee contemptible in the eyes of the World Amos 9 11. In that day I will raise vp the Tabernacle of Dauid which is fallen feast of Tabernacles sig That Feast at which the Iewes dwelt seauen daies in Tentes to put them in remembrance that God made their Fathers to dwell in Tentes when he
Sea to signifie that at first it did arise out of the contentions and diuisions of other Nations which are as a raging Sea that the Rule kingdome of the Emperors should bee turbulent tempestuous variable and vnconstant Of this Empire the estate acts effects and vse for instruction of the Godly are described in the 10. verse of this 13. Chapter where beginneth the History of another Beast the Ecclesiasticall and Prophetical body or corporation to wit the Pope of Rome and his Cleargy Others expound this Beast of that Anti-christ and apply to him the things heere spoken but the former is plainest and soundest for hauing in the 12. Chapter described the Arch-enemy to the Christian Church to wit the diuell good order required the two principall instruments to wit the ciuill and ecclesiastical estate of Rome should be opened which is done in this 13. Chapter Reuel 13 1. And I saw a Beast arise out of the Sea hauing seauen heads and ten hornes a Beast comming out of the bottomlesse pit sig Antichristian kingdome and power which in the spirituall combate shal be inferiour to the witnesses or seruants of Christ but not so in the bodily and carnall warre wherein Antichrist shall preuaile Hee is said to come out of the bottomlesse pit not to signifie as some thinke that the great Antichrist should be a diuel but because the beastly power of Antichrist should be giuen him of the Diuell As Chap. 13 â— and exercised for the diuell to establish his kingdome of darknesse by fighting against the true Doctrine and Religion with the faithfull followers of it for the vpholding of Haeresie and Idolatry Reuel 11 7. And the Beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall warre against them and kill them In Chap 9. hee is there called the Angell of the bottomlesse pit Bed sig Not pleasure and delicacy but affliction calamity as punishment of adulterous Doctrine Reuel 2 22. Beginning sig Christ the eternall sonne of God in respect of his aeternity who himselfe is before all thinges created and of whom all things which bee made had their beginning and without whose sustaining Vertue they all should quickly come to nothing Sée Iohn 1 1 2. also Col. 1 15 16. Therefore such as couet to bee blessed must resolue to cleaue to him out of whom there is nothing saue corruption and destruction Ren. 1 8. I am Alpha the beginning and the end 2 Christ in respect not so much of aeternitie as of his preheminence and principality which hee holdeth ouer all things euen as Mediator God man hauing all things subiect vnto him Sée Ephe. 1 22. And hath made all thinges subiect vnto him c. Therefore all Creatures reasonable and vnreasonable owe to him their whole entyre obedience as Phil. 2 10. That at the name of Iesus euerie knee should bow Reuel 3 14. That beginning of the Creatures of God Behold See the word Behold in the common Dictionary Be with you all sig The continuall presence of all spirituall blessings euen vnto the saluation of the Church and euery member of it Reuel 22 20. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all bitter Belly sig The indignation and greefe of godly ministers to see the Doctrine of the word despised errors preferred Also the molestations which they are put to suffer for the publishing of it Reuel 10 9. It shall make thy Belly bitter B. L. Black horse sig Famine dearth which is full of sorrow therefore resembled by a blacke colour which is a sad and dolefull colour and well agreeth to persones famished whose bodies lacking â—uyce and blood are discouered and become blackish Lam 4 7. Reuel 6 5. Loe a Blacke horsse to Blaspheme sig To vtter reproachfull and railing words against God as the Papists do sundry wayes First they ascribe the plagues wherewith God plagueth them to his iniustice not to their owne iniquities 2. they raile vpon the holy Gospel and charge it to be the cause of all euils in the world 3. It is an vsual thing with Italians and Spaniards the Popes creatures in their rage and fury to vtter blasphemous speeches against God Reuel 16 9. They boyled in great heat and Blasphemed the name of God Agayne verse 11. name of Blasphemy sig The vnlawfull primacy and damnable Soueraignty whereby ciuil Rome first and afterwarde Rome Ecclesiasticall ambitiously exalted it selfe aboue God euen to the reproch of God according to that in 2. Thess. 2. Reuel 13 1. Upon his head the name of Blasphemy Thus Romish Synagogue boasts it selfe to be the Church of Peter the foundation and forme of all Churches which tooke their beginning that shee onely cannot erre that they are to be iudged Haereticks who dissent from her in articles of faith or Sacraments names of Blasphemy sig Infinit Blasphemies and most plentifull reproches which in progresse of time the Antichristian Kingdome did abound in being full of all kind of impieties and iniustices in the Pope their head and in the whole body in their orders decrees Doctrines worship and manners nothing amongest them free from Blasphemies Rome now especially since the Counsell of Trent being an heape of most execrable Blasphemies hauing many names whereas at first it had but a name of Blasphemie borne in the head onely Reuel 17 3 Full of names of Blasphemy Who so considereth with how many horrible errors saith one the three great Volumes of Bellarmine bestuffed will say there is not one leafe but it is spotted with blasphemy to be Blessed sig To be endowed in this life with spirituall and heauenly blessings and after a short life led in the fauour of God stored with graces and comforts of the Spirite to bee at last lifted vp into blisse and glory in the kingdome of God first in soule afterward in body This is the fruite which is promised to them who in all ages since Christ reade and keepe know and do the words of this Reuel See Chap. 1 3. Blessed are they which read and heare the words of this Prophesie Also Chap. 22 9 13. Ch. 14. Away then with that dotage of the Iesuite who straineth this prophesie and the fruite of it vnto the three years next before the comming of Christ to iudgement to be Blessed fully or to be henceforth Blessed sig To be perfectly happy when the soules of the faithfull after martyrdome constantly suffered shal enter into that Coelestiall glory which they had long looked for and greatly longed after Reuel 14 13. The dead which dye in the Lord are fully blessed If it be translated are Blessed from henceforth that is presently or forthwith the Greeke Word a parti will beare it wel and the truth also What then becomes of Popish Purgatory wherein soules departed are sore tormented with infernall paines if we beleeue them do not rest froÌ„ their labors Blood sig Cruell slaughter and death which should happen by the plague of Warre vpon the Antichristian armies
Christ findes enterance into vs. Reuelations 3 20. He stands at the Doore According to some Doore signifies all hindrances inward and outward to keep Christ from entering This is a good Interpretation because our heart is the House rather then the Doore 2 An open way meane and passage giuen of God to Iohn the Euangelist that hee might see and vnderstand such deepe and hidden secrets so shut vp in Heauen as no humaine capacity could euer haue reached to perceiue them Reuel 4 1. Behold a Doore was open in Heauen D. R. Dragon sig The Deuill for his terrible fiercenesse likened to a Dragon beeing the Prince of that Army that maintaineth warre against Christ. Reuel 12 7. Michaell fought against the Dragon Some other by the Dragon vnderstand vnrighteous and cruell Princes assisted and strengthned by false Teachers Corruptors of the Truth Heretiques c. Al which ioyne in battaile together against the truth and the sincere maintainers of it but in Chapt. 20. Ver. 2. the Dragon is there expounded to bee the Deuill and Sathan who yet must worke by meete Instruments All which hauing one common worke and being but one corporation with the Deuill theyr Captaine are therefore well comprehended vnder one Name as the whole company of faithfull beares the Name of Christ their head 1 Cor. 12. drunk with the blood of the Saints sig The blood of the Saints to bee so aboundantly shed by great Babylon the Mother of Whooredomes the Romish Church as shee was wholely imbrued and coloured in blood Re. 17 6. I saw the Woman Drunk with the blood of the Saints The meaning is that so great was her cruelty as intemperate persons doe not more greedily drawe in the most Delicate Wine then shee shed the blood of Gods people drunk with the wine of fornication sig Such as are neuer satisfied with Idolatry spirituall fornication which they Drink in as men Drink in Wine Reu. 17 2. The Inhabitants of the Earth are Drunke with the Wine of Fornication D. W. to Dwel on the earth sig To bee a Reprobate not praedestinated to life aeternall nor regenerate by the Spirit whom Anti-Christ shall haue power to seduce and corrupt and to lead to destruction Reue. 17 8. They that Dwell on the Earth shall wonder to Dwell with the Saints sig To haue communion with the elect and holie Men and Women by a most perfit and immediate fellowship such as shall bee in Heauen betweene God and his people after the last iudgment whereas they are knit together now imperfectly and by meanes of the word and Sacrament Reuel 21 3. And he will Dwell with them D. Y. to Dye in the Lord. sig Eyther to suffer Death as the Martyrs do for the Lordes cause in defence of his truth against Antichrist or to fall asleepe in Christ dying in his Fayth as all the Saintes doe Reuelation 14 13. The dead which Dye in the Lorde are blessed henceforth E. A. Eagle sig EIther all Fowles and Birds by a Sinecdoche of one principall Bird the Eagle named in stead of all as being all both great and little gouerned by the prouidence of god or els the knowledge of great and high Mysteries represented fitly by the Eagles mounting aloft in the Ayre Others by the Eagle vnderstand Iohn the Euangelist who diued deepest into that high Mystery of the Diuinitie of Christ and his Incarnation The middle signification is best the last is worst because these wordes must bee taken of Ministers which should be after this Vision not of such as had beene before as Apostles were as it is written in the first verse of the fourth Chapte Come and I will shew the thinges that must bee done hereafter Secondly such as apply these foure beasts to the foure Euangelists do varry much One saith Marke is the Eagle as Aretas other say the Eagle signifies Iohn Some say Iohn is figured by the Lyon as Aretas Others say Mark And Augustine saith Math. is the Lyon Re. 4 7. The fourth beast an Eagle Eare. sig pro The outward Organ of the body to wit that sense which is the Instrument of vnderstanding 2 The mind wherewith we vnderstand things and attend to get more vnderstanding Reuel 2 7. He that hath an Eare c. to haue ears sig To haue the mind prepared or the vnderstanding opened obediently to heare and attend the things of God such are called vpon to marke in the conclusion of euery Epistle Others will but contemne the word Re. 2 11. Let him that hath an eare to hear Inhabitants or dwellers in the earth sig Men and Women whose Names are not written in Heauen in the Booke of life Reprobate persons which minde earthly things and embrace false Religion for filthy lucre sake Thus also the word Earth often signifies in this Reuelation Men of Terrene and earthly minds Reue. 12. 9 12 13 16. Woe vnto the Inhabitants of the Earth Also 8 5. Fire cast into the Earth Also verse 7. also Chap. 13 8. also 16 2. In all which places by the Earth and such as dwell in it is meant the wicked World or the Church falsly so called consisting of earthly minded men which are not chosen and sanctified of GOD to haue their conuersation in Heauen Earthquake sig pro A most vehement shaking of the Earth with horrible trembling Reuel 6 12. Loe there was a great Earth-quake This is a fearefull iudgement whereof many examples in all Ages and a forerunner of great mutations 2 Great alterations and changes of Religion and ciuill gouernments throughout the World after the custome of the Scriptures which vse to call some notable change a shaking of the Earth As Heb. 10 26. And Psalm 68 9. The deliuering the Children out of Aegipt is called the moouing of the Earth Reu. 16 18. And there was a great Earthquake such as was not since men were vpon the Earth Meaning heereby some extraordinary punishment inflicted vpon the vngodlie World by some great and vnlooked for alteration of State to come vp from the East sig Christ Iesus our Lord the Sunne of righteousnesse to arise in the doctrine of the word and to shine vpon the Christian Churches to expell from them spirituall darknesse euen when a whole rout of infernall Spirits are let loose to fill the World with the darknesse of Hel to wit with Ignorance Superstition Idolatry and Haeresie Re. 7 2. I saw another Angell come vp from the East Thus the Scripture else-where speaketh of Christ as in the Song of Zachary Luke 1. alluding vnto the custome and manner of the Sun which from the East seemeth still to arise and ascend till it come to the midst of heauen which some doe Interpret of Constantine who ascended out of the East parts of the World as Stories shew namely Eusebius and by whom as a maine Instrument of God the light of the Gospell did breake foorth to the scattering of the mists of errours and the enlightning of the Church after most
24. 2 Thess. 2 12. Reuel 13 13. He made Fire to come from Heauen Fire out of their mouth sig The Doctrine of the Gospell deuouring and consuming as Fire such as resist and fight against it for that word which is the sauour of life to some is the sauour of death to others Reuel 11 5. If any will hurt them Fire proceedeth out of their mouth and deuoureth their enemies Fire and smoake sig The sower bitternesse of Gods plagues euen vnto choking and strangling of men which is the property of smoake Reu. 9 17. Out of their mouths wpet forth Fire and smoake First Beast See Beast First Heauen sig Heauen as it is now vnder Vanity Or as some thinke the former good and pure estate of the Church giuing place to a purer or to the calling of the Iewes Reuelat. 21 1. First Heauen is passed away First loue sig Charity towarde God and toward our neighbour which the Aungell of the Church of Fphesus did shew forth at the beginning of his Ministry very zealously performing all good meanes and vsing all duties for the furthering Gods glory and the good of his flocke Reuel 2 4 Because thou hast left thy First Loue. first works sig Great diligence in preaching the word and administring the censures of the Church for the preuenting of crimes orrecouery of such as be fallen Reu. 2 5. And do thy First workes First voice sig That Reuelation which from heauen Iohn did First receiue touching those things which were to be done for the time to come Reuel 4 1. And the First voice which I heard was like a Trumpet fiuemonths sig A short space of time a definit number put for an indefinit for the comfort of the faithfull least they should imagine that this plague was to increase without measure Reu. 9 5. That they shold bee vexed Fiue months Others by Fiue months doo vnderstand 150. yeares reckoning euery day for a yeare Others by Fiue months doo thinke Fiue ages to be signifyed But M. Bullenger dooth interpret the Fiue moneths wherein these Locustes heere spoken of should be suffered to rage and vex men of that whole space of time whatsoeuer it was wherein it should continue which yet is limited by a few months for the consolation of the Elect This is the best exposition as I do Iudge F. L. Flame of Fire See Fire Flesh of Kings captaines c. sig The Great dainties wherewith God will feede such as he calleth to this Feast euen al sorts of men which fight for Antichrist See such a description Ezek. 1 39. 17 18. Reuel 19 18. F. O. forme of the Locusts sig The Figure likenesse and guise to wit such as be strong Horses prepared to battell such are the Popish Cleargy strongly linked together with ready and prepared minds against all such as should any way mutter against the vsurped power of the Pope and Sea of Rome This hath beene and is apparant enough though the fierce incursions of the Saracens haue beene more famous Reuel 9 7. And the Forme of the Locustes was like vnto Horsses prepared to battell fornication sig All sorts of bodily vncleannesse about generation whether Whoredom Adultery Rape Incest Buggery or Fornication For all these as it is too well knowne were rife and stil be in the kingdome of Antichrist Reuel 9 21. They repented not of their Fornication Fore-head sig Openly before men in profession and practise Reuel 17 5. And in her Forehead was a Name written foure Angels bound sig Administers of the wrath of God in that number that is conuenient for the slaughtering of the foure quarters of the world these Angels being restrained before by the power of God were now to bee stirred vp and haue the Bridle giuen them licentiously to practise tyranny as God had ordayned Rom. 9 14. Loose the Foure Angels which are bound Foure corners of the Earth sig The cheefe quarters and coasts of the Worlde which were occupied and possest by the foure Angels sent with Commission to stop the Four winds Reuel 7 1. I saw Foure Angels stand on the Four corners of the earth Four horns of the Altar sig The highest part or top of the Golden Altar of Incense which stood before the Vaile against the Arke of the Couenant where solemn Prayers once a yeare were made by the High-Priest vnto God who heard and accepted them through Christ represented by the Golden Altar in whom and by whom alone the Oblation of our Prayers are pleasing vnto God Reuel 9 13. I heard a voice from the Foure hornes of the Golden Altar Foure windes sig One and the selfe-same Winde in Nature being diuerse according to the Regions and Coasts from when they blow as from East West c. 2 The efficacy and secret mighty force of the Holy Spirit which by Christ himselfe is compared vnto winde Iohn 3 8. The Winde bloweth whether it list so is euery one borne of the Spirit Reuel 7 1. Holding the Foure Winds of the earth Fourth part of the earth sig The fourth part of men dwelling in earth which by the iust iudgement of God were to bee punished for the contempt of the gospel with those Foure great plagues spoken of Leuit. 26. heere againe distinctly mentioned to wit the Sworde Famine Pestilence and wilde Beasts Rom. 6 8. Power was giuen to them ouer the Fourth part of the earth Foursquare sig That which is steddy of continuance and profit such is the true Church leaning vppon Christ as foundation Reuel 21 16. And the earth lay Foure-square Foure and twenty Elders sig The Holy Catholicke Church euen the whole Company of Gods elect especially such as hauing now ended their warfare do triumph in Heauen gloriously euery one as it were sitting vpon a Throne as a King which Honor the Elect doo attaine vnto by and thorough Christ who hath made all the faithfull Kings and Priestes vnto God In the number of 24. there is an allusion vnto that distribution of Sacred Offices and the Seruants of the King mentioned in the 1. Chron. 24 25 26 27. Chapters Reuel 4 4. Vpon the seats I saw Foure twenty Elders sitting Whereas some by 24. Elders vnderstand the 12. Prophets and the 12. Apostles It cannot stand with the scope of this Vision heere shewed to Iohn which respects not any number or company which were past and gone but rather which was to come euen the whole number of beleeuing Gentiles which as Kings Princes should Minister to God their Soueraigne King Found no more sig To be no more at all to be vtterly rooted out as if it had neuer beene Reuel 18 21 22. And shall be Found no more Fountaine of waters sig The Springs from whence do flow and issue Waters and Riuers for the vse of men This is the proper signification 2 The Ministers of the Gospell from whom as Fountaines and Springs the Doctrine of life doth flow forth vnto others by a continuall Fluxe or issue which were to
Fowles for their rauening such be the Vulture the Crow the Rauen the Owle the Kite c. 2 Vncleane and filthy men such as the now Romish Synagogue doth and long hath abounded with which liue by Rapine and Iniquity and in that regard are hatefull to all ciuill honest men but most hatefull to the Saints Reuel 18 2. Uncleane and Hatefull Birds H. E. Heads sig All Turkish Princes Bassaes and Begles together with their Emperor the Grand-Sultan all alike Instruments and Ministers of execrable cruelty and fury exercised both by themselues and others vnder them Reu. 9 19. Hauing Heads wherewith they hurt ouer his Head sig Aboue him or vpon his head Reuel 10 1. The Rainbow was ouer his Head Heades of Lyons sig Most notable cruelty and fiercenesse wherein the Turkes do excell all other Nations and people that euer were heard of both Sarazins Romans Reuel 9 17. The Heads of the horses were as the heads of Lyons Heereby is noted vnto vs that to the stearnnesse of their countenance they had added the strength of their iawes to expresse their singular inhumanity Heads seauen sig Seauen hils and seauen Kings Reuel 17 9. Seauen Heades are seauen hilles They are also seauen Kings to Heale the nations sig To preserue in health and keepe from all diseases preuenting them and remoouing all causes of them Reuel 22 2. And the Leaues to heale the Nations with This health Christ doth affoorde the soules of beleeuers vnperfectly heer and most perfectly in heauen to Heare sig To bend the minde inwardly to heed well and marke the admonitions of the Spirit in the word Reuel 2 7. Let him that hath an Eare Heare Reuel 13 9 Let him Heare that is let him be attentiue 2 To receiue a thing by the outward sence of hearing Reuel 22 18. I protest to euerie one that Heareth the word of this Prophesie Heat of the fire sig Inward indignation blinde zeale and bitternesse of minde together with outward strife contention and debate wherewith not only open enimies but Hypocrites should bee vexed for striuing against the Sunne and light of the Gospell shining vpon their Consciences and checking them Reu. 16 8. It was giuen him to Torment men with heate of fire Heauen sig The Church on earth and the godly which be the true members of it Reuel 12 12. Reioyce the Heauens and yee that dwell therein Also Reuelat. 13. 6. And them that dwell in Heauen Reuel 6 13 Starres of Heauen that is the Ministers of the Church The reason why the Church reformed heere on earth is called Heauen is because of that Heauen which is the seate and habitation of the Saints There is no more liuely Image and Picture heere in earth then the vniuersall Company of Saintes which is the true militant Church of Christ. Heauen departed sig The whole face of the Church and not the Ministers alone to be couered with that black darknesse of calamity which is heere threatned Reuel 6 14. And the Heauen departed first heauen sig Heauen as it is now subiect to vanity and corruption Reuel 21 1. First Heauen c. middest of Heauen sig pro The middle space or distance betweene heauen and earth 2 An estate of a Church somwhat purged from filthy corruption yet not so purified as it ought Reuel 8 13. Heard an Angell flying from the midst of Heauen new Heauens sig The Heauens which are now vnder vanity and corruption restored into a perfect estate and liberty Reuel 21 1. I saw New Heauens Some Interpreters which thinke this Chapter to giue not a description of Heauen the seat of the blessed shewing what shall be the happinesse of the Saints after the Resurrection and Iudgement but of the Church which shall be on earth a little afore the Iudgement when the Iewes shall be restored to the Communion of Saints do interpret New heauens of the most pure way of worshipping God and the New Earth to signifye a new people in whose assemblies God will be honoured Let the learned Iudge which signification is fittest for both are true Heauens open sig The great glory of Christ his holy Church manifested and apparantly shewed to the eyes of all Reuel 19 11. After I saw the Heauens opened Heauen to receiue sig The company of the godly to leape for ioy and gladnesse because of the victory and saluation which Christ giueth them ouer their spirituall Enemies deliuering and sauing then from their fury Reue 18 20. O Heauen reioyce ouer her Hell sig The Graue which is the companion of Death or the estate which followes after Death both the Greeke word signifies Graue and the matter requires this sense For many Saints were to dye amongst others but it were wickednesse to thinke the Saints to be deuoured of the Hell of the damned Reuel 6 8. And Hell followed after him Reue. 20 13. Death and Hell deliuered vp their Dead Also verse 14. If heere we should vnderstand Hell for the place of the damned it would be absurd to say That Hell was cast into the burning Lake That were to say Hell was cast into Hell H. I. high mountaine sig The eminency of the Christian Church as it shall be restored before the comming of Christ excelling whatsoeuer dignity is in Earth or the place and stately Seate of the Church more purely reformed shadowed out by a Mountaine Reuel 21 10. And carried me to a great and hie Mountain Heerein there is an allusion vnto that which is written Esay cha 2 2. In the last dayes the Mountaine of the house of the Lord c. The meaning of both places is that the glory of the spouse of Christ shal be reuealed in the sight and face of all the worlde so as no hie Mountaine shall bee more eminent conspicuous or easie to be seene and be held H. O. to Hold the Starres sig To defend and vpholde the Ministers of the Church with speciall care of them and mightie power Reuel 2 1. These things saith he which holdeth the seauen Starres to Hold the four winds sig To stop the course of the Gospell and keeping backe of the Heauenly inspiration of the Holye-Ghost which goeth with it Reuel 7 1. Holding the foure winds of the earth an Hold of foule spirits sig A prison or straite place fast kept where the Diuels are pend and shut vp at the pleasure of the Soueraigne Iudge of the world Such a place shall Rome now fallen be vnto the Deuils which raigued once there but now that they haue none so to abuse and deceiue as before it shall be as a prison hell or place of torment to them Reuel 18 2. An Hold or Cage of fowle Spirits Holy sig A true beleeuer or Godly Christian who is pertaker of Christ his Holynesse by imputation and hath Holynesse begun in his owne soule by the spirit of sanctification separating him from the world and study of worldly things that he may be dedicate vnto God both in bodye and soule to
worthy to open the Booke Such a treasure is this Booke of Reuelation which is not otherwise communicated to the Church but by the Mediation of Christ who is the onely Interpretour of his Fathers will and Doctour of his Church to Open the bottomlesse pit sig To set abroach publish and manifest such deuilish errours and Heresies as came from the deepe pit of Hell which was done when Antichrist got power and strength to obscure the truth of heauenly doctrine and to deceiue the World with strong delusions Reuela 9 2. And hee Opened the bottomlesse pit â—n open doore sig The liberty and faculty which is giuen to the Church for Preaching pure Doctrine exercising sound worship and an holy Discipline with great readinesse and ioy both of Ministers and people Reuela 3 8. I haue set before thee an Open Doore Some do too narrowly restraine this to the Preaching of the Gospell onely which indeed is a door whereby an enterance is giuen into Heauen It is better more largely to take it for the ioyning together of word worship discipline zeale of Ministers Magistrates and people When all this meets as in this Church of Philadelphia it did there is a large and ready way made for piercing into Mens consciences to Open the doore or the gate sig To receiue and admit into the heart the grace and power of Christ. Reuel 3 20. If any Man heare and Open the Doore Sée Doore Some vnderstand this of admitting and receiuing all such ordinances of Christ whereby the doore of our hearts may be most speedily and forceably cast Open. to open the mouth to blasphemies sig To vtter and bâ—lch forth reproachfull and contumelious wordes as Antichrist dooth boasting that he is God aboue all Kinges and Emperours Reuel 13 6. He Opened his mouth to Blaspheme Temple opened in heauen sig The Tryumphall Caelestiall Church Opened by the death of Christ to all which beleeue in him before hee came in the flesh and to all who since his comming are reconciled to God thorough Faith in his blood Reuel 11 19. Then the Temple of God was Opened in Heauen Reuel 15 5. Some vnderstand this Temple Opened not oâ— Heauen but of the Christian Church in Earth when it should lye Open to receiue a multitude of Saintes thorough Gods good prouidence scattering persecutions raised by Satan against the Church being by his fury shut vp for a time none or but few entering to ascend out of the earth sig To haue an originall and beginning from earth breeding and springing from the sensuality of men and encreased by earthly power Reuel 13 11. O. V. to Ouercome sig To perseuer in the Faith and obedience of the Gospell vnto the end of our life without fainting because of tribulations Reuel 2 7. To him that ouercommeth that is to him who by Faith getteth the victory as a good Souldier ouer the Deuill Sin and the World Thus vnderstand Ouercome throughout this Booke O. Y. Oyle and Wine sig Two Creatures the fruites of Vine and Oliue of speciall vse for necessity and comforts of Mans life Of these God would haue plenty remaine when there was a famine scarsity of other things Reu. 6 6. Oyle and Wine hurt thou not P. A. Pale Horse sig PLague or pestilent diseases which make men pale and wanne as a iust scourge from God for despising the trueth of the Gospell Reuel 6 8. And lâ—â— a Pale horse Palmes sig Testimonies and Ensignes of victory ouer spirituall enemies namely ouer Antichrist Reuel 7 9. And Palmes in their hands Paradise of God sig Heauen the seate of glory whereof the earthly Paradice in which Adam was placed at his Creation was a figure or type as the Tree of life was a Sacrament of aeternall life Reuel 5 7. I will giue him to eate of the Tree of life in the middest of the Paradise of God Part in the first Resurrection sig Portion share and interest in the Regeneration of the soule from death of sinne as some expound or in the restitution of the truth vnto the worlde after long suppressing of it as others thinke Both expositions may well stand Reuel 20 6. Blessed and holy is he which hath Part in the first Resurrection his Part. sig His portion which he thought he had in Gods election but he shall feele that he had none Reuel 22 19. God shall take away his Part. to Passe away sig To vanish or be abolished in respect of the former vaine condition whereunto the Worlde was subiect for sinne Reuel 21 1. For the first heauen and first earth are Passed away Or if we vnderstande by first heauen and first earth the Churches on earth as some do interpret it then by passing away is meant the darkning of the glory of the present churches in comparison of the brightnes which shal be in future Churches being restored to excellent purity in Doctrine and maners Patience of our Lorde Jesus christ sig A tollerance or suffering of Tribulations for the glory of Christ and promoting his Gospell with a patient and constant minde Reuel 1 9. Your Companion in the Patience of Iesus Christ. Patience of the Saints sig The triall and proofe of their patience which should bee knowne to be true and sounde if no threatnings nor cruelty of Antichrist should driue them from Christ. Reu. 14 12. Heere is the Patience of the Saints P. E. Peace sig Loue concord and good agreement amongest men whilst they liue without hatred bloudy words slaughters tumults and seditions which the Diuell had power to raise and to take that is to take away peace and quietnesse Reuel 6 4. Power was giuen to him to take Peace from the earth Pearle sig Christ Iesus conceiued in Caelestial sort by the Holy-ghost in the womb of a Virgin as the Pearle heere mentioned is begotten not after an ordinarie fashion but by a dewe falling from heauen Reuel 21 21. Euerie gate of one Pearle Pearle and precious stone sig The ornaments and most costly deckings of the Whore or Beast by the partes as Golde precious Stone Pearle c. all outwardly glorious not spiritually that she may be thereby known not to be the chast spouse of Christ. Reuel 17 4. And the Woman was arrayed with Purple Gold and Pearle his People sig A people which shal willingly submit to be gouerned of God who shall for euer protect to haue them according to his couenant Reuel 21 3. And they shall be his people People out of 4. quarters sig A Company of men gathered out of many sundry Nations and Regions Reuel 28 8. He shall deceiue the people of all quarters c. People saued sig Elect people of all Nations preserued from the cursse and tirany of sinne by Christ all these shold be helpefull and fauourable to the restored Church of the Iewes Reu. 21 24. And the People that are saued Perdition sig Destruction and desolation both temporall in this world and aeternall heereafter in the next life Reuel
wel-nie of a God was no more as a dead person but began to speake to command to forbid to blesse to curse to boast and bragge themselues Lord of Kings and Emperors as Pope Adrian did when he saide By vs the Emperor raigneth Spirite of prophesie sig All which spake by the Spirite of Prophesye These shot at Iesus as at a common marke to set forth him as onely Redeemer and perfect Sauiour Reu. 19 10. The Testimony of Iesus is the Spirite of prophesie that is such as testifie of Christ by prophesying him or preaching him their function is equal to the office of Angels reuealing him Therefore Iohn may not worship the Angell being a fellow-seruant three vnclean spirits sig Most wicked men carried and led by the diuel and being his Ministers to do his wil as Iesuits c. Reuel 16 13. Three vncleane Spirits without Spot sig Pure and without blame euen before God by the imputation of Christ his perfect righteousnesse to them wiping away all spots of sinne and cloathing them with innocency Reuel 14 5. They are without spot before the Throne of God S. T. to Stand before the God of the earth sig To Minister as Instruments vnto him who as God ruleth not in heauen onely but also in earth euen when Satan and wicked men seeme to haue their ful swinge and to put all out of order Reuel 11 4. Standing before the God of the earth It is a speech borrowed from seruants and such as attend vpon Princes and Rulers to Minister to them and execute their Commandements Thus also Reu. 8 2. Seauen Angels are said to stand before God because they appeare before him to minister to him to Stand a farre off sig To refuse and be affraide to approach to rescue Rome and Romish Hierarchie and Monarchie in the day of Gods horrible vengeance vpon her Reuel 18 15. The Merchants shall stand farre off to Stand vpon earth and Sea See Sea to Stand vpon their feete sig To reuiue after one is dead as the two witnesses did after a sort when God raised vp others in their roome mightily to defend their Doctrine cause by the word of God by giuing their liues to death for that trueth Such were Luther c. Also Wicliff Hierom of Prage Huss c. Reuel 11 11. And they shall stand vp vpon their feete to Stand before the woman sig To be ready at hand watching narrowly to destroy the blessed seede of the woman Reuel 12 4. And the Dragon stood before the woman Starre sig A Minister of the word which giueth light to the flocke by Doctrine and good example Reuel 1 20. The seauen Starres are the Angels of the seuen Churches morning Starre sig Christ Iesus who is himselfe the bright morning Starre hauing receyued fulnesse of true glorious light to communicate it to all the faithfull Reuel 2 28. As I receiued of my Father so will I giue him the Morning Starre great Star sig Many Pastors of the Church declining togither but amongst them some one Minister of especiall account and anthority drawing downe others by his corrupt teaching Reuel 8 10. And there fell a great Starre from heauen This great Star some do vnderstand of degenerating Byshops who thorow Pride and ambition fell into Haeresie Impiety Others do interpret it of Constantius Valens other wicked Emperors which fauored the Arrian Haeresie and molested Orthodox Christians And surely the word Starre though it often signifie Teachers yet somtime it noteth such as shine aloft in high place as it were in the ayre as Nebuchadnezar is compared by the Prophet Esay chap. 14 12. Starres fallen from heauen sig Ministers and Pastors of the Church who as Stars did shine by sincere Doctrine and now thorow tentation and force of Persecution declined and turned from the truth to errors and lies which is meant by falling from heauen Reuel 6 13. And the Starres fell from heauen to earth 12 Starres sig The Doctrine of the twelue Apostles as the Crowne and glory of the Church which they borrowed from the most bright Sun that Fountain of heauenly wisedome and preached to the Worlde afterward writing it in Bookes called Scriptures Reuelat. 12 1. Upon her head a Crowne of twelue Starres Stones precious sig The excellent and rare guifts wherein namely the Pastors of the Church shal shine before others Reuel 21 19. With all manner of precious Stones Stings sig Powwer to hurt vex and annoy others bodily as Sarazins Spiritually as Popish Monkes and Friars which are the tailes heere spoken of Reue. 9 10. And there were stings in their tailes Streets sig Some part of the Romish iurisdiction wherein this cruell spectacle was exhibited to be seene Reuel 11 8. And their corpes shall lye in the Streetes of the great Citty 2 A place where the multitude of Cittizens doo dwell properly and figuratiuely a liberty which all the Cittizens of heauen do enioy Reuel 22 2. In the middest of the Street of it S. U. Sunne sig The light of trueth obscured or extinct rather by Haeresie in Doctrine and by superstition in the worship of God Reuel 9 2. And the Sunne and the ayre were darkened Reuel 18 8. 2 Christ Iesus the Sunne of righteousnesse Reuel 12 1. Cloathed with the Sunne Sun black sig The prosperity and peace of the Christian church eclipsed and taken away for a time by most cruell persecutions and bloody extreamities exercised as at other times yet especially in the dayes of Dioclâ—sianus and Maximiniaâ—us Emperors Reuel 6 12. And the Sunne was blacke as Sackcloath Here is an allusion to the Prophets Ier. 4 23 28. Chap. 32 7. 8. Esay 50 3. S. W. to swallow sig To sinke in and cause to vanish as the earth or Land dooth to the flouds of Water which it drinketh in so did the earth that is men of earthly Religion and affections swallow and drinke iâ— as it were the rage and persecution intended by the Diuell and his Instruments against the Church of Christ in earth Reuel 12 16. The earth opened her mouth and Swallowed vp the floud This was verified in the Vandals Gothes and other barbarous people who comming to dwel in ciuillized countries and being turned in shew at least to Christian Religion did much helpe the true Church by stopping and allaying the furious minds of her aduersaries Sword sharp sword of his mouth sig The word of God the force whereof is mighty for the cutting downe sinne in the repentant for cutting a pieces spiritually and destroying the impenitent Reuel 2 12. Which hath a sharpe Sword with two edges Reuel 1 16. With the Sworde of my mouth This signifies the same thing with sharpe Sworde vnlesse happily some greeuous Iudgement of Warre be meant which being pronounced by the word is therefore called the Sworde of his mouth 2 Warre and battell or slaughter of men in warre executed by the sword Reu. 6 8. Power was giuen to kill with the Sword Wound of