colour when fit for Fuel whence our Sword the Rind of Bacon of its blackness Most admirable and excellent are these Episodes which here begin and adorn our Author's Poem to the end surpassing all those tedious Stories and the vain-glorious Boastings of the Homeric Heroes and Virgil's artful Enumeration of the Roman Conquerors down to Augusius Caesar and the bemoan'd Marcellus AEn 6. as much as a Relation of what was to come to pass from the beginning of the World to Adam and all Mankind to the end of it and in order to a better taken out of Sacred Story must excel any particular or Humane History whatever V. 436. Uncull'd Some green and others ripe not pick'd and cull'd Uncull'd unchosen of Cueiller Fr. Colligere Lat. to gather thence to pick and choose V. 437. The Firstlings of his Flock Lambs Gen. 4. 4. according to God's Precept Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits likewise thou shalt do with thine oxen and thy sheep seven days it shall be with its dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me Exod. 22. v. 29 30. Choicest and best if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offering if he offer it of the herd whether it be male or female be shall offer it without blemish before the Lord Levit. 3. 1. V. 439. The Inwards and their Fat According to Levit. 3. 3 4. V. 442. Consum'd with nimble glance The Lord had respect to Abel and to his Offering says Moses in the Holy Record Gen. 4. 4. which all the Fathers interpret to have been manifested by Fire coming down from Heaven and consuming his Sacrifice the same Sign signalized the offering of Aaron and God's acceptance thereof And there came a fire out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt-offering upon the altar and the fat which Moses styles The glory of the Lord appearing to the people Levit. 9. 23 34. In the same manner was Gideon's Sacrifice accepted Judg. 6. 21. Thus David was of God answered by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering 1 Chron. 21. 26. And Salomon 2 Chron. 7. 1. Elijah also received the same Miraculous Approbation 1 King 18. 38. Ibid. And grateful Steam An offering made by fire of a sweet savour to the Lord Levit. 1. v. 9 13 17. and frequently so express'd in Scripture V. 443. For his was not sincere Cain's Sacrifice was left untouch'd by the Heavenly Fire and therefore unaccepted because not offer'd in Truth and sincerity of Heart for God had respect unto Abel and then to his Sacrifice Gen. 4. 4. Sincere Sincerus Lat. Pure Upright V. 445. Smote him into the Midriff with a Stone Our Author has followed the most probable Opinion that Cain killed his Brother with a blow on the Breast with a great Stone that beat out Life that beat the Breath out of his Body as they talk'd Gen. 4. 8. as they were in Discourse about the success of their Sacrifice Abel maintain'd God's Omniscience and Omnipresence the Rewards and Punishments of good and bad Actions both in this Life and that everlasting one in the other World which introduced a Dispute of the Immortality of the Soul and its eternal State whereupon careless and unbelieving Cain enraged at his Brother 's grave Admonitions slew his innocent Adviser and sent him to experiment the Truth of his Pious Assertions as the Jerusal Targum guesses Cain was of that wicked one who was a Murderer from the beginning John 8. 44. and slew his brother because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous 1 John 3. 12. V. 447. With gushing Blood effus'd Poured out his Blood and Soul together Undantique animum diffudit in arva cruore Purpuream vomit ille animam AEn 9. Whatsoever the deadly Instrument was with which Cain slew his Brother his Death was most certainly attended with Effusion of his Blood that being mention'd To cry unto the Lord from the ground Gen. 4. 10. Remembred also by our Saviour Matth. 23. 35. Effus'd Effusus Lat. poured out spilt V. 449. Dismay'd Bo. 1. v. 57. Nothing in the World could be more terrible than the first Night and the first dismal Scene of Death Mons. Balsac V. 457. From Heaven acceptance If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4. 7. V. 472. By Intemperance more By Excess in eating and drinking undermining and sapping Life by its Supports Pius Gula quam Gladius Saevior armis Luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem Juv. V. 476. Th' Inabstinence of Which Eve's want of Abstinence and command over her Sensual Appetite shall bring on her Descendents In and Abstinentia Lat. Forbearance V. 479. A Lazar house Lazaret Fr. Lazaretto It. an Hospital Maladies Maladie Fr. Sickness of Malum Lat. as Illness in the same sense of Ill. V. 481. Of gastly Spasm The Disorders of ugly Cramps and strange Distortions Spasms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Cramp of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Contract of which one ill-favour'd kind is called Spasmus Cynicus when the Nostrils are so convulsed that the Teeth appear like those of a snarling Dog Ibid. Or racking Torture Or tormenting Pains that put the wretched Patient on the Rack Of Recken Ger. to stretch to extend Torture Tortura Lat. of Torquere Lat. to twist to torment V. 482. Qualms of Heart-sick Agony Fainting Fits that affect the Heart with Life's last struggle Qualms Swoonings Death's Sisters of Crealm Sax. Death a short one and sometimes absolute Agony Bo. 2. v. 861. Ibid. All feavorous kinds All sorts of Feavors Febris Lat. Convulsions Convulsiones Lat. à Convellendo from plucking the Nerves up together with painful twitches V. 483. Epilepsies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Falling-sickness Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to seize upon it being a seizure of such a sort as for the time deprives the Person afflicted there with both of Sense and Understanding Ibid. Fierce Catarrhs Salt sharp Rheums and furious Defluxions Catarrhs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Torrent of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to flow down as Rheums do from the Head to the Labouring Lungs V. 484. Intestine Stone and Ulcer The Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys often attended with putrifying Ulcers Intestine Intestinus Lat. inward Ulcer Ulcus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sore full of Corruption Ibid. Cholic Pangs Pains of the Cholic twisting and tearing the Guts Cholic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one of the great thick Guts so called from whose fulness either with Wind or Filth those piercing Pains arise Pangs of Pain Paena Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. V. 485. Daemoniac Phrenzie Raving Madness that looks like being possess'd by an Evil Spirit like those two possess'd with Devils coming out of the tombs exceeding fierce Matth. 8. 28. Daemoniac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Possess'd and thence furious Phrenzie Phrenesis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Madness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the
And ragged Ribs of Mountains Molten new Enwrapt in Cole-black Clouds and filthy Smoak That all the Land with Stench and Heaven with Horror choak Fai. Q. B. 1. C. 1â— Ibid. Whose combustible Whose Bowels apt to burn Combustus Lat. burnt Comburo to burn V. 234. And fewell'd Entrals Whose hollow Womb is stored with fit Materials for Fire Fewel any thing fit to burn The Food of Fire from Feu Fr. Fire this from Fuoco Ital. and both from Focus Entrals Des Entrailles Fr. Bowels the Inwards Ibid. Thence conceiving Fire Catching Fire or hatching and bringing it forth from concipio to breed and bring forth as viviparae do V. 235. Sublim'd with Minerai Fury Raised height'ned with the furious Force of a Sulfureous Mine Mineral of Mine whence Metals are digged from the barbarous Lat. Minare to make Mines and Cavities under-ground Sublim'd of Sublimis Lat. high lofty V. 236. All involv'd Cover'd all o'er Lat. Involvo to hide to wrap up in Virg. AEn 3. Gives us a large Description of this Burning Mountain Horrificis juxta tonat AEtna ruinis Interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem Turbine fumantem piceo candente favilla Attollitque Globos flammarum sidera lambit Interdum Scopulos avulsaque viscera mont is Erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras Cum gemitu Glomerat fundoque exaestuat imâ— Which though very exact yet the Avulsa viscera montis Erigit eructans seem short of the combustible and fewell'd Entrails thence conceiving Fire sublimed with Mineral Fury Whereour Author has given us the Philosophy of this Fiery Mountain viz. great Quantities of combustible Matter lodged in vast Hollows and Caves in whose dark Womb the Winds either bred or imprisoned striving and struggling to get out collide and strike Fire and in a roaring Tempest springing a Mine of Sulphur blow the Mountain up and rowl out flaming Floods of liquid Fire Sive bitumineae rapiant incendia flammae c. Ovid. Meta. Lib. 15. V. 237. Such resting found the sole Such place to rest upon Sole of the Lat. Solum both signifying the bottom of the Foot Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante Trita Solo. Lucr. Lib. 1. V. 239. The Stygian Flood The Gulph of Fire Stygius from Styx a Fountain of Arcadia whose Waters were so contagious that it was esteem'd one of the Rivers of Hell It was had in such Veneration that no Oath was so inviolable as that confirmed by the invocation of this abominable Flood for Styx is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to hate to detest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Excellently translated by Virgil Stygiamque Paludem dii cujus Jurare timent fallere numen AEn 6. V. 241. Of Supernal Power Not by permission of a Higher Power Supernus Lat. high V. 242. The Clime The Climate the Situation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bend from to decline A Clime is properly a space of the Earth comprehended between two Parallels serving to distinguish the difference of Day-light by their approaching to or receding from the Equator at first reckon'd seven then nine sufficient for the then-known World since a fuller discovery made encreas'd to 24 according to the length of the Days augmented by half an hour in every Clime from the Equator to the Pole till they attain to 24 Hours then encreasing by Weeks and Months to half a Year the Climes are of no more use Satan's is a Fiery Climate a Torrid Zone V. 244. This Mournful Gloom This lamentable glaring Darkness for Heavens pure Light Coelestial Heavenly Coelestis Lat. divine excellent V. 246. Who now is Sovran Who now commands in chief Souverain Fr. Sovrane and Sovrano Ital. all from Supremus Lat. the most High Ibid. Can dispose and bid Can order and command as just what he thinks fit and therefore must be just A Description of Arbitrary Power harmless in no Hand but His who is as Just as He is Powerful and Almighty Righteous in all his Ways and holy in all his Works Psal. 145. 17. though many of 'em unaccountable and past our finding out Dispose from Dispono Lat. to order to appoint V. 248. Whom Reason hath equall'd Satan makes very ill use of that Reason the Sovereign Creator had in such Perfection endow'd him with to argue an Equality with his Maker and that by force of Arms he had obtain'd an Usurp'd Superiority over him and his Rebellious Crew as his Equals who are his Creatures and though of a higher Form than Man yet infinitely short of the transcendent Perfections of their Maker Supreme highest Supremus Lat. most High V. 250. Hail Horrours Thou Seat of Dreadful Desolation I salute thee And thee thou nethermost World and deepest Hell receive thy new-come Lord. Hail a Sax. word for Salutation as the Lat. Ave and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Greeks of Hele Health and Welfare Horror Lat. dread Infernus Lat. lowermost Profundus Lat. deep V. 254. The Mind is its own Place Is not to be altered by change of Air Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt The Mind makes all Places alike He who is unalterable by the Circumstances of Time and Place may by his mighty Mind turn Heaven to Hell and Hell into a Heaven Another vain-glorious Boast of the Father of Lyes V. 256. What matter where What does it import me in what place I am if I continue still the same and all I should be but less than him whom Thunder has exalted V. 260. For his Envy A malicious Inuendo as if their Bountiful Creator had denied them the Heaven he placed 'em in V. 262. To Reign is worth Ambition To Reign though but in Hell is desirable and worth attempting Well exprest Nam te nec sperent Tartara Regem Nec tibi regnandi veniat tam dira Cupido Georg. 1. Ambition Ambitio Lat. A desire of Honour and Power V. 265. Th' Associates and Copartners The Companions and Sharers of our Misfortunes Associo Lat. to joyn together to accompany from Socius Lat. Copartners from the Law-Term Coparceners such as have equal Shares in their Ancestors Inheritance V. 266. Lie thus astonish'd c. Lying amazed on the forgetful Flood Lethe the oblivious Pool of the Poets has its Name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forgetfulness which it caused in all that drank of its Waters Lethaei ad fluminis undam Securos Latices longa oâ—livia Potant AEn 6. This forgetfulness here mentioned does not imply that the laps'd Angels had lost all Remembrance of what they had enjoyed or suffered but is expressive of that great Astonishment and Confusion with which they were at present helpless and forgetful of themselves quite overwhelmed Oblivious Forgetful Lat. Obliviosus Astonish'd Lat. Attonitus confounded V. 268. Unhappy Mansion In this our sad abode Mansio Lat. an abiding place à manendo V. 269. With rallied Arms With re-united
that verge near the Surface of the Earth At Genitor circum Capâ—t omne Mic â—ntes D posuit Radios Meta. Lib. 2. V. 597. In dim Eclipse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for defect failure as of Light when the Sun is Eclips'd by the intervening of the Moon between him and the Earth robbing us of some part of his Light here described The Moon is said to be Eclips'd when the Earth coming between her and the Sun hinders her of that borrowed Brightness with which at other times she shines both which at certain times according to the constant Motions of these three great Bodies must inevitably come to pass and therefore easie to be forescen though some greater and others more partial according to the Segment of the Sun or Moons Orb obscured Squallidus interea expers Ipse sui decoris qualis cum deficit Orbem esse solet Meta. 2. Ibid. Disastrous Twilight sheds Casts an unlucky dim Light Desastre Fr. unluckiness misfortune of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. mischance Ibid. Twillght That small doubtful Light that appears Morning and Evening on the Confines of Day and Night Some will have it two Lights as partaking both of that of the Sun and Stars others because it comes between two Lights that of the Day past and coming V. 599. Perp exes Disturbs with doubtful thoughts of Perplexus intricate doubtful V. 601. Deep Scars of Thunder had intrench'd But his Face was furrow'd by deep Wounds by Thunder made Scar of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a hard Crust made by a Caustick a Burning Medicine applyed to mortifie the Flesh so as it may be cut out and is hard like a Scar. Ibid. Intrench'd Had cut into of the Particle in and Trencher Fr. to cut so an Army is said to be intrench'd when about their Camp a Trench is cut which hinders their Enemies from coming at or attempting them V. 602. Sat on his faded Cheek Sorrow and sad Concern dwelt on his pale discolour'd Cheek Faded of the Fr. Fade as this of the Lat. Fatuus properly unsavory insipid as Meats and Drinks that are decay'd have lost their true taste V. 603. Of Dâ—untless Courage Of Invincible Courage not to be frighted or overcome Fearless of Daunt from the Fr. Dompter as that of the Lat. Domitare to tame Ibid. Considerate Pride waiting Revenge Of wary Pride watching for Revenge Consideratus Lat. heedful circumspect Revenge of the Fr. Revenche a return requital in an ill sense From Verse 591 to 594. and from thence to this the Designer of Lucifer's Picture prefix'd to this first Book should have taken the Noble Lineaments of his Obscured and yet Glorious Haughty Looks He should have express'd his Furrow'd Face and Faded Cheek under those Lofty Brows of stedfast Courage and of wary Pride vowing and waiting for Revenge If he had hit these Lucky Stroaks he might have spared his Horns and Asses Ears so unsuitable to the Description of the Arch-Angel that Milton has afforded him no hint of 'em as not having amongst his Idol-Deities enrolled Corniger Ammon V. 604. Cruel his Eye His Look was fierce but shewed Signs of Relenting and Compassion V. 605. Remorse Fr. Remors is properly the gnawing of tormenting Conscience when it convinceth one of having done amiss of Remordeo Lat. to bite again to gnaw Passion Passio Grief V. 606. The Fellows of his Crime the Followers rather Fellows seems to imply the chief Contrivers and Complotters of his bold Rebellion the Followers those that by his Authority and sly Insinuations were perswaded to side with him therefore not so criminal though inexcusable it being impossible Angelick Beings could sin through ignorance V. 608. To have their Lot in Pain Adjudg'd to have their Portion in Eternal Pain V. 609. Millions of the Fr. Million Ten Hundred Thousand of the Lat. Mille a certain for an uncertain Number frequent and familiar with the Poets Mille meae siculis errant in Montibus Agnae Virg. Ecl. 1. And of the Colours in the Rainbow Mille trahens varios adverso sole Colores AEn 4. Which would be hard for any one to assign Ibid. For his Fault amerc'd c. Punish'd with loss of Heaven Fined by Eternal Banishment from Bliss Amerciament is a Law-Term signifying a Pecuniary Punishment of an Offender against the King or other Lord who is in miscricordia that is who has transgress'd and is to stand to the Mercy of the Lord But Amerc'd has a strange Affinity with the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to deprive to take away as Homer has used it much to our purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Muse Amerc'd him of his Eyes but gave him the faculty of singing sweetly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 610. From Eternal Splendors flung for his revolt Thrown out from Heavens Everlasting Light for his Rebellion Splendor Lat. Light Brightness Revolt of the Fr. Revolte Rebellion a falling off from V. 612. Their Glory wither'd Their Beauty and Brightness diminish'd and decay'd like wither'd Flowers Ibid. As when Heavens Fire The Lightning which Virg. calls Jovis Ignem Illa Jovis rapidum jaculata è Nubibus Ignem AEn 1. Dum flammas Jovis sonitus imitatur Olympi AEn 6. V. 613. Hath scath'd the Forest Oaks Has harmed the Oaks that grow in Forest or the Pines that delight in Hills and Mountains Scath is an old word for Hurt Damage To work new Wo and unprovided Scath. Spen. Bo. 1. Cant. 12. Stan. 34. Mote breed him Scath unawares Spen. Bo. 3. Cant. 1. Stan. 37. Schaden Dutc. to hurt The Oak was Jove's Tree more often singed with Lightning and Thunder-struck than any other De Coelo Tactas praedicere Quercus Virg. Ecl. 1. V. 614. Their Stately Growth Their tall Trunks their vast high Bodies a Noble Comparison of the Angelick Armies to the tall Sons of Earth the Mountain Pines Actas ad Sydera Pinus AEn 11. And of their blasted Beauties and faded Glory to their singed Crowns Virgiâ— describing Pandarus and Bitias thought it not enough to say they were Abietibus Juvenes Patriis Montibus aequos but falls into the same Simile Quales Aëriae liquentia flumina circum Consurgunt Geminae Querous intonsaque Coelo Attollunt Capita sublimi Vertice nutant AEn 9. Et AEtnaeos Fratres Coelo Capita alta ferentes Concilium Horrendum Quales cum vertice celso AEriae Quercus aut Coniferae Cyparissi Constiterunt AEn 3. And if this Simile was not too Superlative for the Cyâ—â—ops this cannot be so for the Seraphim V. 615. Stands on the blasted Heath The Lofty Trees with their Heads burnt bare stand upright on the parched Heath Blasted of the word Blast signifying a hot killing Breath a parching Wind injurious both to Men and Beasts as well as Trees and Plants V. 617. From Wing to Wing and half enclose him round Draw into a half Circle enclosing him half round The Romans used the same term for the lesser Bodies placed on each
each his own way as Inclination or the sad Survey of their dark Dungeon leads them Ranged of Ranger or Arranger Fr. to draw into Order V. 526. Truce to his restless Thoughts Ease to his tortured Mind Truce Treves Fr. of the Ger. Trew Faith is a temporary or short Peace agreed on by Enemies upon mutual Faith given The Iroksom Hours to pass away the unpleasant Hours Irksom as if Werksom painful of Werk the Lincolnshire Word for Grief or Pain V. 531. As at the Olympian Games One of the four Celebrated Games of Graece was Instituted by Hercules in Honour of his Father Jupiter Olympius not far from the City Olympia in Elis after he had revenged himself on Augeas the King of that Province It was observed every fifth year and the Exercises were five Cuffing Running Dancing Quoiting and Wrestling Cursibus crudo decernet Graecia cestu Geor. 3. The Victor was Crown'd with a Garland of Olive That Hercules and not any of the five Idean Brothers was the Institutor of these Olympic Games Pindar attests 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pind. in Olymp. Pisa was part of Elis near the River Alpheus Aut Alphea rotis praelabi fllumina Pisae Et Jovis in Luco currus agitare volantes Geor. 3. Hor. Od. 1. 1. 1. Quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse juvat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Olympic Races were at first invented in Honour and Memory of the Sun's Motion Ibid. Or Pythian Fields Where the Pythian Games were as Ovid tells us Instituted by Apollo after he had slain the vast Serpent Python to perpetuate the Memory of his Victory Neve Operis famam possit delere vetustas Instituit sacros celebri certamine ludos Pythia de domitae Serpentis nomine dictos His juvenum quicunque manu pedibusve rotâve Vicerat Oesculeae capiebat frondis honorem Nondum Laurus erat Met. 1. 1. But in Memory of the Debauchery attempted by him on the Nymph Daphne the Victors were afterwards Crowned with Laurel V. 532. Part curb their fierce Steeds Some of them are employed in governing and taming their high-metled Horses making them governable and obedient to Hand and Heel Part of Lat. Pars a Portion To Curb is to with-hold to hold in to stop or keep from running away of the Fr. Courber to bend This is a manifest imitation of Virg. AEn 6. Quae gratia curruûm Armorumque fuit vivis quae cura Nitentes Pascere Equos eadem sequitur tellure repostos Ibid. Or shun the Goal with rapid Wheels Metaque fervidis Evitata rotis Hor. lib. 1. Od. 1. In Charior-Racing the Art of the Driver was shewn in turning round and not touching the Goal attempted often with extream Hazard Goal Fr. Gaule a long Pole or Post used to mark the Place where the Course ended and therefore well applied by Virg. Hic tibi mortis erant metae AEn 12. Rapid swift Lat. Rapidus V. 533. Or fronted Brigad's form Or range and draw their Troops up facing each other when an Army is Embattled the Line next the Enemy is called the Van or Front of the Army from Exercitûs Form Lat. Formare to shape fashion bring into form V. 535. Waged in the c. Wage cometh of the Fr. Gager to Fight give Battle or Engage War being the worst of Wagers V. 537. Before each Van prick forth c. From before each Army the nimble active Knights light as the Air where they Encounter spur their Coursers on and point and level their Lances at each other till the main Grosses joyn Van the fore Front of an Army of the Fr. Avant the fore part so their Avantgarde the Vantguard Prick of Piquer Fr. to Ride to Spur a Horse whence to Pickeer signifyeth to Ride out from a Body of Men going to Charge and single out some Daring Man engaging with Sword and Pistol as formerly with Launce generally performed on Horseback and therefore a Derivative of Piquer and not of Pike Couch their Spears lower let fall their Launces and drop 'em so as to run full tilt against the Adversary Fr. Coucher to lay along Spears in marching being born upright let fall to a level in an Encounter V. 538. With Fâ—ats of Arms With Warlike Deeds with bold Exploits Fr. Faict an Action V. 539. From either end of Heaven c On every side the Firmament seems on Fire where the Heaven seemeth to our sight to have an End hard to be found in Bodies circular Welkiâ— the Sky the Region of the Air Sax. Welen These Warlike Apparitions may be well supposed sent to forewarn Proud and Luxurious Cities they being seldom fancied to appear but in disastrous Times and eminent Dangers our own Stories afford us some of these fighting Phaenomena about the time of our Civil Wars V. 540. Others with vast Typhean Rage c. Others more boistrous with Gigantic Rage tear Hills and Rocks and in Hurricanes Tempest the Air so hideous that Hell it self can scarce contain the dire Turmoil Typhaean a Derivative of Typhaeus or Typhon one of the Gigantic Invaders of Heaven of whom before Book 1. Ver. 199. Fell of the old Fr. word Felle Cruel whence Fellon V. 541. Rend Or Rent of the Sax. Rendean to tear up V. 543. As when Alcides c. As raging mad and furious as Hercules who having fought with Achelous and won Deianira the Daughter of Oeneus King AEtolia coming to the River Euenus Nessus the Centaur would needs undertake to carry the Bride over to whom after Hercules was got to the other side he offered Violence but was immediately slain by one of the Arrows that had killed the Venomous Hydra the Revengeful Ravisher mixing his Bloud with the Poyson that infected the deadly Dart perswaded the credulous Lady that the Garment stained with his Gore would prove a most certain Antidote against her Husband's wandering Affections as famous for the Conquests gained o're him by the fair Sex as he was for his own Hercules afterwards having subdued Oechalia a City of Boeotia brought thence the Charming Iole Daughter of Erytus King of that Country and Landing in Eubaea was busie in Erecting an Altar to return Thanks by Sacrifice to his Father Jupiter when Deianira jealous of his new Mistress sent Lychas to him with the Poyson'd Robe which stuck so close to him that he pulled the Flesh from his Bones endeavouring to get it off whereupon he made himself a Funeral Pile of Thessalian Pines and burnt himself thereon Venerat Eveus rapidas Jove natus ad undas Met. 9. Where read this Story Hercules was the Son of Jupiter and Alcmena named Alcides of his Grandfather Alcaeus as Euripides testifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Victor ab Oechalia Cenaeo sacra parabat Vota Jovi Met. l. 1. V. 544. Th' Invenom'd Empoison'd with the Bloud of Nessus Fr. Envenimé of In and Venenum Lat. Poison Praetulit imbutam Nesseo Sanguine vestem
shalt thou sit in thy Flesh Incarnate in carne of Caro Lat. Flesh. V. 316. Son both of God and Man Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psal. 2. 7. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy-Ghost Matth. 1. 20. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luc. 1. 35. Which was the Son of Adam which was the Son of God Luke 3. 38. V. 317. Anointed Universal King Who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6. 16. Kings in Scripture are styled God's Anointed Saul the first King of the Israelites was anointed by Samuel 1 Sam. 10. 1. and his Successor David by the same hand 1 Sam. 16. 13. Then Samuel took the Horn of Oyl and anointed him a Ceremony still in use among most Nations Therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the Oyl of Gladness above thy fellows Heb. 1. 9. Acts 10. 38. V. 321. That bide in Heaven c. That have their Abode in Heaven according to Phil. 2. 10. That at the Name of Jesus every Knee should â—ow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth Bide and abbreviation of Abide to stay in a place V. 324. Shalt in the Skie They shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Matth. 24. 30. V. 325. The summoning Archangels The Chief of thy Angels that shall summon and call all that are or ever were living Michael is named one of the Archangels Epist. Jude v. 9. Summoning of Summonere Lat. to warn and Summonitio in our Law is a giving notice to appear in Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chief Angel For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. V. 326. Thy dread Tribunal Thy dreadful Judgment Seat For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. v. 10 11. Tribunal Lat. Ibid. From all Winds From all Parts and Quarters of the World from whence the Winds blow and take their Names Eurus ad auroram Nabathaeque regna recessit Persidaque radiis juga subdita matutinis Met. l. 1. They shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds Matth. 24. 31. V. 327. The cited Dead The Dead called to appear at the General Day of Doom And I saw the Dead small and great stand before God Rev. 20. 11 Citare and Citatio Lat. are Terms of the Civil Law signifying a calling one to answer an Accusation or Crime brought against him V. 329. Such a Peal Such a Sound shall awaken 'em from their long and lazy Lethargy He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet Matth. 24. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With a Trumpet and loud Voice as the Original V. 331. They Arraigned shall sink They as soon as brought to that bright Bar self-accused and condemned shall sink down into Hell beneath thy Sovereign Sentence To Arraign is to bring a Prisoner to the Bar to hear the Accusation laid to his Charge of Arranger Fr. to set and digest Things into order by way of Proof in Tryals V. 334. The World shall burn The Heaven and the Earth which are now by the same Word are kept in store reserved unto Fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly Men. But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3. v. 7 and 10. Lucretius tells us the World shall be destroyed by a downfal Principio mare ac terras caelumque tuêre Horum naturam triplicem tria corpora Memmi Tres species tam dissimiles tria talia texta Una dies dabit exitio multosque per annos Sustentata ruet moles machina Mundi Lib. 5. Ovid affirms its Destruction shall be by Fire Esse quoque infatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus correptaque Regia Caeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa laboret Met. l. 1. Lucan agrees with him Hos Caesar populos si nunc non usserit ignis Uret cum terris uret cum gurgite tonti Communis mundo superest rogus ossibus astra Misturus Phar. l. 7. How this lower World and all therein may probably enough be liable to a General Conflagration is easie to imagine but how the Heavens the Celestial Bodies the Sun Moon and Stars those bright burning Beings which many of the Fathers as well as Philosophers believed to consist and be made of Fire shall be obnoxious to it is not so familiar to our Understandings Certain it is the World shall have an end Generation and Corruption shall cease Motion give place to Rest and Time to Eternity and then both the Elementary and Celestial Bodies having performed and finified their Function and all their Vicissitudes and manifold Mutations being determined shall be done away The Heavens the work of thy hands they shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a Garment as a Vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed Psal. 102. 26. And with this agrees the Vision of St. John And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose Face the Earth and the Heavens fled away and there was found no place for them Rev. 20. 11. V. 335. New Heaven and Earth Of which Isaiah Prophesied Behold I create new Heavens and a new Earth and the former shall not be remembred ch 65. v. 17. Confirmed by St. Peter Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. Foreseen by St. John And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Rev. 21. 1. The number of Beings subject to Generation and Corruption to encrease and decay will one day be compleat and fulfilled then the Heavenly Orbs the Elements the Earth and Sea the Causes and the Receptacles and Subjects of those many Mutations of Matter through the Vicissitudes of Time and Motion shall be no more And God will make another World more beautiful and much more glorious than this void of all Alteration incapable of Decay the House of Eternity V. 336. After Tribulations long After all the Afflictions of this Life Tribulatio Lat. Anguish Pain Suffering V. 337. See Golden Days As the Poets express'd the first happy Simplicity of the World by the Golden Age before that mischievous Metal was discovered to disturb it Aurea prima sata est aetas Ov. Met. 1. Toto surget gens aurea mundo Virg. Ecl. 4. V.
will be manifest that the Captivity and Prison here meant is to be understood Spiritually of those that were sold under Sin and sate in the thick darkness of Ignorance and the shadow of Death not of any such Local Confinement of Spirits after this Life But the Sacred Quotations on which these Prying Architects do most insist are Luke 16. 22. where the Angels carried Lazarus into Abraham's bosom which has made 'em add to their Limbus Patrum that of Sinus Abrahae which is so far from being a description of the Place in this Parable of our Saviour that it leaves us in the same mysterious Incertainty and whereas the Romanists infer from v. 26. Between us and you there is a great Gulf fixed that this Limbus is not ill situated and so near the place of Torment as their Adversaries affirm the whole proceeding of the Parable shews it to be both within the reach of the Eye and the Ear The other is 1 Pet. 3. 19. By which also he went and Preached to the Spirits in Prison a Text as applicable to their Purgatory as to this Limbus both which Turrianus tells us were entirely evacuated by our Saviour's descending into them Our Poet has more rationally assigned the back-side of the World for the large Limbus of Superstition and Folly into which all useless painful Fopperies that disturb Mankind deserve well to be thrown V. 501. His Travell'd Steps Weary took his way Travell'd of Travaillé Fr. tired V. 506. With Frontispiece of Diamond and Gold A description of Heaven's high Fore-front imitated from Ovid's Regia solis erat sublimibus alta columnis Clara micante auro Flammasque imitante Pyropo Met. 2. Well has our Poet adorned Heaven's everlasting Gate with Gold and the impassive Diamond this Stone resisting not only the Anvil and the Iron Hammer without the least damage but supporting the fiercest Fires thô thrown into the midst of a flaming Furnace for many Days whence it derived its Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Indomitus untameable Gold of all Metals the finest comes more pure and perfect out of the Fire Frontispicium Lat. the fore-part the fore-front of a Building Frontis inspectio V. 507. Imbellish'd Beautified of Embelli Fr. adorned V. 508. The Portal shon The place leading to the Gate shon bright with sparkling Jewels Portal Fr. Portail both of Porta Lat. a Door and signifies a place leading to a Door and usually Arched and raised on Pillars V. 509. By Model c. Not to be imitated by any Carver's or Painter's hand Model Fr. Modelle Lat. Modulus a Pattern or Specimen of any great Building shaped in small but in exact proportions Pencil Fr. Pinceau the Instrument Painters use to draw with V. 510. Whereon Jacob saw Jacob the second and Twin-Son of Isaac and Rebecca his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sign a Deceiver of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to deceive a derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Heel by which he took his Brother Esau striving for the Birth-right in his Mother's Womb of which he afterwards supplanted him Gen. 25. 26. V. 511. Angels Bands of Guardians bright And he dreamed and behold a Ladder set upon the Earth and the top of it reached to Heaven and behold the Angels of God ascending and descending on it and behold the Lord stood above it Gen. 28. v. 12 13. That by this Vision of the Ladder God's Universal Providence and Care of the World is set forth and his particular Kindness and Assistance to his Servant Jacob in his flight from his threatning Brother is the sense of the best Interpreters Bands of Guardians bright Companies of shining Illustrious Warders bright shining Guards of Angels of Gardien Fr a Keeper a Warden of Garder Fr. to watch to keep safe that God employeth his Angels in these Ministerial Offices many Instances in Scripture make it plain Are they not all ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation Hebr. 1. 14. The two destroying Angels that came to Sodom proved Protectors to Lot and his Family Gen. 19. Three Angels appeared to Abraham and were Entertained by him Gen. 18. Jacob in his return into his own Country was met by the Angels of God and when he saw them he said This is God's Host Gen. 32. v. 1 and 2. a Guardant Host of Angels to protect him against his angry and armed Brother Esau marching against him Elijah has an Angel for his Providore 1 King 19. v. 5 and 7. David saw the destroying Angel standing between Heaven and Earth with a drawn Sword in his hand stretch'd out over Jerusalem 1 Chron. 21. 16. An Angel appeared to Zacharias Luke 1. 11. The Angel Gabriel was sent from God c. To the Virgin Mary Ibid. v. 26 27 and 28. With many more both in the Old and New Testament V. 512. When he from Esau fled Esau 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make as if more perfect and compleat being all hairy not so tender as young Infants generally are but the Word has another signification to acquire and conquer relating to the struggle he had with his Brother for the Birth-right in their Mother 's Womb. Of Jacob's flight from him read Gen. 27. V. 513. To Padan-Aram c. The open or plain Country of Syria or Mesopotamia whither Jacob was sent Gen. 28. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Arabic Language signif a Field a Champain Country 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aramia or Syria Bethuel is styled the Syrian of Padan-Aram Gen. 25. 20. Luz So was the name of that City called at the first Gen. 28. 19. but Jacob enter'd not into it but slept on his hard Pillow Sub Dio Under the open Skie Gen. 28. 11. V. 515. This is the Gate of Heaven This is no other but the House of God this is the Gate of Heaven Gen. 28. 17. Here God by his especial Favour and peculiar Providence has manifested himself to men as in his Heavenly Palace here by this favourable Vision I have had as easie and free access to him as if this were the very Gate leading into the Glorious Mansion of his Majesty in perpetual remembrance thereof he calls the Place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bethel The House of God V. 516. Each Star mysteriously was meant The meaning of this Visionary Ladder is diversly allegorized by the Fathers and School-Divines some make it the Type and Representation of the Genealogy of our Saviour Jesus Christ which the Evangelist St. Matthew has deliver'd ch 1. by descending from Abraham to Joseph and Mary and St. Luke by ascending up from them to Adam and God Chap. 3. The many Steps then of this Ladder shew the many Generations and Persons contained in his Pedigree from Adam God's Mercy and his Truth are the sides that support its mighty length reaching from Heaven to Earth Others interpret the Foot of this Ladder standing on the Earth to foreshew Christ's Human as its
Immissaeque ferae Sylvis sidera Coelo Et exciperet Coeli Indulgentia terras Virg. Geor. 2. Ver erat aeternum placidique tepentibus auris Mulcebant Zephyri natos sine semine flores Meta. 1. Pan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interpreted by Macrobius Universae substantiae Materialis Dominator the Universal Nature as the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies All the whole Frame of Nature the Universe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. in Pana Hence in the Days of Heathenism taken for the Sun the visible most powerful and glorious God of the World governed as to appearance by his Eternal Influence Suitable to this Opinion Orpheus styles him the powerful Deity and makes Heaven Earth the Sea and Immortal Fire Members of his Immense Body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orph. in Pana Exactly well therefore does our Poet give him the Title of Universal Pan and joyn him with the dancing Hours and Graces the Fruits of the Earth and their Seasons depending on his enlivening Lamp and the Measures of his Motion V. 267. Knit with the Graces and the Hours By the Graces and the Hours are here meant the Flowers and fruitful Seasons produced on Earth by the Suns Universal Heat and the difference made by the Accesses and Recesses of his Inspiriting Influence The Graces are reckon'd three the Off-spring of Jupiter and Eurynome the Daughter of the Ocean that is of Heat and Moisture the Composition of all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesiod Theog That these Graces were taken for the beautiful Seasons in which all things seem to dance and smile in an Universal Joy is plain from Horace Diffugere nives Redeunt jam Gramina Campis c. Gratia cum Nymphis Geminisque sororibus audet Ducere nuda Choros Od. 7. Carm. Lib. 4. Aratus calls the Hours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fruitful Time being requisite to the Maturity of all Things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer gives 'em the Power of shutting and opening of Heaven that is of fair and foul Weather equally requisite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he joyns both the Graces and the Hours Hand in Hand with Harmony Youth and Venus three Charming Companions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 269. Of Enna where Proserpin c. Proserpina was the Daughter of Jupiter and Ceres carried away by Pluto the Subterranean God as she was gathering Flowers on the top of Enna a beauteous Plain on an Hill not far from a City of the same Name in the middle of the Island of Sicily Haud procul Hennaeis locus est à maenibus altae Nomine Pergus aquae Non illo plura Caystros Carmina Cygnorum labentibus audit in undis Sylva Coronat aquas cingens latus omne suisque Frondibus ut velo Phoebêos submovet ignes Frigora dant rami Tyrios humus humida Flores Perpetuum ver est Quo dum Proserpina luco Ludit aut violas aut candida lilia carpit Poene simul visa est dilectaque raptaque Diti Ovid. Meta. 5. With him agrees the Neoterick Claudian Forma loci superat Flores Curvata tumore Parvo planities Mollibus edita clivis Creverat in Collem c. de Raptu Proserp Lib. 2. He that would see more of this Place may read the Florid Description Cicero has made of it in his sixth Invective against Verres Vetus est haec Opinio Judices c. V. 270. By Gloomy Dis By the black God of Hell Dis à Divitiis as his other Name Pluto of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Riches because the most Pretious Metals are found and dug under ground out of the Subterranean Vaults and Neighbourhood of Hell Ceres the Daughter of Saturn and Ops Sister to Pluto Jove Juno and Neptune the first that taught Mankind the Art of Ploughing and Sowing Prima Ceres ferro Mortales vertere terram Instituit Virg. Georg. 1. Prima Ceres unco glebam dimovit aratro Prima dedit fruges alimentaque mitia terris Meta. Lib. 5. Quas dea per terras quoe erraverit undos Dicere longa mora est quoerenti defuit Orbis Ibid. Dis or Pluto being refused by all the Goddesses because of his ill Looks dark Kingdom and darker Complexion was forc'd to make his way through the Earth into the fair Ennean Field where in his Ebon Chariot he snatch'd up Ceres her beautiful Daughter who ignorant what was become of her wandred all the World over to seek her and as she made her Enquiries taught Mankind the Art of Tillage V. 273. Of Daphne by Orontes Daphne was the most celebrated and delicious Suburbs of Antioch the Capital of Syria or rather of the East seated on both the Banks of Orontes It was a vast Grove of Lawrels whence it took the Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Lawrel intermixt with tall Cypress-Trees defying the Suns piercing Rays under whose thick Shade nevertheless the Earth was Luxuriant in Flowers it was full of Fountains and had one supposed to derive its Waters from the Castalian Spring and endued with the same Power of promoting the Spirit of Divination in its Drinkers as well as that at Delphos Zozom in his Description of Daphne Orteliu◠has an exact Delineation of this bounteous Grove in the end of his Maps Orontes a beautiful River of Syria springing out of Mount Libanus and running to Antioch I am pridem Syrus in Tyberim defluxit Orontes Juv. Sat. 3. En quantum Tygris quantum celer ambit Orontes Luc. Lib. 6. V. 274. Inspir'd Castalian Spring Was a Fountain at the Foot of the Hill Parnassus so named of Castalia a Virgin Mistress of Apollo turned into this cold Stream for refusing his Flames those that pretended to Poetry or Prophesie wash'd their Eyes in this Chaste Fountain to which the enamour'd Deity gave the Power of Inspiration Inspiratus Lat. one endowed with preternatural Knowledge Numine afflatus Qui rore puro Castaliae lavit Crines solutos Hor. Car. Lib. 3. Od. 4. Quâ nulla priorum Castaliam molli divertitur Orbita clivo Geor. 3. V. 275. Nor that Nyseian Isle girt with the River Triton Nysa was a City in an Island of the same Name encompass'd and begirt by the River Triton in Affrica from which Pallos took her Name Tritonia of her appearing first on its Banks Et Pallas Lybicis Tritonides edita Lymphis Sil. Ita. Lib. 9. This Island for its Fertility the Goodness of the Air and Soil and for the Production of the choicest and most delicious Fruits the coolest Fountains and most delightful Shades as well as for abundance of the choicest Vines naturally growing there was extreamly celebrated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. in Bacch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
The Workmanship of some deputed Power not of GOD himself but his Son as a Task or Business shuffled off from the Father to his Son Secundarius Lat. of the second sort Transferr'd put over of Transferre Lat. to convey to turn over to V. 855. Strange Point and new A new and strange Opinion Point of the Fr. Poinct a Proposition an Argument Doctrine of Doctrina Lat. Learning Knowledge V. 861. When fatal Course c. When Powerful Fate had fetch'd its mighty Round Had compleated its accomplish'd Course we the Sons of Heav'n our Native Seat brought our selves into being the ready Off-spring and Sons of that fatal season Mature Maturus Lat. ripe seasonable V. 864. Our Puissance is our own c. Our Power and Might is our own not owing to or derived from any Superiour like that Our Lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal. 12. V. 4. To which he has subjoyn'd Thy Right Hand shall teach thee terrible things Psal. 44. Vers. 4. Puissance Fr. Power V. 868. Address Whether we intend by Prayer to make our Applications to him or to surround his dreadful Throne with Praises or Approaches or to attend him with Tunes or with Attacks Addresse Fr. a drawing near to s'addresser Fr. to sue to by approaching humbly V. 869. This Report Carry this Answer this Account Report of the Fr. Rapporter to carry back word of the Lat. Reportare V. 871. Ere evil intercept Before some Mischief prevent and hinder thy escape Intercept of Intercipere Lat. to prevent by coming between as Letters are intercepted when seized before they come where directed V. 880. Contagion spread c. I see the Infection of thy Fault and its Punishment that must attend it spread over all thy accurs'd and condemn'd Crew Contagion Contagio Contagium any infectious pois'nous Distemper Priusquam Dira per incautum serpant contagia vulgus Geor. 3. V. 883. Those indulgent Laws Those easie and gentle Commands Indulgent Indulgens Lat tender Coeli Indulgentia Geor. 4. For the good Temperature of the Air. V. 886. That Golden Scepter c. That easie Empire which thou didst refuse is changed into an Iron Rod to break and to correct thy Disobedience The first has relation to Esth 8. Vers. 4. Then the King held out the Golden Scepter to Esther the last to Psal. 2. Vers. 9. Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron c. V. 904. Which he sustein'd Superiour Through the flouting and contemptuous Reproaches of his Enemy which he bore so as to be much above it Hostilis Lat. of an Enemy sustein'd underwent of sustinere Lat. to endure V. 906. Retorted c. At once his Back he turn'd and their own disdain return'd upon 'em double Retorted thrown and driven back upon 'em of Retorquere to shoot or throw back again NOTES ON MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VI. V. 1. ALL Night the dreadless c. All Night th' undaunted Angel unpursu'd Held through Heav'ns open plain his way till Morn Roused by the Hours that keep their constant course Blushing unbarr'd the East-Doors of the Dawn Within GOD's Holy Mount Neighb'ring his Throne There is a Cave where Light and Darkness dwell By turns foll'wing each other in a Round Uninterrupted which makes through high Heav'n Pleasing Variety like Day and Night Light sallies forth while at the other Door Obedient Darkness enters till her time To overcast Heav'n though our blackest Night Shews like Gray Twilight here And now the Morn Such as with us went forth adorn'd with Gold Refin'd by Heav'ns pure Fires before her Night Fled vanquish'd with the piercing Darts of Light Shot through and scatter'd V. 3. With Rosie Hand From those Colours that adorn the Morning she was call'd by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Rosie-finger'd Morn and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from her Gay Morning Gown She is said to be waked by the Circling Hours because appearing exactly when the Hour of her rising comes â—ound Ecce Vigil rutilo patefecit ab ortu Purpureas Aurora fores plena Rosarum Atria Met. Lib. 2. Il di seguente all' hor ch' aperte sono Del Lucido Oriente al Sol le porte Tass. C. 1. Stan. 71. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imitated by Virgil Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora Cubile AEn 4. V. 4. Unâ—arr'd the Gates of Light As if Heaven were shut at Night and open'd every Morning As Virgil Ante diem clauso componet Vesper Olympo AEn 1. Jam nitidum retegente diem noctisque fugante Tempora Lucifero Met. Lib. 7. V. 8. Vicissitude Vicissitudo Lat. Changing by turns succeeding one another V. 10. Obsequious Obsequiosus Lat. obedient complying V. 13. The Morn such as in highest Heav'n Homer made the Day break in Heaven as well as on Earth and the Light as necessary to the Gods as Men. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From whence our Author seems to have taken the hint of his Heav'nly Cave where Light and Darkness make their Intercourse Array'd in Gold Empyreal deck'd and adorn'd in flaming Gold Array'd Arroyé Fr. Equipp'd furnish'd set out with Empyreal Book 1. Vers. 117. V. 15. Vanish'd Night shot through c. Night fled away wounded and shot quite through with the piercing Rays of Light Era ne la Flagion ch'anco non cede Libero Ogni confin la notte al giorno Mà Oriente rosseggiar si vede Et anco e il ciel d'alcuna Stella adorno Tasso Can. 18. Stan. 12. Vanish'd of Vanescere Lat. to go away on a suddain as Mists do V. 16. With thick embattel'd Squadrons With great Numbers set in Battel-array Embattel'd embodied drawn into great Squadron of in and battailler Fr. to fight to order and range an Army fit to engage V. 18. Reflecting blaze on blaze Darting sierce Fire from their Flaming Arms. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Diomedes in his shining Armour is described 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virgil of AEneas's Armour made by Vulcan says they were Arma radiantia Terribilem cristis galeam flammasque vomentem Fatiferumque ensem loricam ex aere rigentem Sanguineam ingentem Qualis cum coerula nubes Solis inardcscit radiis longéque refulget AEn 8. Blaze signifies a suddain and fierce flame of the Teut. Blasen to blow as the effect of a great blast or the imitation of its noise V. 19. War in procinct All Preparations for War ready The Angelick Host that stood for Heav'n ready to march against the Rebel Army In procinctu stare The Roman Soldiers were said to stand when ready to give the Onset Cum praecincti jam milites expediti â—d bellum erant V. 20. Had thought to have reported This is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the manner of Men for it is unconceivable that an Angel a Spirit of more pure and enlighten'd Perfection than
Throne And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a Throne as the appearance of a Saphir stone Ezek. 1. 26. And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a Saphir stone and as it were the body of Heaven in its clearness Exod. 24. 10. Saphir Bo. II. V. 1050. V. 7â—â— Inlaid with pure Amber c. Inlaid with brightest Amber and the colours of Heaven's various Bow And I saw as the colour of Amber as the appearance of fire round about within it Ezek. 1. 27. The Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a burning Coal or most intense Flame such as astonisheth the Eye-sight and is both here and at v. 4. and ch 8. v. 2. in the Lat. rendred Electrum and thence in our Translation Amber not meant of that called otherwise Succinum but an Aurichalcum a sort of Aureum aes outshining Gold it self as of a hardness capable of a brighter burnish or as some will have it Gold mingled with a fifth part Silver whether naturally or artificially named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the suns name whose splendor it vyes with Amber Bo. III. V. 359. Ibid. The showry Arch From its shape arch'd and circular Of its season showry as appearing in rainy weather and a moist cloud As the appearance of the Bow that is in the Cloud in the day of Rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about Exek 1. 28. And there was a Rainbow round about the Throne Rev. 4. 3. Thus far our Author has followed the visionary Chariot of God described by Ezekiel as a Man of War as he is styled by Moses Exod. 15. 3. sitting in his glorious Chariot warring against the Wicked and triumphing over them V. 760. Of radiant Urim He compleatly Armed in his infinite Perfections array'd with Light divine and unapproachable Urim was one of those two mystical words inscribed on the Aaronical High-Priests Breast-Plate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light Exod. 28. 30. V. 763. Victory sat Eagle-wing'd Victory swift and assur'd sat at his right hand The Eagle was styled Jovis ales the Minister of his Thunder the King of Birds by the Romans chosen for their victorious Ensigns by the Naturalists affirmed to fly highest in stormy weather and to soar above the Clouds The Poets assigned him to Jupiter for his quick and sharp sightedness AEthereà quos lapsa plagâ Jovis ales aperto Turbabat Caelo AEn 1. As the swift ships as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey Job 9. 26. V. 764. Three-bolted Thunder Telum trisulcum as Ovid calls the Thunder Threefold Trifidà fumantia flamma corporà of Phaeton Thunder-struck Met. l. 2. V. 765. Fierce effusion c. A furicus Tempest pouring forth Smoak and fighting Flame rouling round about him Effusio Lat. a pouring out Bickering fighting and thence destroying of the Welsh Bicre a Combat or of Picare Ital. to prey upon to devour There went up a smoak out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured Psal. 18. v. 8. A fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him Psal. 50. 3. V. 769. And twenty thousand c. The chariots of God are twenty thousand even thousands of Angels Psal. 68. 17. V. 778. Circumfused on c. Spread round on either Wing Circumfusus cast about of Circumfundere Lat. to spread about Circumfusa repentè scindit se nubes AEn 1. V. 784. With fresh Flourets With new springing Flowers Flourets of Fleurette Fr. young Blossoms a diminutive of Fleur Fr. a Flower V. 785. Stood obdur'd Continued harden'd in their wicked Rebellion of Obdureo Lat. to grow hard and obstinate Lest any of you be harden'd through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. v. 13. Rallied Book I. V. 269. V. 787. Insensate Foolish mad Insensatus Lat. senseless Hope conceiving from Despair Sola salus miseris nullam sperare salutem In Heavenly Spirits c. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae AEn 1. V. 789. But to convince the Proud c. But what manifestation of God's Anger against Sin is able to convince and overcome the haughtiness of the Wicked Or what Wonders are sufficient to bring the stubborn and stiff-neck'd Sinner to Repentance Convincere Lat. to overcome either by dint of Power or Argument Avail Book I. V. 153. Obdurate Book I. V. 58. Relent Book II. V. 237. V. 791. By what might most reclaim They were harden'd more by those very things that should have brought 'em back to their Obedience As Pharaoh was by seeing the Red Sea divided who in stead of submitting to God's Commands pursued his People and his own Ruine through the midst of it which returning to its bounds overwhelm'd and swallow'd up him and his audacious Host Exod. 14. 23. Reclame of the Fr. Reclamer Lat. Reclamare to call back to call of as Faulconers do their Hawks V. 797. In universal Ruin last Or at last to be ruin'd quite and in the end reduced to nothing to be utterly destroy'd V. 808. Vengeance is his or c. Revenge is God's or his whom he empowers To me belongeth vengeance and recompense Deut. 32. 35. Vengeance is mine I will repay it saith the Lord Rom. 12. 19. Vengeance Fr. Vindicta Lat. Revenge V. 812. Despis'd yet envy'd Scorn and Envy seem two contrary Passions yet they concur in the constitution of racking and tormenting Pride V. 822. Of other Excellence not emulous Endeavouring after no other Praise or Perfection pursuing and aiming at no other pitch of Perfection Emulous AEmulus Lat one who spurr'd on by the desire of Glory endeavours to exceed his Equal Spemque meam patriae quae nunc subit aemula laudis AEn 10. V. 828. With dreadful shade contiguous All at once the four Cherubims strerch'd out their Wings set thick with Eyes which joyn'd together made a dreadful shade according to Ezekiel's Vision Their Wings were joyn'd one to another Contiguous Contiguus Lat. that toucheth or is joyn'd to any thing V. 830. Of torrent Floods c. And the Wheels of his fierce Chariot rouled as with the noise of a rushing Flood or of a mighty Host. And when they went I heard the noise of their Wings like the noise of great waters as the voice of the Almighty the voice of speech as the noise of an host Ezek 1. 24. When the living creatures went the wheels went by them Ibid v. 19. Rapidus montano flumine torrens Sternit agros sternit sata laeta boumque labores Praecipitesque trahit Sylvas AEn 2. Torrent violent Of Torrens Lat. a furious Flood V. 833. The stedfast Empyrean shook The Pillars of Heaven tremble and are astonisht at his Reproof Job 26. Vers. 11. V. 836. Grasping Of the Ital. Graspare to embrace V. 837. In their Souls infixt Thunders such à s stuck Ten Thousand Torments in their Souls Infixt fastned Of Infigere
Lat. to drive and stick into Intus figere Plagues Of Plaga Lat. a stroke Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Doric 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to strike the Pestilence properly called the Plague seems the more immediate stroke of Gods Vengeance sent from Heaven to sweep Sinners from off the Polluted Earth V. 841. Prostrate Fell'd before him Of Seraphim groveling and over thrown Prostratus Lat. lying all along Of Prosternere Lat. to fell to overthrow V. 845. From the four fold visaged four From the four Cherubims that had each four Faces as at Vers. 753. Visage Fr. the Face Of the Lat. Visus the sight V. 846. Distinct with Eyes Beset with Eyes sprinkled all o'er with Eyes like Stars as at Vers. 755. Distinctus Lat. set full off V. 848. One Spirit in them Ruled One Spirit guided and govern'd both the four faced Cherubim and the living Wheels beset with Starry Eyes Whithersoever the Spirit was to go they went thither was their Spirit to go and the Wheels were lifted up over against them for the Spirit of Life was in the Wheels Ezek. 1. 20. Glared shot out Lightning Book IV. Vers. 402. Pernicicus Book 1. Vers. 282. V. 850. That wither'd all their Strength That blasted all their Might as excessive Heats and scorching Winds kill the Trees by consuming their exhausted moisture Drain'd emptied Of the Fr. Trainer to draw up or out Exhausted quite emptied and worn out Exhaustus Lat. dried up Terraeque marisque Omnibus exhaustos jam casibus omnium egenos AEn 1. V. 854. In mid volie Stopt his Thunder in the midst of its flight Check'd Book III. V. 732. Volie Of Volée Fr. a flight not only or Birds but Arrows and Shot V. 857. A Herd of Goats To which the Wicked are compared by our Saviour in the Description of the last Judgment And he shall set the Sheep on his Right Hand but the Goats on the Left Then shall he say unto them on his Left Hand Depart from me ye Cursed c. Matth. 25. 33. and 41. Timerous fearful Of Timidus and Timor Lat. fear V. 861. Rowl'd inward c. Turn'd inward and opened a wide out-let into the empty Deep Gap a hole an opening of the word Gape to stretch the Mouth wide open V. 864. Urged 'em behind Pursued and terrified 'em from behind Urgere Lat. to push to press upon Uâ—gente ruinâ volvitur AEn 10. V. 865. The Verge of Heaven Down from Heavens Borders Verge Book II. V. 1038. V. 868. Heaven ruining from Heaven The Heavenly Angels tumbling headlong down from Heaven Ruinare Lat. to fall down V. 869. Strict Fate Gods unalterable Decree Strict Book II. Vers. 239. V. 873. Anarchie Through his mad misrule Anarchie Book II. Vers. 895. V. 874. Incumberd him So vast a rout and such a huge Confusion disorder'd and disturb'd him Incomber Ingombrare is of the old Fr. Combre now Comble a heap whence it signifies to hinder as heaps of Rubbish that lie in the way do Fraught Book II. Vers. 715. V. 877. The House of Woe and Pain Described by our Saviour by the Worm that dieth not and Fire unquenchable Mark 9. 44 45 48. and also by Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth Mat. 25. 30. the last part of which Gnashing of Teeth seems to have given our Poet the Rise for heightning Hell and the Torments of its Fire by the intense extremity of Cold Book II. Vers. 587. A frozen Continent of Whirlwinds and dire Hail c. alluding to Job 24. 19. of which the Latin Translation comes nearer the Original than ours Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis niveum Let him be snatcht from melting Snow to extream Fire V. 879. Her mural Breach The Gap made in her Chrystal Wall Vers. 861. Mural Muralis Lat. belonging to a Wall Of Murus Lat. a Wall V. 884. With Jubile advanc'd Set forward came on with Songs of Joy and great Rejoycing Jubile Of Jubilum Lat. rejoycing Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the year of the Jewish Jubile when every Man returned to his Family and Possession Levir 25. 10. V. 888. He Celebrated He praised and extol'd Celebrated Celebratus Of Celebrare Lat. to Praise and Magnifie Ex illo Celebratus honos AEn 8. V. 894. That thou mayst beware The Reason the Schoolmen give why they believed this dismal downfal of the Rebellious Angels was not unrevealed to Adam to keep him in humble Obedience to his Maker and under the Awe of his Righteous Judgments who spared not the Angels that Sinned but cast them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2. 4. And the Son of Sirach discoursing of Gods dealing with the first Fathers of Mankind has these Words He shewed them Good and Evil. He made an Everlasting Covenant with them and shew'd them his Judgments Eccles. 17. 7. and 12. by which Judgments most Interpreters understand this terrible Revelation of the routed Angels Et Judicia sua ostendit illis Quae Judicia nimirum quibus Deus Revelavit illis transgressionem pessimorum Spirituâ—m quomodo judicaver at eos damnaverat Cathar Comment in Gen. Cap. 1. That the Ruin of these Rebellious Angels was known to the Prophets is plain from Isaiah who denouncing Gods Judgments against the wicked Belteshasar speaks of him as of Satan himself How art thou faln from Heaven Oh Lucifer Son of the Morning Thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Tâ—rone above the Stars of God Isai. 14. 13 14. Our Saviour speaks plainly of this Arch-Rebel Into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. I saw Satan like Lightning fall from Heaven Luk. 10. 18. And he was in the Wilderness forty days tempted of Satan Mark 1. 13. The Angels that kept not their Principality but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under Darkness c. Jude 1. 6. V. 903. Bereav'd of Happiness Rob'd of all thy Bliss Bereaved Of the Sax. Bereapan to spoil Reapian Of Rapere Lat. to snatch from V. 906. A despite done A Dishonour and Affront done against God Despit Fr. a Provocation Of the Lat. Despicere to under value to dispise V. 909. Warn thy Weaker Advise thy Wife to have a care Giving Honour unto thy Wife as unto the Weaker Vessel 1 Pet. 3. 7. Ibid. Let it profit thee Profit tibi Lat. of Prodesse to make advantage of Here I must take leave to shew the Latin Translator of our excellent Poet how much Virgil would have assisted him if he had not been too hasty in that noble Description of Satans Roaring Engines hurling linkt Thunderbolts and Iron Hail it begins Vers. 584. Nec mora flammatis Coelum omne ardescere visum est Cardinibus subitâque iterum caligine tectum Amisisse Diem commistis igne tenebris Machina quas raucis incendia caeca volutans Faucibus eructat lacerus mugitibus aether Intonat horrendum Toto ruit
the Diameter can touch the Center the middle Point of a round Body V. 216. Silence As the same omnipotent and omnific word Incarnate said to the tumultuous Sea Peace be still Mar. 4. 39. Omnific Maker of all Things Omnificus of Omnis all and Facere Lat. to make V. 222. Follow'd in bright Procession Seems a contradiction for Procession shrictly signifies A going before and is used to express a solemn Pomp and Shew preceeding a Prince or the Sacrament in Catholic Countries carried in Procession but the meaning is that a bright Train of admiring Angels attended and waited on this Omnific Word to see the mighty Works of his Creation Processio Lat. of Procedere to set out to go on V. 224. The fervid Wheels The warm Wheels from the swiftness of their Motion Motus est causa caloris Horace his Epithete Metaque fervidis evitata rotis Car. l. 1. Od. 1. Fervidus Lat. hot V. 228. One foot he center'd One foot of his Golden Compasses he fix'd in the center of the Universe and turn'd the other round through the vast and deep Obscurity and said Thus far shall the Creation reach thus far shall its Bounds extend this shall be thy compass O thou rising World Profundity Profunditas Lat. Depth the Deep V. 231. This be thy just Circumference This shall be thy vast Round Pronounced by him who sitteth on the circle of the Earth Isa. 40. 22. Who alone compass'd the circuit of the Heavens Eccles. 24. 5. V. 233. Matter unform'd and void 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Desolation and emptiness Gen. 1. 2. Says Moses Without form and void as our Translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 70. Invisible and unadorn'd The vulgar Lat. Inanis vacua Empty and void doubly empty Aquila vanitas nihil Emptiness and nothing All amounting to the same sense and agreeing with our Poets that God made the Heaven and Earth which on the first day of the Creation were one confused heap of uninform'd Matter containing Earth Air Fire c. all mix'd and cover'd over with a dark Deluge and black Abyss of Water So that the Author of the Book of Wisdom had reason to say Manus tua creavit orbem terrarum ex materiâ invisâ ch 2. v. 18 Which we translate Thy hand made the World of Matter without Form The Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 234. Cover'd the Abyss Darkness was upon the face of the deep Gen. 1. 2. Deep and incomprehensible Darkness cover'd the vast Abyss in whose watry Womb the unborn World yet lay So the Prophetic Psalmist Thou covered'st it with the Deep as with a Garment the Waters stood above the Mountains of the establish'd Earth Psal. 104. 6. And Job describing the Original Birth of Waters I made the cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness its swadling band Job 38. 9. Bede in his Exemeron is of opinion That all that vast space between the Earth and the Empyrean Heaven was filled with Water that is with a humid aqueous and misty Matter part of which was afterwards thickned into Water some rarified and spun out into Air and the rest miraculously hardned and fix'd into the Matter of the Celestial Orbs all extracted out of this immeasurable Abyss Bo. I. Vers. 21. which before Light was created must necessarily be cloath'd with Darkness V. 235. His brooding Wings the Spirit of God The Holy Spirit the third Person of the Blessed Trinity The spirit of the Lord filleth the world Wisd. 1. 7. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Psal. 33. 6. The breath of the power of God Wisd. 7. 25. I came out of the mouth of the most High I alone compass'd the circuit of Heaven and walked in the bottom of the Deep Eccles. 24. 3 5. See at Vers. 17. Bo. I. the various Interpretations of Gen. 1. 2. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters V. 236. And Vital Virtue infused c. And spread and dispers'd its quickning Power and enlivening Heat quite through the humid heap and moving watry mass of Matter Vallesius interprets The spirit of God moving upon the waters Gen. 1. 2. to signifie the Creation of Fire moving through and actuating the watry Abyss into warmth and vital Fecundity esteeming it term'd a Spirit as approaching nearest of all Bodies to a spiritual Substance as being so light and subtle as not to fall under the perception of sense unless when immers'd in and preying on gross Materials that it is term'd the Spirit of God for its mighty Power and Excellency as the Mountains and Cedars of God in holy Phrase frequently are Hic igitur spiritus nimirum ignis hoc est haec substantia tenuissima ac perfectissima ferebatur incubans faecundans aquas per hunc spiritum factae sunt aquae fluxiles alioqui futurae concretae Sac. Phil. c. 1. Nevertheless our Author has rightly attributed this vital Influence and quickning Emanation to the Spirit of God Fluid Fluidus Lat. thin liquid V. 238. The black tartareous cold c. But drove downwards towards the Center the black cold gross and muddy Dregs Enemies to Life and Being On the first day of the Creation God made the mighty Mass of all Things capable of Generation and Corruption consisting of the Elementary Bodies Earth Water Air and Fire heap'd up and mix'd together Earth Water and dark Air blended together the invisible Fire moved together through the muddy Mass hindring its congealing into unactive Ice then God's Spirit breathing upon the Watry Confusion disingag'd and separated the intangled Elements bringing like Things to like and fixing them together thereby forming the Earth within the Womb of Water and spreading out the ambient Air then out of deepest Darkness called forth Light Tartareous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shake with extream cold V. 239. Conglobed Gather'd together Of Conglobare Lat. to gather in heaps V. 241. Disparted Shared divided Of Dispertire Lat. to allot to divide into Parts Ibid. Spun out the Air And like the finest Web drew out the Air An excellent description of the thinness purity and invisibility of the Air mixing with all things as being spun out so fine between V. 242. Earth Self-Ballanc'd c. Hung on her Center by wondrous Counterpoise which Job styles Nothing He hangeth the Earth upon Nothing Chap. 26. 7. Circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus Ponderibus librata suis. Meta. l. 1. But how the unconceivable Counterpoise is made he only knows Who hath measured the Waters in the hollow of his Hand and meeted out the Heavens with a Span who weigheth the Mountains in Scales and the Hills in a Balance Isa. 40. 12. V. 243. Let there be said God God who Created all Things out of Nothing by his infinite Power could do it no other way than by his Almighty Word For there being no first Matter out
1. cont Jovi Contrary to our Poet's Opinion sufficiently inferrable from Bo. VIII V. 510. To the Nuptial Bowre I led her blushing like the Morn And more plainly Bo. IV. V. 742. Nor Eve the Rites Mysterious of Connubial Love refus'd What ever Hypocrites austerely talk Of Purity and Place and Innocence Our Poet therefore by the Virgin Majesty of Eve means her Comely Blushes proceeding from some Unkindness conceived at his Advice V. 272. With sweet Austere Composure In a more serious yet sweet manner reply'd Austere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. serious grave Composure Order Mood of Componere Lat. to set in order V. 273. Offspring of Heaven and Earth Offspring of God thy maker and of Earth thy mould Gen. 2. 7. V. 278. At shut of Evening Flowers A natural Notation of the Evening the time when Flowers close their sweet-breathing Buds V 289. Misthought A thinking amiss of her Misthought a word seeming coyned by our Poet after the manner of Mistrust Misdeed Mistake c. V. 291. Daughter of God and Man Daughter of God thy maker and of Man the materials Gen. 2. 22. Ibid. Immortal Eve for such thou art from Sin and Blame entire Untainted by Sin and Unblameable Entire Entier Fr. Integer Lat. uncorrupted sound and unviolated by Sin as St. Paul By one man sin enter'd into the world and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. V. 296. Asperses with Dishonour Casts a Disgrace and Disesteem upon the Person tempted for the Temptation presupposes him 〈◊〉 whom the Tryal's made weak and infirm and liable to be prevailed on Asperses Aspergere Lat. to bespatter V. 300. Would'st resent Would'st be very sensible of would'st be extreamly concern'd at of Resentir Fr. to have sense of V. 302. I labour to avert Think not amiss then if I endeavour to prevent such a Disgrace from falling on thee when alone Misdeem judge not ill of of Mis and Deem Deman Sax. to judge To avert Avertere Lat. to put by Affront Bo. I. V. 391. V. 310. Access in every Virtue I from the influence of thy Eyes receive encrease in all the Powers of Soul and Body Access Accessus Lat. Addition Virtue Virtus Lat. Power V. 318. Domestiâ— Adam Careful of his Companion his Spouse from whose Society all Families and the World with them is filled Domestic Domesticus Lat. belonging to a Family of Domus Lat. a House Matrimonial Love as a loving Husband Matrimonialis Lat. of Marriage Lat. Matrimonium V. 333. From his Surmise prov'd false From his Opinion of us mistaken of Surmise Fr. an old disused word V. 336. Without exterior help sustain'd What is Faith Love or nicest Virtue to be valued while untried if not to be maintain'd without assistance of another Unassay'd Inessayè Fr. untry'd Exterior Lat. outward Sustain'd Soustenu Fr. supported of the Lat. Sustinere V. 339. To single or combin'd Let us not suspect our happy State to be left so imperfect and ill assured by God our wise Creator as not to be safe and out of danger when attempted either alone or together Singulus Lat. one Combin'd of Combinare Lat. to joyn together V. 342. Fervently Warmly concernedly of Fervere Lat. to wax warm Deficient Deficiens Lat. wanting V. 352. For what obeys Reason is free God endow'd Man with Free-will to listen to and obey the Dictates of right Reason without which he cannot be Master of his own Actions which are no otherwise his but by Election and Choice manifested and urged by God against Cain If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou do not well sin lieth at the door And unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him Gen. 4. 7. V. 353. And still Erect Reason ought to be watchful and standing on her Guard Erectus Lat. heedful V. 359. Firm we subsist c. Faithful thô yet we stand yet it is possible for us to stray Subsistere Lat. to stand to keep ones ground Swerve Swerven Belg. to go astray V. 361. Some specious Object suborn'd Something fair to appearance made use of by our Enemy to impose upon Reason our Guide Specious Speciosus Lat. fair plausible Suborn'd Subornare Lat. to instruct one how to deceive Deception Deceptio Lat. a Cheat. V. 366. Thou sever not If thou depart not from me Sever of the Ital. Scevrare Lat. Separare to separate Attest of Attestari Lat. to witness V. 373. Not Free absents the more For to stay against thy will is worse than thy Absence Absentare Lat. to withdraw V. 376. Thee Patriarch of Mankind So spake Adam the first great Father of Mankind Patriarch Bo. IV. Vers. 762. V. 377. Persisted yet submiss thô last c. But Eve unalter'd in Opinion meekly thus made reply Persisted of Persistere Lat. to stand firm to persist in ones Opinion Submiss Submissus Lat. gentle meek V. 387. Oread or Dryad Of Wood-Nymphs some took care of and were worship'd on the Mountains as the Oreades named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Mountain Quam mille secâ—tae Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades AEn 1. Others were called Dryades the Goddesses of Groves of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Oak She-Divinities that according to Pausanias were not esteem'd Immortal but of a Longevity equal to the Oaks they presided over Dryadum Sylvas saltusque sequamur Geo. 3. V. 388. But Delia's self surpass'd Delia. Diana the Heavenly Huntress Daughter of Jupiter and Latona named Delia of the Island Delos in the Egean Sea Illa pharetram Fert humero gradiensque deas supereminet omnes AEn 1. Borrow'd of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 392. Guiltless of Fire had form'd Such as Art simple and imperfect and which as yet had not profaned the Fire provided Fire which the Poets say Prometheus stole from Heaven Jove's Autbentic Fire Bo. IV. V. 719. was of so great use to Mankind and esteemed so Sacred that to employ it in forging destructive Arms was look'd on as a Profanation and Infection of its Purer Flame Hence the vast Veneration of the Romans for their Vestal Fire one of their Poets tells us Ast homini ferrum Lethale incude nefandâ Produxisse parum est cum rastra sarcula tantum Assueti coquere marris vomere lassi Nescierint primi gladios excudere fabri Juv. Sat. 15. And in the same Satyr speaking of Fire which he esteem'd of Kin to that Pure Etherial Element Hinc gaudere libet quod non violaverit ignem Quem summâ caeli raptum de parte Prometheus Donavit terris Elemento gratulor te Exultare reor Ibid. Rude Lat Rudis imperfect and unpolish'd V. 393. To Pales The Goddess of Shepherds and Pasturage celebrated by Virgil on that account Nunc veneranda Pales magno nunc ore sonandum Geo. 3. V. 394. Pomona when she fled Vertumnus Pomona the Goddess of Gardens Orchards and Fruit courted by many Admirers but obtain'd at last by Vertumnus
Incorporeal void of all Dimension Bo. 1. v. 793. V. 18. Where the Golden Altar fum'd And another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne And the smoak of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God Rev. 8. 3 4. Incense Bo. 9. v. 194. Fum'd smoaked of Fumare Lat. Intercessor Bo. 3. v. 219. V. 23. Implanted Grace From thy Grace rooted in his Heart Implantatus Lat. planted in Censer Incensoir Fr. an Instrument to burn Incense in ab Incendendo Lat. Manuring Bo. 4. v. 628. V. 33. His Advocate and Propitiation His Defence and Satisfaction let me expound his imperfect Prayers who am his Patron and Surety We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins 1 John 2. 1 2. Advocatus Lat. one that defends the Cause of his Client Propitiatio Lat. a satisfaction of Propitiare Lat. to appease V. 35. Or not good Ingraft A Gardening Metaphor used by St. Paul often Rom. 11. v. 17 19 23 c. place all his good Works or not good on me on my account my Merit shall compleat those and for the other my Death shall make satisfaction Ingraft of In and Greffer Fr. to put a slip of one Tree into another V. 38. The smell of Peace towards Mankind Accept me the Peace-offering for Mankind in me be reconciled to him The Peace-offering in the Levitical Law is frequently express'd by an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord Levit. 3. v. 5 16. and c. 4. v. 31. typifying that most acceptable Sacrifice of our Saviour who is our Peace Eph. 2. 14. Reconciled Reconciliatus Lat. restored to Favour His Days numbred his appointed Time short and sad Pauperis est numorare V. 41. To mitigate not to reverse Which I entreat to soften to render more easie not to repeal Mitigare Lat. to asswage To reverse as to reverse a Decree to make void a Sentence of Revertere quasi Retrovertere to abrogate V. 44. Made one with me c. That they may all be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one John 17. 21 22. V. 51. No Gross no unharmonious Mixture c. Those fine and undecaying Elements that in their mixture have no inequality or grossness will not endure him infected any longer but throw him off like a Disease The pure and well-proportioned Elements in Paradise and not improbably in all the World were so equally mix'd as to contribute to its Fruits Adam's Food that wholsom Temperament which was to have preserved him and his Posterity in an uninterrupted state of Health till it had pleased his Creator to have translated him Sinless into Heaven without tasting Corruption or seeing the Grave but having transgress'd he was to be driven out of that undecaying Garden into the distemper'd World to Air that now must suffer change to Earth affected with Cold and Heat scarce tolerable Bo. 10. v. 212 and 653. Gross to Air as gross and perishing Nourishment such as might introduce Decay and incline him daily to Dissolution and at last to Death Sins dire Distemper Gross thick foul Grosso Ital. of Crassus Lat. thick unfine Unharmonius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. disagreeing Eject of Ejicere Lat. to throw out Tainted Bo. 5. v. 704. Distemper disorder of Dis Negative and Trempe Fr. of Temperies Lat. the proportion and equality of Cold and Heat Dissolution Bo. 2. v. 127. V. 59. Happiness and Immortality God endowed Adam with two fair Gifts Happiness and Immortality not Absolute but depending on his Obedience Happy while obedient and Immortal while innocent because in a condition not to die But this possibility of Never Dying did not result from his Nature for by that he was Mortal and subject to Decay as living an Animal Life but had he kept his Innocence God would have so preserved and protected him that after a long Life here he would have translated him to immutable secure and unforfeitable Immortality in everlasting Bliss without passing through Corruption and the dark Grave as Enoch was that he might not see Death Heb. 11. 5. For had Man continued Sinless it is unimaginable how the World could have maintained if able to contain their vast Multitudes always here below Therefore Immortality imports a Longevity of undisturb'd Happiness and undistemper'd Health which should have transmitted Mankind into Heaven at God's appointed time But having lost his Happiness which depended on his Innocence Immortality would have proved a Punishment an everlasting Disease whose only Remedy and Cure is Death the Restorative of his Primitive State and Eternal Bliss Hence that of St. Paul To die is great gain Phil. 1. 21. Praeclusaque janua let i AEternum nostros luctus extendit in aevum Met. 1. Eternize of Eternare Lat. to make everlasting V. 63. Refin'd by Faith c. And after this Life spent in many Trials and sharp Afflictions and purified by Faith manifested by Works Death shall restore and give him up to a new and everlasting Life waked at the Resurrection of the Just Pure and Unspotted with Heaven and Earth renewed and refined by Fire Tribulation Bo. 3. v. 337. Refined Raffiné Fr. purged from his Dross A Metaphor from Metals by melting down Refined The fining pot for silver and the furnace for gold Prov. 17. 3. Refined is well applied to Afflictions and the Trials of this Life which our Saviour Typifies by Fire I am come to send fire on Earth Luke 12. 49. V. 65. The Renovation of the Just At the Resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. for as our Spiritual Resurrection from Sin here is frequently styled A putting off the old man and being renewed in the spirit of our minds Eph. 4. 22 23. So our Corporeal Resurrection at the last Day shall be a Renovation Renovatio Lat. a Renewing of our Mortal Bodies which shall then put on Immortality 1 Cor. 17. 53. V. 66. With Heaven and Earth renew'd I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Eph. 4. 22 23. Nevertheless according to his promise we look for new Heavens and a new Earth 2 Pet. 3. 13. Synod Bo. 2. v. 392. Peccant Peccans Lat. sinning of Peccare Lat. to offend V. 74. Heard in Horeb At the Promulgation of the Law Exod. 20. 18. And perhaps not to be heard again till the Day of Judgment When the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. Oreb Bo. 1. v. 7. Amarantinus Lat. of Amarant Bo. 3. v. 353. V. 79. By the Waters of Life The Lamb
Cloud opposite to him taking its Arch'd Figure from his circular Face is the general Opinion as has before been hinted The cause of its three most distinct Colours is thus assigned It s deep full Red proceeds of the Sun 's bright Beams reflected from the Clouds greatest opacity or thickness The Green of that part next to the most opace and the light Red Puniceus Colour of the thinnest and easiest pierc'd part of the Cloud Vall. de Sac. Phil. c. 9. Triple Book 5. vers 750. V. 897. And call to mind his Covenant And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth Gen. 9. 16. That the Rainbow was seen in the Clouds often before the Deluge is not to be doubted because its Natural Causes were then in being the Sun shining on opposite Clouds But God made choice of it for a sign of his Covenant with Noah and his Posteritp it being naturally the most fit and proper as the Token of decreasing Rain as never to be seen but when the Clouds are thin and the chearful Sun shines on them as Vallesius has well observed c. 9. Those that suppose the Rainbow was at God's Covenant with Noah first set in the Clouds are forc'd to believe that till the 600 years of his Life God had not caused it to rain on the Earth but water'd it with Mists or by overflowing of Rivers as Egypt by the Nile otherwise it must have been there before Of which Opinion among others the Learned Dr. Gregory seems to be ch 23. on Gen. 1. 7. V. 898. Day and Night Seed-time c. While the earth remaineth seed-time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease Gen. 8. 22. V. 899. Till Fire purge all things new Refining them like Gold by Fire at the last Day Wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 7. 12 83. This last Purgation by Fire is mistaken by Mr. Hog and odly render'd Lustralibus undis Cleansing Waters contrary to the plain words of our Poet and the express Promise made by Covenant with Noah NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK XII Verse 1. BAtes at Noon Refreshes himself with necessary Food To bate or rather bait is to feed of Baisse Belg. Meat Noon Ital. Nona Mid-day à nonâ diei horâ The ninth hour of the day at which the Romans used to eat Interpose Bo. 2. v. 737. Paus'd Bo. 5. v. 64. The first Five Verses of this Book are omitted by Mr. Hog in which thô the Simile be modern yet is it neither mean unseemly nor untractable in turning As one who in his Journey bates at Noon Thô bent on speed so here th' Archangel paus'd Betwixt the World destroy'd and World restor'd If Adam aught perhaps might interpose Then with Transition sweet new speech resumes Interrumpit iter medio ceu sole viator Accelerans licet ut victu vinoque refectus Sit potis exercere viam hîc Archangelus haesit Inter demersum medius mundumque renatum Forte rogaturo ceu responsurus Adamo Deinde habili nexu seriemque verba resumpsit V. 5. Then with Transition c. Then handsomly passing on the Archangel renew'd his Discourse Transition Transitio Lat. passing over or forward of Transire Lat. to go over used here for passing from one thing to another in discourse Relate Bo. 1. v. 746. Sours or Source Bo. 11. v. 169. V. 18. Labouring the Soil Ploughing the Earth Tilling the Ground of Laborare Lat. to take Pains with Hence Country Employments and Rural Business are by Virgil stiled Hominumque boumque labores Versando terram experti Geo. 1. Soil or Soyl Solum Lat. the Ground Ibid. Reaping plenteous Crop Gathering happy Harvests of Corn Wine Oyl Plenteous abounding of Plenus Lat. full Crop of the Verb to crop to gather Lat. Carpere Wine Vinum Lat. Oyl Oleum Lat. Paternal Bo. 6. v. 749. V. 26. With fair Equality c. Who not content to live in that equal condition which becomes Brethren That all Primitive and Natural Power was Paternal that is the Authority Fathers of Families had over their Descendents is undoubted whence the Head of every Tribe was its Patriarch governing all its Particulars for their common Peace and mutual Support according to the Dictate of right Reason the Law of Nature under whom all the easie Subjects were of the same common size and equal condition as being Brethren Which is evident from Holy Writ where Noah who was the Universal Patriarch of Mankind after the Flood as Adam was before it denounc'd the Dominion of Brethren over one another as a Curse on the Posterity of wicked Cham. Cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren Gen. 9. 25. Equality AEqualitas Lat. likeness of Condition Fraternal Fraternalis Lat. of a Brother V. 27. Will arrogate Dominion Will take upon himself undeserv'd Power Not deserv'd by him as more Worthy Wise or Virtuous than his Brethren over whom he shall usurp this unjust Authority Arrogate Arrogare Lat. to lay claim to to assume Dominion Book 2. v. 978. V. 29. Concord and Law of Nature Utterly displace peaceful Agreement founded on Nature's Laws The Law of Nature is thas Rule of Rectitude which God has implanted in the very Nature of Man resulting from his Reason known to all and obliging all Mankind Lex est naturae vis mens ratio prudentis Juris atque Injuriae regula Non scripta lex sed nata quam non didicimus accepimus legimus verum ex naturà ipsâ arripuimus hausimus expressimus ad quam non decti sed facti non instituti sed imbuti sumus As Cicero excellently Pro Mile Dispossess Desposseder Fr. to put out of Possession of the Privative Dis and Possidere Lat. to enjoy to use Concord Bo. 2. v. 498. V. 30. Hunting and Men not Beasts This proud ambitious Man is by Holy Scripture stiled A mighty hunter Gen. 10. 9. Hunting being a Preparatory Exercise both as to the Fatigue and Fury of the War a Preliminay to the slaughter of Mankind by that of Wild Beasts As Xenophon observes in the first Book of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 34. Before the Lord Gen. 10. 9. So famous for his Power that he became Proverbial Most Interpreters take the words Before the Lord in the worst sense as our Author does In despite of Heaven others expound 'em Under Heaven from Heaven claiming second Sovereignty taking upon himself all Authority next under God Nimrod says St. Hierom arripuit insuetam primus in populos tyranidem In traditi Hebr. in Gen. Despite Bo. 10. v. 1044. Tyrannous Tyrannicus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
here Postponed by a Day twice as long as ordinary Was not one Day as long as two As this Miracle is Descanted on Eccles. 46. 4. Recorded Josu 10. 12 and 13. V. 265. Sun in Gibeon stand c. The Word of Command given to the restless Sun Jos. 13. 12. V. 267. Israel third from Abraham Son Isaac Abraham's Grandson was first named Jacob 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. a Deceiver a Supplanter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. a Heel because by taking hold of his Brother Esau by that part he strugled with him for Precedence in his Mothers Womb Gen. 2 26. Afterwards wrestling with God's Angel he was by him named Israel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be a Prince to be Powerful and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God For as a Prince hast thou Power with God and with Men and hast prevailed Gen. 32. 28. Both which are Recorded together by Hosea He took his Brother by the Heel in the Womb and by his strength he had Power with God yea he had Power over the Angel and prevailed c. 12. 3 and 4. From this new Name all his Descendents the Chosen Seed God's People were Named the Children of Israel and Israelites Descent Descensus Lat. Posterity V. 274. First mine Eyes true opening Relating to that false Promise made Adam by the lying Serpent Your Eyes shall be opened Gen. 3. 5. so does what follows Forbidden Knowledge by forbidden means relate to the same Text and his Transgression V. 288. Law was given to evince their Natural Pravity The Law of God was given to convince us like a Rule of the Crookedness and many Deviations of our depraved Nature For by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin Rom. 3. 20. Where no Law is there is no Transgression Chap. 4. 15. And in many other places of that Epistle Wherefore then serveth the Law It was added because of Transgressions Galat. 3. 19. Evincere Lat. to prove V. 289. Sin against Law to Fight Moreover the Law enter'd that the offence might abound Rom. 5. 20. Of the terrible Conflict between Sin and Law St. Paul gives a lively Idea his Soul being the place of Combat I see another Law in my Members warring against the Law of my Mind and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin which is in my Members Rom. 7. 23. Pravity Pravitas Lat. Crookedness and Wickedness V. 290. Law can discover Sin Sin by the Commandment becoming exceeding Sinful as St. Paul Rom. 7. 13. was to be expiated by the Sacrifices of Bulls and Goats according to the Mosaic Institution under the Law So that without shedding of Blood there was no Remission Heb. 9. 22. These Types and weak Shadows of Expiation and Pardon were to inform Mankind of some Sacrifice of more absolute Satisfaction of the Just for the Unjust Jesus Christ who not by the Blood of Goats and Calves but by his own Blood enter'd once into the holy place having obtained Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12. Expiatio Lat. a cleansing by Sacrifice thence Pardon V. 295. To them by Faith imputed That Christ Righteousness and Satisfaction being by Faith made and reckon'd as their own c. By the Righteousness of one came the Free-Gift upon all Men unto Justification of Life by the Obedience of one shall many be made Righteous Rom. 5. 18 and 19. Therefore being justified by Faith we have Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ v. 1. V. 298. Nor Man the Moral part perform No Man is able to keep God's Commandments call'd the Decalogue or Moral Law Therefore by the Deeds of the Law there shall no Flesh be justified in his sight Rom. 3. 20. From which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 13. 39. Moralis Lat. appertaining to Manners V. 300. So Law appears imperfect for the Law made nothing perfect Heb. 7. 19. V. 303. From Shadowy Types to Truth From the Types and Shadows of the Legal Sacrifices to Christs real Satisfaction From the Law having a shadow of good things to come Heb. 10. 1. To Grace given by Jesus who fulfill'd all Righteousness Matth. 3. 15. V. 305. To free acceptance of large Grace c. Much more the Grace of God and the Gift by Grace by one Man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many The Freegift is of many Offences untó Justification Rom. 5. 15 and 16. V. 306. Works of Law c. By what Law of Works Nay but by the Law of Faith Rom. 3. 27. V. 307. Shall not Moses lead his People into Canaan Moses Died in Mount Nebo in the Land of Moab from whence he had the prospect of the Promised Land but not the honour of leading the Israelites in to possess it which was reserved for Joshuah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Jesus a Saviour of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hiph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to save Deut. 34. 1. Jos. 1. 2. Commentators on the Death of Aaron in Mount Hor Numb 20. 28. Remark that neither Mariam that is the Prophets nor Araon the Priests nor Moses the Deliverer of the Law but Josuah that is Jesus Christ was able to lead Gods People into the Promised Land to Heaven and Everlasting Bliss St. Jerom. Theod. Rabanus c. V. 320. By Judges first Such as were Othoniel Deborah Gideon Jeptha Sampsen Eli Samuel Recorded in the Book of Judges and Samuel V. 324. His Regal Throne for ever c. Thy House and thy Kingdom shall be establisht for ever before thee Thy Throne shall be Establisht for ever 2 Sam. 7. 16. V. 326. That of the Royal Stock of David c. I have found David my Servant with my Holy Oil have I anointed him Thou art my Father c I will make him my first Bern higher than the Kings of the Earth His Seed will I make to endure for ever And his Throne as the days of Heaven Psal. 89. 20. 26. 29. Interpreted of our Saviour Heb. 1. As the sure Mercies of David Esa. 55. 5. are also apply'd to him Acts 13. 34. David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Beloved He that is feeble among them shall be as David and the House of David as God as the Angel of God before them Zechar. 12. 6. V. 329. Shall trust all Nations There shall be a Root of Jesse and he shall rise to rule over the Gentiles in him shall the Gentiles trust Esai 11. 10. Acts 15. 12. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust Matth. 12. 21. V. 330. For of his Reign no end He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Luk. 1. 32. and 33. V. 332. His next Son for Wealth and Wisdom c. Solomon to whom God gave a Wise and an Understanding Heart
Impious Evasion of those that say Accusandum potius Auctorem siderum quam Commissorem scelerum Ibid. The Strength of Gods The Vigour and Power of Angels or Angels themselves after the Grecian manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Priam himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bring Priam with you that he himself may swear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Strength of Hector 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom Virg. imitates Vimquo Deûm Infernam AEn 12. the Infernal Gods V. 117. This Empyreal Substance This Heavenly Being this glorious shining Substance from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 burning like Fire hence Coelum Empyraeum the Firmament adorned with Everlasting Lamps V. 122. Irreconcileable Not to be made Friends implacable Irreconciliabilis Lat. not to be appeased V. 123. Who now Triumphs of the Lat. Triumphare to ride in Pomp after a Conquest made Excess of Excessus Lat. abundance overmuch V. 124. Sole reigning c. Reigning without a Rival is absolute above Sole of Solus Lat. alone without any Companion or Competitor of his Power Ibid. Holds the Tyranny Exerts his Arbitrary Power on high 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for Government is most commonly expressive of an unjust and cruel Domination so it s Derivative Tyrannus is by Plato Isâ—crates and the Greek Tragedians used for a good Prince by Virg. in both senses Pars mihi pacis erit dextram tetigisse Tyranni of AEneas AEn 7. and Odium crudele Tyranni of Pigmalion AEn 1. V. 125. Th'Apostate Angel The Disloyal the Desertor fallen from his Faith and Allegiance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Renegado from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to stand on the other side one who quits his Party and runs over to the Enemy V. 126. Vaunting aloud c. Though in torment making vain boastings from Vanter Fr. to brag Ibid. Rackt Tormented and torn in pieces by dire Despair that rackt his Soul Curisque ingentibus aeger Spem vultu simulat premit altum corde dolorem AEn 1. Soft and expressive of a less-sized Sorrow V. 127. Compeer Companion Mate Compar Lat. a Second V. 128. Chief of many Throned O Leader of many mighty Angels that heretofore in Heaven sat on Thrones Angels and Superior Beings are in Scripture exprest by Powers and Thrones 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Colos. 1. 16. V. 129. Th'Imbattell'd Seraphim Th'Embodyed Angels th'Array'd Angelick Armies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seraphim is the usual Appellation given the Angels Isai. 6. 2. where they are described attending on Gods Throne 'T is a Derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to burn or flame like Fire alluding to the brightness of those Celestial Beings or to their wonderful Activity as Psal. 104 â— Making his Angels Spirits his Ministers a flame of Fire V. 130. Under thy Conduct Under thy Care and Guidance from Conductus Lat. V. 131. Heav'ns Perpetual King God Almighty the Everlasting Ruler in Heaven Perpetuus Lat. Beelzebub here diminisheth as much as he may of Gods Everlasting Empire not styling him Heavens Eternal but Perpetual King a word not of so Comprehensive Signiâ—cancy V. 132. To proof his high Supremacy Made tryal of his Title to that vast and absolute Dominion he assumed unto himself whether supported by his mighty Power by Fortune or the Fates Supremacy absolute Power from Supremus Lat. Highest God's frequent Title in the Scripture being the Most High V. 134. Rue the dire Event Lament the sad Success from the Ger. Rew to repent of perhaps of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bewail Event Consequence Success Eventus Lat. from evenire to happen to come to pass V. 138. Heavenly Essences Spirits Angelick Beings Inhabitants of Heaven Essentia Lat. the Being and Existence of any thing He arrogantly calls his Fellow-Subjects Gods in Derogation of the one Almighty V. 140. Invincible and Vigour For the Mind and Soul remain unconquerable and Strength and Courage are soon recovered Invincibilis Lat. Vigor Lat. Courage V. 141. Though all our Glory extinct Notwithstanding all our Glory be decayed and lost Extinct Extinctus Lat. put out as a Flame or any thing that burns and shines a word well expressing the loss of that Angelick Beauty which like a Glory attended on their Innocency which by their foul Rebellion they had forfeited covered now with Shame and black Confusion Extinctus is used in the same Metaphorical manner by Virg. Te prâ—pter eundem Extinctus pader AEn 4. V. 148. Suffice his Vengeful Ire That we may be able long to suffer and endure his Revenging Wrath Vengeful Vindicative from Venger Fr. to revenge Ire an old word for Anger from Ira Lat. V. 149. Thralls An old Danish word for Slaves or Captives V. 152. His Errands His Messages Sax. Erend a Messenger ab errando journeying to and fro Ibid. In the gloomy Deep In the obscure the dark Abyss an Interval our Poet supposes between Heaven and Hell corresponding well enough with Virgils Pallentes umbras Erebi noctemque profundam AEn 4. Gloomy from Sax. Glommun Twilight V. 153. Wâ—at can it then avail What does it profit or advantage us Valere Lat. to help or conduce to V. 154. Strength undiminish'd Our Vigour unabated Indiminutus Lat. unbroken What will all our Strength unbroken and undecayed nay our Everlasting Being what will these avail us if given us only to encrease our Woes by undergoing Everlasting Punishment A Question that startles Satan and to which he makes a quick Reply V. 156. Arch-Fiend The chief Devil Satan our chief Enemy Fiend Sax. an adversary V. 157. Fall'n Cherube Laps'd Angel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Rabbins is a Human Shape with two Wings placed over the Mercy-Seat of the Ark of the Covenant Exod. 25. 18 19. representing the Invisible Angels and Moses by this word expresseth the Angelick Guard placed before Paradise after Adam's Expulsion Gen. 3. 24. Ibid. To be weak is miserable To faint in undertaking or sink in undergoing what may happen is to be wretched Superanda est omnis fortuna ferendo Virg. Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest Mart. V. 164. To pervert that end To cross and thwart that Design Pervertere Lat. â—o turn aside to put out of the way V. 167. And disturb his inmost Counsels c. And make his most secret Deliberations miscarry and fall short of their designed end Disturb from disturbo Lat. to throw down to hinder Destino Lat. to appoint to design V. 169. But see so Virg. Quos ego Sed moâ—os prastat Componere flactus AEn 1. V. 170. His Ministers of Vengeance The Executioners of his Anger who pursued us Minister Lat. Servant Vengeance Fr. Revenge Ibid. Pursuit Fr. Poursuitte The Chase pursuing of an Enemy V. 171. The Sulphurous Hail The Storm of Fiery Hail that beat so sore upon us is now blown o'er and these Flaming Waves into whose Boyling Bosom from Heavens Loâ—ty Towers we fell begin t' abate and the Thunder riding upon the Wings of
ruddy Lightning and stoâ—my Rage perhaps exhausted of its Shafts begins to give over Roaring and Bellowing through the void Immense Sulphureuâ— Lat made of Brimstone Upon the Wicked he shall rain Snares Fire and Brimstone and stormy Tempest Psal. 11. 5. V. 173. The Fiery Surge The Flaming Flood Surge a Wave à Surgendo from their rising and riding over one another Ibid. That from the Precipice That in our steep downfal from Heaven received us Pracipitium Lat. a direct steep downfal V. 175. Wing'd with Red Lightning The Poets give the Thunder Wings to denote its swiftness and suddenness Fulminis Ocyor alis AEn 5. and Virg. describing the Cyclâ—ps forging a Thunderbolt Radios Addiderant rutili tres ignis alitis Austri Fulgores nunc terrificos sonitumque metu nque Miscelant operi flammisque sequacibus Iras. AEn 8. A Noble Description yet is our Poet very short and very significant Impetuous Impetuus Lat. violent stormy V. 179. Or satiate Fury Or his Anger now allay'd his Rage appeased Satiatus Lat. full cloy'd satisfied V. 180. Yâ—n Dreary That dismal woful an old Sax. word Yon that Sax. Ibid. Forlorn Waste destroy'd Verlohren Ger spoil'd lost whence the Forlorn Hope from the eminent danger they are exposed to V. 181. The Seat of Desolation That lonely solitary Seat destitute of any living Creature but our wretched selves Desolatio Lat. a laying waste Ibid. Void of Light Without Light dark Unide Fr. from Vacuus Lat. empty V. 182. Save what the Glimmering c. Except what th' obscure Glimpses of those Pale Flames Casts faint and fearful Glimmering a faint feeble shining like that of the Twilight from the Danish Glimmer to shine a little Livid Lividus Lat. for Lead-colour or that of bruised Flesh. Virg. styles the Water of Cocytus one of the Poetick Rivers in Hell Vada Livida AEn 6. This is an exact Explanation of our Poets meaning by Darkness visible in the foregoing Description of Hell V. 63. and is a wonderful addition to it V. 183. Tend Go Tendo Lat. to go to remove Tendimus in Latium AEn 1. V. 185. Can harbour there Can dwell is to be found there Hauberge Fr. an inn a place to stay at or from the Ger. Here an Army and Bergen to cover signifying properly the station of an Army V. 186. Our afflicted Powers Our broken and beaten Forces Afflictus Lat. broken harrass'd V. 187. Consult Consider of Consulo Lat. to advise about V. 189. This dire Calamity This sad Affliction and Overthrow Calamitas Lat. Damage Adversity V. 190. What Reinforcement What Reparation what new Strength and Courage we may gain from hope Renforcer Fr. to strengthen again to inspirit and add new Vigour to V. 192. Mate Companion from Maet Beâ—g an Associate V. 194. That Sparkling blazed That shot forth Fire and blazed out like a Flame Blaze from Blase Sax. a Torch V. 195. Prone on the Flood Lying along upon the flaming Flood Pronus Lat. lying down both from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cecidit autem Pronus Iâ— E. Ibid. Extended Extentus Lat. stretcht out in length and breadth V. 169. Lay floating many a Rood Cover'd a mighty space Rodata terrae as the Law terms it is the fourth part of an Acre Ibid. In bulk as huge For size as large Bulk signifies Greatness Thickness Largeness according to all Dimensions from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. weight Hugh vastly great from Oga Sax. terror fright as hugy terrible big V. 197. As whom the Fables Satan was of a size as vastly big as any of the Giant-Sons of Earth Briarcos or Typhon who as the Poets relate made War on Jove The Fables Name of whom the Stories are told Fabula Lat. a Tale a Fiction Ibid. Monstrous Wonderful Monstrosus Lat. strange preternatural V. 198. Titanian or Earth-born The last explains the first as is evident Genus antiquâ—un terrae Titania Pubes AEn 6. The Poets tell us Coelus and Vesta had two remarkable Sons Titan and Saturn this the youngest was permitted to Reign on condition he should destroy all his Male Children that the Empire might revert to Titan and his Posterity But the Cheat of Nursing Jove in Crete being discovered Titan and his Sons made War upon Saturn and deposed him To his Fathers rescue came Jupin overthrew the Titans and soon after deprived his Father of his Kingdom Vesta the Earth concerned at the Destruction of her Sons brought forth and raised against Jupiter many hideous Monsters of vast bigness who Rendezvousing in Thessaly piled the Mountains one upon another till they gave Jupiter a terrible Scalado at Heaven-Gates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Affectasse ferunt Regnum Coeleste Gigantes Aitaque Congestos struxisse ad sydera montes Meta. 1. Et conjuratos Coelum rescindere Fratres Ter sunt conati impâ—nere Pelio Ossam Georg. 1. V. 199. Briareos was one of these Earth-born Boobies he had 100 Hands with which he hurl'd up great Rocks at Jupiter therefore styled by Virg. Centum Geminus Briareus AEn 6. Ibid. Typhen who had his Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to smoak was of all these Monsters the most dreadful therefore reported the Son of Earth and Hell His Stature was so prodigious his Knees reach'd above the highest Mountains He had 100 Dragons Heads vomiting perpetual Fire and Flame at such a rate that all the Gods who came to Jupiter's Assistance finding such hot Work on 't ran shamefully away into Egypt disguising themselves there in the shapes of divers Beasts c. However with much to do at length Jupiter with many Volley of his Thunder overbore him and buried him under the Isle of Sicile as Ovâ—â— relates Emissumque unâ de sede Typhoëa terrae Coelitibus fecisse metum Metam l. 5. Vasta Gigantaeis injecta est Insula Membris Trinacris Magnis subjectum molibus urget AEtherias ausum sperare Typhoëa sedes In Memory of this Victory of Jupiters Virgil calls his Thunder Tela Typhoëa AEn 1. Nec tam justa fuit Terrarum Gloria Typhon c. Luc. 1. 4. V. 200. By Ancient Tarsus the chief City of Cilicia in Asia the Lesser near which in the Mountain Arimus was a Cave call'd Typhon's Den. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Translated by Virg. Durumque Cubile Inarime Jovis Imperiis Imposta Typhoëo AEn 9. Where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is made Inarime an Island Southward of Prochyta which is a Mountain in Cilicia V. 201. Leviathan The Whale 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. excellently described Job 41. 9. His Neisings make the Light to shine his Eyes are like the Eyelids of the Morn out of his Mouth go Lamps and Sparks of Fire So that Satans Blazing Eyes came up to the Comparison After this he that has a mind to read Tasso's Description of Satan may find it Cant. 4. Stan. 6 7 8. Nè tanto scoglio in mar ne rupe Alpestra Ne pur Calpe