Perswaded our great Ancestors our Progenitors the first of Human Kind Adam and Eve Grand Fr. Great Parens Lat. Father V. 32. For one restraint For the Fruit of one Tree forbidden Lords of the World besides Words highly aggravating the Crime of our first Parents who having all the World at will could not undergo one restraint laid by their Mighty Maker on their Sensual Appetite as a tryal of their Homage and Obedience to him who had made 'em Lords of the World and all the Creatures in it for this prohibited Tree had probably nothing in it more alluring to sight or savour than many others left free and open to enjoyment Gen. 2. 16 and 17. V. 33. Who first seduc'd them Who first mislead them to the base Rebellion another Imitation of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seduco Lat. to lead astray to deceive Revolte Fr. Rebellion V. 34. Th' Infernal Serpent The Devil who entred into the Serpent and actuating his Organs deceiv'd our Mother Eve therefore call'd the Old Serpent Revel 12. 9. Moses in the Relation of Satan's Attempt takes no notice of the Arch Fiend but barely reports the Matter of Fact the Serpent entertaining and tempting Eve who discovered not the fly Seducer Gen. 3. 1. He relates but does not interpret So Gen. 18. 3. the Angels entertained by Abraham are call'd Men because such in outward appearance Moses Barcephas Chap. 27. de Parad. affirms it was not so much out of choice as meer necessity that Satan entred into the Serpent God permitting him to make use of no other Animal that Eve might be the more amazed and startled at so strange and bold an attempt from such a base and creeping Worm and with the greater horrour detest and tremble at the Temptation urged by so vile a Creature against the express Command of her Creator This Old Serpent imposed long after upon the Grecians and Romans in the same shape the later of which sending to Epidaurus for Esculapius a Grecian God to stop the Plague that had almost desolated their City the Serpent in the form he was there worship'd is said to have followed the Ambassadors of its own accord into the Ship that transported it to Rome where it was inshrined in a Temple built in the Isle of Tiberina Val. Max. l. 1. c. 6. Read the end of Metamorph. l. 15. Ibid. Infernal Infernalis Lat. Hellish Serpens Lat. à Serpendo from creeping Ibid. Whose Guile Whose Craft and Cunning an old word from the Fr. Guille deceive Originally from the Sax. Galian to bewitch or inchant V. 36. The Mother of Mankind Eve from whom the whole Race of Mankind derive their being Gen. 3. 20. V. 37. With all his Host With his whole Power with all his Army Host or Ost an old Fr. word for an Army from Hostis Lat. Enemy because prepared against such Of rebel-Rebel-Angels of Disobedient Spirits Angel of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Messenger V. 38. By whose Aid aspiring By whose Assistance endeavouring Aspiro Lat. to attempt V. 39. Above his Peers Above his Equals Pares Lat. for the Fr. Pairs and our Peers V. 42. Against the Monarchy of God Against the Sovereignty of Heaven the Absolute Government of God Almighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Supreme Power placed in a single Person from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality Rule V. 44. Th' Almighty Power God Almighty well express'd by the boundless and infinite Power he has to do whatever pleaseth him V. 45. From th' Etherial Skie From the Lofty Firmament out of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 belonging to the AEther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used by the Poets for the Habitation of the Gods Cui Rex AEtherei breviter sic fatur Olympi AEn 10. V. 46. With hideous Ruine c. With terrible Destruction and everlasting Burnings threw headlong flaming out of Heaven down to endless Desolation Hideux Fr. frightful Ruina Lat. downfal Perditio Lat. Destruction Combustion Burning Lat. Combustio Whether Angels were Created before or with the World no Text of Holy Writ that I know does declare St. Austin affirms the later in l. 11. c. 32. de Civit. Dei But Theod. in 3 q. sup Gen. after he has endeavour'd to support the same Opinion concludes Illud porro scire necesse est omnia quaecunque Extant exceptâ Sanctâ Trinitate Naturam habere Creationi obnoxiam hoc autem concesso siquis Angelorum turbas ante Coelum Terram conditas esse di xerit non offendet verbum Pietatis That Angels were Created concurrently with the World the Lateran Council conceives because there could be no place of Destruction no Hell to hurl the offending Spirits into before there was any place in Nature Everlasting Fire being said to be prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. But our Narrow Capacities are in no proportion to the Compass of the Creation Of the Rebellion and Overthrow of these wicked Spirits in Heaven and of their Expulsion thence we read Revel 12. 7 8 9. whose defeat for their Pride and Disobedience most probably was not unrevealed to Adam by so terrible an Example to fright him from offending his Maker and to determine him more stedfast and unshaken in his Duty V. 48. In Adamantine Chains c. In Bonds Eternal and afflicting Fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made of Adamant so Hor. Figit Adamantinos dira necessitas Clavos a Stone so named of its hardness from the Privatives A and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to tame as hardly to be cut by any Tool Thus Virgil describes one of the Gates of Hell Porta adversa ingens solidoque Adamante Columnae Ut vis nulla virûm non ipsi exscindere ferro Coelicolae valeant AEn l. 5. Durum vinclis Adamanta Lu. l. 6. Ibid Penal Poenalis Lat. painful torturing from Poena punishment V. 49. Omnipotent Almighty Lat. Omnipotens V. 50. Nine times the space A certain for an uncertain time is usual with the Poets who are fond of the Number Nine whether in respect to that of the Muses or as being the Square of the Ternary made famous by Pythagoras and by Aristot. and Plutar. styled the most excellent of all Numbers as containing in it self the beginning middle and end to Christians much more renown'd as expressive of the Mysterious Trinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which last Virg. imitates Jamque dies epulata novem Gensomnis AE l. 5. V. 52. In the Fiery Gulf In the Flaming Flood from the It. Golf◠and that perhaps from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sinus Maris or from the Lat. Gula because like a Whirlpool it swallows up every thing V. 55. Of lost Happiness According to the received Opinion that the Torments of the Damned consist in poena damni the loss of the Beatifick Vision of God in whose presence are pleasures for evermore as well as
341. God shall be all in all According to 1 Cor. 15. v. 24 25 and 28. Then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all Ibid. All ye Gods adore him Worship him all ye Angels the Powers and Principalities of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hebrew word Gods is generally understood in Scripture of Idols or Angels as Psal. 97. 7. Worship him all ye Gods Translated by the Latin all ye Angels and in the Hebrews ch 1. v. 6. where this very Text is quoted it is expressed by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Psal. 95. 3. A great King above all Gods Which Title also is bestowed in holy Writ on Princes as God's Vicegerents I have said ye are Gods Psal. 82. 6. Alledged by our Saviour himself John 10. 34. V. 342. Who to compass all this dies Who yields himself up to Death to bring all this to pass O faelix-culpa quae talem ac tantum meruerit habere Redemptorem Greg. Our Author has been entertaining us for 264 Lines with a Discourse of the highest Nature as the Mysteries of God's Mercy and Justice to Mankind of Free-will of the inconceivable Incarnation of his Son and all the nicest Points of Faith And has acquitted himself of this great Undertaking as well as is possible for Human Understanding to do in things so much exceeding the compass of our Capacities He has kept close to the Revelations of Holy Writ as appears by the Quotations vouching each Verse Homer instead of Treating the Deities of his Days with any tolerable Decency makes them Quarrelsome Vulnerable and of a Behaviour below that of a Stoic Philosopher as is frequent through all his Iliads His Venus stands with a Fly-flap in her hand to keep the corrupting Insects from infecting the Corps of her Son 's dead Favourite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Virgil thô less blameable gives the same Goddess the weakness of Weeping Lacrymis cculos suffusa nitentes AEn 1. And the Character of his Juno is very angry and spiteful Nec dum enim causae irarum saevique dolores Exciderant animo manâ—t altâ mente repostum Judicium Paridis spretaeque injuria formae AEn 1. And he styles her frequently Saeva Jovis conjux and there is so bitter an Altercation between her and Venus AEn 10. that enraged Jupiter is forced to end it by swearing he will take neither of their Parts The Parallel therefore as to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of these Poems and our Authors is infinitely to his advantage V. 348. With Jubilee With great shouts of Joy and Rejoycing from Jubilare Lat. to rejoyce a Word that probably enough derives its Original of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Year of Jubilee Celebrated with extraordinary Rejoycings every Fiftieth Year by the Jews when every Man was restored to his former Estate and Liberty of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Ram because proclaimed by the sound of those Creatures Horns on the 10th day of the 7th Month. Levit. 25. 9. Ibid. And loud Hosanna's Songs of Salvation and Deliverance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 21. 9 15. Mark 11. 9 10. and John 12. 13. the joyful Exclamations and Prophetic Exultations made not only by a great multitude of Men but even by Children at our Saviour's riding into Jerusalem the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Save us of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to save and deliver An exstatic Confession of the Saviour of the World even by those who believed not in him V. 352. Down they cast their Crowns Agreeing with Rev. 4. 10. The twenty four Elders fall down before him that sate on the Throne and worship him that liveth for ever and cast their Crowns before the Throne V. 353. Immortal Amarant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for unfading that decayeth not a Flower of a Purple Velvet Colour which thô gathered keeps its Beauty and when all other Flowers fade recovers its Lustre by being sprinkled with a little Water as Pliny affirms Lib. 21. c. 11. Our Author seems to have taken this hint from 1 Pet. 5. 4. To an Inheritance incorruptible undefil'd and that fadeth not away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 1 Pet. 1. 4. Ye shall receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both relating to the name of his everlasting Amarant which he has set finely near the Tree of Life Immortal Amarant Job asks in ch 27. v. 24. Doth the Crown endure from Generation to Generation That is Is the Crown Eternal The Greek has it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Immarcessible Amarantus Flos Symbolum est Immortalitatis Clem. Alex. Paedag. l. 2. c. 8. V. 356. Where first it grew If there be any such immortal unfading Flower it must grow in Heaven for all Things beneath are subject to change and decay and it is as true that there is nothing Everlasting as that there is nothing New under the Sun V. 358. Where the River of Bliss The abundant Happiness and immortal Joys of Heaven are in Scripture generally expressed by the Fountain of Life and Rivers of Pleasure So Thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures for with thee is the Fountain of Life Psal. 36. v. 8 and 9. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living Fountains of Waters Revel 7. 17. And he shewed me a pure River of Water of Life clear as Chrystal ch 21. v. 1. V. 359. Rouls o'rè Elizian Flowers The Elizium Fields were the imaginary happy Regions where the Souls of good Men that had passed through Life with the least Infection after a Purgation by Water Wind or Fire according to the foulness of their Faults enjoyed pure and everlasting Ease hence the Papists borrowed their Heathen Purgatory as is evident from Virgil Ergo exercentur paenis veterumque malorum Supplicia expendunt Aliae panduntur inanes Suspensae ad ventos aliis subgurgite vasto Iafectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni Quisque suâ—s patimur manes Ex inde per amplum Mittitur Elysium AEn 6. Much Dispute has been about the Situation of these delightful Fields Virgil places them beneath in the Neighbourhood of his Place of Purgation AEneas and his Guide after they had passed by the dreadful Place of Punishment Devenere lucos laetos amaena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas AEn 6. Others have placed this blest Abode in the Fortunate Islands the Canaries and such might interpret our Author's Amber Stream according to the Letter Others fancy it in the Moon 's Silver Fields some in the quiet Sedate Region of the Air in the middle between Heaven and Earth AEris in campis latis AEn 6. Homer placed it in Spain near Gades now Cales 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
him Psal. 97. 2. The House was filled with the Cloud and the Court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory Ezekiel's Vision ch 10. v. 4. He holdeth back the face of his Throne and spreadeth his Cloud upon it Job 26. 9. V. 380. Dark with excessive Bright The excessive Brightness amazing and astonishing all created Sight to that degree that Darkness and Confusion seizes all approaching Eyes He that will stedfastly behold the Sun will in a short time make the dazling Experiment end in Darkness not soon recovered How impossible therefore is it for human Eyes to behold him Who is cloathed with Honour and Majesty who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment Psal. 104. v. 1 2 Our blessed Saviour's Face in his Transfiguration in the Mount thô the full blaze of his Glory was shaded by a shrine of Flesh did shine as the Sun and his Rayment was white as the Light Matth. 17. 2. His Countenance was as the Sun shineth in his strength Rev. 1. 16. Ibid. Thy Skirts appear The borders of thy shining Shrine Read Isaiah's Vision ch 6. I saw also the Lord sitting upon a Throne high and lifted up and his Skirts filled the Temple To which our Author seems to have had respect in this noble description of God's Glorious Majesty Excessivus Lat. boundless V. 382. With both Wings veil their Eyes According to the description of God's Throne by the Prophet Isaiah And about it stood the Seraphims each one had six Wings with two he covered his face c. Isa. 25. 2. V. 383. Of all Creation first According to our Creed The onely begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all Worlds of whom David says The dew of thy birth is from the womb of the morning Psal. 110. 3. before the World or Light that distinguished Morn from Evening were brought forth of the Womb of the Creation Who is the image of the invisible God the first-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. V. 384. Divine Similitude Exact Resemblance of the Divinity God of God Light of Light very God of very God Nicene Creed Similitudo Lat. likeness V. 385. Without Cloud th' Almighty Father shines The Law at its Promulgation by Moses was delivered with Thunders and Lightenings great Earthquakes and Terrors and Mount Sinai was covered with a Cloud Exod. 19. v. 9 and 16. I come unto thee in a cloud there were thunders and lightenings and a thick cloud upon the Mount and the whole Mount Sinai quaked greatly But when our Saviour appeared the Cloud was removed That the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God might shine unto Believers For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. v. 4 and 6. V. 387. No Creature can behold No man hath seen God at any time the onely begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him John 1. 18. No man hath ascended up into Heaven but he that came down from Heaven even the Son of Man which is in Heaven John 3. 13. Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. Now the Righteousness of the best of Mankind being but as filthy Rags it must be the imputative Holiness of Jesus Christ that must qualifie and enable us to behold the Lord of Glory V. 388. Imprest the Effulgence Stamp'd upon thee the brightness of his Glory dwells Imprest Impressus Lat stamp'd printed graven as Cratera impressum signis AEn 5. Effulgence brightness of Effulgere Lat. to shine bright Who being the brightness of his Glory and the express image of his Person Heb. 1. 3. And we beheld his Glory the Glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father John 1. 14. V. 389. Transfus'd on thee c. Poured out on thee according to those many Prophecies fulfilled visibly at his Baptism by St. John And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him Isa. 11. 2. I have put my Spirit upon him Isa. 42. 1. And lo the Heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lightening upon him Matth. 3. 16. And John bare record saying I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a Dove and it abode upon him John 1. 32. Transfus'd Transfusus Lat. poured out Amplus Lat. large mighty V. 390. He Heaven of Heavens c. God created the World and the Heavens and all their high Inhabitants by his Son the Word of his Power All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made He was in the World and the World was made by him John 1. v. 3 10. For by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by him and for him Coloss. 1. 16. V. 391. By thee threw down the aspiring Dominations By thee cast down into Hell the ambitious Angels God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2. 4. The Angels which kept not their first estate but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day Jude 1. 6. Dominatio Lat. Power Authority as the Angels are styled Coloss. 1. 16. quoted at V. 390. V. 394. That shook Heaven's everlasting Frame Well might God's flaming Chariot loaden with Almighty Vengeance shake Heaven's everlasting Basis Whose Pillars tremble and are astonished at his Reproof Job 16. 11. Juno giving her self but a jogg on her Throne shook the wide Olympus the Homeric Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter when in good humour does as much Annuit totum nutu tremefecit Olympum AEn 9. How much more true is that of the Almighty He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the Hills and they smoak Psal. 104. 32. V. 396. Angels disarray'd Disordered and put to the rout Disarray'd Desarroyer Fr. disordered of the old Fr. word Arroy the Equipage and Order belonging to Soldiers hence in our Law-Books Arrayer Arraiatores were such as had Commissions of Array to see the Soldiers well provided of Arms c. Read the Battel of the great Dragon and his Angels Rev. 12. v. 7 8 and 9. And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb v. 11. V. 398. Thee only extoll'd Praise thee alone And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven Now is come Salvation and Strength and the Kingdom of our God and the Power of his Christ Rev. 12. 10. Extollere Lat. to lift to raise up and thence to praise V. 405. But much more to Pity enclined A Repetition affected after the Homeric manner who often uses the same Verses and Words in which Commands were given or Messages sent as supposing it not
Country was first named Aonia from Aon Son of Neptune and the Muses thence styled Aonides Primus ego in Patriam mecum modò vita supersit Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas Geor. Li. 3. V. 16. Things unattempted yet so Hora. Non usitata nec tenui ferar penna but not on so sublime a Subject as this not undertaken as yet by any Poet As in the beginning of the Ninth Book he says of himself he was not sedulous by Nature to indite Wars hitherto the only Argument Heroic deem'd trita vatibus orbita So Virg. on a Subject much inferiour makes his Brags Sed me Parnassi deserta per ardua dulcis Raptat amor Juvat ire jugis qua nulla priorum Castaliam molli divertitur orbita clivo Geor. 3. Ibid. In Prose or Rhime either in Prose or Poetry Prosa Lat. for that free and easie way of writing and speaking unshackled and unconfined in its Parts and Periods used by Orators Historians and all Men in common Conversation styled Soluta Oratio as opposite to Rhime derived of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consisting of a more exact Measure and Quantity of Syllables of which Aristotle says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Probl. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 autem longitudines altitudines vocis emetitur longior mensura vocis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur altior 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aul. Gell. l. 15. c. 18. Scribimus inclusi numeros ille hic pede liber Pers. Sat. 1. Poetry of which Rhime is a Modern part is tied up to certain Measures and Quantities which among the Greek and Latin Poets till the times of Monkish Ignorance consisted in an Harmonious Modulation of Numbers that implyed nothing less than the inconvenient gingle and chime at the ends of Verses which we falsly call Rhime so deservedly disdained by our Author for the shackles it puts upon Sense no Comparison better suiting such Poetasters than that of Tagging of Points in a Garret V. 17. O Spirit Divers are the Opinions concerning the meaning of Gen. 1. 2. The Spirit of God moved upon the Waters Jerom Basil Theodoret Athanasius and many of the Fathers understand it of the third Person of the Trinity From hence the Heathen Philosophers coined their quickning and intellectual Spirit that diffused it self through the Universe as Zoroaster and Heraclitus which Orpheus calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fiery Breath Hence the Platonists borrowed their Animam Mundâ— and the Pythagoreans learnt this great Truth That God was all in all in all Things and all Places admirably exprest by the sublime Virgil Deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque Maris Coelumque profundum Geor. 4. Principio Coelum Terras Camposque liquentes Lucentemque Globum Lunae Titaniaque Astra Spiritus intus alit totamque infusa per arâ—us Mens agitat Molem Magno se corpore miscet AEn 6. That this Spirit was not a Wind which God made to move the Waters into a Separation as Tertull. against Hermogenes nor a quickning enlivening Power fraught with Fecundity as St. Chrysost. Nor Angels as Cajetan imagines setting the Primum Mobile on work But the Spirit of God is manifest from other Texts of the Divine Writ His Spirit has garnish'd the Heavens Job 26. 13. And Psal. 104. 30. If thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created c. And to this our Author's meaning is conformable here V. 21. Dove-like sat'st brooding Spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas Gen. 1. 2. which Basil out of a Syrian Doctor interprets by incubabat and fâ—vebat a Metaphor taken from Birds sitting and hatching their young ones which is here extreamly heightned by Dove-like God's Holy Spirit having visibly descended on his Son the Blessed Jesus in that soft Similitude the Emblem of Meekness and Innocence Matth. 3. 16. Ibid. On the vast Abyss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Bottomless the Immeasurable Deep a Bottomless Profundity the vast Gulph and wide Womb of Nature out of which the Created World arose from the privitive à and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bottom Others fetch it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to cover and so it signifies a place overwhelmed with a mighty unfathomable Quantity of Water the meaning of it in this place and that of Gen. 1. 2. V. 22. Mad'st it pregnant Fruitful productive of all things Praegnans Lat. V. 23. Illumin Illuminate enlighten clear my Understanding Illumino Lat. V. 25. Assert Eternal Providence Prove and make plain the wise just and equal Administration of all things by God's Eternal Providence Assert from assero Lat. to affirm to prove Ibid. Providence Providentia Lat. the Infinite Knowledge and Wisdom of God Almighty by which he foresees all things and orders and disposes them as seemeth best to his unaccountable Distributions Cicero acquaints us the Exordiums and Beginnings of all great Works should be plain easie and modest Principia verecunda non elatis intensa verbis c. Orat. which our Author has in his exactly observed Now if we cast our Eyes on the stern Achilles and consider his fatal Anger so pernicious to his Party Or on the sly and subtil Ulysses who with all his Cunning after Ten Years Ramble brought home no Body but himself weary weather-beaten and old We must confess both these to be very imperfect and unfinished Heroes Virgil's AEneas is a more Correct and Manly Piece the Lines are not so gross and the Features more fine and exact yet this must be allowed much inferiour to the Protoplast who as the first and finish'd by the great Creator must needs be the most accomplish'd of his kind If we carry our Consideration to the Fields of Battel our Myriads of Immortal Spirits will in endless Strife out-do all the Heroick Havock of their Rage who fought at Thebes or Troy But when we reflect how shamefully the one exposes all his Deities though the other in that respect much better observes the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it must be acknowledged a much harder Task to form a right Idea of that Eternal Being which made the Universe and to observe with all due Veneration and Awful Respect the great Decorum requisite in speaking of the True God and to offend in nothing against the Revelations he has been pleased to make of himself and yet to manage all this under the Heats and Heights of Towring Fancy than either Homer or Virgil undertook a Task by none but himself attempted as he may justly boast and impossible to be by any Undertaker better performed V. 27. Say first Tell me first O Thou Supreme Spirit from whose vast View nor highest Heaven nor the dark deep Vaults of Hell can any thing conceal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 28. The deep Tract of Hell The low dark Region and Place of Everlasting Punishment which many imagine to be in the Center of the Earth Tractus Lat. for Coast or Country V. 29. Moved our grand Parents
their Death 's mounted among them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesiod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. A Thousand A great many a certain Number for one incertain so mille trahens varios adverso sole colores Virg. of the Rainbow casting a Thousand Colours the many-coloured Bow V. 797. Frequent and full Compleat and full a Pleonasm Frequens Lat. for full Sylva frequens trabibus V. 798. Consult The Consultation of Consulo Lat. to take advice to consider of Affairs together NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK II. Vers. 1. OF Royal State Of Kingly Port and Condition Royal Fr. belonging to a King of Roy Fr. from Rex Lat. a King State of Status Lat. Condition Quality Dignity Secundum Statum according to the Quality of of the Person V. 2. Outshone More Glorious and Shining Of Outshine to shine beyond Out signifying Beyond As Outdo to do more or beyond the power of another Ibid. Ormus Ormusium once a Rich and Potent City in an Island on the Coast of Persia seated at the Mouth of the Persian Gulph about 12 Miles from the Continent called Ormuzia famous for the Traffick of India Persia and Arabia for which its Situation made it most convenient The Arabians used to say of it Ibid. Si Terrarum Orbis quâquâ patet annulus esset Illius Ormusium Gemma decusque foret Ind India named of its vast River Indus bounding it on the West rich in Mines of Gold and Silver with precious Stones and Geâ—â— and Spices of all sorts V. 3. Or where the Gorgeous East Or where the Glorious Nations of the East Gorgeous of the Fr. Glorieux Splendid Gawdy V. 4. Barbarick Pearl and Gold Pearl and Gold found among the soft Asiaticks esteemed and called Barbarous by the Grecians Barbaricus Lat. Foreign found among uncivilized People Thus Lucretius terms Exotick Cloaths of a Foreign Fashion Iam tibi Barbaricae vestes Melibaeaque fulgens Lib. 2. So Virgil. Barbarico postes Auro spoliisque superbi AEn 2. And Lucan Pharsa Lib. 1. Barbaricas saevi discurrere Caesaris alas Forces raised among Barbarous Nations V. To that bad Eminence Raised to that sad Supremacy to that wicked Height Eminentia Lat. Excellency a Station and Degree of Honour more than ordinary Son Eminence Satan by much bad Merit raised on high fat on a Glorious Throne in Kingly State out-doing far the Pride of wealthy Ormus and rich India or where the gawdy Eastern Nations pour with profuse hand whole showers of Pearl and Gold upon their barbarous Kings Ibid. And from Despair thus high uplifted beyond Hope And from the desperate Estate in which so late he was when he lay groveling on the burning Lake Raised up thus high beyond his Hope Aspires beyond thus high aims at some things above this height Desperatio Lat. Despair V. 8. Insatiate to pursue Unsatisfied with the pursuit of unsatisfied in prosecuting War against the Almighty thô in vain to pursue successless War with Heaven much overmatch'd Insatiatus Lat. unsatisfied Pursuit Fr. Poursuivre to follow after to push on Vain Vanus Lat. foolish indiscreet and thence unsuccessful V. 10. Imaginations thus display'd Did thus his lofty Thoughts unfold Display of Disployer Fr. from Displicare Lat. to unfold to unwrap our Imaginations till express'd by Words lying close wrapt and as it were folded up in our Minds which our Expressions unfold and lay open to others Ears and Understandings Imaginatio Lat. the Conceptions of the Mind our Thoughts V. 11. Powers and Dominions c. Ye Rulers Princes and Heavenly Gods well express'd by Satan in the beginning of his Speech by Power and Dominion in the Abstract flattering his Damned Slaves with Absolute Power and Sovereign Command styling them The Deities of Heaven at the same time they were outcast and exil'd thence Captives of Hell St. Paul uses the same Expression Coloss. 1. 16. Thrones or Dominions Principalities or Powers Dominium Lat. Rule Deiâ—as Lat. Godhead Deity V. 12. For since no Deep c. For since no Deep no not this bottomless Pit of Hell is able in its flaming Dungeon to Imprison the everlasting Strength of Deathless Angels thô overlaid and foyl'd Oppressus Lat. Overlaid Overcharg'd V. 15. From this descent Celestial Virtues From this low Station our Heavenly Powers recovering and arising will much more daring and more dreadful shew than if not fallen at all and need to fear no second foyl Descent Descensus Lat. Descensus Averni going down into Hell Virg. Fatum Lat. Calamity Overthrow V. 18. The fixt Laws of Heaven Satan here ascribes his former high Station in Heaven not to his Maker but to Fate and uncontrolable Necessity the fixt unalterable Laws of Heaven according to the Opinion of the Stoicks well express'd by Lucan Sive Parens rerum Fixit in aeternum causas quâ cuncta coercet Se quoque lege tenens secula jussa ferentem Fatorum immoto divisit limite Mundum Phar. 2. V. 21. Hath been atchiev'd of Merit Thô Fate made the at first your Leader next your own free Choice moved to it by what I have merited either by Conduct or my Courage yet nothing more secures me in this safe unenvied Throne allowed me thus by general Consent than this our overthrow recovered in some measure Achiev'd or Atchiev'd of Achever Fâ—â— to bring to pass to finish to compleat V. 23. Establish'd Fixed assured Of Establir Fr. to confirm Consent Consensus Lat. Agreement V. 25. In Heaven which follows Dignity The Glorious Train that does in Heaven's happy Palaces attend on Ruling Angels well might move Envy from those below Dignitas Lat. Worth and thence as the reason of it Authority V. 26. From each Inferior From every Underling from those under Command Inferior Lat. Lower V. 27. Exposes Lays open Of Exponere Lat. to hazard to adventure V. 28. The Thunders Aim An Epithete Homer oâ—â—â—n gives his Jupiter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thundering from on high 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Altitonans V. 29. Your Bulwark Your Guard your Security that interposeth between you and Danger a Bulwark being a Defence made to strengthen a Town 'gainst an Attack where the Defendants stand unexposed to the Enemies Shot who assault it bare-faced Of Boll Ger. for Round Spherical and Werk a Work denominated of its Circular Shape Ibid. Condemns Of Condamnare Lat. to condemn to overthrow in Judgment The highest Place Satan's Pre-eminence gives Sentence as it were against him that he ought foremost to expose himself to the most eminent Dangers in regard of his high Station and Command V. 32. From Faction From Plotting and contriving Parties Factio Lat. for the same is a siding of great Men generally rather than good combining for their own Interest together against a Prince or Government Ibid. Will Claim Will lay Claim to will strive for Of Claim Fr. for a publick Demand of something belonging to a Person kept out of
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
have one common Center V. 107. As God in Heaven is Center c. As God above is the Center of all Created Nature extending his Goodness round the Circumference of the Creation so thou O Earth below seemest the receiving Center of all that mighty Goodness shower'd down on thee Deus est indivisible centrum cujus irradiatio in omnium rerum peripheriam extenditur Mersen V. 112. With gradual Life of Growth Sense Reason The three degrees of Life are set forth by Growth in Plants and Trees to which Sense being added makes that of Animals and Reason raising it still a step higher crowns the Creation with Man its Master-piece Gradual Gradualis of Gradus Lat. a Step a Degree V. 120. So much more I feel Torment within me Satan broke loose from his dark Prison Hell the dismal Seat of Desolation and Territory of Eternal Torment was so far from finding any case among all the charming Varieties of this wondrous World that all its Pleasures served but to inhance his Pain made by them more intense as from the hateful struggle of Contraries besieging one another with the most implacable Rage of Antipathy And worse would be his state in Heaven for wheresoe'er he goes is Hell he himself is Hell Bo. IV. Vers. 75. Bane Bo. I. Vers. 692. V. 128. Thô thereby worse to me redound Thô thereby more Misery be multiplied on my own Head of Redundare Lat. to return back upon Hoc facinus in tuum redundabit caput Plaut A true Instance of Satan's Malice against the Almighty wreck'd on Mankind V. 130. To my relentless Thoughts That scorn all Repentance Of Ralentir Fr. to grow soft to melt or Relentless cruel that torment me without intermission of the same Ralentir to grow slack and remiss V. 136. In one day to have marr'd In one day to have spoil'd what The Almighty call'd was six Days and Nights in making Marr'd of the Ital. Smarrire to disturb to confound V. 139. Had been contriving Considering of and finding out A blasphemous Thought of the Omniscient All-wise Creator but suitable to the ambitious and envious Invader of his Throne Contriving of Controuver Fr. to invent to find out by much thinking V. 147. Are his Created If Angels are his Creatures if they derive their Being from him their Creator as in Satans haughty Speech before presumed We know no time when we were not as now Know none before us self-begot self-rais'd By our own quickning Power The Birth mature Of this our Native Heav'n Etherial Sons Bo. V. Vers. 859. V. 150. Exalted from so base Original Raised from so base Beginning to the hopes of Heaven our Inheritance Man made up of mean Mould Original of Origo Lat. Beginning of Oriri Lat. to rise to spring up V. 155. Subjected to his Service c. Humbled the Winged Angels to wait on him Placed Angels round about him for a Guard a mighty Aggravation of Satan's Grief Subjected of Subjicere Lat. to put under to make subject and serviceable to Vigilance Bo. IV. V. 580. O Indignity O grievous Affront O vile Disgrace Of Indignitas Lat. Unworthiness Ibid. Flaming Ministers Angels a Flaming Fire Psal. 104. 4. Nothing better setting forth the Purity and Activity of the Angelic Nature V. 158. To Elude c. To avoid whose watchful Eyes thus I creep along hâ—d in dark Disguise of Midnight's blackest Mist. O how fall'n how chang'd From him who in the happy Realms of Light Cloath'd with Transcendent Brightness did outshine Myriads thô bright Bo. I. V. 84. Elude Eludere Lat. to deceive Glide Bo. IV. V. 555. Vapor Bo. III. V. 445. V. 161. In whose mazie Folds In whose cunning and intricate Turns and Twistings to conceal my self and my dark Design Mazie of Maze Bo. II. V. 561. Intent Intentio Lat. an Aim a Design V. 165. This Essence to Incarnate c. To hide this my Spiritual Being in Flesh nay worse to sink it down into a Beast and mix my self with bestial Slime and Filthiness I who attempted to raise my self above God over all Supream O foul dismal Descent and Downfal A fierce Reflexion and as furious and tormenting as hottest Hell it self A Degradation to ambitious Lucifer doubtless most grievous Constrain'd forc'd of Contraindre Fr. Constringere Lat. to compel Slime of Lumia Ital. Limus Lat. a watry and thin Mud. To Incarnate Incarnare Lat. to put on Flesh as our blessed Saviour's taking our Nature upon him is styled His Incarnaation Imbrute a word excellently coin'd by our Poet to express Satan's debasing himself into a Beast to accomplish his devilish Malice against God and Man Of In and Brutus Lat. dull heavy reasonless as Brute Beasts are V. 169. Who aspires must down as low c. Whoever aims to raise himself on high must humble himself as low one time or other liable to court the meanest Men and submit to the basest Offices Maxime most true Obnoxious Obnoxius Lat. exposed to liable to Non ulli obnoxia curae Georg. 2. Recoils Bo. II. V. 880. Reck Bo. II V. 50. V. 174. Since higher I fall short Since I cannot reach the most High since I cannot Master God my Maker I will fall upon his Favourite Man Favor Lat. kindness good will V. 176. This Man of Clay According to his Original Composition and final Resolution Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again Job 10. 19. I also am cut out of the clay Job 33. 6. therefore said To dwell in houses of clay whose foundotions are in the dust Job 4. 19. Ibid. Son of Despite Hateful Offspring the Object of our Envy formed and raised out of the Dust and designed to inherit our Heavenly Habitations the more to imbitter and inrage our Ruine Son of Despite is a Hebraism by which Wicked Men are termed Sons of Belial Deut. 13. 13. Valiant Men Sons of Courage 2 Sam. 2. 7. Untameable Beasts Sons of Pride Job 41. 25. The Disciples Sons of Light Luke 16. 8. So Satan calls Man The Son of Despite the Offspring of Hatred and Envy created to encrease his Punishment by seeing this Man of Clay substituted into that glorious Station of him Forlorn Outcast of Heaven Despite Despit Fr. Dispetto Ital. Despectus Lat. contempt V. 183. In Labyrinth c. Who had rouled himself up in many intricate Windings like a Maze Labyrinth Bo. II. V. 584. V. 186. Nor nocent yet The Serpent as yet unhurtful did not hide himself in dreadful Woods or dismal Den. Fearless unfear'd not afraid because not fear'd obvious and easie because yet innocent Nocent Nocens Lat. harmful V. 189. In Heart or Head possessing c. Seizing upon his Brutal Sense whether lodg'd in Heart or Head in which latter the best Philosophers place it Nam Medici multis neque inevidentibus argumentis indicant sensum motum ab eodem principio fluere puta à Cerebro ejusdemque animae partis esse quam
578. V. 158. Which thou hast done Gen. 3. 13. V. 161. Loquaeious Talkative Of Loquax and Loquacitas Lat. given to talk V. 162. The Serpent me beguiled Gen. 3. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hic Serpens quem nempe creasti as Mercen This Serpent one of thy Creatures an Accusation of another but no Excuse of her self Superbia quaerit in alium referre quod perperam fecit Superbia mulieris in serpentem superbia viri in mulierem Aug. l. 14. c. 14. de Civit. Dei Hujus erroris Ramum in gevere humano ex illà nunc usque radice pertrahi ut quod malè agitur adhuc pâ—jus etiam defendatur Grego in Job 3. V. 165. Serpent thô Brute c. Or the Serpent void of Reason and incapable of laying the blame on Satan who used him as the instrument of his malicious Design on Man thereby corrupted and defiled against the course of his Creation Venomous Serpents as other wild and dangerous Creatures were all innoxious and harmless to Mankind before their Fall and Fault but the wily Serpent here mentioned was by the Devil made dangerous and destructive to Eve as the Organ of his Temptation even before her failure therefore well censured as Polluted and Profaned and devious from the true intent of his Creation To Transferr Transferre Lat. to lay upon Culpam transferre Polluted Pollutus Lat. defiled V. 169. Accurs'd as vitiated in Nature Accurs'd as corrupted in Nature as having corrupted and depraved his natural Innocency made to obey not to beguile Mankind Rebel against the Universal Command given Adam over the Creation Gen. 1. 28. and Traitor against Nature's great Universal Lord. If GOD in the Deluge destroyed the Beasts and the Creeping Things and the Fowls of the Air who had obeyed the Laws of their Creation with vitiated Mankind Gen. 6. 7. most justly might he lay his Curse on the Serpent depraved and despoiled of his Native Gooduess and Harmlesness and made instrumental thô ignorantly in compleating Satan's Malice by Mankind on the Almighty Vitiated Vitiatus Lat. corrupted V. 171. Nor alter'd his Offence Whether it were a mere Serpent or Satan concealed in him that tempted Man it alter'd not the nature of his Offence in violating the Forbidden Tree V. 177. Upon thy Belly groveling c. Gen. 3. 14. Upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life Which tho natural to the Serpent was converted into his Curse Punishment and Reproach As the Rainbow naturally happening and often seen doubtless before the Deluge is by God said to have been set in the Clouds as the Signal and Manifestation of his Mercy Gen. 9. 13. Sciendum igitur est maledicta illa serpentis simpliciter loquendo ei fuisse naturalia Quodammodo tamen post illam tentationem peccatum primorum hominum fuisse ei tanquam paenas supplicium non quidem habito ad serpentem respectu qui nullam ex illis paenam sensit sed habito respectu ad hominem Nam quae antea fuerant serpenti naturalia post peccatum eidem fuere apud homines ad magnum dedecus opprobrium odium execrationem Qui enim antea non fuisset homini proper ista invisus execrabilis post peccatum infamis exosus abominabilis extitit Pere in Gen. 3. Groveling Bo. 1. v. 280. V. 180. I will put Enmity The Universal Antipathy between Mankind and Serpents seems a particular Instance of some part of the Curse that light directly on this polluted and vitiated Creature there being no Reluctance of Nature so general and for which so sad and severe a Reason may be given as that of our Original Ruine and Seduction for to think we were Created with this natural Hatred and Aversion which was laid asleep and restrain'd till the first Transgression rous'd and awaken'd it into its furious Activity is meer Imagination Enmity the contraction of Inimicitia Lat. Hatred V. 181. Her Seed shall bruise thy Head c. Gen. 3. 15. In Mysterious Terms as at V. 173. meant of Satan the Old Serpent Bruise of Briser Fr. to break 183. Verified when Jesus Son of Mary second Eve Then made good and proved true when our Saviour Jesus Christ Son of the Virgin Mary the second Eve Mother of all that shall by her miraculous bringing forth the Son of God become Heirs and Inheritors of Everlasting Life as the Posterity of the first inherited from her only this mortal and decayed Being Jesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of the Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to save For he shall save his people from their sins Matth. 1. 21. Verified of Verificare Lat. Verum facere to prove true V. 184. Saw Satan fall like Lightning Luke 10. 18. And he said unto them I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven Prince of the Air 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Prince of the Power of the Air Ephes. 2. 2. V. 186. Spoiled Principalities and Powers triumph'd in open shew Exactly agreeing with Colos. 2. 15. V. 188. Captivity led Captive Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive Psal. 68. 18. applied to our Saviour by his Apostle St. Paul Eph. 4. 8. V. 189. The Air the Realm it self of Satan Now is the judgment of this world now shall the Prince of this world be cast out John 12. 31. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds c 2 Cor. 4. 4. In both places understood of Satan exercising his Usurp'd Dominion over this Inferior AErial World Usurp'd Usurpatus Lat. seized against Right and Reason V. 190. Shall tread at last under our Feet For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 15. 25. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool Heb. 10. 13. The God of Peace shall tread down Satan under your feet Rom. 16. 20. V. 193. Thy Sorrow by thy Conception According to the best Exposition of Gen. 3. 16. the Pains and Pangs of Child-bearing are by common Experience known to be so acute that our Saviour by them was pleased to Typifie the great Tribulations Persecutions and Martyrdoms of his Apostles and Followers A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow because her hour is come John 16. 21. Nor does all the trouble of that soft Sex consist in bringing forth but much also in bearing the burden so many Months as Juvenal Nam si distendere vellet Et vexare uterum pueris salientibus Sat. 6. From all which Womankind had most certainly been exempted if Sin had not introduced 'em as its After-birth In thy Conception by thy Conceiving Conceptio Lat. of Concipere Lat. to Conceive or be with Child V. 196. To thy Husband's will thine shall submit c. The subjection of Eve to Adam was natural even in Innocency and before her Transgression as made of him and for him V. 149. and in other places but here it is inflicted on her and the
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to dip or wash whence that and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are both used for the washing of Hands and Cups and Pots Mark 7. 3 4. But among Christians it is used for the Symbol of Regeneration a washing from the Guilt and Pollution of Sin engaging us to Newness and Purity of Life Thus St. John thence Styled the Baptist Baptized in Jordan all that came unto him Confessing their Sins Matth. 3. 6. and our Saviour also though Sinless that he might fulfill all Righteousness v. 15. Profluent Profluens Lat. flowing as Rivers do V. 449. To the Sons of Abraham's Faith Therefore it is of Faith that it might be by Grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the Seed not to that only which is of the Law but to that also which is of the Faith of Abraham who is the Father of us all Rom. 4. 16. V. 451. Then to the Heaven of Heavens So after the Lord had spoken unto them he was receiv'd up into Heaven and sate on the right hand of God Mark 16. 19. V. 454. The Serpent Prince of Air. Having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in himself Col. 2. 15. The Devils are subject to us through thy Name and Jesus said unto them I beheld Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven Luk. 10. 17 18. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led Captivity Captive Psal. 78. 18. applied to our Saviour Eph. 4. 8. Satan is styled The Prince of the Power of the Air Eph. 2. 2. V. 457. At Gods right hand above all Names in Heaven Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all Principalities and Powors and Might and Dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come Eph. 1. 20 21. V. 460. To judge both quick and dead The Father judgeth no man for he hath committed all judgment unto the Son John 5. 22. Because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in Righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Acts 17. 31. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom 2 Tim. 4. 1. Period Bo. 2. V. 603. V. 477. To God more Glory c. According to the Heavenly Hymn Glory to God in the highest c. Luk. 2. 14. V. 480. What will betide What will befal his Servants here Betide of Be and Tid Sax. time V. 487. A Comforter the Promise of the Father When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father John 15. 26. And behold I send the promise of my Father unto you Luk. 24. 49. V. 490. To guide them in all Truth When he the Spirit of Truth is come he shall guide you into all Truth John 16. 13. V. 498. The Spirit Powr'd first on his Apostles They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues Acts 2. 4. These Signs shall follow them that believe in my Name They shall cast out Devils they shall take up Serpents c. they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover Mark 16. 17 18. Verified throughout the Acts of the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Messanger of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to send thence Christ's chosen Messengers sent into the World with the glad Tidings of his Gospel to Evangelize the Nations to bring the joyful news of Salvation to the Gentiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bring joyful News of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. well and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Report Hence the Four Apostles who writ the History of our Saviours Birth Life Doctrine and Passion are styled The Evangelists V. 508. Wolves shall succeed for Teachers Of which St. Paul forewarned the Church After my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the Flock Acts 20. 29. V. 511. Of Lucre and Ambition Aiming at worldly Wealth and Honour turning Godliness into gain Teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake Titus 1. 11. Lucre Lucrum Lat. gain V. 512. With Traditions Taint Corrupt the Truth with Mens vain Inventions delivered down from one to another Laying aside the Commandments of God and following the Traditions of Men as our Saviour observ'd of the Pharisees Mark 7. 8. against which St. Paul cautioned the Colossians Beware least any Man spoil you through Philosophy and vain Deceit after the Tradition of Men ch 2. v. 8. such as St. Paul calls The Doctrines of Devils and old Wives Fables 1 Tim. 4. 2. 7. Traditio of Tradere Lat. to deliver Superstition Bo. 3. V. 452. V. 515. Tavail themselves of Names Places and Titles Of Names Christ Vicar General Universal Bishop Successor of St. Peter Places Bishop of Rome Ti les His Holiness Infallibility assuming to themselves worldly Power and human Authority Avail Bo. 1. 153. Secular Secularis Lat. worldly temporal V. 518. Appropiating the Spirit of God promised to all Confining to themselves seising and converting to their own use the Free Gift of God's Spirit promised to all Believers I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh Joel 2. 28. Appropriating of Approprier Fr. Proprium facere Lat. to make ones own V. 522. Laws which none shall find left them inroul'd From the pretence of having God's Holy Spirit in their Possession and at their disposal shall impose Spiritual Laws on Mens Consciences backt and supported by Secular Power Laws no where to be found in Holy Writ nor by that Holy Spirit dictated within and written on their Hearts contrary to his Promise who has said I will put my Laws into their Hearts and in their Minds I will write them Jer. 31. 33. Inroul'd Enrollez Fr. enter'd on Record Engrave Engraver Fr. cut or Carved V. 526. Bind his Consort Liberty What is this but to lay violent hands on God's Free Grace and to shakle his Free Spirit to controul its liberty of breathing when and where he pleaseth Joh. 3. 8. This Liberty is every where exprest by a Gift On the Gentiles was poured out the Gift of the Holy Ghost Acts 10. 45. Unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ Eph. 4. 7. of which divers Gifts an enumeration is made 1 Cor. 12. to v. 11. All wrought by one and the self same Spirit dividing to every Man severally as he will Consort Consors Lat. Companion V. 527. His living Temples Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you If any Man defile the Temple of God him will God destroy for the Temple of God is Holy which Temple ye
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
side of the Gross of their Armies Tyrrhenique duces Evandrique Arcadis alas AEn 12. V. 618. Attention held them mute With silence they gave heed Attentio Lat. heedfulness as of one that listeneth Mutus Lat. for silent still as well as speechless Conticuere omnes attentique or a tenebant AEn 2. V. 619. Thrice he assay'd Endeavour'd tryed Fr. Essayer to attempt Ter sunt conati AEn 1. Ter conatus ibi collo dare braehia circum AEn 2. a Number in favour with the Poets as is also Nine its square V. 620. Tears such as Angels weep Such Tears as from Immortal Eyes can flow Thus Homâ—r describes Venus wounded and bleeding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Immortal Blood of the Goddess ran down such Blood indeed as the blessed Gods have in them Virgil is less circumspect in his Weeping Venus Tristior â—acrimis Oculos suffusa Nitentes Alloquitur Venus AEn 1. V. 621. Words interwove c. Words mingled with sad Sighs Words broke with interrupting Sighs Of inter Lat. between and weave V. 624. Was not inglorious Not mean and disgraceful of Inglorius Lat. void of Renown Ibid. Though th' Event was dire Though the Success was sad and dreadful Eventus Lat. Issue V. 625. As this place testifies As this place proves of testificor Lat. to bear witness to confirm V. 626. Hateful to utter Detestable to speak of Utter signifies to speak Speech being a bringing forth the Thoughts and Conceptions of our Mind framed within to the outward hearing of others of utter outward Ibid. But what Power of Mind But what Force or Strength of Understanding from greatest Knowledge of Things past or present by Foresight or Foretelling could have apprehended how such a Multitude of Godlike Spirits so united thus and thus embattelled should e'er have undergone an Overthrow V. 627. Presaging Foretelling of the Lat. Praesagire to foretel what shall happen V. 630. Could ever know repulse Could ever have been foil'd or worsted Repulsus Lat. a foil a beating back of repello to drive back V. 632. Puissant Legions All these powerful Legions against all this mighty Multitude whose banishment has even dispeopled Heaven and left it empty Legio Lat. a Number of Soldiers different in different times generally about 6000. Cum longa Cohortes Explicuit Legio Virg. Geor. 2. Puissant Fr. Powerful Exile Lat. Exilium Banishment Ejection Has emptied Heaeven Many are of Opinion that one third of the Angelick Nature was for this Rebellion expell'd Heaven grounding it on Revel 12. 4. V. 633. Shall fail to reascend Shall not be able to climb up again of the Fr. Faillir to be unable to be deceived of fallo Lat. to cheat Ibid. To reascend To get up again of re and ascendere Lat. to rise again V. 634. Self-raised and repossess Raised by their own inherent Power repossess regain the Possession of their Original Heaven to the Inheritance of which they were born Repossideo Lat. to enter again into possession of Nativus Lat. Natural V. 636. Monarch in Heav'n But he who Governs Sole and Supreme above 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Monarcha a King of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alone and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rule Ibid. As one secure Like one grown careless safe Securus Lat. and therefore heedless V. 639. Upheld by old Repute Held up supported by ancient Fame and Reputation Repute from Reputation Esteem Renown V. 640. His Regal State put forth at full Made a great shew of his Princely Port Set all his State to shew Regalis Lat. Kingly Status Lat. Condition Concealed of Celare Lat to hide V. 642. Which tempted our Attempt Which drew on our design which provoked us to attempt and try his Power Tempt of the French Tenter Tentare Lat. to Provoke to Entice to Attempt of Attentat Fr. a Design an Enterprize Words thô well chosen and significative enough yet of Gingling and Unpleasant Sound and like Marriages between Persons too near of Kin to be avoided V. 644. To Provoke Provocare Lat. to Dare to to Challenge V. 646. By Fraud By Cheat and Cunning bringing that to pass which Force could not effect Fraus Lat. deceit Efficere Lat. to effect perform V. 649. But half his Foe Force may affect the Sence but cannot reach the Soul The Mind and Stubborn Will are both invulnerable and invincible the Unconquerable Will And Courage never to submit or yield And what is else not to be overcome In Satan's former speech V. 650. Space may produce new Worlds Several Philosophers were of Opinion that there were many Worlds as Anaxymenes Aristarchus Diogenes Democritus and Plato scandalized with believing five because not rightly understood Epicurus many and others that they were infinite not only the Sun and Moon but every Star containing a distinct World to the continuing of these Conceits the Spectacles of Galileus have not a little contributed Ille ferox unoquÌ„e tegi non passus Olympo Immensum per inane volat finemque perosus Parturit innumeros Augusto pectore Mundos Claud. Et Chaos innumeros avidum confundere Mundâ—s Luc. lib. 6. Space is not only used for Place but Time also Produce Producere Lat. to bring forth new Worlds different from that the Angels were in supposed to have been Created before this lower World V. 651. Whereof so rife there went a Fame Concerning which there were so many Reports Rife an old Word for Frequent Fame of Fama Lat. Report V. 652. To Create Lat. Creare to give Beginning to Creation is the Work of that infinite Power that brought All Things ount of Nothing Ibid. Therein Pâ—â—nt And place therein of Plantare Lat. to set or cause to grow as Herbs Irees and Flowers V. 653. A Generation a Brood of Creatures Of Generare Lat. to Beget Ibid. Whom his choice Regard Whom his especial Care of Regard Fr. for Care Consideration V. 654. Equal to the Sons of Heaven Favour as highly as the Heavenly Angels Inhabitants of Heaven and its Offspring AEqualis Lat. in the same proportion as much Not only our Poet but many of the Fathers supposed the Angelick Nature created before the World thô some refer their Original to the first day's Distinction comprehending their Creation by Fiat Lux. V. 655. Thither if but to Pry Towards Heaven or where else this Mighty Work of Creation is to be performed thô but to mark and heed it Of the Fr. Preuver to try to make tryal of To pry into Things is to look narrowly that is heedfully into it with contracted Eyes strengthening the Sight V. 656. Our first Eruption Our first Sally and breaâ—ing out of this our hated Prison Eruptio Lat of Erumpo to break out V. 657. This Infernal Pit This low dark Dungeon Pit of the Fr. Puis as this of Puteus Lat. a Well V. 660. Must mature Must bring to Perfection of Maturare Lat. to grow Ripe So Virg. Hic annis gravis atque animi maturus Alethes AEn IX
that all Mankind and all Things living on Earth must be his Subjects and pay him humble Homage in Dust and vile Corruption Job has described him well by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The King of Terrours chap. 18. vers 14. The Apostle puts his Iron Scepter in his hand and shews the Commencement of his Reign But Death reigned from Adam Rom. 5. v. 14. and it will end only with the Universe Crown of the Lat. Corona V. 681. Execrable Shape Accursed dreadful detestable Figure Execrabilis Lat. accursed and thence terrible V. 683. Thy miscreated Front athwart c. Thy ill-made Face across my way Miscreated created made amiss therefore ugly and ill-favoured His miscreated Mold F. Q. B. 2. c. 7. st 42. Front of Frons Lat. for the Forehead and thence for the Face Athwart cross of a and thwart to thwart is to cross one V. 686. Retire or taste thy Folly Begone or feel thy Folly hence or thy Feeling shall make the Understanding thy foolish vain Prefumption Taste of the Fr. Tastir applicable to the Feeling as well as Tasting so Tastire le Pouls á to feel ones Pulse V. 688. Goblin A Sprite of Gobelin Fr. for a Hobgoblin as it is called of the old Fr. word Fober to devour to eat Ravenously Nurses using the Word to affright crying Children V. 692. The third part of Heaven's Sons A third part of the offending Angels grounded probably on Revel 12. v. 3 and 4. Behold a great Red Dragon And his Tayl drew the third part of the Stars of Heaven and cast them to the Earth V. 693. Conjured against the Highest Banded and leagued together against the most High Conjured Conjuratus Lat. of Conjurare to bind one another by Oath to be true and faithful in a Design undertaken Et conjuratos Caelum rescindere fratres Geor. 1. Aut conjurato descendens Dacus ab Istro Geor. 2. V. 697. Hell doom'd c. Condemn'd and Sentenc'd unto Hell and darest defy me here where I Reign thy Lord and King Defiance of the Verb Defy this of Defier to brave to challenge of the Lat. Diffidere to defy to scorn as a faithless and perfidious Enemy V. 704. The Grieslie Terrour Thus spake grim Death thâ—â—â—ghastly dreadly King Grieslie an old Word for Ugly used by Chaucher and Spencer Gnashing with Grinded Teeth his Griesly Look Griesled grey hoary of the Fr. Gris is either the Offspring or Parent of Griesly Spen. B. 6. C. 5. St. 16. V. 706. And deform Grew ten times more dreadful and ill-favoured Deformis Lat. Ugly V. 707. Incens'd with Indignation Set on Fire with Disdain and Rage Incens'd of Incendere Lat. to burn Indignation of Indignatio Lat. Anger properly that Rage arising from a sense of some vile Baseness thrown unworthily on a Man V. 708. Like a Comet burn'd Satan with Rage enflamed looked like a Blazing Star that fires all the Space possess'd by the huge Dragon towards the Northern Pole and with his fiery Looks affright the pale Spectators with the sad Presage of wastful War or Plagues Cometa Lat. of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a hairy Star Stella crinita as here described with his horrid Hair Totoque ardentis ab ore Scintillae absistunt occulis micat acribus ignis AEn 12. V. 709. That Fires the length of Ophiucus huge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. is Anguitenens properly of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Serpent and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to have and is meant of Hercules who in his Cradle squeezed two Snakes to death or of Esculapius who was worship'd in the shape of a Serpent and is express'd by the figure of a Man pressing a Snake in his hands and placed in the AEquator Pressasque tandem solvat Ophiuchus manus Virusque fundat Sen. in Mede Our Author means the famous Dragon that kept the Hesperian Gardens robb'd by Hercules of their Golden Fruit and by Juno afterwards translated amongst the Stars where he rounds the North Pole reaching to the Great Bear with his Tayl and embracing the lesser with his bulk Fuit aurea Sylva Divitiisque graves fulvo germine rami Et nunquam somno damnatus lumina Serpens Robora complexus rutilo curvata metallo Luc. l. 9. Thus Virgil describing the Northern Hemisphere Maximus hic flexu sinuoso elabitur anguis Circum perque duas in morem fluminis Arctos Geor. 1. V. 710. In th' Artick Skie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Northern in the Northern half of the Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Bear the name of the noted Stars the Greater and Lesser Bears near the North Pole feigned to have been Calisto Daughter of Lycaon King of Arcadia Mistress to Jupiter and her Son by jealous Juno turned into that Beast and placed by her Gallant among the Stars Laudataque quondam Ora Jovi lato fieri deformia victu Ursaque conspectos in montibus horruit ursos Et celeri raptos inania vento Imposuit Caelo vicinaque sidera fecit Met. l. 1. Arctos Oceani metuentes aequore tingi Geor. 1. V. 711. Shakes Pestilence and War Of these fatal Effects the Poets were great Observers Non secus ac liquidà si quando nocte Cometae Sanguinei lugubre rubent AEn 10. Diri toties arsere Cometae Geor. 4. Crinemque tremendi Syderis terris mutantem regna cometen Luc. l. 1. Augurium qualis laturus in Orbem Praeceps sanâ—â—ineo delabitur igne Cometes Prodigiale â—â—â—ens Non illum navita tuto Non impune vident populi Sed crine minaci Nunciat aut ratibus ventos aut Urbibus hostes Claud. de Rap. Pros. l. 1. Crine ut flammifero terret fera regna Cometes Sanguineum spargens ignem vomit atra rubentes Fax Caelo radios saevâ luce coruscum Scintillat sidus terrisque extrema minatur Sil. Ital. l. 1. Qual con le chiome Sanguinose horrende Splender Cometa suol per l'Aria adusta Che i Regni muta e i fieri morbi adduce A i purpurei Tiranni infausta luce Tal ne l'Armi ei Fiammeggia c. Tasso Cant. 7. St. 52. Most of these are used to set off an angry Hero armed for dreadful Deeds as our Author hereby expresseth Satan's Rage and Indignation and I give the judicious Reader his Option out of the six Quotations to find any one so expressive of the common Sentiments of Mankind and the fearful Effects they apprehend from the appearance of Comets as is our Author's And from his horrid Hair shakes Pestilence and War V. 715. With Heaven's Artillery fraught As when two pitchy Clouds big with Heaven's Cannon loaden with Roaring Thunder cross the Caspian come grumbling on then stand Head to Head awhile staying the grim Engagement till appointed Winds sound the sure Signal to discharge their dreadful Volleys rending the Mid-Air Heaven's Artillery Thunder Quicquid habent telorum Armamentaria Caeli Juv. Sat. 13. Artillery of Artillier a Bow-maker Bows and Arrows were the Artillery of
the Sax. Daegian to grow day V. 1038. Her fardest Verge Here the Creation and all Created Nature have their utmost Bounds Fardest is the Superlative of Far from the Sax. Feor or the Belg. Varre distant from Verge of the Fr. Verge and this is of the Lat. Virga a Rod is in our Law-Books called Virgata and is the compass of the King's Court whose most considerable Officers carry Virga's i. e. White Staffs to denote their Authority See Stat. 33 Hen. 8. c. 12. V. 1039. As from her utmost c. Retreating like an Enemy beaten from his Out-works V. 1040. With less Hostile Din With less furious Noise Hostile Din such a violent Clamour and Shout as Engaging Armies make Hostilis Lat. of Hostis Lat. an Enemy Din of the Sax. Dyn a Noise coined of such a sort of Sound as the Lat. Tinnio is V. 1042. Wafts on the calmer Wave Sails more easily or'e the smoother Sea more swift Wings through the gentle Air his way I have shewed before that Flying and Sailing are Metaphors convertible and used alternately by the Poets Calmer of Calm of the Fr. Calme gentle smooth applicable both to the Seas and Skies as depending on the Winds which raise and trouble both it is very probable that the Original is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. heat of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to burn because in great heats the Weather is generally calm from want of Wind. Waft seems a Derivative of Wave a dancing o're the Waves V. 1044. Holds gladly the Port And like a Weather-beaten Ship is got safe into Harbour where the Sailers rejoyce thô damaged in her Sails and Rigging Shrouds are the Sails the Cloathing of the Ship of the Sax. Scrud Cloathing Tackle of the Belg. Taeckel a Rope V. 1045. Or in the emptier Waste Or in the thinner Space much like the Air poises his out-stretch'd Wings flaps his broad Wings poizing himself Waste of the Belg. Waest empty desolate of the Lat. Vastus great wide Resembling Ressemblant Fr. like to V. 1048. In Circuit undetermin'd Square Stretch'd out wide in compass hard to determine whether square or round as to its Shape and Figure Circuit of Circuitus Lat. the compass of a City or any Inclosure What Figure the Empyreal Heaven is of may be very hard to determine but the Héavenly Jerusalem described in the Revelations is said to be four-square Revel 21. v. 16. Square of the Ital. Squadrare the corruption of Quadrare Lat. to square Round Fr. Rond of Rotundus Lat. of a Circular Shape V. 1049. With Opal Towers With Towers of Precious Stones Opal Lat. Opalum a Stone of divers Colours partaking of the Carbuncles faint Fire the Amethists shining Purple and the Emralds pleasing Green V. 1050. Of Living Saphire Beautiful with Pinacles and Turrets of never-decaying Saphire Living Saphire bright and chearful full of Strength and Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a precious Stone so named of its clearness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. bright perspicuous Battlements are Ornaments set on the Walls of great Cities Castles and other Noble Structures principally intended for Security against Assaults thence a Derivative of the Word Battel of the Lat. Batuere to sight Ibid. His Native Seat The Place of his Birth the Country of his Creation Heaven the Place of his former Happiness Nativus Lat. V. 1051. In a Golden Chain Our Poet seems to have borrowed this Golden Chain of Homer where he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter says if all the Gods with the Earth and the Sea hung upon a Golden Chain he would Pull 'em all up into Heaven c. V. 1052. This Pendant World This well-poized World the self-ballanc'd Earth Ponderibus librata suis Met. l. 1. Of which Job gives us the best account That God hangeth the Earth on Nothing c. 26. v. 7. And c. 38. v. 6. he dares Human Understanding to determine Whereupon are the Foundations thereof set or who laid the Corner-Stone thereof Ibid In bigness as a Star of smallest Magnitude In bulk like a Star of smallest size Many Stars not only of the first Magnitude but of smaller Sizes surpass and exceed the whole World by many Degrees as the Celestial Surveyors of the Heavens assure us the Earth being but a meer Point compared with the Firmament Gassend l. 1. c. 3. Stars of the first Greatness are 108 times as big as the Earth and those of the sixth Size 18 times yet is the Moon reckoned to be 39 times less than the Earth and is commonly accounted the Planet whose Sphear is nearest to it Gass. l. 2. c. 14. V. 1055. He hies He makes hast he makes all the speed he can of the Sax. Higan to use diligence NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK III. Verse 1. HAil Holy Light c. Hail Divine Light Illustrious First-born of the Almighty Word Oh thou bright Beam of everlasting Purity thy self as everlasting Hail the old word used in Salutations answering to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Greeks and the Roman Salve of the Sax. Hael Health By this Hail the former of 'em is interpreted in the Salutation of the Angel Gabriel to the Mother of our Blessed Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc. 1. v. 28. mentioned by our Author in his Fifth Book On whom the Angel Hail Bestow'd the Holy Salutation used Long after to Blest Mary second Eve Ibid. First-born Light was doubtless the first and brightest Birth of Heaven without which even the Deity himself is inconceivable Speak not of GOD without Light was Plato's saying and what is there among all his Creatures so expressive of his Goodness Omniscience and Purity Who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment Psal. 104. v. 3. Light as to the Creation of this lower World was the first of all the Creatures that had the Almighty Fiat pronounced at its Production Then God said Let there be Light and there was Light Gen. 1. 3. So our Poet Forthwith Light Etherial first of all Things sprung from the Deep V. 2. Coeternal Thou bright Beam as everlasting as thy everlasting Father GOD Almighty Coaeternus Lat. of the same duration with Eternity V. 3. May I express thee unblam'd c. Blameless may I declare thee because God himself is Light and from Eternity in amazing brightness disdaining all approach of Human Eyes dwelt from Eternity dwelt then in the bright Emanation of the brightest Being Eternal Uncreate Ibid. GOD is Light Nothing can give us a clearer Idea of the Divine Incomprehensible Being than Light See him described His Brightness was as the Light Hab. 3. v. 4. God is Light and in him is no Darkness 1 John 1. v. 5. Every perfect Gift cometh from the Father of Lights Jam. 1. v. 17. V. 4. In unapproached Light Who dwelleth in the Light that none can approach unto whom no Man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. 6. v. 16. When our Saviour appeared to St. Paul
Fore-knowledge of God does not determine the Minds of Men to good or bad Actions thô that Fore-knowledge be infinite and infallible nor does the commission of Good or Evil depend thereon But he that knoweth whereof we are made and that searcheth the Hearts and trieth the Reins that knows all our Thoughts afar off clearly foresees all our Faults and Failings which we should have committed undoubtedly althô they had not been foreknown or foreseen by that infinite Eye In vain did all the Prophets cry against the Abomination of Israel and the Idolatries and Backslidings of Juda if these People had it not in their power to serve God rather than Baal Choose you this day whom you will serve c. but as for me and my House we will serve the Lord says Josuab And when the People had made and confirmed their Choice v. 21. Nay but we will serve the Lord he replies upon them Ye are Witnesses against your selves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him and they said We are witnesses Jos. 23. v. 22. Good and Evil Life and Death therefore are in the Choice and ballance the Wills of all Mankind they have the Election of their Mischiefs and Miscarriages in their own Power neither does any Influence of the Stars or pretended Power of Fate bend or incline their Wills to Folly were there any Power so coercive as to constrain and force them unto Wickedness Mankind nay even the worst of them would not be inexcusable they Decree therefore their own Revolt that Defection from their Maker to his and their Enemy the Devil It is observable that where God cautions the Israelites against the false Prophets that should go about to turn them away after other Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used a word properly signifying a Revolt Deut. 13. v. 5. as also Jer. 28. v. 16. and ch 29. v. 32. in both which it is translated Rebellion V. 120. So without least Impulse So without the least motion force or pretence of any over-ruling Power Impulsus Lat. for such a force as is necessary to set an Engine in motion c. Mankind must be Engines if set on work by any other Motives than the Impulses of their own Free-will V. 121. Immutably foreseen The celebrated Place in the Controversie of Free-will in Rom. 9. v. 11 and 13. Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated for the Children being yet unborn neither having done any Good or Evil c. seems to imply such an Immutability in God's Foresight as influenced the Actions of these two Brethren and their Descendents but the truth is God from his high Prospect foreseeing all the Behaviour not only of these two Brethren but of Mankind infallibly and unerringly the Divine Fore-knowledge and Fore-sight had no power or weight on the Wills of them and their Posterity tho he foresaw that of the first would endeavour to keep his Commandments and Statures and should therefore be his chosen People and that of Esau would forsake his Ways and become Reprobate to God and all Goodness To what end are all the Promises of Happiness and the Rewards of everlasting Life and the Terrors of the Lord his Threatnings and the repeated Denuntiations of Eternal Punishment Damnation and Hell to obstinate and impenitent Sinners If they that do well and those that commit Iniquity do both not what they would but what they are constrained to do obey not God but Necessity how shall the Judge of all the Earth do Judgment as Abraham says in his humble Expostulation with his Maker Gen. 18. v. 25. Is God unrighteous who taketh Vengeance I speak as a Man God forbid for how then shall God judge the World Rom. 3. v. 5 and 6. Immutable Immutabilis Lat. unalterable unchangeable V. 122. They Trespass They Sin they Offend Trespass of the Fr. Trespasser to go beyond to transgress of the Lat. Trans beyond and Passus Lat. going Transgression being a Proceeding beyond the Limits of the Law Ibid. Authors to themselves Leaders and Guiders of themselves in all things which they judge fit and reasonable to be done and therefore choose to do Author or as better writ Auctor is one that adviseth or perswades another So Virgil useth it Italiam petiit fatis Auctoribus AEn 10. Confâ—â—iis habitus non futilis Auctor AEn 11. Judge of Judicare Lat. to esteem God has not left himself without a witness Acts 4. v. 17. A severe one indeed and irreproachable which every Reprobate will bring with him and against himself at the dreadful Day of Doom V. 128. Ordain'd their Fall My Decree eternal and unchangeable appointed their Freedom exempted 'em from all force of any Foreign or Exterior Power made sufficient to have stood their Ground against all Temptation they ill advised choose to mistrust me and fall off from their Maker and this Conscience God's Umpire the wary Inmate of each Man's Breast will testifie one day against the Opposers of Mankind's Elective Liberty Ordain'd of the Lat. Ordinare to set in order to appoint to take care of V. 129. The first sort c. The Fallen Angels the Apostate Spirits fell from their Obedience by their own Consent and Inclinations Self-tempted Self-depraved tempting and vitiating themselves Suggestion of Suggestio Lat. a prompting or inticing of Suggerere Lat. to perswade Deprav'd of Depravare to corrupt to make ill V. 131. Deceived by the other first Man sins deceived and cheated by those fallen Angels and therefore shall find Pardon and Compassion which is denied those that tempted both him and themselves V. 135. Ambrosial Fragrance filled all Heaven At the first Promise and Promulgation of God's Mercy well does our Poet to fill Heaven with this Divine Fragrance all Sacrifices and Attonements made to obtain it under the Ceremonial Law being called A sweet Savour unto the Lord Numb 15. v. 3 7 10 c. The Mercies of God are expressed by the same Epithete by the Royal Psalmist Psal. 129. v. 21. For thy Mercies are sweet Of Ambrosial B. 2. V. 245. Liquidum Ambrosiae diffudit odorem Geor. 4. Homer makes no scruple of feeding Neptune's Horses with Ambrosia thô it is commonly used by him for the Gods own Diet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fragrance of Fragrantia Lat. a pleasant Smell or Persume V. 136. Spirits Elect Elect of Electus Lat. Chosen This does not contradict what was asserted before at V. 100. Such I Created all the Etherial Powers and Spirits Free and sufficient yet not secure from falling for the Elect Angels and Blessed Spirits above as to the continuance in their happy Station are secured by their Obedience as well as Gods chosen here on Earth Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure for if you do these things you shall never fall for so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. v. 10 and 11. V.
reasons excellently ch 6. v. 6 and 7. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and how my self before the high God Shall I come before him with Burnt-offerings with Calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl Shall I give my First-born for my Transgression the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul No alas nothing less than the First-born of the Almighty The Image of the Invisible God and the First-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. could attone whom God ordained to be a Propitiation for us Rom. 3. 25. Atonement under the Mosaic Law was an Offering brought to appease God's Anger by Sacrifice out of the Herd or the Flocks which was to be slain by him that offered it Lev. 1. v. 4 and 5. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the Burnt-offering and it shall be accepted for him to make Atonement for him And he shall kill the Bullock before the Lord. The Word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies Redemption or Ransom all the Judaic Immolations being Types and Figures of that Immaculate Lamb Jesus Christ The Lamb of God who taketh away the Sins of the World John 1. 29. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood Eph. 1. 7. Atonement seems a Musical Metaphor like Accord to bring Jarring Differences and Diffonancies ad Toman into Tune V. 241. On me wreck all his Rage On me let Death revenge himself with his utmost Rage Wreck of the Sax. Wpaecan to be revenged V. 249. With Corruption there to dwell According to the Prophetic Psalmist For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither suffer thy holy One to see Corruption Psal. 16. 10. Illustrated and applied to our Saviour who rose the third day by St. Peter Act. 2. v. 20 21 c. V. 253. And stoop inglorious And be humbled and subdued disgraced and disarmed of his irresistible Dart. Positis inglorius armis AEn 10. Inglorious Inglorius Lat. disgraced V. 255. Maugre Hell In spight of Hell Maugre of the Fr. Malgré against ones will of the Lat. Malé and Gratum V. 256. The Powers of Darkness bound According to the Apostle to the Colossians ch 2. v. 15. And having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them confirmed by St. Luke ch 10. v. 17 and 18. Lord even the Devils are subject unto us through thy Name and he said unto them I saw Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven V. 259. Glut the Grave Satisfie cloy the wide gaping Grave that e're it be satisfied must devour all Mankind The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death 1 Cor. 15. 26. Glut of the Lat Glutire to swallow V. 269. Filial Obedience The Duty and Submission which as a Son he paid his Almighty Father exceeded only his everlasting Love to mortal Men Filial of Filialis Lat. belonging to a Son Obedientia Lat. Duty Obedience V. 273. Thus replied Answered thus Of Replicare Lat. to reply to speak again to V. 276. My sole Complacence My only Delight and Pleasure In whom alone I am well pleased Complacentia Lat. of Complacere to like well See before V. 168. of this Book V. 282. Their Nature c. Joyn and unite their Manhood to their Godhead Perfect God and perfect Man c. according to St. Athanasius's Creed V. 285. By wonderous Birth Behold a Virgin shall Conceive and bear a Son Isa. 7. 14. and Matth. 7. 18. V. 286. The Head of all Mankind thô Adam's Son The Answer to the Question with which our Saviour posed the Pharisees Matth. 22. 45. Christ is Adam's and David's Son as to his Humanity and David's and Adam's Lord as to his Divinity therefore in the holy Page styled The last Adam The first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. V. 287. As in him perish For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22. Restored of Restaurare Lat. to renew revive V. 291. Thy Merit imputed shall absolve Thy holy Life and meritorious Death accounted and imputed to Mankind shall obtain Pardon and Forgiveness for as many as renounce their own Deserts and through Faith lay Claim to thine For as by one man's disobedience many were made Sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 19. And therrfore it was imputed to him for Righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone Abraham that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe him c. Rom. 4. v. 22 23 and 24. Imputed of the Lat. Imputare to reckon to account Absolve of the Lat. Absolvere to absolve to acquit to free V. 292. Who renounce their own both Righteous For who can justifie himself before God We must all say as Job did If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will I not lift up my head I am full of confusion Job 10. 15. We are all an unclean thing and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa. 64. 6. But could we do all that is commanded us we are unprofitable Servants Luke 17. 10. Renounce of the Lat. Renuntiare to forsake to disclaim V. 293. Live in the transplanted Removed from the killing Letter of the Law to the gracious Gospel that brought Life and Immortality to light pursuing the Simile used before at V. 288. of Christ being a second Root by whom we are Regenerated Transplantari Lat. to be removed as Trees are into another place a better soil V. 304. Degrade thine own Debase dishonour of Degradare Lat. to disgrace V. 307. God-like Fruition All that God enjoys Fruition of the Lat. Frui to enjoy Quitted all left forsaken all of the Fr. Quitter to leave V. 313. This Humiliation This thy humbling and debasing of thy self to redeem lost Man The greatest Humiliation sure that ever was where the Son of God made himself of no Reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of Men And being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Phil. 2. v. 7 8. V. 314. Thy Manhood to this Throne According to our Creed As also 1 Tim. 3. 16. God was manifested in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World received up into Glory And Ye Men of Galilee why stand ye Gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Acts 1. 11. Hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the Clouds of Heaven Matth. 26. 64 V. 315. Here shalt thou sit Incarnate Here
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
top reaching to Heaven does his Divine Nature Oh that thou wouldst rent the Heavens that thou wouldst come down Isai. 64. Vers. 1. Christ indeed may well be represented by this Heavenly Ladder for by him not only the Angels but all the Saints and faithful Servants of God who in Heaven shall be like the Angels Matth. 22. Vers. 30. do ascend and descend that is have free access to God and the Throne of Grace and attain by his Merits Everlasting Happiness So Rupertus Vatalbus and others Others interpret this Ladder to be the way to Perfection towards which we must endeavour to ascend gradually Many are the Stairs and Degrees of Faith Repentance and all the Christian Virtues to be persued by perseverance in well-doing ere from the bottom fixed on frail Dust and Ashes we can climb up to the highest pitch of Perfection where GOD stands at the top ready to receive us into Everlasting Joy Mysteriously was meant Contained some Divine Matter was not to be understood according to the Letter but signified some Secret more considerable Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sacred Secret something concerning holy Things concealed from being common of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to instruct to interpret the knowledge of Sacred Rites V. 519. Or of Liquid Pearl Or of Pearl dissolved made liquid and fluid like Water of a bright shining White Praeferuntur Margaritae quae Candidissimae Lucidissimae Rotundissimae Levissimae Minimi Ponderis sunt Rueus de Gem. Lib. 1. Pliny tells us the Oysters whose pretious Off-spring Pearls are are so knowing of their Treasures that upon the approach of any Humane Hand they compress their Shells harder than ordinary and if forc'd open often bite off the Invaders Fingers Justissima tantae temeritatis Luxus avaritiae poena an Observation very fictitious and fallacious and contradicted by every Days Experience and found by chance as dangerous to the Mouse caught by the Nose in this Scaly Trap as by accident it may have proved to any Man Of Jasper see V. 363. of this Book V. 522. Rapt in a Chariot drawn by Fiery Steeds Snatch'd up into a Chariot drawn by Shining Horses this is meant of Elijah 2 Kings 2. Vers. 11. as he that is said to sail o'er the Liquid Lake of Pearl wafted by Angels must be Enoch Gen. 5. Vers. 24. That both these were translated into the Earthly Paradise which they were of Opinion did still exist Irenaeus Hieronymus Justinus and others held where by Eating of the Tree of Life they remain free from all Distempers both of Body and Mind in continual Contemplation of God though not in the Beatifick Vision of Him Others affirm That without Meat or Drink or the want or desire of them they continue unchanged and incorruptible GOD suspending in them the Act and Power of Natural Heat from preying upon the Radical Moisture that feeds the Lamp of Life Others who believed the entire abolition of Paradise suppose 'em carried into some Superiour Orb illustrious and delightful unknown to Mankind where free from all Inconveniences both of Body and Soul they are to continue till towards the end of the World they are to appear against Antichrist and to be put to death by him Tertull. August Rupertus Suarez grounding the last part of their Opinion on Mala. 4. Vers. 5. Matth. 17. Vers. 11. and Revel 11. Vers. 3. V. 524. Or aggravate his sad Exclusion Or to make his Banishment from that place of Bliss more grievous to him of aggravare Lat. to render more heavy and uneasie Exclusio Lat. shutting out V. 529. Wider by far Because GOD in the first Ages of the World did more frequently visit his chosen Servants and People Abraham Isacc and Jacob and the Children of Israel by his holy Angels not only calling to them out of Heaven but by conversing Face to Face of which see divers Instances before Vers. 511. of this Book V. 531. The Promised Land Canaan promised to Abraham and his Seed after him by GOD. Abraham dwelt in the Land of Canaan and the Lord said to Abraham Look from the place where thou art Northward and Southward Eastward and Westward for all the Land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever Gen. 13. Vers. 12 14 and 15. See Gen. 12. Vers. 7. Deut. 34. Vers. 4. V. 532. Those happy Tribes Of the Children of Israel so happy in GOD's particular Instruction of 'em and his continual Providence over them Tribes of Tribus Lat. a Division of the Romans at first into the three parts Senators Soldiers and the common People Hence Tribus of the Numeral Tres. V. 533. On high Behests On extraordinary Commands and Occasions Hest and Behest are old words of the Sax. Here a Command Obeying Natures first Behest Spen. F. Q. Book 6. Cant. 4. St. 14. Who his Hest observ'd Idem Book 5. Cant. 12. St. 43. V. 535. From Paneas the Fount c. Was by the Ancient Geographers accounted a Fount of Mount Libanus and thought to be the Head of Jordan till later and better Discoveries have found its true Sources to be Jor and Dan whence it takes its Name as our Thames is of Tame and Isis two Fountains both at the Foot of Libanus in the Confines of Caelosyria running Southward It is a rapid River of a thick Warer as washing a far Soil full of Fish and its Banks adorn'd with thick and pleasant Woods as Monsieur Thevenot an Eye-Witness of it testifies Ibid. Jordan is perhaps the most famous River in the World for the many Miracles and Mysteries there wrought It was past over by the Israelites on dry-foot Josh. 4. Also by Elijah and Elisha in the same manner 2 Kings 2. Vers. 8. In it Naaman the Syrian left his Leprosie Chap. 5. Vers. 14. In it John Baptized the Jews into Repentance and afterwards our Saviour himself was in this River Baptized by him Matth. 3. Vers. 5. and 15. The Talmud derives his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as descending from Dan the City anciently called Lais near Paneas formerly supposed the Spring and Fountain of Jordan by Plin. Lib. 5. Cap. 15. and Solin Cap. 38. V. 536 To Beersaba c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Well of the Oaths because there Abraham and Abiâ—â—lech swore and made a Covenant together Gen. 21. Vers. 31. A Town of Idumaea at first belonging to the Edomites afterwards to the Tribe of Symeon which the Christians warring against the Infidels for recovery of the Holy Land so styled because our Saviour wrought there the Salvation and Redemption of the World Fortified as bordering on the Arabian commonly call'd the Red-Sea not far from Egypt as our Poet truly says this was the Southern as Jordan and Libanus the Northern Limit of the Promised Land V. 539. As bound the Ocean Wave Well has our Poet declared the Bounds appointed to Darkness and encroaching
ye stately Pines Et rigidas motâ—re cacumina quercus Ecl. 6. Factis modò Laurea ramis Annuit Utque caput visa est agitasse cacumen Met. Lib. 1. To Wave is to move a Wave being nothing but Water put into motion of the Sax. Wagian to be in motion or to move to and fro V. 196. Mellodious Murmur Ye little purling Rills that by your Motion make a pleasing sound Ceu Saxa Morantur Cum rapidos amnes Clauso fit gurgite Murmur AEn 11. Is not half so sweet as the Harmonious Complaint seeming to be made by Rivers interrupted in their Watry Way V. 200. Ye that in Waters glide c. Fish and Beasts and creeping things V. 204. Made Vocal by my Song made to resound and eccho forth thy Praise taught by my assiduous and repeated Song Horace gave Ears to the Woods that danc'd after Orpheus Auritas Fidibus Canoris Ducere quercus Carm. Lib. 1. Od. 12. And Milton here mentions the Voices inhabiting in Hills and Woody Shades Cujus recinet jocosa Nomen imago Aut in umbrosis Heliconis Oris Aut super Pindo Gelidove in Haemo Hor. Ibid. Vocal Vocalis Lat. Endow'd with a Voice so he calls the Divine Poet Vocalem Orphea Hor. Ibid. and the Nerves instrumental to the Formation of Speech are call'd Nervi Vocales V. 214. Their pamper'd Boughs their wanton luxurious Branches abounding in Leaves Pamper'd of the Ital. Pamberato fat or of Pamprer Fr. to be full of Leaves of Pampinus Lat. a Vine-Leaf Tibi Pampineo gravis Autumno Floret ager Georg. 2. V. 216. The Vine to wed her Elm Used not only to support Vines but to ennoble and meliorate them Longo usu compertum Nobilia Vina non nisi in arbustis gigni in his quoque Laudatiora summis sicut uberiora imis Adeo excelsitate proficitur hac ratione arbores Eliguntur Prima omnium Ulmus Deinde Populus nigra c. Plin. l. 17. c. 23. Viribus eniti quarum contemnere ventos Assuescant summasque sequi tabulata per Ulmos Geor. 2. Illa tibi laetis intexet vitibus Ulmos Ibid. V. 217. Her Marriageable Arms. Ergo aut adultâ vitium propagine Altas Maritat Populos Hor. Epod. 2. Inde ubi jam validis amplexae stirpibus Ulmos Exierint Geo. 2. Haec quoque quae junctâ vitis requiescit in Ulmo Si non nupta foret terrae acclinata jaceret Met. 14. V. 218. Her Dow'r th' adopted Clusters the fruitful Vine brings her Grapes her Noble Off-spring as her Dower adopted by the barren Elm. Dower or rather Dowry properly signifies the Portion a Woman brings her Husband in Marriage Dower being that setled on her in lieu thereof for her life if she survive him It is of the Lat. Dos and this of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to give Conjugium quaesitas sanguine Dotes AEn 7. Et numeras in Dote triumphos Juv. Sat. 10. Adopted of adoptare Lat. to take into ones care as a Son Adoptati were such who for their Courage Virtuous Education and promising Parts were by the Childless Romans chosen out of other Families to heir the Estates of those who did adopt 'em and past into their Power as absolutely as if begotten by 'em better pleased that Nature left them the choice of a Successor than if she had imposed and entailed one on them unworthy perhaps of their Famous Ancestors V. 221. Raphael the Sociable Spirit the Friendly Angel Raphael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Health of God of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to heal by the Cabalists he is made Governor of the West Part of Heaven and Ruler of the Coolihg Zephirus the soft gentle Wind named Fovonius à Favendo of his cherishing Influence Scciable Socialis or Sociabilis Lat. Friendly of Socius Lat. a Companion Tob. 5. Vers. 4. V. 223. The seven-times Wedded-Maid Sarah Tob. 7. Vers. 11. V. 232. To respit with repast with Food and rest interrupting his Days Work Repast Repas Fr. a Meal of Repascere to feed V. 238. He swerve not too secure he depart not from his Duty through too much Security and Presumption Swerve of the Bel. Swerven to wander to go astray V. 249. Thousand Coelestial Ardors but from among a Multitude of Heavenly Angels well exprest by Ardors Ardor Lat. Brightness Fervency Exceeding Love c. to which the Angelick Excellency may well be assimulated in respect of their Purity Activity and Zeal His Ministers a Flame of Fire Psal. 104. Vers. 4. Hebr. 1. Vers. 7. Ardor is by Virgil used for Fire Cui Pineus Ardor acervo Pascitur AEn 11. Thence expressive of any Passionate Impulse Idem omnes simul ardor habet AEn 4. V. 254. The Gate self open'd of its own accord the Gate opened wide Hung on Homer's Hinges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 257. To obstruct his sight no Cloud or Star stood in his way to hinder his Immortal Eye Obstructs of obstruere Lat. to build before to take away ones Prospect to stop up Placidasque viri Deus obstruit aures AEn 4. V. 259. Not unconform c. He sees how ever small shewing but like a Point the Earth not unlike other shining Globes and in it Paradise the Garden of God Not unconform not unsuitable of in Lat. un and conformis Lat. alike This resemblance of the Earth to other shining Coelestial Bodies here hinted at is more largely treated of Book 8. Vers. 140. What if that Light Sent from her the Earth through the wide transpicious Air To the Terrestrial Moon be as a Star Enlightning her by Day as she by Night This Earth And that faint Light which in the New and Waning Moon in spight of her Silver Horns discovers to us her darker Disk formerly reputed her Native Luster now called her Secundary Light is found to be reflected from the Earth upon her when nearer us she moves within the Region of this Terrene Reflection Gassend Lib. 2. Inst. Astron. V. 262. Of Galileo less assured The Angel in his flight from Heav'n discovering the Earth is compared to Galileo the Italian Astronomer Native of Florence and Professor at Padua whose Glass is said to be less assured that is not so infallible and undeceivable as the Angelick Opticks though it gave him so clear a prospect of the Moon that he affirms Ex quo deinde sensatà certitudine quispiam intelligat Lunâ—m superficie leui perpolitâ nequaquam esse indutam sed aspera inaequali ac veluti ipsusmet Telluris facies ingentibus tumoribus profundis lacunis atque anfractibus undiquaque confertam Galil Nunc. Syd Hence these Imagin'd Lands and Regions in the Moon V. 264. The Cyclades are the Northern Islands in number about 53 lying in the form of a Circle in the Egean Sea so call'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Circle Sparsasque per aequor Cycladas crebris legimus freta consita terâ—is AEn 3. Pelago credas
best Poets as a Fiction to a Seraphim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The same is repeated in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and many other places and thus Translated by Virgil Ille Patris magni parere parabat Imperio Et primum pedibus talaria nectit Aurea quae sublimem alis sive aequora supra Seu terram rapido pariter cum flamine portant AE 4. Tasso's Gabriel is Copied from the same Original Fende iventi e le nubi va sublime Soura la terre e soura il mer con queste c. Cant. 1. Stan. 13. and 14. V. 293. Cassia Nard Cassia is a sweet-smelling Arabian Shrub whose Bark yields a smell like Cynnamon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Chaldee word of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shave or scrape off used Psal. 45. Vers. 8. Thy Garments smell of Myrrh Aloes and Cassia Nec Casiâ liquidi corrumpitur usus Olivi Geor. 2. Nard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Nardus Spikenard an Odoriferous Assyrian Plant My Spicknard sendeth forth the smell thereof Cant. 1. Vers. 12. V. 295. Her Virgin-Fancies her Youthful sportive Fancies play'd her undebauched Virgin-Vigour poured forth The Earth was more fruitful and productive while her Inhabitants were sinless Virgin Virgineus Lat. Maiden V. 297. Enormous Bliss Boundless immeasurable excessive Happiness Enormous of the Lat. Enormis exceeding great irregular of En. Preposition and Norma Lat. a Rule as well exprest before Wild above Rule or Art a Wilderness of Sweets which if compared with Virgil's Inter Odoratum Lauri nemus AEn 6. the best Grove in his Elysian Fields in which his happy Souls and the famous Musaeus sat and sang will as far out-do it as Paradise did all the Poetick Fictions imaginable V. 299. As in the Door he sat And the Lord appeared unto him Abraham in the Plain of Mamre And he sate in the Tent-door in the heat of the Day Gen. 18. Vers. 1. V. 301. His Fervid Rays his hot Beams Fervidus Lat. hot scorching of Fervere Lat. to Boyl Ipsa inter medias Flagrantem Fervida Pinum Sustinet AEn 7. V. 305. And not disrelish thirst and not displease or distaste thirst Disrelish of the Negative Particle dis and relecher Fr. to please ones self with tasting of re again and lecher Fr. to lick V. 310. Another Morn ris'n on Mid-Noon like a new Morning risen at Mid-Day the Glorious Angels dazling shape appeared Nothing is more Glorious than to see the beauteous blushing Morning with her Orient Beams chase and disperse the diminish'd and decaying Darkness Now went forth Morn Such as in highest Heaven array'd in Gold Empyreal from before her vanish'd Night Shot through with Orient Beams Book 6. Vers. 12. What Expression then can be more noble or exalted than to appear like another Morn ris'n on Mid-Noon V. 321. Adam Earths hallow'd Mould Adam Earths consecrated Clay or Earth cast into this sacred Shape of the Divine Similitude because God form'd him of the Dust of the Ground yet in his own similitude and likeness and breath'd into his Nostrils the breath of life Gen. 2. Vers. 7. Of God inspired Inspiratus Lat. breath'd on or into V. 327. And Juciest Gourd A Gourd is a Sappy Plant such as Melons Cucumbers and Quashes of the old Fr. Gouhourde the Corruption of Cucurbita Lat. Juciest and Juice Moisture of the Ita. Sugo whence the Span. Jugo Fr. Jus all of the Lat. Succus V. 331. With dispatchful looks with a busie face with a face full of dispatch Of the Fr. Despescher or It. Dispacciare to make haste Hospitable thoughts considering of the entertaining of her Angel-Guest Hospitalis Lat. belonging to Hospitality Hospitium Lat. V. 335. Tastes inelegant not pleasant not well order'd as he says not well joyn'd Tastes that do not heighten one another by a graceful and elegant Succession Inelegant inelegans Lat. uncomely V. 336. Taste after taste c What Virgil said of smell Et vos O lauri carpam to proxima Myrte Sic positae quoniam suaves miscetis Odores Ecl. 2. V 338 Earth all-bearing Mother that bears and brings forth all things necessary for the maintenance and support of her innumerable Inhabitants So Homer styles her the Nourisher of many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Giver of Life and all the Necessaries for its support V. 339. Or Middle Shoar Or on the Borders of the Midland-Sea thence call'd the Mediterranean V. 340. In Pontus or the Punick Coast in Asia of which Pontus is a part bounded Northward by the Euxine or Pâ—ntick Sea Has herbas atque haec Ponto mihi lecta venena Ecl. 8. The Punick Coast part of Africa call'd Phoenicia of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of its first Kings whence Punicus and Poeni the Inhabitants Punica regna vides Huic conjux Sichoeus erat ditissimus Agri Phoenicum AEn 1. V. 341. Alcinous Reign'd He was King of a Grecian Island in the Ionian Sea now the Gulph of Venice anciently call'd Phoeacia then Corcâ—ra now Corfu under the Dominion of the Venetians The Soil is fruitful in Wine Oyl and most excellent Fruits and its Owner is made famous for his Gardens celebrated by Homer and admired by his discerning Hero Ulysses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pomaque Alcinoi Sylvae Geor. 2. Quid bifera Alcinoi referam Pomaria Vosque Qui nunquam vacui prodistis in aethera rami V. 343. Tribute large paid by the all-yielding Earth as a Contribution from her various Tribes of Trees Flowers and Plants Tributum Lat. a Tax laid on the People raising publick Money according to their several Abilities either à Tribuendo or because paid Tributim according to the Custom still in some Cities in Flanders where the Nations that is the several distinct Tribes and Trades raise the Taxes Well then may the vast Productions of the Earth in her full Strength and Vigour especially in Paradise the Garden of God be styled a large Tribute V. 345. Inoffensive Moust Wine new and yet harmless Mustum Lat. is any new Liquor unsetled and unfine thence generally unfit to be drunk and offensive Mustus signifies new as Musteus Caseus Plin. new tender Cheese a Derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the young tender shoot of a Vine as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Orchard of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the same Inoffensive harmless of in Negative Particle and offendere Lat. to hurt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nudataque Musto Tinge novo mecum direptis crura cothurnis Geor. 2. Ibid. And Meaths sweet Drinks squeezed from pleasant Berries Sweet like Mead which some are fond of deriving from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Wine as made in imitation of it V. 347. She tempers Dulcet Creams she mixes sweet Draughts prest from Kernels whose white Juice resembles Cream Of
one Coelestial Father c. That one great Heav'nly Father feeds us all V. 405. To Man in part Spiritual To Man who as to his Nobler Part his Soul is Spiritual Spiritualis Lat. of the Nature of a Spirit V. 407. Pure Intelligential Substances Angels and Spirits those refined understanding Beings whose clearer Intellects and inlighten'd Minds are sublimed and exalted so far above Mankind immers'd in matter must be sustain'd and supported with some sort of Spiritual Aliment as the Rational and all Created Beings are nothing but the Infinite and the Almighty One being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Self-sufficient Intelligentia Lat. Knowledge in the Abstract such as is expressive of Angels and Spirits from the Purity and Sublimity of those Coelestial Minds See Vers. 414. V. 412. Concoct The Office of the Stomach macerating our Meat by its Internal Heat Of Concoquere Lat. to boyl Ibid. Assimilate turn into their own likeness As all Creatures turn their Food into their Corresponding Flesh Blood and Animal Spirits of Assimilare Lat. to be like V. 417. Earth and the Sea feed Air c. There being a constant Circulation of the Elements they do by continual Mutations and Vicissitudes make and maintain one another Earth being nothing but the Dregs and Faeces of Water coagulated by Condensation as Water is Air by the same means thickned into Visibility as Fire is Air sublimely rarified each support other by an incessant Circumrotation interchangeably running round Thus from the Humid Unctuous Earth Vapours and Exhalations are rarified into Water that supports the Seas vast source from the Earth and the Sea the thinner and lighter Perspirations are the same way transmuted into Air and Air exalted and inspirited to Fire and by the contrary Condensation in Quaternion run Perpetual Circle multiform as before at Vers. 181. V. 420. Unpurged Vapours gross Exhalations and foul Mists mounting up to the Moon that look like black Patches on her fair Face Vapours undigested unrefined not yet clarified and converted into her clear Complexion V. 421. No Nourishment exhale the moist Moon sends from her humid Globe Food more refined up to the higher Orbs to exhale exhalare Lat. to breathe out as rising Mists seem to be exhaled Quae tenuem exhalat nebulam fumosque volucres Geor. 2. V. 423. That Light imparts That affords and communicates Light to all things Imparts of the Lat. impertire to bestow a part or share on V. 424. His Alimental Recompense The Sun himself that on the Universe bestows his chearing Light and enlivening Rays receives in moist Returns and unctuous Vapours his Nourishment from all as Toll and Tribute paid him in grateful Recompense Alimental Alimentum Lat. Food Nourishment V. 426. Sups with the Ocean According to the Opinion of Thales who supposed Water the First Matter of the Creation borrowed of the Description of the Creation by Moses Gen. 1. Vers. 2. So Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Render'd by Virgil Oceanumque Patrem rerum Nymphasque sorores Geor. 4. Not only the Sun but all the Homerick Inhabitants of Heaven are entertained by the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now these Ethiopians dwelt near the Suns Supping-Room Oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem Ultimus AEthiopum locus est AEn 4. Audiet Herculeo stridentem gurgite solem Juv. Sa◠15. V. 429. Mellifluous Dews and Pearly Grain A Description of Manna Angels Food the Bread of Heav'n And when the Dew that lay was gone up behold upon the Face of the Wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the Hoar-frost on the Ground and it was like Coriander-Seed white And the taste of it was like Wafers made with Honey Exod. 16. Vers. 24 and 31. Man did eat Angels Food Psal. 78. Vers. 25. Mellifluous Mellifluus Lat. sweet as Honey V. 434. To their Viands their Victnals Their Food Fr. Viande Ita. Vivande both of Vivere Lat. to live as Victus Food V. 435. Not seemingly nor in Mist The Angel did not make as if he did eat nor put the cheat upon 'em by casting a Mist before their Eyes according to the Gloss of Theodoret in his 68 Question on Gen. 18. Vers. 8. who tells us that as those Angels who appeared to Abraham were by Moses styled Men having nothing of Human Nature but the outward appearance so they were said to eat when they did but seem to do so Cibum simulatis illis manibus capientes in simulatum quoque os ingerentes clam consumpserunt prout illis placuit Of the same Opinion is St. Thomas Tom. 1. Part. 9. 51. Art 2. which they support by the Confession of Raphael himself All these Days I did appear unto you but I did neither eat nor drink but you did see a Vision Tob. 12. Vers. 19. The Angel that appeared to Manoah declared against it And the Angel of the Lord said Though thou detein me I will not eat of thy Bread Judg. 13. V. 16. Our Author on the contrary believes the Angel did with keen and hungry dispatch eat digest and turn what was convertible of it into his proper substance evacuating the rest by Perspiration nor does there seem any absurdity in the Asseveration since most Texts of Holy Writ where the Appearances of Angels are Recorded make 'em subject to Human Sight Hearing and Feeling too why not then to Eating as literally affirm'd of 'em as any of the other Actions falling under Sense But these Enquiries are too subtle and exceed the compass of our Capacities Ibid. The common Gloss of Theologians the usual Interpretation of Doctors and Divines Gloss Glossa Lat. of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Tongue signifies an Exposition or Interpretation of an obscure place of Holy Scripture or other Writing Protinus enim potest Interpretationem Linguae Secretioris quae Graeci Glossas vocant dum aliud agitur ediscere Quint. Lib. 1. Cap. 2. Theologians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that writes or reasons concerning GOD and his Holy Mysteries that treats and teaches Divine Matters the School-Divines and Doctors V. 438. To transubstantiate and heat sufficient to digest and turn into the substance of the Creature fed the Food it eats The proper Office of the Stomach aided by its innate vigorous heat Transubstantiate and Transubstantiation Barbarous Lat. Words that have much disturbed the World Ibid. What redounds transpires What remains over and above what is necessary and fit for nourishment breathes out vanisheth into Air Is voided and evacuated as Sweat evaporates through the Pores Redundare Lat. to be over and above to exceed to overflow Transpirare Lat. to sweat to breathe through V. 440. The Emperick Alchemist The Prying the Experimental Chymist Emperick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that is taught by tryal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Endeavour Experiment hence a bold daring and unskilful Quack is call'd an Emperick from venturing by dangerous Medicines to make
illi Dulcis compositis spiravit crinibus aura Atque habilis membris venit vigor Geor. 4. Ambrosial Book 2. Vers. 245. V. 643. Whence Light and Shade spring both More fully described in the beginning of Book 6. Vers. 4. There is a Cave Within the Mount of God fast by his Throne Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns which makes through Heav'n Grateful Vicissitude like Day and Night c. V. 646. In darker Veil Night comes not there in darker Dress Veil Fr. Voile Lat. Velum à Velando from covering Night well resembling a Veil thrown o'er the dark'ned World Nox ruit fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis AEn 8. Ibid. Roseat Dews Dews resembling Roses both as to scent and shew Roseat of Rosaceus Lat. of a Rose Colour of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for that charming Flower V. 647. All but th' unsleeping Eyes of God Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is thy Keeper Psal. 121. Vers. 4 and 5. V. 649. Than all this Globous Earth c. Larger and more capacious than this round Earth if flatted and spread out all into one wide open Plain Globous Lat. Globosus round of Globus any thing of a round shape So at Vers. 750. of this Book Regions to which All thy Dominion Adam is no more Than what this Garden is to all the Earth And all the Sea from one entire Globose Stretch'd into Longitude Then Paradise is in Comparison of Earth and Sea if from their vast great Round they both were stretcht and drawn out into Length Longitudo Lat. Length V. 654. Coelestial Tabernacles Heav'nly Tents Tabernaculum Lat. a Tent. V. 657. Alternate all Night long By turns singing and answering one another of Alternare Lat. to do any thing by turns Illi Alternantes multa vi praelia miscent Geor. 3. V. 661. Preeminence Praeeminentia Lat. a state of extraordinary Splendor and Dignity of Praeeminere Lat. to be raised in Power and Place above others V. 664. Messiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Anoint as Christ of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the same as interpreted by the following words King Anointed We have found the Messias which is being interpreted the Christ Joh. 1. Vers. 21. The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed Psal. 2. Vers. 2. V. 671. His next Subordinate The Angel commanding next under him of the Lat. Subordinatus Lat. next in order and degree V. 675. Has past the Lips of Heav'ns Almighty According to the Scripture where God is spoken of after the manner of Men But by every word that proceeds out of the Mouth of God Matth. 4. Vers. 4. V. 677. Was wont to impart Used to communicate my most secret Thoughts Impart of the Lat. Impertire to make Partner in to discover and disclose V. 679. Thy Sleep dissent How come we now so far to disagree that thou shouldst sleep so soundly while I wake disorder'd and disturb'd at the Almighties new and strange Decree Dissent of Dissentire Lat. to be of contrary Opinion and Sentiments to disagree V. 697. The Regent Powers The Commanders of Regere Lat. to bear Rule to Govern V. 700. Had disincumber'd Heav'n Night had disingaged Heaven Had clear'd it by withdrawing it self of dis the disjunctive Preposition and encumbrer Fr. to hinder to trouble or perplex or of the Ita. Ingombrare to hinder as Darkness does Hierarchal Standard that belonging to Satans whole Hierarchy V. 702. Tells the suggested Cause Acquaints 'em with the pretended Occasions of their March Suggested of Suggerere Lat. to prompt to put in mind slily to insinuate V. 703. Casts between ambiguous Words Le ts fall doubtful Expressions and Words that seem to soâ— Suspicion Ambiguus Lat. doubtful that may be taken in a double sense Hinc spargere voces In vuigum ambiguas AEn 2. Ibid. Jealousies Suspicions Jalousie Fr. is properly a mistrust arising between Lovers concerning their plighted Truth and Honour from thence translated to signifie the Suspicions Cities and Bodies Politick have of Incroachments on their Liberties c. V. 704. To sound or taint Integrity To fathom or infect their Loyalty To try or â—aint their Obedience To sound is a Marine Metaphor from the Plummet so necessary to the Seaman's safety of the Fr. sonder to try the depth of the Water Taint of the Fr. teindre Lat. tingere Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to die to colour to infect Corruption shews it self by discolouring Integritas Lat. Truth Loyalty V. 708. As the Morning-Star that guides c. The Morning-Star Lucifer as he is named at Vers. 760. How art thou fallen from Heav'n O Lucifer Son of the Morning Isal. 14. Vers. 12 Diffugiunt Stellae quarum agmina cogit Lucifer Coeli Statione novissimus exit Met. 12. Qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer undâ Quem Venus ante alios Astrorum diligit ignes Extulit os sacrum Coelo tenebrasque resolvit AEn 8. Translated from Homer's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 710. Third part of Heav'ns Host Behold a great Red Dragon c. and his Tail drew the third part of the Stars of Heav'n and threw them to the Earth Revel 12. Vers. 3 and 4. V. 711. The Everlasting Eye God Omniscient whose Everlasting Eye beholds the â—nmost Motions of our Minds as the Psalmist reasons admirably He that formed the Eye shall he not see The Lord understandeth the Thoughts of Man Psal. 94. Vers. 9 and 11. Discerns knows distinctly of discernere Lat. to see plainly Abstrusest the most hidden the most secret Thoughts of abstrudere Lat. to thrust into a Corner out of the way and search of Men. V. 713. The Golden Lamps c. And there were seven Lamps of Fire burning before the Throne Revel 4. Vers. 5. V. 716. Among the Sons of Morn Among the Angels So called of their early Creation before this lower World as many suppose and as the Series of our Poem assumes at Vers. 577. As yet this World was not c. V. 720. In full Resplendence In its fullest and most perfect Brightness Resplendescentia Lat. Brightness Ibid. Heir of all my Might whom he hath appointed Heir of all things Hebr. 1. Vers. 12. V. 726. Throughout the spacious North According to that of Isaiah where he parallels the insulting Assyrians with Satan For thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heav'n I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit in the sides of the North Chap. 14. Vers. 13. V. 732. Our Sanctuary Sanctuarium Lat. Heaven God's holy Seat Look down from thy holy Habitation from Heav'n Deut. 26. Vers. 15. V. 736. Hast in derision Despisest laughest to scorn He that sitteth in the Heav'ns shall laugh The Lord shall have them in derision Psal. 2. Vers. 4. Of deridere Lat. to laugh
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
Mankind is should be a stranger to the Omniscience of GOD Almighty V. 23. Acclamations Shouts of Joy Acclamatio of Acclamare Lat. to shout for Joy V. 26. High applauded Highly commended extreamly extoll'd Applauded applausus Lat. of applauderc to clap Hands in token of liking and approbation Ingeminant plausum Tyrii AEn 1. V. 44. Michael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. the Power of God of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to be mighty Gabriel Book 4. V. 549. V. 45. Military Prowess Warlike Courage Military of Militaris Lat. Soldier-like of Miles Lat. a Soldier Prowess Prouësse Fr. Valour V. 48. By Millions By mighty Multitudes Million Lat. Millio 1000000 of Mille Lat. a Thousand V. 54. Of Tartarus Book 2. V. 858. Hell the bottomless Pit that stands gaping wide to receive 'em into its Flaming Confusion V. 56. The Sovereign Voice God Almighty whose Omnipotent Word made all the World and makes it tremble and melt before him V. 58. In Duskie Wreaths reluctant Flames Now Clouds began To hide his Holy Hill and rowling Smoak Fraught with fierce Fire contending to get free The signal of his rising Wrath. Reluctant Flames Striving to break forth Of Reluctari Lat. to Struggle V. 62. In mighty Quadrate In a vast square Gross Of Quadratus Lat. Square whence Agmen Quadratum V. 66. Heroick Ardor Noble Courage like that of Heroes Book 1. vers 552. Ardor Lat. Courage Diine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt Euryale AEn 9. V. 69. Indissolubly firm So strongly Embattled and Embodied as not to be broken Indissolubilis Lat. not to be dissolv'd Ibid. Obvious Hill No Hill stood in their way or opposed their March Obvious Lat. what meets or stands in ones way V. 73. When the total Kind of Birds When the Generation of Birds when the whole species of Fowls appeared upon the Wing And Adam gave Names to all Cattel and to the Fowl of the Air Gen. 2. vers 20. V. 77. Manyâ—a Province wide Many a large Country Province Provincia Lat. for any Country not formerly part of Italy added by fair or foul means to the Roman Empire Sicilia Princeps se ad fidem amicitiamque populi Romani applicuit prima omnium Provincia appellata est Cice. pro Fla. V. 78. Of this Terrene Ten times the length of this Earth of this Terrene Globe Terrenus Lat. Earthly Of Terra Lat. the Earth Terreno ex aggere bustum AEn 11. V. 79 Far in th' Horizon to the North As far as Angels Eyes could see Northward The Horizon is a Circle dividing the Heavens into two half Circles and thereby determining our Sight By the Greeks styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By the Lat. Finiens The Horizons are various according to the variety of Situations Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. To Terminate as they do our view Nec sidera tota Ostendit Lybicae finitor circulus Orae Luc. l. 9. V. 80. A fiery Region The North is call'd from the Clearness and Brightness of the many Stars in that Quarter though the South is better provided with them than Antiquity was aware of But fiery seems here to relate to the Bright Beams that darted from the flaming Arms of Satans innumerable Host marching from the North. AEraque fulgent Sole lacessita lucem sub nubila jactant AEn 7. V. 81. Stretcht in Battailous Aspect The whole North had the Face and Front of one great Battle set in orderly Array extended and stretcht from skirt to skirt from one side to the other Battalions Of Battailer Fr. to Fight to wage War to give Battle V. 82. Bristled with upright Beams The Beams that shot upright into the Air from Sphears and Helms and shining Shields made the flaming Region of the North appear as if quite full of fiery Bristles V. 84. With boastful Argument Portray'd Painted with Vain-Glorious Boastings of what they now design'd Portraid Of the Fr. Pourtraire to Paint Of the Lat. Protrahere as our English to Draw V. 86. They Ween'd They Thought they Foolishly imagined an old Word V. 93. In fierce Hostings meet Joyn in adverse Encounters charging each other in destructive Deeds such as Hosts and Armies shock one another with Of Hostis Lat. for an Enemy V. 105. A dreadful interval A dismal space Intervallum Lat. a space between properly that between the Stakes in a Roman Trench which being but small an Interval is put for any small space of Place or Time and thence a Rest in Musick which made Virgil add to it longâ— to express a great distance Longo sed Proximus intervallo AEn 5. V. 107. Before the Cloudy Van Before the black main gross Van Book 2. vers 537. V. 108. On the rough Edge of Battel On the bold brink of Battel Edge is a word not to be exprest by any other in our Language and in the Sense here meant it has a strange Relation to the Lat. Acies that signified both the sharp Edge of any Weapon and also an Army in Battel Array ready for the Charge in which it is expressive of this rough edge of Battel Haud aliter Trojanae Acies Aciesque Latinae Concurrunt AEn 10. V. 113. His own undaunted Heart explores Trys and Sounds his own Courage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Explores Of Explorare Lat. to Search Try and Consider well Non lupus insidias Explorat Ovilia circum Geo. 4. V. 115. Realty Truth Integrity Realitas Lat. V. 118. Or weakest prove where boldest Why should not Strength and Might there be wanting where Virtue wanting is Or weakest prove and most inferior where Impudently and Impiously rely'd on Where Boldest where most Audacious and Brutal V. 129. At this prevention more incens'd More enraged by Abdiel's being before-hand with him and preventing his bold Defiance by his Challenge Praeventio Lat. a getting the Stars of Praevenire Lat. to get before to gain ground of V. 134. His side Abandon'd His party Deserted and Forsaken Of Abandonner Fr. to leave to quit V. 138. Incessant Armies to defeat thy Folly The Almighty who Created all Things out of nothing could easily raise Armies Everlasting new and never ceasing Forces to disappoint and humble thy Ambition Defeat Defaire Fr. to destroy to unmake V. 139. With Solâ—â—ary Hand With his own single Arm without Second or Assistance Solitarius Lat. alone of Solus the same V. 146. Erroneous to Dissent When I alone among thy multitudes mistaken seem'd to disagree with all th' Etherial Host. Erroneous out of the way deceiv'd Of Errare Lat. to be deceived V. 147. My Sect thou seest Those that are of my Party and Opinion Secta Lat. for a Side Faction Family of Philosophers c. Philosophorum Sectae Familiae Disciplinae Cice. V. 149. Askance Book 4. Vers. 504. V. 152. Seditious Angel Thou that lovest Factious Broils Mutinous and Troublesome Seditiosus Lat. a maker of Mutinies Seditione potens AEn 11. V. 159. Omnipotence to none Who while they feel Divine Power and Strength within themselves
Peace and Composure so at vers 566. Do as you have in Charge and briefly touch what we propound that is discharge the loaded Engines with a sudden touch of your fiery Reeds V. 568. So Scoffing in Ambiguous Words Thus mocking in words of uncertain meaning Ambiguus Lat. doubtful that may admit of divers meanings V. 570. To either Flank retired On either side drew of Flank Fr. side Retirer Fr. to draw of V. 572. A Triple mounted row c. A Triple row of mounted Pillars laid A threefold Rank of Paillars raised on Wheeles V. 577. With hideous Orifice With dreadful yawning opened on us wide Orifice Orificium Lat. the Mouth of any thing Engin or Vessel V. 578. Portending hollow truce Foreshewing faithless proffers of Peace Foretelling unsound Truce Hollow empty vain not sound and substantial Portending of Portendere Lat. to betoken bespeak V. 580. While we suspense collected stood c. While we iâ— doubtful expectation stood thoughtful and musing what the consequence and issue of this strange sight might be Suspensus Lat. doubtful uncertain Suspensi Eurypylum scitatum Oracula Phaebi Mittimus AEn 2. Collected Wrapt up gathering together and summing up our thoughts Of Colligere Lat. Amus'd astonisht strook with Wonder at so strange a sight of Amuser Fr. to amaze with something strange and unusual V. 583. To a Narrow Vent To the small touch-hole Vent of the Fr. Fente a little Crack or Cleft of Fendre Fr. of the Lat. Findere to cleave With Nicest Touch with exact quick speedy Touch. V. 584. Immediate in a Flame c. Immediately all Heav'n seem'd in a Flame but Darken'd soon with smoak belcâ—t from those Engins deep Throats whose wide Mouths with horrid Roarings fill'd the empty Air and Rent her easie Entrails hurling out their Dreadful Load Linkt Thunderbolts and Haâ—l of Iron Balls A Wonderful Description of the Dreadful and Destructive Terrestrial Thunder V. 586. Deep-threated Engins Guns rightly so Termed as being all one long deep Throat Belcht to Belch is to break wind through the Throat and is coyn'd of the sound it creates V. 587. Embowell'd Fill'd as the Bowels do all that Cavity and Hollow wherein they are Lodg'd Outragious Book 2. Vers. 436. Disgorging Book 7. Vers. 575. Glut. Book 3. Vers. 259. V. 596. Evaded by Contraction Have got off by lessening their Size or shifting Place Evaded avoided of Evadere Lat. to escape Contractio Lat. of Contrahere to draw together into less Room as at Book 1. Vers. 781. Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest Forms c. Vers. 598. Foul Dissipation Disgraceful Disorder Dissipatio Lat. A breaking and Scattering abroad Vers. 599. To Relaxe their serried Files To open to their loose Order to widen their closed Ranks Relaxare Lat. to open Et quae densa Relaxat Geo. 1. Serried Book 1. Vers. 548. V. 600. Repulse repeated A New Shock and repeated Disgrace Repulse Lat. Repulsus of Repellere to beat back Fracti bello fatisque Repulsi AEn 2. V. 605. In Posture to displode c. Ready to discharge their Second Rank of Thundring Guns Posture of the Lat. Positura that Position of the Body or its parts suitable to any Action intended Displode of Displodere Lat. to break in pieces with a great Noise Tire either of Tuger Bel. a Row a Rank or Tire Fr. a draught of Tirer Fr. to draw without which Ordnance are unmoveable and unmanageable V. 613. Terms of Composition He means his compounded Nitre and Sulphur and his Iron Hail not Terms and Propositions of Peace according to his former Ambiguity and Belials subsequent to this Compositio Lat. a mingling and compounding divers things together and also Peace-making Agreement Composing of differences Terms à terminando Lat. from ending and determining all differences V. 614. Into strange Vagaries Strange fits of Skipping and Jumping to and fro Vagaries of Vaguer Fr. Vagari Lat. to Skip up and down to make odd and uncertain Motions V. 616. Somewhat Extravagant Somewhat Giddy Wandring and Wild of the Fr. Extravagant of the Lat. Extravagari to wander and rove up and down V. 619. To a quick Result We should force 'em to come quickly to a Conclusion to take as speedy Resolution Result is another word of Ambiguity implying a Resolution and the Sum or Result of the whole Matter or a Rebounding and Leaping back of Resultus and Resultare Lat. to Skip back V. 620. In like Gamesom Mood In as Pleasant an Humour Mood of the Sax. Mode the mind thence used for its Motions and Affections V. 628. In Pleasant Vein In merry Discourse in Pleasant Talk Vein of Vena Lat. the Humor Discourse or Stile Sed vatem egregium cui non sit publica vena Juv. Sat. 7. V. 642. Light as the Lightning Glimps As Nimble as the Winged Lightning Glance Fulminis Ocyor alis says Virgil. AEn 5. Meant of the Wind that always attends Thunder but nothing is certainly more Nimble or Suddain than the Glancing Lightnings Glimps Darting as quick as thought Glimps seems of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as suddain darting Light V. 654. Main Promontories Flung Vast Mountains hovering o're their Heads Promontorium is a vast Eminence hanging over or running far into the Sea Montibus evulsis fuscus subtexitur aether Noxque super miseros Campis conserta pependit Luc. Phar. 7. V. 6â—7 Into their Substance Pent Shut up and Inclosed in their Substance Pent of Pen of the Sâ—x Pyndan to enclose as Book 4. Vers. 185. V. 658. Pain implacable Pain not easily allay'd not soon asswaged Impiacabilis Lat. of in Negative and placare to Appease V. 665. With Jaculation dire So in mid Air did Hills encounter Hills with horrid Hurlyburly a Nobler Idea of the Warring Angels than any of the Poets have given us of the Gigantic Invasion of Heaven by the Titans they endeavour'd to make their Scalado by heaping the Mountains one upon another Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet atque Ossae Frondosum involvere O'ympum Geor. 1. And could not rear 'em tho' less than these our angry Angels hurl'd at one anothers Heads Encounter'd Met and opposed and shockt each other Encontrer Fr. incontrare Ital. of the Lat. in and contra Jaculation of Jaculatio Lat. a hurling or casting of Jaculari Lat. to throw V. 670. Had gone to wrack Had been Torn and Rent in Pieces Wrack Bel. for the Ruins of a Ship beaten to Pieces by the Rocks and Waves call'd thence Shipwrack V. 672. Consulting on the Sum of things Considering all things or advising on the Result and sequel of things An Expression suited to the Size of our short Apprehensions who understanding imperfectly and by degrees gather the consequences of things not at one Omniscient Giance as God Almighty does to us Incomprehensible Summe Lat. Summa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rerum Summa used by Lucret. for all things imaginable the Universe Advised Resolved well considering and decreeing what should end this Tumultuous conflict Avisé
Poets and Philosophers of the ancient Gauls and Britains Bard is a Welsh word so signifying still Plurima securi fudistis carmina Bardi Luc. l. 1. V. 36. Till the savage Clamour drown'd Till the wild Uproar overcame both charming Voice and Harp Sauvage Fr. wild Clamour Clamor Lat. a shout a roaring This is well express'd by Ovid Cunctaque tela forent cantu mollita sed ingens Clamor inflato Berecynthia tibia cornu Tympanaque plaususque Bacchêi ululatus Obstrepuere sono citharae tum denique saxa Non exauditi rubuerunt sanguine vatâ—â— Met. l. 2. V. 37. Nor could the Muse c. Nor could the Muse Calliope defend Orpheus her Son Perque os prò Jupiter illud Auditum saxis intellectumque ferarum Sensibus in ventos anima exhalata recessit Ibid. V. 41. The affable Archangel The sociable Spirit as styled Bo. V. Vers. 221. Affabilis Lat. Courteous Nec visu facilis nec dictu affabilis ulli Part of Polyphemus's cruel Character AEn 3. V. 42. Apostasie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a defection a falling away from a quitting Apostates Bo. I. V. 125. V. 46. The interdicted Tree The forbidden Fruit. The Tree of the knowledge of the Good and Evil Gen. 2. 17. Interdicted Bo. V. Vers. 52. V. 50. With his consorted Eve With his espoused Eve Consorted of Consort Book IV. Vers. 447. V. 52. And deep Muse and much Thoughtfulness With strange Astonishment and deep Meditation Muse of the Fr. Muser silently and seriously to meditate on hard matters Donner la Muse à To put one into a brown study V. 57. Redounded Returned back fell back Of Redundare Lat. to return backward as Currents stop'd and opposed do V. 59. Soon repeal'd Quickly recall'd and dismiss'd the Doubts arisen in his Mind Recall'd and cancell'd c. as Orders sometimes are of Rappeller Fr. to recall V. 67. Yet scarce allay'd The desire of Knowledge is well compar'd to Thirst not easily satisfied So Virg. Tale tuum carmen nobis divine Poeta Quale sopor fessis in gramine quale per aestum Dulcis aquae saliente sitim restinguere rivo Ecl. 5. Allay'd Fr. Allegé of the Lat. Alleviare to lessen and diminish Excites stirs up of Excitare Lat. to provoke V. 88. Which yields or fills all space How first began the Air that encloses the fruitful Earth on all sides spread and stretch'd out so vastly wide that it affords or fills every place providing or possessing all space An excellent description of the fluid Air incircling the Terraqueous Globe V. 89. Ambient interfused Denotes the Air not only surrounding the Earth but flowing into and spurn out between all Bodies and is a fuller and finer Notation of its Liquid and Spiritual Texture leaving no Vacuum in Nature than that of Ovid Ncc circumfuso pendebat in aëre tellus Met. l. 1. Interfus'd Interfusus Lat. poured out between of Interfundere Lat. Florid Floridus Lat. floury gay V. 92. So late to build Why God was not pleased to create the World 100000 Years before he did and how he employed his infinite Power Wisdom and other unaccountable Perfections before the Creation are some of those vain and Atheistical Enquiries of impertinent and daring Men who little acquainted with the turns and motions of their own frail and unruly Wills would pry into the Secrets of the Eternal Mind and ask an account of that Almighty Will which created all Things how and when he pleas'd Such Doubts are unresolvable as not coming within the compass of Human comprehension for the Question will at last run up to Eternity it self and the Enquiry will come to this impious and absurd Demand Why God did not make the World co-eternal with himself Ad quem potius pertiâ—eret momentum Creationis indefinitum definire ad te qui dubitas an ad Deum qui fecit Val. V. 94. How soon absolv'd In what time perfected and compleated Absolv'd Absolutus Lat. Opus absolutum a work done and finish'd V. 103. From the unapparent Deep The Sun the great Light of Day has still much of his Race to run thô going down the Hill delay'd and with-held by thy Voice he will stop his Course to hear thee relate his glorious Birth and the Generation of Universal Nature rising out of the vast Womb of Waters dark and deep Unapparent Deep Where nothing was to be seen according to Gen. 1. 2. Darkness was upon the face of the Deep And longer will delay Seems an imitation of Virgil praising the Songs of his two Shepherds Immemor herbarum quos est mirata juvenca Certantes quorum stupefactae carmine lynces Et sua mutatos requierunt flumine cursus Ecl. 7. Which our Poet has outgone by adding Sleep listning to thee will watch Sleep shall forget his drowsie Dulness or we can bid his Absence or we can well want him and no wonder when giving ear and audience to an Angel V. 115. What thou canst attain As far as thy capacity will reach Attain of Attaindre Fr. Attingere Lat. to arrive or reach to Noscenda est mensura tui Juv. Sat. 11. V. 116. And infer thee also happier Which may best serve to encrease the Glory of thy Maker and to improve and evidence thy own happiness Inferr of Inferre Lat. to conclude V. 123. Hath supprest in Night Has concealed and hid as unsearchable Has hid in the dark Of Supprimere Lat. to conceal V. 124. To none communicable c. Discoverable to none neither Angels nor Men as the dreadful Day of Judgment of which our Saviour himself says Of that day and hour knoweth no Man nor the Angels of Heaven but my Father only Matth. 24. 36. Communicable of Communicare Lat. to make common to impart V. 127. Her Temporance over Appetite Knowledge is to the Mind what Food is to the Body and stands no less in need of Moderation to check our desires too eager often after it than our Stomach does to stint its craving and must be suited to our Capacities otherwise like Surfeits that turn what was intended for our Nourishment into Diseases and windy Fumes Knowledge in stead of making us wiser will degenerate into Folly Fantastickness and flatuous Pride Surfeit Bo. V. Vers. 639. V. 128. What the Mind may well contain What exceeds not our Capacities I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under Heaven This sore travel hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith Eccles. 1. 13. Haâ—c occupationem pessimam Philosophandi dedit Deus filiis hominum ut occuparentur in eâ Vall. in Praeem V. 144. Whom their place knows here no more And the Place thereof shall know it no more Psal. 103. 16. V. 149. With Ministeries due With suitable service holy Rites and Attendance Ministerium Lat. Attendance Detriment Detrimentum Lat. loss Damage Dommage Fr. Damnum Lat. hurt V. 162. Inhabit laxe Dwell more at large
Wâ—en thou art seen least wise Whose greatest Wisdom is to observe thy weakness who sees most clearly her Advantages in thy fits of Folly V. 585. To subdue the Soul To conquer or overcome of Subdere Lat. to subdue V. 587. Attractive c. Whatever in her Conversation thou findest noble and reasonable and thence charming cherish still Attractive Attrabere Lat. to draw to to entice V. 591. In reason and is judicious Noble manly Love is guided by Reasonâ— not giddy and blind as that the Poets feign but rational and judicious adviseable able to choose and distinguish 'T is carnal and low Love of which Ovid said Nec in â—nâ sede morantur Majestâ—â— Amor. The Angelic Reason well advises Adam not to subject himself to his Desires nor to suffer Transported Passion to degrade the Majesty of Man Judicious of Judicium Lat. Judgment The Sealâ— the way up of Sealâ— Lat. a Laddâ—r V. 595. Half Abash'd Almost out of Countenance Abash'd of Esbahir Fr. to affright or Abbaisser Fr. to humble to render dejected shame disordering the Face and as it were casting down the Countenance V. 597. In Procreation Procreatio Lat. the begetting of Children or by Beasts their like of Procreare Lat. to beget V. 598. Of the Genial Bed Thô I have higher thoughts of the Propagation of Mankind and conceive there is something more Mysterious and Awful in it because thereby God's Image first on me imprinted is to be multiplied by my Posterity Genial Bed the Marriage Bed Genialis à Gignendo Lat. V. 601. Those Decencies Those many Graces that so wonderfully set off all her Actions and become her very words Decens Lat. comely becoming V. 605. Harmony to behold An Agreement more Musical and pleasant in a Wedded Couple than any Consort can be to the Ear. Harmony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an accord and consent of Voices in Singing of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to agree V. 617. Mix Irradiance virtual or immediate Touch. Mix they their pure Emanations like Streams of liquid Light twisting their bright Celestial Rays like the Sun 's subtil Beams darted at distance or by close Conjunction and mutual touch A curious Enquiry long since determined by our Saviour For when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage But are as the Angels which are in heaven Mar. 12. 25. 'T is an Opinion of the School-men that one End thô less principal of God's creating Man was to repeople Heaven emptied by the Fall of the wicked Angels of many of its Glorious Inhabitants by Creatures of another Mould the more to enhance the loss of those Rebellious Nimirum diminutio Angelorum ob ruinam malorum spirituum supplemento hominum erat resarcienda Perer. in Gen. c. 2. v. 18. At which our Poet hints Into our Room of Bliss thus high advanc'd Creatures of other Mould Earth born perhaps Not Spirits c. Bo. IV. Vers. 359. And further But lest his Heart exalt him in the harm Already done to have dispeopl'd Heav'n My Damage fondly deem'd I can repair That Detriment c. Bo. VII Vers. 150. Mirari licet cur Deus cum posset ruinas Angelorum novis à se creatis Angelis reaedificare c. Cur inquam homines alterius naturae conditionis fecerit quos reponeret pro Angelis Rupert From all which 't is obvious to infer that the Angels are reputed to be of one Sex otherwise they might have repaired their decrease by Propagation as our Author remarks in Adam's Complaint O why did GOD Creator wise that Peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine Not fill the World With Men as Angels without Feminine Bo. X. Vers. 888. Irradiance Irradiatio Lat. a darting or shining forth A word well chosen to express our little knowledge of Angelic Beings Virtual Virtualis Lat. powerful as things are said to be that act and are efficacious at a distance as the Sun is said to be Virtually in the Earth by the activity and force of his Light and Heat V. 624. In Eminence and Obstacle c. We enjoy to the heighth without any hindrance In Eminence Eminenter Lat. in the highest degree Bo. II. V. 6. Obstacle Obstaculum Lat. hindrance lett of Obstando Lat. to stand in the way of Membrane a thin Skin Membrana Lat. Parchment Exclusive Bars Bars that hinder and shut out the longing carnal Lover of Excludere Lat. to shut out V. 627. Total they mix Entirely they embrace and mix with one another without any opposition not as Flesh with Flesh and Soul with Soul Mediantibus corporibus but fully and freely as Air doth with Air. V. 632. Hesperean Sets But I can now discourse no longer the Setting Sun beyond Cape Verd and the Islands ever Green draws near the Western Ocean the time of my departure as before For these mid-hours till Evening rise I have at will Bo. V. Vers. 376. The Earths green Cape Cape de Verde Caput Viride the most Western Point of Affrica called anciently Hesperium Cornu Cape Capo Cabo Cap all of the Lat Caput the Head A Cape is the utmost End of a high Headland or Promontory which shoots it self far into the Sea Verdant Green Bo. VII Vers. 310. Hesperean Sets is setting in the West Hesperean of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Occidentalis the Western part of Heaven or Earth Hesperus the Evening Star rising there V. 637. Thine and of all thy Sons the Weal or Woe in thee is plac'd Weal of the Sax Well The Welfare the Happiness or Misery of thy Posterity depends on thee Prolis spes una futurae Exemplo est firmanda tuo sunt fata tuorum Te penes in te omnis domus instaurata recumbit AEn 12. V. 641. In thine own Arbitriment c. 'T is free and left to thy choice to stand upright of fall offending Arbitriment Arbitrium Lat. judgment choice Repell reject disdain of Repellere Lat. to resist V. 645. Benediction Benedictio Lat. Blessing Ibid. Since to part Since you must go Part of Partir Fr. to depart V. 649. Thy Condescention Thy Humility to discourse with me and answer my Enquiries has been free and familiar and shall be kept for ever in thankful Remembrance Condescention Condescentio Lat. a yielding to of Condescendere Lat. to stoop to as the Angel is here supposed to Man's inferior Understanding NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK IX Verse 5. VEnial Discourse unblam'd No more I shall relate where GOD or Angel his Messenger Guest-like was pleased to visit Man familiar as a Friend and with him share a homely Meal allowing him mean-while freedom of Speech without Reproof Venial Discourse Pardonable such as thô faulty yet might be pass'd by Venialis Lat. Pardonable of Venia Lat. Pardon V. 6. Those Notes to Tragic I now must change those softer Notes in which I sung the Angels good and gracious Admonitions to Enquiring Adam to others more dire and dismal such as suit the Tragedies
80. West from Orontes Westward from Orontes a River of Syria springing out of Mount Libanus and running by the Walls of Antioch into the Mediterranean Sea Jam pridem Syrus in Tâ—berim defluxit Orontes Juv. Sat. 3. V. 81. To the Ocean Bard at Darien To the South Sea stop'd by the Isthmus of Darien It is a Neck of Land of 18 Leagues over from East to West by which the South and North America are tack'd together having on one side Panama and on the other Nombre de Dios both belonging to the Spaniard This Barricado is also called The Streight of Panama its modern Name V. 82. Ganges and Indus Thence to the East-India where Ganges and Indus flow Ganges the greatest River of East-India dividing it into two parts called still by the Inhabitants Ganga it riseth out of Mount Imaus in the Confines of Great Tartary and empâ—ies it self into the Gulph of Bengala Decolor extremo quâ â—ingitur India Gange Met. l. 4. Ceu septem surgens sedatis amnibus altus Per tacitum Ganges AEn 9. From the many Islands that beset and obstruct his entrance into the Sea Indus another great River of East-India whence the Country took its Name it has its Rise out of the highest part of Imaâ—s by some called Taurus and empties its four full Mouths three others being stop'd into the Indian Ocean the Natives call it Sinde Thus the Orb he roam'd Bo. I. V. 382. thus round the Globe he roved in Latitude from Pole to Pole and in Longitude from West to Eastern India V. 183. With Inspection deep With nicest View with thorough search Inspectio Lat. of Inspicere Lat. to look to search into V. 85. Opportune might serve his Wiles What Creature was fittest for him to play his Cheats and Pranks in Opportune Bo. II. V. 397. Wiles of the Fr. Guille Deceit Fraud V. 86. The Serpent suttlest Beast c. Many Instances are by the Naturalists opposed in Apes Foxes Dogs c. to the Supreme Suttlety of the Serpent above other Beasts but if we consider how many Wiles have been observed in this sly Animal it will be hard to produce an equal number in any other Creature The first is that of stopping her Ears thô the Charmer charm never so wisely Psal. 58. 4 5. On which words St. Austin shews us its Posture Alteram Aurem terrae admovet alteram caudâ— obturat The second is the fortifying it self when attack'd by many intricate folds encircling its Head the seat of Safety and its sleeping in the same posture as our Author well observes In Labyrinth of many around self-rowl'd his Head the midst well stor'd with suttle Wiles V. 184. A third Remark is that this cunning Creature disgorges its Poison when it goes to drink for fear of infecting its own Beverage as Epiphanius A fourth is that he feeds on Fennel the easier to get rid of his old Skin Plin. l. 8. c. 27. Fifthly that he sharpens his Sight by anointing his Eyes with the Juice of the same Herb besides all which we have the Testimony of the Inspired Moses Gen. 3. 1. confirmed by our Saviour Be wise as Serpents and harmless as Doves Matth. 10. 16. Where as the Innocence of the Dove is above comparison so the Wisdom of the Serpent seems beyond parallel V. 89. Fittest Imp of Fraud Fittest Stock to graft his devilish Fraud upon Imp of the Sax. Impan to put into or of Ente Fr. a Graft and Entere Fr. to graft upon Thus Children are called Little Imps from their Imitating all they see and hear Young Grafts just shooting up to Sense Debate Bo. II. V. 42. Revolv'd Bo. IV. V. 31. Irresolute Come to no Resolution of In and Resolutus Lat. Undetermin'd V. 90. His dark Suggestions hide Wherein to hide himself and his dark Designs Suggestions Bo. I. V. 685. V 93. As from his Native Suttlety proceeding Diabolus colubrum in Paradiso corporali animal scilicet lubricum tortuosis anfractibus mobile operi suo congruum per quem loqueretur elegit Aug. l. 14. De Civ D. c. 11. Which our Author has well explain'd by the Serpents natural Suttlety disguising the Devil 's dark Designs his natural Slyness leaving less room for Suspicion V 95. Of Diabolic Power c. Of being Possess'd and Actuated by the Devil and thence assisted by Satan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of the Devil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Slanderer of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to slander misrepresenting God to Man and accusing Man to his Maker The Accuser of the Brethren as Rev. 12. 10. V. 101. As built with second Thoughts After Heaven for that the Angels were created contemporary with Man and their Creation shadow'd by those words of Moses Let there be light Gen. 1. 2. and their Ruine notified by God's dividing the light from the darkness V. 4. seems such a huddle as Human Understanding cannot comprehend Quod agebatur in mundo sensibili imago erant eorum quae in intelligibili agebantur Nam sicuti primo die Deus divisit lucem à tenebris ita tunc simul Angelos à Daemonibus gratiam à peccato gloriam à paenà caelum ab inferis dispescuit Hugo Victor l. 1. de Sacr. c. 10. Conjectural and Allegorical Our Poet supposes therefore Heaven the Seat of Angels created before the Habitations of Men who after Tryal and Obedience were to supply the Place that Rebellious Crew had forfeited and therefore in this most incomparable Prosopopeia of Satan makes him magnifie the beautiful Creation Terrestrial Heaven built on second Thoughts more wary and refined according to the manner of Men thô all the Works of God in their destin'd degrees are absolutely perfect Reforming what was old for what God after better worse would build Being the Insinuations of Satan's Misprision of the Almighty corresponding with his malicious Character undervaluing the All-wise Creator of all Things as if his Infinite Understanding like our Imperfections were improbable by experience V. 103. Terrestrial Heaven A Heaven on Earth as hinted at before What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven and Things therein Each t'other like more than on Earth is thought Bo. V. Vers. 575. V. 106. In the Concentring all c. of Sacred Influence Darting on thee and in thy Bosom as their common Center uniting all the wealthy Rays of vast inestimable Virtue and most powerful Efficacy as if thou alone were the sole only Object of all their glorious Eyes Sacred Influence great vast Efficacy as Homer names a great Fish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a holy Fish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Darkness Sacred that is Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. The great strength of And Virg. Auri sacra fames AEn 3. So the Original in the holy Page calls great Mountains the Mountains of God Psal. 36. 6. and lofty Cedars the Cedars of God Psal. 80. 10. Concentricus Lat. that
a Wilderness of Wet produced as to have overwhelm'd the whole Earth 15 Fathoms above the highest Hills And thô this Opinion forceth 'em not only to open the Windows of Heaven but to make wide and unanswerable Breaches through the Inferior Orbs nay and to make use of God's high hand to depress the motion of these Waters which could not in 40 days no not in 100 years falling have prevailed so eminently over the haughty Hill as Dr. Gregory one of its Maintainers confesses according to received Nature and the ordinary course of Motion yet fortifying their Opinion by divers Texts of Scripture as of God's laying the beams of his chambers in the great waters Psal. 10. 4. 3. and that of the Angel How many springs are above the fâ—rmament 2 Esdr. 4. 7. they seem to satisfie themselves in that of which no Man can be sure If the Astronomical Supposition that the Earth compared with the Heavens is but a Spot a Point have any Truth in it 't is easie enough to imagine how the greatest part of the vast Aërial Expanse condens'd into continual Rains and assisted by the Sea and all its Subterraneous Sourses might raise so vast an Invasion able to over-run the whole Earth with that dreadful Inundation V. 826. Heave the Ocean to usurp Shall swell the ocean to invade Earth's Territories beyond Nature's Laws and Boundaries Usurpare Lat. to seize upon what is not our own A word well chosen to express the Preternatural Invasion of the Waters over the Dry Land 's ancient Right Ocean Bo. 1. v. 202. Inundatio Lat. the overflowing of the Sea V. 830. Push'd by the horned Flood Great Rivers are by the Poets express'd in the shape of Bulls and stiled Horned to denote the strength and violence of Torrents Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus Hor. Carm. 4. Od. 14. Gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu Eridanus Geo. 4. Corniger Hesperidum Fluvius Regnator aquarum AEn 8. Well then may our Author suppose the Deluge that General Assembly of all the Seas and all other Tributary Rivers able to displace Paradise Verdure of Verdure Fr. greeness Viriditas Lat. adrift driven away V. 832. Down the great River Down the great River Tigris into the Persian Gulf where he emptieth his open mouth V. 833. An Island Salt c. Salt according to its situation in the Sea Insula quasi in salo sita Sir Walter Rawleigh is of opinion That the Flood might spoil the Beauty and destroy the Plenty of Paradise but not so displace and remove it from its Original Site but that it may still be very well known Haunt Bo. 3. v. 27. V. 834 Seals and Ores and Sea-mews clang Now frequented by Sea-monsters and wild Birds Seales of Sel and Selhund Dan. a Sea-calf Phoca Lat. Ores of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a great Fish Enemy to the Whale Sea-mew a Sea-bird so called of Sea and Mew a word coin'd of their Note Clang Bo. 7. v. 422. Attributes Bo. 8. v. 565. Nunc ibi deformes ponunt sua corpora phocae Met. 1. V. 839. Hull on the Flood Swim to and fro on the Deluge Hull of Hollen Belg. to run apace Abated grew less of Abbatre Fr. to beat down V. 841. Driven by a keen North Wind The North is a clearing Wind that dissipates the Clouds thence said to blow dry and therefore by Ovid in Dcucalion's Deluge lock'd up Protinus AEoliis Aquilonem claudit in antris Et quaecunque fugant inductas flamina nubes Met. 1. Nimbisque aquilone remotis Ibid. V. 842. Wrinkled the face of Deluge Gen. 8. 1. Made the Deluge grow wrinkled signs of of its decaying and growing old Wrinkles metaphorically thô natural to Water furrow'd with the Wind applied to the decreasing Flood being the marks of old Age preying on the plumpness of Faces formerly fine and smooth Deluge Bo. 1. v. 68. V. 843. The Sun on his watry Glass The Sun warming the Waters by beholding his glorious Face in that large Looking-glass exhaled great quantities of 'em by his Potent Beams Ergo ubi diluvio tellus lutulenta recenti Solibus aetheriis altoque recanduit aestu Met. 1. V. 846. To tripping Ebbe Which made the mighty Flood shrink from a vast Universal Lake to a soft gentle Ebbe that insensibly stole away Tripping of To trip to go softly on the Toes end of Tripudiare Lat. to dance Lake Bo. 1. v. 229. Flumina subsidunt Met. 1. V. 851. Tops of Trees as Rocks Which expresses the Sea-Scene better than Ovid's Postque diem longam nudata cacumina silvae Ostendunt Ibid. V. 854. A Raven flies Gen. 8. 7. V. 856. A Dove sent forth c. Gen. 8. 8 10. V. 859. An Olive Leaf Pacific Sign Gen. 8. 11. Sign of Peace of God's Mercy to Mankind the Olive was sacred to Pallas and born by those that sued for Peace as being the Emblem of it and Plenty Placitam paci nutritor olivam Geo. 2. Ramis velatos Palladis omnes AEn 7. Pacific Pacificus Lat. Peaceful V. 865. A Bow conspicuous with three listed Colours A Bow remarkable for its gawdy Verge stain'd with three shaded Colours Three listed Colours like a List of three Colours List of Lez Fr. the edge or brim of Cloth Conspicuous Bo. 2. v. 258. Erst Bo. 1. v. 359. V. 879. Distended as the Brow of God appeas'd Arched like the Eye-brows of God reconcil'd as many things are spoken of God after the manner of Men. As his eyes are said to behold and his eye-lids to try the children of men Psal. 11. 4. Distended Distentus Lat. stretched out V. 880. As a floury Verge to bind c. Or do those colour'd Streaks in Heaven serve like a flourish'd Border to bind up the bottom of that watry Cloud lest it should break and wet the Earth again Verge of Virga Lat. a Twig of which Bandages are made Fluid Bo. 7. v. 236. V. 883. Dextrously thou aimest Thou judgest luckily or properly Aimest taking aim at a Mark being something like giving a guess at things Dextrously Dexterè Lat. happily V. 886. Grieved at his Heart It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart Gen. 6. 6. V. 887. The whole Earth fill'd with Violence c. God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt and the earth was filled with violence Gen. 6. 11 12. V. 891. And makes a Covenant c. And I behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you and with every living creature that is with you of the fowl of the cattle and of every beast of the earth c. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flloud neither shall there be any more a floud to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 9 10 11. V. 895. A Cloud will therein set his triple-colour'd Bow That the Rain-bow and its various Colours proceed from the Reflection of the Sun's Beams beaten back by a watry