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
vocqnt facultatem animalem iisdem instrumentis deferri exerceri puta Nervis Musculis Vall. de Sac. Phil. c. 79. V. 190. Inspired with Act Intelligential Endow'd his Brutal Sensitive Faculties with power of Understanding and Utterance altogether Preternatural above the ordinary use of Nature Intelligential Bo. V. V. 407. V. 192. Sacred Light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacer Dies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light and Day being by the Heathen esteemed the Irradiation and visible Emanation of the Sun the glorious God of Day Light may be better styled Holy by Christians in regard it is the clearest Emblem of God's Infinite Purity as at Bo. III. V. 3. as by it is Typified the Kingdom of Heaven and everlasting Happiness Partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Colos. 1. 12. And the Knowledge of Grace and Truth directing us the way to obtain it Because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth 1 Joh. 2. 8. Ut primum Lux Alma data est AEn 1. V. 193. On the humid Flours On the Flours wet with the Morn's precious Dew Humid Bo. IV. V. 151. V. 194. That breath'd their Morning Incense That breath'd forth their precious Fragrancy to wards Heaven perfuming the ambient Air their Native unfum'd Incense Spiriting odorous Breaths Bo. V. Vers. 482. as Virgil expresses it Sertisque recentibus halant AEn 1. Halare Lat. to cast out or breath a sweet smell Incense of Incendere Lat to burn dry and odoriferous Gums in sacrificing burnt V. 195. Send up silent Praise When all things that grow on Earth Plants Shrubs and Flowers from her green Altar send up their Sacrifice of Praise thô not express'd by any Vocal Sound but by obeying the Laws of their Creation V. 197. His Nostrils fill c. Spoken of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Scripture often does giving him Eyes Mouth a Heart and Nostrils to comply with the Imperfections and Infirmities of our Faculties And the Lord smelled a sweet savour and the Lord said in his heart Gen. 8. 21. V. 198. Their Vocal Worship Their Adoration paid with chearful Heart and Voice joyned to the Universal Quire of Creatures wanting Sounds distinct and articulate whereby to tune his Praise thô the warbling Lark and winged Voices of the Woods seem more immediately to bear a part in the general Thanksgiving some of which up to Heaven's Gate singing ascend Vocal Bo. V. Vers. 204. V. 201. Then Commune Then talk together Of Communicare Lat. to discourse of V. 203. The hands dispatch of two For their work grew upon 'em too fast to be dispatch'd and kept under by the hands of them two who had so large a Garden committed to their care The Dispatch the Riddance the Work of the Ital. Dispacciare to rid V. 209. Luxurious by Restraint Encreasing by being cropt sproughting the more by being Lop'd and Pruned Luxurious rank Bo. I. V. 498. So Luxuriem segetum tenerâ depascit in herbâ Geor. 1. V. 211. Derides tending to wild Scorns our scant Correction and mocks our Manuring over-running our Walks with wild ungovern'd growth Derides Deridere Lat. to laugh at to despise Tending of Tendere Lat. to spread to proceed V. 218. Of Roses intermix'd with Myrtle While I in yonder blushing Grove where all the Roses of the Spring mingled with Myrtle grow find what to reform Myrtle Bo. IV. V. 263. To redress Redresser Fr. to correct to amend V. 222. Looks intervene or smiles Our Looks or Smiles delay and hinder our dispatch coming between and interposing betwixt us and our Business Intervene Intervenire Lat. to come between Intermits Bo. II. V. 463. V. 227. Associate sole My one only Companion Of Associare Lat. to accompany V. 229. Well hast thou Motion'd Well hast thou moved and mention'd this to me To make a Motion and to move the Court Law terms to Entreat something of Motio and Movere Lat. Nor is Speech made any other way than by the motion of the Tongue and Air. V. 234. To Promote To Encourage Of Promovere Lat. to further V. 237. Refreshment Ease Refraischissement Fr. Refrigeratio Lat. by intermission of Labour or refection by Food Intercourse of Looks and Smiles this pleasant exchange of charming Looks and sweetning Smiles Intercursus Lat. a running between or from one to another V. 239. Smiles from Reason flow Smiling is so great an Indication of Reason that some Philosophers have alter'd the Definition of Man from Animal Rationale to Risibile affirming Man to be the only Creature endowed with the Power of Laughter denied to other Creatures who Reason though not contemptibly as our Author Bo. VIII V. 374. yet not perfectly enough to judge Quid sit Ridiculum what may move that in them V. 249. For Solitude sometimes c. For to be alone sometimes that is to keep one self company to be acquainted with our selves is highly necessary to Men and especially to Christians Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus is the Result of the Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tecum habita ut noris quam sit tibi curtasupellex Pers. Sat. 4. V. 250. Retirement urges sweet Return Absence makes Return more sweet and desirable Urges Urgere Lat. to push and prick forward Innatus apes amor urget habendi Geor. 4. V. 259. To circumvent Circumvenire Lat. to ensnare to deceive V. 264. Excites his Envy That moves his Malice more against us Excites Excitare Lat. to stir up to quicken Envy Lat. Invidia V. 266. Protects Defends of Protegere Lat. to cover to hide and thence protects from Harm V. 270. The Virgin Majesty The innocent unspotted Eve faultless as yet and unpolluted or the beauteous blushing Eve Quae Virgineum suffuderat ore ruborem As Virg. Geo. 1. Virgo is by the Poets used not always strictly for a Virgin but for a Woman So in the description of the Harpies by the same Author Virginei volucrum vultus AEn 3. Which Interpreters render Faeminei they had the Countenances of Women for they were far from being like Virgins whose Aspects were Pallida semper ora fame Ibid. Ovid calls Medea Adultera Virgo and after several Visits made by Leander cross the Hellespont to his beloved Hero not all surely in vain she is said to be Moritura super crudeli funere Virgo Geo. 3. But the Virgin Majesty of Eve the Awful Innocence of Eve will admit of a severer sense according to the fancy of many of the Fathers who were of opinion That Adam and his fair Eve were Virgins during their abode in the happy Garden because Moses took no notice of his knowing her till the Birth of Cain after their Expulsion Gen. 4. 1. Post inobedientiam post Paradisi amissionem tunc primum usus rei venereae caepit Chrys. Hom. 18. Adam Eva ante offensam in Paradiso virgines fuerunt at post Peccatum extra Paradisum protinus nuptiae Nuptiae ergo terram replent virginitas Paradisum Hier. l.
the Earth which draws and allures all weighty things to it are of Opinion that the Sun has a Magnetick and Attractive Power in his shining Orb that influenceth all the lesser Lamps of Light and makes 'em attend his Motions like an Illustrious Train wearing his Gawdy Livery V. 584. The Universe c. The World Natures whole Frame and into its Bowels working its easie way although unseen darts undiscern'd its Virtue into the Sea Univers Universitas Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole Fabrick of the World V. 585. With gentle Penetration With soft Insinuation gently sinking or making easie way into the Earth Of Penetrare Lat. to pierce into V. 586. Even to the Deep to the Sea his Wonders in the Deep Psal. 107. Vers. 24. properly so called because unfathomable yet by the Suns Prolisick Rays its Briny Bosom is warm'd and its vast Womb enlivened V. 587. So wondrously was set his Station bright So wondrously was his bright Place appointed so usefully even to admiration was his glorious Course ordained and indeed there is nothing more amazing or that gives Mankind juster Occasions of admiring GOD Almighty's Incomprehensible Wisdom than the Position and Motion of the Sun the most Glorious of all Inanimate Bodies Such is his appointed Place and such his constant Course that moving obliquely between the two Poles he divides his enlivening Influence through the wide World rendring all the Quarters of it Inhabitable and by his Invisible Virtue and various Approaches and Recesses stimulates Universal Nature into those Vicissitudes that support her That the Suns appointed Path is here called his Station and that said to be set so that the Stars dance round him dispensing Light from his Lordly Eye on which they wait by turning themselves towards him or by being turn'd by the force of his Attractive Beams seems to be said by our Author according to the Copernican Opinion of the Earths moving about the Sedentary Sun of which more Book 8. But Station Lat. Statio does not imply a want of Motion but is referable to the Orb wherein the Sun is placed and this very word is used by Pliny Statio Syderum for the Starry Orbs Lib. 2. Cap. 16. Deprensis Statio Tutissima Nautis Georg. 4. Where though Seamen might ride out a Storm yet not without violent Motions and Concussions both of Winds and Waves V. 589. Astronomer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one skilled in the Knowledge of the Stars of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Star and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to distribute one that understands the several Tribes Distributions Places and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies Lucent Orbe shining Circle Lucens Lat. shining V. 590. Glazed Optick Tube A long and large Perspective Glass called a Telescope having Glasses so framed and ground that it represents Objects at so vast a distance as the Stars are extreamly plain even to the discovery of Spots and mighty Inequalities in the Sun Maculas Faculas as they call 'em and Rivers and Mountains in the Moons spotty Globe as before Book 1. Vers. 288. where it is call'd Optick Glass here Glazed Optick Tube of Tubus Lat. a hollow Pipe in which the Glasses are placed Sin Maculae incipient rutilo immiseerier igni Geo. 1. V. 592. Medal Is a Piece of Gold or Silver Coin struck at the Coronation of some great King or Emperour or in Memory of some great Action Medal of the Fr. Medaille as both of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 594. As glowing Iron with Fire All those who have treated of the Sun affirm Light as Essentially in his Nature as Heat in Fire therefore our Author tells us that in his Glorious Body all parts are not alike some more thick and illustrious compared to Gold others more rare and less radiant resembling Silver Yet notwithstanding this they are all alike enlightened as red-hot Iron be it thicker or thinner is affected by Fire Inform'd shaped fashioned fill'd with of Informatus Lat. All the Poetick Descriptions of the Sun are made up of Fire and Light his two nearest Resemblances Medium Sol Igneus Orbem Hauserat Geo. 4. Igâ—â—us est Ollis vigor Coelestis Origo AEn 6. Alto se gurgite tollunt Solis equi lucemque elatis naribus effiant AEn 12. Thus Ovid gives the Horses that draw his Flaming Chariot Names suitable to their work three of 'em Derivatives of Fire Interea volucres Pyrois Eous AEthon Solis equi quartusque Phlegon hinnitibus auras Flammiferis implent Meta. Lib. 2. V. 595. Part seem'd Gold A Metal appropriated to the Sun the Illustrious Son of a more Illustrious Father as Lead to Saturn Iron to Mars Brass to Venus c. Of this Resemblance Homer styles his Chariot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and makes him look very terrible out of his Golden Helmet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ubi pulsam Hyemem Sol aureus egit Sub terras Geo. 4. V. 596. Carbuncle most or Chrysolite A Carbuncle is a Precious Stone so named from its Colour resembling a burning Coal the chief of the flaming and burning Gems It darts a Fire extreamly resembling the Sun and there are some found in India and South Arabia of a very Fiery Lustre having within them some little specks of Gold in Number and Position like the Hyades Ruae. de Gem. Lib. 2. Carbunculus a Diminitive of Carbo Lat. a burning Coal Chrysolite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Golden Stone so named of its Colour imitating that Prime Commanding Metal The choicest come from India whose Yellowness is so set off and heighthened with a Glance of Seagreen that Gold cannot appear before it but looks pale and discountenanced Chrysolithus est aureus Lapis aurco vel potius solari colore translucens adeoque fulgens quasi ardens ut aurum cum eo collatum albicare videatur Plin. Lib. 37. Cap. 9. V. 597. Ruby or Topaz Ruby Rubinus Lat. a Stone of a Red Colour like Blood Topaz 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Gem of a Golden and Green Colour extreamly delightful and very illustrious Pliny derives its Name of the Island Topazium where usually found some of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gold others of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ophir of a Colour imitating the Suns Beams Ibid. To the Twelve that shone in Aaron 's Brestplate Or like to the Twelve Stones by God's appointment engraven each with the Name of one of the Twelve Patriachs or Tribes of Israel Exod. 28. 17. V. 600. That Stone or like to that Like to that called the Philosophers Stone which has proved a Stumbling-Stone to the Inquisitive and conceited Chymists that have persued it in vain even to extream Poverty of whose obscure Art our Poet gives us some of the abstruse Terms and fruitless Practices and Pursuits Philosopher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Lover of Wisdom V. 603. Volatil Hermes Nimble Mercury Quicksilver hard to fix Volatilis Lat. apt to fly away to