sit in Darkenesse sig To remaine and abide secure in the estate of sin and wretchednesse Luke 1 79. To giue light to them that sit in Darkenesse power of Darkenesse sig The Dominion rule and sway which Satan and Sinne do beare ouer all vnregenerate persons Col. 1 13. Who hath deliuered vs from the power of Darkenesse fiery Darts sig The most fierce dangerous temptations which Satan casteth at vs as fiery Dartes to destroy our faith Ephe. 6 16. That ye may quench all the fierie Darts of the Deuill Daughter sig pro A Woman-Childe or a Female as Thamar the Daughter of Dauid 2 The holy Catholick Church euen the company or body of all true beleeuers called a Daughter in respect of God her Father who hath spiritually begotten her and loued her as his Daughter Psalme 45 9 10 13. The Kinges Daughter is all Glorious within 3 Particuler Churches or Congregations professing the faith of Christ and begotten of that immortall seede of the word which first came out of Ierusalem Cant. ◠◠I am Blacke ô yee Daughters of Ierusalem Those Churches are called Daughters of Sion and of Ierusalem Esay 62 11. Because they were begotten by the Doctrine that came out from thence Esay 2 3. And the Law shall go forth of Sion and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem 4 False Churches which make a great shewe of piety and yet are but the assemblies of Idolaters and Heretickes Cant. 2 2. So is my Loue amongest the Daughters Also in Cant. 6 8. it signifies strange people and Nations 5 A Neece or a Sonnes Daughter Exod. 2 21. Who gaue to Moses Zepporah his Daughter 6 Posterity or off-spring Luke 1 5. Which was of the Daughters of Aaron 7 A Citty Math. 21 5. Tell yee the Daughter of Sion that is the Cittie of Sion Daughters of singing sig The eares which take delight in Musicke Eccles. 12 4. And all the Daughters of singing shall bee abased Daughters of Ierusalē sig Women which dwelt at Ierusalem Luke 23 28. Daughters of Ierusalem weepe not for me And often in the Booke of Lamentation it is so taken 2 Churches begotten by the word which came forth from Ierusalem as afore Cant. 1 2. O yee Daughters of Ierusalem Day sig pro The space of 24. houres and this is the Naturall day or of twelue houres which is the Artificiall Day Luke There be twelue houres in the Day 2 Time generally Math. 3 1. In those Dayes Luke 1 5. 3 The time of Grace vnder the light of the gospell Rom. 13 12. The Day is come Also verse 13. Heb. 4 7. Acts. 3 24. All the Prophets spake of those Dayes 4 The light of Truth or the lightsome Doctrine of Heauenly Truth Iob. 9 4. While it is Day 1. Cor. 3 13. For the Day shall declare it 1. Thes. 5 8. 5 That space that a man liueth in or dooth any notable acte or suffereth any great thing Iohn 8 56. Abraham reioyced to see my Day 6. Yeare Numb 14 34. Ezek. 4 6. One Day shall be for a yeare c. Gen. 27 46. 7 Iudgement 1. Cor. 4 3. Or of mans Day So it is in the Originall for Iudgement Dayes sig The short time of mans life who is a creature as it were of a dayes continuance Psal. 90 9. Our Dayes as spent in thine anger Gen. 47 9. 2 The time and space wherein any thing continueth Psalme 90 16 Comfort vs according to the Dayes wherein thou hast afflicted vs. Day of the Lord or of Christ. sig The time of his comming in the flesh to liue amongst vs. Luke 17 22. Yee shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Son of man This time of Christs life is called the day of his flesh Heb. 5 7. In the Dayes of his flesh Mal. 4 1. 2 The time of his second comming to Iudgement in Glory and Maiesty Luke 17 24. So shal the Sonne of man be in his Day 2. Pet. 3 10. The Day of the Lord shall come This is called the Day of Wrath Condemnation and Destruction in respect of the Wicked A Day of Redemption and Deliuering in respect of the Godly who are then to be set free from all kind of Euils A Day of Reuelation in respect of all men and Angelles who shall bee then reuealed and manifested what they be and what they haue doone A Day of Iudgement because therein all persons are to bee tried and adiudged vnto that condition and state vnto which they must sticke for euer Finally That Day by an excellency being the Last Day and Great Day full of Glory to Christ of Ioy to the Good of Sorrow to the Wicked after which there shall bee no succession of Dayes and Nights but one perpetuall Day for the Righteous and one perpetuall Night for the Sinners and Vngodly the Lordes Day sig The first Day of the Weeke being the first Day of the Creation called commonly Sonday Reuel 1 10. I was rauisht in the Spirit on the Lordes Day so called for that our Lorde rising from death on that Day brought forth the light of a new aeternall world it is also kept for Remembrance of the Mystery of our Lords Resurrection on which day for that end solemne Assemblies were kept by the faithfull 1. Cor. 16 2. Acts 20 7. By our Lords appointment Actes 1 3. Papistes erre in making the Constitution of this Day to be a meere Tradition of the Church without any authority of Scripture Day of saluation sig Time of the Gospell wherein the glad tydinges of Saluation are published and offered 2. Cor. 6 2. This is the Day of Saluation Day of Uisitation sig The time wherein God of his great Mercy shall conuert a Sinner 1. Pet. 2 12. May glorifie God in the Day of visitation good Dayes sig A blessed and happye life wherein many good things befall vs. 1. Pet. 3 10. If any man loue to see good Dayes Psal. 34. 12. Dayly bread sig That which is sufficient and necessary for our nature or Bread sufficient for euery day Mat. 6 11. The Siriach readeth it Bread of our necessity that is meete and necessary food The Papists do erre when they expound thus of the Sacrament of the Altar holy Day sig A day set apart to holy vse Esay 58 13. From doing thinewill on mine Holy-day Such are to consecrate vnto the honor of God alone this Day sig Euery Day or the Day present which nowe is Math. 6 11. Giue vs this Day Teaching vs from Day to Day to depend vpon God for things of this life 2 Shortly ere it be long Iosh. 23 14. This Day I enter the way of all the earth to Day and to morrow sig Time that now is and the time to come euen the whole time of his office Luke 13 32. I will heale still to Day and to morrow to Day sig The whole season of our calling to God euen all the time of this life wherein God offereth vs grace and
2. Achaia was prepared a yeare ago Iohn 19 42. Because of the Iewes preparation day to Preserue sig To keepe one free and safe from taking hurt by any enemies or dangers Psal. 16. 6. Preserue me ô Lord for I trust in thee 2 To sustaine and vphold all things in their being Iob O thou preseruer of men Psal. He Preserueth both man and Beast Nehe. 9 6. Thou Preseruest them all This is generall preseruation 3 To keepe constantly the faithfull vnto the possession of eternall life 1 Pet. 1 8. Preserued or kept through the power of God by faith vnto eternall life This is speciall preseruation to Presume sig Either to take too much vpon vs out of a vaine confidence in our selues or to take too much hart and boldnesse to vs. Psal. 73 8. They talke presumptuously 1 Cor. 4 6. Let none Presume aboue that is written What Presumption is It is a vice whereby many men in regard of Gods blessings and patience towardes them haue their hearts too much lifted vp in vaine confidence of their owne sufficiency and Gods goodnesse waxing secure haughty and carelesse in the course of their liues without any feare of sin or Gods iudgments for them Presump tuous sins sig Sinnes of contumacy which come from a stubborne and malicious heart Psal. 19 13. Keepe mee from Presumptuous sinnes Note that hee gaue not his body or bloud but himselfe that is his whole man-hood as the price the onely al-sufficient Price of redemption sig Satisfaction or paiment made to the Iustice of God for the hurt doone to it by the sinnes of the elect that so they may bee redeemed and set free 1 Tim. 2 6. He gaue himselfe a price of Redemption Note that he gaue not his body or bloud onely but himselfe euen the whole man-hood to be the price the onely al-sufficient price to God for sin adew to al Popish satisfactions Pricke sig pro A sharpe peece of wood a pole stake or sharp thing which pricketh one as he goeth thorough bushes or thicke places Pricke in the flesh sig Inbred corruption or naturall Concupisence which sticketh fast in vs as it were a pricke molesting and vexing vs by euill motions as the flesh is galled and pained with a Pricke or sharpe stub sticking in it 2. Cor. 12. There was giuen vnto me a Pricke in the flesh A Metaphor Pricked in heart sig Persons stricken with great greefe and soule-sorrow in the sence of Gods displeasure for sin as if their hearts had beene pricked through with a sword Actes 2 37. And being Pricked in heart they saide c. Pride sig Haughtinesse or loftinesse of mind being puft vp and swollen with a high conceit of our owne excellency to the contempt of God and the disdaine of men Pro. 16 18. Pride goeth before a fall and an high minde before destruction 1. Cor. 4 6. Swell not one against another Luke 18 9. Pride of life sig Vaine boasting and arrogancy wherein they please and delight themselues which doo abound in the things of this life 1 Iohn 2. 16. And the pride of life Pride as a Chaine sig The arrogancy of wicked men glorying in their Pride as one would glory in a Chaine of Golde Psal. 73 6. Priest sig A Sacrificing person ordained of God not only to teach the people and pray for them but also to offer vp outwarde and bodily Sacrifices for his owne sinnes and the sinnes of the people Leuit. 5 4 2 5. Such were the Priests of the Law and old Testament Legall and Leuiticall Priests 2 A Sacrificing person especially ordained of God that by the Sacrifice of himselfe once offered by himselfe and also by his intercession he might reconcile vnto and keepe in fauour with God for euer all beleeuing sinners Such a Priest is Christ onely being the alone Priest of the New-Testament propperly so called Heb. 7 17. Thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchizedek Also verse 23. 24 25 c. See Chapter 10. from verse 5. vnto the 15. These two significations of Priest be proper 3 Euery faithfull Christian man or woman of what calling soeuer enabled by the authoritie and commandement of God to offer vp themselues their Good-works as spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ. 1 Pet. 2 5. Reuel 1 6 He made vs Kings and Priests to God Rom. 12 1. Heb. 13 15 16. This is an improper figuratiue sence of the word by resemblance and likenesse 4 A man of great dignity a cheefe Ruler or officer Exod. 2 15. And the Priest of Midian had seuen Daughters Gen. 41 45. The Daughter of Potipherah the Priest or Prince of Onn. Exod. 18 1. lethro the Priest of Midian 5 The first borne of the male children whome God did consecrate and set apart to do the Office of Priests in administring holy things vntil Aaron and his sonnes were sanctified to that end Exod. 19 22. And the Priests also be sanctified Exo. 13 2. Sanctifie to me the first borne c. high Priest sig The chiefe amongst and ouer the Priests of the Law who in a speciall manner was a figure of Christ both in his garments publicke workes and actions and also in his eminent place Christ being chiefe among the Pastours as Aaron was among the Priests Heb. 5 1 2 3. vnto the 10. verse For euery High-Priest is taken from among men 1 Pet. 2 25. The difference betweene a Priest properly and improperly taken is this The former hath an externall and bodily Sacrifice to giue and offer vnto God as Christ did giue his owne body and the Priest of the Law the bodies of beasts The latter offereth spirituall Sacrifices only as their Prayers praise obedience almes and all other Good-workes and duties of their callings which euerie Christian as well as a Minister is bound to offer The popish Priest-hood is an immaginary blasphemous fixion hauing no grounde neither any colour and shew of ground and proofe in the whole Booke of God Princes sig The true beleeuers the children of the Church Psal. 45 16. Whom thou maiest make Princes in all Lands 2 Men of principall giftes chiefe and choyse persons Eccles. 10 7. Princes walking c. Prince of God sig A man singularly loued and exceedingly blessed of God Gen. 23 6. Thou art a Prince of God Prince of peace sig Procurer ground and cause of Peace which also causeth his subiects to continue in peace quietnesse Such an one is Christ and he onely Esay 9 6. Prince of Peace Profession sig An action of a Christian plainly and openly declaring and vttering with his mouth that which he beleeueth and hopeth in his heart concerning Christ and saluation by him 1 Tim. 6 12. And hast professed a good Profession before many witnesses There may be a profession made before men with the mouth when the truth of it is not to be found in the heart before God Tit. 1 16. They Professed to know God when in their works
thy people Exo. 18. 21. Appoint such to be Rulers ouer thousands 2 The direction of the word of God as a Rule to go and worke by Gal. 6 16. As many as walke according to this Rule or Canon Hence the Scriptures are called Cannoâ—icâ—ll because they containe and giue a perfect Rule of faith and manners vnto the Church which is bound obediently to walke according to this Rule and to giue Testimony to it and not by her authority to ouer-rule it and the sence of 〈◊〉 Rumor sig 〈…〉 voâ—ce or report to Run sig pro With great speede and celerity to passe through a Race vntill they come vnto the Goale 1 Cor. 9 24. They which Run in a race Run all 2 To keepe and hold on in the Race of Christianity with diligence and constancy vntill wee come to the end of it 1 Cor. 9 24. So Runne that ye may obtaine Heb. 1â— 1. Run the Race that is set before theâ— not in him that willeth nor in him that Runneth sig That in the matter of our election and those thinges which depend thereon for perfit saluation in Heauen to wit our calling Iustification adoption sanctification in these thinges nothing at all is to be attributed eyther to our willing that is to free-will desires affections and endeuour of the heart or to our running that is to our outward endeuours by outward actions labors study and working but all wholely to bee attributed vnto the mercy of God Therefore Pelagians and Papists are heereby fully confuted S. A. Sabbaoth sig A Day of rest or a time set apart for holy Rest. Exod. 20 8. Remember the Sabbaoth to keepe it holy Mark 2 27. Sabbath was made for man The seauenth day from the Creation was the Sabbaoth of the Iew as a type and token of spirituall Rest. But Iewish Rites beeing abolished in the death of the Christ which brake down the partition wall Now wee Christians haue the first day of the weeke for our Sabbath in remembrance of Christ his resurrection that day Acts 20 7. 1 Cor. 16 2. The Jewish Sabbaoth was abrogate by authority of God and not of the Church without Scripture as Papists faigne and imagine 2 The whole weeke by a Sinecdoche of a prat for the whole Luke 24 1. In the first day of the Sabbaoth Also 18 12. I fast twice euery Sabbaoth that is euery weeke So our Translation reades it but the Greeke word signifies Sabboth to break the Sabbaoth sig To offend against the ordinance of God concerning the Sabbaoth by doing some seruile and forbidden work Neh. 13 17. Why break ye the Sabbaoth day 2 To doe some outward bodily worke commaunded of God Math. 12 5. The Priests on the Sabbaoth daie doe breake the Sabbaoth in the Temple and yet are blamelesse that is they do a bodily worke in killing beasts for sacrifice which though it breake the rest of the day yet is not against the holinesse of the day Sabbaoth of the Lord. sig A day of rest appointed to be kept holy to the Lord being spent in his seruice Exod. 20 10. It is the Sabbaoth of the Lord thy God to sanctifie the sabboth sig Eyther to ordaine the Sabbaoth vnto holy vses or to apply it vnto such vses as it is ordained for In the former sence God doth sanctifie the Sabbaoth and we doe sanctifie it in the latter Exod. 20 11. God Sanctified it From Sabboath to Sabbaoth sig Euerlastingly without intermission or ceasing of time euen so long as that blessed rest of Heauen doth continue Esay 66 23. From Sabbath to Sabbaoth shall all flesh worship before me saith Iehouah second sabboath sig The latter solemne day of a Iewish Feast wherein they rested from bodily labours kept a publique assembly as was vsed to bee done vppon the Sabbaoth day Luke 6 1. It came to passe on a second Sabbaoth day Leuit. 23 3. Deut. 16 8. * Sacrament Sacrament what A Sacrament is a visible signe and seale of an inuisible grace or more largely thus It is an ordinance of God in the right vse whereof the partaker hath assurance of his being in the Couenant of grace and saluation by Christ. Of such Sacraments there bee two onely vnder the New-Testament Baptisme and the Lords Supper The former being a Seale of our entrance into the Couenant the other a Seale of our continuance in the Couenant Math. 26 26 27. Also 28 18 19. 1 Cor. 10 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 12 13. The seauen Sacraments of Papists are too many by fiue which either lacke an outward signe or institution by Christ or be no Seales of sauing grace Sacrifice sig pro A sacred action wherein the faithfull Iewes did voluntarily worship God by offering some outward thing vnto his glory thereby to testifie his chiefe dignity and dominion ouer them and their seruitude and submission vnto him Such Sacrifices were eyther propitiatory to procure fauour and pardon after some sinne or gratulatory to giue thankes and praise after some benefit Psalm 50 8. I will not repoooue thee for thy Sacrifices And 51 16. Leuit. 31. And 4 2. This is Legall Sacrifice and typicall Christ Iesus being the truth and substance who in the offering of himselfe once vppon the Crosse hath fully appeased Gods wrath 2 Our whole spirituall seruice and Christian duties of all sortes within our generall and speciall callings Psalme 51 17. The Sacrifices of GOD are a contrite Spirit c. 1 Pet. 2 5. Heb. 13 15. This is Euangelicall Sacrifice But touching Papisticall Sacrifice of the Masse the Scripture is altogether mute and dumbe saue to cry out against it Liuing Sacrifice sig Our selues euen our bodies and Soules beeing consecrate and giuen to God Rom. 12 1. That ye offer your bodies a liuing Sacrifice to Sacrifice vnto Nets sig To ascribe Diuine power vnto our selues and to the Instruments of our life Hab. 1 16. Therefore they Sacrifice to their Net This is by putting confidence of our harts in meanes depending vpon second causes God being neglected Sacrifice of righteousnesse sig A lawfull due or righteous Sacrifice such as God himselfe requireth Psal. 4 5. Offer the Sacrifices of righteousnesse Sacriledge sig An vsurping to our selues by fraud and couetousnesse holy thinges which are dedicated vnto God eyther by vow or course Ro. 2 22. Thou committest Sacriledge Saint or Saints sig An wholy one or a person called to holinesse such is euery faithfull person hauing the perfect holinesse of Christ put vppon him by imputation of Faith and the quality of imperfect holinesse powred into his heart by the Spirit of sanctification Psalme 16 2. To the Saints which are in earth Psal. 132 12. 2 The holy Angels Deut. 33 2. He commeth with thousands of his Saints that is with innumerable Angels 3 The whole body of a particular visible Church consisting of good and euill of priuate publike persons set apart to administer holy things and all professing holinesse Phil. 1 1. Ephe. 1 1
absurdly which vpon these words would build theyr Altars for Masses and their Purgatory woful Interpreters of Scriptures A. M. Am. sig Existence or selfe-being Exod. 3 14. I am that I am that is I haue my being from my selfe and from no other and am the cause of beeing to all things that be 2 Representating or resembling Iohn 15 1. I am that Vine that is I represent am like vnto a vine Amen sig In the end of Prayer a wishing that it may bee so as wee aske and a trusting that it shall bee so Gal. 1 5. To whom be glorie for euer and euer Amen 2 Vehement asseueration when a thing is earnestly and strongly affirmed Mat. 18 3. Amen I say vnto you 3 Certaine constant or most firme 2. Cor 1 20. Yea and Amen 4 Trueth it selfe Reuel 3 14. These things sayeth Amen To Amend sig To redresse and reforme faultes It is put for repentance Math. 3 8. Actes 26 20. Bring foorth fruites woorthy of Repentance or amendment Repentaunce is as the roote amendment as the fruite First there must bee a chaunge of the heart from euil to good by the guift of repentance put into it of God and then will followe an amendment and redresse of our wayes and maners A. N. Anathema sig One whych is accursed or an execration seperate and remooued from the fellow-shippe of the faythfull Sometime also from the grace of Christ and hope of saluation Anathema Maranatha is one accursed for euer and a day or eternal execration 1. Cor. 16 21. If any loue not the Lorde Iesus let him be Anathema Maranatha Anathema belongs to all obstinate scandalous offenders Anathema Maranatha belongs onely to Blasphemers of the Holy Ghost Gala. 1 9. Let him be Anathema accursed Rom. 9 2. I could wish to be Anathema for my Kinsmen c. 2 A thing separate from common vse and gyuen vnto GOD to serue for holye vses as beeing consecrate thereunto Lu. 21 5. and with consecrate things the word is Anathemata in the original significs Donaria or gifts hanged vpon the pillers of the temple for ornament of the place and to the honor of God And. sig Because 1. Cor. 8 4. Col. 1 24. Heere it is a particle causall as Marke 9 49. And euery Sacrifice c. 2. It is a note similitude 3 Therefore Marke 10 26. And they were much more astonied Heere it is an Illatiue particle 4 That is to say or euen Eph. 1 3. Blessed be God and the Father c. Cal. 1 3. Reuel 21 22. as it is in 2. Cor. 1 3. Here it is a particle exegeticall 5. For the most part it is a copulatiue particle to couple words and sentences together Angell sig A Messenger or one sent of God In this generall sence Christ is called the Angell of the Couenant Mal. 3 1. The Angel of the couenant whom ye desire 2 A Minister of the Gospell authorized and sent by Christ to publish the message of reconciliation betweene God and man Reuel 2 1. The Angell of the Church of Ephesus 2. Cor. 8 20. 3 A created good spirit sent forth of God to minister for the good of the elect for the punishment of the wicked Heb. 1 7. Of the Angels he saith he makes the spirits his messengers Also v. 14. 2. k. 19 35 4 A created wicked spirit for such also God sends as messengers to doo his will for probation of the godly and for plaguing of the vngodly so oft as he pleaseth Mat. 25 41. Prepared for the deuill and his angels Iob. 1 8 9. The Sadduces denied the being of Angels saying There were none Others held they were but motions Angels bread Tungs of angels Sée Manna and Tongue Angel of the Couenant sig One sent with authority to preach reconciliation with God and to merit it Mal 3 1. 2. Cor. 5 19. Angell of Light sig A good and holy Angell or one which doth counterfaite himselfe to bee so and is not 2. Cor. 11 14. For Sathan himselfe is transformed into an Angell of Light Anger sig A desire of being reuenged vpon the person of our neighbor either by our words or deeds Mat. 5 22. He that is angry with his Brother c. Heere it is taken in ill part 2 A displeasure not against the person but against the sin of our neighbor or against our own sinnes This kinde of anger if it bee moderate and ioyned with compassion it is an holy affection 2. Cor 7 11. In that ye were godly sorry what anger hath it wrought Ephe. 4 21. Be angry and sinne not Heere it is taken in good part 3 In God it is his iust displeasure against sinne and sinners or the punishment which proceedes from him displeased Psal. 2 12. Least he be angry Psal. 90 7 8. God is angry when he dooth such works as angry men do who punish take away signes of fauor from such as they be angry withal 4 The decree and threatning of God to punish men Psal 2 16. Least he be angry Annointed sig A narrow strait or perplexity when one knowes not what counsell to take or which way to turne him Rom 8 35. Shall anguish c. 2 Not onely extreame paines which accompany sinners in this life but eternall torments in hell Rom. 2 9. Tribulation and anguish vppon the soule of euery one who doth euill Anguish sig Annointing See in Oyle Answers sig A reply to some question propounded Luke 2 3. Iesus answered them 2 To witnes a thing Ge. 30 33. my righteousnes shal answere for me 3 The hearing and graunting our Prayers Esay 58 9. Thou shalt call and the Lord shall answere 4 The beginning of any speech when no Question or speech went before Mat. 11 25. At that time Iesus answered and said 5 The obedience yeelded to Gods commandement when that is done indeede which was giuen in charge Esay 55 12. I spake ye would not answer that is Ye would not obey Antichrist sig Euery one who is an aduersary to Christ fighting against his doctrine by mouth pen or sworde 1. Ioh. 2 18. Ye haue heard that Antichrist shal come Euen now are there many Antichrists That Antichrist sig One singuler and speciall enemy of Christ who pretending him-selfe to bee Christs Vice-gerent doth in a notable strange and disguised maner impugne and striue against his Gospell and Glorye This is now reuealed more fully then euer to be the Papacy that is the head and body of that commonly but falsely so called Romish Catholique Church 2. Thes. 2 8 9. 1. Iohn 2 22. The same is that Antichrist Al the markes of Antichrist as they are set downe 2. Thes. 2. and in the Reuelation do not agree vnto any other saue to the Byshoppe of Rome and his Cleargy who are the Ring-leaders of that generall Apostacy and defection from the faith which should raign and now long hath raigned in the kingdome of Antichrist How therefore be Papists deceiued which
Bridegroomes friend B. U. Buckler sig pro A weapon for defence in time of fight 2 The mighty defence of GOD which is as a Buckler to them that trust in him Psal. 18 1. Thou art my Buckler or shield Bud. sig Christ in respect of his mean estate amongst men Esay 11 1. A graft or a Bud shall grow out of his root 2 The Church of Christ springing vp out of the remnant of Israel as a bud out of the earth Esay 4 2. In that day the bud of the Lord shall be beautifull glorious Buffeting sig Some shamefull temptation inward or outward as a buffetting to abase vs. 2. Cor. 12 7. The Messenger of Satan to buffet me Buggery sig Vncleannesse against nature about generation 1. Cor. 6 10. Leuit. 18 23. Building sig Making â—raming Gen 2 23. He built woman of a Rib. 2. Cor 5 1. 2 Teaching and instructing hence Ministers called builders 1. Cor. 3 10. How he buildeth Burden sig pro Some heauy thing which doth load or greeue vs with the weight of it Ier 17 27. 2 The Doctrine or commaundements of Christ. Mat 11 30. My burthen is light So it is to the regenerate to whom the commandements of Christ are not greeuous because they are led by the spirit and haue their sinnes forgiuen them but to the vnregenerate they are as a greeuous burthen 3 Prophesies and fore-telling of greeuous calamities as it were heauy burdens to come vpon a people for sinne Esay 13 1. The burden of Babell The burden of Aegypt 4 All heauy and hard things Psal. 55 24. Cast thy burden vpon the Lord. Esay 9 4. Mat. 23 4. Acts 15 28. 5 Imperfections and wants which appear in our duties Gal. 6 2. Beare ye one anothers burden that is seeing ye are all subiect to Infirmities support and vphold one another through loue All sins are burdens Psal. 38 4. For with their weight they presse vs downe Heb. 12 1. 6 Euery trouble or greefe euen to the least Eccles 12 5. Grashoppers shall be a burthen Bulles of Basan sig Strong powerfull and cruell enemies Psal 22 12. Many young Buls haue compassed me Buriall sig The putting of a Corpes into the graue to bee couered with earth which is the proceeding of naturall death Acts 8 2. 1. Cor 15 2 3. Dead buried 2 The wasting of sinne by mortification as a dead corpes wasteth in the graue Rom. 6 3. Wee are buried with him This is the proceeding of the death of sin which is one part of our sanctification and is effected by the Vertue of Christ buried To be buried with Christ. sig To be partaker of Christ his death and burial for a further mortification of sinne Col. 2 12. In that ye are buried with him Burning sig Earnest desire and lust after Sex which is when one hath an vnconquerable Army of vnruely and vnchast desires thoughts in him dishonoring him and his body 1. Cor 7 9. It were better marrie then burne Rom. 1 27. To builde sig pro To set vp or make an house where none was before Mat. 7 26. 2 To encrease or to enlarge a family and stocke by multitude of children Ruth 4 11. Rahell and Leah did build the house of Israell 3 To strengthen and encrease others in the knowledge and faith of Christ. 1. Cor. 3 10. I haue laide the foundation and another buildeth thereon Iude 20. 4 To prosper and blesse the Gouernour and gouernment of a family Psal. 127 1. Vnlesse the Lord build the house c. Building sig pro A materiall house set vp with hands 2 The Church and people of God heere on earth 1. Cor. 3 9. Ye are Gods building 3 A place of eternall blisse and glory 2. Cor. 5 1. We haue a building giuen of God Builder sig pro One which of nothing maketh something to be Heb. 11 10. Whose builder is God 2 A faithfull Minister of the Gospell who doth lay the elect vpon Christ as builders doo lay one stone vpon another 1. Cor. 3 10. As a skilful master Builder 3 Any Gouernour of Citty or family Psal. 127 1. The builder buildeth in vaine Wise builder sig One who layeth a sure foundation that is one who beleeuing the promises concerning Christ endeuoureth to do his commandement Mat. 7 24. Foolish Builder sig One who neglecteth a good foundation hauing the knowledge and profession of Christ without faith and repentance Mat. 7 26. To Buy sig To get some commodity by giuing the due price of it Gen. 49 30. Ruth 4 5. 2 To obtaine or get a thing by our endeuour Prayer or other good meanes Prou 23 23. By the trueth Esay 55 1. Come and buy without Money C. A. To Call sig TO Inuite Sinners vnto Repentance by the Outward preaching of the word or otherwise by afflictions and benefits Mat. 2 16. Many called few chosen Prou. 1 24. I haue called but you haue refused A common and outwarde calling 2 To draw effectually the elect vnto Christ by the Inward work of the spirit through the word Rom. 8 28. To them which are called of his purpose An inward and speciall calling 3 To appoint and chuse vnto some worke and to giue fitnesse thereunto Exod 31 2. A speciall and free worke of Gods spirit singling drawing the elect from amongst the Reprobate making them to become that which before they were not euen true beleeuers members of Christ Saints Sonnes and heyres of God Rom. 8 30. Whom he predestinated them he called 1. Cor 1 2. Saints by calling Rom. 4 17. God calleth those things which be not as though they were Calling sig A lawfull and warrantable estate of life 1. Cor. 7 10. Let euery man abide in his calling 2 The estate and condition of Christianity Eph. 4 1. Walke worthy of your calling 3 The action of God translating men into this estate 2. Pet. 1 10. Make your calling sure Calling vpon yâ— name of Jesus sig Eyther the whole worship of God by a Sinecdoche of the part for the whole or else it signifieth Prayer vnto Christ for necessary graces Actes 9 14. To bind all that call on thy name Acts 7 50. Stephen called on and sayde Lorde Iesus receiue my Spirit Called sig As much as named or one knowne by such a Name as Christ called Peter Cephas and Luke 1 60. He shall be called Iohn 2 One partaker of an effectuall vocation when the mighty God as it were by the speaking of a word doth make one to be that which he is named and called to wit a Saint and holye as God the caller is holy Rom. 1 7. Called to be Saints Candle sig pro A materiall light shining in the darknesse of the night Luke 15 8. 2 The light of knowledge or the worde of God rightly knowne seruing as a Candle to shew vs our duties and our sinnes and to direct both our selues and others Math 5 15. No man lighteth a Candle to put it vnder a Bushell but on
a Maister ruleth and guideth his house Also sinne dwelleth in the regenerate Rom. 7 17. Not I but sinne that dwelleth in me forcibly hindering and by his presence mightily crossing and striuing against the good motions of grace in the heart of a sanctified person 2 Constant trust in Gods prouidence and promises Psal. 91 1. Who Dwelleth in the secret of the Almighty 3 To remaine abide and continue Iohn 5 56. He that eateth my flesh Dwelleth in me and I in him 4 To haue place or entertainment Psal. 5 3. No euill shall dwell with thee 5 Familiarity or Communion both perfect and immediate betweene God and the elect Reuel 21 12. And he will dwell with them 6 Solace comfort and protection by Gods comfortable presence Reuel 7 15. Hee that sitteth on the Throne will Dwell with you to Dwell together sig The society and conuersation of man and wife for the performance of marriage duties Mat. 1 18. Before they came to Dwell together 1. Pet. 3 5. Dwelling of the Spirit in vs. sig Three things First that his presence is effectuall and mighty to possesse and gouerne the faithful which are his Temples hauing dominion ouer them inwardly enlightning to know and powerfully guiding to do the knowne will of God Secondly that his presence is continuall not as of a guest who lodgeth for a night in an Inne and is gone next day nor as a Soiourner that flitteth but as an owner and possessor to abide for euer as in Iohn 14. Thirdly the maner of his presence not by infinitnesse of power as he is present to al creatures to sustaine them but by his grace and healthfull effects vniting to Christ regenerating to be his liuely members witnessing our adoption c. D. Y. to Dye sig To giue vp the Ghost Gen. 5 20. And he Dyed 2 To bee continually in the daunger of death 1. Cor. 15 31. I Dye daily to Dye to sinne sig To breake the force of sinne and euerie day to weaken it something Ro. 6 2. How can they which are Dead to sinne liue therein Thus the godly Dye euen while they liue to Dye in the Lord. sig To yeeld vp our Spirits in the faith of Christ vnder hope of Saluation by him with repentance for all our sinnes Reuel 14 13. Blessed are they which Dye in the Lord. This is to fall asleepe in Christ. 1. Thes. 4 13 to Dye for the Lorde sig To giue our liues for the Testimony of Iesus as Martyrs do Acts 21 13. I am ready to Dye for the name of the Lord Iesus Thus dyed Iames. Act. 12 2. and Antepas Reuel 2 13. to Dye in sinne sig To perish by impenitency or to go into euerlasting death through continuance in sinne Iohn 8 24. Ye shall dye in your sinnes Thus shall all they dye which beleeue not in the onely begotten son of God to Dye the Death sig Certainty of dying Gen. 2 17. Thou shalt Dye the Death to Dye the death of the righteous sig To haue a Death like to the Death of the righteous or to haue an end like vnto his Numb 23 10. That I might Dye the death of the righteous and my end be like his to Dye in Adam sig To bee subiect to Death by the guilt of Adams disobedience 1. Cor. 15 22. In Adam all Dye Dying sig The miserable estate and condition in which the faithfull but especially the Ministers of the worde be in this life 2. Cor. 4 10. We beare about in our bodies the dying of the Lord Iesus E. A. Eagle sig pro A Bird the King of Birdes whereof Pliny mentioneth diuers kindes vnto which it is common to be gathered together to a dead Carrion thorough the smel or scent of it also to flye aloft and to carry their yong vpon their wings in a tender care of them c. Iob. 39 31 32 33 34. 2 Beleeuers which vpon the winges of a liuely faith soare aloft and mount vppe to Christ Iesus whose crucified flesh hath a sweete sauour that attracteth and draweth them to him as the sauour of the dead carkasse can cause the Eagles to resort vnto it Luke 17 37. Where the carkasse is there will the Eagles resort Or thus If there be such wit in Birdes as Eagles that they will come so farre to one carkasse a great shame is it to beleeuers not to bee gathered to the Author of life by whom they are truely fed vnto an euerlasting life Or thus As Eagles assemble to the Carrion so the beleeuer shall be perfectly ioyned to Christ in despight of Satan according to that 1. Thes. 4 17. And so they shall be euer with the Lord When the Son ne of mâ—n shall come to iudge the world all the faithfull shall be gathered to him An Allegory Eagles winges sig The mercifull prouidence of God sauing protecting his people from dangers Exod. 19 4. I caried you vpon Eagles wings Eagles flye aloft carry their young on their wings to put them out of danger which signifyeth Gods louing prouidence procuring the safety of the Church and of euerie member of it A Metaphor 2 Swiftnesse speedinesse and by suddaine flight vanishing away Pro. 23 5. Riches takes winges like an Eagle and flies into Heauen great Eagle sig That most mighty and rich king of Babel to wit Nabuchadnezzar Ezek. 17 3. So expounded in Verse 12. of this Chapter A Metaphor Eare. sig pro The instrument of hearing 2 The vnderstanding which comes by hearing Reu. 2 11. He that hath Eares to heare c. Deut. 29 4. A Metanimie 3 Seruice obedience or perpetuall subiection Psal. 40 6. Mine Eares hast thou opened that is thou hast framed me to thy perpetual seruice Exo. 21 6. gods Eare. sig Either his infinite knowledge as if he heard all things or his readinesse to heare and grant our requests Psalme 94 9. He that made the Eare shal he not heare Psal. 116 2. He hath inclined his Eare vnto me A Metaphor Earnest sig pro Something giuen to binde a bargaine as a shilling to binde the paiment of an hundred pound 2 A pledge or pawne Gen. 38 17 18. What is the Earnest or pledge that I shall giue thee 3 An hostage giuen in Warre All these are as an earnest to confirme and assure a thing 2. Kin. 14 14. Earnest of the spirit sig The Spirit which is like an Earnest in a bargain for the first fruits or the sauing guifts of the spirit to wit Faith Hope Loue and Repentance doo in such sort assure the godly of hauing their ful happinesse in Heauen at last as hee that hath receiued an Earnest is sure to haue the ful summe paid him or the full bargaine aecomplished Eph. 1 14. Also 2. Cor. 1 22. And hath giuen the Earnest of the spirit In this sence the Apostle in the fore-saide places vseth the similitude of a Seale which also serueth to confirme a promise and therefore fit to signifie the assurance which the
loue 1. Thes. 1 3. Remembering your effectuall Faith Gal. 5 6. Faith vnfaigned sig Sincere without Hypocrisie and countersetting 1. Tim. 1 5. And of Faith vnfaigned precious Faith sig An excellent faith being a most worthie guift whereby wee attaine very woorthy and precious things 2. Pet. 1 1. To you which haue obtained like precious Faith from Faith to Faith sig From one degree of Faith to another as from a little and weake Faith to a great and strong one Rom. 1 17. Reuealed from Faith to Faith For true liuely Faith encreaseth daily Faith great or little sig The degrees of Faith as men beleeue in Christ more or lesse strongly Luke 7 9. I haue not founde so great Faith Math. 14 31. O thou of little Faith This little Faith is adioyned with much doubting Faithful sig One who keepeth his word and standeth to his promise 1. Iohn 1 9. God is Faithfull 1. Cor. 1 9. 2 One who beleeueth the promises of Christ. Ephe. 1 1. To the Faithfull in Christ Iesus 3 One who faithfully and truely performes his office and charge that he is put in trust with 1. Tim. 3 11. Faithfull in all things Col. 4 9. 1. Pet. 5 12. Siluanus a Faithfull Brother to you Faithfulnesse It is Sée the Word Faith Liuely Faith what That guift of God whereby an elect regenerate soule receiueth Christ and all his benefits to be her own Iohn 1 12. Or thus more plainly That guift whereby the beleeuers are firmely perswaded not onely that the word of God all the promises are true but do belong to themselues first Faith sig The Vow of Baptisme or Faith of Christianity which yong widdowes who were lasciuious wantons did make voyde by marrying to â—nfidels so as they renounced Christianity and followed Satan Others do expound this first Faith of the promise and fidelity which young Widdowes gaue to the Church to do seruice to the poore which vpon their marriage to another husband they did frustrate 1. Tim. 4 12. Making voyde the first faith Fall sig Euery sinne especially when the will doeth consent vnto it for that is as if one shoulde stumble and take a fall Psal. 37 24. Though he fall he shall not be cast off Iames 4 2. In many things we sin all In the Originall Greeke Text it is thus We stumble or fall Also the worde Englished Offence in Rom. 5. Verse 16 17 18. In the Originall Text signifies Fall Metaphor 2 A particular departing or going from the Doctrine and profession of Christ vnto some Heresie or Idolatry after the example of Hymeneus Phyletus Alexander and other Apostataes Reu. 9 1. I saw a Starre which was fallen from Heauen into Earth 1 Corin. 10 12. Let him that standeth take heede least he Fall 2 Thess. 2 3. 1 Tim. 4 1. 3 Any aduersity or danger Pro. 24 16. A iust Man Falleth seauen times a day and riseth againe That is Many are the dangers and troubles of the righteous but the Lorde deliuereth them out of all 4 Decay or worldly ruine Reuel 17 2. Babylon is Fallen it is Fallen That is Rome is deâ—ayed in credit of her Doctrine and Religion in authority riches power and Iurisdiction in all these she hasteneth to an vtter finall ruine and downfall Also in all those places which speak of worldly downefals Psalme 20 8. Lam. 1 14. Reu. 17 10 Pro. 16 18. 5 Perishing for euer or euerlasting destruction Luke 2 34. He is appointed for the Fall and rising againe of many in Israell Fall of man what it is It is the defection of our first Parents in their voluntary disobedience to Gods Commaundement whence followed vppon themselues and all theyr posterity losse of Gods fauour and Image with corruption of nature and deâ—ert of all misery Râ—â— 5 12 13 14 15. c. compared with Gen. 3 1 2 3 4 c. Falling away sig An vniuersall forsaking or departing from the whole doctrine of Christ after it is once knowne by the enlightening of the Spirit with a maliâ—ioâ—s dispite of it because it is the truth of God Hebr. 6 6. If they fall away and 3 12 and 10 29. This is the sin of totalâ— Apostacy whereof read more 2. Pet. 2 20. 1 Iohn 5 16. Sée Blasphemy of the Spirit to Fal from grace sig To leaue and forsake that good way and course which men had once taken for the obtaining of Grace Gal. 5 4. Ye are Fallen from Grace Such as haue once sauing Grace and bee iustified thorough Faith doe nowe Fall vtterly and wholy from it but sundry which had entered a good course to get this Grace doe afterwardes leaue it and this is to Fall from Grace in that place of Paul to Galathians They erre which think sauing grace may be wholy lost for a time or finally and foreuer False sig That which is voyd of truth being vnfound and counterâ—eit As False Ballance False weights False heart False doctrine False waies Psal. 119. False Witnesse Math. 27 59. They sought False Witnesse False christ sig One that professeth himselfe to be Christ and is not Math. 24 24. There shall arise False Christs This did one Dositheus of whom Theophilact maketh mention and one Theudas an Aegiptian spoken of in the Acts 5 36. and after that one Maues and Dauid George head of the Libertines of whom Iosephus writeth And one Hacket an Englishman all these named themselues Christ so did one Iohn Moore at London in the third yeare of Queen Elizabeth and two other at Oxford in the sixt yeare of Henry the third as Holinshed reporteth False Apostics sig Such as say they are Apostles and are not being Broachers of lyes and errours vnder the name of true Apostles of Christ. 1 Cor. 11 13. Reuelation's 2 2. False Prophet sig One that is a teacher of lyes wresting the Scriptures for his Belly and filthy lucre or for vaine glorie sake Mathew 7 15. Beware of False Prophets Rom. 16 18. Titus 1 11. 1 Timothy 6 3 4 5. False matter sig A lying speech or word of vntruth which may endanger another mans life Exodus 23 7. Thou shalt keepe thyselfe farre from a False matter False ballance sig Deceitfull Weights which beguile those that trust the truth of them Prou. 11 1. False Ballance are an abhomination vnto the Lord. False waies sig Whatsoeuer opinion or action swarueth from the word of God Psal. 119 128. I hate all False wayes Famine sig Scarsity of Bread euen vnto hunger or extream want of victuals Genesis 26 1. There was a Famine in that Land 2 Scarsity and want of heauenly Bread which is the word of God Amos 8 11. I will send a Famine of the hearing of the word Fanne sig Gods word preached whereby as by a Fanne the good are seuered from the bad Mathew 3 12 Whos 's Fanne is in his hand Metaphor Fasting sig A totall or whole abstinence from meats drinks and all other pleasures of this life for a certaine time to
2 Christ raised from the dead by his own resurrection sanctifying all the beleeuers to a blessed resurrection as the First fruits vnder the Law did sanctifie the whole masse and heape of other fruits 1. Cor. 15 20. The First fruits of them that sleepe 3 An holy kind of offering taken out of the residue of men as First fruites were taken out of the rest Iames 1 18. As the First fruites of his Creatures 4 A certaine measure of the speciall and sauing graces of the Spirite as Faith Hope Loue c. which therefore are likened to the First fruites because the hauing of these graces giues hope of inioying heauenly blisse and ioyes in due time euen as the Israelites by the Offering vp of their First fruits to God were raised vp to a good hope to enioy the whol crop in due â—eason Rom. 8 23. We also which haue receiued the First fruites of the spirit do waite for the redemption of our bodies 5 The fore-fathers or First fathers of the Iewes as Abraham Isaac Iacâ—â— Rom. 11 16. If the First fruits be wholy so is the whole lumpe the first of his strength sig The man-childe which is First begotten when his Parents were in their best strength and vigour Deut. 21 17. For he is the first of his strength Gen 49. 3. He is called the beginning of strength the First day of the Sabaoth sig The First day of the weeke which in Scripture is called the Lords day with vs Sunday Ioh. 20 1. The First day of the Sabaoth So it is read in the Originall 1. Cor 16 â— First heauens first earth sig Heauens and earth considered in that corrupt estate wherein now they are through our sinne before that perfect restoring and chaunge which shall be at the great and last day Reuel 21 1. First heauens and first earth First things sig Sinnes and their â—â—â—ectes of sorrow and misety Reuel 21 4. There shall be no more crying nor death nor sorrow nor paine for the first things are past First Adam sig That man named Adam first of that name and First in respect of the secoÌ„d Adam hauing brought in sinne and death as the second Adam signifies Christ who destroyed these workes of the first Adam 1. Cor. 15 45. The first man Adam was made a liuing soule First resurrection sig Sanctification whereby the Elect arise from the death of sinne to walke in newnesse of life Reuel 20 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part â—n the first resurrection Rom. 6 4. Christ hath raised vs from the dead to walke in a new life Maister Brightman expounds the First resurrection of the calling of the Iewes againe vnto the faith which is after a sort a raising them from the dead This exposition in substance is one with the former because the calling of the Iewes will bee the quickening of them by Grace Fishers sig pro Such as make benefit vnto themselues by fishing Esay 19 8. The fishers shall mourne that is the Egyptians shall bee sorry when that the Riuer Nylus shall be dried vp wherein they were wont to fish to their commodity 2 The Armies of the Caldeans pursuing the Iewes to destruction like as fishers take fishes in their net Ier. 16 16. I will send out many fishers to take them Fishers of men sig Ministers of Christ who by the worde as by a net or hooke doo draw men as fishes to Gods Church and kingdome Mat. 4 16. I will make you fishers of men F. L. Flagons of wine sig The most comfortable promises of Gods mercies for saluation which are as wholesome Wine abundantly drawne out of Christs Seller which is his word Cant. 2 5. Stay me with Flagons that is the plentifull comforts of the worde and the rich graces of the spirite powre into my heart for my strengthning to Flatter sig To speake pleasing or false words with a mind onely to please and beguile for our owne profite Prou. 28 23. He that reproues finds more fauour at last then he that flattereth Prou. 26 22. smoaking Flar sig Weake Christians like to Flax which hath neither heate nor flame and yeeldeth forth but smoak onely euen such be infirme and weake Christians who haue no more but an vnfaigned desire to beleeue and repent as it were a sparke ready to die Mat. 12 20. Smoking Flax shall he not quench Esay 42 3. Bruised reed hath the same signification Flea sig pro A vile and base creature so called 2 A meane and contemptible person 2. Sam. 24 15. After whom dost thou pursue after a dead Dog or after a Flea That is an abiect or base person Flesh. sig pro The body consisting of sundry members Rom. 2 28. Which is outward in the Flesh that is in the body 1. Cor. 5 5. 2. Cor. 7 1. Gal. 2 20. Psal. 79 2. The flesh of thy Saints vnto the Beastes of the earth 2 A wife Gen. 2 23. This is Flesh of my flesh Ephe 5 31. Who euer hated his owne flesh In Mat. 19 5. Flesh is put for Person Shall be one Flesh. Ephe. 5 31. 3 One of our kind which is like vnto our selfe euen euery man and woman Prou. 11 17. He that hateth his owne flesh is cruell Esay 58 7. Turne not thy face from thine owne Flesh that is from him which hath a common nature with thee 4 Consanguinity or neerenesse of bloud Rom. 9 3. My Kinsmen according to the flesh Rom. 11 14. If I might prouoke them of my flesh that is my Kindred 5 The whole man consisting of body soule Gen. 6 12 13. All flesh hath corrupted his way vpon earth 1. Pet. 3 18. Christ was put to death concerning the flesh that is concerning his manhood for his body was dead naturally and his soule felt the sorrowes of death spiritually Acts 2 24. Luke 3 6. 1. Pet. 1 24. Math. 24 22. And elsewhere often is Flesh put to signifie the whole humaine Nature Rom. 1 3. and 8 5. as it is simply considered without sinfull corruption 6 Mankind being weake and feeble eyther to helpe himselfe or others Ier. 17 15. Cursed bee he that maketh flesh his arme that is which placeth his strength and safety in weake and vaine man Esay 40 6. Psal. 78. 39. Ioell 2 28. In these and many other places Flesh doth signifie our whole kind as it is wrapt in great imbecility and frailety 7 The quality of corruption which is not sinfull but the effect of sinne accompanying our bodies in this life 1 Cor. 15 50. Flesh and Blood shall not inherit eternall life neyther corruption inherit incorruption that is to say our corruptible bodyes cannot come to Heauen That which shall inherit Heauen must be an incorrupt Flesh a body without corruption 8 What thing soeuer belonges to this present life 1 Cor. 7 18. Such shall haue trouble in the flesh Thus Beza expoundeth it Also it signifies the estate of this present life Phil. 1 24. To abide in the
If I haue found now grace in thy sight Grafting sig pro A ioyning of a science or graft so neerely firmely into a stocke as that it become one with it 2 The vniting or ioyning the elect vnto Christ most neerely by the spirit and Faith Rom. 6 5. And the word is said to be grafted into them Iames 1 21. Receiue with meeknesse the word grafted into you Graine sig A small measure or portion of any Gift Math. 13 31. If ye haue Faith like the graine of Mustard-seede that is the least degree of a liuely Faith if it be but a true desire to belieue in a truly touched humbled hart Grapes sig The fruites and woorkes of mens liues which if they be good they are likned to sweete and good Grapes if they bee wicked workes then they are compared to wilde and sowre Grapes if notoriously wicked then they are called Grapes of Sodome Grapes of gall and poysoned Grapes Esay 5 2. It brought foorth wilde Grapes And verse 4. Deut. 32 32. Their Uine exceedeth the Uine of Sodome their Grapes are Grapes of gall Grasse sig That which is fraile and of short continuance fading like the Grasse Psal. 90 5. In the morning he flourisheth like the Grasse Psal. 103 15. Grauity sig A seemely moderation of gesture words countenance and actions according to the dignity of a mans person age sex calling Titus 2 2 7. With grauity and integrity to Gréeue the spirit of God sig To vex displease and make sad Ephe. 4 30. Grieue not that holy spirit of God that is to say doe nothing against that light set vppe in your conscience by the word and spirit for this wil grieue the Spirit and make him vn willing to abide in you as a Guest hath no pleasure there to remaine where he is despised and grieued Esay 7 13 and 63 10. Psal. 78 40. Great sig One that is in authority and power aboue others Mat. 20 19. Will be Great among you 2 One who is authour of much people Gene. 48 19. He also shall be Great Gréene sig Flourishing and prosperous Psal. 37 35. Like the greene Bay Tree Gréene trée sig An innocent and vnguilty person Luke 23 31. If this be done to the greene Tree what will be done to the dry that is if God giue the Iewes leaue thus to crucifie me who haue no fault to deserue this punnishment what grieuous iudgements will fall vpon impenitent Sinners who are like dry sticks apt and meete to burne in the Fire of Gods wrath G. U. Guile sig pro One that sheweth another his way 2 Teachers who are called Guids because they goe before the Flocke as Guides to shew them the way to saluation Rom. 2 19. And perswadest thy selfe that thou art a Guide to the Blinde to Guide sig Effectually to moue and stirre the heart towards God 2 Thes. 2 5. The Lord Guide your harts to his loue Guile sig A subtile inuention or deuise to deceiue another by when as one thing is done and another thing pretended 1 Pet. 2 1. Lay aside all Guile This is Guile in practise and action 2 Deceitfull speech tending to deceiue when one thing is said and another thing is meant 1 Pet. 2 22. In whose mouth there was no guile This is guile in words and promises 3 Inward Hypocrisie and vnsoundnesse of hart Psalme 32 2. In whose Spirit there is no Guile This is Guile in thoughts and purposes Guiltinesse sig Worthinesse or deseruing of punishment which necessarily doth follow euery sinne Math. 5 22. Which shall be Guilty of Iudgment that is shall bee worthy Rom. 3 19. G. Y. Gyants sig Apostataēs or such as reuolt go backe and fall away from God and godlinesse Gene. 6 4. There was Gyants in the Earth in those daies The wordes lay downe the fruit of corrupt marriages mentioned verse 1. to be not ouergrowing in stature but in impiety and sinne H. A. Habitation sig A Place of Defence or refuge as an house is to the dweller in it Psalme 90 1. Lord thou hast beene our Habitation Thus is God an Habitation to his Saints 2 A Temple to dwell in to possesse and rule in it Ephe. 2 22. To bee the Habitation of God by the Spirit Thus the Saints are the Habitation of God to Halt sig To counterfet or to play the Hypocrite 1. Kin. 18 21. Why Halt ye betweene two Hebr. 12 13. Least that which is Halting be turned away When the heart goes two wayes this is halting Hammer sig The word of the Law and Gospell which is as a Hammer to breake the stony hardnesse of our hearts and to bruise them to powder as it were that they may become soft humble and contrite Hands referred to God sig pro A member of the body which is the instrument of many and manifold actions 2 Gods eternall and effectuall purpose concerning all things to be done Acts 4 28. To do whatsoeuer thine Hand and thy Counsell determined to bee done 3 Gods actuall power working all thinges which be done according to his purpose Acts. 4 30. So that thou stretch forth thine Hand Psa. 118 16. Marke 6 2. 4 Gods blessings protection and deliuerances which be speciall workes of his power Psal. 104 28. Thou fillest with thine Hand euery liuing thing Exod. 14 31. 5 The vengeance and seuerity of God in plaguing the wicked and scourging his children which also be particuler works of his power Iudg. 2 15. The Hand of the Lord was sore against him Psal. 32 2. Thy Hand was heauie vpon mee Psalme 38 2. 6 The speciall fauour of God accompanied with a singular kind of Vertue Luke 1 66. And the Hand of the Lord was with him 7 The spirit and guift of Prophesie Ezek. 1 3. The Hand of the Lord was vpon him and 37 1. 8 The spirit of strength and fortitude 1. Kinges 1 46. The Hand of the Lord was on Eliah 9 An Instrument or ministry by which God doth any thing as by the hand of Esay of Ieremy c. Exod. 4 13. Send by the Hand of him Hag. 1 1. Mal. 1 1. Referred to men 10 A man himselfe by a Sinecdoche Gen. 43 9. Of mine Hand shalt thou require him 11 A mans power Eccles. 9 10. Whatsoeuer is in thy Hands to do Prou. 3 27. It signifies Kingly and royall power Ps. 89 29. I will set his Hand in the Sea c. 12 Aide or helpe 2. Kin. 15 19. That his Hand might be with him 13 Possession 1. Kin. 15 19. And establish the kingdome in his Hand 14 Counsell and endeuour 2. Sam. 14 19. Is not the Hand of Iob in all this 15 Tiranny and seruitude Exod. 18 9. Hee had deliuered them out of the Hand of the Aegiptians 16 Disposing or ordering Ge. 39 3. The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his Hand 17 The worke and labour which is done by the Hand Acts 20 24. My Hands haue ministred to my necessity 2. Thes.
might remaine in you Ioy in the holy Ghost sig A gladsome sweete and comfortable motion of the heart stirred vp by the Spirit of Adoption vpon the feeling of Gods loue in Christ to eternal life vpon the tokens of that loue both in earthly and spirituall blessings Rom. 14 17. The Kingdome of God is righteousnesse peace and Ioy in the Holy Ghost This is called Christs Ioy. Iohn 15 11. And glorious Ioy. 1 Pet. 1 8. Because it is part of the Kingdome of Heauen Ioy of the Lord. sig Diuine Ioy which commeth from the Lord and is placed in him Nehemi The Ioy of the Lord shall make ye strong Ioy of God sig Comfort of mind arising from Gods goodnes manifested in some outward or inward deliuerance Psal. 51 12. Restore to me the Ioy of thy saluation that is thy deliuerances were woont to make me glad let it be so againe with me to heare of Ioy gladnesse sig To be made ioyfull and glad by hearing beleeuing the glad tydings of forgiuenesse of sinnes For Ioy comes from faith and faith by hearing Psal. 51 8. Make me to heare of Ioy and gladnesse to Ioy in tribulations sig To haue occasion and matter of true comfort cheerfulnesse of our hart from afflictions because they are pledges of Gods loue and trials of Faith and patience Rom. 5 3. We Ioy in tribulations Ioy in the Lord. sig That true inward comfort which faithfull hearts feele because the Lord is their mercifull Father in Christ Iesus Phil. 4 4. Ioy in the Lord. Rom. 5 11. I. S. Is. sig Betokeneth signifieth sealeth Mat. 13 38. The field Is the world Math. 26 27. This Is my bodye And elsewhere often Gal. 4 24. 2 Leads or brings vnto Rom. 7 7. Is the Law sinne That is doth it bring vnto or lead to sinne Rom. 6 23. The guift of God is eternall life that is holinesse which is Gods free guift leadeth vnto aeternall life as a way leadeth to a Citty Rom. 8 6. Wisedome of the spirit Is life and peace 3 Bring forth causeth meriteth or deserueth Rom. 8 6. The Wisedome of the Flesh Is death that is not only leads vnto but deserueth death aeternall Israel sig A Prince of the strong God or one that hath obtained principall power from the mighty God Gen. 32 28. Thy name shall be called Iacob no more but Israel because thou hast power with God 2 The Patriarke Iacob who was called Israell because he had strength to wrestle with God and to ouercome as in the former place appeareth Rom. 9 6. All that are of Israell that is of Iacob 3 The people of Israell which were the posterity of Iacob of whom consisteth the visible church till the comming of Christ. Exod. 19 3. Tell the children of Israel Psal. 76 11. And very often in the Old-Testament 4 The whole Inuisible Catholicke Church consisting of beleeuing Iewes and Gentiles Psal. 124 1. Now may Israell say Psal. 125 5. But peace shall be vpon Israel Gal. 6 16. And vpon the Israel of God that is vppon the whole elect people of God 5 Euery elect faithfull person Ro. 9 6. All they are not Israel Israelite sig A Iew which discended of Iacob according to the flesh Rom. 9 4. Which are the Israelites 2 A Godly Christian though a Gentile which from his heart worshippeth the God of Israel Ioh. 1 47. Behold in deed an Israelite in whom there is no guile Rom. 2 29. Psal. 73 1. Yet God is good to Israel euen to such as are of a pure heart I. U. a Iudge sig A chiefe Gouernor or Soueraigne Ruler who hath all the world in his disposition and vnder his power So is God alone Gen. 28 25. Should not the Iudge of the world do iustly 2 A Deputy-Gouernor as it were Gods Lieutenant in the gouernment of the whole world So is Christ as Mediator and he alone 2. Tim. 4 1. I charge thee before Christ the Iudge of quicke and dead Iohn 5 22. 3 A Gouernor that hath generall rule by Gods appointment ouer some one people or Nation to preserue and gouerne it Iudg. 3 26. God raised them vp Iudges 4 A person appointed ouer criminal causes and ciuill controuersies to end and determine them by his sentence 2. Chr. 19 5. He set Iudges in the land Deut. 16 18. Iudges shalt thou make thee in all thy Citties Luke 12 14. to Iudge referred to God sig Referred to men To rule and gouerne Psal. 67 4. God shall Iudge the earth with righteousnesse Psal. 9 4 8. Heb. 10 30. The Lord shall Iudge his people 2 To correct chastice or to punnish which is one act of diuine gouernment Psal. 51 4. That thou maist be pure when thou Iudgest Hebr. 13 4. Adulterers God will Iudge 3 To pronounce a righteous and true sentence vpon all things and persons which is also another act of Gouernment Rom. 2 16. At that day when God shall Iudge the world 4 To giue defence and preseruation against malicious vniust oppressors Psal 7 8. Iudge me according to my righteousnesse Sée verse 10. which seemeth thus to expound the word Psal. 43 1. Iudge me ô Lord and deliuer me This is also one part of gouernment 5 To enquire into try and discerne things and persons Psal. 7 11. compared with verse 9. Psal. 11 4 5. The Lords Throne is in heauen his eyes will consider and try c. 6 To rule and gouerne any people Iudg. 4 4. Debora Iudged Israel 7 Truly to vnderstand and discerne all things as they be 2. Cor. 2 15. The spirituallman Iudgeth all things 1. Cor. 14 29. Let two or three speake and let the other Iudge that is discerne what is spoken 8 To vtter an vpright and vnpartial sentence of other men and their doings Iohn 7 24. Iudge a righteous Iudgement and not according to appearance 9 Rashly and curiously without any cause or calling to carpe at and censure other men their actions Math. 7 1. Iudge not and ye shall not bee Iudged Rom. 14 13. Let no man Iudge his Brother that is rashly determine of him and of his finall estate for that belongs to God onely 10 To approoue and allow the last sentence of the great Iudgement 1. Cor. 6 2. The Saints shall Iudge the world and the Angels 11 To heare try and determine ciuill causes betweene a man and his Neighbour 1. Cor. 6 2. Are ye vnworthy to Iudge the least matters Exo. 18 13. Moses sat to Iudge the people 12 To condemne or to pronounce a Iudiciall sentence true or false 1. Kings 4 28. Psal. 82 1. 13 To accuse and by a good example to testifie against others Math. 12 41 42. The men of Niniuie shall rise in Iudgement against this wicked Generation Rom. 2 27. 14 To declare by deedes and pronounce sentence against ones selfe Actes 13 46. You Iudge your selues vnworthy of life to be Iudged sig To be punnished Math. 7 1. Ye shall not bee Iudged
32. This is a great Mistery but I speake of Christ and his Church Foolishly then and ignorantly do Papists hence gather their Sacrament of Marriage For not the coniunction of man and wife but of Christ and his Church is a Mistery Mistery of iniquity sig False Doctrine and corrupt worship cloaked couered with the name of Christ and of Christian Religion 2. Thes 2 7. The Mistery of Iniquitie doth already worke Misterie of godlinesse sig The Doctrine of free saluation through faith only in the blood of Christ or the whole Doctrine of Christianity 1. Tim. 2 16. Great is the Mistery of Godlinesse 1. Cor. 〈◊〉 Math. 11 25. 1. Cor. 2 10 14. M. O. Mocke sig A bitter taunâ— or scornfullieast either for some naturall infirmity or for piety sake In the former kind the children Mocked Elizeus 2. Kings 2 23. Câ—â—e vp Bald-head In the latter kinde Isâ—aell Mocked Isaac Gen. 21 19. Sarah sawe Ismaell mocking This is called persecution Gal. 4 29. Thus Iewes and Gentiles mocked Christ. Modestie sig That grace of the Spirite which enableth Christians so to moderate their affections as that they keepe a comely meane in all parts of their behauiour Actes 20 19. Seruing the Lord with all modestie Moloch sig An Idoll of the Ammonites shaped like to a man being made hollow within hauing seauen Clossets It was made of Copper and the Israelites offered their sons and daughters vnto it Leuit 18 21. Offer not thy children to Moloch See Bible-note vpon this place 2 Any kinde of Idoll whatsoeuer by a Sinecdoche Leuit. 20 2. Moone sig That great light which puts difference between nights and dayes and bounds yeares and months by her course Psal. 121 6. Nor the Moone by night Gen. 1. 2 The world and all earthly thinges which for their changeablenesse are likened to the Moone Reuel 12 1. The Moone was vnder her feete A Metaphor to turne the moone into blood sig To giue some fearefull token of diuine wrath as if the course of Nature should be altered Acts. 2 10. The Moone shall be turned into blood The same thing is meant by the darkening of the sunne and Moone A Metaphor Morning sig That part of the day which is first after the rising of the Sun Marke 16 2. 2 An whole Artificiall day Sinechdoche Gen. 1 5. Morning Euening sig A naturall day consisting of day and night A Sinecdoche Gen. 1 5. The Morning and the euening were the first day in the Morning sig The time of the Resurrection when Christ the Sun of righteousnesse shall arise to the ful comfort of the chosen Psal. 49 15. euery Morning sig Daily or from one day to another Lament 3 23. Thy mercies are renewed euery Morning early in the morning sig Seasonably and in due time Psalme 5 3. Earely in the Morning O Lord thou shalt heare my voice 2 Quickly speedily and in short time Psal. 30 5. Ioy comes in the morning Psal. 90 5. 3 Diligently with great study and care 2. Chro. 36 15. Rising Earely c. the out-goings of the mornings Euenings sig The whole course of the day and all things that fall out in it Psal. 65 8. The out-goings of the euenings and the Mornings praise thee More abundantly sig More then was needefull were it not for the wickednesse of men who will not beleeue God Heb. 6 17. God willing More abundantly c. from Morning to euening sig Euery houre moment and minute of time Iob 4 20. From morning to Euening they be destroyed that is euery moment they hasten to death to take the wings of yâ— Morning sig To vse exceeding great speede and celerity doing a thing so suddainely as the beames of the Sunne are scattered thorough the Ayre Psalme 139 8. to Mortifie sig To kill and to breake the strength and rage of sinne by the spirite Rom. 8 13. Ifye Mortifie the deedes of the body by the spirite you shall liue Colos. 3 5. Mortification what it is It is that work or action of the spirit of God in the heart of a sanctified man enabling him by little little to crucifie and destroy the Old-man with al his affections and lusts which be either in his reason or will till they bee wholly abolished and taken away at the time of our death Seâ— Rom. 6 5 6 7. Mortality sig An estate subiect to death 1. Cor. 15 53. This Mortall must put on immortality Moses sig pro A person so called being a singuler Prophet by whom the Law was giuen 2 The Bookes and writings of Moyses Luke 16 29. They haue Moyses and the Prophets Iohn 5 45. Mote sig pro A thing so small that it cannot be deuided into parts 2 Either some small sinne espied and resisted or some great sinne vnknowne and hidden from our sight Math. 7 3. Let mee pull the Mote out of thy eye A lesser sinne willingly and wittingly continued in is a beame when a great sinne as Polygamie of the Fathers not disceâ—ned to bee a sinne is but a Mote Mother sig pro One that beareth children naturally Thus was Sarah Isaacks Mother and Marie Christes Mother 2 One that bringeth forth children spiritually Thus Ierusalem which is aboue is saide to bee the Mother of vs all Gal. 4 26. 3 One that careth for instructeth and defendeth others as a Mother her children Thus is Deborah called a Mother in Israel Iudg. 5 7. That is a Gouernor which bare a Motherly affection 4 Ancient women which excell in years 1. Tim. 5 2. The elder women as Mothers 5 A Step-mother and one that is to be honoured loued and cherrished as a Mother The fifth Commandement Honor thy Father and thy mother Iohn 19 27. Behold thy Mother 6 One that is neere and deere vnto Christ as a Mother to the childe Math. 12 50. They that doo the will of my Father they are my mother and my brethren Mother of vs all sig The holy inuisible Catholicke Church which as a commoÌ„ Mother bringeth forth children into the Christian world Gal. 4 26. Nurcing Mothers sig Queenes and Princesses which like Nurcing Mothers foster and maintaine the Church of God by their authority and good Lawes Isai. 49 23. the Mother of whoredomes sig The Author inuenter and cherrisher of superstitions and Idolatries which are spirituall whoredomes Reuel 17 8. Mother of whoredoms and abhominations Mountains sig pro The highest places of the earth Prou. 8 25. Ere the Mountaines were Mountaines haue eminencie and firmenesse they be high and vnmooueable or lasting 2 Great men and Rulers Ps. 72 3. The mountaines may bring peace Esay Tell the Mountaines c. Potentates of the earth are exalted as Mountaines and thinke themselues strong 3 Arrogant and proude Tyrants swollen like Mountaines with ambition Iob. 9 5. God translateth Mountaines and ouerthrowes them in his wrath 4 The invisible euen the holy Catholick Church eminent and dureable as a Mount Psal. 15 1. 1 25 1. 5 The visible Church Esay
in them for euer Iohn 14. And 1 Iohn 3. The seede of God remaineth in them Of this seede Peter saith it is immortall 1 Pet. 1 verse last Also Christ maketh request for beleeuers Question sig A demaund or asking which when it is of things necessary to be knowne out of a desire to learne it is good otherwise it is either vaine or foolish Tim. 3 23. Foolish Questions of vanitie eschew to quicken sig pro To giue life to the dead or to reuiue that which is dying 2 To put the life of grace into a soule dead in trespasses and sinnes when one spiritually dead is made to liue to God by the life of faith Ephe. 2 1 5. You hath he quickned which were dead in trespasses and sinnes 3 To put heart and comfort by deliuerance into such as haue greefe and feare thorough great dangers Psal. 119 149 154. Quicken mee according to thy word R. A. Rabbi sig ONe that is aboue others and in sted of a number Math. 23 7. Rabbi Rabbi A proude swelling Title wherein the Pharisees gloried very much Race sig The course of Christianity and godlinesse Heb. 2 1. Let vs run the Race to Raigne sig pro To commaund with power as King and with readinesse to be obeyed Thus Dauid raigned in Israell Iosiah in Iuda 1 Kings 11 42. 2 To command and rule in the soule without opposition or resistance Rom. 6 12. Let not sinne Raigne in your mortall bodies Sin is said to raign when the lusts and motions of sin be readily obeyed as one would obey the Law and command of a King Thus sinne raigneth Death is saide to raigne because it exerciseth ouer all mankinde that power which through sin it hath gotten Rom. 5 14. Death raigned from Adam to Moses Thus death raigneth Grace is saide to raigne when the righteousnesse of Christ being freely imputed his Spirite raignes in our hearts and we be gouerned by the motions and impulsions thereof so as now sinne cannot condemne vs to death nor rule ouer vs as it did before grace which hath quit the beleeuers from the raigne of sinne and death Rom. 5 21. So might grace Raigne by righteousnesse to eternall life Thus grace raigneth 3 To gouerne and dispose all things in Heauen and earth according to his royal decrees Thus God Raigns ouer the world Psal. 93 1. The Lord Raignes and is clothed in maiestie The whole Psalm throughout 4 To gouerne and rule the faithfull by the word and holy spirite thus Christ Raigneth ouer his Church Psal. 97 1. The Lord Raigneth let the earth reioyce Railer sig An euill speaker which vpbraideth others with their true faultes in a reprochfull manner or else casteth vpon them false crimes to defame them 1 Cor. 6 10. Extortioners Railers White Raiment Sée White to Raine sig pro To powre downe water plentifully out of the clouds to refresh the earth with all Deut. 28 12. 2 To giue plentifully Psal. 78 24. Hee Rained downe Manna And verse 27. He raigned down Flesh that is he gaue it liberally like Raine Raine sig The fruitfulnesse of the Earth which followeth moderate seasonable Raine Math. 5 45. Hee sendeth raine on the iust and vniust 2 The doctrine of the word which falling vpon the consciences of men doth refresh and make them fruitful as Raine doth the Grasse Deu. 32 2. My doctrine shall drop as the Raine to Raise sig pro To lift vp or set vp something which is downe or fallen 2 To make a body which is dead and fallen into the graue to liue and rise againe Actes 2 32 24. Whom God hath raised vp Iohn 6 40. I will Raise them vp at the last day 3 To make a soule which is spiritually dead to liue vnto God and to arise vnto a new and godly life Rom. 6. 4. 4 To restore and lift vp such as bee fallen into calamities Psal. 113 7. Hee raised the needy out of the dust 1 Sam. 2 6. Rapine sig A greedy and violent affection of taking and pulling from others that which is theirs Luke 11 39. Full of Rapine 2 Some-thing which is taken or pulled from others by force and violence Psal. Rapine is in their houses Rasor sig pro A sharpe instrument wherewith haire is shauen and cleane cut off by the stumpes 2 A fierce and cruell enemy which destroyes and cuts downe all as a sharpe Rasor shaues and cuts all bare Esay 7 20. In that day the Lord shall shaue with a Rasor c. This is ment by the King of Assiria by whom God would plague Israell 3 A malitious tongue which secretly woundeth and cutteth ones name as a Rasor ones flesh Psal. 52 2. Thy tongue is like a sharpe Rasor which cutteth deceitfully R. E. to Reade sig To recite distinctly the sillibles and wordes of Scripture Reading is nothing else but such a recitall and speaking forth the letters sillibles Luk. 4 6. Hee tooke the booke and Read Actes 15 21. Moses in euery Synagogue hath such as Reade him 1 Tim. 4 13. Attend to reading Reading is not the word of God but an action about it neyther is it preaching in the proper acception to Reape sig pro To gather the fruites of the earth as Corne Hay c. 2 To take such gaines and fruits of our worke as the nature of the worke is good or euill Gal. 6 8 9. 2 Cor. 96. Pro. He that soweth iniquity shall Reape affliction Reason sig That faculty and power of the soule whereby we debate and discourse of things and obiects that we may be able soundly to iudge of that which we rightly vnderstand 2 The vse of this faculty to wit discretion Acts. 25 28. Me thinkes it is against Reason That is against discretion or very absurd 3 The cause and ground of a thing 1 Pet. 3 15. To them which aske you a Reason of that hope which is in you Reasonable seruice sig The spirituall sacrifice of a Christian offering not the bodies of beastes which haue no reason as they were wont to do vnder the Law but himselfe wholy being a Reasonable creature as a sacrifice vnto God his Creatour and Redeemer which is a most Reasonable thing to doe him seruice and obedience in all thinges according to his reuealed will which is a very Reasonable rule Rom. 12 1. Which is your Reasonable seruice of God Reasoning sig An euill discourse or disputing against God or his word Phil. 2 14. Let all thinges be done without Reasonings Math. 15 19. Out of the heart comes euill Reasonings to Rebell sig pro To fight or make war against his lawfull Soueraigne as Absolon Rebelled against his Father Dauid or to cast off the yoake of a lawfull Gouerner as Corah and Abiram Numb 16 1 2. To striue or rise vp against the gouernment of the spirit in the minde of a regenerate man Rom. 7 23. A law in my members Rebelling against the law of my minde Thus sinne Rebelleth against grace Rebellion sig pro
refuge Psal. 59 16. Thou art my refuge in the time of trouble Psal. 32 7. Regeneration sig New birth after we are once born naturally to be borne againe spiritually Titus 3 5. By the Lauer of Regeneration or by the washing of New-birth 2 The day and time of the last Iudgement when our whole Nature being perfectly restored both body and Soule shall enioy the heauenly inheritance Mathew 9 28. You which haue followed mee shall in the Regeneration sit vppon Thrones c. Regeneration is commonly put and vsed by Diuines for Sanctification and Renouation and then it imports and signifies as much as the reformation of a Man which consists in the Mortification of sinne and newnesse of life Whereas if we speake exactly and as the thing is this renewing of our Nature is but an effect and fruit of our Regeneration which properly is our incorporation and ingrafting into Christ by Faith whereby wee haue our spirituall being of Children in the Kingdome of grace as by Carnall generation we haue Naturall being in the Kingdome of this world Sée Iohn 1 12 13 14. Regeneration may therefore thus be defined Regeneration what Regeneration is a worke or act of Gods wonderfull power begetting the elect againe to himself by the ministry of the word through the spirit that of the Children of wrath by the desert of sin they might bee made by grace through faith in Christ the Sonnes and Daughters of God Iames 1 18. Of his owne will begat he vs by the word of truth Titus 3 4 5 6. Therefore the confounding of Regeneration with Sanctification I doe take to bee an ouer-sight but I iudge it a grosse errour to thinke our selues to haue any stroke in our New-birth so much as to assent to it til of vnwilling we be made willing to be Regenerate sig To be borne againe by the Spirit that we may be the Children of God Iohn ◠3. Unlesse a Man be Regenerate and borne againe he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God Reioyce sig To take comfort and be made glad by the opinion presence or hope of some good thing earthly or heauenly 1 Thess. 5 16. Reioyce euermore Lu. 1 58. They Reioyced with her to reioyce in Christ. sig To rest wholy in him and his sufferings with full comfort and contentment of minde Gal. 6. 14. Phil. 4 4. Reioyce in the Lord. Religion sig Godlinesse euen that inward pietie of the heart whereby God is truely acknowledged and farred Iames 1 27. Pure Religion and vndefiled is this 2 The outward lawfull worship and seruice of God prescribed in his worde and professed by men Iames 1 26. That mans Religion is vaine 3 The Doctrine which teacheth Religion Acts 25 19. 4 The whole Iewish external worship of God as it was corrupted by the Tradition of the Pharisees Acts 26 5. I liued a Pharisie after the perfect Sect of our Religion 5 Superstition Col. 2 18. By the Religion of Angels verse 23. In voluntary Religion Religious sig A worshipper of God outwardly Iames 1 26. If any among you seeme Religious 2 A true worshipper of God or a godly person Acts 10 5. A Religious or deuout man one that feareth God 3 A person deuoted to Religion and studious to know better the way of Gods worship Actes 2 5. There were dwelling at Ierusalem Iewes Religious men 4 Superstitious hypocriticall persons which would seeme to be louers of Religion and be not Acts 13 50. They stirred vp certaiue Religious or deuout women against Paule to Remember sig Either to call to minde something past or to keepe in minde something for the time to come Exod. 20 8. Remember thou keepe holy the Sabaoth Math. 26 75. Then Peter Remembred the wordes of the Lord. 2 To make mention with liking to praise commend and celebrate a thing Psal. Remember the wonderous thinges that he hath done Psa. 6. 5. In death there is none Remembers thee Esay 26 8. Eccl. 1◠1. Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth that is worship and praise him 3 To trust or put confidence in another Psal. 20 7. Some trust in horses but we Remember thee O Lord. In this sence wee are commanded to eate the Lords Supper in Remembraunce of his death and passion For we are warned thereby stirred vp both to call to minde his sufferings and to trust in them for saluation 1 Cor. 11 25. to Remember as it is referred to God sig To care for one to deliuer succour and saue him God Remembred Abraham or thought vpon him Gen. 19 29. Also in Luke 23 41. Lord Remember me when thou commest into thy Kingdome Heb. 13 4. And in all places of the Psalmes where the Prophet prayeth to be remembred it hath this meaning to be blessed cared for and comforted If we speake properly there fals into God no forgetfulnesse but as men vse to helpe such as they remember and think vpon so the helpes blessings and comforts which God doth afford to his people shewes and makes it knowne that he Remembers them 1 Sam. 1 19. And the Lord Remembred Hannah 2 To punish or correct sinne Psal. 25 7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth that is Remember them not to punish me for them Iere. 31 34. I will not Remember your Iniquities 3 Graciously to accept and fauourably to fulfill Psal. 20 3. Let him Remember all thy burnt Offerings Rembrance sig A calling to minde or keeping in mind This is the proper signification 2 Memory good name and report Eccl. 9 5. Their Remembrance is forgotten Exod. 17 14. 3 Hauing in minde with faith and loue 1 Cor. 11 25. Do this in Remembrance of me Remission of sinnes sig Forgiuenesse of sinne when both the guilt and punnishment are freely pardoned for Christ alone to such as beleeue in him Acts 10 43. All that beleeue in him shall receiue Remission of their sinnes These are our spirituall debts which being wholy pardoned by Christ onely what place is there for Popish satisfaction 2 All the merits and benefits of Christ by a Sinecdoche of a part for the whole Math. 26 28. Which is shed for many for Remission of sinnes Vnder this one benefit is comprehended the whol Masse of his merits to Remit or forgiue sig To forgiue or not to require the paiment or debt of sinne at our hands Iohn 20 23. They are Remitmitted Thus God alone Remitteth authoratiuely 2 To declare and pronounce sinne to be forgiuen to such as shewe their faith by true Repentance Iohn 20 23. Whose sinnes ye Remit Thus Ministers are saide to remit declaratiuely as witnesses onely 3 To put wrong done vs out of our Rememberance Math. 18 21. And I shall forgiue or Remit him Thus one man forgiues another 4 To receiue an excommunicate person into the Church vpon his Repentance 2 Cor. 27. Yee ought rather to forgiue him And verse 10. Thus the Church forgiues scandalous liuers Sée Forgiuenesse Remaining sig A portion of
c. Iam. 2 1. Haue not the faith of Christ in Respect of persons Deut. 16 19. Sée Acception of Persons Rest as it is referred to men sig pro A ceasing from labour or worke of mind or body 2 A ceasing from bodily labours or a refreshing after wearinesse by sleepe Psalme The day for man to labour also he hath giuen the night for Man to rest in Luke He called them aside to rest awhile This is Natural Rest. Psa. 127 2. He will giue Rest to his beloued Math. 8 20. 3 A ceasing from outward woorkes of our worldly calling for a certain time to â—â—t vs for Gods seruice Thus the Iewes seauenth day and our Lordes day with vs is a day of Rest. Commandement the fourth This is Ceremoniall Rest. 4 A ceasing from disobedience to God and the workes of sinne Heb. 4 3. We which haue beleeued doe enter into Rest. Also verse 10 11. When an elect Soule ceaseth from the workes of corrupt Nature This is spirituall Rest. 5 A perfect ceasing and full freedome from all sinnes sorrowes and miseries Reue. 14 13. They that die in the Lord rest from their labours This is aeternall Rest. 6 Peace and quietnesse of a good conscience vnder sure hope of aeternall Rest. Math. 11 29. And ye shall finde Rest to your Soules 7 The quietnesse of the minde beeing freed from all worldly cares and feares of enemies and dangers Psal. 116 5 6. Take thy Rest ô my Soule for God c. 8 The doctrine of God whereupon we ought to stay and Rest our selues Esay 28 12. This is the Rest c. 9 A place of quiet and constant abode Psal. 132 8. Psal. 95 11. So was Canaan to Gods people and Ierusalem to the Arke Psal. 132 14. 10 A ceasing from Tillage and Husbandry Thus the ground is said to Rest. Leuit. 25 5 6. A yeare of Rest to the Land 11 Ease and idlenesse Gen. 49 15. Hee shall see that Rest is good Thus the wicked Rest. Rest. sig The Church and house of God wherein Christ Resteth Psalme 13 14. Esay 10 11. And his Rest shall be glorious The Papists which translate This his Sepulcher shall bee glorious to prooue the adoration and religious worship of our Sauiours Sepulcher deale both ignorantly and superstitiously therein Rest referred to God sig A ceasing from his woorke of Creation at the end of sixe daies Heb. 44. Gen. 2 1. He Rested the seauenth day from his worke Restitution orrestoring sig pro The setting in ioynt againe or placing in good estate that which was once fallen downe and decayed Gen. 40 21. And he restored the cheefe Butler In this signification God is said in Scripture to Restore his people and thus are we commaunded to Restore such as sinne by infirmity Gal. 6 1. Ye that are spirituall Restore such an one This shal be perfectlie doone at the last day when euery thing now corrupted shal haue due perfection and proportion 2 A giuing againe that which one had before lost Psal. 5 12. Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation 3 Returning that which is not a mans owne to the proper owner Luke 19 8. I wil Restore fourefold Ezek. 18 7. If he Restore the pledge c. Resurrection sig An action of diuine power quickning dead bodies and raising them to life 1 Cor. 15 12. How do some say that there is no Resurrection This is the second Resurrection 2 Restoring dead Soules to the life of grace that they may liue to God beeing mooued by his spirit Reuel 20 6. Blessed are they that haue part in the first Resurrection Iohn 5 25. This is the first Resurrection Resurrection of condemnation sig Such a Resurrection as hath condemnation and eternall death to follow it Iohn 5 29. Others shal rise to to the Resurrection of condemnation Resurrection of life sig Such a Resurrection as hath eternall life following it Iohn 5. 29. Which life because it belongs onely to the iust it is therefore called the Resurrection of the iust Luke 14 14. At the Resurrection of the iust Resurrection from the dead sig The whole mediation of Christ in his Incarnation Natiuity Life Suffering Death Buriall his remaining in the Graue vnder the power of death Ascention returne to Iudgement Rom. 10 9. And raised him from the dead to Returne sig pro To come backe againe after one is departed or gone out of the way 2 To repent as when a sinner which hath erred from the way of Gods Commaundements doth come home againe by vnfained repentance Acts. 3 19. Returne and repent c. Ezek. 18 32. Thus sinners Returne to God 3 To yeild or giue consent to the minde or desire of another Ier. 18 19. Do not Returne to them but let them Returne to thee Thus the people Returne to their Minister 4 To shewe fresh signes of fauour after some iudgements for sinnes Psal. 61 20. Thou wilt Returne Psal. 40 13. Ioel. 2 14. Who knoweth if God will Returne Thus God Returnes to vs. Reuelation sig An vncouering or opening something that is hid and secret Reuel 1. The Reuelation of Iohn the Diuine That is which was shewed to him How do some teach that this booke is so hard that it cannot be vnderstood if the holy Spirit haue entituled it the Reuelation that is a Declaration or a thing Reuealed the day of Reuelation sig A time of declaration appointed in Gods Counsell for the manifesting of darke thinges which be hid and kept close Rom. 2 5. the Reuelation of Jesus Christ. sig That prophesie which Iesus Christ hath opened vnto vs out of the bosome of his Father by the ministry of the Angels Reuel 1 1. The Reuelation of Iesus Christ. 2 His declaring himselfe vnto vs to bee our redeemer by his word and spirite euen in this life 1 Pet. 1 13. Trust perfitly in the grace brought you in the Reuelation of Iesus Christ. 3 The glorious appearing of Iesus Christ at the last day 1 Pet. 1 13. Tit. 2 13. to Reueale sig To make vs vnderstand any part of diuine truth which wee knew not before Phi. 3 15. God shall Reueale the same vnto them 2 To open a secret committed to vs. Pro. 20 19 Reuealeth or discouereth secrets to Reueale Christ in vs sig To open the eyes of our minde by the spirit that we may see him to be the onely Sauiour and to be our Sauiour Gal. 1 15. It pleased God to Reueale his sonne in me to Reuenge or auenge sig To punnish sinne commonly with some iudgements like and proportionable to the sinne it selfe Psal. 94 1. Reuenge thy selfe ô God or ô God the Auenger 2 To requiâ—e an Iniury done vs out of some hate against our person Rom. 12 19. Reuenge not your selues that is recompence not euill for euill Rom. 12 17. Reuerence sig A holy feare of the heart towardes God witnessed by all seemely Behauiour Gesture Attire Countenance Attention and such like Psalm 2 11. Serue the Lord with
Path or Way to go out of the Way sig To turne aside and play Apostate from God his Law and worship Idolatry Rom. 3 12. They are al gone out of the way Waies of iudgement sig Approued and righteous wayes such as can abide the tryall of the light Prou. 2 8. That shey may keepe the wayes of Iudgement These also in ver 13. Are called the Wages of righteousnesse the Way of man sig The successe or euent of a mans purposes or actions Ier. 10 23. The Way of man is not in himselfe the Way of peace sig A peaceable quiet life Rom. 3 17. And the way of peace they haue not knowne to come in the way of righteousnesse sig To lead a righteous life being of vpright life and good conuersation Math. 21 33. For Iohn came in the way of Righteousnesse their Way sig The euent and successe of their course of life Psal. 49 13. This their Way vttereth their foolishnesse W. E. Weake sig One who is made feeble brought low with sicknesse Psal. 6 2. Haue mercie on me Lord for I am weake And 38 8. Bodily weakenesse 2 One of little faith and knowledge Rom. 14 1 He that is weake in the Faith receiue vnto you Spiritual weaknesse in part 3 One who wants all strength bodily and spirituall 1 Cor. 15 43. It is sowne in Weakenesse Rom. 5 6. When we were yet weak or of no strength This is spirituall Weakenesse totally vnto which al men from their birth be subiect Weak flesh sig Corruption of Nature which makes vs Weake either to do good or to resist euill Math. 26 41. The flesh is Weake Metonimie of the cause Weaned Childe sig One of a lowly and humble mind Psal. 131 2. I am in my selfe as one that is Weaned Weapons sig pro Instruments of Warre 2 All the faculties of soule or bodie fighting eyther for sinne in a man vnregenerate or against sin in one regenerate Rom. 6 12. Neither giue your members as weapons of vnrighteousnesse to sinne but giue your Members as Weapons of Righteousnesse to God 3 Preaching of the Word Prayer Patience in suffering c. 2 Cor. 10 3. The Weapons of our warfare are mighty through God Weary sig pro One made faiâ—t with labour and ttauell Iohn 4 6. He thus sate on the well Weary Bodily Wearinesse 2 A soule faint and burdened with the loade of sinne being as desirous of ease by forgiuenesse as a wearie man is of rest after great labour Mat. 11 28. Come vnto me all ye as are wearie Spiritual wearinesse 3 Slacke carelesse and fainting in well-doing Gal. 6 7. Be not Weary of well-doing Carnall Wearinesse Wedding Garment sig Christ Iesus himselfe whom we put on by faith Math. 22 11. Which had not on the wedding Garment Rom. 13 14. Put ye on the Lord Iesus The Papists do erre in iudging loue and Good-Workes to be this Wedding Garment Weeke sig The space of seauen dayes 1 Cor. 16 1. Euerie first day of the Weeke 2 The number of seauen yeares Thus seauenty Weekes in Leuit. 25 8. signifies seuenty times seuen yeares Also Dan. 9 25 Welles of saluation sig Eyther the Doctrine of the Gospell wherewith afflicted Consciences are refreshed as with water out of a Well or the plentifull graces of the Spirit powred out as water out of a Well Esay 12 â—3 Ye shall draw waters out of the Welles of Saluation Wel of water springing vp sig The exceeding rich loue of God continually ministring to the faithfull new supply of healthfull graces Iohn 4 14. Shall bee in him a Well of water springing vp to eternall life Wels with out water sig False Prophets which be voide of wholesome Doctrine 2 Peter 2 17. These are Welles without water W. H. Wheate sig pro A precious Graine whereof bread is made for the strengthening of mans heart 1 Cor. 15 37. Bare Corne of Wheate or some other 2 All elect and faithful persons which are fruitfull in good workes Math. 3 12. The Wheate hee will gather into his Barne Wheele sig An Instrument of wood or Iron turning round seruing either for worke or punishment 2 Punishment it selfe inflicted vppon malefactors Prou. 20 26. A righteous King will turne the Wheele vpon the vngodly 3 The whole masse and body of all things vnder heauen subiect to continuall change and mutation Ezek. 1 15. There appeared a Wheele vnto me vpon the earth by the Beastes hauing foure faces Wherefore sig A Consequent or that which followes as an effect of some foregoing cause Rom. 1 24. Wherefore also God gaue them vp c. Heere it is an Illatiue particle 2 A cause or reason of some thing Rom. 1 21. Wherefore or because when c. to Whet the sword sig To prepare and make readie some great Iudgement Psal. 7 12. He hath whet his sword Whetting their teeth sig Indignation or wrath of the wicked Psalme 112 10. The wicked whets his teeth at the Righteous White sig pro A colour bright and lightsome contrarie to blacke 2 That which is pure without blemish or glorious without infirmity Reu. 3 18. White Rayment Math. 28 3. His Rayment white as Snow It is vsual in Scripture by white to signifie Purity and Glory Sée Rayment and Robe 3 Ripe and ready to be cut downe and carried into the barne Iohn 4 35. They are white already to the Haruest white horse sig The Ministers of the Gospel made pure by Christ and preaching Christ purely Reuel 6 2. Loe there was a White horse Wholesom sig Sound or healthful making spiritually sound or bringing health to the soule 1 Tim. 6 3. And consented not to the wholesome words of Christ. Tit. 2 1. Wholesome Doctrine Whore sig An vnchast woman taking money for the vse of her body Deut. 23 17 18. There shall bee no Whore of the Daughters of Israell nor any hyre of a whore brought into the house of God 2 The Sinagogue of Anti-christ or the Romish Church as it standeth now corrupt with horrible Idolatry and Heresie obstinately maintained Reu. 17 1. I will shewe thee the condemnation of the great Whore Whoredom sig The vncleannesse of such as make their bodies common for money Deut. 21 23. 2 Generally all vncleannesse about generation Heb. 13 14. Hosea 4 11. Whoredome and new Wine take away the heart 3 Idolatry in the worship of strange Gods or in the strange worship of the true God Reu. 17 5. That Mother of Whoredome Ezek. 16 25. And multiplyed thy Whoredome Verse 17. And madest to thy selfe Images of men and diddest commit whoredom with them to go a Whoring sig To fixe our affection vpon the creatures more then the Creator and especially to put our trust confidence in worldly men and worldly thinges Psa. 73 27. Thou destroyest all them which go a Whoring from thee All confidence in the creature It is a spirituall whoredome 2 To fall in loue with Idols and to worshippe contrary to our faith plight with God
Fowles for their rauening such be the Vulture the Crow the Rauen the Owle the Kite c. 2 Vncleane and filthy men such as the now Romish Synagogue doth and long hath abounded with which liue by Rapine and Iniquity and in that regard are hatefull to all ciuill honest men but most hatefull to the Saints Reuel 18 2. Uncleane and Hatefull Birds H. E. Heads sig All Turkish Princes Bassaes and Begles together with their Emperor the Grand-Sultan all alike Instruments and Ministers of execrable cruelty and fury exercised both by themselues and others vnder them Reu. 9 19. Hauing Heads wherewith they hurt ouer his Head sig Aboue him or vpon his head Reuel 10 1. The Rainbow was ouer his Head Heades of Lyons sig Most notable cruelty and fiercenesse wherein the Turkes do excell all other Nations and people that euer were heard of both Sarazins Romans Reuel 9 17. The Heads of the horses were as the heads of Lyons Heereby is noted vnto vs that to the stearnnesse of their countenance they had added the strength of their iawes to expresse their singular inhumanity Heads seauen sig Seauen hils and seauen Kings Reuel 17 9. Seauen Heades are seauen hilles They are also seauen Kings to Heale the nations sig To preserue in health and keepe from all diseases preuenting them and remoouing all causes of them Reuel 22 2. And the Leaues to heale the Nations with This health Christ doth affoorde the soules of beleeuers vnperfectly heer and most perfectly in heauen to Heare sig To bend the minde inwardly to heed well and marke the admonitions of the Spirit in the word Reuel 2 7. Let him that hath an Eare Heare Reuel 13 9 Let him Heare that is let him be attentiue 2 To receiue a thing by the outward sence of hearing Reuel 22 18. I protest to euerie one that Heareth the word of this Prophesie Heat of the fire sig Inward indignation blinde zeale and bitternesse of minde together with outward strife contention and debate wherewith not only open enimies but Hypocrites should bee vexed for striuing against the Sunne and light of the Gospell shining vpon their Consciences and checking them Reu. 16 8. It was giuen him to Torment men with heate of fire Heauen sig The Church on earth and the godly which be the true members of it Reuel 12 12. Reioyce the Heauens and yee that dwell therein Also Reuelat. 13. 6. And them that dwell in Heauen Reuel 6 13 Starres of Heauen that is the Ministers of the Church The reason why the Church reformed heere on earth is called Heauen is because of that Heauen which is the seate and habitation of the Saints There is no more liuely Image and Picture heere in earth then the vniuersall Company of Saintes which is the true militant Church of Christ. Heauen departed sig The whole face of the Church and not the Ministers alone to be couered with that black darknesse of calamity which is heere threatned Reuel 6 14. And the Heauen departed first heauen sig Heauen as it is now subiect to vanity and corruption Reuel 21 1. First Heauen c. middest of Heauen sig pro The middle space or distance betweene heauen and earth 2 An estate of a Church somwhat purged from filthy corruption yet not so purified as it ought Reuel 8 13. Heard an Angell flying from the midst of Heauen new Heauens sig The Heauens which are now vnder vanity and corruption restored into a perfect estate and liberty Reuel 21 1. I saw New Heauens Some Interpreters which thinke this Chapter to giue not a description of Heauen the seat of the blessed shewing what shall be the happinesse of the Saints after the Resurrection and Iudgement but of the Church which shall be on earth a little afore the Iudgement when the Iewes shall be restored to the Communion of Saints do interpret New heauens of the most pure way of worshipping God and the New Earth to signifye a new people in whose assemblies God will be honoured Let the learned Iudge which signification is fittest for both are true Heauens open sig The great glory of Christ his holy Church manifested and apparantly shewed to the eyes of all Reuel 19 11. After I saw the Heauens opened Heauen to receiue sig The company of the godly to leape for ioy and gladnesse because of the victory and saluation which Christ giueth them ouer their spirituall Enemies deliuering and sauing then from their fury Reue 18 20. O Heauen reioyce ouer her Hell sig The Graue which is the companion of Death or the estate which followes after Death both the Greeke word signifies Graue and the matter requires this sense For many Saints were to dye amongst others but it were wickednesse to thinke the Saints to be deuoured of the Hell of the damned Reuel 6 8. And Hell followed after him Reue. 20 13. Death and Hell deliuered vp their Dead Also verse 14. If heere we should vnderstand Hell for the place of the damned it would be absurd to say That Hell was cast into the burning Lake That were to say Hell was cast into Hell H. I. high mountaine sig The eminency of the Christian Church as it shall be restored before the comming of Christ excelling whatsoeuer dignity is in Earth or the place and stately Seate of the Church more purely reformed shadowed out by a Mountaine Reuel 21 10. And carried me to a great and hie Mountain Heerein there is an allusion vnto that which is written Esay cha 2 2. In the last dayes the Mountaine of the house of the Lord c. The meaning of both places is that the glory of the spouse of Christ shal be reuealed in the sight and face of all the worlde so as no hie Mountaine shall bee more eminent conspicuous or easie to be seene and be held H. O. to Hold the Starres sig To defend and vpholde the Ministers of the Church with speciall care of them and mightie power Reuel 2 1. These things saith he which holdeth the seauen Starres to Hold the four winds sig To stop the course of the Gospell and keeping backe of the Heauenly inspiration of the Holye-Ghost which goeth with it Reuel 7 1. Holding the foure winds of the earth an Hold of foule spirits sig A prison or straite place fast kept where the Diuels are pend and shut vp at the pleasure of the Soueraigne Iudge of the world Such a place shall Rome now fallen be vnto the Deuils which raigued once there but now that they haue none so to abuse and deceiue as before it shall be as a prison hell or place of torment to them Reuel 18 2. An Hold or Cage of fowle Spirits Holy sig A true beleeuer or Godly Christian who is pertaker of Christ his Holynesse by imputation and hath Holynesse begun in his owne soule by the spirit of sanctification separating him from the world and study of worldly things that he may be dedicate vnto God both in bodye and soule to
serue him Reuel 20 6 Blessed and Holy is hee which hath part in the first Resurrection Holy Apostles sig Not those twelue which in an excellent degree were Holy and laid the foundation of the Christian Church after Christ his Ascention but such godly men as shal execute the function of Teaching in the latter ages of the world who because they are as deere and precious in Gods sight as the old Apostles and Prophets though they be inferior in gifts they are therefore called here holy Apostles and Prophets by the spirite who prouoketh them by name to reioyce because the great Whore had more specially Hated and molested them Reuelat 18 20. Reioyce yee Holy Apostles and Prophets Holy Citty sig The Church in singular manner renewed and purged in earth a little afore the last day as a type and signe of that most holy and glorious Church which shall be in heauen after the last Iudgement Reuel 21 2. And I saw that Holy Citty The same is meant by holy Ierusalem verse 10. Holy Jerusalem sig The vniuersall Church then being on earth far more excellent and glorious by a more illustrious presence of God then before was wont as an Image of the Caelestiall Church Reue. 20 10. That Holy Ierusalem to be Holy still sig To increase proceede and perseuer in a godly life Reuel 22 11. Let him be Holy still Hony in the mouth sig The sweetenesse of Diuine truth which in the study finding out and knowledge of it is delightfull and ioyous Reuel 10 9. But it shall bee in thy mouth sweete as Hony ten Hornes sig Ten Kinges See ten Kings Horses sig The Sarazens likened to Horses for their swiftnesse and promptnesse to battaile See Iob. 39 25. Reuel 9 7. The forme of the Locusts was like vnto Horses black Horse sig Famine dearth which is full of sorrow therefore fitly resembled by a blacke colour Reue. 6 5. I beheld and loe a Blacke Horse to the Horses Bridles sig Very deepe very farre and wide It is an excessiue speech noting the greatnesse of the slaughter as also the greatnesse of spoile like to the ouerflowing of Grapes pressed in a Wine-presse wherein Horses may swimme euen to the Neckes Such abundance of spoile should arise by the fall of the Cleargy and superstition of Rome Reue. 14 20. Blood came out of the Wine-presses vnto the Horsses Bridles a pale horse sig Pestilent diseases whereof they that die do looke pale Reuel 6 8. And behold a pale Horse a red horse sig Bloody Warres Sword and cruell slaughters one killing another Reue. 6 4. There came out another Horsse which was red White horse sig The Ministery of the Gospel being committed vnto the Apostles Euangelists and other teachers who very speedily and swiftlie like an Horse by the doctrine of Christ whose purity and integritie of it is likened to White conquered the whole World to Christ. Reuel 6 2. And loe there was a White Horse Some by this white Horse vnderstand the Pestilence by Dartes whereof suddenly and mightily should bee beaten downe the rebellious World But the Scripture neuer vseth to represent any dolefull thing by the White colour which figureth purity ioy and gladnesse Againe vnder the other three Horses are shaddowed iudgments to fall vpon the World for contempt of the Gospell Therefore the Ministers of the Gospell which speedily spread the pure word of God in the time of Traianus the Emperour and his Successours be signified by the White Horse 2 Christ subduing and tryumphing swiftly and mightily by his word not ouer the prophane Gentiles as was figured in the Vision Chapter 6 2. but ouer the obstinate Iewes beeing now conuerted to God Reuelati 19 11. And behold a White Horse Hoasts sig Armies or companies of Warriours and Souldiers prepared vnto battaile vnder Anti-christes Banner Re. 19 19. I saw their Hoasts gathered together to make battaile Hoastes in Heauen sig Christs retinue or company of Saints Cittizens of his Church heere beeing holy innumerable royall and pure Reuel 14 14. The Hoastes which were in Heauen Hot. sig One truely zealous who with right affection doth vehemently loue God and godlinesse abhorring and not being able to abide impiety Idolatry and superstition his feruent minde beeing like to hot Water boyling and ready to bubble and play ouer Reuela 3 15. I would thou wert eyther colde or Hot. Houre sig Any moment of time which commeth suddenly vpon men when they looke not for it Reuelati 3 3. Thou shalt not know what Houre I will come at an houre at a day c. sig In a short time and with speede being ready to doe mischeefe when the determined time is come and so to continue with out wearinesse till theyr appointed time is expired which is thought wil be when the yeare of our Lord shall bee 1696. For so long the Name and tyranny of the Turkes shall endure Reu. 9 15. Which were prepared at an Houre at a day at a month at a yeare Houre of Iudgment sig The certaine time appointed of God to bring some grieuous vengeance on the followers and friends of Antichrist for their horrible impiety and vnrighteousnesse This is called Reuel 10 7. The finishing of the Mystery of God Reue. 14 7. For now commeth the Houre of his Iudgement Houre of temptation sig A time of tryal by great calamities but verie short being to last but an Houre as it were Reu. 3 10. I will keepe thee in the Houre of tentation What is a great time in respect of aeternity an hundred forty foure thousand sig A certaine number which dooth arise iust of twelue times twelue thousand to note vnto vs not that the twelue Apostles did multiply their Talents euery one twelue times but that the number of the elect faithfull amongst the Iewes in the daies of the Gospell should bee not onely certaine to God but such as might be measured and tolde of men whereas the number of elect Gentiles howsoeuer certaine to God yet vnpossible to be numbred of vs. Sée Verse 9. of this Chapter Reuel 74. And there were sealed an hundred and forty foure thousand H. V. Husband sig Christ Iesus which hath by Faith espoused the Church vnto himselfe who decketh and spiritually trimmeth herselfe in this her Pilgrimage that she may bee ready and prepared at that great and solemne Marriage day Reuel 21 2. As a Bride trimmed for her Husband H. Y. Hyacinth sig Smoake which is of colour like to Hyacinth to wit Blew and Red one of the Instruments of Turkish tyranny and cruelty in killing men which they shall doe by Fire Smoake and Brimstone Reuel 7 17. Hauing fiery Habergions of Hyacinth and Brimstone I. A. Iacinth sig A Pretious Stone called a Iacinth One of those Stones whereof is made the Gate which signifies Christ the onely way and doore vnto life by whom if any enter he shall be safe Reue. 21 20. The eleauenth a Iacinth Iasper stone sig pro A most renowned and