says Plato is the Image of Eternity Fluid and in Motion Aristotle affirms Eternity to be a fix'd and permanent Instant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Time an Instant in Flux and Motion But the Flux and Duration the Constituents of Time can no otherwise be reckoned but by applying it to Motion Durable Durabilis Lat. lasting that has continuance V. 583. As Heav'ns great Year brings forth On such a Day as Heav'ns great unaccountable Year brings forth where a thousand Years are in Gods sight but as yesterday when it is past and as a Watch in the Night Psal. 90. Vers. 4. One Day is with the Lord as a thousand Years and a thousand Years as one Day 2 Pet. 3. Vers. 8. Our Poet seems to have had Plato's Great Year in his Thoughts of which and the Great Caldean Months see Jos. Scaliger in Can. Isago Pag. 252. Magnus ab integro Saeclorum Nascitur Ordo Et incipient magni procedere menses Ecl. 4. V. 589. And Gonfalons c. Gonfalon or Gonfanon Fr. is an old-fashion'd Banner a little square Flag born on the top of a Lance used at this Day by the Popes Forces whence Le Gonfanon de l'Eglise the General of the Churches Forces Rear of Arriere Fr. behind the hind-part of an Army that comes last V. 592. In their glittering Tissues bear unblaz'd Or in their gawdy Streamers painted bear c. Tissues of the Fr. Tissu woven as with us Cloath of Tissue of Gold Silver c. as being the most Pretious Woof Imblazed emblazonez Fr. to draw and paint Coats of Arms in their proper Colours V. 594. Recorded Eminent Recorded and remember'd for their Eminency and Excellent Example Recorded of Recordari Lat. to bear in mind to remember V. 602. Hear my desire Give ear to my Ordinance which shall stand irrevocable I will declare the Decree Psal. 2. Vers. 7. Unrevok'd irrevocabilis Lat. not to be recalled or altered V. 603. This Day have I begot c. According to the Prophetick and Inlightned Psalmist Thou art my Son this Day have I begotten thee Psal. 2. Vers. 7. V. 605. Him have Anointed I have set my Anointed upon my holy Hill of Sion Psal. 2. Vers. 6. V. 608. All Knees in Heav'n c. That at the Name of JESUS every Knee shall bow of things in Heav'n c. And that every Tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father Phil. 2. Vers. 10 and 11. Let all the Angels of God worship him Hebr. 1. Vers. 6. V. 609. Vicegerent Reign Under him as my great deputed Governour Vicegerent Vicemgerens Lat. whom I have constituted and appointed in my place V. 610. As one individual Soul Agreeing and uniting together like one Soul incapable of division Individual Individuus Lat. Inseparable that cannot be divided V. 612. Breaks Union Violates the Unity Peace and Concord of my Kingdom Unio Lat. Agreement V. 620. Mystical Dance Strange Mysterious Motions which the shining Sphere of the Seven Planets and that of the fix'd Stars does in their various Revolutions imitate nearest Mystical of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Mysterious containing some Sacred Secret V. 622. Mazes intricate Intangled and unaccountable Rounds Mazes Book 2. V. 561. Inâ—ricate Book 2. Vers. 877. V. 623. Excentrick Intervolv'd c. Windings and Turns intangled and obscure involving and surrounding one another although not moving on the same Center yet then most regular and orderly when to our weak and distant Understanding they seem most unaccountable and disturb'd A just Reproof to the presuming Sons of Adam E gli alteri i quali esser non ponno erranti S' angelica virtù gli informa e move Advanced by the Translation And those untruly Errant call'd I trow Since he errs not who doth them guide and move Tass. Cant. 9. Stan. 6. Astra tum ea quae sunt infixa certis locis Tum illa non re sed vocabulo errantia c. Cic. Quaest. Tuscu Lib. 1. Sect. 25. Excentrick Book 3. Vers. 575. Intervolv'd rowl'd within one another of the Lat. Inter between and volvere Lat. to turn V. 626. So smooths her charming Tones And in their Motions such Divine Perfection appears and their Harmonious Proportion so tunes her Charming Notes that GOD himself pleased and delighted pronounc'd 'em Good Gen. 1. Vers. 18. There is a Text in Job 38. Vers. 37. that seems to favour the Opinion of the Pythagoreans concerning the Musical Motion of the Spheres though our Translation differ therein from other Versions Concentum Coeli quis dormire faciet Who shall lay asleep or still the Consort of the Heav'n But this in that Poetick and Harmonious Book is to be understood Metaphorically of the wonderful Proportions observ'd by the Heavenly Bodies in their various Motions For Bodies of their vast Size and incredible Celerity must either make no Noise at all or so prodigious a Sound as would not only be heard here below but make us also incapable of hearing any thing besides Tones Tunes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strain Sounds and Notes being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strainings and Extensions of the Voice V. 633. Rubied Nectar Nectar as Red as Rubies An Imitation of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The true Ruby Colour of good Claret the Remembrance of whose Charming Complexion neither of our Poets had lost with their Eyesight Nectar Book 4. Vers. 240. V. 634. In Pearl In Diamond c. Our Author has dish'd out his Angelick Banquet as richly as Homer has the Entertainment of the Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 635. Vines the Growth of Heav'n Of Heav'nly Growth These Coelestial Vines seem to allude to that of our Saviour I will not drink henceforth of the Fruit of the Vine until the Day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom Matth. 26. Vers. 29. where by new Interpreters understand Wines of another and more Noble kind V. 637. In Communion sweet In pleasing Society Communio Lat. Fellowship à Communiendo from the security it affords V. 638. Quaff Immortality and Joy Drink plentifully of the Rivers of Pleasure that are at Gods Right-Hand for evermore Psal. 36. Vers. 8. For with thee is the Fountain of Life Vers. 9. V. 639. Secure of surfeit Sure not to surfeit where satisfaction prevents excess Surfeit of the Ita. sopra fare to exceed to burden and over-do suprà facere to over-do to over-reach to exceed the bounds of Necessity V. 642. Now when Ambrosial Night Now when sweet charming Night 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Divine Night from the pleasant refreshment and necessary support Sleep affords us Ambrosia is used for the Poetick Food by which the Gods maintained their Immortality thence us'd for sweet delicious and invigorating Liquidum Ambrosiae diffudit odorem Quo totum nati Corpus perduxit at
called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Preheminence Dulcimer Of Dolcemelle Ital. an old Musical Instrument so named a Dulcedine Lat. of its Sweetness 598. Temper'd soft Tunings e. Join'd their soft Notes in Consort with Angelick Voices in full Quire or single sometimes Choral of Chorus Lat. a Quire Unison Unisonus Lat. of one Sound a Note Of Unus Lat. one and Sonus Lat. sound V. 608. Who can impair thee Who can lessen or diminish thee O thou Infinite and Almighty Impair Of Empirer Fr. to worst to hurt V. 619. On the clear Hyaline As before in wide Chrystalline Ocean Vers. 271. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Revel 4. 6. And befere the Throne there was a Sea of Glass like unto Chrystal By some understood of the Chrystalline Heaven the Waters above the Firmament as our Author By others of the Empyrean Heaven the Heaven of Heavens from its Calmness Perspicuity and Solidity as well as largeness likened to a Glassy or Chrystalline Sea the Street of the Heavenly Jerusalem being said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 21. 21. Hyaline Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Glassy Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Glass Hyali saturo fucata colore vellera Geor. 4. V. 623. Thou knowst their Seasons The Motions of the Stars and the Seasons of their Rising and Setting V. 628. In reward to rule over his Works c. Large and absolute was Adams Empire his Dominion reacht over the Fish of the Sea the Fowl of the Air and every living thing that moveth on the Earth Gen. 1. 28. and easie his Obedience bounded by one single Injunction Not to eat of one Tree rewarded not only by such a vast unlimited Power here but by absolute Happiness hereafter more Boundless and Eternal yet all this he forfeited tempted to Disobedience by one of his mean brute Subjects as to appearaace insomuch that he has lost the awe of his Earthy Empire to that degree as to be forc'd to use his utmost Powers of Body and Mind too all his Strength Reason and Subtilty to keep under those Animals that at first obey'd his Beck scorn'd and contemned to that degree of Derogation to his Power that feeble Insects Lice and Locusts are able to famish or eat up their Universal Lord. V. 634. Thus was Sabbath kept In these Holy Exercises was the first Sabbath celebrated A Portion of Time which was appropriated to the Service of him who is Eternal and which in Holy Writ he calls his own The Seventh day is the Sabbath of Rest it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your Dwellings Lev. 23. 3. Bold therefore was the Blasphemy of him who durst term it Lassati mollis Imago Dei Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to Rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because in it God rested from all the Works that he had made Gen. 2. 3. NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VIII Verse 1. MR. Hog who has crowded our Author's six last Books into four has joyn'd the Seventh and Eighth together omitting the first four Verses of this Book which to shew him that they are neither ungrateful nor untoward to turn are here render'd The Angel ended and in Adam 's Ear So charming left his Voice that he a-while Thought him still speaking still stood fix'd to hear Then as new-wak'd thus gratefully reply'd Finierat caelo satus divina canoris Eloquiis bibulas vox sic pellexerat aures Ut nondum cessasse ratus stupefactus Adamus Auscultaret adhuc inhians fixusque maneret Dein velut evigilans grato sic pectore fatur V. 7. Divine Historian Relator of Things and Actions exceeding Human Knowledge Heavenly Historian of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a knowing Person V. 9. Condescention to relate c. Since thou hast been pleased thus friendly to humble and degrade thy lofty Understanding by stooping to my mean Capacity and human Measure in the relation of such high Mysteries to the knowledge whereof I could no other way attain Condescentio of Condescendere Lat. to stoop to to come down Solution Bo. VI. V. 694. Resolve of Resolvere Lat. to untie Doubts and hard Questions resembling Intricate Knots V. 18. An Atom When I compare the Heavens and the Earth and reckon what proportion this Globe of Earth and Water bears in bulk to the wide Firmament and those many Stars that come within my counting which seeming to move in Compasses so unconceivable only to enlighten for 24 hours this low dark Earth a meer bare Point in respect of those Circles immense and incomprehensible that surround her in their vast Journeys useless as to any thing else I cannot choose but wonder c. Atom Bo. II. V. 900. a Point as at V. 23. a Punctual Spot of Punctum Lat. a Point thô the compass of the Earth be reckon'd 8810 Leagues such as make 26400 Italian Miles yet in comparison of the Firmament it is but as a Point gather'd from half the Heaven being visible from any part of the Earth and from the Stars keeping the same size from what place soever they are observed Besides the Astronomers argue it to be no more in respect of the Sun's Sphear because the Shadow moves about the Central Point of a Dial as regularly as the Sun moves about the Earth's Center as if there were no difference between her Center and her Surface that Seneca had good reason to say Hoc est Punctum quod inter tot Gentes ferro igni dividitur â—O quam ridiculi sunt mortalium termini V. 19. And all her number'd Stars Not as if the Stars were numberable by any but him who telleth the number of the Stars and calleth them all by their names Psal. 147. 4. But the Earth is said to be but a Spot a Grain nay a meer Point if compared with the Firmament and those its Fixed Stars that come within the compass of Human Account reckon'd to be 1022 and those so vast that they of the sixth size the smallest discoverable by the naked and unassisted Eye are computed to exceed the Earth's whole Round 18 times those of the first Magnitude being 108 times bigger well then may the Earth appear a Central Spot to the unmeasurable Sphere in which these shine there being innumerable others their Companions by their vast distance invisible without the admirable Invention of Glasses V. 20. Spaces incomprehensible The vast compass the Fixed Stars take in 24 hours is to Mankind most unimaginable their distance from us being such that whole Herds of 'em are undiscoverable without Telescopes and some most probably removed beyond their reach and the sufficiency of Human Sight Incomprehensibilis Lat. unconceivable V. 22. To officiate Light To administer Light round Earth's dark Globe according to the Ptolemaic and Vulgar System where the Earth is Center'd in the middle of the World 's wide Frame round which unmoveable the Sun Moon and Stars Fix'd and Erratic wheel
and Glory are frequently express'd by it in Holy Writ Thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee Psal. 21. 8. Sit on my right hand Psal. 110. 1. On the contrary the Left was esteemed weak and wicked A wise man's heart is at his right hand but a fools heart at his left Eccl. 10. 2. And the Discrimination of the Blessed and the Accursed at the Day of Judgment is typified by the same distinction He shall set the sheep on his right hand but the goats on his left Matth. 25. 33. So Virgil describes the two ways leading to Happiness and Misery after Death Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas Dextera quae Ditis magni sub maenia tendit Hac iter Elysium nobis at Laeva malorum Exercet paenas ad impia Tartara mittit And the fiery Phlegethon is placed Sub rupe sinistrâ AEn 6. Sinister Lat. of the left hand and thence unlucky V. 887. As supernumerary to my just number The number of Ribs in a Human Body being twenty four twelve on each side has put the Curious upon Enquiry whether Adam had thirteen on that side out of which the Rib formed into his Companion was taken Those that are of this Opinion seem to make him a Monster and cannot easily disintagle themselves from that Absurdity Others therefore say he had no more than his Descendents but that one of 'em which was substracted from his Side was by that Omnipotent Power who formed him from the Dust supply'd by another which the Text Gen. 2. 21. where there is only mention of closing up the Flesh will as well admit of at that other at V. 23. where Adam styles Eve Flesh of his Flesh in whose Formation there is nothing more named than a bare Rib of which our Author makes incensed Adam say it had been well if it had been thrown away as unnecessary or over and above the equal number of his Ribs on each side Supernumerarius Lat. exceeding the usual number V. 890. With Spirits masculine c. It is generally supposed that the whole Angelic Nature was entirely created at once without distinction of Sex that difference being only necessary to People this inferior World by Propagation our Saviour in his Answer to the Sadduces captious Question concerning the Resurrection having declared That those who shall arise to a blessed Resurrection shall neither Marry nor be given in Marriage but be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Equal to the Angels Luke 20. 34 35. Spirits masculine He-Angels Masculinus Lat. of Mas a Man a He Creature V. 891. This fair Defect of Nature This fair Failure in Nature this charming Want and Weakness Male and Female Creatures being of the same kind and only differenc'd by their Sex the Feminine seems to be a kind of Lameness and Weakness a Hurt and Damage of the more perfect and compleat Sex Nimirum vir est quod firmum proinde efficax faemina quod debile proinde receptivum pati idoneum So that a Woman is as it were a maim'd and imperfect Man Vall. de Sac. Philos c. 1. This Novelty this strange thing this wonderful new thing in Nature so called in respect of the supposed Peopling of Heaven with Masculine Spirits Nouveauté Fr. a new unusual thing of Novus Lat. Defect Defectus Lat. a deficiency something wanting V. 894. To generate Mankind To encrease and multiply Mankind that Men might rise like Mushroms out of their Mother Earth's moist lap As Lucretius Maternum nomen adepta Terra tenet merito quoniam genus ipsa creavit Humanum atque animal propè certo tempore fudit Omne Lib. 5. V. 902. Through her Perversness By her Frowardness or Obstinacy Perversitas Lat. crossness V. 905. To a fell Adversary Chain'd by ill-made Marriage to an angry Enemy his Curse or his Confusion Fell curs'd cruel of Felle an old Fr. word of Fel Lat. the Gall as if Felleus bitter Wedlock-bound Married as Wind-bound V. 909. He added not He said no more Repuls'd Repulsus Lat. refus'd dishearten'd of repellere Lat. to overthrow to drive back Tresses Bo. 4. v. 305. V. 913. Besought his Peace Begg'd his Pardon entreated to be restored to his Favour V. 918. And elasp thy Knees And humbly embrace thy Knees an Universal Custom among all Nations Hominis genibus quaedam religio inest observatione gentium Haec supplices attingunt ad haec manus tendunt haec ut aras adorant Plin. l. 11. c. 45. The Knees were Sacred to Pity and Compassion as the Forehead to the Genius and the Right Hand to Fidelity Genua amplexus genibusque volutans Haerebat AEn 3. The Heathens used to affix their Supplications or their Vows for obtaining them to those parts of their Idol-Gods Genua incerare Deorum Juven Suppliant Supplicans of Supplicare Lat. to sue to entreat Subsist Bo. 9. v. 359. V. 931. I against God and Thee I have offended both God the supreme Sovereign Lord of all Things and Beings and thee also my immediate and particular Lord. V. 933. Importune Heaven Beseech God who dwels in Heaven with most earnest Entreaties c. Importune earnestly to Entreat of Importunus Lat. Bo. 9. v. 609. V. 937. And her lowly Plight immoveable Her humble Posture from which she refused to rise till she had made her Peace Plight Bo. 1. v. 335. Immoveable Immobilis Lat. unremoved Deplor'd lamented bewail'd Deploratus Lat. Commiseration Commiseratio Lat. Pity Reconcilement Reconciliatio Lat. a return to Kindness and Friendship V. 955. All Might be visited c. That all the Punishment might light on To visit in Scripture Phrase signif to Punish In the day of my Visitation I will visit their sin upon them Ex. 32. 34. Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Jer. 5. 9. So Jerusalem because of her Abominations is called The City of Visitation Jer. 6. 6. Visited of Visitare Lat. to go to see to enquire into a thing Expos'd Expositus Lat. laid open as here to danger V. 965. To our Seed deriv'd Streaming down to all Succession A Metaphor from Water running forth from its Spring head Derivare aquam ex fonte as Quintil. As Water issueth from its Well-spring and runs till it mingle with its Original Ocean so does Adam's Sins spread over his Posterity till Time shall be swallowed up of Eternity Derived Derivatus Lat. flowing down to V. 967. By sad Experiment By woful Experience Experimentum Lat. Tryal Proof Erroneous Bo. 6. v. 146. By just Event by what is deservedly come to pass Event Eventus Lat. of Evenire Lat. to happen V. 978. Tolerable as in our Evils c. Yet better to be undergone in this our ill condition and sitter to be chosen and preferable to it Tolerabilis Lat. sufferable V. 979. If Care of our Descent c. If the Concern of our Offspring of those that shall come of and
far off All-off at a good distance V. 382. Roaming to c. Wandring up and down the Earth It seems derivative from Room as that from the Belg. Ruym broad V. 384. Their Altars Their places of offering Sacrifice Altare Lat. Quasi alta ara Erected above Ground and raised on which they sacrificed diis superis to the Heavenly Deities Altare est quod è terrâ erectum est Ara vero quae in terrâ statuitur V. 386. Jehovah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The peculiar and most expressive Name of GOD describing him by Essence and Eternity explain'd well by St. John Revel 1. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 see Exod. 3. 14. and Chap. 6. 3. and Isai. 42. 8. It s Root is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be to exist The Jews had this Name in so great Veneration that as often as it occurr'd in reading the Mosaick Text they pronounc'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adonai in stead of it thence call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the explain'd Name and from the number of its Letters which the Greeks learn'd of 'em the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The sacred Concealment of this Name was not unknown to the Heathens Joh. Melala Lib. 3. Cronic tells us Orpheus made his Boasts that he had heard from the Oracle the ineffable Name of God HERI KEPEO The Cabalists among their Arithmetical Traditions have this Numeral of the Name Jehovah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 KEPEO which they deduce thus c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that gives 100. behold 125. And so which added to 125 makes 161. Lastly which with 161 makes 186 by the Hebrew Numeral Letters thus exprest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to which prefixing the Note of Admiration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 behold 186 is a Numeral Expression of that Sacred Name of GOD not to be pronounc'd but once a Year by the High Priest on the Day of Expiation and the meaning of the Oracles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Thundring out of Sion as it is exprest Joel 3. 16. and Amos 1. 2. The Lord shall roar from Sion and utter his Voice from Jerusalem V. 387. Thron'd between the Cherubim This relates to the Description of the Oracle in Salomon's Temple wherein the Ark was placed between the two Golden Cherubims 1 Kings 6. 23. 1 Kings 8. 6 and 7. See also the 2 Kings 19. 15. O Lord God of Israel which dwellest between the Cherubims Hezekiah's Prayer V. 388. Within his Sanctuary Within his Holy Temple Sanctuarium Lat. of Sanctus Holy The place in which the Ark of the Covenant resided in Salomon's Temple was called Sanctum Sanctorum the most Holy Mansion into which the High Priest enter'd but once a Year Of the Idols attempting and possessing even this Holy Temple read 2 Kings 23. 4. and 2 Kings 21. 4 and 5. Ibid. Their Shrines Abominations Their Temples and Worship things derestable and accurst Shrine from Escrin Fr. as that from Scrinium Lat. a Repository or place wherein Jewels and things of the greatest Value were laid up So Scrinium Sacrum where Holy Reliques are kept by their dull Adorers Demetrius the Silversmith is said to make Silver Shrines for Diana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 little portable Silver Chappels representing the Form of that famous Ephesian Temple with the Image of Diana enshrined These Silver Shrines were not made for but of Diana Act. 19. 24. V. 389. Abominations Accursed things detestable such as God abhors Abominatio Lat. By this phrase the Holy Writ expresseth Gods detestation of Sin all sorts of it being Abomination in his sight as Levit. 18. 22 23 26 27 29 30. and 1 Kings 11. 7. Salomon built an high place for Chemos the Abomination of Moab c. V. 390. His Holy Rites profan'd Polluted and defiled his Sacred Ceremonies which in his Worship the Jews were appointed to observe Ritus Lat. Custom Profane Lat. to unhallow Of the most Solemn Feasts enjoyned the People of God see Exod. 13. Vers. 14 15 16. Levit. 23. 39. read Deut. 16. V. 391. Affront his Light And with their Deeds of Darkness durst oppose and encounter his Holy Purity the Delusion must have been very strange and this Darkness must have possest the misty Minds of their Adorers before they could be prevailed upon to quit the Living GOD by so many miraculous Deliverances manifested to 'em a GOD of infinite Mercy appeasable by the Sacrifice of a Pigeon for those Grim Idols to whom they were to give up their Children their own Bowels to be burnt Affronter Fr. to encounter sawcily and impudently V. 392. First Moloch horrid King Dreadful King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. King Levit. 18. 21. 2 Kings 23. 10. Jer. 7. 31. 1 Kings 11. 5. he is called Milcom and in the 1 Chron. 20. 2. Malcom which our Translation reads of their King which the LXX render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 took the Crown of Moloch the Idol of the Conquer'd Ammonites from off his Head This Idol is by some thought the same with Saturn to whom the Heathen sacrificed their Children worshipped chiefly by the Ammonites and afterwards by the Idolatrous Jews who in cursed Imitation of their cruel Neighbours offered their Sons and Daughters to it the Devil probably seducing and enticing them by these horrid Sacrifices to an Emulation of the Tryal God was pleased to make of Abraham's Faith and Obedience in offering up his only Son Isaac Gen. 22. 2. The Image of Moloch was of Brass hollow within with the Head of a Calf Crown'd and being made red hot by an internal Fire the Child was clapt into his Arms fixt in a posture to receive it and to hinder hearing the horrid Shreicks it gave they made a horrible Din with Drums and Trumpets c. He who thus sacrificed to Moloch is by Hosea said to kiss the Calf Chap. 5. 2. The Sacrificers of Men kiss the Calf that is worshipped and adored him Ibid. Besmeared Dawbed all over from Be in Composition signifying round as Beset and smear of the Belg. smeeren to dawb to anoint to pollute V. 394. Timbrels loud Drums Tabers either of the Fr. Tambour a Drum as if Tambrel or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the same V. 395. That past through Fire Although this be an Hebrew phrase expressive of burning yet all Parents though zealous in this Idolatry were not so unnaturally impious as to offer up their Children Burnt-Sacrifices to Moloch when God himself was contented with Bullocks and Rams Some of 'em satisfied their Diabolical Zeal by making 'em pass through the Fire others between two Fires before this Grim Idol which they were made by the Priests to believe to be very conducive to the Prosperity and Long Life of their singed Off-spring There were some remains of this Heathen Rite in St. Chrysostom's Days Mothers even Christians were wont to make their Children pass yearly over the Fire on St. John's Day which he reproves Solennes ejus honores 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
cheat into allicere V. 448. Damsels The young Syrian Ladies of the Fr. Damoiselle a word signifying a young Woman of Quality Ibid. To lament his Fate To bemoan his untimely Death Lamentor Lat. to bewail Fatum Lat. Death V. 449. In Amorous Ditties In Love-Songs made of Venus and Adonis Amoreux Fr. loving Ditty quasi dictum Songs composed and indited V. 450. Smooth Adonis As unwrinckled in his Flood as in his youthful Face Adonis is the Name of a River arising out of a Rocky part of Mount Libanus which runs bloody the Day his Death is commemorated on as Lucian tells us Hence this Rock is named Native from Nativus Lat. born Adonis is deducible from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesych the Son of Cinyra King of Cyprus by his Daughter Myrrha He was the Favorite of Venus and to her grief killed by a Wild Boar. Meta. Lib. 10. V. 451. Ran Purple Of a dark Dye as stain'd with the Blood of Thammuz yearly slain Purpura Lat. as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for that Colour V. 453. Infected Sions c. The Love-Story the Jewish Ladies to like pity moved Infected of Inficio Lat. to corrupt to stain V. 454. Whose Wanton Passions Whose loose behaviour in the holy Porch of the Temple c. Ezek. 8. is to be read Sacer Lat. holy Porticus Lat. for a place raised on Pillars and cover'd over head fit to walk under free from the Sun or Shower V. 455. When by the Vision led The two usual ways by which God made known his Will to his People under the Dispensation of the Old Law were Visions and Dreams Numb 12. 6. Visio Lat. for an appearance a shew This Vision our Author mentions is recorded Ezek. 8. and at the third Verse The Spirit lift me up between the Earth and the Heaven and brought me to Jerusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Visions of God V. 456. Survay'd Mark'd heedfully beheld from the old Fr. Surveoir quasi supervidere V. 457. Of Alienated Judah Departed from serving the Living God to worship Stocks and Stones To alien or alienate is a Law-Term for transferring the Property of an Estate to one who had before no Right to it from alienus Lat. a Stranger well applyed to shew how God's Children and Inheritance had alienated and made themselves over to Sin and Satan Judah was the fourth Son of Jacob by Leah from whom the Jews were call'd Judaei and the Land of Promise Judea Jer. 29. 35. V. 459. Maim'd his Brute Image Lamed his senseless Image Maim from whence this word is of Mancus Lat. Lame defective in one Member or other Ibid. Head and Hands lopt off A Metaphor taken from lopping and cutting of the Branches of Trees with which in a Man according to the Comparison of a Tree reverst the Hands and Feet seem to correspond Read 1 Sam. 5. 2 3 4 and 5. V. 460. On the Grundsel-Edge On the Foot-post of his Temple-Gate from the Sax. Ground the Earth next which it generally lieth V. 462. Dagon his Name Sea-monster 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is thought to have been half a Fish and half a Man a Monster like a Triton but with the Head of a Fish Idolum Dagon quod Colebatur à Philistaeis habebat caput piscis Ideo vocatur Dagon quia Hebraeum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat piscem Lyran. But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Corn and he was called Oannes and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Learned Selden tells us The clearest account we have of this Idol is from Helladius who relates that a Man cloathed in a Fishes Skin first taught the Syrians the manner of Tilling the Ground and Sowing of Corn for which he obtained a Temple and Divine Honours worshipp'd in the form of an Image upward a Man covered over with Ears of Corn and downward a Fish because of his Habit and his retiring every Night towards the Red-Sea a Mysterious involving perhaps of the share that moisture has in all the Productions and Fruits of the Earth Mention is made of this monstrous Idol Judg. 16. 23. 1 Chron. 10. 10. 1 Maccab. 10. 84. Ibid. 11. 4. V. 464. Azotus Ashdod once a principal City of the Philistins now a Village by the Turks named Alzete Of this and the other four that follow read 1 Sam. 6. 17. V. 465. Gath another of the five Regal Cities of the Philistins famous for its Champion Goliah 1 Sam. 16. 4. Ibid. Ascalon Scalona a City in the Holy Land on the Mediterranean Sea between Azoâ—us and Gaza one of the five chief Cities V. 466. Accaron or Ecron heretofore a famous City of the Philistins now a poor Village Ibid. Gaza's once a beautiful and rich City of Palestine taken by the Tribe of Judah Judg. 1. 18. It was the fifth Ruling City of the Philistins seated near the Shore of the Mediterranean on the Confines of Idumea towards Egypt and therefore called Frontier Bounds the Borders the Confines of a Country of the Fr. Frontiere as this of the Lat. Frons the Forehead V. 467. Rimmon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Sacred Language signifies a Pomegranate and is mentioned 2 Kings 5. 18. as the chief God of Damascus holding this Fruit in his Hand thence esteemed the Protector of the People who had it either in their Orchards or their Arms by some supposed Jupiter Cassius represented with a Pomegranate in his Hand worshipp'd on the Confines of Mount Cassius near to Damascus The Learned Selden thinks it more reasonable to derive the Name of this Idol of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 high and exalted because he finds in Hesychius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dissonancy between Raman and Rimmon after so many Ages not being worth taking notice of V. 468. Fair Damascus The principal and most ancient City of Syria seated in a Plain surrounded with Hills uncertain when or by whom built but because mentioned by Abraham Gen. 15. 2. The Steward of my House is this Eliezer of Damascus Fame will have it built by Abraham's Servants Ibid. Fertil Fruitful Fertilis Lat. encreasing abounding in Fruit Corn c. V. 469. Albana and Pharphar Two Rivers of Damascus 2 Kings 5. 12. Lucid clear of Lucidus Lat. bright V. 471. A Leper once he lost Naaman the Syrian 2 Kings 5. 14. Leper of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Leprosie of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. rough full of Scabs and Asperities like Scales of Fish Of this Disease and the care God himself took of it see Levit. 13. and 14 Chapters V. 472. Ahaz his sottish Conquerour His dull his foolish Conquerour to fall down and worship Gods he had vanquisht as it follows Read the Story 2 Kings 16. 10. V. 473. Gods Altar to disparage To slight and contemn To disparage is properly to undervalue a Person or Thing by a Comparison mean and disproportionate from the Detractive
Meta. 9. Tabem fluenti vulneris dextra excipit Traditque nobis ungulae insertam suae c. Her Oet Act. 2. O Mare Terras ardeo Quantam neque atro delibutus Hercules Nessi cruore Hor. Epod. 17. V. 546. Oeta A Hill in the Borders of Thessaly where enraged Hercules burnt himself which made Seneca give Hercules the Name of Oetaeus in the Tragedy written of him V. 547. Into th' Euboic Sea Eubaea now Negropont is an Island in the Archipelago from whence the Neighbouring Sea was formerly called Euboic Euboica tellus Vertice immenso tumens Pulsatur omni latere Sen. Her Oet Act. 3. Sce. 2. Sternentemque trabes irascentemque videres Montibus aut Patrio tendentem brachia Caelo Ecce lichan trepidum latitantem rupe cavata c. Corripit Alcides terque quaterque rotatum Mittit in Euboicas tormento fortius undas Met. 9. V. 548. Others more gentle Retired into some secret Valley sing with Angels Voices tuned to many a Harp their own bold Deeds and luckless Overthrow by chance of War complaining that hard Fate free Virtue should to Force or Chance enslave V. 551. By Doom of Battel By the Decision of the Sword by Event of Battel Doom signifies Judgment of the Sax. Dom hence Domedag Doomesday the Day of Judgment V. 552. Should Enthral Should make subject to should Enslave of the Dan. Trael a Slave V. 553. Their Song was Partial Their Song was Selfish but the Notes Divine how could they choose when Souls Immortal sing made Hell more tolerable and took with strange Delight those who in Throngs gave ear Partial of Partialis Lat. one so byass'd by his Affections to the side he is engaged on that right or wrong his Judgment is overborn by Passion for his Party V. 554. Suspended Hell Made 'em forget their Pains mitigated their Torments of Suspendere Lat. to put off to stay to defer Ravishment extream Delight of the Fr. Ravissement V. 555. The thronging Audience The thronging Hearers of Audientia Lat. the sense of Hearing Listning of Audire Lat. to hear An Imitation of Virg. AEn 6. Pars pedibus plaudunt Choreas Carmina dicunt Nec non Threicius longâ cum veste Sacerdos c. But he introduceth only an Orpheus or Musaeus his Scholar far inferior to this Angelic Quire Ibid. Discourse Which our Poet so justly prefers to the highest Harmony that he has seated his Reasoning Angels on a Hill as high and elevated as their Thoughts leaving the Songsters in their humble Valley is from the Fr. Discours as this of the Lat. Discursus Reasoning Discourse leading from one Notion or Argument to another V. 556. For Eloquence c. For Eloquence seizeth the very Soul while Song only attacques our Ears the Powers of the first affect all the Faculties of our Souls and Captivate 'em while the Charms of the other work but on Sense tickle our Ears and then vanish with their Airy Trillo's Eloquentia Lat. for the noble Faculty of Reasoning in free strong and copious Speech V. 558. In Thoughts more elevate In Notions more high and refined Elevatus Lat. for raised of Elevare to lift up V. 559. Of Providence c. They Discoursed and Reasoned subtily and refinedly of the wonderfull various and unaccountable Providence of that Eternal Being who made this beauteous Universe and manageth it according to the Methods of his inscrutable Will not to be fathomed by the most discerning and enlightened Angels much less by Minds cloathed and immersed in Clay Providentia Lat. of Providere to foresee and take care of Instances of God's continual and general Providence over the World are many in Scripture Psal. 147. v. 8. Matth. 6. v. 26. Read the 39th Chapter of Job Orpheus styled GOD Oculum Infinitum an Infinite Eye supervising and providing for the whole Creation Ibid. Fore-knowledge Will and Fate The Praescience and Fore-knowledge of God Almighty is indubitable since he who is Omniscient must needs know and see all Things at one view those that are past or yet to come being only such in reference to finite Beings but have no relation to him that is Eternal From this Fore-knowledge which in God is Absolute as the next Verse affirms the weak Apologists for Sin and Folly endeavour to draw a Consequential Impunity as if whatever God foreknows will be were by that his Fore-knowledge influenced and compelled so to come to pass robbing at once the just Judge of all the Earth of whom the Psalmist says The Lord is righteous in all his Ways and holy in all his Works Psal. 145. v. 7. of his Glory and Man of his Free-will whom God created after his Image Gen. 1. 27. and left him in the hands of his own Counsel Eccles. 5. v. 14. But to avoid deriving our Finite Consequences from Incomprehensible Infinitude many things are by Men foreknown on which nevertheless their Foreknowledge has not the least effect or shadow of Impulse as the Rising and Setting of the Sun the Succession of the Seasons of the Year the various Appearances of the Moon and the Eclipses of both those Luminaries to the end of the World are easie to be foreknown yet no Man will affirm that his Foreknowledge is the cause of any of 'em V. 560. Fix'd Fate Free-Will Omnia fato fieri was the Dogma of the Stoicks And Quod fore paratum est id summum exuperat Jovem Seneca in his Oedipus follows their Opinion Fatis agimur cedite fatis non illa Deo vertisse licet quae nexa suis currunt causis It cuique ratus prece non ulla Mobilis ordo This Inflexibility of Fate seems borrowed of what Sacred Writ has delivered of the Immutability of the Almighty I am the Lord I change not Mal. 3. v 6. To this fixed Fate this fatal Necessity is opposed Man's Free-Will well described Eccles. 15. from v. 11. to the end Come now let us reason together saith the Lord if you consent and obey ye shall eat the good Things of the Land but if ye refuse and be rebellious c. Isa. 1. v. 18 19 20. 2 Esdras 1. v. 28 29 30. Thus saith the Almighty Lord have I not prayed you as a Father his Son c. See Luke 13. v. 38. and read the 11th Chapter of Hosea Absolute of Absolutus Lat. perfect finish'd Man's Free-Will will be made out more clear in the third Book of this Poem V. 561. In wandring Mazes lost And found no way out of the Confusions of the Controversie well compared to the turnings and windings of a Maze Human Reason may well grow weary and lose its way among the many amazing turns of Providence or become giddy and confounded when it runs into Disputes so far above its reach as are those infinite Perfections of God's Omniscience and his Eternal Decrees A Mazė a Labyrinth contrived with so many turnings that he who entereth it may easily miss his way by rounding often the same place
to exercise their Fancies as their Comparisons will shew hereafter The holy Poet thought their Vicissitudes so pleasant that he tells us God makes the Outgoings of the Morning and Evening to sing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thô we render it Thou shalt make the East and the West to rejoyce Psal. 65. v. 9. It is observable that the Hebrew word for Morning is a Derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to enquire to search after that being the time fittest for Study and Business Aurora musis amica as the Evening is for Retirement and Diversion Cum frigidus aëra vesper temperat Ante focum si frigus erit si messis in herbâ Geor. 3. Approach l'Approche Fr. of Approcher to draw nigh to V. 43. Of Vernal Bloom Of the beautious Spring when all things are in Blossom of which Bloom seems a Diminutive of the Ger. Bluhen to blow to be in Flower Vernal of the Lat. Vernus of the Spring V. 44. Or human Face divine Because created in the Image of God his Maker Gen. 1. v. 27. V. 48. Presented with a Universal Blanc I cannot perswade my self but it should have been a Universal Blot and that it is a mistake of the Printer Blanc is Fr. for White and the Phrase Donner la carte Blanche á to send one a Blanc is to submit absolutely to what Conditions the Conquerour shall set down Now Blindness as well described by Clouds and continual Darkness does so fully import an entire Ignorance and Privation of Colour that a Person born blind has doubtless no notion of any such thing but for a Man that had for many years enjoyed his Eyes to say his Blindness had cut him off from the chearful ways of Men and instead of Nature's fair Book of Knowledge had presented him with a Universal Blanc like a piece of white Paper unspotted and unstained with any Impression his Memory retaining still the Idea's of all Things formerly seen thô now as to his Eye-sight blotted out seems absurd The next Verse Of Natures Works to me-expung'd and ras'd confirms that it ought to be an Universal Blot for Expung'd is of Expungere Lat. to blot out a written Word by covering it with little Pricks or Blots and Ras'd is of Radere Lat. to shave the Romans who writ on Waxed Tablets with Iron Styles when they struck out a Word did Tabulam radere rase it out V. 53. Irradiate Enlighten all the Powers and Faculties of my Mind Irradiare Lat. to shine into V. 54. All Mist purge and disperse Clear my Understanding and drive away all the Mists of Error and Ignorance that may overcast my Judgment Purgare Lat. to cleanse Dispergere Lat. to drive away to scatter Light and the Blessings of it were never drawn in more lively Colours and finer Stroaks than by these nor was the sad loss of it and them ever so passionately and so patiently lamented They that will read the most excellent Homer bemoaning the same Misfortune will find him far short of this Herodotus in his Life gives us these Verses in which he bewailed his Blindness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 57. From the pure Empyrean From the highest Heaven which the holy Page styles The Heaven of Heavens where God is pleased to reveal the unconceivable Sight of himself and his infinite Perfections Sedes mentium beatarum as it is generall phrased Behold Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens is the Lords thy God Deut. 10. v. 14. So 2 Chron. 2. v. 6. Psal. 115. v. 16. Caeli Caelorum And Psal. 148. v. 4. Many of the Fathers take this to be the third Heaven into which St. Paul was taken up 2 Cor. 12. v. 2. Understanding the AErial Heaven to be the first the Starry the second and this third the highest the Empyrean of which before B. 2. V. 771. described to be the Habitation of holy Angels and blest Spirits enlightend with the ineffable Purity and Majesty of the Divinity immoveable and shining with a Light resembling the pure Element of Fire according to its derivation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Fire V. 58. High Throned above all heighth Exalted on his Throne high above all imaginable heighth God is frequently styled The most high Psal. 7. v. 17. and Psal. 9. v. 2. Dan. 5. v. 18. The most high God V. 60. About him all the Sanctities of Heaven About him all his holy Angels stood as numberless as Stars Sanctities of Sanctitas Lat. Holiness well expressing the Purity and Perfections of the Angelic Nature The Lord thy God hath made thee as the Stars for multitude Gen. 10. v. 22. V. 62. Beatitude past utterance Unspeakable Bliss and Happiness which being unconceivable and infinite must needs be unexpressible The Things which Eye hath not seen neither Ear hath heard nor the Heart of Man hath conceived 1 Cor. 2. v. 9. Beatitudo Lat. Blessedness V. 63. The radiant Image of his Glory According to St. Paul Who being the Brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. v. 3. V. 64. His onely Son Let the discerning Linguist compare the preceeding Description of God with this of Tasso's Dal suo gran seggio il Rè del Ciel volgea Sedea col à dond ' egli è buono e giusto Da legge al tutto e'l tutto orna e produce Soura i bassi confin del mondo augusto Oue senso ò ragion non si conduce E del ' eternità nel trono augusto Risplendea con trè lumi in una luce Ha sotto i piedi il Fatto e la natura Ministri humidi e'l moto e chi'l misura Cant. 9. Stan. 55 56 57. And so on for 14 Verses more V. 68. Uninterrupted Joy unrival'd Love Joy without ceasing or intermission because Sinless and Innocent Love unrival'd and undisputed because in Solitude yet the only two and all of Mankind Interruptus Lat. disturbed of Interrumpere to break in upon Unrival'd of Rivalis Lat. a Competitor Solitude Solitudo Lat. for being alone Solitariness thence a Desart in calm and undisturbed Retirement and Loneliness V. 72. In the dun Air sublime Aloft in the dark thick Air the backside the bare outside of the Created World described more fully at V. 428. of this Book Dark wast and wild under the frown of Night starless exposed and ever-threatning Storms of Chaos blustring round in clement Skie Dun of a dark colour Dwun Welch Sublime Sublimis Lat. high lofty V. 75. Firm Land imbosom'd without Firmament c. Seemed firm solid Land without any support enclosed on all sides but uncertain whether with Water or with Air Without Firmament without any support without any thing to support and bear it up agreeable to what Job says of the wonderful Creator Who hangeth the Earth upon nothing ch 26. v. 7. Firmament Firmamentum Lat. and the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
Fore-knowledge of God does not determine the Minds of Men to good or bad Actions thô that Fore-knowledge be infinite and infallible nor does the commission of Good or Evil depend thereon But he that knoweth whereof we are made and that searcheth the Hearts and trieth the Reins that knows all our Thoughts afar off clearly foresees all our Faults and Failings which we should have committed undoubtedly althô they had not been foreknown or foreseen by that infinite Eye In vain did all the Prophets cry against the Abomination of Israel and the Idolatries and Backslidings of Juda if these People had it not in their power to serve God rather than Baal Choose you this day whom you will serve c. but as for me and my House we will serve the Lord says Josuab And when the People had made and confirmed their Choice v. 21. Nay but we will serve the Lord he replies upon them Ye are Witnesses against your selves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him and they said We are witnesses Jos. 23. v. 22. Good and Evil Life and Death therefore are in the Choice and ballance the Wills of all Mankind they have the Election of their Mischiefs and Miscarriages in their own Power neither does any Influence of the Stars or pretended Power of Fate bend or incline their Wills to Folly were there any Power so coercive as to constrain and force them unto Wickedness Mankind nay even the worst of them would not be inexcusable they Decree therefore their own Revolt that Defection from their Maker to his and their Enemy the Devil It is observable that where God cautions the Israelites against the false Prophets that should go about to turn them away after other Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used a word properly signifying a Revolt Deut. 13. v. 5. as also Jer. 28. v. 16. and ch 29. v. 32. in both which it is translated Rebellion V. 120. So without least Impulse So without the least motion force or pretence of any over-ruling Power Impulsus Lat. for such a force as is necessary to set an Engine in motion c. Mankind must be Engines if set on work by any other Motives than the Impulses of their own Free-will V. 121. Immutably foreseen The celebrated Place in the Controversie of Free-will in Rom. 9. v. 11 and 13. Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated for the Children being yet unborn neither having done any Good or Evil c. seems to imply such an Immutability in God's Foresight as influenced the Actions of these two Brethren and their Descendents but the truth is God from his high Prospect foreseeing all the Behaviour not only of these two Brethren but of Mankind infallibly and unerringly the Divine Fore-knowledge and Fore-sight had no power or weight on the Wills of them and their Posterity tho he foresaw that of the first would endeavour to keep his Commandments and Statures and should therefore be his chosen People and that of Esau would forsake his Ways and become Reprobate to God and all Goodness To what end are all the Promises of Happiness and the Rewards of everlasting Life and the Terrors of the Lord his Threatnings and the repeated Denuntiations of Eternal Punishment Damnation and Hell to obstinate and impenitent Sinners If they that do well and those that commit Iniquity do both not what they would but what they are constrained to do obey not God but Necessity how shall the Judge of all the Earth do Judgment as Abraham says in his humble Expostulation with his Maker Gen. 18. v. 25. Is God unrighteous who taketh Vengeance I speak as a Man God forbid for how then shall God judge the World Rom. 3. v. 5 and 6. Immutable Immutabilis Lat. unalterable unchangeable V. 122. They Trespass They Sin they Offend Trespass of the Fr. Trespasser to go beyond to transgress of the Lat. Trans beyond and Passus Lat. going Transgression being a Proceeding beyond the Limits of the Law Ibid. Authors to themselves Leaders and Guiders of themselves in all things which they judge fit and reasonable to be done and therefore choose to do Author or as better writ Auctor is one that adviseth or perswades another So Virgil useth it Italiam petiit fatis Auctoribus AEn 10. Confâ—â—iis habitus non futilis Auctor AEn 11. Judge of Judicare Lat. to esteem God has not left himself without a witness Acts 4. v. 17. A severe one indeed and irreproachable which every Reprobate will bring with him and against himself at the dreadful Day of Doom V. 128. Ordain'd their Fall My Decree eternal and unchangeable appointed their Freedom exempted 'em from all force of any Foreign or Exterior Power made sufficient to have stood their Ground against all Temptation they ill advised choose to mistrust me and fall off from their Maker and this Conscience God's Umpire the wary Inmate of each Man's Breast will testifie one day against the Opposers of Mankind's Elective Liberty Ordain'd of the Lat. Ordinare to set in order to appoint to take care of V. 129. The first sort c. The Fallen Angels the Apostate Spirits fell from their Obedience by their own Consent and Inclinations Self-tempted Self-depraved tempting and vitiating themselves Suggestion of Suggestio Lat. a prompting or inticing of Suggerere Lat. to perswade Deprav'd of Depravare to corrupt to make ill V. 131. Deceived by the other first Man sins deceived and cheated by those fallen Angels and therefore shall find Pardon and Compassion which is denied those that tempted both him and themselves V. 135. Ambrosial Fragrance filled all Heaven At the first Promise and Promulgation of God's Mercy well does our Poet to fill Heaven with this Divine Fragrance all Sacrifices and Attonements made to obtain it under the Ceremonial Law being called A sweet Savour unto the Lord Numb 15. v. 3 7 10 c. The Mercies of God are expressed by the same Epithete by the Royal Psalmist Psal. 129. v. 21. For thy Mercies are sweet Of Ambrosial B. 2. V. 245. Liquidum Ambrosiae diffudit odorem Geor. 4. Homer makes no scruple of feeding Neptune's Horses with Ambrosia thô it is commonly used by him for the Gods own Diet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fragrance of Fragrantia Lat. a pleasant Smell or Persume V. 136. Spirits Elect Elect of Electus Lat. Chosen This does not contradict what was asserted before at V. 100. Such I Created all the Etherial Powers and Spirits Free and sufficient yet not secure from falling for the Elect Angels and Blessed Spirits above as to the continuance in their happy Station are secured by their Obedience as well as Gods chosen here on Earth Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure for if you do these things you shall never fall for so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. v. 10 and 11. V.
reasons excellently ch 6. v. 6 and 7. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and how my self before the high God Shall I come before him with Burnt-offerings with Calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl Shall I give my First-born for my Transgression the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul No alas nothing less than the First-born of the Almighty The Image of the Invisible God and the First-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. could attone whom God ordained to be a Propitiation for us Rom. 3. 25. Atonement under the Mosaic Law was an Offering brought to appease God's Anger by Sacrifice out of the Herd or the Flocks which was to be slain by him that offered it Lev. 1. v. 4 and 5. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the Burnt-offering and it shall be accepted for him to make Atonement for him And he shall kill the Bullock before the Lord. The Word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies Redemption or Ransom all the Judaic Immolations being Types and Figures of that Immaculate Lamb Jesus Christ The Lamb of God who taketh away the Sins of the World John 1. 29. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood Eph. 1. 7. Atonement seems a Musical Metaphor like Accord to bring Jarring Differences and Diffonancies ad Toman into Tune V. 241. On me wreck all his Rage On me let Death revenge himself with his utmost Rage Wreck of the Sax. Wpaecan to be revenged V. 249. With Corruption there to dwell According to the Prophetic Psalmist For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither suffer thy holy One to see Corruption Psal. 16. 10. Illustrated and applied to our Saviour who rose the third day by St. Peter Act. 2. v. 20 21 c. V. 253. And stoop inglorious And be humbled and subdued disgraced and disarmed of his irresistible Dart. Positis inglorius armis AEn 10. Inglorious Inglorius Lat. disgraced V. 255. Maugre Hell In spight of Hell Maugre of the Fr. Malgré against ones will of the Lat. Malé and Gratum V. 256. The Powers of Darkness bound According to the Apostle to the Colossians ch 2. v. 15. And having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them confirmed by St. Luke ch 10. v. 17 and 18. Lord even the Devils are subject unto us through thy Name and he said unto them I saw Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven V. 259. Glut the Grave Satisfie cloy the wide gaping Grave that e're it be satisfied must devour all Mankind The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death 1 Cor. 15. 26. Glut of the Lat Glutire to swallow V. 269. Filial Obedience The Duty and Submission which as a Son he paid his Almighty Father exceeded only his everlasting Love to mortal Men Filial of Filialis Lat. belonging to a Son Obedientia Lat. Duty Obedience V. 273. Thus replied Answered thus Of Replicare Lat. to reply to speak again to V. 276. My sole Complacence My only Delight and Pleasure In whom alone I am well pleased Complacentia Lat. of Complacere to like well See before V. 168. of this Book V. 282. Their Nature c. Joyn and unite their Manhood to their Godhead Perfect God and perfect Man c. according to St. Athanasius's Creed V. 285. By wonderous Birth Behold a Virgin shall Conceive and bear a Son Isa. 7. 14. and Matth. 7. 18. V. 286. The Head of all Mankind thô Adam's Son The Answer to the Question with which our Saviour posed the Pharisees Matth. 22. 45. Christ is Adam's and David's Son as to his Humanity and David's and Adam's Lord as to his Divinity therefore in the holy Page styled The last Adam The first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. V. 287. As in him perish For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22. Restored of Restaurare Lat. to renew revive V. 291. Thy Merit imputed shall absolve Thy holy Life and meritorious Death accounted and imputed to Mankind shall obtain Pardon and Forgiveness for as many as renounce their own Deserts and through Faith lay Claim to thine For as by one man's disobedience many were made Sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 19. And therrfore it was imputed to him for Righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone Abraham that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe him c. Rom. 4. v. 22 23 and 24. Imputed of the Lat. Imputare to reckon to account Absolve of the Lat. Absolvere to absolve to acquit to free V. 292. Who renounce their own both Righteous For who can justifie himself before God We must all say as Job did If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will I not lift up my head I am full of confusion Job 10. 15. We are all an unclean thing and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa. 64. 6. But could we do all that is commanded us we are unprofitable Servants Luke 17. 10. Renounce of the Lat. Renuntiare to forsake to disclaim V. 293. Live in the transplanted Removed from the killing Letter of the Law to the gracious Gospel that brought Life and Immortality to light pursuing the Simile used before at V. 288. of Christ being a second Root by whom we are Regenerated Transplantari Lat. to be removed as Trees are into another place a better soil V. 304. Degrade thine own Debase dishonour of Degradare Lat. to disgrace V. 307. God-like Fruition All that God enjoys Fruition of the Lat. Frui to enjoy Quitted all left forsaken all of the Fr. Quitter to leave V. 313. This Humiliation This thy humbling and debasing of thy self to redeem lost Man The greatest Humiliation sure that ever was where the Son of God made himself of no Reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of Men And being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Phil. 2. v. 7 8. V. 314. Thy Manhood to this Throne According to our Creed As also 1 Tim. 3. 16. God was manifested in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World received up into Glory And Ye Men of Galilee why stand ye Gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Acts 1. 11. Hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the Clouds of Heaven Matth. 26. 64 V. 315. Here shalt thou sit Incarnate Here
shalt thou sit in thy Flesh Incarnate in carne of Caro Lat. Flesh. V. 316. Son both of God and Man Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psal. 2. 7. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy-Ghost Matth. 1. 20. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luc. 1. 35. Which was the Son of Adam which was the Son of God Luke 3. 38. V. 317. Anointed Universal King Who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6. 16. Kings in Scripture are styled God's Anointed Saul the first King of the Israelites was anointed by Samuel 1 Sam. 10. 1. and his Successor David by the same hand 1 Sam. 16. 13. Then Samuel took the Horn of Oyl and anointed him a Ceremony still in use among most Nations Therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the Oyl of Gladness above thy fellows Heb. 1. 9. Acts 10. 38. V. 321. That bide in Heaven c. That have their Abode in Heaven according to Phil. 2. 10. That at the Name of Jesus every Knee should â—ow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth Bide and abbreviation of Abide to stay in a place V. 324. Shalt in the Skie They shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Matth. 24. 30. V. 325. The summoning Archangels The Chief of thy Angels that shall summon and call all that are or ever were living Michael is named one of the Archangels Epist. Jude v. 9. Summoning of Summonere Lat. to warn and Summonitio in our Law is a giving notice to appear in Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chief Angel For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. V. 326. Thy dread Tribunal Thy dreadful Judgment Seat For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. v. 10 11. Tribunal Lat. Ibid. From all Winds From all Parts and Quarters of the World from whence the Winds blow and take their Names Eurus ad auroram Nabathaeque regna recessit Persidaque radiis juga subdita matutinis Met. l. 1. They shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds Matth. 24. 31. V. 327. The cited Dead The Dead called to appear at the General Day of Doom And I saw the Dead small and great stand before God Rev. 20. 11 Citare and Citatio Lat. are Terms of the Civil Law signifying a calling one to answer an Accusation or Crime brought against him V. 329. Such a Peal Such a Sound shall awaken 'em from their long and lazy Lethargy He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet Matth. 24. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With a Trumpet and loud Voice as the Original V. 331. They Arraigned shall sink They as soon as brought to that bright Bar self-accused and condemned shall sink down into Hell beneath thy Sovereign Sentence To Arraign is to bring a Prisoner to the Bar to hear the Accusation laid to his Charge of Arranger Fr. to set and digest Things into order by way of Proof in Tryals V. 334. The World shall burn The Heaven and the Earth which are now by the same Word are kept in store reserved unto Fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly Men. But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3. v. 7 and 10. Lucretius tells us the World shall be destroyed by a downfal Principio mare ac terras caelumque tuêre Horum naturam triplicem tria corpora Memmi Tres species tam dissimiles tria talia texta Una dies dabit exitio multosque per annos Sustentata ruet moles machina Mundi Lib. 5. Ovid affirms its Destruction shall be by Fire Esse quoque infatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus correptaque Regia Caeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa laboret Met. l. 1. Lucan agrees with him Hos Caesar populos si nunc non usserit ignis Uret cum terris uret cum gurgite tonti Communis mundo superest rogus ossibus astra Misturus Phar. l. 7. How this lower World and all therein may probably enough be liable to a General Conflagration is easie to imagine but how the Heavens the Celestial Bodies the Sun Moon and Stars those bright burning Beings which many of the Fathers as well as Philosophers believed to consist and be made of Fire shall be obnoxious to it is not so familiar to our Understandings Certain it is the World shall have an end Generation and Corruption shall cease Motion give place to Rest and Time to Eternity and then both the Elementary and Celestial Bodies having performed and finified their Function and all their Vicissitudes and manifold Mutations being determined shall be done away The Heavens the work of thy hands they shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a Garment as a Vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed Psal. 102. 26. And with this agrees the Vision of St. John And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose Face the Earth and the Heavens fled away and there was found no place for them Rev. 20. 11. V. 335. New Heaven and Earth Of which Isaiah Prophesied Behold I create new Heavens and a new Earth and the former shall not be remembred ch 65. v. 17. Confirmed by St. Peter Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. Foreseen by St. John And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Rev. 21. 1. The number of Beings subject to Generation and Corruption to encrease and decay will one day be compleat and fulfilled then the Heavenly Orbs the Elements the Earth and Sea the Causes and the Receptacles and Subjects of those many Mutations of Matter through the Vicissitudes of Time and Motion shall be no more And God will make another World more beautiful and much more glorious than this void of all Alteration incapable of Decay the House of Eternity V. 336. After Tribulations long After all the Afflictions of this Life Tribulatio Lat. Anguish Pain Suffering V. 337. See Golden Days As the Poets express'd the first happy Simplicity of the World by the Golden Age before that mischievous Metal was discovered to disturb it Aurea prima sata est aetas Ov. Met. 1. Toto surget gens aurea mundo Virg. Ecl. 4. V.
him Psal. 97. 2. The House was filled with the Cloud and the Court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory Ezekiel's Vision ch 10. v. 4. He holdeth back the face of his Throne and spreadeth his Cloud upon it Job 26. 9. V. 380. Dark with excessive Bright The excessive Brightness amazing and astonishing all created Sight to that degree that Darkness and Confusion seizes all approaching Eyes He that will stedfastly behold the Sun will in a short time make the dazling Experiment end in Darkness not soon recovered How impossible therefore is it for human Eyes to behold him Who is cloathed with Honour and Majesty who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment Psal. 104. v. 1 2 Our blessed Saviour's Face in his Transfiguration in the Mount thô the full blaze of his Glory was shaded by a shrine of Flesh did shine as the Sun and his Rayment was white as the Light Matth. 17. 2. His Countenance was as the Sun shineth in his strength Rev. 1. 16. Ibid. Thy Skirts appear The borders of thy shining Shrine Read Isaiah's Vision ch 6. I saw also the Lord sitting upon a Throne high and lifted up and his Skirts filled the Temple To which our Author seems to have had respect in this noble description of God's Glorious Majesty Excessivus Lat. boundless V. 382. With both Wings veil their Eyes According to the description of God's Throne by the Prophet Isaiah And about it stood the Seraphims each one had six Wings with two he covered his face c. Isa. 25. 2. V. 383. Of all Creation first According to our Creed The onely begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all Worlds of whom David says The dew of thy birth is from the womb of the morning Psal. 110. 3. before the World or Light that distinguished Morn from Evening were brought forth of the Womb of the Creation Who is the image of the invisible God the first-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. V. 384. Divine Similitude Exact Resemblance of the Divinity God of God Light of Light very God of very God Nicene Creed Similitudo Lat. likeness V. 385. Without Cloud th' Almighty Father shines The Law at its Promulgation by Moses was delivered with Thunders and Lightenings great Earthquakes and Terrors and Mount Sinai was covered with a Cloud Exod. 19. v. 9 and 16. I come unto thee in a cloud there were thunders and lightenings and a thick cloud upon the Mount and the whole Mount Sinai quaked greatly But when our Saviour appeared the Cloud was removed That the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God might shine unto Believers For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. v. 4 and 6. V. 387. No Creature can behold No man hath seen God at any time the onely begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him John 1. 18. No man hath ascended up into Heaven but he that came down from Heaven even the Son of Man which is in Heaven John 3. 13. Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. Now the Righteousness of the best of Mankind being but as filthy Rags it must be the imputative Holiness of Jesus Christ that must qualifie and enable us to behold the Lord of Glory V. 388. Imprest the Effulgence Stamp'd upon thee the brightness of his Glory dwells Imprest Impressus Lat stamp'd printed graven as Cratera impressum signis AEn 5. Effulgence brightness of Effulgere Lat. to shine bright Who being the brightness of his Glory and the express image of his Person Heb. 1. 3. And we beheld his Glory the Glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father John 1. 14. V. 389. Transfus'd on thee c. Poured out on thee according to those many Prophecies fulfilled visibly at his Baptism by St. John And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him Isa. 11. 2. I have put my Spirit upon him Isa. 42. 1. And lo the Heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lightening upon him Matth. 3. 16. And John bare record saying I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a Dove and it abode upon him John 1. 32. Transfus'd Transfusus Lat. poured out Amplus Lat. large mighty V. 390. He Heaven of Heavens c. God created the World and the Heavens and all their high Inhabitants by his Son the Word of his Power All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made He was in the World and the World was made by him John 1. v. 3 10. For by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by him and for him Coloss. 1. 16. V. 391. By thee threw down the aspiring Dominations By thee cast down into Hell the ambitious Angels God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2. 4. The Angels which kept not their first estate but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day Jude 1. 6. Dominatio Lat. Power Authority as the Angels are styled Coloss. 1. 16. quoted at V. 390. V. 394. That shook Heaven's everlasting Frame Well might God's flaming Chariot loaden with Almighty Vengeance shake Heaven's everlasting Basis Whose Pillars tremble and are astonished at his Reproof Job 16. 11. Juno giving her self but a jogg on her Throne shook the wide Olympus the Homeric Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter when in good humour does as much Annuit totum nutu tremefecit Olympum AEn 9. How much more true is that of the Almighty He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the Hills and they smoak Psal. 104. 32. V. 396. Angels disarray'd Disordered and put to the rout Disarray'd Desarroyer Fr. disordered of the old Fr. word Arroy the Equipage and Order belonging to Soldiers hence in our Law-Books Arrayer Arraiatores were such as had Commissions of Array to see the Soldiers well provided of Arms c. Read the Battel of the great Dragon and his Angels Rev. 12. v. 7 8 and 9. And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb v. 11. V. 398. Thee only extoll'd Praise thee alone And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven Now is come Salvation and Strength and the Kingdom of our God and the Power of his Christ Rev. 12. 10. Extollere Lat. to lift to raise up and thence to praise V. 405. But much more to Pity enclined A Repetition affected after the Homeric manner who often uses the same Verses and Words in which Commands were given or Messages sent as supposing it not
top reaching to Heaven does his Divine Nature Oh that thou wouldst rent the Heavens that thou wouldst come down Isai. 64. Vers. 1. Christ indeed may well be represented by this Heavenly Ladder for by him not only the Angels but all the Saints and faithful Servants of God who in Heaven shall be like the Angels Matth. 22. Vers. 30. do ascend and descend that is have free access to God and the Throne of Grace and attain by his Merits Everlasting Happiness So Rupertus Vatalbus and others Others interpret this Ladder to be the way to Perfection towards which we must endeavour to ascend gradually Many are the Stairs and Degrees of Faith Repentance and all the Christian Virtues to be persued by perseverance in well-doing ere from the bottom fixed on frail Dust and Ashes we can climb up to the highest pitch of Perfection where GOD stands at the top ready to receive us into Everlasting Joy Mysteriously was meant Contained some Divine Matter was not to be understood according to the Letter but signified some Secret more considerable Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sacred Secret something concerning holy Things concealed from being common of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to instruct to interpret the knowledge of Sacred Rites V. 519. Or of Liquid Pearl Or of Pearl dissolved made liquid and fluid like Water of a bright shining White Praeferuntur Margaritae quae Candidissimae Lucidissimae Rotundissimae Levissimae Minimi Ponderis sunt Rueus de Gem. Lib. 1. Pliny tells us the Oysters whose pretious Off-spring Pearls are are so knowing of their Treasures that upon the approach of any Humane Hand they compress their Shells harder than ordinary and if forc'd open often bite off the Invaders Fingers Justissima tantae temeritatis Luxus avaritiae poena an Observation very fictitious and fallacious and contradicted by every Days Experience and found by chance as dangerous to the Mouse caught by the Nose in this Scaly Trap as by accident it may have proved to any Man Of Jasper see V. 363. of this Book V. 522. Rapt in a Chariot drawn by Fiery Steeds Snatch'd up into a Chariot drawn by Shining Horses this is meant of Elijah 2 Kings 2. Vers. 11. as he that is said to sail o'er the Liquid Lake of Pearl wafted by Angels must be Enoch Gen. 5. Vers. 24. That both these were translated into the Earthly Paradise which they were of Opinion did still exist Irenaeus Hieronymus Justinus and others held where by Eating of the Tree of Life they remain free from all Distempers both of Body and Mind in continual Contemplation of God though not in the Beatifick Vision of Him Others affirm That without Meat or Drink or the want or desire of them they continue unchanged and incorruptible GOD suspending in them the Act and Power of Natural Heat from preying upon the Radical Moisture that feeds the Lamp of Life Others who believed the entire abolition of Paradise suppose 'em carried into some Superiour Orb illustrious and delightful unknown to Mankind where free from all Inconveniences both of Body and Soul they are to continue till towards the end of the World they are to appear against Antichrist and to be put to death by him Tertull. August Rupertus Suarez grounding the last part of their Opinion on Mala. 4. Vers. 5. Matth. 17. Vers. 11. and Revel 11. Vers. 3. V. 524. Or aggravate his sad Exclusion Or to make his Banishment from that place of Bliss more grievous to him of aggravare Lat. to render more heavy and uneasie Exclusio Lat. shutting out V. 529. Wider by far Because GOD in the first Ages of the World did more frequently visit his chosen Servants and People Abraham Isacc and Jacob and the Children of Israel by his holy Angels not only calling to them out of Heaven but by conversing Face to Face of which see divers Instances before Vers. 511. of this Book V. 531. The Promised Land Canaan promised to Abraham and his Seed after him by GOD. Abraham dwelt in the Land of Canaan and the Lord said to Abraham Look from the place where thou art Northward and Southward Eastward and Westward for all the Land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever Gen. 13. Vers. 12 14 and 15. See Gen. 12. Vers. 7. Deut. 34. Vers. 4. V. 532. Those happy Tribes Of the Children of Israel so happy in GOD's particular Instruction of 'em and his continual Providence over them Tribes of Tribus Lat. a Division of the Romans at first into the three parts Senators Soldiers and the common People Hence Tribus of the Numeral Tres. V. 533. On high Behests On extraordinary Commands and Occasions Hest and Behest are old words of the Sax. Here a Command Obeying Natures first Behest Spen. F. Q. Book 6. Cant. 4. St. 14. Who his Hest observ'd Idem Book 5. Cant. 12. St. 43. V. 535. From Paneas the Fount c. Was by the Ancient Geographers accounted a Fount of Mount Libanus and thought to be the Head of Jordan till later and better Discoveries have found its true Sources to be Jor and Dan whence it takes its Name as our Thames is of Tame and Isis two Fountains both at the Foot of Libanus in the Confines of Caelosyria running Southward It is a rapid River of a thick Warer as washing a far Soil full of Fish and its Banks adorn'd with thick and pleasant Woods as Monsieur Thevenot an Eye-Witness of it testifies Ibid. Jordan is perhaps the most famous River in the World for the many Miracles and Mysteries there wrought It was past over by the Israelites on dry-foot Josh. 4. Also by Elijah and Elisha in the same manner 2 Kings 2. Vers. 8. In it Naaman the Syrian left his Leprosie Chap. 5. Vers. 14. In it John Baptized the Jews into Repentance and afterwards our Saviour himself was in this River Baptized by him Matth. 3. Vers. 5. and 15. The Talmud derives his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as descending from Dan the City anciently called Lais near Paneas formerly supposed the Spring and Fountain of Jordan by Plin. Lib. 5. Cap. 15. and Solin Cap. 38. V. 536 To Beersaba c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Well of the Oaths because there Abraham and Abiâ—â—lech swore and made a Covenant together Gen. 21. Vers. 31. A Town of Idumaea at first belonging to the Edomites afterwards to the Tribe of Symeon which the Christians warring against the Infidels for recovery of the Holy Land so styled because our Saviour wrought there the Salvation and Redemption of the World Fortified as bordering on the Arabian commonly call'd the Red-Sea not far from Egypt as our Poet truly says this was the Southern as Jordan and Libanus the Northern Limit of the Promised Land V. 539. As bound the Ocean Wave Well has our Poet declared the Bounds appointed to Darkness and encroaching
one Coelestial Father c. That one great Heav'nly Father feeds us all V. 405. To Man in part Spiritual To Man who as to his Nobler Part his Soul is Spiritual Spiritualis Lat. of the Nature of a Spirit V. 407. Pure Intelligential Substances Angels and Spirits those refined understanding Beings whose clearer Intellects and inlighten'd Minds are sublimed and exalted so far above Mankind immers'd in matter must be sustain'd and supported with some sort of Spiritual Aliment as the Rational and all Created Beings are nothing but the Infinite and the Almighty One being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Self-sufficient Intelligentia Lat. Knowledge in the Abstract such as is expressive of Angels and Spirits from the Purity and Sublimity of those Coelestial Minds See Vers. 414. V. 412. Concoct The Office of the Stomach macerating our Meat by its Internal Heat Of Concoquere Lat. to boyl Ibid. Assimilate turn into their own likeness As all Creatures turn their Food into their Corresponding Flesh Blood and Animal Spirits of Assimilare Lat. to be like V. 417. Earth and the Sea feed Air c. There being a constant Circulation of the Elements they do by continual Mutations and Vicissitudes make and maintain one another Earth being nothing but the Dregs and Faeces of Water coagulated by Condensation as Water is Air by the same means thickned into Visibility as Fire is Air sublimely rarified each support other by an incessant Circumrotation interchangeably running round Thus from the Humid Unctuous Earth Vapours and Exhalations are rarified into Water that supports the Seas vast source from the Earth and the Sea the thinner and lighter Perspirations are the same way transmuted into Air and Air exalted and inspirited to Fire and by the contrary Condensation in Quaternion run Perpetual Circle multiform as before at Vers. 181. V. 420. Unpurged Vapours gross Exhalations and foul Mists mounting up to the Moon that look like black Patches on her fair Face Vapours undigested unrefined not yet clarified and converted into her clear Complexion V. 421. No Nourishment exhale the moist Moon sends from her humid Globe Food more refined up to the higher Orbs to exhale exhalare Lat. to breathe out as rising Mists seem to be exhaled Quae tenuem exhalat nebulam fumosque volucres Geor. 2. V. 423. That Light imparts That affords and communicates Light to all things Imparts of the Lat. impertire to bestow a part or share on V. 424. His Alimental Recompense The Sun himself that on the Universe bestows his chearing Light and enlivening Rays receives in moist Returns and unctuous Vapours his Nourishment from all as Toll and Tribute paid him in grateful Recompense Alimental Alimentum Lat. Food Nourishment V. 426. Sups with the Ocean According to the Opinion of Thales who supposed Water the First Matter of the Creation borrowed of the Description of the Creation by Moses Gen. 1. Vers. 2. So Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Render'd by Virgil Oceanumque Patrem rerum Nymphasque sorores Geor. 4. Not only the Sun but all the Homerick Inhabitants of Heaven are entertained by the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now these Ethiopians dwelt near the Suns Supping-Room Oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem Ultimus AEthiopum locus est AEn 4. Audiet Herculeo stridentem gurgite solem Juv. Sa◠15. V. 429. Mellifluous Dews and Pearly Grain A Description of Manna Angels Food the Bread of Heav'n And when the Dew that lay was gone up behold upon the Face of the Wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the Hoar-frost on the Ground and it was like Coriander-Seed white And the taste of it was like Wafers made with Honey Exod. 16. Vers. 24 and 31. Man did eat Angels Food Psal. 78. Vers. 25. Mellifluous Mellifluus Lat. sweet as Honey V. 434. To their Viands their Victnals Their Food Fr. Viande Ita. Vivande both of Vivere Lat. to live as Victus Food V. 435. Not seemingly nor in Mist The Angel did not make as if he did eat nor put the cheat upon 'em by casting a Mist before their Eyes according to the Gloss of Theodoret in his 68 Question on Gen. 18. Vers. 8. who tells us that as those Angels who appeared to Abraham were by Moses styled Men having nothing of Human Nature but the outward appearance so they were said to eat when they did but seem to do so Cibum simulatis illis manibus capientes in simulatum quoque os ingerentes clam consumpserunt prout illis placuit Of the same Opinion is St. Thomas Tom. 1. Part. 9. 51. Art 2. which they support by the Confession of Raphael himself All these Days I did appear unto you but I did neither eat nor drink but you did see a Vision Tob. 12. Vers. 19. The Angel that appeared to Manoah declared against it And the Angel of the Lord said Though thou detein me I will not eat of thy Bread Judg. 13. V. 16. Our Author on the contrary believes the Angel did with keen and hungry dispatch eat digest and turn what was convertible of it into his proper substance evacuating the rest by Perspiration nor does there seem any absurdity in the Asseveration since most Texts of Holy Writ where the Appearances of Angels are Recorded make 'em subject to Human Sight Hearing and Feeling too why not then to Eating as literally affirm'd of 'em as any of the other Actions falling under Sense But these Enquiries are too subtle and exceed the compass of our Capacities Ibid. The common Gloss of Theologians the usual Interpretation of Doctors and Divines Gloss Glossa Lat. of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Tongue signifies an Exposition or Interpretation of an obscure place of Holy Scripture or other Writing Protinus enim potest Interpretationem Linguae Secretioris quae Graeci Glossas vocant dum aliud agitur ediscere Quint. Lib. 1. Cap. 2. Theologians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that writes or reasons concerning GOD and his Holy Mysteries that treats and teaches Divine Matters the School-Divines and Doctors V. 438. To transubstantiate and heat sufficient to digest and turn into the substance of the Creature fed the Food it eats The proper Office of the Stomach aided by its innate vigorous heat Transubstantiate and Transubstantiation Barbarous Lat. Words that have much disturbed the World Ibid. What redounds transpires What remains over and above what is necessary and fit for nourishment breathes out vanisheth into Air Is voided and evacuated as Sweat evaporates through the Pores Redundare Lat. to be over and above to exceed to overflow Transpirare Lat. to sweat to breathe through V. 440. The Emperick Alchemist The Prying the Experimental Chymist Emperick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that is taught by tryal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Endeavour Experiment hence a bold daring and unskilful Quack is call'd an Emperick from venturing by dangerous Medicines to make
illi Dulcis compositis spiravit crinibus aura Atque habilis membris venit vigor Geor. 4. Ambrosial Book 2. Vers. 245. V. 643. Whence Light and Shade spring both More fully described in the beginning of Book 6. Vers. 4. There is a Cave Within the Mount of God fast by his Throne Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns which makes through Heav'n Grateful Vicissitude like Day and Night c. V. 646. In darker Veil Night comes not there in darker Dress Veil Fr. Voile Lat. Velum à Velando from covering Night well resembling a Veil thrown o'er the dark'ned World Nox ruit fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis AEn 8. Ibid. Roseat Dews Dews resembling Roses both as to scent and shew Roseat of Rosaceus Lat. of a Rose Colour of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for that charming Flower V. 647. All but th' unsleeping Eyes of God Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is thy Keeper Psal. 121. Vers. 4 and 5. V. 649. Than all this Globous Earth c. Larger and more capacious than this round Earth if flatted and spread out all into one wide open Plain Globous Lat. Globosus round of Globus any thing of a round shape So at Vers. 750. of this Book Regions to which All thy Dominion Adam is no more Than what this Garden is to all the Earth And all the Sea from one entire Globose Stretch'd into Longitude Then Paradise is in Comparison of Earth and Sea if from their vast great Round they both were stretcht and drawn out into Length Longitudo Lat. Length V. 654. Coelestial Tabernacles Heav'nly Tents Tabernaculum Lat. a Tent. V. 657. Alternate all Night long By turns singing and answering one another of Alternare Lat. to do any thing by turns Illi Alternantes multa vi praelia miscent Geor. 3. V. 661. Preeminence Praeeminentia Lat. a state of extraordinary Splendor and Dignity of Praeeminere Lat. to be raised in Power and Place above others V. 664. Messiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Anoint as Christ of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the same as interpreted by the following words King Anointed We have found the Messias which is being interpreted the Christ Joh. 1. Vers. 21. The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed Psal. 2. Vers. 2. V. 671. His next Subordinate The Angel commanding next under him of the Lat. Subordinatus Lat. next in order and degree V. 675. Has past the Lips of Heav'ns Almighty According to the Scripture where God is spoken of after the manner of Men But by every word that proceeds out of the Mouth of God Matth. 4. Vers. 4. V. 677. Was wont to impart Used to communicate my most secret Thoughts Impart of the Lat. Impertire to make Partner in to discover and disclose V. 679. Thy Sleep dissent How come we now so far to disagree that thou shouldst sleep so soundly while I wake disorder'd and disturb'd at the Almighties new and strange Decree Dissent of Dissentire Lat. to be of contrary Opinion and Sentiments to disagree V. 697. The Regent Powers The Commanders of Regere Lat. to bear Rule to Govern V. 700. Had disincumber'd Heav'n Night had disingaged Heaven Had clear'd it by withdrawing it self of dis the disjunctive Preposition and encumbrer Fr. to hinder to trouble or perplex or of the Ita. Ingombrare to hinder as Darkness does Hierarchal Standard that belonging to Satans whole Hierarchy V. 702. Tells the suggested Cause Acquaints 'em with the pretended Occasions of their March Suggested of Suggerere Lat. to prompt to put in mind slily to insinuate V. 703. Casts between ambiguous Words Le ts fall doubtful Expressions and Words that seem to soâ— Suspicion Ambiguus Lat. doubtful that may be taken in a double sense Hinc spargere voces In vuigum ambiguas AEn 2. Ibid. Jealousies Suspicions Jalousie Fr. is properly a mistrust arising between Lovers concerning their plighted Truth and Honour from thence translated to signifie the Suspicions Cities and Bodies Politick have of Incroachments on their Liberties c. V. 704. To sound or taint Integrity To fathom or infect their Loyalty To try or â—aint their Obedience To sound is a Marine Metaphor from the Plummet so necessary to the Seaman's safety of the Fr. sonder to try the depth of the Water Taint of the Fr. teindre Lat. tingere Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to die to colour to infect Corruption shews it self by discolouring Integritas Lat. Truth Loyalty V. 708. As the Morning-Star that guides c. The Morning-Star Lucifer as he is named at Vers. 760. How art thou fallen from Heav'n O Lucifer Son of the Morning Isal. 14. Vers. 12 Diffugiunt Stellae quarum agmina cogit Lucifer Coeli Statione novissimus exit Met. 12. Qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer undâ Quem Venus ante alios Astrorum diligit ignes Extulit os sacrum Coelo tenebrasque resolvit AEn 8. Translated from Homer's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 710. Third part of Heav'ns Host Behold a great Red Dragon c. and his Tail drew the third part of the Stars of Heav'n and threw them to the Earth Revel 12. Vers. 3 and 4. V. 711. The Everlasting Eye God Omniscient whose Everlasting Eye beholds the â—nmost Motions of our Minds as the Psalmist reasons admirably He that formed the Eye shall he not see The Lord understandeth the Thoughts of Man Psal. 94. Vers. 9 and 11. Discerns knows distinctly of discernere Lat. to see plainly Abstrusest the most hidden the most secret Thoughts of abstrudere Lat. to thrust into a Corner out of the way and search of Men. V. 713. The Golden Lamps c. And there were seven Lamps of Fire burning before the Throne Revel 4. Vers. 5. V. 716. Among the Sons of Morn Among the Angels So called of their early Creation before this lower World as many suppose and as the Series of our Poem assumes at Vers. 577. As yet this World was not c. V. 720. In full Resplendence In its fullest and most perfect Brightness Resplendescentia Lat. Brightness Ibid. Heir of all my Might whom he hath appointed Heir of all things Hebr. 1. Vers. 12. V. 726. Throughout the spacious North According to that of Isaiah where he parallels the insulting Assyrians with Satan For thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heav'n I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit in the sides of the North Chap. 14. Vers. 13. V. 732. Our Sanctuary Sanctuarium Lat. Heaven God's holy Seat Look down from thy holy Habitation from Heav'n Deut. 26. Vers. 15. V. 736. Hast in derision Despisest laughest to scorn He that sitteth in the Heav'ns shall laugh The Lord shall have them in derision Psal. 2. Vers. 4. Of deridere Lat. to laugh
at V. 739. Illustrates Gives greater Lustre to Of Illustrare Lat. to render Renowned V. 741. Be dextrous to subdue Be ready and resolute to tread down thy Enemies Dextrous successful quick of dextra Lat. for the right the most ready Hand Quis rebus dexter modus AEn 4. Et nos tua dexter adi pede sacra secundo Ibid. 8. V. 746. Or Stars of Morning Dew-Drops Innumerable as Leaves Stars c. are usual Similes but as the Drops of Dew the Stars of the Gay Morning and the Pearls of Day Light which the Sun hangs on every Leaf and Fragrant Flower is our Authors own and as infinite as any of the others Impearls turns by his reflected Beams into seeming Pearls or hangs like Pearls V. 748. The mighty Regencies The Dominions and large Governments of Fr. Regence of Regere Lat. to Govern V. 750. In their triple Degrees In their three distinct Orders of Seraphims Potentates and Thrones that is Principalities Powers and Lords according to their several Offices and Distinctions observable in Holy Writ Of the first Rank there seem to be seven from Tob 12. Vers. 15. I am Raphael one of the seven Princes which go in and out before the Glory of the Holy One c. Typified by the seven Stars and seven Golden Candlesticks Revel 1. Vers. 12 and 16. Gabriel another of these Princes was the Messenger of the Blessed Incarnation of our Saviour Luk. 1. Vers. 26. Of a different Order is supposed to be the Angel that deliver'd St. Peter out of Prison Acts 12. Vers. 7. Of their Subordination in their Offices And they answer'd the Angel of the Lord that stood among the Mirtle-Trees and said We have walked to and fro through the Earth Zech. 1. Vers. 11. Some have the Dominion over the Winds c. I saw four Angels standing on the four Corners of the Earth holding the four Winds of the Earth Revel 7. Vers. 1. Triple Lat. Triplex threefold V. 759. From Diamond Quarries hew'n Hew'n out of Pits of Diamond Quarry of the Fr. Carriere or Quarrier a Pit whence Stone is dug because hew'n out generally formâ Quadratâ in great Squares V. 761. In the Dialect of Men Interpreted The Palace of Lucifer so called in the Language of Men his other glorious Name being razed out and lost in everlasting Oblivion as as V. 659. His other Name is heard no more in Heav'n see Isai. 14. Vers. 12. How art thou fallen from Heav'n O Lucifer Son of the Morning in the Dialect of Men. So Homer of one of the bold Invaders of Heav'n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lucifer Lucem ferens Lat. being the brightest of the Stars and as such relating to the bright Station of Satan He of the first if not the first Arch-Angel Vers. 660. Lucifer this Morning-Star is Graphically described by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dialect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Speech and the various forms of it belonging to divers Nations Interpreted explained of Interpretari Lat. to give the meaning of V. 766. The Mountain of the Congregation The Prophet Isaiah has well exprest the Pride and Rebellion of Lucifer in Chap. 14. Vers. 13 and 14. For thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North. I will ascend above the heights of the Clouds I will be like the most High V. 770. With calumnious Art c. With sly malicious Insmuations resembling Truth With probable Surmises Calumnious Calumniosus Lat. of Calumniâ—â—i Lat. to 〈◊〉 to forge malicious Accusations against one Counterfeited imitated of the Fr. 〈◊〉 V. 773. If these Magnifick Titles c. If these our Noble Names and mighty Titles have any thing in them besides the sound If these our lofty Dignities are any thing but empty Names Magnifick Magnificus Lat. Noble Mighty Titles of Titulus Lat. Honour hence Titular one that has the Style but not the Estate or that carries the Name without the Possession and Advantage thereto belonging as several Foreign Titular Bishops that are so only Titulo tenus V. 778. Hurried meeting This hasty assembling Hurried of Harier Fr. to toil to vex to weary V. 782. Prostration vile Mean and abominable submission Proftratio Lat. a lying flat on the Ground of Prosternere to lie along to worship by falling flat on the Earth Knee-Tribute an odious and scornful exposing of the Worship due to the Son of God See Tribute Vers. 343. of this Book V. 788. If I trust to know you right If I conceive rightly of you as I trust as I believe I do V. 793. Jar not but well consist Orders and Degrees are Distinctions that do not destroy Liberty but agree well with it To jar is to quarrel with to disagree of the Fr. Gnerroger to fall out with as well as to fight Consist of consistere Lat. to suit with V. 797. Introduce Law or Edict Can bring or impose on us new Laws and Ordinances As if Orders and Degrees and Liberty could be maintain'd without ' em Introduce Introducere Lat. to begin to broach a new Opinion Edict Edictum Lat. a Law of Edicere to proclaim to ordain V. 799. Err not Are faultless need no Laws to guide us can do nothing amiss Of errare Lat. to be mistaken V. 802. Ordain'd to govern not to serve Another Instance of his counterfeited Truth Service being but the subordinate Duty of Degrees and Orders of Angels or Men. V. 803. Without controul Without any Contradiction Controul of the Fr. Contrâ—rolle an Examination and scanning of Accounts Contreroller Fr. to observe to inspect Thus far Satans bold blasphemous Discourse past without any due Consideration or Reflexions made on it without check or opposition V. 805. Abdiel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. Servant of God Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to serve V. 809. O Argument Blasphemous O wicked and malicious Discourse detracting from the Honour Glory and Goodness of GOD Almighty Blasphemous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one who by scandalous and ill report endeavours to hurt the Fame and ruine the Reputation of another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who is this that speaketh Blaspemies Luk. 5. Vers. 21. V. 813. With impious Obloquy With wicked Detraction With impious Gainsaying Obloquium Lat. scandal reproach V. 825. And circumscribed their Being Bounded and limited their Powers Of Circumscribere Lat. to draw a Line about to appoint V. 828. How Provident How careful of our Honour what Provision he has made for every ones just esteem Providens Lat. heedful circumspect V. 849. The fervent Angel The zealous Angel grown warm in his Discourse Fervent of Fervere Lat. to wax warm Fervet Opus AEn 1. The Work goes on in good earnest V. 850. None seconded No one back'd or supported his Zeal Of the Lat. secundus second V. 854. Of secondary Hands
of the changes of the Weather Winds Plenty Health and their Contraries Others of those Preternatural Signs and Miracles that appeared in the days of Joshua Hezekiah and at the Passion of our Saviour and that shall be before the Last Day And there shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Stars Luke 21. 25. The vain Asserters of Judicial Astrology would have 'em meant of the Signs placed in the Heavens whereon to ground their Presumptuous Predictions The best and genuine is That God appointed them for Signs of the Seasons of Time of Days and Years for the motion of the Stars and chiefly of the Sun and Moon is the measure of Time A Day is the time of the Sun's circuit about the Earth an Hour the 24th part of it a Year his compleat Journey through the Zodiac a Month his motion through one Sign of it while the Moon travels quite through it Now Celestial Motion and that chiefly of the Sun being the most regular unalterable and communicable to all Mankind is the best and most common Calculation of Times and Seasons and of circling Years compleating their radiant Rounds V. 346. Great for their use to Man Because the Moon excepting Mercury is less than any of the fixt or erratic Stars though her Neighbourhood to the Earth deceive our sight therefore she is said to be one of the two Great Lights in regard of her illustrious Office in chearing and illuminating the Night more effectually than all the innumerable Stars are able to do with their vaster but far more distant Lights V. 355. A mighty Sphear Of all the Heavenly Bodies first he made the Sun a vast round Circle void of Light though of the same substance with the Heavens Ad sidera rursus AEtheria AEn 7. V. 357. The Moon Globose The Moon round also Globose as Globous Bo. V. Vers. 649. Ibid. And every Magnitude of Stars And all the Stars in their different Magnitudes and distinctions of Size V. 358. The Heaven thick as a Field is said to be sown with Stars to express their vast number Astra tenent Caeleste solum Met. 1. V. 360. Transplanted from her cloudy Shrine In which as in a cloudy Tabernacle she had sojourned three days as at V. 248. Shrine Bo. I. Vers. 388. V. 361. Made Porous to receive c. Made spungy to suck in the streaming Light and solid to retain her congregated Rays Porous of Pori Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to pass through those small and unsensible Passages in Human and other Bodies by which any thing is received into or cast out of them V. 364. As to their Fountain other Stars repairing c. 'T is the received Opinion that the Fixed Stars shine and appear by their own Native Light but the Planets are Opaque Bodies illustrated and made bright by the Sun 's borrowed Light and are the other Stars here said to draw Light in their Golden Urns from that great Fountain The reason why our Author did not affirm it of all the Stars as also why many imagine that even our Opacâ—us Earth shines as gloriously on most of the Planets and their Inhabitants if any such there be as they in their turns do on it and us Urns of Urna Lat. a Pitcher V. 366. Guilds her Horns The Morning Planet is Venus which according to the most exact Observations moves round the Sun sometimes above at other times below him bor owing all her Light of him and like the Moon having the same threefold appearance Encreasing Full and Decreasing therefore said to Guild her Horns as being at some distances from that Great Luminary Corniculata Lat. horned When this Star appears above the Horizon proceeding the Sun it is called Lucifer and when it sinks beneath it after him Hesperus V. 367. By Tincture or Reflexion c. The Stars better their Complexion by Tincture by their Approaches towards the Sun new-colouring their Countenances Tinctura Lat. Colour or Dye Or by Reflexion or by his Light reflected on them heighten and enhance the little which may properly be thought their own at such vast distances to human sight appearing much diminish'd Peculiaris Lat. Particular Diminutio Lat. a lessening V. 373. Jocond to run his Longitude c. Brisk and chearful in his vast Diurnal Race from East to West the length of Heaven's High-way He rejoyceth as a Giant to run his course Psal. 19. 5. Jâ—â—â—nd of Giocondo Ital. the depravation of Jucundus Lat. merry Horizon Bo. VI. V. 79. V. 374. The gray Dawn and the Pleiades c. Day-break or the first approach of the doubtful Light is of a gray Colour whence the Morn is styled Gray-eyed by the Poets The Pleiades are seven Stars in the Neck of the Bull one of the twelve Celestial Signs so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Sail because they rise about the Verna Equinox thence called Vergiliae the usual time of venturing to Sea among the unexperienced Ancients They as well as the early Dawn are said to dance before the Sun because they constantly rise before him for one half of the Year commencing it by their auspicious Influence Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades Job 38. 31. Taygete simul os terris ostendit honestum Pletias Geor. 4. V. 379. In that Aspect The regard the Stars and Heavenly Lights have to one another by reason of their Places and Positions are called their Aspects Aspectus Lat. of Aspicere Lat. to look on Therefore the Moon placed in the West just opposite against the Sun like his Looking-glass is said to need no other Light in that Situation V. 381. Revolv'd on Heaven's great Axle Turn'd to the East on the World 's mighty Poles by the First Mover Revolv'd of Revolvere Lat. to turn round Axle Bo. II. V. 926. V. 382. Dividual Holds And maintains her Empire o'er the Night assisted by thousand lesser Light as to appearance not like the Sun sole Sovereign and Regent of Day the universal Lord of Light by all unrivall'd V. 387. Generate Reptil Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life Gen. 1. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly Reptile Lat. creeping a word denoting the motion of Creatures without Legs Jam maris immensi prolem genus omne natantum Geo. 2. V. 389. And let Fowl fly above the Earth According to the Hebrew and Chaldee Text for the vulgar Latin and our Version of Gen. 1. 20. And God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth c. has given occasion to the Controversie That Fowl as well as Fish were originally made of Water contradicting the plain declaration of Moses Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air Gen. 2. 19. yet the greatest Philosophers and Schoolmen too affirm the former Opinion
likeness Gen. 1. 26. Many are the curious Enquiries concerning the Image of God in which Man was Creaâ—d Some have thought it to consist in the Dominion given him over the rest of the Creation Finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum Meta. lib. 1. Others in his Reason Free-Will and Immortal Soul Zanchius has presumed to say there was Nulla pars in homine quae non fuerit hujus Imaginis particeps but Cicero though a Heathen had a nobler Idea of the Deity who tells us Ad Similitudinem Dei propius accedebat humana virtus quam figura The clearest account of this Heavenly Image and Divine Similitude in which Man was made that he was Created as to his Soul an Incorporeal Immortal and Intelligent Being Endowed with Understanding Memory and Free-Will capable of Wisdom Virtue Divine Grace and everlasting Happiness and dignified with Dominion over all the lower Orders of the Creation placed in the highest Degree of Nature though infinite descents beneath the Purity and Perfection of God his Creator To this glorious Image of the first Adam soon depraved and sullied by Sin St. Paul seems to allude Be renew'd in your spirit of the minds and that ye put on that new man which after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness Eph. 4. 23 24. V. 525. Thee O Man dust of the Ground According to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the Lord God formed Man if the Dust of the Ground Gen. 2. 7. to which Job alludes Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the Clay chap. 10. v. 9. that is originally in the Protoplast Form'd Formare Lat. to make fashion Adam Book III. Vers. 734. V. 528. Express and t ou becamest a living Soul In his own Image plainly stampt on thee and thou becamest a Man consisting of an Earthly Body and a Rational and Immortal Soul the Breath of Life with which God inspired thee Gen. 2. 7. Express Expresse Lat. plainly manifestly V. 529. Male he created thee c. Gen. 1. 27. V. 530. Then Bless'd Mankind Gen. 1. 28. V. 545. Death is the Penalty Death is the Punishment of thy Transgression Penalty Paenalitas Lat. of Paena Lat. Punishment V. 552. Desisting though unwearied Ceasing to Create any more according to his eternal Decree though not wearied as weak Mortality every day tired and exhausted Natural Causes exert their utmost Ability and act in proportion to their Power but the God of Nature who is Infinite in Power Goodness and Wisdom compleated the Creation on the Sixth day according to the Wisdom of his Eternal Will not the Infinitude of his Almighty Power Desisting Desistere Lat. to cease to leave of V. 557. Answering his great Idea Agreeing with his Eternal Wisdom Exemplar ad quod facta sunt singula est aeterna illa notitia rerum omnium quam Deus semper apud se habuit ab aeterno conceptam factam autem nunquam Val. de Sac. Philo. c. 2. The Lord possessed me Wisdom in the beginning of his way before his works of old I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the Earth was Prov. 8. 22 23 Idea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to see the Conception or Formation of any thing in the Mind or Imagination Idea est eorum quae natura fiunt exemplar aeternum according to Plato Mens sola cernit quod semper est simplex uniusmodi tale quale est Hanc Graeci Ideam vocant nos rectè speciem possumus dicere Cic. Quaest. Tusc. V. 559. The sound Symphonious c. With a loud Consort of Ten Thousand Harps that made a Harmony most Divine Symphonious Symphonious Lat. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to sound in Consort to Sing or Play together Constellations Book VI. Vers. 320. V. 563. The Planets in their Stations list'ning stood That the Heavenly Harmony should stay the listning Planets is not more Poetical than that two Singing Shepherds should stop the Rivers course Et mutata suos requierunt flumina cursus Ecl. 7. Stations Spheres as Statio Syderum Pli. l. 2. c. 16. not that they stand still but that the Stars are there stative fixt and move round with them V. 564. Pomp ascended Jubilant While the bright Train ascended up to Heaven shouting for Joy Jubilant Of Jubilare Lat. to rejoyce with Songs and Shouts Pomp Book I. Vers. 372. V. 565. Open the everlasting Gates Psal. 24. 7. and 9. V. 568. Magnificent Magnificus magna faciens according to the Psalmist O Lord how great are thy Works Psal. 92. 5. V. 577. Whose Dust is Gold and Pavement Stars This is imitated from the Description of the new Jerusalem Revel 21. 21. And the Street of the City was pure Gold as it were transparent Glass That is clear and shining like the Stars that make the Milky way V. 579. Seen in the Galaxie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lacteus Circulus the Milky way so named of its colour Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Milk The Poets feign'd that young Hercules having Suckt too much of Juno's Milk threw it up and gave that Complexion to that part of Heaven E niveo lactis fluxisse colorem Pectore Reginae Divum coelumque liquore Infecisse Quapropter Lacteus orbis Dicitur nomen causa descendit ab ipsa Mar. Manil. This white Circle was for many Ages held to be a Portion of the Heaven so much thicker than rhe rest that it was able to reflect the Rays of the Sun and Stars whence its brightness was thought to have taken Being But Galileo's Glass plainly discovered it to be a vast assembly of innumerable Stars with which that Circle is Sowed or Pouder'd which are so small and at so great a distance from us that they appear like one great shining Cloud disappointing the distinction of the Eye sight Zone Book II. Vers. 398. V. 590. Of Omnipresence Omnipraesentia Lat. the Infinite Presence of God Almighty in all Places Excellently described Psal. 139. 7. c. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit Or whither shall I fly from thy Presence c. and Amos 9. 2 3 4. V. 592. Hallow'd the Seaventh day Sanctified it and separated it from the Business and Cares that take up other days and appointed and appropriated this day to his own Solemn Service Not dedicated to Ease and Idleness as the scosfing Heathen imagined Cui septima quaeque fuit lux Ignava vitae partem non attigit ullam Juv. But set apart for Gods Worship Works of Praise Charity Instruction c. Solemnized by Angels first as our Author at Vers. 601. Creation and the Six days acts they Sung taking the hint probably from that of Job 38. 7. When the Morning Stars sung together and all the Sons of God shouted for joy V. 596 All Organs of sweet stop All Instruments of sweetest Sound Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Instrument not here meant of that so
19. have something respecting their Natures or Necessities V. 345. Fealty with low subjection Moses Barcepha in his Book of Paradise seats Adam on its highest Eminency with awful and majestic look and his Face shining like Moses's Exod. 34. 29. naming the Animals Terrestrial passing by in pairs beneath him Cowring low with blandishment cringing before him and the Birds humbly stooping on Wing paying their Fealty as at V. 350. Fealty Bo. III. V. 204. V. 348. To draw the thinner Air 'T is the general Opinion that Fish breath not because they want Lungs the Organs in other Creatures prepared for that purpose but whether their Gills may not supply the Office is not determined Certain it is that in the Indian Sea some there are that fly about a considerable time to avoid their Persuers and only dip to wet their Finny Wings and get up again Some Fish live much longer out of their Element than others and Gesner from Albertus tells us That Eels in a long Frost have been found bedded in a Haycock adjoyning to a River lusty and lively and that an Eel has in warm Weather lived 5 days out of the Water Our Author therefore does not affirm Fish not to breath but that they cannot draw our Air more thin and subtle than that embodied with Water for if Rivers be quite frozen up the Fish die for want of it V. 350. Cowring low Creeping lowly not daring to stalk and gaze upon their Governor Cowre of Couver Fr. Cubare Lat. a creeping near the Ground next to lying down Blandishment Blandissement Fr. Blandimentum Lat. fawning V. 354. God endu'd my sudden Apprehension Wonderful was the Knowledge God bestowed on Adam nor that part of it least which concerned the naming Things aright As Cicero agrees with Pythagoras Qui primus quod summae sapientiae Pythagorae visum est omnibus rebus nomina imposuit Quaest. Tusc. lib. 1. sect 25. V. 355. But in these I found not what I wanted As it is related in the Holy Leaf That after Adam had given Names to every Beast of the Field to the Fowl of the Air and to all Cattel But for Adam there was not found a help meet for him Gen. 2. 20. Four Reasons are alledged why God brought these living Creatures to be Named by him That he might see how much he excelled them made of more Noble Frame and to more Noble Ends That they might pay him Fealty as their Lord That he might enlarge his Language by so many Words And that seeing each of 'em in his kind Paired and Mated he might desire of his Maker a Companion and Help meet for him to support his single Imperfection From which last our Poet taking the hint has raised it to an unimitable Height outdoing all the Episodes of the most glorious Poems Ibid. Thus presum'd Took upon me to speak thus made bold to say Of Presumere Lat. whence Presumptuous Daring often used in an ill sense but here Encouraged by God's Goodness and Condescention to his Creature V. 365. In Solitude what Happiness Man being made a Communicative and Conversing Creature wanted a Help meet for him not only as to the Propagation of his Kind but for the Solace and Mutual Assistance arising from Conversation with something Rational and Discursive like himself In vain had he found his Tongue and named all his Brute Subjects and had all his Crawling Slaves and Winged Messengers at his Command if denied an intelligent Companion with whom he might share his Universal Empire Wâ—e to him that is alone Eccles. 4. 10. Homer describing the Dejected and Solitâ—ry Bellerophon tells us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That wandring solitary in the Alean Fields he avoided the Paths of Men gnawing and devouring his own Heart well expressing Anxious Solitude Solitudo Lat. Solitariness living alone Quis beatus in solitudine esse queat Horten. V. 371. Replenish'd Bo VII V. 447. V. 373. Their Language and their ways Following the General Opinion of the School-Divines that with good reason held Adam created in a more perfect knowledge of Nature than any of his Descendents ever had not excepting Salomon himself and his high Character 1 King 3. 12. because created by God himself in the state of Innocency of all certainly the most Perfect and Accomplish'd Hence that before And understood their Nature with such knowledge God endued my suddain Apprehension V. 352. V. 374. And reason not contemptibly Sense by all allowed to Beasts is hardly separable from Reason or something very like it according to Hippocrates Qui parte aliquâ corporis dolentes dolorem non sentiunt iis mens aegrotat Of the Ostrich it is said She leaveth her eggs in the earth and forgetteth that the foot may crush them She hardeneth her self against her young ones as if not hers and the Reason is subjoyn'd because God hath deprived her of wisdom neither hath he imparted to her understanding Job 39. 14 15 16 17. After this Instance of a foolish and forgetful Animal follows the description of the couragious and docile Horse He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted he smelleth the battel afar off Vers. 22 25. Intelligentiam habet belli odoratur procul bellum Man has a superior Reason considerative of sensible Objects and immaterial and immortal Beings Animals a subordinate sort and of that no contemptible Share exercised in this or that natural Inclination applicable in some more in others less about their Safety Propagation Food and Physick Mens humana naturâ suâ ex sese nata est rationari simpliciter circa Quidvis Brutorum vero nullum ratiocinari natum est nisi circa Quiddam Val. de sac Phil. c 55. V. 378. And humble Deprecation And Pardon humbly prayed Deprecatio of Deprecari Lat. humbly to entreat V. 381. Thy Substitute Hast thou not made me thy Deputy below Hast thou not transferred to me thy Dominion over the Creation and set all these in the degrees and order of Nature inferior far beneath me Substitute Substitutus of Substituere Lat. to put one in the stead place or power of another V. 383. What Society can sort What Society Friendship Agreement or true Delight can arise from Unequals Treasures different in their Understandings and thence insuitable Sort suit agree of Sortiri Lat. to order V. 386. But in Disparity the one intense c. But in Inequality such as is between Brute and Rational the one Intense Man high wound up and strain'd to nobler understand and of more lofty Faculty the other still Remiss the Animal let down and slacker groveling in more low and mean Perceptions can never suit together Intense Intensus Lat. strained Remiss Bo. VI. V. 458. a Musical Metaphor from Strings of which the stretch'd and highest give a smart and sharp sound the slack a flat and heavy one Disparity of Dispar Lat. unlike V. 390. Fit to participate c. Made by thee fit and capable of purest
Incorporeal void of all Dimension Bo. 1. v. 793. V. 18. Where the Golden Altar fum'd And another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne And the smoak of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God Rev. 8. 3 4. Incense Bo. 9. v. 194. Fum'd smoaked of Fumare Lat. Intercessor Bo. 3. v. 219. V. 23. Implanted Grace From thy Grace rooted in his Heart Implantatus Lat. planted in Censer Incensoir Fr. an Instrument to burn Incense in ab Incendendo Lat. Manuring Bo. 4. v. 628. V. 33. His Advocate and Propitiation His Defence and Satisfaction let me expound his imperfect Prayers who am his Patron and Surety We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins 1 John 2. 1 2. Advocatus Lat. one that defends the Cause of his Client Propitiatio Lat. a satisfaction of Propitiare Lat. to appease V. 35. Or not good Ingraft A Gardening Metaphor used by St. Paul often Rom. 11. v. 17 19 23 c. place all his good Works or not good on me on my account my Merit shall compleat those and for the other my Death shall make satisfaction Ingraft of In and Greffer Fr. to put a slip of one Tree into another V. 38. The smell of Peace towards Mankind Accept me the Peace-offering for Mankind in me be reconciled to him The Peace-offering in the Levitical Law is frequently express'd by an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord Levit. 3. v. 5 16. and c. 4. v. 31. typifying that most acceptable Sacrifice of our Saviour who is our Peace Eph. 2. 14. Reconciled Reconciliatus Lat. restored to Favour His Days numbred his appointed Time short and sad Pauperis est numorare V. 41. To mitigate not to reverse Which I entreat to soften to render more easie not to repeal Mitigare Lat. to asswage To reverse as to reverse a Decree to make void a Sentence of Revertere quasi Retrovertere to abrogate V. 44. Made one with me c. That they may all be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one John 17. 21 22. V. 51. No Gross no unharmonious Mixture c. Those fine and undecaying Elements that in their mixture have no inequality or grossness will not endure him infected any longer but throw him off like a Disease The pure and well-proportioned Elements in Paradise and not improbably in all the World were so equally mix'd as to contribute to its Fruits Adam's Food that wholsom Temperament which was to have preserved him and his Posterity in an uninterrupted state of Health till it had pleased his Creator to have translated him Sinless into Heaven without tasting Corruption or seeing the Grave but having transgress'd he was to be driven out of that undecaying Garden into the distemper'd World to Air that now must suffer change to Earth affected with Cold and Heat scarce tolerable Bo. 10. v. 212 and 653. Gross to Air as gross and perishing Nourishment such as might introduce Decay and incline him daily to Dissolution and at last to Death Sins dire Distemper Gross thick foul Grosso Ital. of Crassus Lat. thick unfine Unharmonius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. disagreeing Eject of Ejicere Lat. to throw out Tainted Bo. 5. v. 704. Distemper disorder of Dis Negative and Trempe Fr. of Temperies Lat. the proportion and equality of Cold and Heat Dissolution Bo. 2. v. 127. V. 59. Happiness and Immortality God endowed Adam with two fair Gifts Happiness and Immortality not Absolute but depending on his Obedience Happy while obedient and Immortal while innocent because in a condition not to die But this possibility of Never Dying did not result from his Nature for by that he was Mortal and subject to Decay as living an Animal Life but had he kept his Innocence God would have so preserved and protected him that after a long Life here he would have translated him to immutable secure and unforfeitable Immortality in everlasting Bliss without passing through Corruption and the dark Grave as Enoch was that he might not see Death Heb. 11. 5. For had Man continued Sinless it is unimaginable how the World could have maintained if able to contain their vast Multitudes always here below Therefore Immortality imports a Longevity of undisturb'd Happiness and undistemper'd Health which should have transmitted Mankind into Heaven at God's appointed time But having lost his Happiness which depended on his Innocence Immortality would have proved a Punishment an everlasting Disease whose only Remedy and Cure is Death the Restorative of his Primitive State and Eternal Bliss Hence that of St. Paul To die is great gain Phil. 1. 21. Praeclusaque janua let i AEternum nostros luctus extendit in aevum Met. 1. Eternize of Eternare Lat. to make everlasting V. 63. Refin'd by Faith c. And after this Life spent in many Trials and sharp Afflictions and purified by Faith manifested by Works Death shall restore and give him up to a new and everlasting Life waked at the Resurrection of the Just Pure and Unspotted with Heaven and Earth renewed and refined by Fire Tribulation Bo. 3. v. 337. Refined Raffiné Fr. purged from his Dross A Metaphor from Metals by melting down Refined The fining pot for silver and the furnace for gold Prov. 17. 3. Refined is well applied to Afflictions and the Trials of this Life which our Saviour Typifies by Fire I am come to send fire on Earth Luke 12. 49. V. 65. The Renovation of the Just At the Resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. for as our Spiritual Resurrection from Sin here is frequently styled A putting off the old man and being renewed in the spirit of our minds Eph. 4. 22 23. So our Corporeal Resurrection at the last Day shall be a Renovation Renovatio Lat. a Renewing of our Mortal Bodies which shall then put on Immortality 1 Cor. 17. 53. V. 66. With Heaven and Earth renew'd I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Eph. 4. 22 23. Nevertheless according to his promise we look for new Heavens and a new Earth 2 Pet. 3. 13. Synod Bo. 2. v. 392. Peccant Peccans Lat. sinning of Peccare Lat. to offend V. 74. Heard in Horeb At the Promulgation of the Law Exod. 20. 18. And perhaps not to be heard again till the Day of Judgment When the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. Oreb Bo. 1. v. 7. Amarantinus Lat. of Amarant Bo. 3. v. 353. V. 79. By the Waters of Life The Lamb
shall lead them unto living fountains of waters Rev. 7. 17. The fountain of the water of life Ibid. ch 21. v. 6. and ch 22. v. 1 17. Resorting of Ressortir Fr. to issue forth to repair to V. 84. O Sons like one of us Man is become And the Lord God said Behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil Gen. 3. 22. All Interpreters expound these words Ironically as referring to the false Promises of Satan in the Serpent Ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evil v. 5. To which our Author subscribes by Let him boast his knowledge But he has in part followed the Opinion of Hieron Oleaster that this usher'd in by this Adverb of Demonstration was spoken to the Angels In their State thô firm yet to confirm 'em more V. 71. Sec O my Sons how like to God deceived man has made himself Defended Fruit of the forbidden Tree of Defendre Fr. to forbid of Defendere Lat in the Law sense to Prohibit so used by Chaucer Where can you say in any manner Age That ever God defended Marriage V. 92. How variable and vain self left I know his Heart how foolish and fickle if left to its self and the guidance of his giddy Will Variable Variabilis Lat. changeable V. 95. And live for ever If Adam had not sinned he had never suffered Death which by sin entred into the world Rom. 5. 12. yet was he even in his Innocency Mortal that is under a possibility of Decay and Death from which God would have preserved him Sin then did not make him Mortal but with his Innocency bereaved him of God's wonderful Preservation and delivered him up to his natural Mortality Homo qui mortalis erat redigi natur aliter poterat in suum cinerem voluntate Dei viveret semper nisi peccatum obstitisset non est itaque per peccatum factus mortalis sed qui cum erat innocens voluntate Dei servabatur ob peccatum traditus est suae mortalitati Vall. c. 6. How this wonderful Preservation depended on the Tree of Life is hard to guess most probable it is that the Fruit of this Restorative Tree was most connatural to Man's Life easiest to be turned into and assimulated into his Substance endowed with a Preservative Power against all Decay by which our Lives had been lengthen'd out to a vast Longevity till it had pleased our Creator to have removed and transplanted us into Heaven For For ever does not imply Eternity but a long Duration of Time in Scripture as of the Servant whose Ear was bored through He shall be thy servant for ever Deut. 15. 17. So the Hills are styled Everlasting Gen. 49. 26. O King live for ever Dan. 3. 9. I will not eat flesh for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 8. 13. c. Now lest he put forth his hand and take also the tree of life and eat and live for ever Gen. 3. 22. This seems to manifest God's Compassion and Commiseration of lost Man lest eating of this enlivening Fruit he should prolong and lengthen out his miserable Life farther than what was fit at which our Author hinted telling us God provided Death for Adam a final Remedy lest by that long Life he was capable of he should Eternize his Wee that is live under it too long Ibid. Dream at least to live for ever Shews our Author did not understand the Tree of Life capable of making Adam live Eternally without Removal into the Heavenly Regions Rupertus believed this wonderful Fruit endued with a Power able to have made Adam Immortal if he had once tasted of it and that Satan and he were both ignorant that there was such a Preservative Plant in God's Garden for had the Devil known it as he made him miserable by Eating of the forbidden Tree so he would have endeavoured to have made that Misery perpetual by perswading him to have eaten of the Tree of Life Si enim vel ille scisset nunquam consilium suae malignitatis ita dimidiasset sed sicut illud lignum temerare persuasit ut miseros faceret sic istud praeripere suasisset ut aeternaliter miseros misere aeternos efficeret Com. in Gen. c. 30. l. 3. But he forgot what St. Paul tells us That God is faithful who suffers us not to be tempted above what we are able but will with the temptation make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. V. 98. To till the ground whence he was taken Gen. 3. 23. Michael Bo. 6. v. 44. Behest Bo. 3. v. 533. V. 102. Of flaming Warriours A choice Angelic Guard His ministers a flaming fire Psal. 104. 4. V. 103. To invade vacant Possession Attempt to possess himself of Paradise empty and void by Man's expulsion Invade Invadere Lat. to go into V. 111. Bewailing their Excess Sorrowing for their Sin Excess Excessus Lat. a going beyond Sin is a going beyond the bounds of our Duty set by God's Commands by the same Metaphor called Transgression Disconsolate comfortless of Dis and Consolari Lat. to comfort Reveal discover Revelare Lat. to shew by removing the Vail V. 115. Intermix my Covenant Bring in by thy Discourse my Agreement and Reconciliation made with them by the Atonement of my Son to be born of the Woman's Seed Gen. 3. 15. Intermix Intermiscere Lat. to mingle with Covenant Fr. Conventum Lat. an Agreement of Convenire Lat. to agree V. 120. Of a Sword the flame And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming Sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life Gen. 3. 24. Cherubic Watch c. a Guard of Cherubims armed with shining Swords shooting forth Flame God set a double Guard before his Garden Angels those vigilant Spirits and Ministers to forbid the Fiends and a flaming Sword to affright Adam and Eve the Expelled Offenders Thus the Angel that withstood Balaam is represented And he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand Numb 22. 31. In the same manner David saw the angel that smote the people 2 Sam. 23. 17. Cherubic Cherubicus Lat. of a Cherub Bo. 1. v. 157. Receptacle Bo. 7. v. 307. V. 125. Man once more to delude Lest Satan by tempting them with the Fruit of the Tree of Life and thereby promising them Exemption from Death the Sentence denounc'd against them might again delude 'em and interrupt their Repentance by a new Presumption Debuisse â— Paradisi aditu arceri Daemenem ne eum in locum penetrans decerperet fructum arboris vitae cujus promissione ac donatione mâ—rtales prorogandae vitae avidissimos curiosissimos falleret ad sui cultum obsequium adduceret Perer. l. 6. V. 127. The Cohort bright The bright Brigade Cohors Lat. was a Band of 555 Fooâ—-Soldiers and 66 Horse-men 10 of which constituted a Roman Logion V. 129. Like a double Janus Each
Paradise Gen. 32. 1 2. Mahanaim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dual signif two Camps Jacob's own and that Celestial one God sent to guard him of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to pitch a Camp The Field pavillion'd the Field spread o'er with Tents a word coin'd of Pavilion Fr. a Royal Tent. Guardians Bo. 3. v. 511. Jacob the younger of the Twin-Sons of Isaac by Rebecca Gen. 25. 25 26. V. 217. In Dothan c. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire 2 King 6. 17. V. 219. One Man Assassin-like Elisha who having discovered the Designs of the King of Syria to the King of Israel was suddenly beset by him in Dothan levying War against one single Man And it was told him saying Behold he is in Dothan therefore sent he thither horses and chariots and a great host and they came by night and compassed the city about 2 King 6. 13 14. Assassin-like like a Murderer Assassin Fr. a Cut-throat Unproclaim'd War undenounc'd solemnly to proclaim War being a Custom among Generous Enemies Hierarch Bo. 5. v. 468. Potentate Bo. 1. v. 31â— V. 234. Nor sociably mild like Raphael Nor so gentle as Raphael who convers'd so familiarly with us Sociably of Sociabilis Lat. like a Companion Mild Mitis Lat. gentle easie Raphael Bo. 5. v. 221. That I should much confide that I should hope for much from his Visit Confidere Lat. to have a good hope in V. 236. Solemn and Sublime Grave and Majestick Serious and Lofty Solemn Bo. 4. v. 648. Sublime Sublimis Lat. high V. 237. And thou retire And thou withdraw for Decency-sake a Nicety occasion'd by Shame Daughter of Sin For he described Eve attending naked on the Angel and Adam No Vail She needed Virtue proof no Thought infirm Alter'd her Cheek Bo. 5. v. 383. Where the Poets observing the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is remarkable V. 241. A Military Vest of Purple A Soldier-like Garment of Purple Aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem AEn 4. Military Bo. 6. v. 45. Vest Vestis Lat. a Garment Purple Bo. 1. v. 451. V. 242. Livelier than Melibaean Of a livelier Colour and richer Dye than any made at Melibaea a City of Thessaly near Mount Ossa famous for a Fish called Ostrum there caught and used in Dying the noblest Purple Quam plurima circum Purpura Maeandro duplici Melibaea cucurrit AEn 5. V. 243. Or the Grain of Sarra Or the Dye of Tirus named Sarra of Sar the Phaenician Name of a Fish there taken whose Blood made the Purple Colour Sarrano Dormiat ostro Geo. 2. Et pictae Sarrana ferentem Ex humeris aulaea togae Juv. Sat. 10. Grain Dye of Granum Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Berries of some Trees used in dying of Colours Truce Bo. 2. v. 526. V. 244. Iris had dipt the Woof The Rain-bow had dyed it e're it was wove Iris the Heavenly Bow Daughter of Thaumas and Electra of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to wonder the Picture of the Sun 's Light reflected on a Watry Cloud whence those many and wonderful Colours The thicker and more dense the Cloud is the more lively and various the Colours appear among which the Purple Blue and Saffron are the most conspicuous in this Showry Arch. Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis Mille trahens varios adverso sole colores AEn 4. V. 247. As in a glistring Zodiac His Sword the Terror of Satan hung in a shining Belt embroider'd like the Sun 's bright Annual Circle A Belt becoming an Archangel Zodiac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Figures of divers Animals represented by the Asterisms therein as the Ram the Bull the Goat c. is that Circle through which the Sun runs his Race reaching to both the Tropics Oblique by cutting the AEquator as a Belt cross the Wearer which makes the Comparison the more compleat Glistring of the Belg. Glisteren to shine Satan's dire Dread Bo. 6. v. 305. V. 250. From his State inclin'd not He like a Monarch Majestic stoop'd not from his State Status Lat. Dignity Nam neque de statu nostrae dignitatis nobis est recedendum Cic. Inclinare Lat. to bow to stoop Preface Bo. 9. v. 676. V. 254. Defeated of his Seisure Disappointed for his laying hands on thee for a long time allowed thee favourably to repent in Defeated Desfaire Fr. to undo whence Defeizance the disannulling of an Obligation Seisure Possession of Saisir Fr. to lay hold on Rapacious of Rapax Lat. Death's cruel Claim Bo. 2. v. 32. V. 264. Chilling Gripe of Sorrow that all his Sense bound Subita gelidus formidine sanguis Diriguit cecidere animi AEn 3. Obmutuit amens Arrectaeque horrore comae vox faucibus haesit Attonitus tanto monitu imperioque Deorum AEn 4. Gripe Griffe Fr. a Claw a Bird's Talon V. 266. With audible Lament With loud Lamentation Audible Audibilis Lat. easie to be heard Lament Bo. 1. v. 448. The place of her Retire the place to which she had Retired Retirer Fr. Retrahere Lat. to withdraw V. 270. Thee Native Soil Natale solum Lat. Paradise was the place of Eve's Birth taken out of Adam after God had placed him in his Garden Gen. 2. 15 21. 22. V. 271. The Respit of that Day The Reprieve granted me till that Day that must be destructive to us both Respit Fr. delay forbearance Respiter de Mort Fr. to Reprieve See Bo. 2. v. 462. My early Visitation c. my Morning and my Evening Care Visitatio Lat. V. 277. From the first opening Buds Exerere ambrosias caput ut caepistis in auras Et suaves laxare sinus Tribes Bo. 3. v. 532. V. 292. Where he abides c. Comitemque virumque sequenti Omne solum nuptae Patria est V. 306. Inhospitable appear All other Places besides Paradise seems to us unfâ—â— to dwell or harbour in Inhospitalis Lat. uninhabitable Inhospita Syrtis AEn 4. Incessant Incessans Lat. continual Of in and cessare Lat. to cease to give ore Assiduous Assiduus Lat. daily continual V. 316. Depriv'd Bereav'd rob'd of of the Augmentative de and privare Lat. to take away from Terf Bo. 5. v. 391. Trace Bo. 9. v. 682. V. 335. His Omnipresence fills c. God is every where a like present in all places as Present every where as Powerful Whether shall I go from thy Spirit Or Whither shall I flie from thy Presence Psal. 139. 7. c. Omnipresence Bo. 7. v. 590. Surmise Bo. 9. v. 333. V. 343. Capital Seat The place of thy chief Residence Celebrate Bo. 6. v. 888. To Reverence Revereri Lat. to Honour thee and pay thee Homage Progenitor Bo. 5. v. 544. Praeeminence Bo. 5. v. 661. V. 348. To dwell on even ground Humbled to live below among thy Sons V. 354. His Face express God's Goodness and Fatherly Love best expressing his infinite Perfections to Mankind Paternal Bo. 6.
colour when fit for Fuel whence our Sword the Rind of Bacon of its blackness Most admirable and excellent are these Episodes which here begin and adorn our Author's Poem to the end surpassing all those tedious Stories and the vain-glorious Boastings of the Homeric Heroes and Virgil's artful Enumeration of the Roman Conquerors down to Augusius Caesar and the bemoan'd Marcellus AEn 6. as much as a Relation of what was to come to pass from the beginning of the World to Adam and all Mankind to the end of it and in order to a better taken out of Sacred Story must excel any particular or Humane History whatever V. 436. Uncull'd Some green and others ripe not pick'd and cull'd Uncull'd unchosen of Cueiller Fr. Colligere Lat. to gather thence to pick and choose V. 437. The Firstlings of his Flock Lambs Gen. 4. 4. according to God's Precept Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits likewise thou shalt do with thine oxen and thy sheep seven days it shall be with its dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me Exod. 22. v. 29 30. Choicest and best if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offering if he offer it of the herd whether it be male or female be shall offer it without blemish before the Lord Levit. 3. 1. V. 439. The Inwards and their Fat According to Levit. 3. 3 4. V. 442. Consum'd with nimble glance The Lord had respect to Abel and to his Offering says Moses in the Holy Record Gen. 4. 4. which all the Fathers interpret to have been manifested by Fire coming down from Heaven and consuming his Sacrifice the same Sign signalized the offering of Aaron and God's acceptance thereof And there came a fire out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt-offering upon the altar and the fat which Moses styles The glory of the Lord appearing to the people Levit. 9. 23 34. In the same manner was Gideon's Sacrifice accepted Judg. 6. 21. Thus David was of God answered by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering 1 Chron. 21. 26. And Salomon 2 Chron. 7. 1. Elijah also received the same Miraculous Approbation 1 King 18. 38. Ibid. And grateful Steam An offering made by fire of a sweet savour to the Lord Levit. 1. v. 9 13 17. and frequently so express'd in Scripture V. 443. For his was not sincere Cain's Sacrifice was left untouch'd by the Heavenly Fire and therefore unaccepted because not offer'd in Truth and sincerity of Heart for God had respect unto Abel and then to his Sacrifice Gen. 4. 4. Sincere Sincerus Lat. Pure Upright V. 445. Smote him into the Midriff with a Stone Our Author has followed the most probable Opinion that Cain killed his Brother with a blow on the Breast with a great Stone that beat out Life that beat the Breath out of his Body as they talk'd Gen. 4. 8. as they were in Discourse about the success of their Sacrifice Abel maintain'd God's Omniscience and Omnipresence the Rewards and Punishments of good and bad Actions both in this Life and that everlasting one in the other World which introduced a Dispute of the Immortality of the Soul and its eternal State whereupon careless and unbelieving Cain enraged at his Brother 's grave Admonitions slew his innocent Adviser and sent him to experiment the Truth of his Pious Assertions as the Jerusal Targum guesses Cain was of that wicked one who was a Murderer from the beginning John 8. 44. and slew his brother because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous 1 John 3. 12. V. 447. With gushing Blood effus'd Poured out his Blood and Soul together Undantique animum diffudit in arva cruore Purpuream vomit ille animam AEn 9. Whatsoever the deadly Instrument was with which Cain slew his Brother his Death was most certainly attended with Effusion of his Blood that being mention'd To cry unto the Lord from the ground Gen. 4. 10. Remembred also by our Saviour Matth. 23. 35. Effus'd Effusus Lat. poured out spilt V. 449. Dismay'd Bo. 1. v. 57. Nothing in the World could be more terrible than the first Night and the first dismal Scene of Death Mons. Balsac V. 457. From Heaven acceptance If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4. 7. V. 472. By Intemperance more By Excess in eating and drinking undermining and sapping Life by its Supports Pius Gula quam Gladius Saevior armis Luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem Juv. V. 476. Th' Inabstinence of Which Eve's want of Abstinence and command over her Sensual Appetite shall bring on her Descendents In and Abstinentia Lat. Forbearance V. 479. A Lazar house Lazaret Fr. Lazaretto It. an Hospital Maladies Maladie Fr. Sickness of Malum Lat. as Illness in the same sense of Ill. V. 481. Of gastly Spasm The Disorders of ugly Cramps and strange Distortions Spasms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Cramp of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Contract of which one ill-favour'd kind is called Spasmus Cynicus when the Nostrils are so convulsed that the Teeth appear like those of a snarling Dog Ibid. Or racking Torture Or tormenting Pains that put the wretched Patient on the Rack Of Recken Ger. to stretch to extend Torture Tortura Lat. of Torquere Lat. to twist to torment V. 482. Qualms of Heart-sick Agony Fainting Fits that affect the Heart with Life's last struggle Qualms Swoonings Death's Sisters of Crealm Sax. Death a short one and sometimes absolute Agony Bo. 2. v. 861. Ibid. All feavorous kinds All sorts of Feavors Febris Lat. Convulsions Convulsiones Lat. à Convellendo from plucking the Nerves up together with painful twitches V. 483. Epilepsies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Falling-sickness Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to seize upon it being a seizure of such a sort as for the time deprives the Person afflicted there with both of Sense and Understanding Ibid. Fierce Catarrhs Salt sharp Rheums and furious Defluxions Catarrhs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Torrent of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to flow down as Rheums do from the Head to the Labouring Lungs V. 484. Intestine Stone and Ulcer The Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys often attended with putrifying Ulcers Intestine Intestinus Lat. inward Ulcer Ulcus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sore full of Corruption Ibid. Cholic Pangs Pains of the Cholic twisting and tearing the Guts Cholic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one of the great thick Guts so called from whose fulness either with Wind or Filth those piercing Pains arise Pangs of Pain Paena Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. V. 485. Daemoniac Phrenzie Raving Madness that looks like being possess'd by an Evil Spirit like those two possess'd with Devils coming out of the tombs exceeding fierce Matth. 8. 28. Daemoniac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Possess'd and thence furious Phrenzie Phrenesis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Madness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the
and 8. And the South quarter shall be from the Wilderness of Zin c. Ibid. v. 3. V. 142. From Hermon to the Western Sea From Mount Hermon to the Mediterranean or Western Sea was the East and West Boundary of the Promised Land Hermon a Mountain beyond Jordan on the North East the Boundary of the Tribe of Manasses From the River Arnon unto Mount Hermon Deut. 3. 8. V 144. Mount Carmel Carmelus a Mountain on the Mediterranean Sea fifty miles North of Jerusalem famous for Eliiah's confounding the Priests of Baal 1 King 18 19 20 c. V. 145. Jordan true limit Eastward The River Jordan its true Bounds on the East-Jordan Jordanus now Scheriah a celebrated River of the Holy Land rising in the Confines of Coelosyria from two Fountains Jor and Dan at the Foot of Mount Libanus thence here styled Double Founted Rising on the North of Canaan it runs Southward enclosing all the East-side of the Holy Land Then Lot chose him all the Plain of Jordan and Lot journied East Gen. 13. 11. And ye shall point out the East Border from Hazar Enan c. and the Border shall go down to Jordan Numb 34. 10 and 12. V. 146. Shall dwell to Senir Shall enlarge their dwelling places as far as Senir or Saner a long ridge of Hills call'd of its many sharp Rocks Trachonitis and Ituraea and Petraea on the East of Palestine some part of which was by the Jews named Hermon and Gilead by the Sydonians Syrion and by the Amerites Shenir Deut. 3. 9. Ponder Bo. 2. v. 421. V. 148. All Nations shall in his Seed be Blessed The earliest Promise of the Messiah made implicitely to Abraham Gen. 12. 3. which St. Paul so interprets Galat. 3. 8. Now to Abraham and his Seed were the Promises made he saith not and to Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ v. 16. V. 152. Whom faithful Abraham c. Who in due time when he shall be Born shall be called Faithful Abraham His Father Terah named him Abram 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great Father of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Father and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. High Excellent Gen. 11. 26. which God changed when he was 99 years old to Abraham 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consisting of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Nation a Father of many Nations Gen. 17. 5. whose Faith is much celebrated by St. Paul Rom. 4. V. 153. A Son Isaac the Son of Abraham by Sarah Gen. 21. 3. Ibid. A Granchild Jacob the Son of Isaac and Grandson of Abraham Gen. 25. 26. who with his twelve Sons went into Egypt Gen. 35. 22. Egypt Bo. 1. v. 339. V. 158. Disgorging at seven Mouths Emptying his seven wide Mouths into the Sea Nile Bo. 1. v. 413. Et septem gemini turbant trepida Ostia Nili AEn 6. Disgorging Bo. 2. v. 575. V. 160. Invited by a younger Son Thus saith thy Son Joseph God hath made me Lord of all Egypt come down unto me tarry not Gen. 45. 9. Sojourn Bo. 7. v. 247. Invited Invitatâ—s Lat. desired V. 163. Second in that Realm of Pharoa Only in the Throne will I be greater then thou Gen. 41. 40. Pharao Bo. 1. v. 342. V. 165. Suspected to a sequent King By their numbers grown suspected to a King that knew not Joseph least when War should happen they might join with the Enemies of Egypt and get them up out of the Land Exod. 1. 8 and 10. Sequent Sequens Lat. next that succeeded the Successor of Pharao V. 168. Kills their Infants Males And by the Artifice of the Midwives destroy'd their young Male Children Exod. 1. 17. Infant Infans Lat. a young Child V. 170. Moses and Aaron The Sons of Amram by Jochebed of the House of Levi Exod. 6. 20. and c. 2. 1. V. 176. To blood unshed c. Their Rivers must be turn'd into Streams of Blood Unshed not by slaying any Creatures living therein but by Moses's Miraculous Rod Exod. 7. 20. This first Plague had relation to the drowning the Innocent Hebrew Males in their Rivers therefore it pleased God to turn their Rivers into Blood For they have shed the Blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them Blood to drink for they are worthy Revel 16. 6. V. 178. With loath'd Intrusion With hateful importunity the Plagues of the Frogs Lices and Flies are Recorded Exod. 8. Intrusion Intrusio Lat. a pressing into Company of Intrudere Lat. to thrust in rudely V. 179. Of Murren Die Murrain is the Name for the Plague among Cattle as if Moriana of Mori Lat. to Die Exod. 9. 6. V. 180. Botches and Blains Imboss Swellings and Ulcers must raise all his Flesh tumid and rank like high Embrodery Exod. 9. 9 and 10. A Botch Bosse Fr. Bozza Ital. all of the Lat. Pusa Pusula and Pustula a Swelling as that of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Bladder Imboss of Embosser Fr. to rise in Bunches and great knobs A Word used by our Spencer Felt our feeble Hearts Embost with bale Fai. Q. Cant. 9. St. 29. V. 182. Must rend th' Egyptian Sky A Thundring Storm of Hail mixt with fire and flashing Lightning must tare the Egyptian Sky over-running all the Land and ruining all where ere it roul'd So there was Hail and Fire mingled with the Hail very grievous such as as there was none like it in all the Land of Egypt since it became a Nation Gen. 9. 24 and 25. This fiery Hail is said to wheel on th' Earth from its Rotundity and Orbicular Shape To Rend or Rent is to tare in pieces Of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to break in pieces V. 185. A Cloud of Locusts Exod. 10. 4 and 5. A Creature so distructiue that in Africa especially that part of it called Abissina they often desolate whole Countries and force the Inhabitants to dislodge by Famine well Styled by the Prophet Gods mighty Army Joel 2. 25. Locusta Lat. V. 188. Palpable Darkness c. Darkness that may be felt Exod. 10. 21. which by most Interpreters is taken as an Hyperbole expressive of the greatest and most gross darkness not to be overcome by Sun Moon or Stars or the Artificial Aids of Fire or Lamps expounded in the subsequent verse 22. And there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days which our Author says therefore were blotted out V. 190. All the first Born of Egypt must lie Dead It came to pass that at Midnight the Lord smote all the first Born in the land of Egypt Exod. 12. 29. V. 191. The River Dragon Pharao Who opprest the Children of Israel thought to be Cencres according to that of Ezekiel Behold I am against the Pharoah King of Egypt the great Dragon that lieth in the middest of his Rivers which hath said my River Nile is my own and I have made it for my self Chap. 29. 3. V. 194.
As Ice more hardened after Thaw For Ice warm'd gently into a Thaw is made more receptive of those Saline and Nitrous Particles which fill the freezing Air and insinuating themselves into the Water already weakened are the cause of a harder Concretion Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis Geor. 3. Isicles freeze as they drop into a wonderful hardness V. 197. On dry land between two Chrystal Walls The Children of Israel went into the midst of the Sea upon the dry ground and the Waters were a Wall unto them on their right Hand and on their Left Exod. 14. 22. V. 198. Aw'd by the Rod of Moses c. Compel'd by the potent Rod of Moses to stand on either hand divided like a watry Wall Lift thou up thy Rod and stretch out thine hand over the Sea and divide it Exod. 14. 16. Rescu'd Bo. 11. v. 682. V. 203. By Day a Cloud by Night a Pillar of Fire The Lord went before them by Day in a Pillar of a Cloud to lead them the way and by Night in a Pillar of Fire to give them light to go by Day and Night Exod. 13. 21. which God performed by one of his Ministring Angels whom he appointed to be their Guardian The Angel of God which went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the Pillar of the Cloud went from before their face and stood behind them Exod. 14. 19. Obdurat Bo. 1. v. 58. V. 209. Will trouble all their Host Exod. 14. 24 and 25. And craze their Chariot Wheels break 'em in pieces of the Fr. Escraser to bruise or break as Exod. 14. 25. V. 214. And overwhelm their War Drown'd their whole Army as Exod. 14. 27. and 28. V. 216. Not the readiest way c. least War terrifie 'em inexpert God led them not through the way of the Land of the Philistines although that was near But God led the People about thorow the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea Exod. 13. 17 and 18. Terrifie Terrificare Lat. to affright Inexpert Inexpertus Lat. untrain'd undisciplined V. 219. Fear return them back to Egypt As is manifest by their Murmuring Expostulations with Moses when Pharaoh persued them Because there were no Graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the Wilderness Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt saying Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians Exod. 14. 11. and 12. V. 225. Found their Government and their Senate c. Exod. 18. 25. and 26. Found Fr. Fonder Lat. Fundare to lay the Foundations of to establish V. 227. Whose grey top shall tremble he descending Whose hoary Head shall shake while God comes down upon it Grey Lat. Canus is the usual Epithete of Mountains because the Snow lies longer there than in the Vallies and upon some of their lofty brows all the year long Gelidus canis cum montibus humor Liquitur Geo. 1. Sinai Bo. 1. v. 7. Of the Promulgation of the Law there with Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets Sound Exod. 19. 16 and 18. Tremble Trembler Fr. Tremere Lat. to shake V. 232. By Types and Shadows By Signs and dark Resemblances Type Typus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Mark or Impression made by striking a hard Body against one more yielding of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strike hence taken for obscure and Mystical Representations of things to come such Images as the Jewish Sacrifices were of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World Revel 10. 8. Read Hebr. 9. V. 238. And terror cease And the fear that fell on them by hearing the Almighties Dreadful voice might be remov'd They said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we Die Exod. 20. 19. Report Rapporter Fr. to relate V. 240. Without Mediator And Moses alone shall come near the Lord Exod. 24. 2. according to his own Testimony of himself Behold I have taught you Statutes and Judgments even as the Lord my God commanded me Deut. 4. 5. to which that refers The Law was ordain'd by Angels in the hand of a Mediator Moses Galat. 3. 19. One Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. Mediator Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that comes between the Offended and Offendor an Intercessor V. 241. Moses in Figure bears That Moses was a Type of Christ and the Deliverance of the Children of Israel from their Egyptian Bondage and their Purifications by Sacrifices a mysterious Representation of our Saviours Death and Redeeming us from the Slavery of Sin and Eternal Punishment is most manifest St. Paul draws the Parrallel very plain between 'em For Moses took the Blood of Calves and of Goats c. for Christ is not enter'd into the holy places made with hands which are the Figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9. 19. 24. V. 243. And all the Prophets And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he Christ himself expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself Luk. 4. 27. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet like unto me Deut. 18. 15. Propheta Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that foretels things to come Messiah Bo. 5. v. 664. V. 257. To set up his Tabernacle Let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them according to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 8 and 9. Tabernacle Bo. 15. v. 654. V. 250. By his Prescript a Sanctuary of Cedar According to his appointment Praescriptum Lat. form fashion Sanctuary Bo. 1. v. 588. of which the Ark and Mercy Seat Read Exod. 25. 8 9 10. 17 18 c. V. 252. His Testimony the Records of his Covenant In the Ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee Exod. 25. 21. Records Bo. 1. 361. Testimony Testimonium Lat. the Witness and Evidence of God's Covenant made with his People obliging them to Obedience and promising his Blessings Temporal and Eternal V. 256. Seven Lamps representing the Heavenly Fires And thou shalt make the Seven Lamps thereof Exod. 25. 37. This Sevenfold Candlestick was the Image of the Heavenly Sphere representing the Seven Planets as Philo Tropologizes on the Text. Mysticè Candelabrum hoc septifidum imago erat caelestis Sphaerae septilustris sive septem Planetarum Tabernaculum Typus Mundi◠Sanctum Sanctorum Typus Caeli Empyrei Beatorum V. 257. A Cloud by day a fiery gleam by night The Cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day and Fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their Journeys Exod. 40. 38. Gleame Bo. 4. v. 461. V. 264. And Nights due course adjourn By putting off and delaying the usual approach of Night To Adjourn Adjourner Fr. is to put off to another Day as Night was
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to dip or wash whence that and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are both used for the washing of Hands and Cups and Pots Mark 7. 3 4. But among Christians it is used for the Symbol of Regeneration a washing from the Guilt and Pollution of Sin engaging us to Newness and Purity of Life Thus St. John thence Styled the Baptist Baptized in Jordan all that came unto him Confessing their Sins Matth. 3. 6. and our Saviour also though Sinless that he might fulfill all Righteousness v. 15. Profluent Profluens Lat. flowing as Rivers do V. 449. To the Sons of Abraham's Faith Therefore it is of Faith that it might be by Grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the Seed not to that only which is of the Law but to that also which is of the Faith of Abraham who is the Father of us all Rom. 4. 16. V. 451. Then to the Heaven of Heavens So after the Lord had spoken unto them he was receiv'd up into Heaven and sate on the right hand of God Mark 16. 19. V. 454. The Serpent Prince of Air. Having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in himself Col. 2. 15. The Devils are subject to us through thy Name and Jesus said unto them I beheld Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven Luk. 10. 17 18. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led Captivity Captive Psal. 78. 18. applied to our Saviour Eph. 4. 8. Satan is styled The Prince of the Power of the Air Eph. 2. 2. V. 457. At Gods right hand above all Names in Heaven Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all Principalities and Powors and Might and Dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come Eph. 1. 20 21. V. 460. To judge both quick and dead The Father judgeth no man for he hath committed all judgment unto the Son John 5. 22. Because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in Righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Acts 17. 31. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom 2 Tim. 4. 1. Period Bo. 2. V. 603. V. 477. To God more Glory c. According to the Heavenly Hymn Glory to God in the highest c. Luk. 2. 14. V. 480. What will betide What will befal his Servants here Betide of Be and Tid Sax. time V. 487. A Comforter the Promise of the Father When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father John 15. 26. And behold I send the promise of my Father unto you Luk. 24. 49. V. 490. To guide them in all Truth When he the Spirit of Truth is come he shall guide you into all Truth John 16. 13. V. 498. The Spirit Powr'd first on his Apostles They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues Acts 2. 4. These Signs shall follow them that believe in my Name They shall cast out Devils they shall take up Serpents c. they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover Mark 16. 17 18. Verified throughout the Acts of the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Messanger of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to send thence Christ's chosen Messengers sent into the World with the glad Tidings of his Gospel to Evangelize the Nations to bring the joyful news of Salvation to the Gentiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bring joyful News of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. well and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Report Hence the Four Apostles who writ the History of our Saviours Birth Life Doctrine and Passion are styled The Evangelists V. 508. Wolves shall succeed for Teachers Of which St. Paul forewarned the Church After my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the Flock Acts 20. 29. V. 511. Of Lucre and Ambition Aiming at worldly Wealth and Honour turning Godliness into gain Teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake Titus 1. 11. Lucre Lucrum Lat. gain V. 512. With Traditions Taint Corrupt the Truth with Mens vain Inventions delivered down from one to another Laying aside the Commandments of God and following the Traditions of Men as our Saviour observ'd of the Pharisees Mark 7. 8. against which St. Paul cautioned the Colossians Beware least any Man spoil you through Philosophy and vain Deceit after the Tradition of Men ch 2. v. 8. such as St. Paul calls The Doctrines of Devils and old Wives Fables 1 Tim. 4. 2. 7. Traditio of Tradere Lat. to deliver Superstition Bo. 3. V. 452. V. 515. Tavail themselves of Names Places and Titles Of Names Christ Vicar General Universal Bishop Successor of St. Peter Places Bishop of Rome Ti les His Holiness Infallibility assuming to themselves worldly Power and human Authority Avail Bo. 1. 153. Secular Secularis Lat. worldly temporal V. 518. Appropiating the Spirit of God promised to all Confining to themselves seising and converting to their own use the Free Gift of God's Spirit promised to all Believers I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh Joel 2. 28. Appropriating of Approprier Fr. Proprium facere Lat. to make ones own V. 522. Laws which none shall find left them inroul'd From the pretence of having God's Holy Spirit in their Possession and at their disposal shall impose Spiritual Laws on Mens Consciences backt and supported by Secular Power Laws no where to be found in Holy Writ nor by that Holy Spirit dictated within and written on their Hearts contrary to his Promise who has said I will put my Laws into their Hearts and in their Minds I will write them Jer. 31. 33. Inroul'd Enrollez Fr. enter'd on Record Engrave Engraver Fr. cut or Carved V. 526. Bind his Consort Liberty What is this but to lay violent hands on God's Free Grace and to shakle his Free Spirit to controul its liberty of breathing when and where he pleaseth Joh. 3. 8. This Liberty is every where exprest by a Gift On the Gentiles was poured out the Gift of the Holy Ghost Acts 10. 45. Unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ Eph. 4. 7. of which divers Gifts an enumeration is made 1 Cor. 12. to v. 11. All wrought by one and the self same Spirit dividing to every Man severally as he will Consort Consors Lat. Companion V. 527. His living Temples Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you If any Man defile the Temple of God him will God destroy for the Temple of God is Holy which Temple ye