Perswaded our great Ancestors our Progenitors the first of Human Kind Adam and Eve Grand Fr. Great Parens Lat. Father V. 32. For one restraint For the Fruit of one Tree forbidden Lords of the World besides Words highly aggravating the Crime of our first Parents who having all the World at will could not undergo one restraint laid by their Mighty Maker on their Sensual Appetite as a tryal of their Homage and Obedience to him who had made 'em Lords of the World and all the Creatures in it for this prohibited Tree had probably nothing in it more alluring to sight or savour than many others left free and open to enjoyment Gen. 2. 16 and 17. V. 33. Who first seduc'd them Who first mislead them to the base Rebellion another Imitation of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seduco Lat. to lead astray to deceive Revolte Fr. Rebellion V. 34. Th' Infernal Serpent The Devil who entred into the Serpent and actuating his Organs deceiv'd our Mother Eve therefore call'd the Old Serpent Revel 12. 9. Moses in the Relation of Satan's Attempt takes no notice of the Arch Fiend but barely reports the Matter of Fact the Serpent entertaining and tempting Eve who discovered not the fly Seducer Gen. 3. 1. He relates but does not interpret So Gen. 18. 3. the Angels entertained by Abraham are call'd Men because such in outward appearance Moses Barcephas Chap. 27. de Parad. affirms it was not so much out of choice as meer necessity that Satan entred into the Serpent God permitting him to make use of no other Animal that Eve might be the more amazed and startled at so strange and bold an attempt from such a base and creeping Worm and with the greater horrour detest and tremble at the Temptation urged by so vile a Creature against the express Command of her Creator This Old Serpent imposed long after upon the Grecians and Romans in the same shape the later of which sending to Epidaurus for Esculapius a Grecian God to stop the Plague that had almost desolated their City the Serpent in the form he was there worship'd is said to have followed the Ambassadors of its own accord into the Ship that transported it to Rome where it was inshrined in a Temple built in the Isle of Tiberina Val. Max. l. 1. c. 6. Read the end of Metamorph. l. 15. Ibid. Infernal Infernalis Lat. Hellish Serpens Lat. à Serpendo from creeping Ibid. Whose Guile Whose Craft and Cunning an old word from the Fr. Guille deceive Originally from the Sax. Galian to bewitch or inchant V. 36. The Mother of Mankind Eve from whom the whole Race of Mankind derive their being Gen. 3. 20. V. 37. With all his Host With his whole Power with all his Army Host or Ost an old Fr. word for an Army from Hostis Lat. Enemy because prepared against such Of Rebel-Angels of Disobedient Spirits Angel of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Messenger V. 38. By whose Aid aspiring By whose Assistance endeavouring Aspiro Lat. to attempt V. 39. Above his Peers Above his Equals Pares Lat. for the Fr. Pairs and our Peers V. 42. Against the Monarchy of God Against the Sovereignty of Heaven the Absolute Government of God Almighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Supreme Power placed in a single Person from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality Rule V. 44. Th' Almighty Power God Almighty well express'd by the boundless and infinite Power he has to do whatever pleaseth him V. 45. From th' Etherial Skie From the Lofty Firmament out of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 belonging to the AEther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used by the Poets for the Habitation of the Gods Cui Rex AEtherei breviter sic fatur Olympi AEn 10. V. 46. With hideous Ruine c. With terrible Destruction and everlasting Burnings threw headlong flaming out of Heaven down to endless Desolation Hideux Fr. frightful Ruina Lat. downfal Perditio Lat. Destruction Combustion Burning Lat. Combustio Whether Angels were Created before or with the World no Text of Holy Writ that I know does declare St. Austin affirms the later in l. 11. c. 32. de Civit. Dei But Theod. in 3 q. sup Gen. after he has endeavour'd to support the same Opinion concludes Illud porro scire necesse est omnia quaecunque Extant exceptâ Sanctâ Trinitate Naturam habere Creationi obnoxiam hoc autem concesso siquis Angelorum turbas ante Coelum Terram conditas esse di xerit non offendet verbum Pietatis That Angels were Created concurrently with the World the Lateran Council conceives because there could be no place of Destruction no Hell to hurl the offending Spirits into before there was any place in Nature Everlasting Fire being said to be prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. But our Narrow Capacities are in no proportion to the Compass of the Creation Of the Rebellion and Overthrow of these wicked Spirits in Heaven and of their Expulsion thence we read Revel 12. 7 8 9. whose defeat for their Pride and Disobedience most probably was not unrevealed to Adam by so terrible an Example to fright him from offending his Maker and to determine him more stedfast and unshaken in his Duty V. 48. In Adamantine Chains c. In Bonds Eternal and afflicting Fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made of Adamant so Hor. Figit Adamantinos dira necessitas Clavos a Stone so named of its hardness from the Privatives A and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to tame as hardly to be cut by any Tool Thus Virgil describes one of the Gates of Hell Porta adversa ingens solidoque Adamante Columnae Ut vis nulla virûm non ipsi exscindere ferro Coelicolae valeant AEn l. 5. Durum vinclis Adamanta Lu. l. 6. Ibid Penal Poenalis Lat. painful torturing from Poena punishment V. 49. Omnipotent Almighty Lat. Omnipotens V. 50. Nine times the space A certain for an uncertain time is usual with the Poets who are fond of the Number Nine whether in respect to that of the Muses or as being the Square of the Ternary made famous by Pythagoras and by Aristot. and Plutar. styled the most excellent of all Numbers as containing in it self the beginning middle and end to Christians much more renown'd as expressive of the Mysterious Trinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which last Virg. imitates Jamque dies epulata novem Gensomnis AE l. 5. V. 52. In the Fiery Gulf In the Flaming Flood from the It. Golf◠and that perhaps from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sinus Maris or from the Lat. Gula because like a Whirlpool it swallows up every thing V. 55. Of lost Happiness According to the received Opinion that the Torments of the Damned consist in poena damni the loss of the Beatifick Vision of God in whose presence are pleasures for evermore as well as
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.
the Diameter can touch the Center the middle Point of a round Body V. 216. Silence As the same omnipotent and omnific word Incarnate said to the tumultuous Sea Peace be still Mar. 4. 39. Omnific Maker of all Things Omnificus of Omnis all and Facere Lat. to make V. 222. Follow'd in bright Procession Seems a contradiction for Procession shrictly signifies A going before and is used to express a solemn Pomp and Shew preceeding a Prince or the Sacrament in Catholic Countries carried in Procession but the meaning is that a bright Train of admiring Angels attended and waited on this Omnific Word to see the mighty Works of his Creation Processio Lat. of Procedere to set out to go on V. 224. The fervid Wheels The warm Wheels from the swiftness of their Motion Motus est causa caloris Horace his Epithete Metaque fervidis evitata rotis Car. l. 1. Od. 1. Fervidus Lat. hot V. 228. One foot he center'd One foot of his Golden Compasses he fix'd in the center of the Universe and turn'd the other round through the vast and deep Obscurity and said Thus far shall the Creation reach thus far shall its Bounds extend this shall be thy compass O thou rising World Profundity Profunditas Lat. Depth the Deep V. 231. This be thy just Circumference This shall be thy vast Round Pronounced by him who sitteth on the circle of the Earth Isa. 40. 22. Who alone compass'd the circuit of the Heavens Eccles. 24. 5. V. 233. Matter unform'd and void 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Desolation and emptiness Gen. 1. 2. Says Moses Without form and void as our Translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 70. Invisible and unadorn'd The vulgar Lat. Inanis vacua Empty and void doubly empty Aquila vanitas nihil Emptiness and nothing All amounting to the same sense and agreeing with our Poets that God made the Heaven and Earth which on the first day of the Creation were one confused heap of uninform'd Matter containing Earth Air Fire c. all mix'd and cover'd over with a dark Deluge and black Abyss of Water So that the Author of the Book of Wisdom had reason to say Manus tua creavit orbem terrarum ex materiâ invisâ ch 2. v. 18 Which we translate Thy hand made the World of Matter without Form The Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 234. Cover'd the Abyss Darkness was upon the face of the deep Gen. 1. 2. Deep and incomprehensible Darkness cover'd the vast Abyss in whose watry Womb the unborn World yet lay So the Prophetic Psalmist Thou covered'st it with the Deep as with a Garment the Waters stood above the Mountains of the establish'd Earth Psal. 104. 6. And Job describing the Original Birth of Waters I made the cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness its swadling band Job 38. 9. Bede in his Exemeron is of opinion That all that vast space between the Earth and the Empyrean Heaven was filled with Water that is with a humid aqueous and misty Matter part of which was afterwards thickned into Water some rarified and spun out into Air and the rest miraculously hardned and fix'd into the Matter of the Celestial Orbs all extracted out of this immeasurable Abyss Bo. I. Vers. 21. which before Light was created must necessarily be cloath'd with Darkness V. 235. His brooding Wings the Spirit of God The Holy Spirit the third Person of the Blessed Trinity The spirit of the Lord filleth the world Wisd. 1. 7. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Psal. 33. 6. The breath of the power of God Wisd. 7. 25. I came out of the mouth of the most High I alone compass'd the circuit of Heaven and walked in the bottom of the Deep Eccles. 24. 3 5. See at Vers. 17. Bo. I. the various Interpretations of Gen. 1. 2. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters V. 236. And Vital Virtue infused c. And spread and dispers'd its quickning Power and enlivening Heat quite through the humid heap and moving watry mass of Matter Vallesius interprets The spirit of God moving upon the waters Gen. 1. 2. to signifie the Creation of Fire moving through and actuating the watry Abyss into warmth and vital Fecundity esteeming it term'd a Spirit as approaching nearest of all Bodies to a spiritual Substance as being so light and subtle as not to fall under the perception of sense unless when immers'd in and preying on gross Materials that it is term'd the Spirit of God for its mighty Power and Excellency as the Mountains and Cedars of God in holy Phrase frequently are Hic igitur spiritus nimirum ignis hoc est haec substantia tenuissima ac perfectissima ferebatur incubans faecundans aquas per hunc spiritum factae sunt aquae fluxiles alioqui futurae concretae Sac. Phil. c. 1. Nevertheless our Author has rightly attributed this vital Influence and quickning Emanation to the Spirit of God Fluid Fluidus Lat. thin liquid V. 238. The black tartareous cold c. But drove downwards towards the Center the black cold gross and muddy Dregs Enemies to Life and Being On the first day of the Creation God made the mighty Mass of all Things capable of Generation and Corruption consisting of the Elementary Bodies Earth Water Air and Fire heap'd up and mix'd together Earth Water and dark Air blended together the invisible Fire moved together through the muddy Mass hindring its congealing into unactive Ice then God's Spirit breathing upon the Watry Confusion disingag'd and separated the intangled Elements bringing like Things to like and fixing them together thereby forming the Earth within the Womb of Water and spreading out the ambient Air then out of deepest Darkness called forth Light Tartareous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shake with extream cold V. 239. Conglobed Gather'd together Of Conglobare Lat. to gather in heaps V. 241. Disparted Shared divided Of Dispertire Lat. to allot to divide into Parts Ibid. Spun out the Air And like the finest Web drew out the Air An excellent description of the thinness purity and invisibility of the Air mixing with all things as being spun out so fine between V. 242. Earth Self-Ballanc'd c. Hung on her Center by wondrous Counterpoise which Job styles Nothing He hangeth the Earth upon Nothing Chap. 26. 7. Circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus Ponderibus librata suis. Meta. l. 1. But how the unconceivable Counterpoise is made he only knows Who hath measured the Waters in the hollow of his Hand and meeted out the Heavens with a Span who weigheth the Mountains in Scales and the Hills in a Balance Isa. 40. 12. V. 243. Let there be said God God who Created all Things out of Nothing by his infinite Power could do it no other way than by his Almighty Word For there being no first Matter out
Cloud opposite to him taking its Arch'd Figure from his circular Face is the general Opinion as has before been hinted The cause of its three most distinct Colours is thus assigned It s deep full Red proceeds of the Sun 's bright Beams reflected from the Clouds greatest opacity or thickness The Green of that part next to the most opace and the light Red Puniceus Colour of the thinnest and easiest pierc'd part of the Cloud Vall. de Sac. Phil. c. 9. Triple Book 5. vers 750. V. 897. And call to mind his Covenant And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth Gen. 9. 16. That the Rainbow was seen in the Clouds often before the Deluge is not to be doubted because its Natural Causes were then in being the Sun shining on opposite Clouds But God made choice of it for a sign of his Covenant with Noah and his Posteritp it being naturally the most fit and proper as the Token of decreasing Rain as never to be seen but when the Clouds are thin and the chearful Sun shines on them as Vallesius has well observed c. 9. Those that suppose the Rainbow was at God's Covenant with Noah first set in the Clouds are forc'd to believe that till the 600 years of his Life God had not caused it to rain on the Earth but water'd it with Mists or by overflowing of Rivers as Egypt by the Nile otherwise it must have been there before Of which Opinion among others the Learned Dr. Gregory seems to be ch 23. on Gen. 1. 7. V. 898. Day and Night Seed-time c. While the earth remaineth seed-time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease Gen. 8. 22. V. 899. Till Fire purge all things new Refining them like Gold by Fire at the last Day Wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 7. 12 83. This last Purgation by Fire is mistaken by Mr. Hog and odly render'd Lustralibus undis Cleansing Waters contrary to the plain words of our Poet and the express Promise made by Covenant with Noah NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK XII Verse 1. BAtes at Noon Refreshes himself with necessary Food To bate or rather bait is to feed of Baisse Belg. Meat Noon Ital. Nona Mid-day à nonâ diei horâ The ninth hour of the day at which the Romans used to eat Interpose Bo. 2. v. 737. Paus'd Bo. 5. v. 64. The first Five Verses of this Book are omitted by Mr. Hog in which thô the Simile be modern yet is it neither mean unseemly nor untractable in turning As one who in his Journey bates at Noon Thô bent on speed so here th' Archangel paus'd Betwixt the World destroy'd and World restor'd If Adam aught perhaps might interpose Then with Transition sweet new speech resumes Interrumpit iter medio ceu sole viator Accelerans licet ut victu vinoque refectus Sit potis exercere viam hîc Archangelus haesit Inter demersum medius mundumque renatum Forte rogaturo ceu responsurus Adamo Deinde habili nexu seriemque verba resumpsit V. 5. Then with Transition c. Then handsomly passing on the Archangel renew'd his Discourse Transition Transitio Lat. passing over or forward of Transire Lat. to go over used here for passing from one thing to another in discourse Relate Bo. 1. v. 746. Sours or Source Bo. 11. v. 169. V. 18. Labouring the Soil Ploughing the Earth Tilling the Ground of Laborare Lat. to take Pains with Hence Country Employments and Rural Business are by Virgil stiled Hominumque boumque labores Versando terram experti Geo. 1. Soil or Soyl Solum Lat. the Ground Ibid. Reaping plenteous Crop Gathering happy Harvests of Corn Wine Oyl Plenteous abounding of Plenus Lat. full Crop of the Verb to crop to gather Lat. Carpere Wine Vinum Lat. Oyl Oleum Lat. Paternal Bo. 6. v. 749. V. 26. With fair Equality c. Who not content to live in that equal condition which becomes Brethren That all Primitive and Natural Power was Paternal that is the Authority Fathers of Families had over their Descendents is undoubted whence the Head of every Tribe was its Patriarch governing all its Particulars for their common Peace and mutual Support according to the Dictate of right Reason the Law of Nature under whom all the easie Subjects were of the same common size and equal condition as being Brethren Which is evident from Holy Writ where Noah who was the Universal Patriarch of Mankind after the Flood as Adam was before it denounc'd the Dominion of Brethren over one another as a Curse on the Posterity of wicked Cham. Cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren Gen. 9. 25. Equality AEqualitas Lat. likeness of Condition Fraternal Fraternalis Lat. of a Brother V. 27. Will arrogate Dominion Will take upon himself undeserv'd Power Not deserv'd by him as more Worthy Wise or Virtuous than his Brethren over whom he shall usurp this unjust Authority Arrogate Arrogare Lat. to lay claim to to assume Dominion Book 2. v. 978. V. 29. Concord and Law of Nature Utterly displace peaceful Agreement founded on Nature's Laws The Law of Nature is thas Rule of Rectitude which God has implanted in the very Nature of Man resulting from his Reason known to all and obliging all Mankind Lex est naturae vis mens ratio prudentis Juris atque Injuriae regula Non scripta lex sed nata quam non didicimus accepimus legimus verum ex naturà ipsâ arripuimus hausimus expressimus ad quam non decti sed facti non instituti sed imbuti sumus As Cicero excellently Pro Mile Dispossess Desposseder Fr. to put out of Possession of the Privative Dis and Possidere Lat. to enjoy to use Concord Bo. 2. v. 498. V. 30. Hunting and Men not Beasts This proud ambitious Man is by Holy Scripture stiled A mighty hunter Gen. 10. 9. Hunting being a Preparatory Exercise both as to the Fatigue and Fury of the War a Preliminay to the slaughter of Mankind by that of Wild Beasts As Xenophon observes in the first Book of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 34. Before the Lord Gen. 10. 9. So famous for his Power that he became Proverbial Most Interpreters take the words Before the Lord in the worst sense as our Author does In despite of Heaven others expound 'em Under Heaven from Heaven claiming second Sovereignty taking upon himself all Authority next under God Nimrod says St. Hierom arripuit insuetam primus in populos tyranidem In traditi Hebr. in Gen. Despite Bo. 10. v. 1044. Tyrannous Tyrannicus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
do that are generally more fruitful than the Hills Sibma A City in the Vale of Moab famous for Vineyards O Vine of Sibma I will weep for thee Jerem. 48. 32. V. 411. Eleale Another City of the Moabites rebuilt by the Reubenites Numb 32. 37. Ibid. Th' Asphaltick Pool The Lake Asphaltites so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bitumen there gathered in great quantities It is a black thick Pitchy Consistence sometimes used in Lamps of the Nature of Brimstone This Pool is often in Scripture called the Sea of the Plain Deut. 3. 27. and the Sea of Sodom of its Neighbourhood thereunto also the Dead Sea because no living Creature is or can live there or from its thickness as being unmoveable by the Wind. It is 32 English Miles long and 10 broad and like the Caspian Sea has no Outlet It lies to the Southward of the Desarts of Moab and in it the famous River Jordan loseth it self See Tacitus Lib. 5. Pag. 618. Ibid. Pool Properly a standing Water of the Belg. Poel from Palus Lat. Stagnum as that perhaps of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mud. V. 412. PEOR his other Name and more usual than Chemos which seems to be given this Idol by the Prophet Jeremiah by way of disgrace Chap. 48. 7 and 13. The Sacred Text often styles him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baal-Peor and the LXX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord of Peor a Mountain in the Territories of Moab beyond Jordan where he was worshipp'd even by the Israelites enticed thereunto by the Beauty and Embraces of the wanton Midianites Read Numb 25. 1 2 and 3. where by the Peoples eating and bowing down Moses means the Sacrifices and Feasts the Heathens made to the Infernal Gods for their dead Friends and Relatives which is evident They joyned themselves to Paal-Peor and did eat the Offerings of the dead Psal. 106. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoâ—â—in V. 413. In Sittim The last encamping place of the Israelites under Moses in the Pâ—ains of Moab whence came the Wood of which the Ark was made Numb 33. 49. Ibid. From Nile From Egypt of which this is often called the River Nilus Lat. is a vast River in Africa it had formerly seven Outlets Septemplicis Ostia Nili now reduced to four which run into the Mediterranean Sea on it the Fertility of Egypt depended Gurgite septeno rapidus mare summovet â—mnis Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis Aut Jovis in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo Luc. 8. V. 415. His Lustful Orgies His Lascivious and Wanton Feasts he extended even from Egypt as far as Jerusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Feasts and Sacrifices of the Drunken God Bacchus celebrated every three Years from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Anger because his Proselytes cloathed in Skins of Tigers and Panthers danced about expressing the Fury of this God who is reported in the shape of a Lyon to have torn the first Giant that assaulted Heaven in pieces Others fetch the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Mountains the Heathenish Sacrifices being usually made in High Places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoc. Idul 27. Nocturnique Orgia Bacchi Geo. 4. And Ubi audito stimulant Trieterica Baccho Orgia AEn 4. V. 416. Even to that Hill of Scandal This Hill was East of the Temple at Jerusalem something higher than that Opprobrious Hill where Moloch's Idol-Edifice stood termed Scandalous for the same Reason that the other was call'd Opprobrious And at Verse 443. Th' Offensive Mountain from Scandalum Lat. an Offence or a cause of Offence these were both built by Solomon as appears from 1 Kings 11. 7. And 2 Kings 23. 13. it is said to stand on the Mountain of Corruption in which Chapter there is a large account how the good King Josiah Son of Amâ—n by Jedidah drove these daring Monsters from Jerusalem to Hell V. 417. Homicide Manslayer Murderer of Mankind of Homicida Lat. from Homo a Man and Caedes Slaughter a fit Epither for the Devil the designing Destroyer of all Mankind V. 420. Of old Euphrates now Aferat and by the Arabians call'd Frat is one of the most Celebrated Rivers in the World springing from the Mountains of Armenia Major washing Mesopotamia on the West and South and dividing it from Syria and Arabia Deserta hence by our Poet rightly styled The Bordering Flood It joyns with the Tygris and with it loseth it self in the Persian Gulph Well may this River pass for old since remembred so long ago in the History of the Creation by Moses Gen. 2. 14. compared with whom these are Neotericks that speak of him as Virg. Caesar dum Magnus ad altum Fulminat Euphratem Bello Geor. 4. And Ovid Arsit Euphrates Babylonicus Met. 2. Ibid. To the Brook that parts Some Anonymous River such as Fuller mentions crossing the Desart of Shur and calls a River of Egypt near Rinocolaura entring the Mediterranean See his Map of Symeon Pag. 227. V. 421. Egypt AEgyptus so named of one of its ancient Kings is by the Turks its present Masters call'd Misir retaining something of the Hebrew Misraim It is the most ancient and most fruitful Kingdom of Africa the famous Nile runs the whole length of it and annually overflowing it in the Month of June extreamly enricheth it Ibid. From Syrian Ground From Syria a vast Country in the greater Asia containing Phoenicia Palestina and Syria properly so called V. 422. Of Baalim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Plur. of Baal By this Idol whose Name expresseth Lord the Sydonians and many other Nations worshipp'd the Sun the seeming Supreme Visible Lord of the Universe Now Baalim is here put for the other Luminous Stars in general as is evident from 2 Chron. 30. 3. He reared up Altars to Baalim and made Groves and worshipp'd all the Host of Heaven Hence Plato derives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to run the Grecians as well as the Phoenicians having worshipp'd for Gods the Sun Moon and Stars whose motions are strange and unaccountable Ibid. Ashtaroth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plur. Hebrew for Herds Flocks Kimchi tells us it was the Name of certain Images in the shape of Sheep which the Sydonians adored as Goddesses But doubtless the Holy Writ does by this word express the Host of Heaven Judg. 11. 13. Judge 10. 6. They forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth Baalim was expressive of those more mighty and vigorous Stars and Constellations that govern'd Men as Ashtaroth signified the more weak and Feminine which influenced the She-Sex as our Author well observes Male belonging to Men from Mas Lat. V. 423. These Feminine Belonging to Women Foeminius Lat. V. 424. Can either Sex assume Can take upon themselves which Sex they please Sexus Lat. kind Assumere Lat. to take to or upon ones self V. 425. Uncompounded Simple not mixt and made up of divers and different things
137. Ineffable diffused and spread A sense of new Joy such as they never felt before and above all expression unspeakable over all the Elect Angels Ineffabilis Lat. unspeakable of In Negative and Fari Lat. to speak Diffus'd poured out of Diffundere Lat. to pour abroad V. 140. Substantially express'd According to Hebr. 1. v. 3. where the Son of God is styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The brightness of his Father's Glory and the express Image of his Person The Character of his Substance as the Original expresseth it V. 143. Which uttering All the divine Compassion everlasting Love and immensurable Grace and good Will to Mankind which so plainly appeared in the Son of God now breathing forth in words to his Father thus he spake To Utter is to speak that is to bring forth the most secret and inmost Thoughts of the Heart and to render them intelligible to others of Utter signifying utmost external Visibly apparently to be plainly seen of Visibilis Lat. that may be seen V. 150. Finally be lost Be lost for ever for so both the Latin and Greek word for End are used in Scripture Psal. 79. v. 5. How long Lord wilt thou be angry for ever The Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to Eternity which the Lat. translates In finem So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thess. 2. v. 16. To the end to all Eternity Finally of Finis Lat. the end V. 151. Thy youngest Son In respect of the Angels created as our Poet well enough supposes long before Man V 152. Fail Circumvented Miscarry thus deceived by Satan's Wiles thô made more dangerous by his own foolish Credulity Circumvented of Circumvenire to beset to cheat Fraud of Fraus Lat. deceit tricks V. 158. His Malice c. Shall Satan the Adversary of God and Man be able to effect and bring to pass his Hellish Malice and disappoint thy Mercies Malice of Malitia Lat. for Fore-thought Wickedness Cum quis datâ operâ malè agit Naught of the Sax. Naht Nothing V. 165. So should thy Goodness So should thy Mercy and thy Majesty be called in question both and be reproached without reply Blasphemed be ill spoken of of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to reproach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to hurt and violate the Reputation of a Person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mar. 3. v. 28. V. 168. Chief Delight According to the Voice from Heaven at his Baptism This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Matth. 3. v. 27. Mar. 1. v. 11. and ch 12. v. 6. Having therefore one Son his Well-beloved in the Parable wherein our Saviour represented himself V. 169. Son of my Bosom As in John 1. v. 18. The only begotten Son which is in the Bosom of the Father an Expression of highest Indearment as appears from ch 13. v. 23. Now there was leaning on Jesus bosom one of his Disciples whom Jesus loved V. 170. My Word Suitable to John 1. v. 1 2 and 3. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God c 1 John 1. v. 1. Which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the Word of Life And ch 5. v. 7. Three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Ibid. My Wisdom Read the Description of Eternal Wisdom Prov. 8. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old then was I by him as one brought up with him and I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him v. 22 and 30. Christ the Power of God and Wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1. v. 24. Ibid. And effectual Might And my prevailing Power All Power is given to me in Heaven and Earth Matth. 28. v. 18. Now is come Salvation and Strength and the Kingdom of our God and the Power of his Christ Rev. 12. v. 10. Effectual of Efficax Lat. able strong powerful V. 172. As my Eternal Purpose From all Eternity as I have appointed Purpose of the Fr. Propos of the Lat. Propositum an intention a design V. 175. But Grace in me freely voutsaft Man was utterly unable after his Fall to recover the favour of his Creator or to attone in any measure for his Offences nor could all his best Endeavours have so rectified his Free-will debauched and depraved in its first Source but that he must inevitably have lyen under God Almighty's everlasting Displeasure But God who is rich in Mercy for his great Love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in Sins hath quickened us together with Christ by whose Grace ye are saved that in the Ages to come he might shew the exceeding Riches of his Grace for by Grace are ye saved through Faith and that not of your selves but the Gift of God Eph. 2. v. 4 5 7 and 8. Gratia Lat. Grace Good-will Frâ—ely voutsaft freely bestow'd without any Right or Claim of ours To voutsafe is to Grant as Superiors do to Inferiors of their own meer Motion and Generosity the Greatness of the Donor vouching as it were for the safety and security of the Gift V. 176. His lapsed Powers Once more I will reinforce his decayed Strength and Faculties thô liable and enslaved by Sin to many ungovernable Desires and Passions extravagant and wild Lapsed of Lapsus Lat. fallen decayed So Virgil in the same sense Lapsis quaesitum cracula rebus Geor. 4. Forfeit lost of the Fr. Forfaict a Crime an Offence or rather the Punishment of a Fault by loss of Goods and Life there being Forfeitures of both as well of as Member a Law Term Exorbitant unmeasurable ungovernable of Exorbitare to go out of the right way or tract V. 180. How frail How weak how unable to support it self of the Fr. Fresle of Fragilis Lat. easily broken V. 184. Of peculiar Grace elect above the rest Of my special Grace and Favour chosen before others So the Israelites The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special People unto himself above all the People that are upon the face of the Earth Deut. 7. v. 6. Ye are a chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood an holy Nation a peculiar People 1 Pet. 2. v. 9. Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you John 15. v. 16. As he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the World Eph. 1. v. 4. So is my Will God who has endowed his Creature Man with Free-will may be certainly allowed to be Master of his own Therefore according to his good pleasure he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy Rom. 9. v. 18. But unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out Rom. 9. v. 11. V. 186. To appease the incensed Deity By Repentance to allay the wrath of God provoked while Mercy and Pardon is tendred to 'em Incensed angry of Incendere Lat. to burn as God's wrath is by the Inspired Psalmist described Shall thy wrath burn
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
of which they were to be Framed about which the Eternal Mind was to concern it self Creation was nothing else but his Powerful Command the Almighty Fiat proceeding from his Infinite Goodness Wisdom and Power that produced this Beauteous All suitable to his most perfect Idea By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the Host of them by the Breath of his Mouth He Spake and it was done He Commanded and it stood fast Psal. 33. 6 9. And as he at first Commanded all Things into Being so he does still uphold them by the Word of his Power Heb. 1. 3. Let there be Light Gen. 1. 3. And immediately Light the first Bright Offspring of the Creation arose out of the gloomy deep Quintessence pure the brightest and most refined Being See Book III. Vers. 716. whether Light be Corporeal or according to Aristotle Qualitas inhaerens Diaphano is much contested among the Philosophers and has puzzled the greatest Masters of Nature This we are sure of that this visible Light so necessary to the World both for its Use as well as Ornament was in the Beginning Created by God and by his Sovereign Command call'd out of Darkness God Commanded the Light to Shine out of Darkness 2 Cor. 4. 6. V. 245. From her Native East From the East her Birth place whence rising every day she seems New-Born V. 247. Sphear'd in a Radiant Cloud Placed in a shining Cloud according to the Opinion of Bede Hug. de St. Vict. Bonav Lyra Tostatus and others who held Light Created on the first day to have been a shining Body placed in a bright Cloud and moving in that superiour part of the World in which the Sun made on the fourth day was placed this Light Sojourn'd in her Cloudy Tabernacle wheeling round the Infant and yet imperfect World and by her Motion constituting the three first days and nights But Pererius imagines this Light to have been the same with that of the Sun Created on the first thô not compleated till the 4th day The Secret is unsearchable Sphear'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to make round Sojourn'd remain'd stay'd Of Sojourner Fr. to reside V. 249. God saw the Light was good Gen. 1. 4. The Eulogie and divine Approbation of Light God's brightest Image and his purest Emanation amongst all his Creatures styled himself the Father of Lights Jam. 1. 17. Lucem inhabitans inaccessibilem Dwelling in unapproachable Light 1 Tim. 6. 16. From hence Catharin would infer this Primitive Light to have been the Sun even on the first day perfect and compleat because God pronounced nothing good before it was entirely finish'd Although Moses relates the Sun the Moon and Stars to have been the Work of the fourth day with whose Historical Relation our Author exactly agrees V. 250. By the Hemisphere divided God divided the Light from the Darkness Gen. 1. 4. By half the Globe says Milton that is the new created Light shining on one side of the great mighty Mass enlighten'd one half of it by Day the averse half making its own Darkness was cloath'd with Night whose alternate Round is still continued constantly Hemisphere Bo. III. Vers. 725. V. 252. The first Day even and morn Moses thus describes the Natural Day consisting of 24 hours Gen. 1. 5. The new-born Light journying about the mighty Mass of the as yet unseparated Elementary Bodies the Evening and the Morning made one compleat Day That this is a plain description of Day and Night Basilius affirms in his Second Homily on Genesis Day doubtless says he had the Precedence and took place of Night in the beginning of Time and therefore the Evening the close and end of the Day is by Moses first named and then is added the Morning the end and conclusion of the Night both together making but one Natural Day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Quasi Noctidialis For the World 's obscure condition before the Birth-day of Light was not named Night but Darkness Night being the part of Time distinguished from but yet succeeding and relating to the Day V. 281. Let there be Firmament c. Gen. 1. 6. This word Firmament of the Lat. Firmamentum corresponding with the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying Solidity has given occasion to mistake it for the solid and most firm Body of the Heavens incapable of Division Thinness or any decaying Alteration The Maintainers of this Opinion endeavour to support it by these Texts Tu forsitan cum eo fabricatus es Caelos qui solidissimi quasi aere fusi sunt Job 37. 18. Translated much amiss but in ours render'd aright Hast thou with him spread out the Sky which is strong as a molten Looking-glass And by that of Job 14. 12. Donec atteratur Caelum Till the Heavens be worn out better express'd by our Translation Till the Heavens be no more As if that employ'd their Solidity Homer is vouch'd also in their defence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. signifies Extension and Expansion and by the best Interpreters is understood of the wide outstretch'd Air as our Poets explains it Expanse of Liquid pure Transparent Elemental Air diffused c. Spread out on all sides to the utmost compass of the World 's wide Round Which Moses seems to agree with in his Discourse of the Fowl that fly above the Earth in the Firmament of Heaven Gen. 1. 20. Express'd by the same word and said to be stretch'd out like a Curtain Psal. 104. 2. That stretcheth out the Heavens like a Curtain and spreadeth them out as a Tent to dwell in Isa. 40. 22. Partition firm and sure for its certainty not solidity Non appellatur Firmamentum quasi sit corpus Firmissimum sed quia est Interstitium terminus interjectus inter aquas superiores inferiores terminus firmissimus immutabilis non proper stationem sed propter firmitatem aut intransgressibilem terminum superiorum inferiorum aquarum Aug. lib. 2. Su. Gen. ad Litt. c. 10. Transparent that may be seen through of Transparere Lat. to appear through V. 268. Waters underneath dividing They who understand the Firmament to be the vast Air expanded and stretch'd out on all sides to the Starry Heavens esteem the Waters above it to be those generated in the middle Region of the Air of Vapours exhaled and drawn up thither from the steaming Earth and nether Waters which descend again in such vast showers and mighty floods of Rain that not only Rivers but Seas may be imaginable above as appeared when the Cataracts came down in a Deluge and the Flood-gatcs of Heaven were opened Gen. 7. 11. Others and those many by these Waters above understand the Crystalline Heaven by Gassendus made double by our Author better named Crystalline Ocean by its clearness resembling Water who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters Psal. 104. 3. Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters above the
as the most divine Diet I become perfect and absolute in all knowledge as the Gods who know every thing As before Godhead was not from her thought ran in her mind V. 790. Eve sick as she supposed of innocent Ignorance was resolved to diet her self with the Fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil as Physicians prescribe a certain Diet to their disorder'd Patients Diet of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. Mature ripe thence perfect and compleat Bo. I. Vers. 660. Animi maturus Alethes AEn 9. Wise Prudent V. 807. Experience next to thee I owe Next I owe my Thanks to the Experience my best guide Experientia Lat. Trial the Mistress of Mankind V. 812. Heaven is high and remote to see According to Lucretius Omnis enim per se divum natura necesse est Semota ab nostris rebus sejunctaque longè Lib. 1. V. 821. Without Copartner Without a Sharer and Partner in my new acquired knowledge Copartners and Coparceners of Con and Particeps Lat. are Law-terms for such as have equal shares in the Inheritance of their Ancestors V. 829. I extinct Dead destroyed the Lamp of Life being quench'd Extinctus Lat. dead of Extinguere Lat. to put out V. 837. Sciential Sap Eve probably enough adored and reverenced the Violated Tree as conceiving some wonderful Power dwelt therein which had bestowed upon the Plant the Juice and Sap productive of extraordinary knowledge as if not made by God to grow among the rest out of the Earth but being able to make others that eat it such of its own Innate Virtue As hinted before If they all things who enclos'd Knowledge of Good and Evil in this Tree That who so eats thereof forthwith attains Knowledge without their leave V. 722. Sciential Scientialis Lat. belonging to knowledge Scientia Lat. V. 845. Divine of something ill misgave him Yet oft his Heart foreboding and foretelling some Disaster made him fear all was not well Told him the joy he promis'd to his Thoughts and the new solace in her Return so long expected would disappoint him Divine Divinus Lat. one that foretells what shall happen Falli sperat Chaldaeos caeterosque Divinos Cic. So Divinare futura So Helâ—nus foretelling AEneas what was to befal him is said Canere Divino ex ore Sacerdos AEn 3. Misgave gave him to think something was amiss Mis as the Fr. Mes in composition depraving and depressing the word to which it is joyn'd as Misdeed Mishap c. V. 846. He the faultring measure felt He found his Heart kept not true time he felt the false and intermitting Measure the natural description of our Minds foreboding ill by the unequal beatings of the Heart and Pulse discovered Faulter of the Span. Faltar of the Fr Faillir to fail to be wanting V. 851. That downy smiled That cover'd with soft Down look'd sweetly Down of the Belg. Dun thin that Lanugo the soft Beard on Fruits Ipse ego cana legam tenerâ languine mala Ecl. 2. V. 852. And Ambrosial Smell diffus'd Virgil's very words Et liquidum Ambrosiae diffudit odorem Geo. 4â— Ambrosial Bo. II. V. 245. Diffused Bo. III. V. 137. V. 854. In her face Excuse came Prologue and Apology In her looks Excuse sate ready to declare the Reason of and to defend-the Occasion of her long Absence Excuse Excusatio Lat. of Excusare Lat. to lessen an objected Fault Prologue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Introduction or entring into or opening the matter of a Speech and among the Poets a Speech made before the Play to entreat the favour of the Auditory Apology 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Defence that part of an Oration in which the Accusation is endeavoured to be avoided and wiped off To Prompt Prontare Ital. to mind one of to suggest Promptum reddere Lat. to prepare or have in readiness V. 855. With bland Words With fair winning Words Of Blandus Lat. soft flattering fawning V. 858. Depriv'd thy Presence Robb'd of thy dear Society Depriv'd of thy Company Of Deprivare a disused Latin word to bereave of Ibid. Agony of Love Strange tormenting Passion not felt by Eve before she became sinful Love as all other her Passion while innocent easily obeying the Rule and Reign of Reason Agony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an inward Conflict and Disturbance See Bo. II. V. 861. V. 876. Dilated Spirits ampler Heart c. My Understanding wider and my Heart large and more open Dilated Bo. I. v. 429. Ampler of Amplior Lat. larger Many are of Opinion that Eve did not relate to Adam the Promises the sly Serpent had made her and that if she had acquainted him therewith he would have suspected Satan's design and have stood upon his Guard grounding it on St. Paul's words Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression 1 Tim. 2. 14. But that of meer fondness and impotency of Passion he was perswaded by his lovely and lost Eve to Ear against his better knowledge undeceiv'd yet the sad Sarcasme And the Lord God said Behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil Gen. 3. 22. intimates that Adam was attack'd on the side of his Understanding which he hoped by eating of that Fruit to improve into Perfection Our Poet therefore has entertain'd both these Opinions in his Discourse of Adam's Transgression V. 880. Unshared and Odious soon Like Juturna Haud quicquam mihi dulce meorum Te sine frater erit AEn 12. V. 885. Too late renounce Deity c. Quo vitam dedit aeternam Cum mortis adempta est Conditio Ibid. V. 886. With Countenance blith With a chearful Countenance pleased and chearful Of the Sax. Blide or Belg. Bliide joyful V. 890. Blank while Horror chill c. Blank Blanc Fr. white pale Obstupuere animi gelidusque per ima cucurrit Ossa tremor AEn 2. V. 891. All his Joynts relax'd Illi solvuntur frigore membra AEn 12. Relax'd loosen'd Of Relaxare Lat. V. 895. He inward Silence broke He thus reason'd with himself discours'd with his own Thoughts inwardly in his Mind V. 901. To Death devote Made liable to Death given up and destin'd to Destruction Pesti devota futurae AEn 1. V. 914. The Link of Nature drawn The natural Affection by which I am link'd to thee who art the dearest tenderest part of my own self Flesh of my Flesh c. Link of Lien and Lier Fr. to bind together V. 917. So having said So having said to himself so having thought and considered in his Mind as at V. 895. V. 922. Who thus hath dar'd Misprinted for Hast dared V. 924. Sacred to Abstinâ—nce Set apart and secluded from use Dedicated to forbearance Abstinentia Lat. forbearance Arbor erat Luci medio in penetralibus umbris Sacra comam nullos morsu violanda per annos Quam Pater omnipotens fertur cum conderet orbem Perpetuae sacrasse fami Imitated from
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.
wasted Sons of Cain exhausted by their vicious Intemperance that from the mixture of the Godly and goodly Sons of Seth with the Debauch'd Daughters of Men sprang a Race more Robust and Mighty than their decay'd Pregenitors esteem'd Giants being as perverse and wicked cruel and bloody as strong potent and able of Body which our Author calls Prodigious Births for the enormity both of their Bodies and Minds mighty and malicious Atchiev'd Bo. 2. v. 364. V. 700. The Seventh from thee Enoch That is in the Holy Linage of which our Saviour was to come Adam Seth Eâ—os Cainan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch Enoch also the seventh from Adam Prophesied of these things Jude 5. 14. Gen. 5. 19. and Luk. 3. 37. 38. Rapt Raptus Lat. snatch'd away V. 703. The Brazen Throat of War The Trumpets Wars hoarse voice were heard no more Trumpets and Instruments used to incite Men to Battle were usually made of Brass AEre ciere viros martemque accendere cantu AEn 6. Jollity Jolieté Fr mirth Prostituting Prostituere Lat. to become common V. 717. Where passing fair c. Where any extraordinary Beauty enticed 'em Passing fair that exceeded the ordinary as if surpassing V. 719. A Reverend Sire Noah who found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord Gen. 6. 8. V. 724. To Souls in Prison c. By whom our Saviour Preach'd to the Spirits in Prison bound and chain'd under the dark Delusions of Sin which sometime were disobedient when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. V. 730. Measured by Cubit Noah's Ark The length shall be 300 cubits Gen. 5. 15. Cubit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the length from the Elbow to the end of the middle Finger generally V. 735. Came sevens and Pairs Seven of the clean Beasts such as were used in Sacrifice that Noah might have at least an odd one to offer in grateful Thanksgiving for his Deliverance And two of beasts not clean Gen. 7. 2. Gen. 8. 20. Insect Bo. 4. v. 704. V. 737. God made fast the Door And the Lord shut him in Gen. 7. 16. His three sons and their four wives v. 13. V. 738. The South Wind rose and with black Wings Madidis notus evolat alis Terribilem piceà tectus caligine vultum Barba gravis nimbis canis fluit unda capillis Fronte sedent nebulae rorant pennaeque sinusque Met. l. 1. V. 740. To their Supply To their Aid and Encrease Of Suppléer Fr. to furnish to store Dusk of Duster Ger. dark Alimentaque nubibus addunt Ibid. V. 743. Like one dark Ceeling stood The Heavens overcast like one great cloudy Cieling shew'd Ceeling or Cieling of the Ital. Cielo Lat. Caelum and from thence any lofty Roof that interposes between us and it V. 746. With beaked Prow c. With its pointed Prow ran a-tilt o'er the Waves Beaked of Bec Fr. a Bird's Bill Prow Proüe Fr. It. Proda Lat. Prora Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Head of a Ship Tilting moving to and fro of Tealtrian Sax. to shake as Tilters do their Launces V. 747. All Dwellings else Pressaeque labant sub gurgite turres Met. 1. V. 750. Sea without Shoar Omnia pontus erant deerant quoque littora ponto Ibid. Stabled Stabulare Lat. to house Cattle Imbark'd Embarqué Fr. on board V. 756. Depopulation An universal Dispeopling of all the World at once Depopulatio Lat. V. 765. Each Day 's Lot enough c. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof Matth. 6. 34. Lot chance share V. 767. The Burden of many Ages Those Evils that by the Ordinance of Heaven and God's Dispensations are to be Punishments of many Generations yet to come do all this minute at once fall heavy upon me my Foreknowledge affording 'em untimely Birth to torture me before they are in being with the most cruel killing Thought that one Day they most certainly must be Dispens'd design'd of Dispensare Lat. to dispose Abortive Bo. 2. v. 442. V. 775. In Apprehension then in Substance The Notion and Foreknowledge of an Evil that certainly will come to pass will be as painful as the feeling it tormenting us by advance often for once Apprehensio Lat. Conceit knowledge V. 779. Wandring that watry Desert Wandring o'er that watry Wilderness that yields no supply Desert Bo. 7. v. 314. Quibus unda pepercit Illos longa domant inopi jejunia victu Met. 1. V. 795. Hostile Deeds in Peace Wrong and Oppression that often are the Offspring of Luxurious Peace Hostile Hostilis Lat. of Enmity V. 802. Worldly and dissolute Worldly or wantonly Dissolutus Lat. debauch'd or loose of Life Practise learn Practiquer Fr. Praxis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Exercise V. 807. The only Son of Light c. A Graphic Description of Righteous Noah Derided scorn'd Bo. 2. v. 191. V. 818. A wondrous Ark Of Arca Lat. a Chest any close and capacious hollow in which things are kept safe Quod arceat fures says Varro V. 820. Devote to universal Ruck The World design'd for universal Deluge destin'd universally to be drown'd Rack should have been printed Wrack implying the general Punishment by the Flood wherein the whole World at once suffered Shipwrack Devote Book 3. vers 208. V. 822. Select for Life Chosen by God's great Goodness to be saved from the general Destruction Select Bo. 8. v. 513. V. 823. All the Cataracts of Heaven All Heaven's Flood-gates were set open called by Moses The windows of Heaven Gen. 7. 11. of which the most reasonable account is That the middle Region of the Air the Generative Womb of Rain-water was against the Day of that dismal Deluge stored with vast quantities of Vapours and multitudes of black thick Clouds which being converted into Water came rushing down like so many tumbling Torrents falling from Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word interpreted Windows and Cataracts seems to belong to the Bed-chambers of the Rain since used in other places of Scripture in relation to it as 2 King 7. 2. and by Malachi Prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing c. c. 3. v. 10. meant of moderate Rain and seasonable Showers Cataracts Bo. 2. v. 176. V. 825. The Fountains of the Deep The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Moses All the fountains of the great deep Gen. 7. 11. By which thô most Commentators understand the vast Abyss and General Assemblies of Waters contain'd in the Earth's many and mighty Caverns the sourse and support of the Seas and which in the days of the Deluge being let loose heav'd 'em above and beyond all their Bounds yet divers of the Fathers by this Great Deep take the Waters above the Firmament mentioned Gen. 1. 7. to be meant and that without their spoughting down their Chrystalline Cataracts there could not have been by whatsomever quantities of Rain or condensation of the Aâ—rial Region so vast