here Postponed by a Day twice as long as ordinary Was not one Day as long as two As this Miracle is Descanted on Eccles. 46. 4. Recorded Josu 10. 12 and 13. V. 265. Sun in Gibeon stand c. The Word of Command given to the restless Sun Jos. 13. 12. V. 267. Israel third from Abraham Son Isaac Abraham's Grandson was first named Jacob 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. a Deceiver a Supplanter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. a Heel because by taking hold of his Brother Esau by that part he strugled with him for Precedence in his Mothers Womb Gen. 2 26. Afterwards wrestling with God's Angel he was by him named Israel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be a Prince to be Powerful and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God For as a Prince hast thou Power with God and with Men and hast prevailed Gen. 32. 28. Both which are Recorded together by Hosea He took his Brother by the Heel in the Womb and by his strength he had Power with God yea he had Power over the Angel and prevailed c. 12. 3 and 4. From this new Name all his Descendents the Chosen Seed God's People were Named the Children of Israel and Israelites Descent Descensus Lat. Posterity V. 274. First mine Eyes true opening Relating to that false Promise made Adam by the lying Serpent Your Eyes shall be opened Gen. 3. 5. so does what follows Forbidden Knowledge by forbidden means relate to the same Text and his Transgression V. 288. Law was given to evince their Natural Pravity The Law of God was given to convince us like a Rule of the Crookedness and many Deviations of our depraved Nature For by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin Rom. 3. 20. Where no Law is there is no Transgression Chap. 4. 15. And in many other places of that Epistle Wherefore then serveth the Law It was added because of Transgressions Galat. 3. 19. Evincere Lat. to prove V. 289. Sin against Law to Fight Moreover the Law enter'd that the offence might abound Rom. 5. 20. Of the terrible Conflict between Sin and Law St. Paul gives a lively Idea his Soul being the place of Combat I see another Law in my Members warring against the Law of my Mind and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin which is in my Members Rom. 7. 23. Pravity Pravitas Lat. Crookedness and Wickedness V. 290. Law can discover Sin Sin by the Commandment becoming exceeding Sinful as St. Paul Rom. 7. 13. was to be expiated by the Sacrifices of Bulls and Goats according to the Mosaic Institution under the Law So that without shedding of Blood there was no Remission Heb. 9. 22. These Types and weak Shadows of Expiation and Pardon were to inform Mankind of some Sacrifice of more absolute Satisfaction of the Just for the Unjust Jesus Christ who not by the Blood of Goats and Calves but by his own Blood enter'd once into the holy place having obtained Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12. Expiatio Lat. a cleansing by Sacrifice thence Pardon V. 295. To them by Faith imputed That Christ Righteousness and Satisfaction being by Faith made and reckon'd as their own c. By the Righteousness of one came the Free-Gift upon all Men unto Justification of Life by the Obedience of one shall many be made Righteous Rom. 5. 18 and 19. Therefore being justified by Faith we have Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ v. 1. V. 298. Nor Man the Moral part perform No Man is able to keep God's Commandments call'd the Decalogue or Moral Law Therefore by the Deeds of the Law there shall no Flesh be justified in his sight Rom. 3. 20. From which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 13. 39. Moralis Lat. appertaining to Manners V. 300. So Law appears imperfect for the Law made nothing perfect Heb. 7. 19. V. 303. From Shadowy Types to Truth From the Types and Shadows of the Legal Sacrifices to Christs real Satisfaction From the Law having a shadow of good things to come Heb. 10. 1. To Grace given by Jesus who fulfill'd all Righteousness Matth. 3. 15. V. 305. To free acceptance of large Grace c. Much more the Grace of God and the Gift by Grace by one Man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many The Freegift is of many Offences untó Justification Rom. 5. 15 and 16. V. 306. Works of Law c. By what Law of Works Nay but by the Law of Faith Rom. 3. 27. V. 307. Shall not Moses lead his People into Canaan Moses Died in Mount Nebo in the Land of Moab from whence he had the prospect of the Promised Land but not the honour of leading the Israelites in to possess it which was reserved for Joshuah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Jesus a Saviour of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hiph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to save Deut. 34. 1. Jos. 1. 2. Commentators on the Death of Aaron in Mount Hor Numb 20. 28. Remark that neither Mariam that is the Prophets nor Araon the Priests nor Moses the Deliverer of the Law but Josuah that is Jesus Christ was able to lead Gods People into the Promised Land to Heaven and Everlasting Bliss St. Jerom. Theod. Rabanus c. V. 320. By Judges first Such as were Othoniel Deborah Gideon Jeptha Sampsen Eli Samuel Recorded in the Book of Judges and Samuel V. 324. His Regal Throne for ever c. Thy House and thy Kingdom shall be establisht for ever before thee Thy Throne shall be Establisht for ever 2 Sam. 7. 16. V. 326. That of the Royal Stock of David c. I have found David my Servant with my Holy Oil have I anointed him Thou art my Father c I will make him my first Bern higher than the Kings of the Earth His Seed will I make to endure for ever And his Throne as the days of Heaven Psal. 89. 20. 26. 29. Interpreted of our Saviour Heb. 1. As the sure Mercies of David Esa. 55. 5. are also apply'd to him Acts 13. 34. David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Beloved He that is feeble among them shall be as David and the House of David as God as the Angel of God before them Zechar. 12. 6. V. 329. Shall trust all Nations There shall be a Root of Jesse and he shall rise to rule over the Gentiles in him shall the Gentiles trust Esai 11. 10. Acts 15. 12. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust Matth. 12. 21. V. 330. For of his Reign no end He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Luk. 1. 32. and 33. V. 332. His next Son for Wealth and Wisdom c. Solomon to whom God gave a Wise and an Understanding Heart
Lat. appointed designed for Here Belial makes and answers an Objection If destin'd thus and doom'd to everlasting Sufferance why should we fear or scruple to provoke the Victor with immediate War What have we worse to fear or more to feel Which thus he refutes Thô our Punishment be endless yet it is not so severe as when first we fled and fell from Heaven into this burning Lake nor as it may be if by our daring we should awake his Anger somewhat abated and allayed who can make our Torments much more intense and everlasting too V. 165. When we fled amain As fast as we were able with might and main of the Sax. Maegen Strength Power V. 168. A Refuge c. A shelter from those Sufferings Refugium Lat. a place of safety to which Men fly in time of danger of Refugio to fly to V. 172. And plunge us in the Flames And drowned us in that fiery Floud Plonger Fr. to put over Head and Ears into Water V. 173. Should intermitted Vengeance c. Or what if from Heaven our angry Victor somewhat now appeased should reassume his Thunder Intermitted Intermissus Lat. broken off respited V. 174. His red Right Hand God Almighty's Power is in Holy Text expressed by his Right Hand as Psal. 17. 7. and 44. 4. which is called Red as being Armed with his flaming Thunder Read Deut. 33. 2. where a Fiery Law is said to be in his Right Hand V. 176. Should spout her Cataracts of Fire And this flaming Roof of Hell should shower down her Spouts of Fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Locus abruptus praeceps in flumine unde aqua rult potius quam fluit as Eustathius describes it Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to flow and rush away with violence and impâ—tuosity as overflowing Rivers do A Cataract is a headlong fall of Water from a steep place like those of Nile deafning the Neighbourhood and these Cataracts of Fire do well enough agree with Hell's Firmament vaulâ—ed with fluid Flames V. 177. Impendent Horrors Dreadfully hanging over us Impendent of Impendere Lat. to hang over so as to seem instantly ready to fall on ones Head Horror Lat. shivering quaking for Cold and thence any extraordinary Dread or Fright that scares into a Trembling V. 179. Designing or Exhorting Contriving or perswading c. Designo Lat. to mark out Exhortor Lat. to perswade V. 180 and 181. Caught in a fiery Tempest c. each on his Rock transfix'd Snatch'd in a flaming storm up shall be dash'd each on a pointed Rock struck through borrowed of Virgil in his description of the Fate of Ajax Oilëus Illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas Turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit Acuto AEn 1. Homer has not expressed it half so terribly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. The Sport and Prey Vacuis ludibria ventis Prey of Praeda Lat. for Spoyl and Plunder V. 182. Of racking Whirlwinds Of tormenting Tempests according to the Hurricane of Hell set out by our Poet in the beginning of the first Book O'rewhelm'd with Floods and Whirlwinds of tempestuous Fire Ver. 64. V. 184. To converse with c. To entertain our selves with dismal Groans to all Eternity Conversari Lat to be familiar to be acquainted with V. 185. Unrespited Unpitied Unreprieved Without Delay or Pity or Reprieve Unrespited without the least Respit a Law Term of the Fr. Respit a Delay time or a Term given of Respectus Lat. for looking back and considering before things are brought to a final determination so Sentence or Judgment is said to be respited Unrespited without any intermisssion Unpitied of Pitié Fr. for Mercy and Compassion Unrepriev'd to reprieve Reprendre Fr. is to bring back from the place of Execution and to suspend the Punishment for some time V. 187. Open or concealed Publick or private declared or secret Concelare Lat. to hide to keep close V. 191. Derides Laughs at Of Deridere Lat. to scorn to expose and laugh at V. 192. To resist our Might To withstand our Power Resistere to withstand to stand against V. 193. To Frustrate To make vain to disappoint Frustare Lat. to deceive V. 194. Thus vile Thus base mean and contemptible Of Vilis Lat. of no worth or account V. 195. Thus expell'd Thus driven out Outcasts and Exiles of Heaven Of Expellere Lat. to drive out V. 197. Since Fate inevitable Since unavoidable necessity o'repowers us Inevitabilis Lat. that is not to be avoided Subdues of Subdere Lat. to overcome to subdue V. 198. Omnipotent Decree And the All-powerful Sentence of him who has subdued us Decretum Lat. an Ordinance a Sentence Fatorum Decreta were accounted unalterable V. 200. Nor the Law unjust that so Ordains Nor is the Law that orders our Sufferings to bear proportion with our Sins unequal or unrighteous Ordinarâ— to dispose to order to appoint V. 206. To endure Exile To undergo Banishment Endurer Fr. to suffer of in and durare â—xilium Lat. Banishment V. 210. May much remit Asswage diminish and abate his Anger Remittere Lat. to abate V. 214. Will slacken These raging Fires will be less fierce will abate their Heat Slack of the Lat. Laxus loose remiss V. 215. Our purer Essence c. Our more Spiritual Beings will o'recome their noisom Fumes Noxius Lat. hurtful Vapor a hot Breath or fiery Exhalation V. 216. Or enured not feel Or used and accustomed to 'em of in and ure a contraction of Usura Lat. V. 217. And to the place conform'd Or at length altered and to our sad Seat becoming suitable Conformis Lat. like to V. 219. Familiar the fierce Heat Will entertain with less disorder the scorching Flames familiar and customary grown Familiaris Lat. wonted what one is acquainted with and accustomed to V. 222. Of future Days Besides what hope Futurity may help us to Futurus Lat. for what is to come Ibid. What Chance what Change Here our Haranguer does not consider that neither Chance or Change take Place on God Almighty and his Wife and Unalterable Determinations Chance as if Cheance of Cheoir Fr. to fall Chance being to poor Purblind Mortals what seems to befall 'em who see not from whose Hand their Mischiefs come or that their own oft pull 'em down deservedly upon their Heads V. 225. If we procure not If we encrease not our Unhappiness if we provide not for our selves more Woe Procurare Lat. to busie ones self in anothers Matters also to encrease augment V. 226. With Words cloath'd in Reason's Garb Thus Belial cloathing his Discourse with Reason's comely Dress arraying his Oration with fine Expressions full of seeming Sence and Reason Garb of Garbe an old Fr. Word for a gentile comely Dress Words are the Garb Men dress their Thoughts in V. 227. Counsell'd ignoble Ease Advised dishonourable Ease Ignobilis Lat. base dishonest Ignobile otium V. 229. Either to Disinthrone Either to Dispossess the King of Heaven and to Displace him from his
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie both Strength Solidity V. 76. Uncertain which c. A Question that may well puzzle the Curiosity of Mankind who know so little of Created Nature that they may easily be ignorant of the Confines and Boundaries of the World 's vast Building V. 77. From his Prospect high From his exalted View from his all-knowing omniscient Fore-sight in which Things past present and to come all at once he beholds Prospect Prospectus Lat. a seeing at a great distance a clear view without any lett or hinderance of Prospicere Lat. to see far to foresee AEneas scopulum interea conscendit omnem Prospectum late pelago perit AEn 1. V. 80. Onely begotten Son Because God sent his onely begotten Son into the World 1 John 4. v. 9. and John 3. v. 18. V. 81. Whom no Bounds prescribed Whom nothing can with-hold not Hell it self Prescribed of the Lat. Praescribere to appoint to assign V. 84. Wide interrupt can hold Nor the vast Gulph wide and broken off from Being Interrupt separated from the Creation Interruptus Lat. broken off Main the corruption of the Lat. Magnus great V. 87. Through all Restraint In spight of all the Imprisonments of deepest Hell and the abortive Gulph Restraint of Restringere Lat. to bind again to bind fast V. 88. In the Precincts of Light In the Neighbourhood of Heaven and the Creation Precincts of Precinctus Lat. enclosed on all sides bordering on of Praecingere to encompass V. 90. With purpose to Assay With design to try if he may master him by force Purpose of the Lat. Propositum design Assay of the Fr. Essayer of the Lat. Ab and Sagire to grow wiser V. 93. Glozing Lyes Flattering Lyes To Gloze is an old word to flatter cogg perswade of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Tongue too much inclined to it V. 94. Easily Transgress Will with little perswasion go beyond the Bounds of that single Command that I have made the only Tryal of his Obedience to me his Maker Transgress of Transgredi Lat. to go beyond Sin breaking through the Boundaries of God's Laws and therefore styled Transgression V. 98. Ingrate all he could have Unthankful Man has had of me all I could give him in the Order and Rank of the Creation where he was placed I made him Upright and Just able to withstand all Temptations thô liable to offend if he suffer himself and his divine Reason to be misâ—ed and imposed upon by glozing Lies In the same manner I Created all the Heavenly Powers Angels and Spirits as well those who stood firm in their Obedience as those Rebellious that fell from it all alike endowed with Free-will Ingrate Ingratus Lat. Unthankful of all Ingratitudes Sin is the blackest Just of Justus Lat. Innocent Good in opposition to Wicked c. as Wilt thou destroy the Just with the Wicked Gen. 18. v. 23. Right of Rectus Lat. Straight Upright the Character of GOD himself A God of Truth and without Iniquity Just and Right is he Deut. 32. 4. Who made Man in his own Image Gen. 1. v. 27. V. 99. Sufficient Able to have stood firm in their Duty to their Maker Sufficiens Lat. Able Here begins the excellent Discourse of Free-will the Reasons of which are plainly and very convincingly laid down V. 103. What Proof could they have given For were not both Angels and Men endued with Free-will what sincere real Proof could they give of their Obedience Love or Faith to the Universal Lord of all Things when all their Actions and their best Performances would not be the Results of Reason and Choice but the meer Effects and Impulses of Fate and Necessity doing nothing but what was unavoidably for them to leave undone Sincere of Sincerus Lat. sound true perfect V. 104. True Allegiance c. True Obedience constant Trust and Love Allegiance of the word Alligare Lat. to bind to the Faith we swear to our King being the highest Bond and Obligation imaginable V. 107. What Praise what Pleasure I What Praise what Satisfaction could Men expect from their best Deeds or more sincere Endeavours or what Pleasure or Delight could God himself take in the most ardent Devotions Praises or Prayers of his Saints when their Wills and Reason Reason that determines the choice of Good from Evil robb'd of all their Judicious Powers and Elective Faculties were made useless as if bestowed in vain or given only to be subservient to invincible Necessity not to their Maker GOD Almighty Despoil'd Despoliatus Lat. robbed of Despoliare Lat. to bereave V. 110. Made Passive both Will and Reason instead of being active and free Principles should be enslaved made to obey and undergo the irresistible Power of Fate Passive Passivus Lat. suffering of Pati Lat. to suffer V. 113. Their Maker or their Making Neither can Mankind justly accuse their Maker GOD who made them in his own Similitude and therefore neither their Making the Powers and Endowments of their Souls nor the various useful and astonishing Organs of their Bodies In respect of God's absolute Dominion and Power the Clay cannot say to the Potter Why hast thou made me thus Nor as to the Riches of his Grace and Mercy shall any of the Vessels of Wrath be able to excuse themselves as being his handy Work having after all his Long-suffering fitted themselves by Sin and final Impenitence to destruction according to the best interpretation of Rom. 9. v. 22. a place much controverted in this matter V. 114. As if Predestination c. Praedestinatio Lat. a fore-ordaining what shall come to pass the Predestinarians are such as hold the Elect and Reprobates to be fore-ordained such from the beginning of the World and that all the Miscarriages and Faults cannot hinder the Salvation of the former nor all the Struggles and Endeavours imaginable remedy or stave off the Damnation of the latter An Opinion of the greatest Impiety conceivable destructive of God's Glory and Mercy as well as of his Irreproachable Justice Read St. Paul to the Ephesians ch 1. v. 4 5 and 6. God he says had chosen us the Ephosians in Jesus Christ before the Foundation of the World That we should be holy and without blame before him in Love there is the Condition Certainly all the Ephesians were not blameless nor all therefore Elect Having Predestinated us c. according to the good pleasure of his will to the Praise of the Glory of his Grace But what Praise if the Ephesians were Elected without a firm Belief in the Saviour of the World and a Life conformable to his holy Example thereby Glorifying the Riches of his Grace and Forgiveness V. 115. Over-ruled their Will dispesed As if Man's Will were overborn and influenced by God's absolute decree as Lord of all or by his infinite Fore-knowledge whereby whatever he fore knows must certainly come to pass which Objection he answers in the next Verses Disposed Dispositus Lat. appointed ordered V. 118. Fore-knowledge had no influence The
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.
nuditas esset incognita sed turpis nondum erat quia nondum libido membra illa praeter arbitrium commovebat Nondum ad hominis inobedientiam redarguendam suâ inobedientiâ caro quodammodo Testimonium perhibebat Aug. l. 4. c. 17. de Civit. Dei. V. 1058. Naked left to guilty Shame Stript of their Innocence and Virtue the just Assurance of themselves and Original Uprightness they were left naked and open to dishonest Shame the Son of Guilt He cover'd 'em indeed but 't was with Confusion a wretched Robe that laid 'em much more open to which St. Paul seems to allude What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed Rom. 6. 21. V. 1060. The Danite strong Herculean Samson He was the Son of Manoah of Zorah of the Tribe of Dan thence named the Danite Judg. 13. 2. Herculean Herculeus Lat. as strong as Hercules the mighty Hero celebrated by all the Poets for his Prowess and famous Labours Son of Alemena and Jupiter who assumed the shape of her Husband Amphytrio V. 1061. Of Philistean Dalilah From the Lap of the Harlot Dalilah a Daughter of the Philistines Judg. 16. 4. V. 1062. Shorn of his Strength Bereaved of all his Strength by being shorn for he was a Nazarite from his Mother's Womb according to the command of the Angel Judg. 13. 5 16 19. Destitute Destitutus Lat. deprived of forsaken V. 1078. Of foul Concupiscence Of base vile Lust Concupiscentia Lat. a covetous disorderly Desire V. 1087. Their Umbrage Their Shadows Of Umbrage Fr. Umbra Lat. a Shade V. 1092. May from the present Misprinted for the present V. 1097 This new-comer Shame The disobedience of the Flesh became no small part of the shameful Punishment of their disobeying their Maker Ut paenâ reciprocâ inobedientia plecteretur extitit in motu corporis quaedam impudens novitas fecit attentos reddidit confusos Aug. de Civit. Dei l. 14. c. 17. V. 1103. In Malaber or Decan Malabria is a vast Peninsula or Promontory of the East-Indies lying between the Indian Sea West and the Gulph of Bengala or Ganges to the East of which Decan is a considerable Kingdom and Boundary V. 1104. Braunching so broad Of these Indian Fig-trees Sir Walter Rawleigh tells us he saw many thousands in the West-Indies in a Valley near Paria after they have shot up 20 or 30 Foot high having no Twig in the Stem they spread a large Top out of which there issueth a a Gummy substance which hanging down like a Cord in some Months time reaches the Ground and there Rooting grows speedily up into a Tree producing others in like manner Daughters as our Poet says that grow about the Mother-shade not renowned for Fruit which is no bigger than a great Pea Hist. of the World Bo. 1. ch 4. A Pillar'd Shade a cool Shade supported by many Trees that stand by one another like rows of Pillars Latitudo foliorum Peltae effigiem Amazoniae habet Plin. l. 12. c. 5. Ducit Amazonidum lunatis agmina peltis AEn 1. V. 1110. At Loop-holes cut At Passages cut through the thick Wood. Loop-hole of the Dut. Loopen Holes to run out at V. 1111. Broad as Amazonian Targe As large as an Amazonian Shield The Amazons had their Name of the Privative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Breast because they burnt off their right Breasts the better to draw their Bow They inhabited the North part of the Lesser Asia near the Euxine Sea where they built a famous City Themiscyra on the Banks of the River Thermodoon Quales Threiciae cum flumina Thermodoontis Pulsant pictis bellantur Amazones armis AEn 11. Targe a Shield of Tergum Lat. a Hide a principal part of it Clypeum tot ferri terga tot aeris Cum pellis toties obeat circumdata tauri AEn 10. V. 1116. Columbus found th' American Columbus by Birth a Genoese made the first Discovery of America Anno 1492. American an Inhabitant of America the fourth part of the World greater than the other three named of Americus Vespucius a Florentine who seven years after Columbus compleated the discovery of that vast Continent V. 1117. With feather'd Cincture With a Covering of Feathers girt about their Waste Cinctura Lat. a Girdle Not only the wild and naked Americans but the Gymnosophists that had their name from Nakedness who studied Philosophy in the vast Solitudes of India veiled their Wastes as do every where the most barbarous Nations confessing tacitly themselves the Descendents of a finful and ashamed Adam Turbulent Stormy Turbulentus Lat. Contentious V. 1133. Speech intermitted His discontinued Discourse Intermissus Lat. left off broken off Bo. II. v. 463. V. 1145. Imput'st thou that to my Default Lay'st thou the Fault on me Imputare Lat. to blame to charge with Default Fr◠a failing a fault V. 1160. Fix'd in thy Dissent Resolure in thy Refusal determinate in thy Denial Dissent Dissensus Lat. a denial a disagreeing V. 1185. If Evil thence ensue Nihil est audacius illis Deprensis iram atque animos à crimine sumunt Juv. Sat. 6. NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK X. V. 1. THe Hainous c. The hateful and despightful Deed for Satan out of Hatred and Revenge on God was push'd upon this direful attempt against Man his new Favorite Hainous Haineux Fr. hateful Of Haine Fr. hatred V. 16. Manyfold in Sin Interpreters give us Eight sorts of Sins contain'd in or springing from Adam's first Transgression First That of Pride in desiring to be like God in Knowledge according to Eccles. 10. 13. For Pride is the beginning of Sin The Second An inordinate Affection and immoderate Love of his Wife Thirdly A wicked curiosity to try the hidden Virtue of the forbidden Tree Fourthly A doubting whether the Sentence That in the day he should eat thereof he should surely die were absolute or only comminatory and deterring because not immediately executed on Eve Fifthly That he thought it a small Fault as his excuse seem'd to infer The Woman which thou gavest me gave me of the Fruit and I did eat Sixthly That he was moved thereunto by his low sensual Appetite seeing the goodliness of the Tree that it was good for food and pleasant to the eye The Seventh was the Sin of Disobedience in contrarying Gods positive Command As by one mans disobedience c. Rom. 5. 19. The Eighth Offence or its highest Aggravation was his wicked excuse laying the fault at Gods Door The Woman that thou gavest me c. Gen. 3. 12. V. 25. Violated not their Bliss Yet their fad concern going no farther than to Compassion did not interrupt or hazard their Happiness V. 45. With lightest moment of impulse Or touch with the least motive that might incline his Freewill to his own election left in even balance Moment Momentum Lat. weight Id est maximi momenti ponderis Cic. Impulse Bo. III. V. 120. V. 56. Vicegerent
grievous and more grating Aggravate Bo. 3. v. 524. Pennance the contraction of Penitence Penitentia Lat. Punishment or the fear of it being the Parent ef Repentance V. 557. Could not abstain Could not forbear Abstain of Abstinere Lat. properly to forbear eating to fast from Delude Bo. 9. v. 639. V. 560. That curl'd Megaera Hung thicker on those tempting Trees than curling Serpents on the dreadful Head of dire Megaera her hissing horrid Hair Megaera one of the three Snaky Sisters Daughters of Acheron and Night-Furies of Hell so invidious and detestable of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to hate Odit ipse pater Pluton odere sorores Tartareae monstrum tot sese vertit in ora Tam saevae facies tot pullulat atra colubris AEn 7. Tot Erynnis sibilat Hydris Tantaque se facies aperit Ibid. Quas Tartaream nox intempesta Megaeram Uno eodemque tulit partu paribusque revinxit Serpentum Spiris AEn 12 Curl'd Megaera Crinita Draconibus ora Met. l. 4. So Medusa's Hair was turn'd into curling Snakes Gorgâ—neum turpes crinem mutavit in Hydros Ibid. V. 562. Bituminous Lake where Sodom flam'd The Lake Asphaltites near which Sodom and Gomorrah burnt by Fire from Heaven Gen. 19. 24. were situated Josephus affirms the Shapes and Fashions of 'em and three other Cities called the Cities of the Plain were to be seen in his Days and Trees loaden with fair Fruit styled the Apples of Sodom rising out of the Ashes which at the first touch dissolved into Ashes and Smoak Bo. V. of the Wars of the Jews c. 5. This Lake is named Bituminous Bituminosus Lat. of Bitumen Lat. a fat clammy Slime gathered on the Lake See Asphaltic Bo. 1. v. 411. V. 563. This moâ—e delusive c. This fair Fruitage was more deceitful and disappointing than Sodom's cheating Apples which only deceiv'd the Touch by dissolving into Ashes but this endured the handling the more to vex and disappoint their Taste by filling the Mouths of the Damned with grating Cinders and bitter Ashes in stead of allaying their scorching Thirst provoking and inflaming it So handsomly has our Author improved their Punishment Gust Taste of Gustus Lat. the pleasure of Tasting V. 567. With spattering Noise As the manner of those is that disgusted by any ill Taste spit out its Cause with a spattering Noise A word coin'd of the Sound thereby made Rejected cast out of Rejicere Lat. to throw out V. 568. Drug'd as oft c. Vex'd as often with hatefullest Distaste Drug'd of the Sax. Drecan to vex to toyl whence a Drudge one employed in the vilest and most loathsome Offices Disrelish Disgust Distaste Bo. 5. v. 305. Illusion Bo. 4. v. 803. V. 572. Laps'd Fall'n Lapsus Lat. Of Labi Lat. to fall V. 578. Tradition they dispers'd They spread abroad some Account among the Gentiles Tradition Traditio Lat. an ancient Account of Tradere Lat. to deliver down as those of the Jews were from Father to Son Dispers'd Bo. 3. v. 54. Heathen the Idolatrous Gentiles of the Sax. Haeden or Ger. Heyden of Heyde Ger. a Heath because when Christianity was received in the great Cities the Heathen practised their wicked Rites in little Villages and Country Obscurities for a long time V. 581. Ophion with Eurynome c. And reported how the Serpent whom they disguised under the Name of Ophion with his Wife Euâ—â—nome that Govern'd far and near was the most ancient of all the Gods and Reign'd on Olympus till driven thence by Saturn and Ops long before Jove their Son was born and Nurs'd in Crete Ophion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Serpent was one of the Titans possess'd of the Empire of all things before Saturn but overthrown by him as he was at last by his Son Jupiter as Isacius reports Eurynome was the Daughter of the Ocean and Consort of Ophion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. wide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Law thence here styled The wide encroaching Eve who by her powerful sway over the Souls and Bodies of her Sons subjected 'em to Sin and Death encroaching and usurping wide on her Posterity involved both in her Crime and Punishment down to her last Descendent Haec arma Mimantis Sustinet hos onerat ramos exutus Opion Claud. de Raptu Proserp l. 3. V. 584. Saturn The Son of Caelus and Vesta espoused his Sister Ops on whom he begot Jupiter named Dictaeus of Dicte a Mountain in Crete Di nempe suâ—s habuere Sorores Sic Saturnus Opim junctam sibi sanguine duxit Met. l. 9. Dictaeo caeli regem pavere sub antro Geo. 4. V. 587. Once Actual When the first fatal Transgression was committed now in Body now personally present Actualis Lat. done ab Agendo V. 588. Habitual Habitant A constant Inhabitant Habitual of Habitus Lat. a custom a constant habit of Body or Mind Habitant Habitans Lat. of Habitare Lat. to dwell to aâ—ide constantly in a place V. 590. Not mounted yet on his pale Horse The first Generations of Men were so vicavious there Longevity being necessary to the Peopling the World that Death seemed as then to walk on foot and follow Sin but slowly He had not those dreadful Executions to do that have since required his mounting on Horse-back as he is described Rev. 6. 8. And behold a pale Horse and his name that sate on him was Death and Hell follow'd with him c. V. 592. Second of Satan sprung Death is said to be the second Offspring of Satan Sin being his first and Death her Son and his therefore styled the Sin-bred Monster V. 596. according to the Holy Writ When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death Jam. 1. 15. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. V. 599. Where most with Ravin I may meet Where I may best find wherewithal to glut my self Ravine of Rapina Lat. Pillage Spoil all Ravenous Creatures being violent and rapacious V. 601. This vast unhide-bound Corps This vast wide Womb of mine Death is so all-devouring that his Body may well be styled Not hide-bound as those Creatures are whose Leanness makes their Skin stick to their Ribs Death on the contrary seems of so loose a Constitution that thô he eats up all things nothing stays with him Maw of the Ital. Magone the Stomach Corps the contraction of Corpus Lat. a Body V. 602. Th' incestuous Mother Sin the Mother of Death by Satan her own Sire Incestucsus Lat. one that has carnal knowledge with a Person within the Degrees forbidden Of Incestare Lat. V. 605. No homely Morsels No course Fare Morsel of Morceau Fr. of Morsus Lat. a bit V. 609. And season him c. Season him with much Sinfulness thy sweetest and most delicious Dish the highest Morsel of Mortality Season Assaissonner Fr. Sasonare Ital. to relish with Salt or Spice V. 611. Or unimmortal
appointed Gen. 2. 17. Fixt of Figere Lat. to sasten to to appoint Why do I over live Why do I out live it V. 784. That pure Breath of Life My Soul Divinae particula Aâ—rae V. 788. Die a living Death Be eternally miserable Living Death everlasting Misery V. 791. The Body properly hath neither the Body hath neither Life nor the Power of doing Good or Evil being only the Organ of the Soul therefore what had Life and the faculty of doing well or ill my Soul must Die All of me then shall Die. Ibid. Let this appease c. Let this calm my disquieted Thoughts let this set my troubled Heart at rest Appease Appaisir Fr. to restore to Peace to quiet V. 799. Strange Contradiction To make Deathless Death immortal mortality to make that everlasting and endless that must destroy and make an end of all Things is an amazing Contradiction implying Impossibility of being true a Proposition that contradicts and gain-says what it proposes Contradictio Lat. V. 800. Which to God himself impossible is held The Schoolmen tell us God can do Quicquid non implicat all things but those that imply a Contradiction for such are absolutely impossible since the one destroys the other Quod enim cum affirmatur negatur impossibile est Atque haec impossibilia non posse immensae est potentiae posse infirmitatis est An Argument of Weakness not of Power For of two Contradictories one must be a Non Entity a meer nothing Therefore it would imply the highest Imperfection and Impotency in the Almighty Power Operari nihil efficere to imploy it on that which can have no Existence Impossible to be brought into Being But Deathless Death that is Eternal Death as everlasting Punishment implies no Contradiction Argument Argumentum Lat. a proof V. 802. Finite to Infinite Will he for the sake of his Vengeance make me who am Finite and Mortal Infinite endless and everlasting Finitus Lat. ended limited Of Finis Lat. an end Infinitus Lat. endless Eternal Punisht of Punir Fr. Punire Lat. to afflict V. 803. To satisfie his rigour satisfied never To satisfie his Severity that never will be satisfied to fulfill his Anger that to all Eternity will be in filling V. 805. Beyond Dust and Natures Laws c. That would be to stretch his Sentence that to Dust I shall return beyond this Dust and beyond Natures Everlasting Law by which all other Agents work on their subject matter in proportion to it not to the utmost possibility of their own vast Power Natural Causes act in proportion to the subject matter which they actuate called Sphaera Activitatis Virtutis Orbis the compass of their Power Terminus Activitatis quem propter limitatam suam agendi virtutem praeterire non pâ—ssunt Extend of Extendere Lat. to stretch out The Reception of their matter the matter which they act upon Reception Receptio Lat of Recipere Lat. to receive according to the capacity of their subject according as their matter will admit Extent Extensio Lat. a stretching out the utmost compass of Bereaving Bo. 6. v. 903. Perpetuity Perpetuitas Lat. Everlastingness In Perpetuum for ever V. 813. Ay me Alas Ahime Ital. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. all of the sighing Sound that Mourners make V. 814. Comes Thundring back c. The fear of endless Misery comes rowling back as dreadful as a Thunderbolt upon my bare Head Revolution Bo. 8. v. 31. V. 816. And incorporate both Lodged both together in one mortal Body as St. Paul says even Spiritually having the sentence of death in our selves 2 Cor. 1. 9. Oh wretch man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Rom. 7. 24. Incorporate Incorporatus Lat. of the same Body V. 820. So Disinherited So rob'd of the Inheritance of Sin and Shame and double Death both Temporal and Eternal an unlucky and lasting Patrimony entailed upon my Sons Patrimonium Lat. the Estate that descends from Father to Son of Pater Lat. a Father Disinherited of Dis the Privative Particle In and Haereditare Lat. to possess V. 825. Both Mind and Will deprav'd For a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit Mat. 7. 18. Thence the Royal Psalmist's Confession Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 5. Death reigned from Adam even over them that had not sin'd after the similitude of Adam's transgression Rom. 5. 14. A designation of Original Sin even in Infants as the Commentators observe Nam peccante Adamo qui omnium Parens Princeps erat in eo omnes simul peccaverunt quia omnium voluntates consensus erant collocatae in voluntate unius Adami As all the Greek and Latin Fathers agree Acquitted discharged Acquitte of Acquitter Fr. to absolve to free from blame or guilt V. 830. All my Evasions vain c. All my frivolous Excuses vain Arguments all the sly ways I try t' avoid the imputation of my guilt lead me through all their intangled Turnings but to a plainer Proof and my own Confession Absolve Bo. 7. v. 94. Evasions Bo. 2. v. 412. Disputes Reasonings Arguing of Disputare Lat. to debate Mazes Bo. 2. v. 561. Conviction V. 84. of this Book Support undergo of Sub and Pâ—rtare Lat. to bear V. 840. Beyond all past Example c. That Adam as to the consideration of his being the first Offender of all Mankind and the spreading of the Pollution and Infection of his Fault over all his Posterity might reflect on himself as most sinful and thence most miserable of all Men his Sons and so exceeding all Examples of Futurity is not hard to be conceived But that he surpass'd all past Examples which could be only the fallen Angels must be understood as an aggravation of his Guilt and the excessive Sense of and Sorrow for it by which he was overwhelmed Refuge Bo. 2. v. 168. Future Bo. 2. v. 222. Lamented Bo. 1. v. 448. V. 852. Curs'd his Creation The Day on which he was created as Job did Chap. 3. of Tardy Execution of slow Dispatch Tardus Lat. slow V. 859. Mends not her slowest pace Sequitur pede Paena â—laudo Hor. V. 866. With stern Regard With an angry Countenance Stern Bo. 8. v. 333. Regard Fr. the looks V. 870. Colour Serpentine Color Serpentinus But that thy Milky Skin of the green Serpents colour might discover the hidden Falshood that lurks underneath that fair Disguise V. 872. Pretended to Hellish Falshood Lest thy Divine Angelic Beauty disguising thy Devilish Deceitfulness ensnare ' em Pretended Pretentus Lat. drawn over like a Curtain to hide Sicanio praetenta sinâ— jacet insula AEn 3. Morti praetendere muros AEn 11. Form Forma Lat. Beauty V. 886. More to the part sinister from me drawn Taken out of my left unlucky Side as leaning and inclining to my Enemy not determined by Gen. 2. 21. The right Hand and Side is every where accounted more honourable and happy God's Power
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