〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to dip or wash whence that and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are both used for the washing of Hands and Cups and Pots Mark 7. 3 4. But among Christians it is used for the Symbol of Regeneration a washing from the Guilt and Pollution of Sin engaging us to Newness and Purity of Life Thus St. John thence Styled the Baptist Baptized in Jordan all that came unto him Confessing their Sins Matth. 3. 6. and our Saviour also though Sinless that he might fulfill all Righteousness v. 15. Profluent Profluens Lat. flowing as Rivers do V. 449. To the Sons of Abraham's Faith Therefore it is of Faith that it might be by Grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the Seed not to that only which is of the Law but to that also which is of the Faith of Abraham who is the Father of us all Rom. 4. 16. V. 451. Then to the Heaven of Heavens So after the Lord had spoken unto them he was receiv'd up into Heaven and sate on the right hand of God Mark 16. 19. V. 454. The Serpent Prince of Air. Having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in himself Col. 2. 15. The Devils are subject to us through thy Name and Jesus said unto them I beheld Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven Luk. 10. 17 18. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led Captivity Captive Psal. 78. 18. applied to our Saviour Eph. 4. 8. Satan is styled The Prince of the Power of the Air Eph. 2. 2. V. 457. At Gods right hand above all Names in Heaven Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all Principalities and Powors and Might and Dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come Eph. 1. 20 21. V. 460. To judge both quick and dead The Father judgeth no man for he hath committed all judgment unto the Son John 5. 22. Because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in Righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Acts 17. 31. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom 2 Tim. 4. 1. Period Bo. 2. V. 603. V. 477. To God more Glory c. According to the Heavenly Hymn Glory to God in the highest c. Luk. 2. 14. V. 480. What will betide What will befal his Servants here Betide of Be and Tid Sax. time V. 487. A Comforter the Promise of the Father When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father John 15. 26. And behold I send the promise of my Father unto you Luk. 24. 49. V. 490. To guide them in all Truth When he the Spirit of Truth is come he shall guide you into all Truth John 16. 13. V. 498. The Spirit Powr'd first on his Apostles They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues Acts 2. 4. These Signs shall follow them that believe in my Name They shall cast out Devils they shall take up Serpents c. they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover Mark 16. 17 18. Verified throughout the Acts of the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Messanger of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to send thence Christ's chosen Messengers sent into the World with the glad Tidings of his Gospel to Evangelize the Nations to bring the joyful news of Salvation to the Gentiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bring joyful News of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. well and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Report Hence the Four Apostles who writ the History of our Saviours Birth Life Doctrine and Passion are styled The Evangelists V. 508. Wolves shall succeed for Teachers Of which St. Paul forewarned the Church After my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the Flock Acts 20. 29. V. 511. Of Lucre and Ambition Aiming at worldly Wealth and Honour turning Godliness into gain Teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake Titus 1. 11. Lucre Lucrum Lat. gain V. 512. With Traditions Taint Corrupt the Truth with Mens vain Inventions delivered down from one to another Laying aside the Commandments of God and following the Traditions of Men as our Saviour observ'd of the Pharisees Mark 7. 8. against which St. Paul cautioned the Colossians Beware least any Man spoil you through Philosophy and vain Deceit after the Tradition of Men ch 2. v. 8. such as St. Paul calls The Doctrines of Devils and old Wives Fables 1 Tim. 4. 2. 7. Traditio of Tradere Lat. to deliver Superstition Bo. 3. V. 452. V. 515. Tavail themselves of Names Places and Titles Of Names Christ Vicar General Universal Bishop Successor of St. Peter Places Bishop of Rome Ti les His Holiness Infallibility assuming to themselves worldly Power and human Authority Avail Bo. 1. 153. Secular Secularis Lat. worldly temporal V. 518. Appropiating the Spirit of God promised to all Confining to themselves seising and converting to their own use the Free Gift of God's Spirit promised to all Believers I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh Joel 2. 28. Appropriating of Approprier Fr. Proprium facere Lat. to make ones own V. 522. Laws which none shall find left them inroul'd From the pretence of having God's Holy Spirit in their Possession and at their disposal shall impose Spiritual Laws on Mens Consciences backt and supported by Secular Power Laws no where to be found in Holy Writ nor by that Holy Spirit dictated within and written on their Hearts contrary to his Promise who has said I will put my Laws into their Hearts and in their Minds I will write them Jer. 31. 33. Inroul'd Enrollez Fr. enter'd on Record Engrave Engraver Fr. cut or Carved V. 526. Bind his Consort Liberty What is this but to lay violent hands on God's Free Grace and to shakle his Free Spirit to controul its liberty of breathing when and where he pleaseth Joh. 3. 8. This Liberty is every where exprest by a Gift On the Gentiles was poured out the Gift of the Holy Ghost Acts 10. 45. Unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ Eph. 4. 7. of which divers Gifts an enumeration is made 1 Cor. 12. to v. 11. All wrought by one and the self same Spirit dividing to every Man severally as he will Consort Consors Lat. Companion V. 527. His living Temples Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you If any Man defile the Temple of God him will God destroy for the Temple of God is Holy which Temple ye
Country was first named Aonia from Aon Son of Neptune and the Muses thence styled Aonides Primus ego in Patriam mecum modò vita supersit Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas Geor. Li. 3. V. 16. Things unattempted yet so Hora. Non usitata nec tenui ferar penna but not on so sublime a Subject as this not undertaken as yet by any Poet As in the beginning of the Ninth Book he says of himself he was not sedulous by Nature to indite Wars hitherto the only Argument Heroic deem'd trita vatibus orbita So Virg. on a Subject much inferiour makes his Brags Sed me Parnassi deserta per ardua dulcis Raptat amor Juvat ire jugis qua nulla priorum Castaliam molli divertitur orbita clivo Geor. 3. Ibid. In Prose or Rhime either in Prose or Poetry Prosa Lat. for that free and easie way of writing and speaking unshackled and unconfined in its Parts and Periods used by Orators Historians and all Men in common Conversation styled Soluta Oratio as opposite to Rhime derived of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consisting of a more exact Measure and Quantity of Syllables of which Aristotle says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Probl. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 autem longitudines altitudines vocis emetitur longior mensura vocis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur altior 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aul. Gell. l. 15. c. 18. Scribimus inclusi numeros ille hic pede liber Pers. Sat. 1. Poetry of which Rhime is a Modern part is tied up to certain Measures and Quantities which among the Greek and Latin Poets till the times of Monkish Ignorance consisted in an Harmonious Modulation of Numbers that implyed nothing less than the inconvenient gingle and chime at the ends of Verses which we falsly call Rhime so deservedly disdained by our Author for the shackles it puts upon Sense no Comparison better suiting such Poetasters than that of Tagging of Points in a Garret V. 17. O Spirit Divers are the Opinions concerning the meaning of Gen. 1. 2. The Spirit of God moved upon the Waters Jerom Basil Theodoret Athanasius and many of the Fathers understand it of the third Person of the Trinity From hence the Heathen Philosophers coined their quickning and intellectual Spirit that diffused it self through the Universe as Zoroaster and Heraclitus which Orpheus calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fiery Breath Hence the Platonists borrowed their Animam Mundâ— and the Pythagoreans learnt this great Truth That God was all in all in all Things and all Places admirably exprest by the sublime Virgil Deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque Maris Coelumque profundum Geor. 4. Principio Coelum Terras Camposque liquentes Lucentemque Globum Lunae Titaniaque Astra Spiritus intus alit totamque infusa per arâ—us Mens agitat Molem Magno se corpore miscet AEn 6. That this Spirit was not a Wind which God made to move the Waters into a Separation as Tertull. against Hermogenes nor a quickning enlivening Power fraught with Fecundity as St. Chrysost. Nor Angels as Cajetan imagines setting the Primum Mobile on work But the Spirit of God is manifest from other Texts of the Divine Writ His Spirit has garnish'd the Heavens Job 26. 13. And Psal. 104. 30. If thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created c. And to this our Author's meaning is conformable here V. 21. Dove-like sat'st brooding Spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas Gen. 1. 2. which Basil out of a Syrian Doctor interprets by incubabat and fâ—vebat a Metaphor taken from Birds sitting and hatching their young ones which is here extreamly heightned by Dove-like God's Holy Spirit having visibly descended on his Son the Blessed Jesus in that soft Similitude the Emblem of Meekness and Innocence Matth. 3. 16. Ibid. On the vast Abyss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Bottomless the Immeasurable Deep a Bottomless Profundity the vast Gulph and wide Womb of Nature out of which the Created World arose from the privitive à and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bottom Others fetch it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to cover and so it signifies a place overwhelmed with a mighty unfathomable Quantity of Water the meaning of it in this place and that of Gen. 1. 2. V. 22. Mad'st it pregnant Fruitful productive of all things Praegnans Lat. V. 23. Illumin Illuminate enlighten clear my Understanding Illumino Lat. V. 25. Assert Eternal Providence Prove and make plain the wise just and equal Administration of all things by God's Eternal Providence Assert from assero Lat. to affirm to prove Ibid. Providence Providentia Lat. the Infinite Knowledge and Wisdom of God Almighty by which he foresees all things and orders and disposes them as seemeth best to his unaccountable Distributions Cicero acquaints us the Exordiums and Beginnings of all great Works should be plain easie and modest Principia verecunda non elatis intensa verbis c. Orat. which our Author has in his exactly observed Now if we cast our Eyes on the stern Achilles and consider his fatal Anger so pernicious to his Party Or on the sly and subtil Ulysses who with all his Cunning after Ten Years Ramble brought home no Body but himself weary weather-beaten and old We must confess both these to be very imperfect and unfinished Heroes Virgil's AEneas is a more Correct and Manly Piece the Lines are not so gross and the Features more fine and exact yet this must be allowed much inferiour to the Protoplast who as the first and finish'd by the great Creator must needs be the most accomplish'd of his kind If we carry our Consideration to the Fields of Battel our Myriads of Immortal Spirits will in endless Strife out-do all the Heroick Havock of their Rage who fought at Thebes or Troy But when we reflect how shamefully the one exposes all his Deities though the other in that respect much better observes the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it must be acknowledged a much harder Task to form a right Idea of that Eternal Being which made the Universe and to observe with all due Veneration and Awful Respect the great Decorum requisite in speaking of the True God and to offend in nothing against the Revelations he has been pleased to make of himself and yet to manage all this under the Heats and Heights of Towring Fancy than either Homer or Virgil undertook a Task by none but himself attempted as he may justly boast and impossible to be by any Undertaker better performed V. 27. Say first Tell me first O Thou Supreme Spirit from whose vast View nor highest Heaven nor the dark deep Vaults of Hell can any thing conceal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 28. The deep Tract of Hell The low dark Region and Place of Everlasting Punishment which many imagine to be in the Center of the Earth Tractus Lat. for Coast or Country V. 29. Moved our grand Parents
Membris captus and Physicians express the stupifying Distempers that affected the Brain by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the same Analogy V. 77. To us is adverse Is contrary to our nature Adversus Lat. against contrary the Winged Angels Spiritual and Light do naturally ascend descent and fall is force and preternatural to them V. 78. Hung on our broken Rear Followed our routed Army in the Rear Of the Fr. Arriere behind V. 79. Insulting Leaping on us Of Insulto Lat. to leap upon of in and salto to jump from the usage of the Word for triumphing and bragging over one is meerly Metaphorical from Insultare to trample on to tread under Foor and thence to Scorn and Contemn Through the Deep through the vast Interval the space between Heaven and Hell V. 80. With what compulsion With what constraint and force what painful flight how difficult and hard it was for us to descend to take our flight against our Airy Nature downwards Compulsio Lat. constraint Laboriosus Lat. difficult full of labour V. 81. The Ascent is easie To spring upwards on the Wing is usual and easie to us Ascensus Lat. the act of flying or getting up Virgil does as truly observe Facilis descensus Averni Sed revocare gradus superasque evadere ad auras Hic labor hoc Opus est AEn 6. Concerning his Hero's going to visit his Father among the Shades below Bodies compounded and elemented of Earth do naturally descend but to Spirits those Divine Airy Agile Beings as our Poet well observes Ascent is easie and all Motion downwards seems forc'd and contrary V. 87. In this abhorred Deep In this most hateful Dungeon in this deterstable loathsome Deep Of Abhorreo Lat. to hate V. 88. Of unextinguishable Fire Everlasting Fire that shall not be quenched Inextinguibilis Lat. unquenchable as described in Isa. 66. and the last Verse and Mark 9. 43 44 45 46 c. V. 89. Must exercise us Must vex and toil us everlastingly must be our constant business to be broil'd in everlasting Flames Exerceo Lat. to vex and trouble as well as to employ and busie V. 90. The Vassals of his Anger The Subjects of his Wrath the Bond-slaves of his everlasting Fury Vassal does properly signifie a Tenant who by the holding of his Lands was bound to attend his Lord in Person to the Wars thence by the Learned Spelman deduced from the Ger. Gesell a Companion in Fight and Danger but at last it was depraved to signifie a Slave or Bond-man Ibid. The Scourge The Lash the Whip of the Fr. Escourgée a Thong a Lash As the Ital. Scoreggiare to Scourge all from the Lat. Corium a Hide out of which Thongs and Lashes were usually made V. 91. Inexorably Without Remission not to be begged off Of Inexorabilis Lat. that cannot or will not forgive unpardonably V. 92. Calls us to Pennance To Punishment Of Pennance a contraction of the Lat. Paenitentia Repentance being a Punishment inflicted on our selves by hearty Sorrow and Grief for our Offences that God may be pleased through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ to remit that Eternal One due to our manifold Transgressions Our Poet here supposes the Sufferings of the Damned Spirits not to be always alike intense but that they had some Intermissions during which they might consider of their sad condition and with more decorum contrive and try all ways how to alleviate their everlasting Loss of Heaven and Happiness V. 93. Quite abolish'd and expire Utterly destroyed and cease to be Abolitus Lat. utterly ruined quite destroyed Expirare Lat. to dye to breath ones last not to be said of the Angels everlasting à parte pâ—st Quite altogether of the Fr. Quitte free as Debtors are when they have paid what they owe and are free from all their Obligations of the Lat. Quietus at ease as being discharged V. 94. What doubt we to incense Why should we be afraid of encreasing his Anger to extremity Incendere Lat. to inflame to set on fire V. 95. Which to the heighth enraged Which forced into its fiercest Flame which to its most outrageous heighth provok'd Enrag'd encreas'd even unto Madness of Enragé Fr. Mad Furious V. 96. His fiercest Wrath Which raised to utmost Fury will either quite destroy us and bring back to our first Nothing this our sprightly Being a State more happy than to be ever wretched Consume of Consumere Lat. to waste to destroy Reduce of Reducere Lat. to bring back to the former place or condition V. 97. This Essential This our Being Nothing and Essence are directly opposite the one being a Privation of what the other is Essentiale Lat. any thing that is of Essentia being of Esse to be happier far c. an Argument that has more of Subtilty than Solidity in it V. 98. 'T is happier far not to be at all than to be miserable Of this Opinion Virgil makes Inturna in AEn 12. where she complains Quò vitam dedit AEternam Cur mertis adempta est Conditio Possem tantos finire dolores Nunc certe misero Fratri comes ire sub umbras Jam mortalis ego V. 99. Or if our Substance Or if our Being Heavenly be and therefore can never be destroyed we ne'er can be in worse condition than now we are on this side being nothing at all Divine of Divinus Lat. Heavenly V. 102. Sufficient to disturb Able to disorder and trouble Heaven Disturbare Lat. to toss upside down to hinder an Undertaking V. 103. With perpetual Inrodes to allarm c. And with continual Attempts to shake thô we can never reach his Throne so fixed and by the Fates established Inrode an Invasion into an Enemies Country of in and ride to ride into to Allarm is to steal upon our Enemies by surprize which causes them on the sudden to sound to Arms to repel the unforescen onset Of the Fr. Allarme the depravation of Ad Arma. V. 104. Inaccessible That cannot be come at Of Inaccessus Lat. unapproachable Fatal immoveable Fatalis Lat. according to the unalterable Decree of the Fates V. 106. His Look denounc'd His Looks proclaimed and threaten'd desperate Revenge Of the Lat. Denunciare to threaten to bespeak V. 109. In Act more graceful and humane In Behaviour more comely and gentile Actus Lat. for gesture in Speech or Gate Humanus Lat. belonging to Mankind and thence Gentle and Debonaire V. 111. For Dignity compos'd and high Exploit Made to Command and undertake great Deeds Compositus Lat. fitted framed Exploit Fr. an Attempt a Noble Design or Undertaking V. 112. But all was false and hollow Deceitful and empty Hollow as having no true Substance and Solidity a Metaphor taken from Vessels that sound most when empty V. 113. Dropt Munna Dropt Sweetness overflowed with Eloquence as Manna is described Exod. 16. 31. and Wisdom 16. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to number because overy one was appointed to gather an Omer
him Psal. 97. 2. The House was filled with the Cloud and the Court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory Ezekiel's Vision ch 10. v. 4. He holdeth back the face of his Throne and spreadeth his Cloud upon it Job 26. 9. V. 380. Dark with excessive Bright The excessive Brightness amazing and astonishing all created Sight to that degree that Darkness and Confusion seizes all approaching Eyes He that will stedfastly behold the Sun will in a short time make the dazling Experiment end in Darkness not soon recovered How impossible therefore is it for human Eyes to behold him Who is cloathed with Honour and Majesty who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment Psal. 104. v. 1 2 Our blessed Saviour's Face in his Transfiguration in the Mount thô the full blaze of his Glory was shaded by a shrine of Flesh did shine as the Sun and his Rayment was white as the Light Matth. 17. 2. His Countenance was as the Sun shineth in his strength Rev. 1. 16. Ibid. Thy Skirts appear The borders of thy shining Shrine Read Isaiah's Vision ch 6. I saw also the Lord sitting upon a Throne high and lifted up and his Skirts filled the Temple To which our Author seems to have had respect in this noble description of God's Glorious Majesty Excessivus Lat. boundless V. 382. With both Wings veil their Eyes According to the description of God's Throne by the Prophet Isaiah And about it stood the Seraphims each one had six Wings with two he covered his face c. Isa. 25. 2. V. 383. Of all Creation first According to our Creed The onely begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all Worlds of whom David says The dew of thy birth is from the womb of the morning Psal. 110. 3. before the World or Light that distinguished Morn from Evening were brought forth of the Womb of the Creation Who is the image of the invisible God the first-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. V. 384. Divine Similitude Exact Resemblance of the Divinity God of God Light of Light very God of very God Nicene Creed Similitudo Lat. likeness V. 385. Without Cloud th' Almighty Father shines The Law at its Promulgation by Moses was delivered with Thunders and Lightenings great Earthquakes and Terrors and Mount Sinai was covered with a Cloud Exod. 19. v. 9 and 16. I come unto thee in a cloud there were thunders and lightenings and a thick cloud upon the Mount and the whole Mount Sinai quaked greatly But when our Saviour appeared the Cloud was removed That the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God might shine unto Believers For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. v. 4 and 6. V. 387. No Creature can behold No man hath seen God at any time the onely begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him John 1. 18. No man hath ascended up into Heaven but he that came down from Heaven even the Son of Man which is in Heaven John 3. 13. Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. Now the Righteousness of the best of Mankind being but as filthy Rags it must be the imputative Holiness of Jesus Christ that must qualifie and enable us to behold the Lord of Glory V. 388. Imprest the Effulgence Stamp'd upon thee the brightness of his Glory dwells Imprest Impressus Lat stamp'd printed graven as Cratera impressum signis AEn 5. Effulgence brightness of Effulgere Lat. to shine bright Who being the brightness of his Glory and the express image of his Person Heb. 1. 3. And we beheld his Glory the Glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father John 1. 14. V. 389. Transfus'd on thee c. Poured out on thee according to those many Prophecies fulfilled visibly at his Baptism by St. John And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him Isa. 11. 2. I have put my Spirit upon him Isa. 42. 1. And lo the Heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lightening upon him Matth. 3. 16. And John bare record saying I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a Dove and it abode upon him John 1. 32. Transfus'd Transfusus Lat. poured out Amplus Lat. large mighty V. 390. He Heaven of Heavens c. God created the World and the Heavens and all their high Inhabitants by his Son the Word of his Power All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made He was in the World and the World was made by him John 1. v. 3 10. For by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by him and for him Coloss. 1. 16. V. 391. By thee threw down the aspiring Dominations By thee cast down into Hell the ambitious Angels God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2. 4. The Angels which kept not their first estate but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day Jude 1. 6. Dominatio Lat. Power Authority as the Angels are styled Coloss. 1. 16. quoted at V. 390. V. 394. That shook Heaven's everlasting Frame Well might God's flaming Chariot loaden with Almighty Vengeance shake Heaven's everlasting Basis Whose Pillars tremble and are astonished at his Reproof Job 16. 11. Juno giving her self but a jogg on her Throne shook the wide Olympus the Homeric Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter when in good humour does as much Annuit totum nutu tremefecit Olympum AEn 9. How much more true is that of the Almighty He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the Hills and they smoak Psal. 104. 32. V. 396. Angels disarray'd Disordered and put to the rout Disarray'd Desarroyer Fr. disordered of the old Fr. word Arroy the Equipage and Order belonging to Soldiers hence in our Law-Books Arrayer Arraiatores were such as had Commissions of Array to see the Soldiers well provided of Arms c. Read the Battel of the great Dragon and his Angels Rev. 12. v. 7 8 and 9. And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb v. 11. V. 398. Thee only extoll'd Praise thee alone And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven Now is come Salvation and Strength and the Kingdom of our God and the Power of his Christ Rev. 12. 10. Extollere Lat. to lift to raise up and thence to praise V. 405. But much more to Pity enclined A Repetition affected after the Homeric manner who often uses the same Verses and Words in which Commands were given or Messages sent as supposing it not
one Coelestial Father c. That one great Heav'nly Father feeds us all V. 405. To Man in part Spiritual To Man who as to his Nobler Part his Soul is Spiritual Spiritualis Lat. of the Nature of a Spirit V. 407. Pure Intelligential Substances Angels and Spirits those refined understanding Beings whose clearer Intellects and inlighten'd Minds are sublimed and exalted so far above Mankind immers'd in matter must be sustain'd and supported with some sort of Spiritual Aliment as the Rational and all Created Beings are nothing but the Infinite and the Almighty One being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Self-sufficient Intelligentia Lat. Knowledge in the Abstract such as is expressive of Angels and Spirits from the Purity and Sublimity of those Coelestial Minds See Vers. 414. V. 412. Concoct The Office of the Stomach macerating our Meat by its Internal Heat Of Concoquere Lat. to boyl Ibid. Assimilate turn into their own likeness As all Creatures turn their Food into their Corresponding Flesh Blood and Animal Spirits of Assimilare Lat. to be like V. 417. Earth and the Sea feed Air c. There being a constant Circulation of the Elements they do by continual Mutations and Vicissitudes make and maintain one another Earth being nothing but the Dregs and Faeces of Water coagulated by Condensation as Water is Air by the same means thickned into Visibility as Fire is Air sublimely rarified each support other by an incessant Circumrotation interchangeably running round Thus from the Humid Unctuous Earth Vapours and Exhalations are rarified into Water that supports the Seas vast source from the Earth and the Sea the thinner and lighter Perspirations are the same way transmuted into Air and Air exalted and inspirited to Fire and by the contrary Condensation in Quaternion run Perpetual Circle multiform as before at Vers. 181. V. 420. Unpurged Vapours gross Exhalations and foul Mists mounting up to the Moon that look like black Patches on her fair Face Vapours undigested unrefined not yet clarified and converted into her clear Complexion V. 421. No Nourishment exhale the moist Moon sends from her humid Globe Food more refined up to the higher Orbs to exhale exhalare Lat. to breathe out as rising Mists seem to be exhaled Quae tenuem exhalat nebulam fumosque volucres Geor. 2. V. 423. That Light imparts That affords and communicates Light to all things Imparts of the Lat. impertire to bestow a part or share on V. 424. His Alimental Recompense The Sun himself that on the Universe bestows his chearing Light and enlivening Rays receives in moist Returns and unctuous Vapours his Nourishment from all as Toll and Tribute paid him in grateful Recompense Alimental Alimentum Lat. Food Nourishment V. 426. Sups with the Ocean According to the Opinion of Thales who supposed Water the First Matter of the Creation borrowed of the Description of the Creation by Moses Gen. 1. Vers. 2. So Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Render'd by Virgil Oceanumque Patrem rerum Nymphasque sorores Geor. 4. Not only the Sun but all the Homerick Inhabitants of Heaven are entertained by the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now these Ethiopians dwelt near the Suns Supping-Room Oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem Ultimus AEthiopum locus est AEn 4. Audiet Herculeo stridentem gurgite solem Juv. Sa◠15. V. 429. Mellifluous Dews and Pearly Grain A Description of Manna Angels Food the Bread of Heav'n And when the Dew that lay was gone up behold upon the Face of the Wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the Hoar-frost on the Ground and it was like Coriander-Seed white And the taste of it was like Wafers made with Honey Exod. 16. Vers. 24 and 31. Man did eat Angels Food Psal. 78. Vers. 25. Mellifluous Mellifluus Lat. sweet as Honey V. 434. To their Viands their Victnals Their Food Fr. Viande Ita. Vivande both of Vivere Lat. to live as Victus Food V. 435. Not seemingly nor in Mist The Angel did not make as if he did eat nor put the cheat upon 'em by casting a Mist before their Eyes according to the Gloss of Theodoret in his 68 Question on Gen. 18. Vers. 8. who tells us that as those Angels who appeared to Abraham were by Moses styled Men having nothing of Human Nature but the outward appearance so they were said to eat when they did but seem to do so Cibum simulatis illis manibus capientes in simulatum quoque os ingerentes clam consumpserunt prout illis placuit Of the same Opinion is St. Thomas Tom. 1. Part. 9. 51. Art 2. which they support by the Confession of Raphael himself All these Days I did appear unto you but I did neither eat nor drink but you did see a Vision Tob. 12. Vers. 19. The Angel that appeared to Manoah declared against it And the Angel of the Lord said Though thou detein me I will not eat of thy Bread Judg. 13. V. 16. Our Author on the contrary believes the Angel did with keen and hungry dispatch eat digest and turn what was convertible of it into his proper substance evacuating the rest by Perspiration nor does there seem any absurdity in the Asseveration since most Texts of Holy Writ where the Appearances of Angels are Recorded make 'em subject to Human Sight Hearing and Feeling too why not then to Eating as literally affirm'd of 'em as any of the other Actions falling under Sense But these Enquiries are too subtle and exceed the compass of our Capacities Ibid. The common Gloss of Theologians the usual Interpretation of Doctors and Divines Gloss Glossa Lat. of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Tongue signifies an Exposition or Interpretation of an obscure place of Holy Scripture or other Writing Protinus enim potest Interpretationem Linguae Secretioris quae Graeci Glossas vocant dum aliud agitur ediscere Quint. Lib. 1. Cap. 2. Theologians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that writes or reasons concerning GOD and his Holy Mysteries that treats and teaches Divine Matters the School-Divines and Doctors V. 438. To transubstantiate and heat sufficient to digest and turn into the substance of the Creature fed the Food it eats The proper Office of the Stomach aided by its innate vigorous heat Transubstantiate and Transubstantiation Barbarous Lat. Words that have much disturbed the World Ibid. What redounds transpires What remains over and above what is necessary and fit for nourishment breathes out vanisheth into Air Is voided and evacuated as Sweat evaporates through the Pores Redundare Lat. to be over and above to exceed to overflow Transpirare Lat. to sweat to breathe through V. 440. The Emperick Alchemist The Prying the Experimental Chymist Emperick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that is taught by tryal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Endeavour Experiment hence a bold daring and unskilful Quack is call'd an Emperick from venturing by dangerous Medicines to make
Strepit assiduo cava tempora circum Tinnitu galea AEn 9. V. 410. Vanquisht Of Vaincu Fr. Overcame V. 411. His Angels prevalent His Conquering Angels Prevalent Of Praevalens Lat. Praevalere to prevail to overcome V. 413. Cherubick waving Fires Cherubim that shew'd like moving Fires Angels resem bling Flames of Fire for their Purity and Spiritual Activity Cherubick belonging to a Cherub See Book 1. Vers. 157. The Custom of keeping Watch in Camps by making Fires all Night is as ancient as the Trojan War 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 421. Too mean pretence Too poor an excuse for our taking Arms Too mean a colour for our Rebellion Of Praetendere Lat. to hide cover or disguise as Men do their ill Designs by Specious Pretences V. 427. Then fallible of future Then deceived in Things that are to come which may justly call iu Question his Omnisciency and Infallibility Fallible Fallibilis Lat. that may be deceived impossible to be affirm'd of the Allwise God With whom is Strength and Wisdom the Deceived and the Deceiver are his Job 12. Vers. 16. Read his Omniscience nobly celebrated by the Royal Psalmist Psal. 139. Vers. 19. Shew the Things that are to come hereafter that we may know that ye are Gods as God is introduced by the Prophets reasoning with his People Isa. 41. Vers. 23. Omniscient Of Omnisciens Of Omnia Scire Lat. knowing all Things Omuiscius Lat. for the same V. 435. Imperâ—shable That cannot Perish or be Destroy'd Of the Lat. in and perire Lat. to Decay Valid Strong Lat. Validus V. 445. Will disclose Discover Of Desclorre Fr. the Corruption and Contradiction of Dis and Claudere Lat. V. 447. Nisroc of Principalities c. One of the chief of Satans Peers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Idol of the Assyrians worshipt at Nineveh in whose Temple Sennacherib was Slain by his Sons 2 Kings 19. Vers. 37. and Isai 37. vers 38. some will have this Idol to be a Representation of Noahs Ark. as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tabula Nohae others that it had vultum Aquilium because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies an Eagle but they may as well affirm it a Saw which the Word implies shifting only the Point on shin to the left It 's Original is more probably of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to exalt or be exalted and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Spirit Some Proud Rebellious Spirit that exalted it self against God though uncertain in what shape Represented and Worshipt Principalities Principalitas or Principatus Lat. the Command and Power of Sovereign Kings and Princes by which the Angels are frequently signified in Holy Text That now unto the Principalities and Powers in Heavenly Places c. Eph. 3. v. 10. Ye are compleat in him who is the Head of all Principality and Power Col. 2. Vers. 10. V. 449. His riv'n Arms c. his shatter'd Armour hacked and hewed all in pieces Riven Of the Word to Rive or Rent in pieces Havock Book 2. Vers. 1009. V. 445. Impassive Incapable of suffering any hurt or harm Impassibilis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Unpain'd V. 458. Remiss the Hands c. Makes the hands of mighty Angels weak and feeble Remissus Lat. slack careless Remiss the contrary to Intent V. 460. And not Repine Not grudge at it To Repine is properly to Envy to be grieved and grated by the prosperity of another Of Re the encreasing Particle and Pine to languish with Hunger Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Famine V. 462. Pain is perfect Misery Misery to the highest perfection and too hard for Hercules himself Quid non possit superare dolor Quondam Getico durior AEmo Nec Parrasio lentior Axe Saevo cessit membra dolori Fessumque movens per colla caput Latus alterno pondere flectit Her AEteus V. 470. Not Uninvented Not Undiscovered I make discovery of that which you rightly esteem so necessary to our Success Uninvented Of the Negative Un in Lat. and Inventus Lat. Of Invenire to find out Main considerable of great importance the Corruption of Magnus Lat. great V. 472. The bright Surface c. The shining outside of this heavenly Soil Surface Fr. the top of the earth or any thing else Of Superficies Lat. as if Superfacies V. 473. Of this Ethereous Mould Of this Heavenly Soil Semine ab AEthereo AEn 7. AEtherius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Etherial Book 1. Vers. 45. V. 476. So superficially Surveys So slightly and carelesly considers so heedlesly beholds Superficially inconsiderately surveying only the bare outside without diving deeper by considering its dark Entrails and hidden Causes productive of those many glorious Effects and Fruits that adorn its Face Of Superficies Lat. the shell and outside of any thing V. 478. Materials dark and crude c. Deep underneath this Heavenly Soil there lie hidden materials raw and undigested of thin and fiery Foam till toucht and warmed with Heavens bright Beams they gain more perfect Being and call'd forth by his cheering Ray they spring enlivened spreading into open day Crude Book 2. Vers. 941. Spume Of the Lat. Spuma froth foam a word expressing well the crude consistence of Sulphur and other Subterranean Materials the efficients of Fertility This is a Description of Salt Petre an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut Spuma quaedam est candâ—rem habet Valle Chap. 77. V 481. The Ambient Light The surrounding Air which encloseth all things that are brought forth out of Earths dark and secret Womb Ambient Ambiens Lat. Of Ambire to enclose to compass in V. 482. In their dark Nativity the deep The dark deep Womb of this Etherial Soil shall furnish us with these from her obscure and inmost Storehouse fraught with furious Flame Their dark Nativity the hidden place of Birth where form'd in the Deeps dark Dungeon they lie Nativitas Lat. Birth Pregnant Praegnans Lat. abounding in full fraught with Book 1. Vers. 22. V. 484. Hollow Engines Great Guns described Engine Book 1. Vers. 570. V. 486. Dilated and Infuriate Forc'd forth with mighty fury by the touch of Fire applied to the other lesser Bore Dilated Of Dilatus Lat. spread abroad Infuriate Of In and Furiatus Lat. mad animated and inforct with fury Furiatâ mente ferebar AEn 2. Bore a hole Of the Lat. Forare and Foramen Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a passage V. 487. With Thundering noise With a roaring noise like that of Thunder Of the Fr. Tonnere Of the Lat. Tonitru all of Tonare to Thunder V. 488. Such Implements of Mischief Mischief in such Perfection Engines and Utensils so full fraught with Fury and Destruction Of Implere Lat. to fill full quasi implementa Or of the Fr. Employer to use daily ones Implements being those Things generally used in any Trade or Manual Occupation V. 496. Their drooping chear enlightn'd Cheared and gave new Life to their down cast Looks Cleared their sad and cloudy Countenances
Fr. Resolv'd V. 679. Th' Assessor of his Throne Who sate Entâ—roned at his Right Hand Assessores Lat. were such as sate on the Bench not as Judges properly but as Assistants Assessâ—r Lat. of Assidere Lat. to sit by V. 681. Son in whose Face invisible c. Son in whose Face all my infinite and invisible perfections are made visibly and plainly to appear and by whose Hand all my Almighty Power and Everlasting Decrees are manifested being the Image of the Invisible God according to Heb. 1. Vers. 15. Like and Equal to his Father who being altogether invisible to us was by this his Image in the fulness of time manifested in the Flesh made known and visible to Mankind V. 684. Second Omnipotence Second Almightiness as being the Second Person in the Holy Trinity of which the Father is Almighty the Son Almighty and the Holy Ghost Almighty making however but one incomprehensible Almighty according to Athanasius Exposition of the Creed V. 685. Compute the days c. As we reckon the days of Heav'n Computare Lat. to Count or reckon V. 692 Insensibly Unperceiveably Insensibiliter Lat. so little as not to be perceiv'd to scape the Notice of sense Suspend delay defer of Suspendere Lat. to put off V. 694. No Solution will be found No end no determination of their Conflict will be found Solutio Lat. for loosening or untying thence for the Answer to any hard or doubtful question thence Metaphorically for the end or decision of any dubious Affair V. 704. Immense I have Transfused I have power'd forth such vast Strength and efficacy on thee Transfused Book 3. V. 389. V. 706. And this perverse Commotion c. And have so Order'd this Obstinate and Wild Tumult Perverse Book 2. Vers. 625. Commotion Vers. 310 of this Book V. 709. By Sacred Unction by thy Holy Anâ—inting Constituting the Heir of all things and King Unctio Lat. Anoynting See Book 5. Vers. 605. V. 712. That shake Heav'ns Basis That shake Heav'ns Firmament that make Heav'ns foundations shake Basis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a foundation that supports a Building Rapid Rapidus Lat. Swift Fierce Violent He beheld and drove asunder the Nations and the Everlasting Mountains were scattered and the Perpetual Hills did Bow Haba 3. Vers. 6. V. 713. All my War my Bow All my Instruments and Preparations for War my Bow and Thunder my Irresistible Arms. God is described by the Royal Psalmist Whetting his Sword and bending his Bow Psal. 6. Vers. 12. He bent his Bow and set me as a Mark for the Arrow he caused the Arrows of his Quiver to enter into my Reins Lam. 3. Vers. 12 and 13. Thy Bow was made quite Naked Hab. 3. Vers. 9. V. 714. Upon thy puissant Thigh According to that Psalm Prophetick of our Saviour Gird thy Sword upon thy Thigh O most Mighty Psal. 43. Vers. 3. Puissant Book 1. Vers. 632. V. 720. All his Father ful exprest He Received the fulness of his Almighty Father exprest in his Face unaccountably Ineffably Unspeakably exprest of ineffabilis Lat. not to be utter'd V. 722. The Filial Godhead God the Son Filial Lat. Filialis and Filius a Son V. 728. Is all my Bliss According to his own Testimony of himself My Meat is to do the Will of him that sent me John 4. Vers. 34. For I came down from Heav'n not to do mine own Will but the Will of him that sent me John 6. Vers. 38. Then said Lo I come in the Volume of the Book it is Written of me to do thy Will O God Heb. 10. Vers. 7. V 731. In the End thou shalt be all in all Then cometh the End when he shall have deliver'd up the Kingdom to God even the Father and when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be All in All 1 Cor. 15 Vers. 24 and 28. Resign Resignare Lat. to Restore to give up V. 739. Th' undying Worm Of gnawing and tormenting Conscience Where their worm dieth not Mar. 9. 44. V. 749. With Whirlwind sound the Chariot of Paternal Deity The Chariot of the Almighty God the Father came rushing forth with the sound of a mighty Whirlwind And I looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north Ezek. 1. 4. For behold the Lord will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind Isa. 66. 15. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury a continuing whirlwind Jer. 30. 23. By this terrible Metaphor God's Wrath and Fury is frequently described in Scripture With a tempest in the day of the whirlwind Amos 1. 14. Turbinis atri More furens AEn 10. Paternal Deity God the Father Paternalis Lat. of Pater Lat. a Father Wâ—irlwind Wirbelwind Ger. of Wirblen Ger. to turn round V. 751. Wheel within Wheel instinct with Spirit And their appearance was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel Ezek. 1. 16. Undrawn Instinct c. When the living creatures went the wheels went by them for the spirit of life was in the wheels Ibid. v. 19 20. out of which Chapter this noble Description is taken Instinct Book II. V. 935. V. 753. Four Faces each had wondrous c. Every one had four faces and every one four wings Ezek. 1. 16. And every one had four faces the first was the face of a cherub Ezek. 10. 14. Convoy'd accompanied attended on of the Fr. Convoyer to wait on V. 755 Wings were sit with Eyes As for the likeness of the living creatures their appearance was like burning coals of fire like the appearance of lamps here called Eyes Ezek. 1. 13. According to that of Daniel His eyes as lamps of fiâ—e ch 10. v. 16. Ezek. 1. 18. and ch 10. v. 12. And their whole body and their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about Cui quot sunt corpore plumâ— tot vigiles oculi subter AEn 4. V. 756. The Wheels of Beril And the appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of Beril Ezek. 1. 16. And the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a Beril stone Ezek. 10. 10. In both which places and also Exod. 28. 20 the original word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a Sea-colour thence translated a Beril stone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a precious Stone of a Sea-green colour found in India by Aquila rendred a Chrysolite and by Symmachus a Hiacinth all of that complexion Ibid. And careering Fires between With quick and darting Fires between And the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightnings Exek 1. 13. Careering Book 1. V 766. V. 757. A chrystal Firmament A bright Firmament like the AErial expanse clear as Chrystal the Footstool of God's Throne And the likeness of the firmament upon thr heads of the living creature was as the colour of terrible chrystal Ezek. 1. 22. V. 758. Whereon a Saphir
Pleasure flowing from Reason and raised above low sensual Delights V. 396. Nor with the Ox the Ape The one a dull gross heavy Creature the other an Airy Animal Mimic of Mankind V. 410. Inferior infinite Descents All created Beings are by infinite degrees more beneath me than the meanest of 'em below thee Descents Descensus Lat. a going down Converse Conversatio Lat. Familiarity of Conversari to keep company with V. 413. To attain to the heighth and depth c. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out Rom. 11. 13. V. 416. Is no Deficience found No want nothing can be wanting in him who created all things by the Word of his Power GOD who is infinite in all his Attributes of Power Goodness Wisdom Truth c. must be incomprehensibly most Perfect Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection Job 11. 7. Qui omnia habet intra se eminenter nulla re caret Deficience Defectus Lat. want imperfection V. 417. Not so is Man but in degree Aristotle tells us The compleat or perfect act of a living Creature is to beget its like A Perfection which Adam without his Eve could never have attained Whence his desire by Conversation with his like to help and solace his Defects Nihil est enim appetentius similium sui nihil rapacius quam natura Cic. Solace of Solari Lat. to ease V. 420. Already Infinite Infinite is incapable of Encrease Pauperis est numerare 't is impossible for any number how vast so ever to be Infinite for though so great as to exceed Human Nomination yet it may still be made greater by the addition of a Unite Infinito verò nihil majus But what is Infinite can never be Encreast Propogate Propagare Lat. to encrease V. 421. And through all numbers absolute though One Complete in all thy infinite Perfections though but One Gods Power Wisdom Truth Justice Omniscience c. are not Degrees of his unspeakable Perfections but his Essence and all One with him who as he is the only One Eternal is the first Being and as the first the most Simple and only One. Illud verò quia aeternum sit primum quia primum simplex unum quod verò ejusmodi omnes homines Dâ—um esse dicunt Vall. de Sacra Philo. c. 1. The Assyrians named God Achad doubtless of the Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One Macr. 1. Satur. c. 23. and famous is the ancient Hermes his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Unitas so often by him used to signifie God as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Solus Unus not only one but before the Creation Alone Monas generat Monadem in seiâ—sâ—m reflexit Ardorem Pimand According with St. John I and my Father are One ch 10. 30. The Cabbalists exprest â—iâ— by their Aleph Lucidum Tenebrosum St. John by his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Beginning and the Ending Rev. 1. 8 and both but One An exact Unire the Beginning and End of all yet it self like no number unalterable by Multiplication by which all numbers proceed from it it self the Divinity whose Image it is immutable and unchangeable Through all numbers absolute most perfect Omnibus numer is absolutus Quicquid Perfectum Absolutum est ut Stoici dicâ—nt omnes numeros habet Cic. de Divinat Absolute Absolutus Lat. perfect and complete V. 423. and 425. His single Imperfoction in unity defective But Mankinds particular Imperfection appears by being unable to preserve his Kind without a Companion lame while alone and imperfect while but one uncapable of his Makers early and universal Blessing Be fruitful and multiply Gen. 1. 28. This very Multiplication denotes his disability and defect as removed from the All the Self-sufficient Unity V. 426. Collateral Love Which makes me stand in need of a Companion capable of mutual Love and endearing Friendship Collateral Collateralis Lat. side by side thence mutually Assistant as Friends and Lovers as exprest Bo. IV. Vers. 483. To give thee being I lent Out of my Side to thee nearest my Heart Substantial Life to have thee by my Side Henceforth an individual Solace dear Love so Collateral as none but the first Lover e'er could boast V. 428. Best with thy self accompanied Thou in thy Blisful Solitude though alone from all Eternity art in thy own self Sufficiency most perfectly Happy as knowing none second unto thy self or like equal much less with whom to hold converse Vers. 406. V. 430. Canst raise thy Creature to what heighth c. Canst raise thy Intellectual Creature Angels or Men to what degree of Fellowship or Communion thou art pleased to Dignifie 'em with by thy Grace and Holy Spirit Truly our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 1. 3. If any Fellowship of the Spirit Phil. 2. 1. Deified Of Deificare Lat. made partakers by his Grace of the Deity For we are made Partakers of Christ Heb. 3. 14. And wore made partakers of the Holy Ghost Heb. 6. 4. Union Unio Lat. a making one Communio Lat. Fellowship a joyning together V. 432. Cannot these erect from prone I by conversing with the Brutes cannot raise their groveling Senses to my Understanding nor in their Natures find any Satisfaction or Agreement with my own Complacence Complacentia Lat. pleasure of Complacere to please V. 435. Freedom used Permissive And used the liberty granted me Permissive Permissus Lat. given allow'd V. 455. Colloquie Sublime In that high Heavenly discourse held with my Maker Colloquium Lat. talk of Colloqui to discourse with V. 462. Abstract as in a Transe The Lord caused a deep sleep te fall upon Adam Gen. 2. 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—â—yled Sopor Domini 1 Sam. 26. 12. for its force Interpreters by this deep Sleep understand a Transe or Extasie such as fell on St. Paul 2 Cor. 12. 2. In which though his Bodily Eyes were closed yet the Cell of his Fancy his internal sight was clear and open by which he saw Abstract and separated from himself where he lay and what was done c. Abstract Abstractus Lat. pluckt away separated for the same reason that Exstatics 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi extrà se Stantes Transe Of Transi Fr. swoounded Of Transire Lat. to go forth as such seem to do out of themselves Ne quis autem existimaret somnum illum fuisse naturalem naturalibus ex causis profectum Moses dixit Deum immisisse illum somnum Perer. in Gen. V. 465. Open'd my Left Side Following the common Opinion that the Heart inclines more to the left than right Side in Human Bodies because its Pulsation is there felt For the Relation of Moses leaves it unascertained out of which of Adam's Sides Eve was taken And he took one of his Ribs Gen. 2. 21.