the Diameter can touch the Center the middle Point of a round Body V. 216. Silence As the same omnipotent and omnific word Incarnate said to the tumultuous Sea Peace be still Mar. 4. 39. Omnific Maker of all Things Omnificus of Omnis all and Facere Lat. to make V. 222. Follow'd in bright Procession Seems a contradiction for Procession shrictly signifies A going before and is used to express a solemn Pomp and Shew preceeding a Prince or the Sacrament in Catholic Countries carried in Procession but the meaning is that a bright Train of admiring Angels attended and waited on this Omnific Word to see the mighty Works of his Creation Processio Lat. of Procedere to set out to go on V. 224. The fervid Wheels The warm Wheels from the swiftness of their Motion Motus est causa caloris Horace his Epithete Metaque fervidis evitata rotis Car. l. 1. Od. 1. Fervidus Lat. hot V. 228. One foot he center'd One foot of his Golden Compasses he fix'd in the center of the Universe and turn'd the other round through the vast and deep Obscurity and said Thus far shall the Creation reach thus far shall its Bounds extend this shall be thy compass O thou rising World Profundity Profunditas Lat. Depth the Deep V. 231. This be thy just Circumference This shall be thy vast Round Pronounced by him who sitteth on the circle of the Earth Isa. 40. 22. Who alone compass'd the circuit of the Heavens Eccles. 24. 5. V. 233. Matter unform'd and void 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Desolation and emptiness Gen. 1. 2. Says Moses Without form and void as our Translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 70. Invisible and unadorn'd The vulgar Lat. Inanis vacua Empty and void doubly empty Aquila vanitas nihil Emptiness and nothing All amounting to the same sense and agreeing with our Poets that God made the Heaven and Earth which on the first day of the Creation were one confused heap of uninform'd Matter containing Earth Air Fire c. all mix'd and cover'd over with a dark Deluge and black Abyss of Water So that the Author of the Book of Wisdom had reason to say Manus tua creavit orbem terrarum ex materiâ invisâ ch 2. v. 18 Which we translate Thy hand made the World of Matter without Form The Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 234. Cover'd the Abyss Darkness was upon the face of the deep Gen. 1. 2. Deep and incomprehensible Darkness cover'd the vast Abyss in whose watry Womb the unborn World yet lay So the Prophetic Psalmist Thou covered'st it with the Deep as with a Garment the Waters stood above the Mountains of the establish'd Earth Psal. 104. 6. And Job describing the Original Birth of Waters I made the cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness its swadling band Job 38. 9. Bede in his Exemeron is of opinion That all that vast space between the Earth and the Empyrean Heaven was filled with Water that is with a humid aqueous and misty Matter part of which was afterwards thickned into Water some rarified and spun out into Air and the rest miraculously hardned and fix'd into the Matter of the Celestial Orbs all extracted out of this immeasurable Abyss Bo. I. Vers. 21. which before Light was created must necessarily be cloath'd with Darkness V. 235. His brooding Wings the Spirit of God The Holy Spirit the third Person of the Blessed Trinity The spirit of the Lord filleth the world Wisd. 1. 7. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Psal. 33. 6. The breath of the power of God Wisd. 7. 25. I came out of the mouth of the most High I alone compass'd the circuit of Heaven and walked in the bottom of the Deep Eccles. 24. 3 5. See at Vers. 17. Bo. I. the various Interpretations of Gen. 1. 2. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters V. 236. And Vital Virtue infused c. And spread and dispers'd its quickning Power and enlivening Heat quite through the humid heap and moving watry mass of Matter Vallesius interprets The spirit of God moving upon the waters Gen. 1. 2. to signifie the Creation of Fire moving through and actuating the watry Abyss into warmth and vital Fecundity esteeming it term'd a Spirit as approaching nearest of all Bodies to a spiritual Substance as being so light and subtle as not to fall under the perception of sense unless when immers'd in and preying on gross Materials that it is term'd the Spirit of God for its mighty Power and Excellency as the Mountains and Cedars of God in holy Phrase frequently are Hic igitur spiritus nimirum ignis hoc est haec substantia tenuissima ac perfectissima ferebatur incubans faecundans aquas per hunc spiritum factae sunt aquae fluxiles alioqui futurae concretae Sac. Phil. c. 1. Nevertheless our Author has rightly attributed this vital Influence and quickning Emanation to the Spirit of God Fluid Fluidus Lat. thin liquid V. 238. The black tartareous cold c. But drove downwards towards the Center the black cold gross and muddy Dregs Enemies to Life and Being On the first day of the Creation God made the mighty Mass of all Things capable of Generation and Corruption consisting of the Elementary Bodies Earth Water Air and Fire heap'd up and mix'd together Earth Water and dark Air blended together the invisible Fire moved together through the muddy Mass hindring its congealing into unactive Ice then God's Spirit breathing upon the Watry Confusion disingag'd and separated the intangled Elements bringing like Things to like and fixing them together thereby forming the Earth within the Womb of Water and spreading out the ambient Air then out of deepest Darkness called forth Light Tartareous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shake with extream cold V. 239. Conglobed Gather'd together Of Conglobare Lat. to gather in heaps V. 241. Disparted Shared divided Of Dispertire Lat. to allot to divide into Parts Ibid. Spun out the Air And like the finest Web drew out the Air An excellent description of the thinness purity and invisibility of the Air mixing with all things as being spun out so fine between V. 242. Earth Self-Ballanc'd c. Hung on her Center by wondrous Counterpoise which Job styles Nothing He hangeth the Earth upon Nothing Chap. 26. 7. Circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus Ponderibus librata suis. Meta. l. 1. But how the unconceivable Counterpoise is made he only knows Who hath measured the Waters in the hollow of his Hand and meeted out the Heavens with a Span who weigheth the Mountains in Scales and the Hills in a Balance Isa. 40. 12. V. 243. Let there be said God God who Created all Things out of Nothing by his infinite Power could do it no other way than by his Almighty Word For there being no first Matter out
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.
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
horrida coelo Tempestas telorum adamantaeaeque procellae Fulmineique globi ferratâ grandine nimbus Volvitur alatis animosa per agmina turmis Spirituum quas nulla valet vis sistere contra Montibus immotis quamvis vel Rupibus AEqua NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VII Vers. 1. DEscend from Heav'n Urania Come down from Heav'n Urania if that Name well pleas'd thou hear'st Come down from Heav'n O Divine Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Heavenly So horace Descende caelo dic age tibia Regina longum Calliope mclos Car. 1. 3. Od. 4. So Pindar styles his Muse Daughter of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Urania was the name of one of the nine Muses of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Heaven Whence even the Heathen Poets acknowledged all their help Therefore ours invokes and calls upon the meaning not the Muse the empty Name V. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calli. Excipit Urania fecere silentia cunctae Ov. Fast. 1. 5. V. 4 Of Pegasean Wing O heavenly Spirit following thy divine Voice and Dictates I have raised my self above the lofty Hill Olympus the Abode and Heaven of the Heathen Gods above the reach of the Poetic Pegasus's Wings I call on thee for thy assistance not on that Name faintly resembling and expressing thee Pegasus was the Poets Winged Horse sprung out of the Blood of Medusa when her Head was cut off by Perseus Pennisque fugacem Pegason fatrem matris de sanguine natos Ovid. Met. 4. This Kephel was famous for opening the Muses beloved Fountain Hippocrene with a stroak of his Heels whence he was named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Fountain after many Exploits he flew up to Heaven where he is noted among the Stars in Jovis Praesepe Hence Perseus's Pegaseium melos Prolo Sat. 1. Dicite quae fontes Aganippidos Hippocrenes Grata Medufaei signa tenetis Equi Ov. Fast. 5. Olympian Book II. V. 531. Olympus Book I. V. 516. Of this famous Mountain the Muses were named Olympiades esteem'd the Daughter of Olympian Jove and Memory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesid in Theog V. 9. Thou with eternal Wisdom c. His spirit garnish'd the heavens Job 26. 13. The Lord possest me Wisdom in the beginning of his way before his works of old when there were no depths I was brought forth when there were no Fountains abounding with water before the Mountains were setled before the Hills was I brought forth Prov. 8. 22 24 25. V. 12. Pleas'd with thy Celestial Song Then I was with him as one brought up with him And I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him Prov. 8. 30. V. 15. Empyreal Air thy tempting By thee led up into the bighest Heavens I have presumed to soar an Earthly Guest and breath'd that pure Celestial Air temper'd by thee He alludes to the Air that on some very high Mountains is so extreamly thin and suttle that Humane Lungs are incapable of drawing it His Presumption is meant of the daring flights of his Fancy singing and describing this Angelic War c. in Heaven V. 16. To my native Element To this lower Region of the Air in which I had my Birth V. 17. From this flying Steed Lest by my flying and unruly Fancy thrown and dismounted as heretofore Bellerophon thô from less lofty height I fall distracted to wander all alone lost and undone He compares his swift and towring Fancy to a flying ungovernable Horse extreamly well considering with how much celerity Fancy finds her way through Heaven and Earth and Hell it self through all the Parts and Paths of Nature and how dangerous it is to lay the Reins loose on her Neck or not to have strength of Judgment enough to guide and curb her V. 18. Bellerophâ—n was a noble and chast Youth Son of Glaucus who refusing the amorous Applications of Antea as Homer Sthenobaea as others say the Queen of Praetus was by her false suggestions like those of Joseph's Mistress to her Husband sent into Lycia with Letters desiring his destruction where mounted upon Pegasus he kill'd the Chimaera and perform'd divers other notable Exploits but attempting vain-gloriously to mount up to Heaven on his Winged Steed Jupiter made his unruly unrein'd Horse so ungovernable that he threw his Rider on the Alean Plain where being struck blind he wandred finding no Relief till he died with Hunger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quid profuit olim Hippolito grave propositum Quid Bellerophonti Erubuit nempe haec ceu fastidita repulsa Nec Sthenobaea minus quam cressa excanduit se Concussere ambae Juv. Sat. 10. Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte Hor. Carm. l. 3. Od. 12. V. 22. Visible diurnal Sphear Half my work is still unfinish'd Six only of these Twelve Books into which he digested it being compleated but the Remainder lies in narrower bounds within the compass of discerning day firm standing on the Earth not snatch'd above the Stars with daring slight more safe I sing with manly voice not changed by straining it to hoarsness or into dumbness wearied c. Diurnal Diurnus Lat. daily Rapt Lat. Raptus snatch'd up V. 28. Solitude Lat. Solitudo solitariness living alone of Solus Lat. alone V. 32. The barbarous Dissonance c. The harsh rude Noisefulness the disagreeable discord and disturbance of Sots and Songsters Barbarous Bo. I. V. 353. Dissonance Dissonantia Lat. a disagreeing in Tune Untunableness V. 33. Of Bacchus and his Revellers Bacchus was the God of Wine and Deity of Drunkards See Bo. IV. V. 279. Revellers are such as dance and drink all night of the Fr. Resveiller as of Revigilare to watch A word well suiting the Ciconian Maenades that ran madding up and down in their drunken Dances celebrating the Rites of Bacchus who were the Murderers of the Thracian Bard here styled the Wild Rout. V. 34. The Thracian Bard Orpheus Son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope born in Thrace a noble Poet and Philosopher who after the loss of his much lamented Euridice not affecting second Nuptials as Virgil or as others for his divine Disswasives against Lust and Incontinâ—nce was torn in pieces by the Ciconian mad Women sacrificing to Bâ—cchus on Rhodope a Mountain of Thrace Spreto Ciconum quo munere matres Inter sacra Deûm nocturnique Orgia Bacchi Discerptum latos juvenem sparcere per agros Geo. 4. Non me carminibus vincet nec Thracius Orpheus Virg. Ecl. 4. Ovid to the former subjoyns a more scandalous cause of this Feminine Fury Ille etiam Thracum populis fuit auctor amorem In teneros transferre mares Met. 10. But Horace gives us his true Character Sylvestres homines sacer interpresque deorum Caedibus victu faedo deterruit Orpheus Dictus ob hoc lenire Tigres rabidosque Leones De Arte Poet. Bard the Bardi were the
likeness Gen. 1. 26. Many are the curious Enquiries concerning the Image of God in which Man was Creaâ—d Some have thought it to consist in the Dominion given him over the rest of the Creation Finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum Meta. lib. 1. Others in his Reason Free-Will and Immortal Soul Zanchius has presumed to say there was Nulla pars in homine quae non fuerit hujus Imaginis particeps but Cicero though a Heathen had a nobler Idea of the Deity who tells us Ad Similitudinem Dei propius accedebat humana virtus quam figura The clearest account of this Heavenly Image and Divine Similitude in which Man was made that he was Created as to his Soul an Incorporeal Immortal and Intelligent Being Endowed with Understanding Memory and Free-Will capable of Wisdom Virtue Divine Grace and everlasting Happiness and dignified with Dominion over all the lower Orders of the Creation placed in the highest Degree of Nature though infinite descents beneath the Purity and Perfection of God his Creator To this glorious Image of the first Adam soon depraved and sullied by Sin St. Paul seems to allude Be renew'd in your spirit of the minds and that ye put on that new man which after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness Eph. 4. 23 24. V. 525. Thee O Man dust of the Ground According to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the Lord God formed Man if the Dust of the Ground Gen. 2. 7. to which Job alludes Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the Clay chap. 10. v. 9. that is originally in the Protoplast Form'd Formare Lat. to make fashion Adam Book III. Vers. 734. V. 528. Express and t ou becamest a living Soul In his own Image plainly stampt on thee and thou becamest a Man consisting of an Earthly Body and a Rational and Immortal Soul the Breath of Life with which God inspired thee Gen. 2. 7. Express Expresse Lat. plainly manifestly V. 529. Male he created thee c. Gen. 1. 27. V. 530. Then Bless'd Mankind Gen. 1. 28. V. 545. Death is the Penalty Death is the Punishment of thy Transgression Penalty Paenalitas Lat. of Paena Lat. Punishment V. 552. Desisting though unwearied Ceasing to Create any more according to his eternal Decree though not wearied as weak Mortality every day tired and exhausted Natural Causes exert their utmost Ability and act in proportion to their Power but the God of Nature who is Infinite in Power Goodness and Wisdom compleated the Creation on the Sixth day according to the Wisdom of his Eternal Will not the Infinitude of his Almighty Power Desisting Desistere Lat. to cease to leave of V. 557. Answering his great Idea Agreeing with his Eternal Wisdom Exemplar ad quod facta sunt singula est aeterna illa notitia rerum omnium quam Deus semper apud se habuit ab aeterno conceptam factam autem nunquam Val. de Sac. Philo. c. 2. The Lord possessed me Wisdom in the beginning of his way before his works of old I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the Earth was Prov. 8. 22 23 Idea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to see the Conception or Formation of any thing in the Mind or Imagination Idea est eorum quae natura fiunt exemplar aeternum according to Plato Mens sola cernit quod semper est simplex uniusmodi tale quale est Hanc Graeci Ideam vocant nos rectè speciem possumus dicere Cic. Quaest. Tusc. V. 559. The sound Symphonious c. With a loud Consort of Ten Thousand Harps that made a Harmony most Divine Symphonious Symphonious Lat. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to sound in Consort to Sing or Play together Constellations Book VI. Vers. 320. V. 563. The Planets in their Stations list'ning stood That the Heavenly Harmony should stay the listning Planets is not more Poetical than that two Singing Shepherds should stop the Rivers course Et mutata suos requierunt flumina cursus Ecl. 7. Stations Spheres as Statio Syderum Pli. l. 2. c. 16. not that they stand still but that the Stars are there stative fixt and move round with them V. 564. Pomp ascended Jubilant While the bright Train ascended up to Heaven shouting for Joy Jubilant Of Jubilare Lat. to rejoyce with Songs and Shouts Pomp Book I. Vers. 372. V. 565. Open the everlasting Gates Psal. 24. 7. and 9. V. 568. Magnificent Magnificus magna faciens according to the Psalmist O Lord how great are thy Works Psal. 92. 5. V. 577. Whose Dust is Gold and Pavement Stars This is imitated from the Description of the new Jerusalem Revel 21. 21. And the Street of the City was pure Gold as it were transparent Glass That is clear and shining like the Stars that make the Milky way V. 579. Seen in the Galaxie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lacteus Circulus the Milky way so named of its colour Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Milk The Poets feign'd that young Hercules having Suckt too much of Juno's Milk threw it up and gave that Complexion to that part of Heaven E niveo lactis fluxisse colorem Pectore Reginae Divum coelumque liquore Infecisse Quapropter Lacteus orbis Dicitur nomen causa descendit ab ipsa Mar. Manil. This white Circle was for many Ages held to be a Portion of the Heaven so much thicker than rhe rest that it was able to reflect the Rays of the Sun and Stars whence its brightness was thought to have taken Being But Galileo's Glass plainly discovered it to be a vast assembly of innumerable Stars with which that Circle is Sowed or Pouder'd which are so small and at so great a distance from us that they appear like one great shining Cloud disappointing the distinction of the Eye sight Zone Book II. Vers. 398. V. 590. Of Omnipresence Omnipraesentia Lat. the Infinite Presence of God Almighty in all Places Excellently described Psal. 139. 7. c. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit Or whither shall I fly from thy Presence c. and Amos 9. 2 3 4. V. 592. Hallow'd the Seaventh day Sanctified it and separated it from the Business and Cares that take up other days and appointed and appropriated this day to his own Solemn Service Not dedicated to Ease and Idleness as the scosfing Heathen imagined Cui septima quaeque fuit lux Ignava vitae partem non attigit ullam Juv. But set apart for Gods Worship Works of Praise Charity Instruction c. Solemnized by Angels first as our Author at Vers. 601. Creation and the Six days acts they Sung taking the hint probably from that of Job 38. 7. When the Morning Stars sung together and all the Sons of God shouted for joy V. 596 All Organs of sweet stop All Instruments of sweetest Sound Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Instrument not here meant of that so
Imbuere Lat. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to fill V. 219. Nor Tongue ineloquent Nor does thy Tongue want fit and full Expressions Ineloquens Lat. that cannot speak readily and copiously V. 223. Each Word each Motion forms Whether thou speak or art silent Gracefulness and Comeliness wait on thee and form each winning Word and each becoming Motion V. 231. On Excursion Bo. II. V. 397. V. 235. Incens'd Incensus Lat. angry of Incendere Lat. to fire to anger Behests Bo. III. V. 533. Enure Bo. II. V. 216. V. 241. Barricado'd strong strongly barr'd and fortified of the Fr. Barriquer to fence or strengthen a place with Barrels fill'd with Earth against the Enemies Shot of Bà rrique Fr. a Barrel V. 244. Torment and loud lament c. Lament Bo. I. V. 448. Primisque in faucibus Oris Luctus ultrices posuere cubilia curae Ferreique Eumenidum thalami discordia demens AEn 6. V. 253. To Converse induc'd me The desire of conversing and discoursing longer perswaded me to this hard Undertaking Converse Bo. II. V. 184. Induc'd perswaded of Inducere Lat. to lead to V. 259. By quick instinctive Motion Till raised by powerful and provoking Motion I started up Instinctive stirring of Instinguere and Instigare Lat. to perswade whence Instinctus Lat. a natural Perswasion aad inward Motion V. 263. And liquid Lapse of Murmuring c. The moist motion the nimble gliding of pure purling Streams Lapse of Lapsus Lat. a sliding away a quick yet gentle motion At amnis Labitur labetur in omne volubilis aevum Hor. The motions of the Heavenly Bodies is express'd by the same word Cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu AEn 4. V. 267. My self I then perus'd I look'd my self all over heedfully Perus'd of Pervidere Lat. to look over V. 269. Witb supple Joynts With yielding Nerves Of Souple Fr. soft and bending of Sub and Plico Lat. to yield to bend as the Joynts Juncturae Lat. do V. 272. My Tongue obey'd And well it might as being the fittest Instrument of all Human Organs to signifie and express the conceptions of our Minds wonderful in its easie Motion as well as Situation in the very way of our Breath by the breaking of which against the Palate Teeth or Lips those many different and distinct Sounds are made Thô to speak be natural to all Mankind yet this or that Language is artificial and the difference of 'em arises from the consent of numbers of Men to understand such Things by such Names and Sounds That Adam spoke Hebrew is most probable as well as his Descendents till the confusion at Babel a Language whose Purity the Jews have by their frequent Captivities their being dispeopled and dispersed all over the World as well as by their upstart Pointings and Antichristian Depravations and blind Obstinacy quite lost V. 290. To my former State insensible To my First and Original Condition of Insensibility void of all Sense and Being of which I was able to give no account Insensible Insensibilis Lat. that comes not under the comprehension of Sense Unfelt not understood V. 291. To dissolve To be broken in pieces thinking my whole Frame as coming together beyond my knowledge was now forthwith like to be loosed and united Dissolve of Dissolvere Lat. to untie and from the breaking of those suttle Bands that bind Soul and Body together to die Adam as yet Sinless is supposed to have no notion of Death or but a very imperfect one What e'er death is some dreadful thing no doubt Bo. IV. Vers. 425. V. 292. Stood at my Head a Dream Where busie Fancy in which those strange dark Scenes are laid has its Seat and Residence according to Homer's Philosophic Observation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 293. Whose inward Apparition Whose Image working inwardly in my Imagination gently stirr'd my Fancy and perswaded me I was still in Being such as lately I survey'd my self Apparition Apparitio Lat. the appearance of any thing of Apparere Lat. to be seen V. 301. By the Hand he took me rais'd and over Fields c. The Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden Gen. 2. 15. On which Text Interpreters have these three Opinions That God either by some inward Admonishment directed Adam to Paradise as our Saviour is said To have been led up of the spirit into the wilderness Matth. 4. 1. Or by his Angel appearing to him conducted him as those did Lot out of Sodom While he linger'd the men laid hold on his hand and upon the hand of his Wife c. And they brought him forth and set him without the City Gen. 19. 16. Or lastly according to the Translation of Enoch Wâ—â— walked with God and was not because God took him Gen. 5. 24. And Philip who having baptized the Eunuch was caught away by the spirit of the Lord and found at Azotus Acts 8. 39 40. To this our Author seems to incline making Adam's unaccountable Progress from the Place of his Creation to Paradise like to a Dream and Fancy of the Night V. 311. As the Dream had lively shadow'd As my Dream had in the Images of my Imagination represented it express and plain Shadow'd is an admirable word setting forth the dark Resemblances of Dreams those imperfect Night-pieces dimly presented to our drowsie Senses V. 323. Whose Operation brings c. Forbear to taste of the Tree whose forbidden Fruit if thou presume to eat of contrary to my command will work in thee the Knowledge of Good and Evil Good lost by thy transgressing my Command and Evil brought on thy self by Disobedience Good lost by forfeiting my Favour and thy Innocence Evil drawn on thy self by Sin the bitter Consequence the sad Sequel of thy Offence the woful Effect of thy Folly Death Operation Operatio Lat. working Consequence Consequentia Lat. the Effect what follows necessarily V. 330. Inevitably die Shalt be sure to die thô not precisely on that day but from that day shalt become Mortal as our Author well interprets the Sentence recorded Gen. 2. 17. Inevitably unavoidably Inevitabilis Lat. that cannot be escaped V. 333. Sternly he pronounced the rigid Interdiction Severely he commanded the strict Forbearance Sternly awfully of the Lat. Austerus Pronounced Bo. II. V. 353. Rigid Bo. III. V. 212. Interdiction Interdictio Lat. a forbidding V. 335. Not to Incur Thô in my Power left to the choice and freedom of my Will not to offend against not to violate of Incurrere Lat. to run into or against Purpose Bo. III. V. 172 And thus his merciful Commands renew'd V. 344. To receive their Names Names according to the best Enquiries have no other relation to the Things they signifie than the common Consent of those agreeing so to difference and distinguish them thô the Jews pretended the Names of Animals in their Language for on those only Adam imposed them Gen. 2.
Collision Collisio Lat. of Collidere Lat. to strike one thing against another as Flints on Steel or Stones against each other thence forcing Fire The Air attrite the Air fretted into forc'd into Fire Attritus Lat. ground of Atterere Lt. to bruise to break Silici Scintillam excudit Achates AEn 1. V. 1074. Justling or push'd c. As lately we observ'd the Clouds rushing on one another or hurried by the Winds kindling the sidelong Lightning in their violent encounter whose Flame darting across down fired the uncteous Bark of Fir or Pine Justling of Jouster Fr. to run a-tilt at Rude violent of Rede Sax. fierce Shock Bo. 2. v. 1014. Tines Sax. Tynan to light a word still used in the West of England whence our Tinder slant or slanting Lightning that is darted awry of the Ger. Schlange a Serpent a Creature moving indirectly Thwart crosswise oblique of the Ger. Zwerch cross V. 1076. The Gummy Bark Fires the fat Juice that runs down the sides of the Fir or Pine-trees Gummy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a barbarous Word used by the Greeks for the Juice that sweats through the Bark of divers Trees whence our Gum. It is not improbable but Mankind had the first hint of Fire its Usefulness and the way of obtaining it from some such natural Accident An Observation as old as Lucretius Fulmen detulit in terras mortalibus ignem Primitus inde omnis flammarum diditur ardor Multa videmus enim caelestibus incita flammis Fulgere cum caeli donavit plaga vapores Exprimitur và lidis extrictus viribus ignis Et micat interdum flammaï fervidus ardor Lib. 5. Pine Bo. 4. v. 139. V. 1081. Of Grace beseeching him Intreating and praying for his Favour Gratia Lat. V. 1085. Dust our Native Home From whence we came and to which we must return out of which we had our Being and in which we must be buried thence Native to us Nativus Lat. of our Birth Gen. 3. 19. V. 1087. Prostrate Bo. 6. v. 841. Reverent of Revereri Lat. to worship V. 1091. With our Sighs the Air freqenting Sending up many frequent Sighs to Heaven of Frequentare Lat. to do any thing often Contrite Contritus Lat. broken Humiliation Humiliatio lowliness of Mind and Humility from a sense of the vileness of Sin V. 1097. Penitent Repenting Penitens Lat. Remorse Bo. 1. v. 604. V. 1099. Repairing where c. This is an Homeric Repetition of the six foregoing Verses it being usual with him to deliver Messages c. in the same words he first conceived them as in the beginning of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. where five preceeding Verses are repeated and in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where Talbythius delivers his Message to Machaon in the same three Verses that preceeded and in many other places at has been remark'd before NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK XI Verse 3. PRevenient Grace c. God's free Grace sent down into their Souls had removed all Hardness and Obduracy from their Hearts Prevenient Preveniens Lat. coming before Preventive Grace Gratia Lat. Quia gratis data The Spirit of Grace and Supplication promised to be poured out upon God's People Zech. 12. 10. Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began 2 Tim. 1. 9. V. 5. Regenerate grow in stead And made a relenting Tenderness like the Flesh of a new-born Babe grow in their Hearts in stead of their stubborn Hardness express'd by Rancor Pride Impatience Despite and Reluctance against God Bo. 10. v. 1044. The Conversion of a Sinner is in Scripture Phrase styled Regeneration a New-birth Except ye be converted and become as little children Matth. 18. 3. Of this New-birth Regeneratio Lat. our Saviour discoursed with Nicodemus John 3. 3. Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God Unto a lively hope of which kingdom God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath begotten us again by the resurrection of his Son from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Regeneravit nos Regenerate Regeneratus Lat. begot again anew V. 6. Unutterable That Sighs unexpressible burst forth which God's holy Spirit the Spirit of Supplication and Intercession breathed into 'em and wafted up to Heaven with nimbler speed than the most audible and loudest Oration could ever reach According to St. Paul Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered Rom. 8. 26. Oratory Oratoria Lat. Rhetorick the Art of Speaking well and readily Port Bo. 4. v. 869. V. 9. Nor important less c. Yet neither did they for their Persons seem mean Supplicants nor was their Request less weighty or considerable than that of the ancient Couple devout Deucalion and chast Pyrrha less Ancient yet than Adam and Eve when Praying they approached the Temple of just Themis begging to be instructed how to restore Mankind destroy'd by a Deluge as the Poets write Important Fr. considerable of Importer Fr. Importare Lat. to be of weight valuable Petitio Lat. a Request V. 12. Deucalion and chast Pyrrha Deucalion was Son of Prometheus and Husband to Pyrrha his Brother Epymetheus's Daughter O soror ô conjux ô faemina sola superstes Quam commune mihi genus patruelis origo Deinde torus junxit nunc ipsa pericula jungunt Met. l. 1. V. 14. Before the Shrine of Themis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. was a Goddess supposed to prompt Men those Petitions that were fit to be ask'd of the Gods of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Fas Lat. fit and right She did also preside over Oracles and General Assemblies whose Consultations she prosper'd or perverted as she thought right and just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 She Summon'd the Consulting Gods together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dic Themi quâ generis damnum reparabile nostri Arte sit mersis fer opem mitissima rebus Met. 1. She had a Temple in Baeotia near the River Cephisus Adeunt pariter Cephesidos undas Ibid. Shrine Bo. 1. v. 388. V. 16. By envious Winds blown Vagabond c. Not blown away by blustring Winds vain and disappointed The Poets feigned Prayers and Vows ineffectual to be blown away as not able to obtain Audience of the Gods Voti Phaebus succedere partem Mente dedit partem volucres dispersit in auras AEn 11. Multa patri portanda dabat mandata sed aurae Omnia discerpunt nubibus irrita donant AEn 9. Nec ferre videt sua gaudia ventos AEn 10. So Horace Tristitiam metus Tradam pro tervis in mare Creticum Portare ventis Vagabond Vagabundus Lat. a Wanderer a Vagrant Frustrate Bo. 2. v. 193. Dimentionless Spiritual and
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
Mind the Understanding hurt and disturb'd â—n Feavors by over-heating the Membranes of the Brain Downright Madness Manifiesta Phrenesis Mart. Ibid. Moaping Melancholy A sullen silent Madness occasioned by abundance of black adust Choler whence Melancholy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Distemper takes its Name Moaping dull sullen stupid because their Vital Spirits are choak'd and oppress'd by black Clouds of Choler V. 486. Moon-struck Madness Madness depending on the Moon whence those affected with it are stiled Lunatics of Luna Lat. the Moon whose Encreases augment the Malady Moon-struck 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. à Luna percussus a Lunatic Ibid. Pining Atrophie A continual Consumption by some defect in those Parts that should disgest and turn our Meat and Drink into wholsom Nourishment Pining wasting starving of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Hunger Atrophie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. want of Nourishment V. 487. Marasmus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. another kind of Consumption proceeding from an Habitual Hectic Heat over-drying the Body and quite consuming the Radical Moisture of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to dry up to parch Pestilence Pestilentia Lat. the Plague Wide-wasting that slays by wholesale V. 488. Dropsies c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Aqua intercus of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Water which getting between the Flesh and the Skin overflows and swells into an incurable Inundation and at last drowns with Death Ibid. Asthma's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Tissick a difficulty of Breathing of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to breath hard and hot Joint-racking Rheums Gouts and Rheumatisms that rack and rend our Joints in pieces by torturing and tearing our Nerves asunder Rheums of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Flux of Humour of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to flow V. 490. Despair tended the Sick They were all in so sad a condition that they despair'd of their Recovery Despair Desperatio Lat. a sad but usual attendant on the Sick Deform Bo. 12. v. 706. V. 496. Compassion queld his best of Man Pity overcame all his Manhood Conquer'd all his Courage though he had no natural weakness as not Born of Womankind his Offspring Queld Bo. 4. v. 860. V. 504. Obtruded on us Why is Life thus forc'd upon us without our Consent Quae lucis miseris tam dira Cupido AEn 6. Degraded Bo. 8. v. 552. Wrested forc'd by violence from of Reissen Ger. to pluck from Obtruded Obtrudere Lat. to force upon V. 510. To such unsightly sufferings debased Humbled to such abominable Diseases under such loathsome Loads to suffer such excessive Pains Deba'st Desbaisse Fr. degraded V. 516. When themselves they vilified When they disparaged and undervalued themselves by yielding to unruly Lust. Vilifi'd Vilificare Lat. to render Vile Vilis Lat. base V. 519. Inductive mainly c. Ungovern'd Appetite that Brutish Vice our inordinate Lusts and Desires were the main persuasives which prevail'd with Eve to Transgress God's Command which has made the punishment of her Posterity so Beastly and Abominable suitable to her Brutish Sin Inductive Inducere Lat. to lead Abject mean base Abjectus Lat. vile naught V. 529. With our Connatural Dust Be mingled with our Original Clay Connaturalis Lat. of the same kind with us Dust out of which Adam originally was rais'd V. 531. The rule of not too much The Golden Rule of Temperance in Meats and Drinks Ne quid nimis Eating to support not oppress Nature by Gluttonous Delight by pleasing of thy Palate and indulging thy Appetite Gluttonois greedy Of Glouton Fr. Gluto Lat. a greedy and voracious Eater V. 534. Years over thy head return The years made by the circular Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies are well said to return their Seasons moving in a perpetual round In sese vertitur annus V. 537. For death mature Ripe for thy Dissolution not like green Fruit with difficulty pluck from the Tenacious Tree but ripe and ready for the Grave Earth thy Mothers Lap whence thou grewst up Mature Maturus ripe thence Matura viro virgo V. 540. Thy Senses then obtuse Thy Senses then will grow dull and blunt their edge will be quite worn away Obtusus Lat. blunted All taste of Pleasure must forgoe Non eadem vini atque cibi torpente palato Gaudia Nam dudum gustus perit c. Juv. Sat. 10. V. 546. The Balm of Life A dull cold and dry Vapour will overcast and cloud thy Spirits and at last lick up the Oil of Life and put out its Lamp by consuming the radical moisture well assimulated to Balm which the Jews say is named so Balsamum as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord of Oil the principal of all Juices V. 549. This combrous charge Of this troublesome uneasie load Combrous of Komeren Belg. to trouble to molest Charge une Charge Fr. a burden V. 559. That made melodious Chime That made a sweet Musical Harmony Melodious Bo. 3. v. 371. Chime is properly the Sound of Bells Of Chiamare Ital. to call People to Church as there is use V. 561. Their Stops and Chords Who mov'd the Stops upon the Organ and strook the Harps shrill Strings Chords Chorda Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Gut of which the Strings of Instruments are generally made V. 562. His volant Touch instinct c. His nimble Fingers as if inspired flew through all the various distances of Sound o'er all proportions low or high Treble or Base and through all its Parts followed the Sounding Symphony Volant Volans Lat. flying Instinct Bo. 2. v. 935. Transverse crosswise both-ways Bo. 3. v. 488. Resonant Resonans Lat. loud Sounding A Fugue of Fuga Lat. a flight is in Musick the correspondency of Parts answering one another in the same Notes either above or below therefore exactly and graphically styled Resonant as Sounding the same Notes over again V. 566. Found where casual Fire c. Found at first where Fire by chance had burnt the Woods down to the Mineral Entrails of the Earth or washt from thence by Waters under-ground One of which most likely gave discoveries of the Earths hidden Stores Casual Casualis Lat. accidental by chance Ore Bo. 1. v. 673. V. 573. Fusil or Grav'n By Melting and Carving Fusil Fusilis Lat. meltable Of Fundere Lat. to cast Metal Graven of Graver Fr. to Carve to Grave V. 575. From the high Hills their Seat That Seth and his Descendents separated themselves from the Tents of Cain and his wicked Race who slew the Righteous Abel is easie to be imagined but how they came to Seat themselves on the Hills leaving the fruitful Plains to the Murderers unless for the conveniency of their Celestial Observations Seth being reputed the first Institutor of Astronomy is hard to be conjectured That there was a seperation between 'em Moses hints In that the Sons of God saw the Daughters of Men that they were fair Gen. 8. 2. which had not been so remarkable had they always converst and
wasted Sons of Cain exhausted by their vicious Intemperance that from the mixture of the Godly and goodly Sons of Seth with the Debauch'd Daughters of Men sprang a Race more Robust and Mighty than their decay'd Pregenitors esteem'd Giants being as perverse and wicked cruel and bloody as strong potent and able of Body which our Author calls Prodigious Births for the enormity both of their Bodies and Minds mighty and malicious Atchiev'd Bo. 2. v. 364. V. 700. The Seventh from thee Enoch That is in the Holy Linage of which our Saviour was to come Adam Seth Eâ—os Cainan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch Enoch also the seventh from Adam Prophesied of these things Jude 5. 14. Gen. 5. 19. and Luk. 3. 37. 38. Rapt Raptus Lat. snatch'd away V. 703. The Brazen Throat of War The Trumpets Wars hoarse voice were heard no more Trumpets and Instruments used to incite Men to Battle were usually made of Brass AEre ciere viros martemque accendere cantu AEn 6. Jollity Jolieté Fr mirth Prostituting Prostituere Lat. to become common V. 717. Where passing fair c. Where any extraordinary Beauty enticed 'em Passing fair that exceeded the ordinary as if surpassing V. 719. A Reverend Sire Noah who found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord Gen. 6. 8. V. 724. To Souls in Prison c. By whom our Saviour Preach'd to the Spirits in Prison bound and chain'd under the dark Delusions of Sin which sometime were disobedient when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. V. 730. Measured by Cubit Noah's Ark The length shall be 300 cubits Gen. 5. 15. Cubit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the length from the Elbow to the end of the middle Finger generally V. 735. Came sevens and Pairs Seven of the clean Beasts such as were used in Sacrifice that Noah might have at least an odd one to offer in grateful Thanksgiving for his Deliverance And two of beasts not clean Gen. 7. 2. Gen. 8. 20. Insect Bo. 4. v. 704. V. 737. God made fast the Door And the Lord shut him in Gen. 7. 16. His three sons and their four wives v. 13. V. 738. The South Wind rose and with black Wings Madidis notus evolat alis Terribilem piceà tectus caligine vultum Barba gravis nimbis canis fluit unda capillis Fronte sedent nebulae rorant pennaeque sinusque Met. l. 1. V. 740. To their Supply To their Aid and Encrease Of Suppléer Fr. to furnish to store Dusk of Duster Ger. dark Alimentaque nubibus addunt Ibid. V. 743. Like one dark Ceeling stood The Heavens overcast like one great cloudy Cieling shew'd Ceeling or Cieling of the Ital. Cielo Lat. Caelum and from thence any lofty Roof that interposes between us and it V. 746. With beaked Prow c. With its pointed Prow ran a-tilt o'er the Waves Beaked of Bec Fr. a Bird's Bill Prow Proüe Fr. It. Proda Lat. Prora Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Head of a Ship Tilting moving to and fro of Tealtrian Sax. to shake as Tilters do their Launces V. 747. All Dwellings else Pressaeque labant sub gurgite turres Met. 1. V. 750. Sea without Shoar Omnia pontus erant deerant quoque littora ponto Ibid. Stabled Stabulare Lat. to house Cattle Imbark'd Embarqué Fr. on board V. 756. Depopulation An universal Dispeopling of all the World at once Depopulatio Lat. V. 765. Each Day 's Lot enough c. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof Matth. 6. 34. Lot chance share V. 767. The Burden of many Ages Those Evils that by the Ordinance of Heaven and God's Dispensations are to be Punishments of many Generations yet to come do all this minute at once fall heavy upon me my Foreknowledge affording 'em untimely Birth to torture me before they are in being with the most cruel killing Thought that one Day they most certainly must be Dispens'd design'd of Dispensare Lat. to dispose Abortive Bo. 2. v. 442. V. 775. In Apprehension then in Substance The Notion and Foreknowledge of an Evil that certainly will come to pass will be as painful as the feeling it tormenting us by advance often for once Apprehensio Lat. Conceit knowledge V. 779. Wandring that watry Desert Wandring o'er that watry Wilderness that yields no supply Desert Bo. 7. v. 314. Quibus unda pepercit Illos longa domant inopi jejunia victu Met. 1. V. 795. Hostile Deeds in Peace Wrong and Oppression that often are the Offspring of Luxurious Peace Hostile Hostilis Lat. of Enmity V. 802. Worldly and dissolute Worldly or wantonly Dissolutus Lat. debauch'd or loose of Life Practise learn Practiquer Fr. Praxis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Exercise V. 807. The only Son of Light c. A Graphic Description of Righteous Noah Derided scorn'd Bo. 2. v. 191. V. 818. A wondrous Ark Of Arca Lat. a Chest any close and capacious hollow in which things are kept safe Quod arceat fures says Varro V. 820. Devote to universal Ruck The World design'd for universal Deluge destin'd universally to be drown'd Rack should have been printed Wrack implying the general Punishment by the Flood wherein the whole World at once suffered Shipwrack Devote Book 3. vers 208. V. 822. Select for Life Chosen by God's great Goodness to be saved from the general Destruction Select Bo. 8. v. 513. V. 823. All the Cataracts of Heaven All Heaven's Flood-gates were set open called by Moses The windows of Heaven Gen. 7. 11. of which the most reasonable account is That the middle Region of the Air the Generative Womb of Rain-water was against the Day of that dismal Deluge stored with vast quantities of Vapours and multitudes of black thick Clouds which being converted into Water came rushing down like so many tumbling Torrents falling from Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word interpreted Windows and Cataracts seems to belong to the Bed-chambers of the Rain since used in other places of Scripture in relation to it as 2 King 7. 2. and by Malachi Prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing c. c. 3. v. 10. meant of moderate Rain and seasonable Showers Cataracts Bo. 2. v. 176. V. 825. The Fountains of the Deep The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Moses All the fountains of the great deep Gen. 7. 11. By which thô most Commentators understand the vast Abyss and General Assemblies of Waters contain'd in the Earth's many and mighty Caverns the sourse and support of the Seas and which in the days of the Deluge being let loose heav'd 'em above and beyond all their Bounds yet divers of the Fathers by this Great Deep take the Waters above the Firmament mentioned Gen. 1. 7. to be meant and that without their spoughting down their Chrystalline Cataracts there could not have been by whatsomever quantities of Rain or condensation of the Aâ—rial Region so vast
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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