in poena sensus the Punishments of more gross sensibility V. 56. His Baleful Eyes His sorrowful sad Eyes weighed down and overwhelmed with Grief from the Dutch Bale a Burden Grief being deducible à gravitate Sorrow is a a heavy Burden and hard to be born So the Baleful Stound F. Q. Cant. 7. St. 25. V. 57. Dismay Astonishment from the old Fr. Esmay an overwhelming Grief and Affliction V. 58. Mixt with Obdurate Pride c. Supported by inflexible Pride and unrelenting Hatred the short but severe and true Character of the Arch-Rebel Satan mixt from mistus Lat. mingled with Obdurate Lat. Obduratus hardened stiff-neck'd unalterable V. 59. As Angels Ken At once he views around as far as Angels Eyes can see Ken to see to discern from the Sax. Cennen to know to discover whence cunning Knowledge Experience V. 60. The Dismal Situation The sad ghastly Seat Situation Fr. the site or standing of a place Lat. Situs dismal horrid dark frightful Dimmel Sax. obscure V. 61. A Dungeon horrible A frightful Prison filled and surrounded on all sides with Everlasting Flames from the Fr. Dongeon the strongest place in the middle of a Fort the last Retreat where the Besieged made their utmost Effort and thence used for the strongest place in a Prison Horribilis Lat. dreadful V. 62. As one great Furnace Like one great red-hot Oven flamed Fornax Lat. V. 63. Darkness visible seems nearer a Contradiction than that Egyptian Darkness sent on Pharaoh which was such as to be felt Exod. 10. 21. But a Mist is often the cause of Darkness that may be palpable though that in the Text was preternatural But our Poets meaning by this Darkness visible is only that from Hell's flaming Dungeon there issued no Light but such a Darkness as through it might be discovered those dismal Scenes and Seats of Everlasting Wo. V. 65. Regions of Sorrow Doleful Shades The Realms of Grief and Seats of Everlasting Sorrow Regio Lat. Country doleful woful sorrowful from dole an old word from dolor Lat. grief The Description of this vast flaming Fuâ—nace may if we consider the gloomy Darkness which our Poet arrays it in admit of these sad Shades without the least allay to its Eternal Burnings though I conceive this Verse and the two subsequent not to relate so much to the Topography of Hell as to the Persons of its hopeless Inhabitants The dark Regions of the Dead are by all the Poets delineated by Shades Ire sub umbras is in Virgil's phrase to die Vitaque cum genitu fugit indignata sub umbras And Hell is so by him described Tum Tartarus ipse Bis patet in praeceps tantum Tenditque sub umbras AEn 6. V. 67. Hope never comes that comes to all Except the Damned who are past all hope which on this side the Grave courts all Conditions and under the worst caresses life Dum curae ambiguae dum spes incerta futuri AEn 8. Ibid. But Torture without end The never-ceasing Stings and Lashes of Conscience that put the wicked to Eternal Tortures assiduum quatiente animo tortore Flagellum Juv. Tortura Lat. Torment V. 68. Still urges Continually presses and pursues 'em Urgeo Lat. to vex Ibid. And a Fiery Deluge fed c. A Flood of Flaming Brimstone which though always burning will never be consumed Deluge from Diluvium Lat. for an Inundation Sulphur Lat. Brimstone latè circum loca Sulfure fumant AEn 2. V. 73. Their Portion set Their Lot their appointed Place from Lat. Portio a Proportion a Share V. 74. As from the Center thrice Outcasts of Heaven banish'd from its pure and everlasting Light and the glorious Presence of God Almighty three times as far as either Pole is distant from the Center An Imitation of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tum Tartarus ipse Bis patet in praeceps tantum tenditque sub umbras Quantus ad AEthereum Coeli suspectus Olympum AEn 6. In Homer Jupiter threatens to throw any of the Gods that shall dare to aid either the Trojan or Grecian Army contrary to his Command down very far into gloomy Hell where is the deepest Pit beneath the Earth whose Gates are Iron and its pavement Brass as far beneath Hell as Heaven is above the Earth Virg. tells us Hell goes headlong down twice as deep as the prospect thence up into Heaven Our Author says God in his Justice had appointed the dark Infernal Dungeon for these Disobedient Spirits thrice as far from Heavens chearful Light and his own blest Abode as is Earths Center from the utmost Pole Which of 'em has measured the Distance most Mathematically is hard to determine but Milton's Description of this Infernal Region far exceeds both the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the one and the Pallentes umbras Erebi Noctemque profundam of the other neither of 'em having ventured on so large a Survey of that sad Seat Tasso's Description is curt and inconsiderable Itene maladetti al vostro Regno Regno di pene é di perpetua morte Cant. 9. St. 64. Ibid. Center Lat. Centrum from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the middle point in a Circle from which the Circumference is equi-distant Ibid. Pole The Poles or Vertical Points of the World are two the North and South so call'd from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to turn round because on them the Daily Motion from East to West is made for the same Reason by the Lat. termed Vertices à Vertendo Hic vertex nobis semper sublimis at illum Sub pedibus Styx atra videt manesque profundi Georg. 1. V. 77. Whirlwinds of Tempestuous Fire A Noble Expression of the Flaming Hurricane of Hell taken doubtless from Psal. 11. 6. Fire and Brimstone and an horrible Tempest V. 78. Weltring Wallowing tossing and tumbling up and down by his side from Fr. Veaultrer of the Lat. Volutare V. 79. Next in Power and next in Crime One of his associate Angels the greatest next to himself both as to Authority and Transgression Crime fault Lat. Crimen Sin Offence V. 80. Palestine Palestina Lat. so named from the Philistines its old and famous Inhabitants since Judaea of the Jews who dispossest them It is a Province in Syria bounded with Euphrates Arabia Phoenicia and the Mediterranean Sea called by Christians the Holy Land V. 81. Beelzebub The Lord of Flies of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Fly an Idol worship'd at Ecron a City of the Philistines 2 King 1. 2. most probably a Telisina made against Flies in Imitation of the freedom from those Insects which is reported to have belonged to the Slaughtering-place of the Jewish Sacrifices the more remarkable because the constant Effusion of so much Blood must naturally have bred or at least have brought and kept together vast Swarms of those troublesome Creatures Matth. 12. 24. Beelzebub is called Prince of the Devils
mole corporis quatuor decim globos terrestres adaequat circa quem quatuor Lunae nostrae huic Lunae non absimiles circumcurrant Kepl. in Praef. Diopt. Coâ—stare potest esse Planetas quosdam primarios ac veluti Principes Mâ—rcurium Venerem quosdam secundarios â—c veluti pedissequos Lunas nimirum tam terrestres quam Joviales quam caeter as quae reliquis globis possunt circumduci Gal. l. 3. c. 2. Zenophanes the Colophonian was long ago of this Opinion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that there were innumerable Suns and Moons not unlike those that shine on us V. 150. Communicating Male and Female Light The Sun 's Light being the most pure and powerful is reputed the Masculine as full of its own innate Vigour and that of the Moon being but derivative and borrowed of him weak and imperfect to be of the Feminine Sex which two great Sexes fill the World with Living Creatures nor do these Sexes manifest their Power among the Viventia only but the Virentia too for Trees and Plants afford Instances of the same distinction Male of Masle Fr. Mas Lat. a He-Creature Female of Faemella Lat. a She Creature V. 152. Stor'd in each Orb c. Of the Probability of a Plurality of Worlds hear what another of our Country-men and a Poet excellent in his time said What if within the Moon 's fair shining Sphear What if in ev'ry other Star unseen Of other Worlds he happily should hear He wonder would much more yet they to some appear Spenc. F. Q. Bo. 2. c. 1. St. 3. Habitari ait Zenophanes in Lâ—nâ eamque esse terram mult arum urbium atque montium Cicer. Quast Acad. V. 158. Is obvious to Dispute 'T is doubtful and disputable that so vast a Space as that of the Heavens where so many millions of glorious and mighty Bodies are should be quite empty and unpossess'd by any living Creatures as if made only to dart each a ray of Light from so vast a distance down to this Habitable Earth which in her turn sends back her Light to them Is obvious lies fairly in the way of Doubt and Disputation Obvius Lat. easie V. 160. Whether the Sun Predominant c. Whether the shining Sovereign of Heaven Great Regent of the Day Bo. VII V. 371 rise on the Earth and from the East begin his glorious Walk round her Predominant Praedominans Lording it over her of Praedominari Lat. to Rule over Ad cujus numeros dii moveantur orbis Accipiat leges praescriptaqae faedera servet V. 161. Or Earth rise on the Sun c. Or whether the errant Earth rowl round the Sun and from the West proceed in her course unperceived silent and still Advance Book VI. Vers. 233. V. 164. That spinning sleeps on her soft Axle The Earth's easie and imperceptible motion round her small Axis is compared to a Top spinning and turning round with so swist but easie and even motion so unperceivable that it is said to sleep on her soft Axle By the same Simile is her third Motion or rather the modification of her other Motions of Inclination explained by Gasseâ—dus Potest autem eodem modo intelligi fieri quo dum puerorum Turbo super planum convolvitur circellosque varios cuspide describit ipse illius axis tum continet se sibi parallelum seu in situ semper perpendiculari tum continet quoque basin turbinis Horizonti semper parallelum Just. Astro. l. 3. c. 3. Ceu quondam terto volitans sub verbere turbo Quem pueri magno in gyro vacua atria circum Intenti ludo exercent Ille actus habenâ Curvatis fertur spatiis AEn 7. V. 166. Soft with the smooth Air along Is an Answer to an Objection made against the Earth's motion that if she wheel'd about with such extraordinary swiftness as necessarily she must to return to the same Point in 24 hours Mankind would be sensible of the hurry by a continual and mighty Wind which the constant breaking and concussion of the Air would cause therefore the Copernicans tell us that the Air at least the grosser part of it encloseth the Earth's Globe and sticks to it as the Down on a Peach floating along with it and the more pure and yielding part of it gives way so as not to be perceived except near and under the AEquator where the Earth moving most swiftly towards the East the Air seems to resist and occasions that constant and pleasing Gale of Wind the Seamen experience breathing towards the West Ut nautae illum quasi ventum indesinentem aequabilem experiantur Gass. l. 3. c. 9. V. 167. Sollicite not thy Thoughts Disturb not thy self trouble not thy head Of Sollicitare Lat. to vex to disquiet Ea cura quietos Sollicitat AEn 4. V. 172. Heaven is for thee too high God to remove his ways from Human Sense Placed Heav'n from Earth so far that Earthly Sight If it presume might err in Things too high And no Advantage gain V. 119 of this Book According to the Verdict of Salomon Then I beheld all the works of God that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun because thô a man labour to seek it out yea further thô a wise man think to know it yet shall he not be able to find it Eccl. 8. 17. Be lowly wise Noli altum sapere is therefore the most instructive Inference V. 181. Intelligence of Heaven Clear Heavenly Understanding The best description of an Angel which being of a purer make than Mankind must needs have more sublime and illuminated Intellects Intelligentia Lat. Understanding Angel serene gentle and kind of Serenus Lat. calm applicable both to the Countenance and Conditions Quae causa serenos Faedavit vultus AEn 2. V. 193. What before us lies in daily Life Useful in the daily Duties of Life Seeing there be many things that increase Vanity what is Man the better For who knoweth what is good for Man in this Life Which the Latin Version renders more to our purpose Verba sunt plurima multamque in disputando habentia vanitatem Quid necesse est homini majora se quaerere cum ignoret quid conducat sibi in vitâ suâ Eccles. 6. 11 12. Neither make thy self over-wise why should'st thou destroy thy self Neque p'â—s sapias quam necesse est ne obstupescas Eccles. 7. 16. Concerning which St. Paul has cautioned us Colos. 2. 8. V. 194. Is Fume Fumus Lat. Smoke Emptiness and Vanity V. 212. Of Palm-tree pleasantest to Thirst The Palm-tree bears a Fruit called a Date full of sweet Juice a great Restorative to dry and exhausted Bodies by augmenting the Radical Moisture there is one kind of it called Palma AEgyptiaca which from its Virtue against Drought was named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sitim sedans Palm Bo. IV. Vers. 139. V. 216. With Grace Divine imbu'd Thy Words full of Divine Sweetness Imbu'd Imbutus Lat. filled full of
and Glory are frequently express'd by it in Holy Writ Thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee Psal. 21. 8. Sit on my right hand Psal. 110. 1. On the contrary the Left was esteemed weak and wicked A wise man's heart is at his right hand but a fools heart at his left Eccl. 10. 2. And the Discrimination of the Blessed and the Accursed at the Day of Judgment is typified by the same distinction He shall set the sheep on his right hand but the goats on his left Matth. 25. 33. So Virgil describes the two ways leading to Happiness and Misery after Death Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas Dextera quae Ditis magni sub maenia tendit Hac iter Elysium nobis at Laeva malorum Exercet paenas ad impia Tartara mittit And the fiery Phlegethon is placed Sub rupe sinistrâ AEn 6. Sinister Lat. of the left hand and thence unlucky V. 887. As supernumerary to my just number The number of Ribs in a Human Body being twenty four twelve on each side has put the Curious upon Enquiry whether Adam had thirteen on that side out of which the Rib formed into his Companion was taken Those that are of this Opinion seem to make him a Monster and cannot easily disintagle themselves from that Absurdity Others therefore say he had no more than his Descendents but that one of 'em which was substracted from his Side was by that Omnipotent Power who formed him from the Dust supply'd by another which the Text Gen. 2. 21. where there is only mention of closing up the Flesh will as well admit of at that other at V. 23. where Adam styles Eve Flesh of his Flesh in whose Formation there is nothing more named than a bare Rib of which our Author makes incensed Adam say it had been well if it had been thrown away as unnecessary or over and above the equal number of his Ribs on each side Supernumerarius Lat. exceeding the usual number V. 890. With Spirits masculine c. It is generally supposed that the whole Angelic Nature was entirely created at once without distinction of Sex that difference being only necessary to People this inferior World by Propagation our Saviour in his Answer to the Sadduces captious Question concerning the Resurrection having declared That those who shall arise to a blessed Resurrection shall neither Marry nor be given in Marriage but be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Equal to the Angels Luke 20. 34 35. Spirits masculine He-Angels Masculinus Lat. of Mas a Man a He Creature V. 891. This fair Defect of Nature This fair Failure in Nature this charming Want and Weakness Male and Female Creatures being of the same kind and only differenc'd by their Sex the Feminine seems to be a kind of Lameness and Weakness a Hurt and Damage of the more perfect and compleat Sex Nimirum vir est quod firmum proinde efficax faemina quod debile proinde receptivum pati idoneum So that a Woman is as it were a maim'd and imperfect Man Vall. de Sac. Philos c. 1. This Novelty this strange thing this wonderful new thing in Nature so called in respect of the supposed Peopling of Heaven with Masculine Spirits Nouveauté Fr. a new unusual thing of Novus Lat. Defect Defectus Lat. a deficiency something wanting V. 894. To generate Mankind To encrease and multiply Mankind that Men might rise like Mushroms out of their Mother Earth's moist lap As Lucretius Maternum nomen adepta Terra tenet merito quoniam genus ipsa creavit Humanum atque animal propè certo tempore fudit Omne Lib. 5. V. 902. Through her Perversness By her Frowardness or Obstinacy Perversitas Lat. crossness V. 905. To a fell Adversary Chain'd by ill-made Marriage to an angry Enemy his Curse or his Confusion Fell curs'd cruel of Felle an old Fr. word of Fel Lat. the Gall as if Felleus bitter Wedlock-bound Married as Wind-bound V. 909. He added not He said no more Repuls'd Repulsus Lat. refus'd dishearten'd of repellere Lat. to overthrow to drive back Tresses Bo. 4. v. 305. V. 913. Besought his Peace Begg'd his Pardon entreated to be restored to his Favour V. 918. And elasp thy Knees And humbly embrace thy Knees an Universal Custom among all Nations Hominis genibus quaedam religio inest observatione gentium Haec supplices attingunt ad haec manus tendunt haec ut aras adorant Plin. l. 11. c. 45. The Knees were Sacred to Pity and Compassion as the Forehead to the Genius and the Right Hand to Fidelity Genua amplexus genibusque volutans Haerebat AEn 3. The Heathens used to affix their Supplications or their Vows for obtaining them to those parts of their Idol-Gods Genua incerare Deorum Juven Suppliant Supplicans of Supplicare Lat. to sue to entreat Subsist Bo. 9. v. 359. V. 931. I against God and Thee I have offended both God the supreme Sovereign Lord of all Things and Beings and thee also my immediate and particular Lord. V. 933. Importune Heaven Beseech God who dwels in Heaven with most earnest Entreaties c. Importune earnestly to Entreat of Importunus Lat. Bo. 9. v. 609. V. 937. And her lowly Plight immoveable Her humble Posture from which she refused to rise till she had made her Peace Plight Bo. 1. v. 335. Immoveable Immobilis Lat. unremoved Deplor'd lamented bewail'd Deploratus Lat. Commiseration Commiseratio Lat. Pity Reconcilement Reconciliatio Lat. a return to Kindness and Friendship V. 955. All Might be visited c. That all the Punishment might light on To visit in Scripture Phrase signif to Punish In the day of my Visitation I will visit their sin upon them Ex. 32. 34. Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Jer. 5. 9. So Jerusalem because of her Abominations is called The City of Visitation Jer. 6. 6. Visited of Visitare Lat. to go to see to enquire into a thing Expos'd Expositus Lat. laid open as here to danger V. 965. To our Seed deriv'd Streaming down to all Succession A Metaphor from Water running forth from its Spring head Derivare aquam ex fonte as Quintil. As Water issueth from its Well-spring and runs till it mingle with its Original Ocean so does Adam's Sins spread over his Posterity till Time shall be swallowed up of Eternity Derived Derivatus Lat. flowing down to V. 967. By sad Experiment By woful Experience Experimentum Lat. Tryal Proof Erroneous Bo. 6. v. 146. By just Event by what is deservedly come to pass Event Eventus Lat. of Evenire Lat. to happen V. 978. Tolerable as in our Evils c. Yet better to be undergone in this our ill condition and sitter to be chosen and preferable to it Tolerabilis Lat. sufferable V. 979. If Care of our Descent c. If the Concern of our Offspring of those that shall come of and
Incorporeal void of all Dimension Bo. 1. v. 793. V. 18. Where the Golden Altar fum'd And another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne And the smoak of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God Rev. 8. 3 4. Incense Bo. 9. v. 194. Fum'd smoaked of Fumare Lat. Intercessor Bo. 3. v. 219. V. 23. Implanted Grace From thy Grace rooted in his Heart Implantatus Lat. planted in Censer Incensoir Fr. an Instrument to burn Incense in ab Incendendo Lat. Manuring Bo. 4. v. 628. V. 33. His Advocate and Propitiation His Defence and Satisfaction let me expound his imperfect Prayers who am his Patron and Surety We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins 1 John 2. 1 2. Advocatus Lat. one that defends the Cause of his Client Propitiatio Lat. a satisfaction of Propitiare Lat. to appease V. 35. Or not good Ingraft A Gardening Metaphor used by St. Paul often Rom. 11. v. 17 19 23 c. place all his good Works or not good on me on my account my Merit shall compleat those and for the other my Death shall make satisfaction Ingraft of In and Greffer Fr. to put a slip of one Tree into another V. 38. The smell of Peace towards Mankind Accept me the Peace-offering for Mankind in me be reconciled to him The Peace-offering in the Levitical Law is frequently express'd by an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord Levit. 3. v. 5 16. and c. 4. v. 31. typifying that most acceptable Sacrifice of our Saviour who is our Peace Eph. 2. 14. Reconciled Reconciliatus Lat. restored to Favour His Days numbred his appointed Time short and sad Pauperis est numorare V. 41. To mitigate not to reverse Which I entreat to soften to render more easie not to repeal Mitigare Lat. to asswage To reverse as to reverse a Decree to make void a Sentence of Revertere quasi Retrovertere to abrogate V. 44. Made one with me c. That they may all be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one John 17. 21 22. V. 51. No Gross no unharmonious Mixture c. Those fine and undecaying Elements that in their mixture have no inequality or grossness will not endure him infected any longer but throw him off like a Disease The pure and well-proportioned Elements in Paradise and not improbably in all the World were so equally mix'd as to contribute to its Fruits Adam's Food that wholsom Temperament which was to have preserved him and his Posterity in an uninterrupted state of Health till it had pleased his Creator to have translated him Sinless into Heaven without tasting Corruption or seeing the Grave but having transgress'd he was to be driven out of that undecaying Garden into the distemper'd World to Air that now must suffer change to Earth affected with Cold and Heat scarce tolerable Bo. 10. v. 212 and 653. Gross to Air as gross and perishing Nourishment such as might introduce Decay and incline him daily to Dissolution and at last to Death Sins dire Distemper Gross thick foul Grosso Ital. of Crassus Lat. thick unfine Unharmonius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. disagreeing Eject of Ejicere Lat. to throw out Tainted Bo. 5. v. 704. Distemper disorder of Dis Negative and Trempe Fr. of Temperies Lat. the proportion and equality of Cold and Heat Dissolution Bo. 2. v. 127. V. 59. Happiness and Immortality God endowed Adam with two fair Gifts Happiness and Immortality not Absolute but depending on his Obedience Happy while obedient and Immortal while innocent because in a condition not to die But this possibility of Never Dying did not result from his Nature for by that he was Mortal and subject to Decay as living an Animal Life but had he kept his Innocence God would have so preserved and protected him that after a long Life here he would have translated him to immutable secure and unforfeitable Immortality in everlasting Bliss without passing through Corruption and the dark Grave as Enoch was that he might not see Death Heb. 11. 5. For had Man continued Sinless it is unimaginable how the World could have maintained if able to contain their vast Multitudes always here below Therefore Immortality imports a Longevity of undisturb'd Happiness and undistemper'd Health which should have transmitted Mankind into Heaven at God's appointed time But having lost his Happiness which depended on his Innocence Immortality would have proved a Punishment an everlasting Disease whose only Remedy and Cure is Death the Restorative of his Primitive State and Eternal Bliss Hence that of St. Paul To die is great gain Phil. 1. 21. Praeclusaque janua let i AEternum nostros luctus extendit in aevum Met. 1. Eternize of Eternare Lat. to make everlasting V. 63. Refin'd by Faith c. And after this Life spent in many Trials and sharp Afflictions and purified by Faith manifested by Works Death shall restore and give him up to a new and everlasting Life waked at the Resurrection of the Just Pure and Unspotted with Heaven and Earth renewed and refined by Fire Tribulation Bo. 3. v. 337. Refined Raffiné Fr. purged from his Dross A Metaphor from Metals by melting down Refined The fining pot for silver and the furnace for gold Prov. 17. 3. Refined is well applied to Afflictions and the Trials of this Life which our Saviour Typifies by Fire I am come to send fire on Earth Luke 12. 49. V. 65. The Renovation of the Just At the Resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. for as our Spiritual Resurrection from Sin here is frequently styled A putting off the old man and being renewed in the spirit of our minds Eph. 4. 22 23. So our Corporeal Resurrection at the last Day shall be a Renovation Renovatio Lat. a Renewing of our Mortal Bodies which shall then put on Immortality 1 Cor. 17. 53. V. 66. With Heaven and Earth renew'd I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Eph. 4. 22 23. Nevertheless according to his promise we look for new Heavens and a new Earth 2 Pet. 3. 13. Synod Bo. 2. v. 392. Peccant Peccans Lat. sinning of Peccare Lat. to offend V. 74. Heard in Horeb At the Promulgation of the Law Exod. 20. 18. And perhaps not to be heard again till the Day of Judgment When the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. Oreb Bo. 1. v. 7. Amarantinus Lat. of Amarant Bo. 3. v. 353. V. 79. By the Waters of Life The Lamb
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
V. 661. For who can think Submission For who is so base and mean as but to think of truckling of humbling our selves before our Adversary Submissio Lat. Yielding Submitting V. 662. Open or Understood Publick or Private Proclaimed or Concealed V. 663. He Spake Thus he spoke an Imitation of Homer's frequent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. And to confirm his Words In approbation of his Speech in token of their agreeing to his Opinion V. 667. Fierce with grasped Arms Furious raging of Fier Fr. from Ferox as this of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Wild Beast And bold with Armed Hand bray'd on their Sounding Shields War 's dreadful Din daring outrageous Heaven's Almighty Arm A Graphick Description of the Foolish Defiance given by these Damned Spirits in their impotent Rage against the Almighty sitting in Heaven and having them in Derision Clash and Din are Words formed of the Similitude of the Sounds of which they are expressive Clash as if of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clango and Din of Tinnio the Sound that hollow Metal makes when beat upon Saeva sonoribus Arma. Says Virg. AEn 9. And Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tum scuta Cavaeque Dant sonitum flictu Galcae V. 669. Hurling Defiance This Verse seems Declaratory of the Action expressed in the two preceding the Reprobate Spirits making a dreadful Noise on their clattering Shields turned their disdainful Eyes up towards Heaven in Looks that bid Defiance to the Almighty Defiance a Challenge of Defier to Challenge to Dare to the Combat Fr. Hurl or as its Original Whirl to throw to throw round about V. 670. Whose Griesly Top Whose horrid Head Griesly an old Word for Ugly dreadful V. 671. Belch'd Fire and rouling Smoak Like Virg. of Mount AEtna Turbine fumantem piceo candente favilla AEn 3. Belch as the Latin Ructare formed of the Sounds they express V. 672. The rest entire shone with a glossie Scurf The rest all Ore was covered with a shining Crust Glossie bright shining of Gleissen Ger. to shine Scurf a thin dry and lighter kind of Scab Entire of Entier Fr. whole V. 673. In his Womb was hid Metallic Ore That his Belly his Entrails were stored with Mines of divers Metals Metallic Metallicus Lat. belonging to Metals in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quod vix ulla Metalli vena inveniatur quin altera in propinquo inveniatur unde Graeci videntur dixisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plin. l. 33. c. 6. Ibid. Ore Is crude Earth as digged up unrefined and containing Metal in proportion to the richness of the Mind Lead Tin Silver Ore of the Fr. Or Aurum Gold the Metal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 674. The Work of Sulphur The Offspring and Production of Sulphur that Vivum fossile as Celsus calls it which as if it were Soli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Subterranean Fire concocts and boils up the Crude and undigested Earth into a more profitable consistence and by its innate Heat hardens and bakes it into Metals It is called Sulphur rerum by Paracelsus and the Chymists it ordinarily signifies Brimstone Ibid. Winged with speed 'T is usual with the Poets to express Speed by Wings those Creatures that are furnished with them being the â—â—â—blest Thus Fulminis Ocyor alis and Mercury the Messenger of the Gods is fledged with them both at head and Foot Ut primum alatis tetigit magalia Plantis AEn 4. V. 675. A Numerous Brigade A great Company Ital. Brigata a Company of Soldiers generally Horsemen Hence our Brigadeer the Commander of a Party of Horse Numerosus Lat. for a great many V. 676. Piâ—â—s Of Pionnier Fr. a Digger Of Pion an old Word derived of the barbarous Latin Pedito that is Pedes a Foot Soldier V. 677. To Trench To draw a Line or digg a Trench cross a Field Of Trencher Fr. to Cut. V. 678. Or cast a Rampart Or to throw up a Defence Fr. Rempar the Wall of a Fortress Of Re en and parer to defend one against Ibid. Mammon lead them on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Riches Wealth it is no Hebrew Word though found in the Lexicon Rabbin-Philosâ—â—h St. Austin in his 35th Sermon on the Words of our Saviour Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Luc. 16. 13. where the Greek has 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we render Riches tells us it is a Punic Word many of which were crept into and mixt with the Hebrew Language I do not find it any where used in the Sacred Text but in the 9th and 11th Verses of the above quoted Chapter and Matth. 6. 24. V. 679. The least Erected Spirit The most Abject Base and Vile Erectus Lat. for Raised Erectâ consurgit ad Oscula plantâ stands on Tip-toes Juv. V. 682. Heaven's Pavement trodden Gold As the Heavenly Jerusalem is described by St. John Revel 21. 21. And the Street of the City is pure Gold Pavimentum Lat. a Floor a Causeway of Pavio Lat. to beat down to pave V. 684. In Vision beatifick In the happy beholding of God Almighty's infinite Perfections in which the supremest Satisfaction consists Visio Lat. Sight Seeing Beatificus Lat. Beatum faciens making Happy V. 685. By his suggestion Taught Instructed by his Information Suggestio Lat. a Prompting Of Suggerere to put in Mind to Prompt V. 686 Ransack'd the Centre Dug deep down to the middle of the Earth To Ransack is to search narrowly and to pry into every Corner for Prey and Plunder as if Reinsaccare saccos Excutere Expilare Centre Centrum Lat. the middle Point in a Circle or any round Body V. 687. Rifled the Bowels of their Mother Tore out the Entrails of the Earth that bore 'em and Nurs'd 'em too the Earth was called not only Mater magna from her many Sons but as Antiquity thought the Mother of all the Gods Alma mater was another of her Attributes from her constant providing for her great Family Nec tantum segetes Alimentaque debita Dives Poscebatur humus sed itum est in viscera Terrae Quasque recondiderat Stygiisque admoverat umbris Effodiuntur Opes Met. Lib. 1. Rifler or Rafler Fr. or the Sax. Reapian all probably of Rapere to snatch to tear out V. 688. For Treasures better hid In search of Riches which had better been still in the Center lock'd up there and close concealed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Store laid up for the future Pereunt discrimine nullo Amissae leges Sed pars vilissima rerum Certamen Movistis Opes Luc. Lib. 3. V. 690. Ribs of Gold Continuing the Metaphor of Earths Bowels he calls the great Hole made in the Hill a wide Wound and here the Ore Ribs of Gold almost refined by the Natural Heat of that Infernal Soil V. 692. Deserve the precious Bane Deserve the dear Destruction Well may Riches come from Hell the Desires and Designs after which will send so many thither Bana an old word for Murderer Lucan describing Affrica praiseth it
to exercise their Fancies as their Comparisons will shew hereafter The holy Poet thought their Vicissitudes so pleasant that he tells us God makes the Outgoings of the Morning and Evening to sing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thô we render it Thou shalt make the East and the West to rejoyce Psal. 65. v. 9. It is observable that the Hebrew word for Morning is a Derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to enquire to search after that being the time fittest for Study and Business Aurora musis amica as the Evening is for Retirement and Diversion Cum frigidus aëra vesper temperat Ante focum si frigus erit si messis in herbâ Geor. 3. Approach l'Approche Fr. of Approcher to draw nigh to V. 43. Of Vernal Bloom Of the beautious Spring when all things are in Blossom of which Bloom seems a Diminutive of the Ger. Bluhen to blow to be in Flower Vernal of the Lat. Vernus of the Spring V. 44. Or human Face divine Because created in the Image of God his Maker Gen. 1. v. 27. V. 48. Presented with a Universal Blanc I cannot perswade my self but it should have been a Universal Blot and that it is a mistake of the Printer Blanc is Fr. for White and the Phrase Donner la carte Blanche á to send one a Blanc is to submit absolutely to what Conditions the Conquerour shall set down Now Blindness as well described by Clouds and continual Darkness does so fully import an entire Ignorance and Privation of Colour that a Person born blind has doubtless no notion of any such thing but for a Man that had for many years enjoyed his Eyes to say his Blindness had cut him off from the chearful ways of Men and instead of Nature's fair Book of Knowledge had presented him with a Universal Blanc like a piece of white Paper unspotted and unstained with any Impression his Memory retaining still the Idea's of all Things formerly seen thô now as to his Eye-sight blotted out seems absurd The next Verse Of Natures Works to me-expung'd and ras'd confirms that it ought to be an Universal Blot for Expung'd is of Expungere Lat. to blot out a written Word by covering it with little Pricks or Blots and Ras'd is of Radere Lat. to shave the Romans who writ on Waxed Tablets with Iron Styles when they struck out a Word did Tabulam radere rase it out V. 53. Irradiate Enlighten all the Powers and Faculties of my Mind Irradiare Lat. to shine into V. 54. All Mist purge and disperse Clear my Understanding and drive away all the Mists of Error and Ignorance that may overcast my Judgment Purgare Lat. to cleanse Dispergere Lat. to drive away to scatter Light and the Blessings of it were never drawn in more lively Colours and finer Stroaks than by these nor was the sad loss of it and them ever so passionately and so patiently lamented They that will read the most excellent Homer bemoaning the same Misfortune will find him far short of this Herodotus in his Life gives us these Verses in which he bewailed his Blindness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 57. From the pure Empyrean From the highest Heaven which the holy Page styles The Heaven of Heavens where God is pleased to reveal the unconceivable Sight of himself and his infinite Perfections Sedes mentium beatarum as it is generall phrased Behold Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens is the Lords thy God Deut. 10. v. 14. So 2 Chron. 2. v. 6. Psal. 115. v. 16. Caeli Caelorum And Psal. 148. v. 4. Many of the Fathers take this to be the third Heaven into which St. Paul was taken up 2 Cor. 12. v. 2. Understanding the AErial Heaven to be the first the Starry the second and this third the highest the Empyrean of which before B. 2. V. 771. described to be the Habitation of holy Angels and blest Spirits enlightend with the ineffable Purity and Majesty of the Divinity immoveable and shining with a Light resembling the pure Element of Fire according to its derivation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Fire V. 58. High Throned above all heighth Exalted on his Throne high above all imaginable heighth God is frequently styled The most high Psal. 7. v. 17. and Psal. 9. v. 2. Dan. 5. v. 18. The most high God V. 60. About him all the Sanctities of Heaven About him all his holy Angels stood as numberless as Stars Sanctities of Sanctitas Lat. Holiness well expressing the Purity and Perfections of the Angelic Nature The Lord thy God hath made thee as the Stars for multitude Gen. 10. v. 22. V. 62. Beatitude past utterance Unspeakable Bliss and Happiness which being unconceivable and infinite must needs be unexpressible The Things which Eye hath not seen neither Ear hath heard nor the Heart of Man hath conceived 1 Cor. 2. v. 9. Beatitudo Lat. Blessedness V. 63. The radiant Image of his Glory According to St. Paul Who being the Brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. v. 3. V. 64. His onely Son Let the discerning Linguist compare the preceeding Description of God with this of Tasso's Dal suo gran seggio il Rè del Ciel volgea Sedea col à dond ' egli è buono e giusto Da legge al tutto e'l tutto orna e produce Soura i bassi confin del mondo augusto Oue senso ò ragion non si conduce E del ' eternità nel trono augusto Risplendea con trè lumi in una luce Ha sotto i piedi il Fatto e la natura Ministri humidi e'l moto e chi'l misura Cant. 9. Stan. 55 56 57. And so on for 14 Verses more V. 68. Uninterrupted Joy unrival'd Love Joy without ceasing or intermission because Sinless and Innocent Love unrival'd and undisputed because in Solitude yet the only two and all of Mankind Interruptus Lat. disturbed of Interrumpere to break in upon Unrival'd of Rivalis Lat. a Competitor Solitude Solitudo Lat. for being alone Solitariness thence a Desart in calm and undisturbed Retirement and Loneliness V. 72. In the dun Air sublime Aloft in the dark thick Air the backside the bare outside of the Created World described more fully at V. 428. of this Book Dark wast and wild under the frown of Night starless exposed and ever-threatning Storms of Chaos blustring round in clement Skie Dun of a dark colour Dwun Welch Sublime Sublimis Lat. high lofty V. 75. Firm Land imbosom'd without Firmament c. Seemed firm solid Land without any support enclosed on all sides but uncertain whether with Water or with Air Without Firmament without any support without any thing to support and bear it up agreeable to what Job says of the wonderful Creator Who hangeth the Earth upon nothing ch 26. v. 7. Firmament Firmamentum Lat. and the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
shalt thou sit in thy Flesh Incarnate in carne of Caro Lat. Flesh. V. 316. Son both of God and Man Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psal. 2. 7. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy-Ghost Matth. 1. 20. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luc. 1. 35. Which was the Son of Adam which was the Son of God Luke 3. 38. V. 317. Anointed Universal King Who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6. 16. Kings in Scripture are styled God's Anointed Saul the first King of the Israelites was anointed by Samuel 1 Sam. 10. 1. and his Successor David by the same hand 1 Sam. 16. 13. Then Samuel took the Horn of Oyl and anointed him a Ceremony still in use among most Nations Therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the Oyl of Gladness above thy fellows Heb. 1. 9. Acts 10. 38. V. 321. That bide in Heaven c. That have their Abode in Heaven according to Phil. 2. 10. That at the Name of Jesus every Knee should â—ow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth Bide and abbreviation of Abide to stay in a place V. 324. Shalt in the Skie They shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Matth. 24. 30. V. 325. The summoning Archangels The Chief of thy Angels that shall summon and call all that are or ever were living Michael is named one of the Archangels Epist. Jude v. 9. Summoning of Summonere Lat. to warn and Summonitio in our Law is a giving notice to appear in Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chief Angel For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. V. 326. Thy dread Tribunal Thy dreadful Judgment Seat For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. v. 10 11. Tribunal Lat. Ibid. From all Winds From all Parts and Quarters of the World from whence the Winds blow and take their Names Eurus ad auroram Nabathaeque regna recessit Persidaque radiis juga subdita matutinis Met. l. 1. They shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds Matth. 24. 31. V. 327. The cited Dead The Dead called to appear at the General Day of Doom And I saw the Dead small and great stand before God Rev. 20. 11 Citare and Citatio Lat. are Terms of the Civil Law signifying a calling one to answer an Accusation or Crime brought against him V. 329. Such a Peal Such a Sound shall awaken 'em from their long and lazy Lethargy He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet Matth. 24. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With a Trumpet and loud Voice as the Original V. 331. They Arraigned shall sink They as soon as brought to that bright Bar self-accused and condemned shall sink down into Hell beneath thy Sovereign Sentence To Arraign is to bring a Prisoner to the Bar to hear the Accusation laid to his Charge of Arranger Fr. to set and digest Things into order by way of Proof in Tryals V. 334. The World shall burn The Heaven and the Earth which are now by the same Word are kept in store reserved unto Fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly Men. But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3. v. 7 and 10. Lucretius tells us the World shall be destroyed by a downfal Principio mare ac terras caelumque tuêre Horum naturam triplicem tria corpora Memmi Tres species tam dissimiles tria talia texta Una dies dabit exitio multosque per annos Sustentata ruet moles machina Mundi Lib. 5. Ovid affirms its Destruction shall be by Fire Esse quoque infatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus correptaque Regia Caeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa laboret Met. l. 1. Lucan agrees with him Hos Caesar populos si nunc non usserit ignis Uret cum terris uret cum gurgite tonti Communis mundo superest rogus ossibus astra Misturus Phar. l. 7. How this lower World and all therein may probably enough be liable to a General Conflagration is easie to imagine but how the Heavens the Celestial Bodies the Sun Moon and Stars those bright burning Beings which many of the Fathers as well as Philosophers believed to consist and be made of Fire shall be obnoxious to it is not so familiar to our Understandings Certain it is the World shall have an end Generation and Corruption shall cease Motion give place to Rest and Time to Eternity and then both the Elementary and Celestial Bodies having performed and finified their Function and all their Vicissitudes and manifold Mutations being determined shall be done away The Heavens the work of thy hands they shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a Garment as a Vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed Psal. 102. 26. And with this agrees the Vision of St. John And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose Face the Earth and the Heavens fled away and there was found no place for them Rev. 20. 11. V. 335. New Heaven and Earth Of which Isaiah Prophesied Behold I create new Heavens and a new Earth and the former shall not be remembred ch 65. v. 17. Confirmed by St. Peter Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. Foreseen by St. John And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Rev. 21. 1. The number of Beings subject to Generation and Corruption to encrease and decay will one day be compleat and fulfilled then the Heavenly Orbs the Elements the Earth and Sea the Causes and the Receptacles and Subjects of those many Mutations of Matter through the Vicissitudes of Time and Motion shall be no more And God will make another World more beautiful and much more glorious than this void of all Alteration incapable of Decay the House of Eternity V. 336. After Tribulations long After all the Afflictions of this Life Tribulatio Lat. Anguish Pain Suffering V. 337. See Golden Days As the Poets express'd the first happy Simplicity of the World by the Golden Age before that mischievous Metal was discovered to disturb it Aurea prima sata est aetas Ov. Met. 1. Toto surget gens aurea mundo Virg. Ecl. 4. V.
him Psal. 97. 2. The House was filled with the Cloud and the Court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory Ezekiel's Vision ch 10. v. 4. He holdeth back the face of his Throne and spreadeth his Cloud upon it Job 26. 9. V. 380. Dark with excessive Bright The excessive Brightness amazing and astonishing all created Sight to that degree that Darkness and Confusion seizes all approaching Eyes He that will stedfastly behold the Sun will in a short time make the dazling Experiment end in Darkness not soon recovered How impossible therefore is it for human Eyes to behold him Who is cloathed with Honour and Majesty who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment Psal. 104. v. 1 2 Our blessed Saviour's Face in his Transfiguration in the Mount thô the full blaze of his Glory was shaded by a shrine of Flesh did shine as the Sun and his Rayment was white as the Light Matth. 17. 2. His Countenance was as the Sun shineth in his strength Rev. 1. 16. Ibid. Thy Skirts appear The borders of thy shining Shrine Read Isaiah's Vision ch 6. I saw also the Lord sitting upon a Throne high and lifted up and his Skirts filled the Temple To which our Author seems to have had respect in this noble description of God's Glorious Majesty Excessivus Lat. boundless V. 382. With both Wings veil their Eyes According to the description of God's Throne by the Prophet Isaiah And about it stood the Seraphims each one had six Wings with two he covered his face c. Isa. 25. 2. V. 383. Of all Creation first According to our Creed The onely begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all Worlds of whom David says The dew of thy birth is from the womb of the morning Psal. 110. 3. before the World or Light that distinguished Morn from Evening were brought forth of the Womb of the Creation Who is the image of the invisible God the first-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. V. 384. Divine Similitude Exact Resemblance of the Divinity God of God Light of Light very God of very God Nicene Creed Similitudo Lat. likeness V. 385. Without Cloud th' Almighty Father shines The Law at its Promulgation by Moses was delivered with Thunders and Lightenings great Earthquakes and Terrors and Mount Sinai was covered with a Cloud Exod. 19. v. 9 and 16. I come unto thee in a cloud there were thunders and lightenings and a thick cloud upon the Mount and the whole Mount Sinai quaked greatly But when our Saviour appeared the Cloud was removed That the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God might shine unto Believers For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. v. 4 and 6. V. 387. No Creature can behold No man hath seen God at any time the onely begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him John 1. 18. No man hath ascended up into Heaven but he that came down from Heaven even the Son of Man which is in Heaven John 3. 13. Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. Now the Righteousness of the best of Mankind being but as filthy Rags it must be the imputative Holiness of Jesus Christ that must qualifie and enable us to behold the Lord of Glory V. 388. Imprest the Effulgence Stamp'd upon thee the brightness of his Glory dwells Imprest Impressus Lat stamp'd printed graven as Cratera impressum signis AEn 5. Effulgence brightness of Effulgere Lat. to shine bright Who being the brightness of his Glory and the express image of his Person Heb. 1. 3. And we beheld his Glory the Glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father John 1. 14. V. 389. Transfus'd on thee c. Poured out on thee according to those many Prophecies fulfilled visibly at his Baptism by St. John And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him Isa. 11. 2. I have put my Spirit upon him Isa. 42. 1. And lo the Heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lightening upon him Matth. 3. 16. And John bare record saying I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a Dove and it abode upon him John 1. 32. Transfus'd Transfusus Lat. poured out Amplus Lat. large mighty V. 390. He Heaven of Heavens c. God created the World and the Heavens and all their high Inhabitants by his Son the Word of his Power All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made He was in the World and the World was made by him John 1. v. 3 10. For by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by him and for him Coloss. 1. 16. V. 391. By thee threw down the aspiring Dominations By thee cast down into Hell the ambitious Angels God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2. 4. The Angels which kept not their first estate but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day Jude 1. 6. Dominatio Lat. Power Authority as the Angels are styled Coloss. 1. 16. quoted at V. 390. V. 394. That shook Heaven's everlasting Frame Well might God's flaming Chariot loaden with Almighty Vengeance shake Heaven's everlasting Basis Whose Pillars tremble and are astonished at his Reproof Job 16. 11. Juno giving her self but a jogg on her Throne shook the wide Olympus the Homeric Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter when in good humour does as much Annuit totum nutu tremefecit Olympum AEn 9. How much more true is that of the Almighty He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the Hills and they smoak Psal. 104. 32. V. 396. Angels disarray'd Disordered and put to the rout Disarray'd Desarroyer Fr. disordered of the old Fr. word Arroy the Equipage and Order belonging to Soldiers hence in our Law-Books Arrayer Arraiatores were such as had Commissions of Array to see the Soldiers well provided of Arms c. Read the Battel of the great Dragon and his Angels Rev. 12. v. 7 8 and 9. And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb v. 11. V. 398. Thee only extoll'd Praise thee alone And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven Now is come Salvation and Strength and the Kingdom of our God and the Power of his Christ Rev. 12. 10. Extollere Lat. to lift to raise up and thence to praise V. 405. But much more to Pity enclined A Repetition affected after the Homeric manner who often uses the same Verses and Words in which Commands were given or Messages sent as supposing it not
a Lump Mould or Mold of the Belg. Modder Slime or moist Earth Material Materealis Lat. consisting of Matter V. 710. Confusion heard his Voice Confusion obey'd his Command that Heap and Chaos of Confusion in which the Elements of Air Water Earth and Fire lay jumbled and commixt together covered with Egyptian Darkness and Obscurity no sooner heard his Voice but it began to separate and shew ready Obedience Ibid. And wild Uproar The dreadful disorder occasion'd by the contesting Elements enclosed and struggling to get forth by his Word was over-ruled and appeased V. 711. Stood vast Infinitude confined The vast unfinished Gulph of Non-Entity and uncreated Night that boundless Deep Illimitable Ocean without Bound without Dimension where Length Breadth and Heighth and Time and Place are lost as Book 2. Vers. 892. received its Confines the Verge of Nature and the vast Circumference of all Created Beings was fixt and their appointed compass establish'd V. 716. This AEthereal Quintessence of Heav'n This light and pure spiritual part of Heav'n took wing and flew upwards enliv'ned and inspirited with divers Forms that moved in Rounds and at last turned to Stars innumerable to the Four Elements some of the Philosophers added an AEthereal Spirit void of Corruption and Contrariety the purest and most subtle Agility and the Bond and Ligature of all the rest of which they supposed the Stars and Heavens those Glorious Bodies were made as of a Quintessence arising out of the Quaternion of Elements AEthereal Quintessence A flaming shining Spirit Quintessence Quinta essentia Lat. is the purest and highest rectified Spirit extracted out of any thing and separated from its Faeces admirably applyed to the Coelestial Bodies and Heav'nly Orbs. Orbicular Orbicularis Lat. any thing that is round or of a circular shape V. 721. The rest in Circuit Walls The rest of this pure Heavenly Quintessence encompasses the Universe round like a Wall V. 723. Though but reflected Shines Looks bright and glorious by the returning of that Light it has from hence from the Sun where Uriel and 〈◊〉 stood Reflected Reflexus Lat. return'd turn'd back again reverberated beaten back and recoyling Reflexion is a returning that Brightness that Light cast on any Opaque and Solid Body V. 725. As th' other Hemisphere c. which otherwise would be as dark as the other half of the Globe or World is when the Moon is absent who yonder comes to its assistance and interposes her feeble Light Hemisphere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. half the compass of the Heav'ns V. 727. That opposite fair Star That bright Star that is over against us being in the Sun from which she as well as the Earth has her lent Light Oppositus Lat. placed over against V. 728. And her Monthly Round And fulfils her Circle in a Month so named of the Moon the Lunar Month as Mensis of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the Moon from her encreasing coming to the Full and her abatement Quid Menstrua Luna Moneret Geor. 1. V. 730. Her Countenanoe trifâ—rm Her threefold Face encreasing full and decreasing Hence fills and empties from her beginning comes to be compleat and thence does by degrees decreasing vanish according to which three appearances she was called Luna Sole Diana Polo Proserpina in Orco Ovid. Nec Par aut eadem Nocturnae forma Dianae Esse potest unquam semperque hodierna sequente Si crescit minor est major si contrahit orbem Ibid. Meta. Lib. 15. Tertia jam Lunae se Cornua Lumine complent AEn 3. Her Horns at her increase regarding the East as in her decrease they point to the West Triformis Lat. of three shapes V. 731. Hence fills and empties That is from the Sun of whom the Moon being a Spherical Opaque and Obscure Body borrows all her Silver Light as Virgil hints very handsomely Nec fratris radiis obnoxia surgere Luna Geor. 1. V. 732. And in her Pale Dominion And with her feeble Empire curbs the Night hinders and opposes the Encroachment of Ancient and Hereditary Night Checks the Night Hinders the progress of dull Darkness Check a Metaphor taken from the Game called Chess where a Pawn c. when placed aright hinders and opposes the march of the Enemy or drives him upon eminent Danger V. 734. Adams Abode The Abiding the Dwelling-Place of Adam so named of the Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to his Creation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Dust of the Earth Gen. 2. Vers. 7. a sort of Coloured Earth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to look Red. V. 740. Down from th'Ecliptick Down from the Suns bright Road The Ecliptick is a Line running along the middle of the Zodiack in which the Sun compleats his Annual Course so named of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Eclipses there happening Satan discoursing with Uriel in the Region of the Sun must needs take his flight from the Ecliptick in some part of which the Sun always is Ibid. Sped with hoped Success Heightned with hopes of Success hasting with hopes to succeed Sped of Spedire It. and that of Expedire Lat. to make haste or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to make haste to be dilâ—gent V. 741. In manâ— an AErie Wheel With many a nimble turn A Wheel a round Circle according to its shape hence a Body of Men are said to Wheel when they move round V. 742. On Niphates top he lights A Mountain in the Borders of Armenia not far from the spring of Tigris as Xenophon affirms upon his own Knowledge so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great drifts of Snow covering its Crown thence styled Rigidum Niphaten by Hor. Car. l. 2. Od. 9. Urbes Asiae domitas pulsumque Niphaten Geo. 3. There is also a River of the same Name in the Neighborhood of this Hill Armeniusque tenens volventem Saxa Niphatem Luc. l. 3. The Poet lands Satan on this Armenian Mountain because it borders on Mesopotamia in â—â—ich the most Judicious Describers of Paradise place it NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK IV. V. 2. WHO saw th'Apocalyps Who in a Vision saw the Revelation of what was to befal the Church of God to the end of the World St. John who though in the Front of the Revelation he be named the Divine is yet held to be the same who writ the Gospel called by his Name as Irenaeus Hieronymus Eusebius and others affirm the difference of the style being no more than that in the one he has used that of a Prophet and in the other that of an Historian Apocalyps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Discovery a Revealing of hidden Mysteries thence translated the Revelations of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to discover tho' still extreamly obscure like those Acroatick parts of Aristotle's Philosophy which he says were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This obscure Discovery was written by St. John in the Island Patmos whither he was banish'd by Domitian about the 14th Year of
556. Swift as a shooting Star c. Swift like a darting Star that in the Autumn crosses the Night when Fat and Oily Vapours taking Fire with their Activity hurry the Air into Violence and by their shining Path direct the Seaman from what Quarter of the Heavens to beware of stormy boisterous Winds So Virgil Saepe etiam Stellas vento impendente videbis Praecipites Coelo labi Noctisque per umbram Flammarum longos à tergo albescere tractus Georg. 1. That the Stars do not shoot or fall from their Spheres according to vulgar Opinion is the Tenent of Philosophy But that their shooting is the Redundancy of their Nutritive Liquor which sometimes blurts from them as Oyl from Lighted Lamps Plin. Lib. 1. Cap. 8. Servius thought those descending Traces of Light were Particles of the AEtherial Fire blown and fore'd down by softy and vehement Winds But according to Aristotle they were esteem'd Fat and Oyly Exhalations drawn up from the Earth into the middle Region of the Air and there by the extraordinary Cold so compress'd and condens'd that they took Fire by his unintelligible Antiperistasis or by their own violent Circumgyration Longoque per aëra tractu Fertur ut interdum de Coelo Stella sereno Ersi non cecidit potuit cecidisse videri Meta. 2. Well might the bright Angel Uriel Regent of the Sun and mounted on a Sun-Beam be compared to a Shoâ—ting Star when Homer likens Achilles in his Brazen Armour to the same Illustrious Meteor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The same Comparison is applyed to the Armed Diomede and the Fiery Reflection shot from his Shining Shield and Flaming Helmet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the most Parallel place at which our Authors imitation seems to have aim'd and to have outdone is the Description of Minerva's Descent from Heaven into the Trojan Camp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 557. In Autumn thwarts the Night Comes across the Night thwarts and affronts the dismal darkness of the Night In Autumn Lat. Autumnus when the Heats are great Totoque Autumni incanduit aestu Geor. 3. V. 558. When Vapours fired impress the Air Here we have the Philosophy of these shooting Stars that they are Unctuous Exhalations which being fired aâ—ault the Air and move it violently Impress of imprimere Lat. to use force upon to make impression on and in this sense Impressio signifies an Assault an Onset given by engaging Armies Ibid. Shews the Mariner Marinier Fr. the Sailer the Seaman of Marinus and Maâ—e Lat. the Sea V. 559. From what Point of his Compass From what part of the Sky from what Quarter of the Heav'n The Compass here meant is a Circle set round with the 32 different Points from which the Winds have their Denominations V. 561. Thy Course by Lot Gabriel is supposed to have the Guard of Paradise fallen to him by Lot Thus the Promised Land was divided to the Israeliâ—es Notwithstanding the Lâ—na shall be divided by Lot Numb 26. Vers. 55. Every Man's Inheritance shall be where is Lot falleth Chap. 33. Vers. 54. In the same manner Matthias was chosen and numbred with the Apostles And they gave forth their Lots and the Lot fell upon Maâ—thias Acts 1. Vers. 26. V. 567. Gods latest Image The newest the last Image God was pleased to make of Himself For it is not to be doubted that if Man in part of a Corporeal Substance yet bears his Maker's Image the Angels those much more Pure and Spiritual Beings are more exact Resemblances of that Eternal Purity and Perfection that Created them as being more perfect Approximations to their Maker V. 568. And mark'd his AEry Gate Observ'd his speedy March or his passage through the Air or his giddy and indecent Carriage not well suiting a Spirit seemingly so zealous AEry AErius Lat. of the Air the Epither of Birds that mount into it AEriae quò congessere palumbes Ecl. 3. Gate Walk Passage March of the Sax. Gan to go V. 569. That lies from Eden North That lies on the North-side of Eden the Mountain Niphates on which Satan alight Book 3. Vers. 742. where his Hellish Conscience and Devilish Despair disfigured him and discovered his seeming Saintship Vers. 23. of this Book 4. V. 571. Alien from Heav'n c. I soon beheld his Countenance contrary to that of Heavenly Spirits clouded and overcast with dismal Storms of Passions wild and ungovernable Alien from Heav'n estranged from God and all Goodness of Alienus a Stranger Obscur'd darken'd of Obscurus Lat. hid dark V. 574. Of the Banish'd Crew One of the condemn'd Crew thrown out of Heaven and banish'd of Bannir Fr. to expel V. 576. The Winged Warriour The Archangel Gabriel according to the usual Description of Angels adorn'd with Wings to denote the Swiftness and Agility of Spiritual Beings and as Satan in the assumed shape of a Cherubim is painted Wings he wore Of many colour'd Pâ—me sprinkled with Gold Book 3. Vers. 641. V. 580. The Vigilance here plac'd The Watch here kept Vigilance Vigilantia Lat. Watchâ—â—â—nâ—ss Vigiâ—iâ—e Lat. the Watch. V. 585 Spiritual Substance c. 'T is hard to restrain and keep out Spirits and Immaterial 〈◊〉 wiâ—â— Corporeal and Bodily Bars Corpâ—real Corporeaâ—is Lat. of Câ—pus Lat. a Body V 5â—â— In whatsâ—ever sâ—ape he lurk In what disguise â—oâ—ver he lies hid To lurk is to hide ones â—elf to lie in wait of the Bel. Loeren to lie in Ambush or the Fr. Lerre an old word Larron Fr. Latro Lat. a Thief V. 592. Beneâ—th th' Azores To the Sun now gone down below the Western Islands The Azores are Islands of the Western Atlantick Ocean Nine in Number commonly called the Tercera's of Tercera the largest of 'em Heylin's Geo. others confound 'em with the Canaries Bohun's Geog. Dict. Ibid. Whither the Prime Orb c. Uriel return'd on the bright Beam that brought him whose Point now mounted and raised carried him fliding back to the Sun now sunk below the Western Isâ—es to which the first Orb swift beyond all belief had hurried him in a Days space or this our Earth less likely to turn round taking a shorter and more easie turn Eastward left him now on her West-side gilding and adorning with various Colours and gay Reflections the Clouds that wait upon his Western Throne Prime Orb Primus Orbis Lat. the first the chief Circle the Primum Mobile V. 594. Diurnal Volubil Diurnal Diurnus Lat. belonging to a Day of a Days length or continuance Volubil Volubilis Lat. that may be turn'd round à volvendo turning or running round V. 598. Twilight gray c. Now the quiet Evening came on and dusky Twilight with her grave Livery cover'd every thing The Sun was described according to his high Quality arraying
Throne And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a Throne as the appearance of a Saphir stone Ezek. 1. 26. And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a Saphir stone and as it were the body of Heaven in its clearness Exod. 24. 10. Saphir Bo. II. V. 1050. V. 7â—â— Inlaid with pure Amber c. Inlaid with brightest Amber and the colours of Heaven's various Bow And I saw as the colour of Amber as the appearance of fire round about within it Ezek. 1. 27. The Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a burning Coal or most intense Flame such as astonisheth the Eye-sight and is both here and at v. 4. and ch 8. v. 2. in the Lat. rendred Electrum and thence in our Translation Amber not meant of that called otherwise Succinum but an Aurichalcum a sort of Aureum aes outshining Gold it self as of a hardness capable of a brighter burnish or as some will have it Gold mingled with a fifth part Silver whether naturally or artificially named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the suns name whose splendor it vyes with Amber Bo. III. V. 359. Ibid. The showry Arch From its shape arch'd and circular Of its season showry as appearing in rainy weather and a moist cloud As the appearance of the Bow that is in the Cloud in the day of Rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about Exek 1. 28. And there was a Rainbow round about the Throne Rev. 4. 3. Thus far our Author has followed the visionary Chariot of God described by Ezekiel as a Man of War as he is styled by Moses Exod. 15. 3. sitting in his glorious Chariot warring against the Wicked and triumphing over them V. 760. Of radiant Urim He compleatly Armed in his infinite Perfections array'd with Light divine and unapproachable Urim was one of those two mystical words inscribed on the Aaronical High-Priests Breast-Plate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light Exod. 28. 30. V. 763. Victory sat Eagle-wing'd Victory swift and assur'd sat at his right hand The Eagle was styled Jovis ales the Minister of his Thunder the King of Birds by the Romans chosen for their victorious Ensigns by the Naturalists affirmed to fly highest in stormy weather and to soar above the Clouds The Poets assigned him to Jupiter for his quick and sharp sightedness AEthereà quos lapsa plagâ Jovis ales aperto Turbabat Caelo AEn 1. As the swift ships as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey Job 9. 26. V. 764. Three-bolted Thunder Telum trisulcum as Ovid calls the Thunder Threefold Trifidà fumantia flamma corporà of Phaeton Thunder-struck Met. l. 2. V. 765. Fierce effusion c. A furicus Tempest pouring forth Smoak and fighting Flame rouling round about him Effusio Lat. a pouring out Bickering fighting and thence destroying of the Welsh Bicre a Combat or of Picare Ital. to prey upon to devour There went up a smoak out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured Psal. 18. v. 8. A fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him Psal. 50. 3. V. 769. And twenty thousand c. The chariots of God are twenty thousand even thousands of Angels Psal. 68. 17. V. 778. Circumfused on c. Spread round on either Wing Circumfusus cast about of Circumfundere Lat. to spread about Circumfusa repentè scindit se nubes AEn 1. V. 784. With fresh Flourets With new springing Flowers Flourets of Fleurette Fr. young Blossoms a diminutive of Fleur Fr. a Flower V. 785. Stood obdur'd Continued harden'd in their wicked Rebellion of Obdureo Lat. to grow hard and obstinate Lest any of you be harden'd through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. v. 13. Rallied Book I. V. 269. V. 787. Insensate Foolish mad Insensatus Lat. senseless Hope conceiving from Despair Sola salus miseris nullam sperare salutem In Heavenly Spirits c. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae AEn 1. V. 789. But to convince the Proud c. But what manifestation of God's Anger against Sin is able to convince and overcome the haughtiness of the Wicked Or what Wonders are sufficient to bring the stubborn and stiff-neck'd Sinner to Repentance Convincere Lat. to overcome either by dint of Power or Argument Avail Book I. V. 153. Obdurate Book I. V. 58. Relent Book II. V. 237. V. 791. By what might most reclaim They were harden'd more by those very things that should have brought 'em back to their Obedience As Pharaoh was by seeing the Red Sea divided who in stead of submitting to God's Commands pursued his People and his own Ruine through the midst of it which returning to its bounds overwhelm'd and swallow'd up him and his audacious Host Exod. 14. 23. Reclame of the Fr. Reclamer Lat. Reclamare to call back to call of as Faulconers do their Hawks V. 797. In universal Ruin last Or at last to be ruin'd quite and in the end reduced to nothing to be utterly destroy'd V. 808. Vengeance is his or c. Revenge is God's or his whom he empowers To me belongeth vengeance and recompense Deut. 32. 35. Vengeance is mine I will repay it saith the Lord Rom. 12. 19. Vengeance Fr. Vindicta Lat. Revenge V. 812. Despis'd yet envy'd Scorn and Envy seem two contrary Passions yet they concur in the constitution of racking and tormenting Pride V. 822. Of other Excellence not emulous Endeavouring after no other Praise or Perfection pursuing and aiming at no other pitch of Perfection Emulous AEmulus Lat one who spurr'd on by the desire of Glory endeavours to exceed his Equal Spemque meam patriae quae nunc subit aemula laudis AEn 10. V. 828. With dreadful shade contiguous All at once the four Cherubims strerch'd out their Wings set thick with Eyes which joyn'd together made a dreadful shade according to Ezekiel's Vision Their Wings were joyn'd one to another Contiguous Contiguus Lat. that toucheth or is joyn'd to any thing V. 830. Of torrent Floods c. And the Wheels of his fierce Chariot rouled as with the noise of a rushing Flood or of a mighty Host. And when they went I heard the noise of their Wings like the noise of great waters as the voice of the Almighty the voice of speech as the noise of an host Ezek 1. 24. When the living creatures went the wheels went by them Ibid v. 19. Rapidus montano flumine torrens Sternit agros sternit sata laeta boumque labores Praecipitesque trahit Sylvas AEn 2. Torrent violent Of Torrens Lat. a furious Flood V. 833. The stedfast Empyrean shook The Pillars of Heaven tremble and are astonisht at his Reproof Job 26. Vers. 11. V. 836. Grasping Of the Ital. Graspare to embrace V. 837. In their Souls infixt Thunders such à s stuck Ten Thousand Torments in their Souls Infixt fastned Of Infigere
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
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
of which they were to be Framed about which the Eternal Mind was to concern it self Creation was nothing else but his Powerful Command the Almighty Fiat proceeding from his Infinite Goodness Wisdom and Power that produced this Beauteous All suitable to his most perfect Idea By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the Host of them by the Breath of his Mouth He Spake and it was done He Commanded and it stood fast Psal. 33. 6 9. And as he at first Commanded all Things into Being so he does still uphold them by the Word of his Power Heb. 1. 3. Let there be Light Gen. 1. 3. And immediately Light the first Bright Offspring of the Creation arose out of the gloomy deep Quintessence pure the brightest and most refined Being See Book III. Vers. 716. whether Light be Corporeal or according to Aristotle Qualitas inhaerens Diaphano is much contested among the Philosophers and has puzzled the greatest Masters of Nature This we are sure of that this visible Light so necessary to the World both for its Use as well as Ornament was in the Beginning Created by God and by his Sovereign Command call'd out of Darkness God Commanded the Light to Shine out of Darkness 2 Cor. 4. 6. V. 245. From her Native East From the East her Birth place whence rising every day she seems New-Born V. 247. Sphear'd in a Radiant Cloud Placed in a shining Cloud according to the Opinion of Bede Hug. de St. Vict. Bonav Lyra Tostatus and others who held Light Created on the first day to have been a shining Body placed in a bright Cloud and moving in that superiour part of the World in which the Sun made on the fourth day was placed this Light Sojourn'd in her Cloudy Tabernacle wheeling round the Infant and yet imperfect World and by her Motion constituting the three first days and nights But Pererius imagines this Light to have been the same with that of the Sun Created on the first thô not compleated till the 4th day The Secret is unsearchable Sphear'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to make round Sojourn'd remain'd stay'd Of Sojourner Fr. to reside V. 249. God saw the Light was good Gen. 1. 4. The Eulogie and divine Approbation of Light God's brightest Image and his purest Emanation amongst all his Creatures styled himself the Father of Lights Jam. 1. 17. Lucem inhabitans inaccessibilem Dwelling in unapproachable Light 1 Tim. 6. 16. From hence Catharin would infer this Primitive Light to have been the Sun even on the first day perfect and compleat because God pronounced nothing good before it was entirely finish'd Although Moses relates the Sun the Moon and Stars to have been the Work of the fourth day with whose Historical Relation our Author exactly agrees V. 250. By the Hemisphere divided God divided the Light from the Darkness Gen. 1. 4. By half the Globe says Milton that is the new created Light shining on one side of the great mighty Mass enlighten'd one half of it by Day the averse half making its own Darkness was cloath'd with Night whose alternate Round is still continued constantly Hemisphere Bo. III. Vers. 725. V. 252. The first Day even and morn Moses thus describes the Natural Day consisting of 24 hours Gen. 1. 5. The new-born Light journying about the mighty Mass of the as yet unseparated Elementary Bodies the Evening and the Morning made one compleat Day That this is a plain description of Day and Night Basilius affirms in his Second Homily on Genesis Day doubtless says he had the Precedence and took place of Night in the beginning of Time and therefore the Evening the close and end of the Day is by Moses first named and then is added the Morning the end and conclusion of the Night both together making but one Natural Day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Quasi Noctidialis For the World 's obscure condition before the Birth-day of Light was not named Night but Darkness Night being the part of Time distinguished from but yet succeeding and relating to the Day V. 281. Let there be Firmament c. Gen. 1. 6. This word Firmament of the Lat. Firmamentum corresponding with the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying Solidity has given occasion to mistake it for the solid and most firm Body of the Heavens incapable of Division Thinness or any decaying Alteration The Maintainers of this Opinion endeavour to support it by these Texts Tu forsitan cum eo fabricatus es Caelos qui solidissimi quasi aere fusi sunt Job 37. 18. Translated much amiss but in ours render'd aright Hast thou with him spread out the Sky which is strong as a molten Looking-glass And by that of Job 14. 12. Donec atteratur Caelum Till the Heavens be worn out better express'd by our Translation Till the Heavens be no more As if that employ'd their Solidity Homer is vouch'd also in their defence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. signifies Extension and Expansion and by the best Interpreters is understood of the wide outstretch'd Air as our Poets explains it Expanse of Liquid pure Transparent Elemental Air diffused c. Spread out on all sides to the utmost compass of the World 's wide Round Which Moses seems to agree with in his Discourse of the Fowl that fly above the Earth in the Firmament of Heaven Gen. 1. 20. Express'd by the same word and said to be stretch'd out like a Curtain Psal. 104. 2. That stretcheth out the Heavens like a Curtain and spreadeth them out as a Tent to dwell in Isa. 40. 22. Partition firm and sure for its certainty not solidity Non appellatur Firmamentum quasi sit corpus Firmissimum sed quia est Interstitium terminus interjectus inter aquas superiores inferiores terminus firmissimus immutabilis non proper stationem sed propter firmitatem aut intransgressibilem terminum superiorum inferiorum aquarum Aug. lib. 2. Su. Gen. ad Litt. c. 10. Transparent that may be seen through of Transparere Lat. to appear through V. 268. Waters underneath dividing They who understand the Firmament to be the vast Air expanded and stretch'd out on all sides to the Starry Heavens esteem the Waters above it to be those generated in the middle Region of the Air of Vapours exhaled and drawn up thither from the steaming Earth and nether Waters which descend again in such vast showers and mighty floods of Rain that not only Rivers but Seas may be imaginable above as appeared when the Cataracts came down in a Deluge and the Flood-gatcs of Heaven were opened Gen. 7. 11. Others and those many by these Waters above understand the Crystalline Heaven by Gassendus made double by our Author better named Crystalline Ocean by its clearness resembling Water who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters Psal. 104. 3. Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters above the
of the changes of the Weather Winds Plenty Health and their Contraries Others of those Preternatural Signs and Miracles that appeared in the days of Joshua Hezekiah and at the Passion of our Saviour and that shall be before the Last Day And there shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Stars Luke 21. 25. The vain Asserters of Judicial Astrology would have 'em meant of the Signs placed in the Heavens whereon to ground their Presumptuous Predictions The best and genuine is That God appointed them for Signs of the Seasons of Time of Days and Years for the motion of the Stars and chiefly of the Sun and Moon is the measure of Time A Day is the time of the Sun's circuit about the Earth an Hour the 24th part of it a Year his compleat Journey through the Zodiac a Month his motion through one Sign of it while the Moon travels quite through it Now Celestial Motion and that chiefly of the Sun being the most regular unalterable and communicable to all Mankind is the best and most common Calculation of Times and Seasons and of circling Years compleating their radiant Rounds V. 346. Great for their use to Man Because the Moon excepting Mercury is less than any of the fixt or erratic Stars though her Neighbourhood to the Earth deceive our sight therefore she is said to be one of the two Great Lights in regard of her illustrious Office in chearing and illuminating the Night more effectually than all the innumerable Stars are able to do with their vaster but far more distant Lights V. 355. A mighty Sphear Of all the Heavenly Bodies first he made the Sun a vast round Circle void of Light though of the same substance with the Heavens Ad sidera rursus AEtheria AEn 7. V. 357. The Moon Globose The Moon round also Globose as Globous Bo. V. Vers. 649. Ibid. And every Magnitude of Stars And all the Stars in their different Magnitudes and distinctions of Size V. 358. The Heaven thick as a Field is said to be sown with Stars to express their vast number Astra tenent Caeleste solum Met. 1. V. 360. Transplanted from her cloudy Shrine In which as in a cloudy Tabernacle she had sojourned three days as at V. 248. Shrine Bo. I. Vers. 388. V. 361. Made Porous to receive c. Made spungy to suck in the streaming Light and solid to retain her congregated Rays Porous of Pori Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to pass through those small and unsensible Passages in Human and other Bodies by which any thing is received into or cast out of them V. 364. As to their Fountain other Stars repairing c. 'T is the received Opinion that the Fixed Stars shine and appear by their own Native Light but the Planets are Opaque Bodies illustrated and made bright by the Sun 's borrowed Light and are the other Stars here said to draw Light in their Golden Urns from that great Fountain The reason why our Author did not affirm it of all the Stars as also why many imagine that even our Opacâ—us Earth shines as gloriously on most of the Planets and their Inhabitants if any such there be as they in their turns do on it and us Urns of Urna Lat. a Pitcher V. 366. Guilds her Horns The Morning Planet is Venus which according to the most exact Observations moves round the Sun sometimes above at other times below him bor owing all her Light of him and like the Moon having the same threefold appearance Encreasing Full and Decreasing therefore said to Guild her Horns as being at some distances from that Great Luminary Corniculata Lat. horned When this Star appears above the Horizon proceeding the Sun it is called Lucifer and when it sinks beneath it after him Hesperus V. 367. By Tincture or Reflexion c. The Stars better their Complexion by Tincture by their Approaches towards the Sun new-colouring their Countenances Tinctura Lat. Colour or Dye Or by Reflexion or by his Light reflected on them heighten and enhance the little which may properly be thought their own at such vast distances to human sight appearing much diminish'd Peculiaris Lat. Particular Diminutio Lat. a lessening V. 373. Jocond to run his Longitude c. Brisk and chearful in his vast Diurnal Race from East to West the length of Heaven's High-way He rejoyceth as a Giant to run his course Psal. 19. 5. Jâ—â—â—nd of Giocondo Ital. the depravation of Jucundus Lat. merry Horizon Bo. VI. V. 79. V. 374. The gray Dawn and the Pleiades c. Day-break or the first approach of the doubtful Light is of a gray Colour whence the Morn is styled Gray-eyed by the Poets The Pleiades are seven Stars in the Neck of the Bull one of the twelve Celestial Signs so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Sail because they rise about the Verna Equinox thence called Vergiliae the usual time of venturing to Sea among the unexperienced Ancients They as well as the early Dawn are said to dance before the Sun because they constantly rise before him for one half of the Year commencing it by their auspicious Influence Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades Job 38. 31. Taygete simul os terris ostendit honestum Pletias Geor. 4. V. 379. In that Aspect The regard the Stars and Heavenly Lights have to one another by reason of their Places and Positions are called their Aspects Aspectus Lat. of Aspicere Lat. to look on Therefore the Moon placed in the West just opposite against the Sun like his Looking-glass is said to need no other Light in that Situation V. 381. Revolv'd on Heaven's great Axle Turn'd to the East on the World 's mighty Poles by the First Mover Revolv'd of Revolvere Lat. to turn round Axle Bo. II. V. 926. V. 382. Dividual Holds And maintains her Empire o'er the Night assisted by thousand lesser Light as to appearance not like the Sun sole Sovereign and Regent of Day the universal Lord of Light by all unrivall'd V. 387. Generate Reptil Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life Gen. 1. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly Reptile Lat. creeping a word denoting the motion of Creatures without Legs Jam maris immensi prolem genus omne natantum Geo. 2. V. 389. And let Fowl fly above the Earth According to the Hebrew and Chaldee Text for the vulgar Latin and our Version of Gen. 1. 20. And God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth c. has given occasion to the Controversie That Fowl as well as Fish were originally made of Water contradicting the plain declaration of Moses Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air Gen. 2. 19. yet the greatest Philosophers and Schoolmen too affirm the former Opinion
Wâ—en thou art seen least wise Whose greatest Wisdom is to observe thy weakness who sees most clearly her Advantages in thy fits of Folly V. 585. To subdue the Soul To conquer or overcome of Subdere Lat. to subdue V. 587. Attractive c. Whatever in her Conversation thou findest noble and reasonable and thence charming cherish still Attractive Attrabere Lat. to draw to to entice V. 591. In reason and is judicious Noble manly Love is guided by Reasonâ— not giddy and blind as that the Poets feign but rational and judicious adviseable able to choose and distinguish 'T is carnal and low Love of which Ovid said Nec in â—nâ sede morantur Majestâ—â— Amor. The Angelic Reason well advises Adam not to subject himself to his Desires nor to suffer Transported Passion to degrade the Majesty of Man Judicious of Judicium Lat. Judgment The Sealâ— the way up of Sealâ— Lat. a Laddâ—r V. 595. Half Abash'd Almost out of Countenance Abash'd of Esbahir Fr. to affright or Abbaisser Fr. to humble to render dejected shame disordering the Face and as it were casting down the Countenance V. 597. In Procreation Procreatio Lat. the begetting of Children or by Beasts their like of Procreare Lat. to beget V. 598. Of the Genial Bed Thô I have higher thoughts of the Propagation of Mankind and conceive there is something more Mysterious and Awful in it because thereby God's Image first on me imprinted is to be multiplied by my Posterity Genial Bed the Marriage Bed Genialis à Gignendo Lat. V. 601. Those Decencies Those many Graces that so wonderfully set off all her Actions and become her very words Decens Lat. comely becoming V. 605. Harmony to behold An Agreement more Musical and pleasant in a Wedded Couple than any Consort can be to the Ear. Harmony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an accord and consent of Voices in Singing of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to agree V. 617. Mix Irradiance virtual or immediate Touch. Mix they their pure Emanations like Streams of liquid Light twisting their bright Celestial Rays like the Sun 's subtil Beams darted at distance or by close Conjunction and mutual touch A curious Enquiry long since determined by our Saviour For when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage But are as the Angels which are in heaven Mar. 12. 25. 'T is an Opinion of the School-men that one End thô less principal of God's creating Man was to repeople Heaven emptied by the Fall of the wicked Angels of many of its Glorious Inhabitants by Creatures of another Mould the more to enhance the loss of those Rebellious Nimirum diminutio Angelorum ob ruinam malorum spirituum supplemento hominum erat resarcienda Perer. in Gen. c. 2. v. 18. At which our Poet hints Into our Room of Bliss thus high advanc'd Creatures of other Mould Earth born perhaps Not Spirits c. Bo. IV. Vers. 359. And further But lest his Heart exalt him in the harm Already done to have dispeopl'd Heav'n My Damage fondly deem'd I can repair That Detriment c. Bo. VII Vers. 150. Mirari licet cur Deus cum posset ruinas Angelorum novis à se creatis Angelis reaedificare c. Cur inquam homines alterius naturae conditionis fecerit quos reponeret pro Angelis Rupert From all which 't is obvious to infer that the Angels are reputed to be of one Sex otherwise they might have repaired their decrease by Propagation as our Author remarks in Adam's Complaint O why did GOD Creator wise that Peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine Not fill the World With Men as Angels without Feminine Bo. X. Vers. 888. Irradiance Irradiatio Lat. a darting or shining forth A word well chosen to express our little knowledge of Angelic Beings Virtual Virtualis Lat. powerful as things are said to be that act and are efficacious at a distance as the Sun is said to be Virtually in the Earth by the activity and force of his Light and Heat V. 624. In Eminence and Obstacle c. We enjoy to the heighth without any hindrance In Eminence Eminenter Lat. in the highest degree Bo. II. V. 6. Obstacle Obstaculum Lat. hindrance lett of Obstando Lat. to stand in the way of Membrane a thin Skin Membrana Lat. Parchment Exclusive Bars Bars that hinder and shut out the longing carnal Lover of Excludere Lat. to shut out V. 627. Total they mix Entirely they embrace and mix with one another without any opposition not as Flesh with Flesh and Soul with Soul Mediantibus corporibus but fully and freely as Air doth with Air. V. 632. Hesperean Sets But I can now discourse no longer the Setting Sun beyond Cape Verd and the Islands ever Green draws near the Western Ocean the time of my departure as before For these mid-hours till Evening rise I have at will Bo. V. Vers. 376. The Earths green Cape Cape de Verde Caput Viride the most Western Point of Affrica called anciently Hesperium Cornu Cape Capo Cabo Cap all of the Lat Caput the Head A Cape is the utmost End of a high Headland or Promontory which shoots it self far into the Sea Verdant Green Bo. VII Vers. 310. Hesperean Sets is setting in the West Hesperean of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Occidentalis the Western part of Heaven or Earth Hesperus the Evening Star rising there V. 637. Thine and of all thy Sons the Weal or Woe in thee is plac'd Weal of the Sax Well The Welfare the Happiness or Misery of thy Posterity depends on thee Prolis spes una futurae Exemplo est firmanda tuo sunt fata tuorum Te penes in te omnis domus instaurata recumbit AEn 12. V. 641. In thine own Arbitriment c. 'T is free and left to thy choice to stand upright of fall offending Arbitriment Arbitrium Lat. judgment choice Repell reject disdain of Repellere Lat. to resist V. 645. Benediction Benedictio Lat. Blessing Ibid. Since to part Since you must go Part of Partir Fr. to depart V. 649. Thy Condescention Thy Humility to discourse with me and answer my Enquiries has been free and familiar and shall be kept for ever in thankful Remembrance Condescention Condescentio Lat. a yielding to of Condescendere Lat. to stoop to as the Angel is here supposed to Man's inferior Understanding NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK IX Verse 5. VEnial Discourse unblam'd No more I shall relate where GOD or Angel his Messenger Guest-like was pleased to visit Man familiar as a Friend and with him share a homely Meal allowing him mean-while freedom of Speech without Reproof Venial Discourse Pardonable such as thô faulty yet might be pass'd by Venialis Lat. Pardonable of Venia Lat. Pardon V. 6. Those Notes to Tragic I now must change those softer Notes in which I sung the Angels good and gracious Admonitions to Enquiring Adam to others more dire and dismal such as suit the Tragedies
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
v. 749. Express Expressus Lat. manifest apparent V. 359. Supernal Grace Grace sent from God above Supernus Lat. high Enured Bo. 2. v. 216. V. 367. For I have drencht her Eyes For I have shed dewie Sleep into her Eyes which the Latin Translator mistaking has render'd For I have made her weep Ast Eva interea quoniam nunc ejus ocellos Vox mea compuler at Lachrymarum fundere rivum Dormiat hic placidam capiens per membra quietem Rather thus Ast Evae interea medicata papavere multo Lumina cujus hebent placidum sine serpere somnum Drencht wet moisten'd Of the Sax. Drencan to water A Drench is a Medicinal Potion Foresight the seeing of things yet to come the seeing them before they are V. 373. However Chastning How ere it please to punish me Chastning Fr. Chastier Lat. Castigare to correct V. 374. Arming to overcome by Suffering Putting on a Resolution to bear with Patience and with my Constancy to overcome all my Afflictions Quiâ—quid erit superanda est omnis fortuna ferendo AEn 5. V. 377. In the Visions of God As in Scripture the preternatural Revelations of Futurity are call'd And the Spirit brought me in the Visions of God to Jerusalem Ezek. 8. 3. In the Visions of God brought he me into the Land of Israel Ibid. 40. 2. V. 379. The Hemisphere of Earth It was the highest Hill of Paradise from whose lofty Head half the Globe of Earth plain to be seen lay spread out wide in open prospect round Hemisphere Bo. 3. v. 725. Ken Bo. 1. v. 59. Prospect Bo. 3. v. 77. V. 383. Our second Adam Jesus Christ. The second Man is the Lord from Heaven 1 Cor. 15. 47. The last Adam was a quickning Spirit Ibid. v. 45. In the Wilderness and the Devil taking him up into a high Mountain shewed unto him all the Kingdoms of the World Luk. 4. 6. V. 386. Or Modern Fame Of old or late Renown Modern Modernus Lat. new latter V. 388. From the Destin'd Walls of Cambalu From the design'd Walls of Cambalu a great City in Cathaie a Province of Tartary seated on the River Polâ—sanga numerous in Inhabitants and rich in Merchandize the ancient Seat of the Tartarian Chams thence of Cham Lord and Balu a City named in the Tartarian Tongue Kambalu as Paulus Venetus affirms City of the Lord thence Seat of Cathajan Can. Cathaie was anciently known by Scythia extrà montem Imaum It s old Inhabitants the Cathei of Strabo giving it this new Name Destin'd Destinatus Lat. appointed as not being then built V. 389. Sarmacand by Oxus Temir's Throne Sarmacand is a City of Zagathaian Tartary famous for having been the Birth and Burial-place of the mighty Tamerlain where he kept his Royal Residence thence called Temir's Throne Temir Iron of his hardy Courage and Temir-Cutlu happy Iron c. Tamerlain was the Son of Ogg and by the Marriage of the Daughter of Ginocham obtain'd the Tartarian Empire which he so vastly enlarged that he alone subdued more Provinces than all the Romans had done in 800 years when most flourishing at one time he inriched this City with 8000 Camels laden with the Spoils of Damascus only Oxus a River in Zagathaie famous for the overthrow of Cyrus by the Scythians and Sabacham of Zagathaian Tartary by Ismael Sophie of Persia It riseth out of Mount Taurus and falls into the Caspian Sea V. 390. To Paquin of Sinaean Kings As far as Paquin the Royal Seat of the Chinese Kings Paquin Paquina Lat. Pequin Pechinum Lat. is a vast and populous City of China Capital of the Province of Pekin to which their Emperor removed from Naquin in the year 1404 to reside nearer the Tartars their perpetual Enemies and now their Conquerors Sinaean Kings Emperors of China called to this day Sinarum Regio Lat. where Ptolomy the old Geographer placed the Sinae of which China V. 391. To Agra and Lahor of Great Mogul Agra Lat. Capital of the Mogul's Empire is an Indian modern City rich and populous situated in Agra a Province of India beyond the River Ganges Lahor Lahorium Lat. a great City of East-India in a Province of the same Name 360 miles from Agra where the Moguls formerly had their Residence Mogul so called says Heylin as descended from the Mogul Tartars there being others called Sumoguls Jecomoguls c. V. 392. Down to the Golden Chersonese Down as far as to the Golden Peninsula now called the Promontory of Malaca from its chief City is the most Southern Headland of the East-Indies between Sumatra and Borneo two of the Oriental Islands it was known anciently by the name of Aurea Chersonesus Lat. Chersonese 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. is a Peninsula a Place almost quite surrounded by the Sea of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Earth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Island being almost an Island only tied to the Land by a small Isthmus or Neck of Land This of four others very considerable was named the Golden being very rich by a vast and universal Trade V. 393. The Persian in Ecbatan Ecbatana now Tauris and Tebris by the Inhabitants the ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Persia founded anno 786 once ruined by an Earthquake often sack'd by the Turks and ever since 1603 recover'd and kept by the Persians V. 394. Hispahan Or Hispaham Aspahamum Lat. the Royal City of Persia where the Sophies have resided near 100 years extreamly rich and populous seated in the Province of Hierach part of the ancient Parthia Ibid. Or Rassian Ksar in Mcsco Or the Russian Emperour in Mosco Russia is a vast Country in the North-East part of Europe formerly Sarmatia Europaea Ksar or Czar in the Slavonian Tongue is the Title of their Great Duke now Emperor of Muscovy so called of his Capital City Mosco or Mosqua a Wooden City seated on a River of the same name denominating the whole Nation and Empire V. 395. Or Sultan in Bizance Or the Grand Signior in Constantinople of Tartarian Original Byzantium Lat. now Constantinople is a City of Thrace and Capital of the Turkish Empire so named by Constantine the Great who Rebuilt it and made it the Eastern Seat of the Empire taken by Mahomet the Second The Sultan has his Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Dominion which no Monarch exerciseth more absolutely Turchestan is a Province of Zagathaian Tartary so styled because inhabited by the Turks before their inrode into Armenia V. 396. The Empire of Negus to Ercoco The Empire of Negus is that of the Abâ—ssines whose Emperor is by the Europeans styled Prester John by the Moors Aticlabassi and by his own Subjects Acegue and Neguz that is Emperour and King His mighty Territory stretcheth from the Red Sea to Niger ending in the Ethiopic Ocean and almost from one Tropic to the other anciently called AEthiopia sub AEgypto c. Ibid. Ercoco Erquico Erquicium and by Heylin and others Erroco a Sea-port Town of Ethiopia in Africa having a
〈◊〉 Gr. cruel like a Tyrant V. 36. From Rebellion shall derive his Name Nimrod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to rebel as being the Arch-rebel against the Universal Law of Nature which allowed only of Paternal Power This Nimrod is with great probability thought to have been the ancient Belus the Builder of Babylon and Father of Ninus as well from Gen. 10. 10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel by the 70 render'd Babylon as from Profane Authority Tyrannize Tyrannizare Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Govern Arbitrarily V. 40. From Eden towards the West And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east Gen. 11. 2. V. 41. Wherein a black bitumenous Gurge That they found a plain in the land of Shinar Gen. 11. 2. And slime had they for mortar Ibid. v. 3. This Plain of Shinar near Babylon is famous for a great Pool out of which much bitumenous clammy Slime is gather'd Babylone locus est amplissima magnitudine habens supernatans liquidum bitumen quo bitumine latere testaceo structum murum Semiramis Babylonicum circumdedit Vitruvi l. 8. c. 3. Bituminous Bo. 10. v. 562. Gurge of Gurges Lat. à Gyrando a Pool Mater quae gurgitis hujus Ima tenes Geo. 4. This black Bituminous Pool is by our Poet stiled The Mouth of Hell for the same Reasons that the Lago d' Averno between Bajae and Puteoli in Campania was for its Sulphureous Streams mix'd with Sulphur Nitre and Bitumen called Alta Ostia Ditis Geo. 4. V. 44. Whose top may reach to Heaven Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth Gen. 11. 4. Whose top may reach to Heaven that is of a vast and incredible height Dispers'd Dispersus Lat. scatter'd abroad V. 51. Comes down to see their City Gen. 11. 5. Spoken of God after the manner of Men and denotes in Scripture the greatness of the Provocation and the immediate approach of the Punishment Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great I will go down c. Gen. 18. 20. V. 52. Obstruct Heaven's Towers Before their Tower was raised high enough to hinder his Prospect from Heaven's lofty Towers said in Derision Obstruct Obstruere Lat. to stop up to dam up Strue quadam obstare Derision Bo. 5. v. 736. V. 53. A various Spirit to rase their Native Language In derision of their proud and impious Attempt God set upon their Tongues a various Spirit a Spirit and Breath of Confusion which made 'em quite forget that which had till then been the Universal Language and turned and tuned their Tongues to different Speeches not heard before with which he inspired on the Sudden the Families and Tribes proceeding from the three Sons of Noah Hoc nempe modo Linguarum illa confusio divisio facta est Primò quidem fecit Deus omnes illos homines praeter Heber familiam ejus oblivisci primae linguae quae antea fuerat hominum communis Deinde pro diversitate illarum gentium quae tribus ex filiis Noë proseminatae concurrerant ad aedificationem Civitatis Turris diversos habitus variarum linguarum mentibus eorum insevit Deus Peter in Gen. A Miracle no less wonderful this of dividing the one Universal Languagage into so many and so various and thereby dispersing Mankind over the Face of the Earth than that of assembling all sorts of Tongues and Languages in the Apostles mouths on the Day of Pentecost Act. 2. in order to reunite all the Inhabitants of the Earth into one Faith and Holy Communion as the same Author observes Rase Bo. 1. v. 362. V. 55. A jangling Noise A scolding clamour of Words not understood At the confusion of Tongues strange was the Astonishment and mighty the Mockery and Madness that befel so vast a Multitude in one moment distracted as if deriding one another with their jangling unintelligible Nose Jangling of Jangler Fr. to scold or Jancken Belg. to bark and bawl at one another Well stiled A hideous Gable a dreadful Prattle an astonishing Din. Gable of the obsolete Javioler Fr. of Jayon a Jay a noisie Bird or of Habler Fr. Hablar Span. both of Fabulari Lat. to Prate to tell incredible Stories Hideous Bo. 1. v. 46. V. 58. Not understood That they may not understand one anothers speech Gen. 11. 7. Hubbub Bo. 2. v. 951. Din. 6. v. 403. V. 61. The Work confusion named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Confusion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to confound And they left off to build the City therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth Gen. 11. 8 9. Ridiculous Ridiculus Lat. Reproachful Execrable Bo. 2. v. 681. V. 68. Over Bâ—ast Fish Fowl Dominion absolute Gen. 1. 28. God's Donation his Deed of Gift to Mankind and the Delegacy of his Power over his Irrational Subjects Donation Donatio Lat. a Gift Usurp'd Bo. 1. v. 514. V. 71. Human left from human free Left Mankind in full and free possession of their Liberty Rationalem factum ad imaginem suam noluit nisi irrationalibus dominari non hominem homini sed hominem pecori Aug. c. 15. l. 19. de Civit. Dei. V. 74. To God his Tower intends Siege and Defiance The common Opinion is That the Tower of Babel was by Nimrod and his Adherents intended to secure 'em against any second Deluge grounded on that which Josephus has recorded of him c. 5. of Bo. 1. of his Antiq. That he promised them to raise a Tower beyond the reach of the Waters nay such an one as should reach to Heaven and give 'em opportunity of Revenging the Destruction of their drowned Progenitors For which there being no Foundation in the Historical Relation of Moses Gen. 11. our Author thought it fitter to come out of Adam's than the enlighten'd Angel's mouth Gigas ille Nemrod erigebat cum suis popularibus turrim contra Dominum quâ est impia significata superbia St. Aug. l. 16. c. 4. de Civit. Dei Encroachment Accrochement Fr. a hooking in and plucking to of what is another's Right Defiance Bo. 1. v. 669. V. 78. And famish of Breath c. And starve him for want of Breath if not of Bread Some Mountains so far exceeding the Clouds that the Air is there so thin and refined as not to be drawn by Human Lungs at least not without great difficulty and for a short space Famish Starve of Fames Lat. Hunger Famine V. 82. Rational Liberty To destroy the freedom of Mankind as Rational Creatures founded in Reason Original Lapse since thy first Fault and Failing Original Bo. 1. v. 592. Lapse Lapsus Lat. a Fault an Offence of Labi Lat. to offend to slip Sin is often stiled Backsliding V. 85. With right Reason dwells Twinn'd Twisted together with