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.
Lat. Exponere to set out to Publick View to deliver into the Power of Ibid. To avoid worse Rape To prevent a worse Sin and Shame Namely that Unnatural Sin of Sodomy Rape of Raptus Lat. for a Ravishing and Deflowering a Woman by Violence V. 506. These were the Prime The First the Chief the most considerable for Rank and Power Primus Lat. First Order of Ordo Lat. for Condition and Degree Ordo amplissimus the Senate of Rome Cic. V. 508. The Ionian Gods of Javan's Issue Javan was the fourth Son of Japhet the Son of Noah Gen. X. 2. This Javan and his Offspring Peopled that part of Greece as Josephus tells us call'd from him Ionia whence the Iones a considerable People sprang Joseph lib. 1. 8. Issue Offspring Posterity of the Ital. Uscita from Uscire as this of Exire to go out of to proceed as Children do out of the Loins of their Parents V. 509. Later than Heav'n and Earth their boasted Parents So Orpheus in his Hymn to Saturn stiles him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Offspring of the Earth and the Starry Heaven And the same Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Homer in his Hymn to the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hail Mother of the Gods and Wife of the bright Starry Heaven See Hesiod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virg. tells us the Bees nurs'd Jupiter in Crete Dictaeo Coeli Regem pavere sub antro Geor. IV. Ovid that a Goat suckled him Sidus Pluviale capellae Quae fuit in cunis Officiosa Jovis Fast. lib. II. And Epiphan affirms they shew'd his Tomb in a Mountain of Crete To which Callimachâ—â— alludes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 510. Titan Heavn's first-born Titan and Saturn were Sons of Coeli Vestae of Heaven and Earth The Elder at the entreaty of his Mother yielded his Birthright in the Kingdom to Saturn who obliged himself to destroy all his Male Children that the Empire might after him revert to Titan and his Descendants but contrary to this Contract Rhea Wife to Saturn concealed Jupiter and bred him up in Crete Upon the Discovery of which War arose between Titan and Saturn in which the first was Victorious but Jupiter coming to his Father's Assistance recovered all and re-instared him in his Kingdom out of which he drove him not long after provoked by his Father's designing against his Life who had been forewarned by an Oracle that one of his Sons should deprive him of his Kingdom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orph. in Hym. V. 511. Enormous Brood with his vast monstrous Offspring Enormis Lat. for Irregular beyond the ordinary Shape and Size Terra feros partus immania monstra Gigantes Edidit ausuros in Jovis ire domum Ovi Fast. lib. 5. V. 512. By younger Saturn in respect of Titan Heavens First-born for Saturn was one of the most Ancient of the Gods in whose time the Poets date the Golden Age. Aurea Prima sata est aetas c. Postquam Saturno tenebrosa in tartara misso Sub Jove mundus erat subiit Argentea Proces Met. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Jove Jovis a diminutive of Jupiter from Jovah an Abbreviation of Jehovah the most Sacred Name of God Jupiter was the Son of Saturn and Rhea V. 513. Rhea's Son Rhea was the Daughter of Heaven and Earth and Wife to Saturn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epig. Graec. Orpheus in his Hymns has a remarkable Verse of her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 514. Usurping Encroaching on his Father's Authority taking his Power and Scepter out of his Hand of the Lat. Usurpare to invade anothers Right or Property Ibid. In Crete one of the largest Islands in the Mediterranean Sea now Candia lying opposite to the Mouth of the Archipelago from East to West in Length 150 Miles in Breadth 60 in Compass about 540. It took its Name from Creta the Daughter of one of its Kings It was call'd by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as having had formerly 100 famous Cities In which Virg. imitates him Creta Jovis magni medio jacet insula Ponto Mons Idaeus ubi gentis Cunabila nostrae Centum urbes habitant magnas AEn 3. See Strab. lib. 10. and Diodor. Sicul. lib. 6. c. 12. V. 515. And Ida a famous Mountain in Crete in a Cave adjoyning to which the Fables tell us Jove was Nurs'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Callim Hym. in Jovem From this he was Named Idaeus Idaeumque Jovem Phrigiamque ex Ordine Matrem AEn 7. V. 516. Of Cold Olympus Several Mountains were Renown'd by this Name the Chief of which is that of Thessaly where it Borders on Macedonia so high it exceeds the Clouds by the Poets used for Heaven from its height termed Cold and Snowy and the Gods dwelling there are said to rule the Middle Air From this Mountain Jupiter was call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 its Name is derivable quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because never cover'd and obscured by the Clouds or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Cold being so extream or rather the dazling unshaded Light that it took away the Eye-sight Virgil stiles the same Jupiter Superi Regnator Olympi AEn 2. V. 517. The Delphian Cliff Was a Rock on which the Oraculous Temple of Apollo thence called Delphius was seated in Delphos anciently a very great City of Phoeis in Achaia at the Foot of Mount Parnassus never Walled but by the steep Rocks that surrounded it thence stiled the Delphian Cliff or rather Clift of our English word Cleave a Clift being properly a ragged Rock broken and rising in Points and sharp Eminencies V. 518. Or in Dodona a famous Wood in Chaonia the Western Part of Epirus dedicated to Jupiter full of Oaks Trees Sacred to him consulted and celebrated for Oracles hence called Quercus fatidicae habitae Graiis oracula quercus Geor. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cum jam glandes atque arbuta sacrae Deficerent Sylvae victum Dodona negaret Geor. 1. Two Doves that used to haunt this Wood and generally sate upon these Oraculous Oaks flying away the one to Delphos the other to the Temple of Jupiter Ammon in Lybia transferr'd the Spirit of Prediction to those places and silenced this Wood which for a long time was well stored with groaning Boards V. 519. Of Doric Land Of Greece a part for the whole Doris or Doria was that Country in Achaia where the Doric Dialect was Spoken Ibid. Saturn Old Of whom before well might he be Old and so call'd of whom Sibylla Erithr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His Greek Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying Time denotes his Antiquity and Saturnus his Lat. Appellation Quod saturetur annis See Cicer. de Nat. Deor. lib. 2. where he gives the Physical account of what is involved in these Fables V. 520. Fled over Adria Saturn
reasons excellently ch 6. v. 6 and 7. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and how my self before the high God Shall I come before him with Burnt-offerings with Calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl Shall I give my First-born for my Transgression the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul No alas nothing less than the First-born of the Almighty The Image of the Invisible God and the First-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. could attone whom God ordained to be a Propitiation for us Rom. 3. 25. Atonement under the Mosaic Law was an Offering brought to appease God's Anger by Sacrifice out of the Herd or the Flocks which was to be slain by him that offered it Lev. 1. v. 4 and 5. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the Burnt-offering and it shall be accepted for him to make Atonement for him And he shall kill the Bullock before the Lord. The Word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies Redemption or Ransom all the Judaic Immolations being Types and Figures of that Immaculate Lamb Jesus Christ The Lamb of God who taketh away the Sins of the World John 1. 29. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood Eph. 1. 7. Atonement seems a Musical Metaphor like Accord to bring Jarring Differences and Diffonancies ad Toman into Tune V. 241. On me wreck all his Rage On me let Death revenge himself with his utmost Rage Wreck of the Sax. Wpaecan to be revenged V. 249. With Corruption there to dwell According to the Prophetic Psalmist For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither suffer thy holy One to see Corruption Psal. 16. 10. Illustrated and applied to our Saviour who rose the third day by St. Peter Act. 2. v. 20 21 c. V. 253. And stoop inglorious And be humbled and subdued disgraced and disarmed of his irresistible Dart. Positis inglorius armis AEn 10. Inglorious Inglorius Lat. disgraced V. 255. Maugre Hell In spight of Hell Maugre of the Fr. Malgré against ones will of the Lat. Malé and Gratum V. 256. The Powers of Darkness bound According to the Apostle to the Colossians ch 2. v. 15. And having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them confirmed by St. Luke ch 10. v. 17 and 18. Lord even the Devils are subject unto us through thy Name and he said unto them I saw Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven V. 259. Glut the Grave Satisfie cloy the wide gaping Grave that e're it be satisfied must devour all Mankind The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death 1 Cor. 15. 26. Glut of the Lat Glutire to swallow V. 269. Filial Obedience The Duty and Submission which as a Son he paid his Almighty Father exceeded only his everlasting Love to mortal Men Filial of Filialis Lat. belonging to a Son Obedientia Lat. Duty Obedience V. 273. Thus replied Answered thus Of Replicare Lat. to reply to speak again to V. 276. My sole Complacence My only Delight and Pleasure In whom alone I am well pleased Complacentia Lat. of Complacere to like well See before V. 168. of this Book V. 282. Their Nature c. Joyn and unite their Manhood to their Godhead Perfect God and perfect Man c. according to St. Athanasius's Creed V. 285. By wonderous Birth Behold a Virgin shall Conceive and bear a Son Isa. 7. 14. and Matth. 7. 18. V. 286. The Head of all Mankind thô Adam's Son The Answer to the Question with which our Saviour posed the Pharisees Matth. 22. 45. Christ is Adam's and David's Son as to his Humanity and David's and Adam's Lord as to his Divinity therefore in the holy Page styled The last Adam The first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. V. 287. As in him perish For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22. Restored of Restaurare Lat. to renew revive V. 291. Thy Merit imputed shall absolve Thy holy Life and meritorious Death accounted and imputed to Mankind shall obtain Pardon and Forgiveness for as many as renounce their own Deserts and through Faith lay Claim to thine For as by one man's disobedience many were made Sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 19. And therrfore it was imputed to him for Righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone Abraham that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe him c. Rom. 4. v. 22 23 and 24. Imputed of the Lat. Imputare to reckon to account Absolve of the Lat. Absolvere to absolve to acquit to free V. 292. Who renounce their own both Righteous For who can justifie himself before God We must all say as Job did If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will I not lift up my head I am full of confusion Job 10. 15. We are all an unclean thing and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa. 64. 6. But could we do all that is commanded us we are unprofitable Servants Luke 17. 10. Renounce of the Lat. Renuntiare to forsake to disclaim V. 293. Live in the transplanted Removed from the killing Letter of the Law to the gracious Gospel that brought Life and Immortality to light pursuing the Simile used before at V. 288. of Christ being a second Root by whom we are Regenerated Transplantari Lat. to be removed as Trees are into another place a better soil V. 304. Degrade thine own Debase dishonour of Degradare Lat. to disgrace V. 307. God-like Fruition All that God enjoys Fruition of the Lat. Frui to enjoy Quitted all left forsaken all of the Fr. Quitter to leave V. 313. This Humiliation This thy humbling and debasing of thy self to redeem lost Man The greatest Humiliation sure that ever was where the Son of God made himself of no Reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of Men And being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Phil. 2. v. 7 8. V. 314. Thy Manhood to this Throne According to our Creed As also 1 Tim. 3. 16. God was manifested in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World received up into Glory And Ye Men of Galilee why stand ye Gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Acts 1. 11. Hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the Clouds of Heaven Matth. 26. 64 V. 315. Here shalt thou sit Incarnate Here
Weeds of St. Dominic Are cloathed and buried in the Habit of St. Dominic to make sure of their Passage into Paradise thô not half so well assured of it as the order is of a considerable Legacy Weeds an old Word of the Sax. Waede Cloaths V. 481. They pass the Planets seven They get up above the seven Circles assigned to the wandring Lights Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury Luna styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wanderers or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Wandring because of their various and unequal Motions Ibid. And pass the fix'd And soar above the Firmament where the fixed Stars are placed called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. unerring not as if this Sphere were void of all motion but because it moves so slowly on the Poles of the Ecliptic as not to compleat its compass in less than 25000 years therefore seeming fix'd to the giddy Planets V. 482. And that Chrystalline Sphear Gassendus tells us this Caelum Chrystallinum is so named being void of Stars it is transparent and as clear as Chrystal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. The same Astronomer for the convenience of solving the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 has divided this Chrystalline Heaven into two constituting the 9 and 10 Sphears which are supposed to be so equally poized and ballanced the ninth on the Poles of the Ecliptic and the tenth on the Equinoxial Points that by a kind of trembling libration the one inclines from the West to the East and so back again and the other from North to South reciprocally with a trepidation so slow that the first is moving two degrees and one third which makes one libration 1700 years and the latter is twice as long in performing a libration but of 24 minutes an Invention that might have become a Quaking Astronomer Gass. l. 2. c. 8. V. 483. The Trepidation talk'd They pass the Chrystalline Orb so poized that it moves forwards and back again by a slow trembling too much fancied and talk'd of like a Spanish Jennet never standing still and yet gaining no ground Ballance of the Lat. Bilanx a Beam that holds Scales poized and centred upon a Point Trepidatio Lat. trembling of Trepidare to shake Ibid. And the first moved The eleventh Heaven the Primum mobile because the twelfth is by the School-men made immoveable the Empyrean of a square form as to its outside according to the description of the Heavenly Jerusalem Rev. 21. 16. V. 484. At Heaven's Wicket seems to c. And now St. Peter seems to stand ready to open Heaven's Doors waiting for 'em with his Keys in his hand How the Romanists have conferred this Office of Door-keeper on St. Peter and for what reason I know not unless they interpret the Power of the Keys our Saviour gave him which is generally by them understood the absolute Power and Authority of Governing Christ's Church on Earth delegated to him to be exercised Literally by him now in Heaven the Popes his pretended Successors managing the other Magisterially enough on Earth Read Matth. 16. v. 18 and 19. Wicket of the Fr. Guichet a little Door V. 486. At foot of Heaven's Ascent Now at the beginning of Heaven's high rise at the bottom of the going up or arising up towards Heaven Ascent of Ascensus Lat. a climbing up of Ascendere Lat. to mount V. 488. Blows them transverse c. Blows them aside Mutati transversa fremunt vespere ab atro Consurgunt venti AEn 5. Transversus Lat. turned aside put by Ibid. League At Sea especially is three English miles so called of the Fr. Lieûe as this of Leuca Lat. derivable says Ammi Marcellinus a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from white Stones whereby the Accients distinguished them as the Romans also did Decimus ab Urbe Lapis 10 miles from Rome V. 489. Into the devious Air Out of the way into this blustering Climate Devius Lat. Devid out of the way V. 490. Cowles Hoods and Habits The Dresses and Habits of Monks and Friars Cowle Sax. Cugle Fr. Cagoulle of the Lat. Cucullus a Monk's Hood Habit of Habitus Lat. a Dress Cloaths V. 491. Flutter'd into Rags Torn and rent into Rags Flutter'd beaten B. 2. V. 933. Reliques Lat. Reliquiae the Remainders of Saints Bodies Bones Ashes old Garments c. supposed to work miraculous Cures by their credulous Admirers and Adorers V. 492. Indulgences Dispenses Bulls Licenses Dispensations Proclamations and Edicts of the Pope Indulgentia Lat. a Permission from the Pope to do something otherwise forbid Dispenses of Dispensatio Lat. Leave given to do things against the Laws of Men and often those of God as Murders incestuous Marriages breach of Faith c. Bulls the Popes Letters Patents sealed with a piece of Lead hanging to 'em of Bulla Lat. for the Boss of a Bridle and thence a Seal V. 493. The sport of Winds Vacuis Ludibria ventis Or as Virgil of the Sibyls Verses writ on Leaves of Trees Haec turbata volant rapidis ludibria ventis AEn 6. V. 495. Into a Limbo large and broad Limbus Lat. for the Welt or Hem of a Garment by the School men supposed the place in the Neighbourhood of Hell where the Souls of the Just who dyed before the Ascension of our Saviour were detained and into which they consign the Souls of the Infants dying unbaptized A daring and enterprizing Opinion grounded on these following Texts of Scripture Jacob mourning for the suppofed Death of his Son Joseph says in the bitterness of his Soul I will go down into the Grave unto my Son mourning Gen. 35. 35. The Hebr. word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying generally the place of Human Bodies after Death and therefore in our Bibles well translated the Grave The same word does indeed signifie the lowest Place and is understood of Hell As Hell is naked before him Job 26. 6. Of which Aben Ezra says in his Commentary on the place Centrum ipsius terrae ipsi in aperto propatulo est the very Center of the Earth where Hell is supposed to be is open and plain before him The next place assigned for a Support and Foundation is that where the Witch of Endor tells Saul I saw Gods ascending out of the Earth 1 Sam. 28. 13. And in the Eulogy of Samuel this ascending God it is said And after his death he Prophesied and shewed the King his end and lift up his Voice from the Earth Eccles. 46. 20. Another Text is Zecha 9. 11. where the Prophet foretelling the joyful Coming of the Messiah says As for thee also by the blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the Pit wherein is no Water 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vinctos tuos those that are bound which Place if compared with its Parallel Isa. 61. 1. where it is said of our Saviour He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the Captives and the opening of the Prison to them that are bound it
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
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
〈◊〉 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
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
due Guerrier le noderose antenne Cant. 6. St. 40. Hector took a Spear Ten Cubits long 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now if Hector or Polyphemus himself compared to their Superiour Satan were but a Pigmy who can wonder at the Circumference of his Shield or the Size of his Spear to use our Author's Argument and Words When Millions of fierce encountring Angels fought On either side the least of whom could weild These Elements and arm him with the force Of all their Regions Bo. 6. See Spencer Bo. 3. Cant. 7. his Spear amidst her Sun-broad Shield arriv'd that nathemore the Steel asunder riv'd all were the Beam in bigness like a Mast. V. 296. Over the Burning Marle Over the Burning Ground the singed Soil Marle according to Pliny Marga is a Fat Earth of kind and colour like Lime used in many Countries to soil the Earth which its innate heat stimulates into great Fertility V. 297. On Heavens Azure On Heavens Blue Plains Azur Fr. Azurro Ital. both from the barbarous Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis Lazulus a Stone of which is made the best Blue Paint resembling the Blue Sky brought from Persia call'd there Lazurd Ibid. The Torrid Zone The Roasting Region the Scorching Climate Torridus Lat. burnt Torrida semper ab igni of the Torrid Zone Geor. 1. V. 298. Vaulted with Fire Voulté Fr. Arched over-head with Fire well agreeing with his former Description On all sides round As one great Furnace flamed V. 62 63. V. 299. Nathless Nevertheless of which it seems to be a contracted Diminutive or the Sax. Nadeles of Na not and less Ibid. Till on the Beach The Brink the Side the Brow of that Burning Sea V. 300. Inflamed Inflammatus Lat. all on a light Fire V. 301. His Legions Angel-forms His Armies of Angels Angelick Shapes Legio Lat. was a square Battalion of Roman Footmen consisting of about 6000 more or less according to different times Twelve millions of Angels our Saviour mentions Matth. 26. 53. Forms Forma Lat. for Shape Figure Beauty c. Ibid. Intrans't Helpless confounded Transi Fr. fallen into a Swound V. 302. Thick as Autumnal As numberless as Leaves in Autumn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As many as the Leaves and Flowers that adorn the Spring says Homer And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Very many like to Leaves or Sands for number Thus improved by Virg. Quem qui scire velit Libyci velit aequoris idem Discere quam multae Zephyro turbentur arenae Aut ubi Navigits violentior incidit Eurus Nosse quet Ionii veniant ad litora sluctus Geor. 2. But those which exactly quadrate with the place are Quà m multa in Sylvis Autumni frigore primo Lapsa cadâ—nt Folia AEn 6. Ibid. Autumnal Of or in the Autumn Autumnus Lat. the Harvest that Quarter of the Year from the beginning of August to that of November V. 303. In Vallombrosa It. In the shady Vale. Valombrosa is a famous Valley in Tuscany so named of Vallis and Umbra Shade remarkable for the continual cool Shades which the vast number of Trees that overspread it afford Ibid. Where th' Etrurian Shades c. Where the lofty Tuscan Trees Vaulted high overhead agree in one green Bower Etruria was the ancient Name of a considerable part of Italy now Toscana Thuscia and Tuscia Lat. containing all that Country which belongs to the States of Florence Siena Pisa and Luca the last a Free State the rest subject to the great Duke of Florence V. 304. Over-arch'd Arch'd over-head Arch. A Circular Figure from Arc Fr. as that of Arcus Lat. for a bent Bow its resemblance Ibid. Scatter'd Sedge Weeds broken by the Wind and covering the Red Sea Sedge from the Sax. Saecg A little Sword from its shape and A secando from the sharpness of its sides which are apt to cut the Hand they are drawn through V. 305. A Float Floating swimming about from Flotter Fr. as that from Fluctuare to swim Ibid. Orion arm'd The Poets Fable that Jupiter Mercury and Neptune being one Night out late on a Ramble were forc'd to take into a poor House where one Hircus lived who killed the only Ox he had to entertain his Heavenly Guests who to reward his Gratitude granted him any Request he should make 'em which was That he might have a Child without the trouble of a Wife Whereupon these his Guests Urining in the Oxes Hide commanded him to bury it Ten Months in the Earth which he did and at the end of the term he had this Son who proving a great Hunter was kill'd by a Scorpion and by the Commiseration of the Gods translated to Heaven into a Constellation of Sixteen Stars From this extraordinary way of Generation he was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Urine Others say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Stormy Weather that attends him Assurgens fluctu nimbosus Oryon AEn 1. Armatumque Auro Circumspicit Oryona AEn 3. Where Virgil has adorn'd him with Gold in respect of his Splendor as Miltâ—n does here arm him with fierce Winds in Consideration of the season he appears in which is generally tempestuous Armatus Lat. armed V. 306. The Red-Sea Coast Mare Erythraeum of Erythreus Son of Persus and Andromeda who Reigned in Egypt on the Confines of this Sea and probably found the way of sailing in small Vessels among Islands thereof the affinity of his Name with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek for Red occasioned the naming this Sea so Sir Walter Rawleigh from a view that Gama a Portugese took of this Sea Anno 1544 affirms That the Earth Sand and Cliffs of divers Islands in this Sea being of a Reddish Colour give by Reflection a foil to its Waters that seem to have a Tincture of Rubicundity though not real Where the Hebrew Text mentions the miraculous passage of the Israelites cross this Sea it is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mare Algosum the Sea of Weeds from the abundance of Weeds and floating Sedge though translated the Red-Sea V. 307. Busiris was according to Sir Walter Rawleigh's Opinion one of the Egyptian Kings that opprest the Israelites in whose Reign Moses fled having slain the Egyptian and that he was called Chencres on whom the Ten Plagues were inflicted and who was afterwards in persuit of 'em drown'd with all his Host in the Red-Sea Pharaoh the word used by Moses was the general Appellative of all the Egyptian Monarchs as is evident from 2 Kings 23. 29. and Jerem. 46. 2. where by his Sirname one of their Kings is call'd Pharach-Nechoh Ibid. His Memphian Chivalry His Egyptian Horsemen from Memphis the great and glorious city of old Egypt seated on the Brow of a Mountain two Miles West of Nilus and is call'd Moph Hos. 9. 6. About Ten Miles from this place stand the famous Pyramids Barbara Pyramidum sileat miracula Memphis Mart. Quem non AEgyptia Memphis AEquaret visu numerisque moventibus astra Luc. l. 1.
cheat into allicere V. 448. Damsels The young Syrian Ladies of the Fr. Damoiselle a word signifying a young Woman of Quality Ibid. To lament his Fate To bemoan his untimely Death Lamentor Lat. to bewail Fatum Lat. Death V. 449. In Amorous Ditties In Love-Songs made of Venus and Adonis Amoreux Fr. loving Ditty quasi dictum Songs composed and indited V. 450. Smooth Adonis As unwrinckled in his Flood as in his youthful Face Adonis is the Name of a River arising out of a Rocky part of Mount Libanus which runs bloody the Day his Death is commemorated on as Lucian tells us Hence this Rock is named Native from Nativus Lat. born Adonis is deducible from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesych the Son of Cinyra King of Cyprus by his Daughter Myrrha He was the Favorite of Venus and to her grief killed by a Wild Boar. Meta. Lib. 10. V. 451. Ran Purple Of a dark Dye as stain'd with the Blood of Thammuz yearly slain Purpura Lat. as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for that Colour V. 453. Infected Sions c. The Love-Story the Jewish Ladies to like pity moved Infected of Inficio Lat. to corrupt to stain V. 454. Whose Wanton Passions Whose loose behaviour in the holy Porch of the Temple c. Ezek. 8. is to be read Sacer Lat. holy Porticus Lat. for a place raised on Pillars and cover'd over head fit to walk under free from the Sun or Shower V. 455. When by the Vision led The two usual ways by which God made known his Will to his People under the Dispensation of the Old Law were Visions and Dreams Numb 12. 6. Visio Lat. for an appearance a shew This Vision our Author mentions is recorded Ezek. 8. and at the third Verse The Spirit lift me up between the Earth and the Heaven and brought me to Jerusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Visions of God V. 456. Survay'd Mark'd heedfully beheld from the old Fr. Surveoir quasi supervidere V. 457. Of Alienated Judah Departed from serving the Living God to worship Stocks and Stones To alien or alienate is a Law-Term for transferring the Property of an Estate to one who had before no Right to it from alienus Lat. a Stranger well applyed to shew how God's Children and Inheritance had alienated and made themselves over to Sin and Satan Judah was the fourth Son of Jacob by Leah from whom the Jews were call'd Judaei and the Land of Promise Judea Jer. 29. 35. V. 459. Maim'd his Brute Image Lamed his senseless Image Maim from whence this word is of Mancus Lat. Lame defective in one Member or other Ibid. Head and Hands lopt off A Metaphor taken from lopping and cutting of the Branches of Trees with which in a Man according to the Comparison of a Tree reverst the Hands and Feet seem to correspond Read 1 Sam. 5. 2 3 4 and 5. V. 460. On the Grundsel-Edge On the Foot-post of his Temple-Gate from the Sax. Ground the Earth next which it generally lieth V. 462. Dagon his Name Sea-monster 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is thought to have been half a Fish and half a Man a Monster like a Triton but with the Head of a Fish Idolum Dagon quod Colebatur à Philistaeis habebat caput piscis Ideo vocatur Dagon quia Hebraeum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat piscem Lyran. But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Corn and he was called Oannes and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Learned Selden tells us The clearest account we have of this Idol is from Helladius who relates that a Man cloathed in a Fishes Skin first taught the Syrians the manner of Tilling the Ground and Sowing of Corn for which he obtained a Temple and Divine Honours worshipp'd in the form of an Image upward a Man covered over with Ears of Corn and downward a Fish because of his Habit and his retiring every Night towards the Red-Sea a Mysterious involving perhaps of the share that moisture has in all the Productions and Fruits of the Earth Mention is made of this monstrous Idol Judg. 16. 23. 1 Chron. 10. 10. 1 Maccab. 10. 84. Ibid. 11. 4. V. 464. Azotus Ashdod once a principal City of the Philistins now a Village by the Turks named Alzete Of this and the other four that follow read 1 Sam. 6. 17. V. 465. Gath another of the five Regal Cities of the Philistins famous for its Champion Goliah 1 Sam. 16. 4. Ibid. Ascalon Scalona a City in the Holy Land on the Mediterranean Sea between Azoâ—us and Gaza one of the five chief Cities V. 466. Accaron or Ecron heretofore a famous City of the Philistins now a poor Village Ibid. Gaza's once a beautiful and rich City of Palestine taken by the Tribe of Judah Judg. 1. 18. It was the fifth Ruling City of the Philistins seated near the Shore of the Mediterranean on the Confines of Idumea towards Egypt and therefore called Frontier Bounds the Borders the Confines of a Country of the Fr. Frontiere as this of the Lat. Frons the Forehead V. 467. Rimmon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Sacred Language signifies a Pomegranate and is mentioned 2 Kings 5. 18. as the chief God of Damascus holding this Fruit in his Hand thence esteemed the Protector of the People who had it either in their Orchards or their Arms by some supposed Jupiter Cassius represented with a Pomegranate in his Hand worshipp'd on the Confines of Mount Cassius near to Damascus The Learned Selden thinks it more reasonable to derive the Name of this Idol of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 high and exalted because he finds in Hesychius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dissonancy between Raman and Rimmon after so many Ages not being worth taking notice of V. 468. Fair Damascus The principal and most ancient City of Syria seated in a Plain surrounded with Hills uncertain when or by whom built but because mentioned by Abraham Gen. 15. 2. The Steward of my House is this Eliezer of Damascus Fame will have it built by Abraham's Servants Ibid. Fertil Fruitful Fertilis Lat. encreasing abounding in Fruit Corn c. V. 469. Albana and Pharphar Two Rivers of Damascus 2 Kings 5. 12. Lucid clear of Lucidus Lat. bright V. 471. A Leper once he lost Naaman the Syrian 2 Kings 5. 14. Leper of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Leprosie of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. rough full of Scabs and Asperities like Scales of Fish Of this Disease and the care God himself took of it see Levit. 13. and 14 Chapters V. 472. Ahaz his sottish Conquerour His dull his foolish Conquerour to fall down and worship Gods he had vanquisht as it follows Read the Story 2 Kings 16. 10. V. 473. Gods Altar to disparage To slight and contemn To disparage is properly to undervalue a Person or Thing by a Comparison mean and disproportionate from the Detractive
abroad V. 775. And confer their State-Affairs Consider and advise of things concerning their Government according to the Opinion of Virgil and others that Bees have one and that Monarchical Solae Communes Natos consortia tecta Urbis habent magnisque agitant sub legibus aevum Et Patriam solae certos novere Nepotes Georg. 4. Regem non sic AEgyptus ingens Lydia nec populi Parthorum aut Medus Hydaspes Observant Rege incolumi mens omnibus una est Amisso rupere fidem Ibid. Confer of Confero Lat. to consult to consider of in common Ibid. The Airy Crowd The Light Spiritual Throng of Angels of AErius Lat. of Air. V. 776. Swarm'd and were straitn'd Increased and were confined in narrow room Strait of Estroit Fr. of strictus Lat. contracted crowded together V. 778. In bigness to surpass c. They who so lately seem'd in size t' exceed the Giant Off-spring of the Angry Earth sent to attempt on Heaven Surpass Fr. Surpasser to go beyond to out-do Brood of the Belg. Broeden to hatch Giant One of extraordinary bigness both for Bulk and Stature Lat. Gigas Geant Fr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Earth-born So Virg. Partu terra nefando Coeumque Japetumque creat saevumque Typhoëa Et Conjuratâ—s Coelum rescindere Fratres Georg. Lib. 1. And Hic genus antiquum Terrae Titania Pubes Fulmine dejecti AEn 6. These Giants were by the Poets made the Sons of Titan and the Earth who made War on Jove to revenge the Injury done their Father Elder Brother to Saturn by depriving him and consequently them his Descendants of his Kingdom V. 780. Like that Pigmean Race The Pigmies are said to inhabit about the East of India near the rising of the Ganges where the Cranes lay their Eggs They had their Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Fist as being about a Hand high Juven measures'em by the Foot Ubi tota cohors pede non est altior uno Sat. 13. Ad subitas Thracum volucres nubemque sonoram Pigmaeus parvis currit Bellator in armis Mox impar hosti raptusque per aëra curvis Unguibus à saevâ fertur grue Pygmaeos quoque haud longè ab his nasci quorum qui longissimi sint non longiores esse quam pedes duâ—â— quadrantem Aul. Gell. Lib. 11. Cap. 4. the tallest not exceed 2¼ Feet in height Race The Breed Off-spring from Radix Lat. a Root V. 781. Beyond the Indian Mount The Mountain Imaus the Northern Boundary of India Ibid. Or Faery Elves Or Dancing Sprights agreeable to the Old Wives Fables Fairies seem derivable from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ionic word for Fauns Satyrs and such like Wild Creatures as are Fabled to frequent the Woods Elf A Goblin a Nimble Spright from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to change according to the Erroneous Opinion that these Fairy Elves do sometimes exchange their Brats for others more Beautiful V. 782. Whose Midnight Revels Whom sporting and dancing at Midnight near some Wood or Waters-side a Swain going late home sees or imagines that he sees To Revel is properly to Dance or make Merry late or all Night from the Fr. Resveiller to Watch to be up late V. 783. Belated Peasant Some Country Swain out late at Night Paisant Fr. a Country-Man a Clown V. 784. Or dreams he sees So Virg. Aut videt aut vidisse putat per nubila Lunam AEn 6. V. 785. Sits Arbitress Governess of the Night looking on like a Judge and Beholder of their Pastimes Lucian in his Book De Deâ Syriâ calls the Moon Noctis Arbitram Arbiter is properly an Umpire a Private Judge chosen by Common Consent to determine between Parties but most properly it signifies a Looker on and is so used by Horace Non locus effusi late maris arbiter a Place that has a free and open Prospect to the Sea-ward Epist. Lib. Cap. 11. Ibid. And nearer to the Earth Beginning to decline and go down nearer to her setting or nearer to the Earth in regard of the Sun and Stars that fetch wider compass round it V. 786. Wheeles her pale course Makes her wan way drives her pale Chariot nearer to the Earth Pallidus Lat. faint whitish course Cursus Lat. Race Journey Way V. 787. Intent with Jocund Musick charm c. They wholly busie in their Sports and Dance with pleasing Tunes delight his charmed Ear. Intent earnest set upon a thing of intensus Lat. Jocund of Jucundus Lat. sweet pleasant To charm is to gain upon and as it were bewitch or inchant ones Ears so as to deprive him of the power to depart of Carmen Lat. for a Charm Carmina vel Coelo possunt deducere Lunam Virg. Ecl. 8. Musick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of Harmony whether Instrumental or Vocal A Musis Inventoribus V. 788. At once with Joy and Fear c. At the same time both pleased and scared delighted and affrighted his Heart within him leaps he feels at once the unequal Motions and Impressions that Fear and Joy make in his beating Breast Rebound of Rebondir Fr. to leap back again a Metaphorical Expression from the rebounding of a Ball. V. 789. Thus Incorporeal Spirits Thus Angels or Spirits not cloathed and clogg'd with gross Earthly Bodies for Incorporeal is Declarative of their Nature Incorporeus Lat. without a Body V. 790. Reduc'd their Shapes immense Lessen'd and contracted their vast Shapes to smallest size Reducere Lat. to restrain Immensus Lat. vast huge Ibid. And were at large And were at ease not crowded because contracted into less room so to go at large is to be at liberty to be free otherwise to be at large when they had lessen'd themselves would be a plain Contradiction V. 792. Of that Infernal Court Of Hell Lucifer's new Court Infernalis Lat. belonging to the nethermost deepest Hell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 793. In their own Dimensions Not lessen'd in Shape or Size but in their own Majestick make Dimensio Lat. Measure Proportion V. 794. Seraphick Is the singular of Seraphim and Cherubim the plural of Cherub the Rusing Lords of both which before V. 795. In close recess In strictest privacy Recessus Lat. Retirement a place to be in private Ibid. And secret Conclave Is a private place into which no Person can come without a Key a place appointed and set apart for secret Counsels of Con and Claudo to be shut up together Hence the place where the Election of the Pope is made at Rome is called the Conclave V. 796. A thousand Demi-Gods A great Assembly of consulting Seraphims called Demi-Gods as being Spirits approaching nearest to Divinity though infinitely short of it Demi of Dimidium Lat. half the word answers to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Heathen Illustrious Persons Aiders of Mankind and Maintainers of Virtue Heroes who deliver'd their Country from Oppression and Tyranny therefore reputed the Off-spring of the Gods and at
thereof according to the number of the Persons in their Families thô the Talmud will have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quid hoc by way of Admiration V. 114. To perplex and dash To confound and disorder the wisest Councels of the Sax Dwaef a Fool one astonished frighted out of all Thought and Consideration Maturest properly Ripest of Maturus Lat. Ripe Maturest Counsels the best chosen Advice brought nearest to perfection V. 116. In Vice industrious c. In ill laborious in more gallant Deeds fearful and backward Industrius Lat. diligent forward Nobler of Nobilis Nobilior Lat. more noble more excellent Timorous of Timidus Lat. fearful V. 118. And with perswasive Accent And in his winning way did thus begin Perswasive of Persuasio Lat. for perswading gaining on our Hearers by Arguments finely urged eloquent and graceful Discourse Accent Lat. Accentus the graceful Tone used in pronouncing Speeches affecting the Auditory with the Harmonious turn of the Tongue V. 121. Main Reason to perswade Chief Argument to move us to immediate War Main of the Fr. Magne as that of Magnus Lat. great main Reason chiefest the greatest Reason Immediate War without any intermission incessant uninterrupted of Immediatus Lat. without any stop or delay V. 122. Did not disswade me most Were not the greatest Argument to me against it Of Dissuaderâ— Lat. to advise to the contrary to advise against V. 123. Seem to cast ominous Conjecture c. And seem to raise an ill Opinion of our Undertaking Ominosus Lat. unlucky for Omen is used in both senses and here in the worst Quod dii prius omen in ipsum Convertant AEn 2. Conjectura a Guess an Opinion V. 124. In Fact of Arms In Deeds of War Of Facta Lat. valiant noble Deeds V. 127. And utter Dissolution And intire Destruction of his Being utter Abolition Of Dissolutio Lat. from dis and solvo the breaking the Ligaments and very Bonds of Being V. 128. As the scope of all his Aim As the utmost end of his Intention as the chief Design and Mark at which he aims Scopus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Mark at which Archers shoot and thence the Intention and Design at which Men in their Undertakings aim V. 130. That render all Access impregnable That make all Approaches to Heaven's high Towers vain and to no purpose Render of the Fr. Rendre as that of Reddere Lat. i. e. Eâ—â—icere to make Access Accessus Lat. a coming to Imprenable Fr. not to be taken or forced Ibid. Oft on the bordering Deep Their Legions of Armed Angels oft encamp upon the gloomy Deep that borders on our flaming Dungeon V. 132. Encamp their Legions Legions of Angels keep their watchful Camp Neighbouring on the Deep or Winging through the Dark search far and wide through Regions of the Night disdaining any sudden Onset or Attempt Encamp of in and campus Lat. Field Armies being then Encamped when quitting their Quarters they take the Fields and lodge in ' em V. 133. Scout To spy to search diligently as those who are sent out to discover the approach or posture of the Enemy Of the Fr. Fsâ—cute a Spy of Escoâ—ter Fr. to hear to listen their Ears in the Night especially being on the Watch as well as their Eyes at other times V. 134. Surprize Of the Fr. Surprinse a taking one at unawares an unforeseen Assault given on a sudden V. 135 c. By Force and at c. Or suppose us able to force our way and at our Heels all Hell in maddest Mutiny armed with â—ooty Fires could rise and mix 'em with Heaven's Purity yet would our mighty Adversary sit unsullied on his Throne and Heaven the Seat of his transcendent Brightness would endure no Stain but quickly throw off and disdain the blâ—ck Attempt superior and soon clear it self from all our gross and baser Flames Insurrectio Lat. arising against of Insurgere Lat. to confcund to mix with of Confundere Lat. to mingle by poaring together Incorruptible Incorruptibilis Lat. not to be corrupted incapable of decay or alteration Unpolluted Impollutus Lat. unstained V. 139. Etherial Mould The Heavenly Substance Mould properly signifies Earth Dust. V. 140. Incapable of Stain Heaven 's Azure not to be stained or sullied Incapax Lat. not subject to Expel of Expellere to drive out V. 142. Tâ—us repulsed Thus worsted and foil'd Repulsus Lat. beaten back defeated V. 143. Our final Hope is flat Despair Our last our utmost Hope is meer Despair Final last highest from Finalis Lat. last Flat plat Meer plain downright Despair Ibid. We must exasperate We must provoke Exasperare Lat. to whet to make more rough and severe V. 147. Thâ—â— Intellectual Being This Spiritual Understanding this Angelic Essence whose Beings are more compleat and of a compass of Understanding more vast and comprehensive than the Rational Intellectualis Lat. belonging to Knowledge V. 150. In the wide Womb c. In the empty Womb of dark Confusion Uncreated Night is made the Image of Non-entity for of Things uncreated or that have no Being we have but an obscure Negative Notion Iâ—creatus Lat. unmade not created V. 151. Devoid of Sense and Motion Without all Sense and Motion Senseless dead void and devoid of the Fr. Vnide empâ—â—â— This is one of those bad which Belial endeavours to make appear a good Reason according to his Character Ver. 113. for certainly 't is much better not to be at all than to be miserable to all Eternity as our Saviour himself testifieth of Judâ—â— Woe to that Man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed it had been good for that Man if he had never been born Matth. 14. 21. And we see even Kings and mighty Potentates willingly give up and desire to resign their Crowns and all the Affluence and Power the Pomp and Pride of Life when press'd with extream and remediless Pain thô but Corporeal thô the naked and shivering Soul may for ought they know immediately be summoned and arraigned at Heaven's high Tribunal and after a short interval the lazy Grave may again give up its sad and sinful Associate to be consigned over to Eternal Punishment V. 154. Is doubtful Whether it be in his Power to do it is uncertain is more than we know that is Whether it be consistent with his immutable Decrees to annihilate and destroy our Angelic Beings V. 156. Belike through Impotence c. As it were through Weakness or by meer Mistake Impotentia signifies properly want of Power thence used to express Rasâ—ness and Disability to Govern our Passions Will God who is so Wise and so Omniscient manage his Anger so unwarily as in his wrathful Rage with one stroke to destroy and end his Enemies whom his Anger spares decreed and doom'd to suffer without end V. 160. We are Decreed Reserv'd and Destin'd We are adjudged and doom'd kept and appointed for everlasting Pain Decreed of Decerno Lat. to judge to sentence Reserv'd Reservatus Lat. kept preserv'd Destin'd Destinatus
Throne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to place on a Throne whose contrary is to Disinthrone V. 230. Or to regain Or to recover of the Fr. Regaigner to obtain or get again V. 231. Him to Unthrone Him to bereave of his Power to dispossess of his Soveraignty Unthrone Dethrone Disinthrone Words of the same import V. 233. To fickle Chance When the fixt and Eternal Laws of the Creation shall to giddy and uncertain Chance give way and Confusion decide the Quarrel and Contest V. 234. Argues as vain Proves the other as vain and hopeless for us to recover our lost and forfeited Inheritance of Heaven Arguere Lat. to make appear evident V. 237. Suppose he should Relent Suppose he should incline to Mercy grow soft and easie and proclaim to all free Pardon on condition of Return to our Obedience Relent Fr. Ralentir Lat. Relentescere to wax soft Publicare Lat. to Publish Grace Gratia Lat. Pardon Favour V. 239. Of new Subjection Of new Obedience Subjectio Lat. Ibid. With what Eyes How ashamed and confounded should we Shame shewing it self in the Eyes the Windows of the Soul V. 241. Strict Laws impos'd Severe Laws laid upon us Strictus Lat. hard severe compulsive of Stringo to bind Impos'd Impositus Lat. of Imponere to lay upon Ibid. To celebrate his Throne with Warbled Hymns In solemn manner to surround his Throne with Tuneful Songs and to his Godhead sing Thanksgivings forc'd and feign'd Celebrare Lat. to worship to frequent and haunt V. 242. With Warbled Hymns With Chanted Songs Warble of the Belg. Wervelen is properly to turn round thence in Musick used for that turn of the Voice used in shaking a Note Hymns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Song made in Praise of the Deity many of which were made by Homer Orpheus Callimachus c. called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And by the same Name Phiâ—o calls the Psalms of David V. 242. Forc'd Hallelujahs Strained Praises and Thanksgivings forced and constrained 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Praise the Lord of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Imperative Mood Pihel and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord frequently used in the Psalms as 106. 1. and 113. 1. and Revel 19. â— 1 3 4 c. V. 245. Ambrosial Odours c. While from his Altar does ascend the sweetest Scents breath'd from Immortal Flowers our Slavish Sacrifice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Immortal Divine of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Privative and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mortal Hence Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sometimes it signifies Sweet Pleasing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per placidam noctem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liquidum Ambrosiae diffudit Odorem Geor. 4. And Ambrosiaeque Comae divinum vertice Odorem Spiravere AEn 1. Nectar was the Drink and Ambrosia the Meat of the Gods administred to 'em by Ganimedes and Hebe the Goddess of Youth thô promiscuously used Neptune's Horses had a mash of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Thetis used it for a Preservative to Patroclus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It was sometimes taken for the name of a Flower whence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Floridus as Eustath V. 246. Our Servile Offering Servilis Lat. belonging to a Slave or Bondman V. 249. Let us not then pursue c. Let us not then pursue the mean condition of shining Slavery by Power unattainable and if by Prayer unwelcome thô in Heaven unacceptable of in and acceptus Lat. welcome pleasant V. 252. Of splendid Vassalage Of gay pompous Slavery Vassalage is properly the Service and Subjection a Tenant owes his Lord of whom he holds his Land V. 254. Live to our selves Tecum habita noris quam sit tibi curta supellex Pers. V. 256. Preferring hard Liberty Esteeming Freedom thô with Hardship gain'd beyond the Yoke of pompous Servitude that seems so easie to mean Minds Pompa Lat. for shew such as of Triumphs and Processions V. 258. Then most conspicuous Our Grandeur then will be most manifest Conspicuus Lat. evident notable admirable V. 262. Through Labour and Indurance To work Ease out of Pain seems a hard Task but our Author's meaning is To overcome their Punishment by Patience and by Sufferance to subdue the Extremity of it to that degree as by Custom and Habitude to allay its Rigour Indurance of Indurare to bear to harden ones self against as Virg. Durate vosmet rebus rebus servate secundis AEn 1. V. 264. Heaven's all-ruling Sire The Great Governor and Supreme Lord of Heaven Sire Fr. Lord in a sense so Superlative that without any addition it is used as the most Honourable Appellative in Speaking and Addressing to the French King All-Ruling Tum Pater omnipotens rerum cui summa potestâ—s AEn 10. V. 265. Choose to reside Make his Abode of Resider Fr. to remain to stay to continue in a place Ibid. His Glory unobscured His Brightness unsullied his Glory not dimmed or diminished Unobscured of Inobscuro Lat. to hide to conceal to darken V. 266. And with the Majesty c. Darkness has a kind of Awfulness by our Poet well express'd by Majesty with awful Darkness surrounding his Soveraign Seat which some of the European Monarchs seem to imitate by the Concealments of their Courts V. 268. Mustering their Rage Shewing their Fury proclaiming Heaven's loud Anger To Muster is to shew of the Fr. Monstre so to muster Forces is to make a general shew and appearance of Soldiers with their Arms the foregoing five Verses are an imitation of Psal. 8. from v. 9. to v. 13. inclusive see also Exod. 19. v. 9 and 18. Resembler Fr. to be like V. 269. Cannot we his Light imitate Confirmed by St. Paul who tells us Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light 2 Cor. 11. v. 14. Imitari to Counterfeit to do any thing like another V. 270. This desart Soil c. This Wilderness of Woe wants not its conceal'd Wealth Jewels and Gold nor want we Power or Art to adorn even Hell it self and make it imitate his Heaven Desertum Lat. a Wilderness a Place uninhabited uncultivated V. 275. Become our Elements Our Punishments in time perhaps may change into our Pastime a vain Flattery and foolish Expectation as if Fits of Gout or Stone could be more tolerable for being tedious to Extremity if so the Damned Spirits might hope for Ease on everlasting Racks Elementa Lat. the first Principles of which all things are made and compounded in this Elementary World our Punishment might become part of our Being V. 277. Into their Temper Our pure Spiritual Being changed into these gross Fires as before V. 217. V. 278. The Sensible of Pain The Sense the Pungency of Pain To Sensibile the Adjective used for a Substantive V. 282. Dismissing quite Laying aside giving over all Thoughts of War of Demittere Lat to send away V. 284. He scarce had finish'd He had scarce made an end of speaking scarce had he finished his Speech Finir Fr. to make an end of the
ardentibus aptum AEn 6. Maximus Atlas Edidit aethereos humero qui sustinet axes AEn 8. Perseus the Son of Jupiter turned him in to a Mountain of the same Name for refusing him Entertainment of which read Metam lib. 4. about the latter end It is the greatest Mountain of Africa of vast height which gave occasion to the Fiction of bearing Heaven on his Back See him described AEn 4. Latera ardua cernit Atlantis duri Caelum qui vertice fulsit c. Hence Juvenal exposing the multiplicity of the Roman Deities Nec turba Deorum Talis ut est hodie contentaque sidera paucis Numinibus miserum urgebant Atlanta minore Pondere Sat. 13. V. 307. His Look drew Audience His Look obliged 'em all to listen and attend silent as Night and quiet and unmoved as the mid-day Air in Summer Audience hearing of Audire Lat. to hear Noon-tide mid-day of Nona Ital. for that time from the ninth hour of the day when the Romans used to eat and Tid Sax. Time Night is seldom named by the Poets without the adjunct of Stillness and Silence Sub nocte silenti AEn 4. And in great Continents in Summer time about Noon the Air is as still not the least breath of Wind being heard to break or interrupt its calmness a Similitude not so obsolete V. 310. Thrones c. Princes and commanding Powers the Birth of Heaven Divine Perfections or these glorious Names now must we quit and changing them be call'd c. V. 311. Or these Titles c. These glorious Names Titulus Lat. for a Title of Honour as we phrase it Renuntiare Lat. to renounce to forsake to give over V. 312. Changing Style Altering our Appellations changing our Names Style of Stylus Lat. for an Iron with the sharp end of which the Romans wrote on Tables and with the broad end strook it out hence taken for the manner of Men's Writing or Speaking and for their Names Titles and Dignities V. 313. For so the popular Vote inclines For to this common Wish the general Voice the publick Desire leads and directs Vote of the Lat. Votum a Prayer or any thing much wished for so to put to the Vote is to leave the Matter in dispute to be decided by the choice desire or good liking of the major part of the Assembly Popularis Lat. common general as belonging to the common People Inclines moves of Inclinare Lat. to bend to stoop downwards V. 315. Doubtless while we Dream No doubt while we vainly imagine and will not know that Heaven's King has decreed this Place our Prison not a secure Abode beyond the reach of his Almighty Arm Ah nescis longas Regibus esse manus most undoubtedly true of Heaven's Almighty King To Doom is to decree to judge to ordain a Sax. word Retreat of the Fr. Retraicte a retiring or withdrawing from Danger into a place of Strength and Security V. 318. To live Exempt from H. h. Jurisdiction To live free from God's Supreme Authority out of the compass of Heaven's all-commanding Power Exemptus Lat. free from Priviledged against whence the Fr. Military Word Un Exempt being an Inferior Officer discharged of common Duty Jurisdiction Jurisdictio is a Law-Term signifying the Authority and Power by Law given to a Person to do Justice in Causes of Complaints made before him See Cook 's Proemium to the 4 Justitiae V. 319. In new League banded against c. In a new Alliance combined against his Power Banded of the Fr. Bander to joyn together to combine V. 321. In strictest Bondage But to continue in severest Slavery thô at this vast distance by unavoidable Restraint Retain'd Millions of Slaves Imprison'd V. 322. Curb Restraint A Curb is that Chain that is made fast under a Horses Chops serving to retain and with-hold him the Word to Curb signifying as much of the Fr. Courber of Curvare Lat. to bend to bridle and restrain Reserv'd of the Lat. Reservare to keep in store to retain Captive of Captivus Lat. properly a Prisoner taken in War V. 325. In heighth or depth In Heaven or Hell the one the highest the other the lowest and consequently deepest First and Last c. Absolutely without any Competitor I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come even the Almighty Rev. 1. 8. V. 328. And with Iron Scepter Rule c. And bear Rule over us here in Hell by exercising his wrathful Vengeance on us as he governs by his Eternal Goodness and unexhausted Mercies those in Heaven The Iron Scepter is an allusion to Psal. 11. 9. as that of Gold to Esther 5. 2. Of these two Metals were the Ages of the World so significantly named the first and happiest The Golden Age long before that Precious Bane was found the other of Iron Tunc itum est in viscera Terrae c. Iamque nocens ferrum ferroque nocentius aurum Prodierat Met. 1. Sub initio V. 330. Projecting Designing contriving of Projicere Lat. to put forth to be inclined or bent to whence Project and Projectors V. 331. War hath determin'd us This one Battel lost hath put an end to all our Endeavours has concluded us of Determinare Lat. to bring to an end Irreparable Irreparabilis Lat. not to be restor'd to its former State irrecoverable V. 334. Custody severe Strict and close Imprisonment Custodia Lat. Prison Restraint Severus Lat. harsh cruel V. 335. Arbitrary Punishment According to the Will of our angry Conqueror Arbitrarius Lat. Voluntary left to the Will of another The Civilians distinguish between Arbitrium and Arbitrarium thus Arbitrium est sententia ex arbitrio bona fide lata Arbitrarium quod in arbitris potestate est pro arbitrio judicioque suo statuere V. 338. Untamed Reluctance Unbroken unabated unwearied Opposition Reluctance Strife of Reluctaâ—i to wrestle with Hostilitas Lat. Enmity V. 340. May least Rejoyce c. May take least Pleasure in inflicting those Punishments that are to us most sensible and severe V. 343. With dangerous Expedition With hazardous Attempt to march against the Almighty Expeditio Lat. a March into an Enemies Country a Warlike Voyage Invade of Invadere Lat. to go against or into an Enemies Land V. 334. Siege or Ambush c. Siege of Sedes Lat. a Seat for to besiege a Place is to sit down before it and Insedere is used by Livy to besiege Ambush a lying in wait â—o surprize or set upon an Enemy at unawares of the Fr. Embuscade properly a hiding in Bushes and Woods of the Particle En and Buisson a Bush. V. 347. If Ancient and Prophetic Fame If old Reports in Heaven and foretelling Fame mistake not Ancient of Ancien Fr. old Prophetic of Propheticus Lat. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Prophet one who foresees and foretells Things e're they come to pass Fame of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for Report V. 355.
the Sax. Daegian to grow day V. 1038. Her fardest Verge Here the Creation and all Created Nature have their utmost Bounds Fardest is the Superlative of Far from the Sax. Feor or the Belg. Varre distant from Verge of the Fr. Verge and this is of the Lat. Virga a Rod is in our Law-Books called Virgata and is the compass of the King's Court whose most considerable Officers carry Virga's i. e. White Staffs to denote their Authority See Stat. 33 Hen. 8. c. 12. V. 1039. As from her utmost c. Retreating like an Enemy beaten from his Out-works V. 1040. With less Hostile Din With less furious Noise Hostile Din such a violent Clamour and Shout as Engaging Armies make Hostilis Lat. of Hostis Lat. an Enemy Din of the Sax. Dyn a Noise coined of such a sort of Sound as the Lat. Tinnio is V. 1042. Wafts on the calmer Wave Sails more easily or'e the smoother Sea more swift Wings through the gentle Air his way I have shewed before that Flying and Sailing are Metaphors convertible and used alternately by the Poets Calmer of Calm of the Fr. Calme gentle smooth applicable both to the Seas and Skies as depending on the Winds which raise and trouble both it is very probable that the Original is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. heat of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to burn because in great heats the Weather is generally calm from want of Wind. Waft seems a Derivative of Wave a dancing o're the Waves V. 1044. Holds gladly the Port And like a Weather-beaten Ship is got safe into Harbour where the Sailers rejoyce thô damaged in her Sails and Rigging Shrouds are the Sails the Cloathing of the Ship of the Sax. Scrud Cloathing Tackle of the Belg. Taeckel a Rope V. 1045. Or in the emptier Waste Or in the thinner Space much like the Air poises his out-stretch'd Wings flaps his broad Wings poizing himself Waste of the Belg. Waest empty desolate of the Lat. Vastus great wide Resembling Ressemblant Fr. like to V. 1048. In Circuit undetermin'd Square Stretch'd out wide in compass hard to determine whether square or round as to its Shape and Figure Circuit of Circuitus Lat. the compass of a City or any Inclosure What Figure the Empyreal Heaven is of may be very hard to determine but the Héavenly Jerusalem described in the Revelations is said to be four-square Revel 21. v. 16. Square of the Ital. Squadrare the corruption of Quadrare Lat. to square Round Fr. Rond of Rotundus Lat. of a Circular Shape V. 1049. With Opal Towers With Towers of Precious Stones Opal Lat. Opalum a Stone of divers Colours partaking of the Carbuncles faint Fire the Amethists shining Purple and the Emralds pleasing Green V. 1050. Of Living Saphire Beautiful with Pinacles and Turrets of never-decaying Saphire Living Saphire bright and chearful full of Strength and Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a precious Stone so named of its clearness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. bright perspicuous Battlements are Ornaments set on the Walls of great Cities Castles and other Noble Structures principally intended for Security against Assaults thence a Derivative of the Word Battel of the Lat. Batuere to sight Ibid. His Native Seat The Place of his Birth the Country of his Creation Heaven the Place of his former Happiness Nativus Lat. V. 1051. In a Golden Chain Our Poet seems to have borrowed this Golden Chain of Homer where he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter says if all the Gods with the Earth and the Sea hung upon a Golden Chain he would Pull 'em all up into Heaven c. V. 1052. This Pendant World This well-poized World the self-ballanc'd Earth Ponderibus librata suis Met. l. 1. Of which Job gives us the best account That God hangeth the Earth on Nothing c. 26. v. 7. And c. 38. v. 6. he dares Human Understanding to determine Whereupon are the Foundations thereof set or who laid the Corner-Stone thereof Ibid In bigness as a Star of smallest Magnitude In bulk like a Star of smallest size Many Stars not only of the first Magnitude but of smaller Sizes surpass and exceed the whole World by many Degrees as the Celestial Surveyors of the Heavens assure us the Earth being but a meer Point compared with the Firmament Gassend l. 1. c. 3. Stars of the first Greatness are 108 times as big as the Earth and those of the sixth Size 18 times yet is the Moon reckoned to be 39 times less than the Earth and is commonly accounted the Planet whose Sphear is nearest to it Gass. l. 2. c. 14. V. 1055. He hies He makes hast he makes all the speed he can of the Sax. Higan to use diligence NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK III. Verse 1. HAil Holy Light c. Hail Divine Light Illustrious First-born of the Almighty Word Oh thou bright Beam of everlasting Purity thy self as everlasting Hail the old word used in Salutations answering to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Greeks and the Roman Salve of the Sax. Hael Health By this Hail the former of 'em is interpreted in the Salutation of the Angel Gabriel to the Mother of our Blessed Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc. 1. v. 28. mentioned by our Author in his Fifth Book On whom the Angel Hail Bestow'd the Holy Salutation used Long after to Blest Mary second Eve Ibid. First-born Light was doubtless the first and brightest Birth of Heaven without which even the Deity himself is inconceivable Speak not of GOD without Light was Plato's saying and what is there among all his Creatures so expressive of his Goodness Omniscience and Purity Who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment Psal. 104. v. 3. Light as to the Creation of this lower World was the first of all the Creatures that had the Almighty Fiat pronounced at its Production Then God said Let there be Light and there was Light Gen. 1. 3. So our Poet Forthwith Light Etherial first of all Things sprung from the Deep V. 2. Coeternal Thou bright Beam as everlasting as thy everlasting Father GOD Almighty Coaeternus Lat. of the same duration with Eternity V. 3. May I express thee unblam'd c. Blameless may I declare thee because God himself is Light and from Eternity in amazing brightness disdaining all approach of Human Eyes dwelt from Eternity dwelt then in the bright Emanation of the brightest Being Eternal Uncreate Ibid. GOD is Light Nothing can give us a clearer Idea of the Divine Incomprehensible Being than Light See him described His Brightness was as the Light Hab. 3. v. 4. God is Light and in him is no Darkness 1 John 1. v. 5. Every perfect Gift cometh from the Father of Lights Jam. 1. v. 17. V. 4. In unapproached Light Who dwelleth in the Light that none can approach unto whom no Man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. 6. v. 16. When our Saviour appeared to St. Paul
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
will be manifest that the Captivity and Prison here meant is to be understood Spiritually of those that were sold under Sin and sate in the thick darkness of Ignorance and the shadow of Death not of any such Local Confinement of Spirits after this Life But the Sacred Quotations on which these Prying Architects do most insist are Luke 16. 22. where the Angels carried Lazarus into Abraham's bosom which has made 'em add to their Limbus Patrum that of Sinus Abrahae which is so far from being a description of the Place in this Parable of our Saviour that it leaves us in the same mysterious Incertainty and whereas the Romanists infer from v. 26. Between us and you there is a great Gulf fixed that this Limbus is not ill situated and so near the place of Torment as their Adversaries affirm the whole proceeding of the Parable shews it to be both within the reach of the Eye and the Ear The other is 1 Pet. 3. 19. By which also he went and Preached to the Spirits in Prison a Text as applicable to their Purgatory as to this Limbus both which Turrianus tells us were entirely evacuated by our Saviour's descending into them Our Poet has more rationally assigned the back-side of the World for the large Limbus of Superstition and Folly into which all useless painful Fopperies that disturb Mankind deserve well to be thrown V. 501. His Travell'd Steps Weary took his way Travell'd of Travaillé Fr. tired V. 506. With Frontispiece of Diamond and Gold A description of Heaven's high Fore-front imitated from Ovid's Regia solis erat sublimibus alta columnis Clara micante auro Flammasque imitante Pyropo Met. 2. Well has our Poet adorned Heaven's everlasting Gate with Gold and the impassive Diamond this Stone resisting not only the Anvil and the Iron Hammer without the least damage but supporting the fiercest Fires thô thrown into the midst of a flaming Furnace for many Days whence it derived its Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Indomitus untameable Gold of all Metals the finest comes more pure and perfect out of the Fire Frontispicium Lat. the fore-part the fore-front of a Building Frontis inspectio V. 507. Imbellish'd Beautified of Embelli Fr. adorned V. 508. The Portal shon The place leading to the Gate shon bright with sparkling Jewels Portal Fr. Portail both of Porta Lat. a Door and signifies a place leading to a Door and usually Arched and raised on Pillars V. 509. By Model c. Not to be imitated by any Carver's or Painter's hand Model Fr. Modelle Lat. Modulus a Pattern or Specimen of any great Building shaped in small but in exact proportions Pencil Fr. Pinceau the Instrument Painters use to draw with V. 510. Whereon Jacob saw Jacob the second and Twin-Son of Isaac and Rebecca his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sign a Deceiver of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to deceive a derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Heel by which he took his Brother Esau striving for the Birth-right in his Mother's Womb of which he afterwards supplanted him Gen. 25. 26. V. 511. Angels Bands of Guardians bright And he dreamed and behold a Ladder set upon the Earth and the top of it reached to Heaven and behold the Angels of God ascending and descending on it and behold the Lord stood above it Gen. 28. v. 12 13. That by this Vision of the Ladder God's Universal Providence and Care of the World is set forth and his particular Kindness and Assistance to his Servant Jacob in his flight from his threatning Brother is the sense of the best Interpreters Bands of Guardians bright Companies of shining Illustrious Warders bright shining Guards of Angels of Gardien Fr a Keeper a Warden of Garder Fr. to watch to keep safe that God employeth his Angels in these Ministerial Offices many Instances in Scripture make it plain Are they not all ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation Hebr. 1. 14. The two destroying Angels that came to Sodom proved Protectors to Lot and his Family Gen. 19. Three Angels appeared to Abraham and were Entertained by him Gen. 18. Jacob in his return into his own Country was met by the Angels of God and when he saw them he said This is God's Host Gen. 32. v. 1 and 2. a Guardant Host of Angels to protect him against his angry and armed Brother Esau marching against him Elijah has an Angel for his Providore 1 King 19. v. 5 and 7. David saw the destroying Angel standing between Heaven and Earth with a drawn Sword in his hand stretch'd out over Jerusalem 1 Chron. 21. 16. An Angel appeared to Zacharias Luke 1. 11. The Angel Gabriel was sent from God c. To the Virgin Mary Ibid. v. 26 27 and 28. With many more both in the Old and New Testament V. 512. When he from Esau fled Esau 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make as if more perfect and compleat being all hairy not so tender as young Infants generally are but the Word has another signification to acquire and conquer relating to the struggle he had with his Brother for the Birth-right in their Mother 's Womb. Of Jacob's flight from him read Gen. 27. V. 513. To Padan-Aram c. The open or plain Country of Syria or Mesopotamia whither Jacob was sent Gen. 28. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Arabic Language signif a Field a Champain Country 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aramia or Syria Bethuel is styled the Syrian of Padan-Aram Gen. 25. 20. Luz So was the name of that City called at the first Gen. 28. 19. but Jacob enter'd not into it but slept on his hard Pillow Sub Dio Under the open Skie Gen. 28. 11. V. 515. This is the Gate of Heaven This is no other but the House of God this is the Gate of Heaven Gen. 28. 17. Here God by his especial Favour and peculiar Providence has manifested himself to men as in his Heavenly Palace here by this favourable Vision I have had as easie and free access to him as if this were the very Gate leading into the Glorious Mansion of his Majesty in perpetual remembrance thereof he calls the Place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bethel The House of God V. 516. Each Star mysteriously was meant The meaning of this Visionary Ladder is diversly allegorized by the Fathers and School-Divines some make it the Type and Representation of the Genealogy of our Saviour Jesus Christ which the Evangelist St. Matthew has deliver'd ch 1. by descending from Abraham to Joseph and Mary and St. Luke by ascending up from them to Adam and God Chap. 3. The many Steps then of this Ladder shew the many Generations and Persons contained in his Pedigree from Adam God's Mercy and his Truth are the sides that support its mighty length reaching from Heaven to Earth Others interpret the Foot of this Ladder standing on the Earth to foreshew Christ's Human as its
top reaching to Heaven does his Divine Nature Oh that thou wouldst rent the Heavens that thou wouldst come down Isai. 64. Vers. 1. Christ indeed may well be represented by this Heavenly Ladder for by him not only the Angels but all the Saints and faithful Servants of God who in Heaven shall be like the Angels Matth. 22. Vers. 30. do ascend and descend that is have free access to God and the Throne of Grace and attain by his Merits Everlasting Happiness So Rupertus Vatalbus and others Others interpret this Ladder to be the way to Perfection towards which we must endeavour to ascend gradually Many are the Stairs and Degrees of Faith Repentance and all the Christian Virtues to be persued by perseverance in well-doing ere from the bottom fixed on frail Dust and Ashes we can climb up to the highest pitch of Perfection where GOD stands at the top ready to receive us into Everlasting Joy Mysteriously was meant Contained some Divine Matter was not to be understood according to the Letter but signified some Secret more considerable Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sacred Secret something concerning holy Things concealed from being common of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to instruct to interpret the knowledge of Sacred Rites V. 519. Or of Liquid Pearl Or of Pearl dissolved made liquid and fluid like Water of a bright shining White Praeferuntur Margaritae quae Candidissimae Lucidissimae Rotundissimae Levissimae Minimi Ponderis sunt Rueus de Gem. Lib. 1. Pliny tells us the Oysters whose pretious Off-spring Pearls are are so knowing of their Treasures that upon the approach of any Humane Hand they compress their Shells harder than ordinary and if forc'd open often bite off the Invaders Fingers Justissima tantae temeritatis Luxus avaritiae poena an Observation very fictitious and fallacious and contradicted by every Days Experience and found by chance as dangerous to the Mouse caught by the Nose in this Scaly Trap as by accident it may have proved to any Man Of Jasper see V. 363. of this Book V. 522. Rapt in a Chariot drawn by Fiery Steeds Snatch'd up into a Chariot drawn by Shining Horses this is meant of Elijah 2 Kings 2. Vers. 11. as he that is said to sail o'er the Liquid Lake of Pearl wafted by Angels must be Enoch Gen. 5. Vers. 24. That both these were translated into the Earthly Paradise which they were of Opinion did still exist Irenaeus Hieronymus Justinus and others held where by Eating of the Tree of Life they remain free from all Distempers both of Body and Mind in continual Contemplation of God though not in the Beatifick Vision of Him Others affirm That without Meat or Drink or the want or desire of them they continue unchanged and incorruptible GOD suspending in them the Act and Power of Natural Heat from preying upon the Radical Moisture that feeds the Lamp of Life Others who believed the entire abolition of Paradise suppose 'em carried into some Superiour Orb illustrious and delightful unknown to Mankind where free from all Inconveniences both of Body and Soul they are to continue till towards the end of the World they are to appear against Antichrist and to be put to death by him Tertull. August Rupertus Suarez grounding the last part of their Opinion on Mala. 4. Vers. 5. Matth. 17. Vers. 11. and Revel 11. Vers. 3. V. 524. Or aggravate his sad Exclusion Or to make his Banishment from that place of Bliss more grievous to him of aggravare Lat. to render more heavy and uneasie Exclusio Lat. shutting out V. 529. Wider by far Because GOD in the first Ages of the World did more frequently visit his chosen Servants and People Abraham Isacc and Jacob and the Children of Israel by his holy Angels not only calling to them out of Heaven but by conversing Face to Face of which see divers Instances before Vers. 511. of this Book V. 531. The Promised Land Canaan promised to Abraham and his Seed after him by GOD. Abraham dwelt in the Land of Canaan and the Lord said to Abraham Look from the place where thou art Northward and Southward Eastward and Westward for all the Land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever Gen. 13. Vers. 12 14 and 15. See Gen. 12. Vers. 7. Deut. 34. Vers. 4. V. 532. Those happy Tribes Of the Children of Israel so happy in GOD's particular Instruction of 'em and his continual Providence over them Tribes of Tribus Lat. a Division of the Romans at first into the three parts Senators Soldiers and the common People Hence Tribus of the Numeral Tres. V. 533. On high Behests On extraordinary Commands and Occasions Hest and Behest are old words of the Sax. Here a Command Obeying Natures first Behest Spen. F. Q. Book 6. Cant. 4. St. 14. Who his Hest observ'd Idem Book 5. Cant. 12. St. 43. V. 535. From Paneas the Fount c. Was by the Ancient Geographers accounted a Fount of Mount Libanus and thought to be the Head of Jordan till later and better Discoveries have found its true Sources to be Jor and Dan whence it takes its Name as our Thames is of Tame and Isis two Fountains both at the Foot of Libanus in the Confines of Caelosyria running Southward It is a rapid River of a thick Warer as washing a far Soil full of Fish and its Banks adorn'd with thick and pleasant Woods as Monsieur Thevenot an Eye-Witness of it testifies Ibid. Jordan is perhaps the most famous River in the World for the many Miracles and Mysteries there wrought It was past over by the Israelites on dry-foot Josh. 4. Also by Elijah and Elisha in the same manner 2 Kings 2. Vers. 8. In it Naaman the Syrian left his Leprosie Chap. 5. Vers. 14. In it John Baptized the Jews into Repentance and afterwards our Saviour himself was in this River Baptized by him Matth. 3. Vers. 5. and 15. The Talmud derives his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as descending from Dan the City anciently called Lais near Paneas formerly supposed the Spring and Fountain of Jordan by Plin. Lib. 5. Cap. 15. and Solin Cap. 38. V. 536 To Beersaba c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Well of the Oaths because there Abraham and Abiâ—â—lech swore and made a Covenant together Gen. 21. Vers. 31. A Town of Idumaea at first belonging to the Edomites afterwards to the Tribe of Symeon which the Christians warring against the Infidels for recovery of the Holy Land so styled because our Saviour wrought there the Salvation and Redemption of the World Fortified as bordering on the Arabian commonly call'd the Red-Sea not far from Egypt as our Poet truly says this was the Southern as Jordan and Libanus the Northern Limit of the Promised Land V. 539. As bound the Ocean Wave Well has our Poet declared the Bounds appointed to Darkness and encroaching
Night to be such as those that bound the enraged Ocean's proud swelling Waves whose Briny Billows rising much higher than the shelving Shore cannot be imagined to be stopt by the yielding Sand but by that Almighty Power that says Thus far shalt thou come and no farther Whose Voice the tumultuous Waves and stormy Winds obey Matth. 8. Vers. 24. 26 and 27. Mar. 4. Vers. 37. Luk. 8. Vers. 23. Attend the Boundaries appointed to that Proud Element always in Motion and so easily puft up Who shut up the Sea with Doors when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the Womb When I made the Cloud the Garment thereof and thick Darkness its Swadling Bands and established my Decree upon it and set Bars and Doors and said Hitherto shalt thâ—u come but no farther and here shall the Pride of thy Waves be stayed Job 38. Vers. 8 9 10 and 11. The same Command establish'd the Limits and Barriers of Night and Day V. 543. As when a Scout As when one sent through dark and dismal Night wandring through dangerous and unknown ways at break of comfortable Day has gain'd the top of some vast Hill Scout of the Fr. Esecuté a Harkener of Escouter to listen as it behoves a Scout to do when stealing through the Night Dawn of the Sax. Doegian to grow Day Brow of the Belg. Brauwe the Top or Height of any thing Peril of Periculum Lat. danger V. 549. Metropolis The chief City of a Kingdom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Mother-City Pinacles Ornaments on the Tops of Towers of the Barbarous Lat. Pinnaculum of Pinna V. 553. The Spirit Malign The wicked malicious Spirit Satan Malignus Lat. bearing ill-will to malicious This word is used in the Translation of many places of the first Epist. Gene. of St. John Chap. 2. Vers. 13 and 14. Chap. 3. Vers. 12. Not as Cain who was of that wicked one which the Vulgar Lat. renders Qui ex Maligno erat the Greek expressing it by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so Chap. 5. Vers. 18 and 19. V. 557. Above the Circling Canopy of Nights Extended Shade So high above the darken'd Hemisphere the dark half of the World over which Night stretches her Shade Satan standing on one of those Golden Stairs leading to Heav'ns high Palace and thereby raised above the compass of Nights dark Veil that encloseth half the Globe while the enlightning Sun visits and enlivens with his chearful Rays the other half from so exalted a Station well might he look round and survey the whole World Canopy Fr. Canopée Lat. Conopeum all of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly a Net hung about Beds against the Inconvenience and Importunities of Flyes and Gnats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. The Alexandrians were forced to this Invention by Multitudes of these buzzing and biting Insects that arose from the Nile and its Neighbourhood It was reckoned among the Effeminacies of the Romans Interque signa Turpe Militaria Sol aspicit Conopeum Ut testudines tibi Lentule Conopeo Juv. Sat. 6. It is since understood of the Tester of a Bed and of a State hanging over the Seats of Kings and Princes in Publiek call'd Canopies of Estate V. 558. Of Libra to the Fieecy Star c. He takes a view of the World from the most Eastern Point of Libra to the Constellaâ—ion call'd Andromeda carried by the Ram wide of the Western Ocean beyond the Horizon then from North to South and without more delay c. Libra is one of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack represented by the Balance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which has occasioned it to be mistaken for Virgo It took its Name à Libranâ—o because when the Sun enters into this Sign Nâ—ctes Dies librantâ—r the Days and Nights being equal are in a Counterpoâ—se I â—bâ—a die 〈◊〉 que 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Georg. 1. V. 559. Andromeda Was the Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopoea the Beautiful Off-spring of a vain-glorious Mother who having despised the Beauties of Juno or as others say of the Sea-Nymphs Neptune punish'd her Arrogance by sending a strange Sea-Monster who depopulating the Country the Oracle was consulted and by it her Daughter doomed to be devoured by it Perseus came to her relief kill'd the Destroyer releas'd the Lady and Married her for his reward Illic Immeritam Maternae pendere Linguae Andromedam poenas injustus jusser at Ammon Quam simul ad duras religatam brachia Cautes c. Metam Lib. 4. By the favour of Minerva they were all placed among the Stars Jam clarus Occultum Andromeda Pater Ostendit ignem Hor. Carm. Lib. 3. Od. 29. The Fleecy Star that bears Andromeda Is meant of Aries the Phrixean Ram advanced among the Constellations in memory of the Golden Fleece just over whose back Andromeda is placed Ibid. Atlantick Seas The Western Ocean taking this Name of Atlas the greatest Mountain in all Affrica heaving it self up in Mauritania near this Sea Ovid makes him a mighty King turn'd into Stone for his rudeness to Perseus Constitit Hesperio Regnis Atlantis in Orbe Metam Lib. 4. V. 561. Without longer pause Immediately without delay Pause Fr. stop stay Pausement leisurely V. 563. Precipitant Headlong as before Down-right Praecipitans Lat. to fall headlong of Praeceps V. 564. The pure Marble Air Marble Marmoreus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. white shining of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shine to glister is often used to express clearness or whiteness without any reflection on its hardness So Virg. Marmoreâ Caput à cervice revulsum Geo. 4. Winds his oblique way Turns and winds up and down Obliquus Lat. sidewise crooked away Obliquatque sinus in ventum AEn 5. V. 565. Amongst Innumerable Stars That the Stars are Numberless the Holy Scriptures seem to assert Look now towards Heaven and tell the Stars if thou be able to number them Gen. 15. Vers. 5. The Lord thy God hath made thee as the Stars of Heaven for Multitude Deut. 10. Vers. 32. Of God it is said He telleth the Number of the Stars He calleth them all by their Names Psal. 147. Vers. 4. As if their Number were Incomprehensible to any Creature Stellae dinumerari non possint quia nec omnes eas videri posse credendum est c. August de Civi Dei Lib. 16. Cap. 23. That the Number of the Fixt Stars is unknown to Mankind Aristotle in his Book De Mundo and his second Book De Coelo as also Plato in Timaeo and Seneca in his Natural Quest. Lib. 6. Cap. 16. do all affirm But the most conspicuous and considerable and all that at so vast a distance can be discerned are by the best Astronomers reckoned 1022 and distributed into 48 Constellations according to their various Magnitudes and Sizes those of the sixth Magnitude being bigger than the Earth 18 times insomuch that they undertake Mathematically to prove That if the whole Cavity of Heaven were as full
his Reign 64 Years after the Death of our Saviour and four Years before his own as the Chronologers relate V. 3. When the Dragon put to second rout Interpreters of Revel 12. whence this is taken are of Opinion that as Satan was after his Rebellion thrown out of Heaven in the beginning of time so towards the end of it and the World he shall be beaten out of his lower Dominion usurpt by him and be no longer Prince of the Air here called his second rout The Dragon Satan V. 14. Far off and fearless Fearless yet keeping distance though undaunted yet wary in approaching V. 17. A Devilish Engine back recoils Like a great Gun that at discharging its destructive Entrails runs back with mighty force and rude repulse so this malicious attempt of Satan on frail Man beats back again upon himself in hideous Horrours and distracting Doubt of what he was is and must be to all Eternity Recoils of Reculer Fr. to give back to run back as a Cannon when fired V. 18. Horrour and Doubt distract c. The amazement of his Guilt and the uncertain success of new Mischiefs undertaken which how much they may add more to his Punishment than Revenge confounds all Consideration Distracts his Thoughts Put him upon a Rack where all his Resolutions against th' Almighty vain and frivolous are rent to pieces Distracts of distrahere Lat. to pull in pieces V. 20. For within him Hell he brings Is his own Hell and Tormentor Change of Place gives no allay or intermission to his Pains He travels with Hell about him and within him Coelum non Animum mutant qui trans mare currunt V. 30. In his Meridian Towre In his Noon-tide Exaltation in Meridian Majesty of Meridianus Lat. of Noon-tide Meridies Lat. Mid-day when the Sun is at the highest V. 31. Then much revolving Tossing and turning over many direful Thoughts risen from Conscience waking of despair that slumber'd c. An admirable Description of tormenting Guilt discovered when too late to be discharged Revolving of revolvere Lat. to roll to and fro thence to think and in Virgil to relate Sed quid ego haec autem nequicquam ingrata revolvo AEn 2. V. 33. Look'st from thy sole Dominion O thou Majestick Monarch with amazing Brightness Crown'd that from thy shining Seat look'st like the Supreme and Universal God of this low new-created World at whose glorious appearance all the Stars discountenanc'd hide their disappearing Heads Like the God Well does Satan Deifie the Sun whom he perswaded seduced Mankind often to adore as such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Phoenicians styled him and the holy Page shews how easie it was to set up this visible supposed Author of all things and of so many Blessings of such inestimable use to the World for an Illustrious Deity especially when Ignorance and Sin had so depraved and blinded Mens Minds that they could not see him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who dwells in unapproached Light for which reason God by Moses so strictly forewarn'd his People of Idolatry Lest thou lift up thy Eyes unto Heaven and when thou seest the Sun and Moon and the Stars even all the Host of Heaven thou shouldst be seduced to serve and worship them Deut. 4. Vers. 19. Thus Homer attributes Omniscience to the Sun and from the worship of him in this Island one of the Days of the Week took his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 35. Their diminisht Heads Dim their diminisht Lights which the Sun hides and hinders from appearing Diminutus Lat. impair'd made less V. 40. Till Pride and worse Ambition Pride is a kind of excessive and vicious Self-esteem that raises Men in their own Opinions above what is just and right But Ambition is that which adds Fewel to this Flame and claps Spurs to these furious and inordinate Desires that break forth into the most execrable Acts to accomplish their haughty Designs which makes our Author stigmatize Ambition as a worse Sin than Pride V. 45. With his Good upbraided none Did not with his Bountiful Goodness twit or reproach his Creatures Upbraid of Upgebredan Sax. to scorn or reproach one with any thing received V. 50. I ' sdein'd Subjection I disdain'd to be subject to pay Obedience to ' Isdeind for disdain'd an Italian Imitation of sdegnare It. dedignari to contemn to despise ' sdein'd V. 58. Powerful Destiny ordain'd O that his uncontroulable Decree had appointed me one of the Vulgar Angels of the common Spirits Destiny of Destinatio Lat. Appointment Decree V. 79. O then at last relent Quit thy harden'd Obstinacy and melt into Repentance Relent of Ralentir Fr. to grow soft again of re and lentescere Lat. to soften to melt as tough viscous and fat things do at Fire V. 84. Vaunts Boastings of vanter Fr. to boast V. 87. How dearly I abide How much to my Cost with how much Pain and Torment I make good my Vain-glorious Undertaking against th' Almighty Abide signifies here to sustain to endure as in Virg. Tu ne cede Malis sed contrà audentior ito V. 96. Ease would recant Vows made in Pain When reinstated in my former Condition I should soon unsay whatever in pain I swore Recant of the Lat. recantare to retract and unsay something affirm'd formerly Vows of Votum Lat. Protestations of Vovere Lat. to vow or protest As violent and void as forc'd from me and therefore of themselves void and of no Obligation as all things done or obtain'd by Duress and Menasse are by our Laws esteem'd of no effect V. 100. To a worse relapse To falling back into a worse Condition Relapse is properly a falling back from some beginnings of Recovery into the same Distemper made by its return more dangerous of Relabi Lat. to slip back again a Metaphor taken from Men climbing up a steep slippery place whence they often slide back again down to the bottom V. 110. Evil be thou my Good All real true Good is lost and forfeited by me and therefore now my Malice and Revenge wreck'd on Mankind and so upon his Maker by destroying his new-created Favourite is the only chiefest Good I can propose to my self or prosecute That Evil should be Good seems a Contradiction but by Good is here meant Choice and as such deluded Mankind place their Happiness upon it mistaking often many Evils which they pursue disguised under the Notions and Appearances of Good V. 114. Each Passion dimm'd his Face While he made this Speech full of sad and dismal Reflections disquieted with Anger Envy and Despair each of these Passions darkened and overcast his Countenance which spoiled his disguise and discovered him a Cheat and Impostor Counterfeit false of the Fr. Countrefaict false Money stampt in Imitation of the true V. 120. Each Perturbation smooth'd Calm'd all the Storms these Passions had raised in him Perturbatio Lat. disorder V. 121. Artificer of Fraud Master of Deceit the Arch-Cheat and Crafts-Master Artifex Lat.
a Ladder of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Ladder V. 193. Lewd Hirelings Wicked Mercenary Priests Avaritious greedy Hirelings of the Sax. Hira a Mercenary Servant Lewd is a word expressing general Wickedness of Laerede signifying a Laick one of the common People and therefore more Flagitious generally than the Clergy a dissolute Person as the word Laxus Lat. and as the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the same sense seems to signifie V. 195. The middle Tree The Tree of Life also in the midst of the Garden Gen. 2. Vers. 9. In the midst is a Hebrew Phrase expressing not only the Local Situation of this enlivening Tree but denoting its Excellency as being the most considerable the tallest goodliest and most lovely Tree in that beauteous Garden planted by God himself So Scotus Duran Valesius c. whom our Poet follows affirming it the highest there that grew To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God Revel 2. Vers. 7. V. 196. Sate like a Cormorant A very Voracious Sea-Fowl and a great Devourer of Fish its Name is the Corruption of Corvus Marinus Lat. the Sea-Crow V. 199. Of that Life-giving Plant After many frivolous Disputes concerning the truth of this Tree of Life whether it were Natural c. which is plain from Gen. 2. Vers. 9. where it is said Out of the Ground made the Lord God to grow every Tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for Food The Tree of Life also c. The best account of it is that it was a Tree of wonderful Virtue whose Fruit more Physical than for daily Food tasted sometimes would have prolonged and lengthened out the Lives of Men for many Hundreds or some Thousands of Years A Natural Preservative and Panpharmacon against all Diseases and Decay by which Mankind if sinless had lived for ever Gen. 3. Vers. 23. That is till it had pleased God to have translated em to Heaven without tasting of Death visiting the Grave or seeing Corruption Plant Planta Lat. that of which an Herb or Tree grows of Deinde Feraces Plantae immittuntur nec longum tempus ingens Exiit ad Coelum ramis felicibus arbos Geo. 2. V. 200. What well us'd had been the Pledge of Immortality Satan made use of the Tree of Life only to advance his prospect round God's Garden never thinking or reflecting on the Virtue the hidden mystick Power of that Plant the Type and Figure of the Son of God Saviour of Mankind whose Fruit is Life and Immortality the repining at whose Power was what occasion'd the Rebellion of the laps'd Angels and their ambitious Leader Our Author must in this have respect to some Allegorick sense for 't is unconceivable that Satan could have better'd his sad estate by eating of the Tree of Life for he was already immortal à parte post to his cost and everlasting misery Strange is the Conceipt of Rupertus in his Commentaries on Gen. 2. Vers. 22. Igitur nec Adam cognovit nec ipse Serpens Diabolus scivit quod etiam Lignum Vitae plantasset Dominus Deus in medio Paradisi c. That neither Adam nor the Devil himself knew any thing of the Tree of Life planted in the midst of Paradise For if he had understood there had been a Tree of that vivifying Vertue he would never have persued his Malice by halves but as he perswaded him to eat of the forbidden Tree and thereby to sin and become miserable so he would doubtless have incited him to have tasted of this Tree of Life to have made him Immortal in Immutable Misery Cap. 30. Lib. 3. Comment in Genes V. 209. Of God the Garden was Suitable to Gen. 2. Vers. 8. And the Lord God planted a Garden Eastward in Eden V. 210. Eden stretch'd her Line The Region of Eden in which Paradise was planted extended and stretch'd it self from Auran Eastward to the ancient City of Seleucia seated on Euphrates rebuilt by Grecian Monarchs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Eden was the Name of a Country and particularly of Mesopotamia from its Fruitfulness and Amenity well deriving its Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to be delightful is most certain from the Testimonies of the LXX Translators all the Greek Fathers and the most Learned of the Jewish Rabbins And though St. Hierom has translated Eden by Pleasure Plantaverat autem Dominus Deus Paradisum voluptat is à principio Gen. 2. Vers. 8. very erroneously which is by the Septuagint and our Version exactly render'd and though he has continued the same mistake Vers. 10. Et Fluvius egrediebatur de loco voluptatis And a River went out of the place of Pleasure Eden to water the Garden yet he was ashamed to say that Cain dwelt on the East of Pleasure but has there used the proper Name of the Region Eden Ad Orientalem Plagam Eden Gen. 4. Vers. 16. V. 211. From Auran Eastward Auran A City in Mesopotamia diversly written Haran by the Turks at this day Harran and Haran Charran in Holy Writ memorable for the remove of Abraham to it from Ur in Chaldea Gen. 11. Vers. 31. and Acts 7. Vers. 4. and for the famous overthrow of the Covetous Crassus by the Parthians Miserando Funere Crassus Assyrias Latio Maculavit Sanguine Carras Luc. Lib. 1. This Country was also called Aram and Aramia of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Seat of the Syrians from Aram one of the Sons of Shem Gen. 10. Vers. 22. whence the Region took the Name of Aram and Aran and Auran and Ptolomy dividing Babylonia into three parts gives one of 'em the Name of Auranitis V. 212. Of great Seleucia c. Seleucia a famous City of Mesopotamia on the River Tigris anciently called Chalne and Chalaune as Appian affirms afterwards Coche and then Alexandria being rebuilt by the famous Conqueror of that Name It was again Re-edified by Antiochus King of Syria and by his Fathers Name called Seleucia now Bachad Bagdad and Bagdett a great rich and populous City the Seat of the Califs often mistaken for Babylon forty Miles distant from it and situated on Euphrates V. 214. The Sons of Eden dwelt in Telassar Our Author has bounded Eden by Charran Seleucia and Telassar where the Edenites were Garison'd on the Borders of Babylonia to resist the Assyrians Two Epistles sent by the Nestorian Christians inhabiting Mesopotamia to the Pope in the Year 1552. mention an Island of Eden in the River Tigris commonly called Gozoria See Sir Walter Rawleigh's History Book 1. Chap. 3. Sect. 10. Telassar was a very Strong-hold on a steep Rock in an Island of Euphrates being a Pass out of Mesopotamia into Babylonia and as the Name declares was a Garison maintain'd to curb the Assyrians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Fort a Rampart and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Assyrian The Children of Eden that were at
umbram Geor. 4. V. 485. Nearest my Heart substantial Life to give thee Being I lâ—nt one of my Ribs nearest my Heart whereof thou wast made a living Creature Nearest my Heart as being made of one of his Ribs whose enclosure surrounds it Gen. 2. Vers. 22. Substantialis Lat. belonging to substance firm solid assured V. 486. An Individual Solace An Inseparable Companion and Comfort made of a part taken out of Adam's Side as intended for his Associate not his Servant Individual Individuus Lat. inseparable Solace Solatium Lat. Comfort V. 491. Wisdom The Character of our Saviour himself And the Child grew and waxed strong in Spirit filled with Wisdom And JESUS increased in Wisdom and Stature and in Favour with God and Man Luk. 2. Vers. 40 and 52. V. 492. Of Conjugal Attraction So said our Universal Mother and with Eyes blameless though full of Matrimonial Love and Charming Sweetness with soft Submission mixt c. Conjugal Conjugalis Lat. belonging to Marriage Attraction Attractio Lat. a drawing to allurement Meek surrender gentle yielding meekly giving up her Person to his disposal of the old Fr. surrendre to yield V. 500. As Jupiter on Juno smiles c. As the Air smiles upon the Earth when it makes the Clouds fruitful in seasonable Showres and pretious Dews which produce May 's perfumed Flowery Off-spring By Jupiter and Juno the Poets represent the Air and Earth and though of Kin before as Et Soror Conjux yet Marry 'em together So Virg. Tum Pater Omnipotens foecundis imbril us aether Conjugis in Gremium laetae descendit omnes Magnus alit magno Commistus corpore foetus Geor. 2. Impregns Makes fruitful of Impregnare Lat. to get with Young V. 501. Her Matron Lip His Wives Lip Her Married Lips Matron of the Lat. Matrona à Matre or Quasi Mater nati for Women as soon as Married were esteemed Matrons as being obliged to a way of living more reserv'd and modest Si Matrem familias secus quam Matronarum dignitas postulat nominamus Cicer. pro Coelio V. 504. With Jealous Leer Malign Ey'd them askane With Envious and Malicious Look Eyed 'em askew Jealous of the Fr. Jaloux Leer of the Verb To Leer to look slyly out of the corners of the Eyes of the Teut. Lauren to observe so as not to be seen to do it Askance Askew side-ways of skaunt Fr. Canton a Corner Thus plain'd thus complained of the Fr. plaindre to bemoan one self V. 506. Imparadis'd Enjoying a new another Paradise in each others Lovely Embraces Imparadis'd plac'd in a state of extraordinary Happiness a word coin'd by our Author from that superlatively happy place so named V. 519. And do they only stand by Ignorance By Ignorance Satan would here insinuate such a want of Knowledge as was necessary to secure their happy and harmless Condition Under so gross a want of Understanding our first most perfect Patterns were not created all the happy Ignorance they were in was only want of knowing Ill by the Commission of it at once innocent and secure V. 522. Hence I will excite Here is a fair occasion offer'd me to move in their Minds an itching and inordinate desire of dangerous and daring Knowledge Excite of the Lat. excitare to raise to stir up V. 523. To reject Envious Commands To despise and contemn the Command of their Maker who seems to grudge and therefore to forbid 'em all Knowledge that might raise 'em above their low terrene Estate To reject of the Lat. rejicere to throw away to refuse V. 537. With sly Circumspection with heedful Wariness with cunning Caution Sly of the Sax. Slidan to slip or be slippery Circumspection Circumspectio Lat. heedfulness of Circumspicere Lat. to look well about one V. 338. Through waste Through every by-place Waste of the Get. Wust desolate or of the Lat. Vastus and Vastare V. 539. Mean while in utmost Longitude In the mean while that Satan was thus prowling up and down the Sun at utmost distance where the Heav'n with Earth and Sea seemingly joyn was by Degrees drawing tow'rds his setting place Where Heav'n with Earth and Ocean meet an exact Description of the Horizon of Paradise where the Sky and Earth and Ocean if in view seemed at the utmost endeavour of his Eyes to joyn and meet each other Descended went down to the lower World beneath of descendere Lat. to go down Longitudo Lat. length distance V. 541. And with right Aspect With his Face directly against With full Face Right of Rectus Lat. right against Aspectus Lat. the Countenance V. 543. Levell'd his Evening Rays Shot directly his Evening Beams Levell'd of the Fr. Livel and Liveller to lay even V. 544. It was a Rock of Alabaster It was a white shining Marble Rock heaped up among the Clouds and visible far off approachable from below but by one winding away on whose Top the lofty Entrance was placed on all sides else 't was ragged Rock and broken Cliffs that as they rose above so overhung each other and render'd it impossible to be ascended any other way Alabaster 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a kind of White Marble described by Diosc. Lib. 5. V. 545. With one ascent accessible To be mounted only one way Ascensus Lat. a going up Accessible Accessus Lat. that may be come to Cliff of the word to Cleave Clift or Cliff being a ragged broken Rock V. 549. Gabriel One of the Arch-Angels sent to shew Daniel the Vision of the Four Monarchies and the Seventy Weeks Dan. Chap. 4. and 9. and to the Virgin Mary to reveal the Incarnation of our Saviour Luk. 1. Vers. 26. I am Gabriel that stand in the Presence of God His Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Heb. sounds the Man of God or the Strength and Power of God well by our Author posted as chief of the Angelick Guards placed about Paradise V. 551. Exercised Heroick Games Exercised themselves in Noble Sports and Pastimes an Allusion to the four celebrated Games of Greece th ' Olympick Pythian Isthmian and Nemaean Heroick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. such as Hero's and greater Persons use V. 554. Helms with Diamond Flaming and with Gold Flaming Helms the Lustre and Brightness of Polish'd Shields and Helms is by most of the Poets linken'd to Fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of Diomedes's Armour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the shining Shield of Achilles is described 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ardet apex capiti cristisque à vertice flamma Funditur vastos umbo vomit aureus ignes AEn 10. Clypeum tum deinde sinistra Extulit ardentem AEn 10. AEgidaque Horrificam turbatae Palladis arma Certatim squamis serpentum auroque polibant AEn 8. V. 555. Gliding through the Even Swiftly passing about Evening-Tide Gliding of the Verb to Glide of the Fr. Glisser to slip and slide swiftly away as silent Rivers do V.
commonly used in our Language for Instruction Military of Militaris belonging to Miles Lat. a Soldier V. 959. Fawn'd Flattered of the Sax. fandian to impose upon to cheat V. 962. What I arreed thee Mark what I appoint thee what I enjoyn thee Arreed of the Fr. arrester to determine to decree Ibid. Avaunt Fr. be gone of Avant Fr. before forward on V. 964. Within these hallow'd Limits Within the blessed Bounds of Paradise Limes Lat. a Border or Boundary V. 965. I drag thee The present Tense used for the future to signifie the immediate execution of the menace To drag to hale and pull of the Teut. tragen of trahere Lat. to pull V. 966. And seal thee so This seems to allude to the chaining of the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devil and Satan mentioned in the Revelations And he cast him into the bottomless Pit and shut him up and set a Seal upon him Chap. 20. ver 3. Seal of Sigel Sax. Sigillum Lat. V. 967. The facil Gates The Gates of Hell so easie to be opened Facilis Lat. easie V. 971. Proud limitary Cherub Thou proud prescribing Angel that presumest to limit me and appoint my Prison Limitary of limitaris Lat. bounding of limitare Lat. to confine of limes Limes agro positus litem ut discerneret arvis AEn 12. V. 974. Ride on thy Wings According to Ezekiel's Vision Then did the Cherubims life up their Wings and the Wheels besides them and the Glory of the God of Israel was over them above Chap. 11. ver 22. V. 975. His triumphant Wheels His glorious Chariot where he rides in State in Triumph Of triumphare Lat. These Wheels have relation to the fore-cited Vision And when I looked behold four Wheels by the Cherubims and when the Cherubims went the Wheels went by them and when the Cherubims lift up their Wings to mount up from the Earth the same Wheels also turned not from beside them c. Ezek. 10. ver 9 16 17. V. 976. In progress through c. When he takes his Journey through Heavens high Road pav'd with Stars Progress A Royal March the stately and leisurely Journey of a Court of Progredi Lat. to move forward by degrees V. 978. Sharpning in Mooned Horns c. Extending their square Body into a round one and so sharpning it into Horns like those of the increasing Moon endeavouring to inclose him Phalanx Bo. 1. V. 550. V. 980. With ported Spears With their Spears born pointed towards him Ported of porter Fr to carry to bear a military term to port the Pike V. 981. A Field of Ceres c. A Field of Corn. Ceres the Daughter of Saturn and Ops was the first Discoverer and thence the tutelar Goddess of Corn whence used familiarly for it and Bread made of it Tum Cererem corruptam undis AEn 1. V. 982. Her bearded Grove of Ears Her armed Wood of yellow Ears That this Comparison is sufficiently significative of a vast number of armed Men ranged close together is evident from its familiar use and occurrence amongst the best Poets Homer by it expresseth the power Agamemnon's Oration to the Grecian Army had on the affected Multitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virgil brings it nearer calling a great number of Darts Telorum segetem ferream Hic confixum ferrea texit Telorum seges jaculis increvit acutis AEn 3. Atraque late Horrescit strictis seges ensibus AEn 7. Thick as a Field c. Circum hos utrinque Phalanges Stant densae strictisque seges mucronibus horret Ferrea AEn 12. Vel quam sole novo densae torrentur aristae AEn 7. Seges undique ferri circumfusa nitet Clau. in Ruf. lib. 2. Bearded Sharp-pointed of the Fr. Barde as Javelin de Barde a barbeâ—… used by Horsemen V. 986. Dilated stood like Teneriff or Atlas Out-stretch'd and extended high he 〈◊〉 as tall as Teneriff and as unshaken as the immense Mount Atlas to the Sky up reach'd his haughâ—y stature on his Helm horror supply'd a Plume Teneriff Teneriffa or as the Natives name it Thenerife is one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantick Ocean anciently called Nivaria because its Peak supposed the highest in the World is seldom without Snow The Basis of this Mountain is about 48 Spanish Leagues in compass and its Summit about 15 miles high to be seen about 120 English Miles at Sea Atlas now Aiducal the greatest Mountain in all Africa hiding its head in continual Clouds It begins in Mauritania near the Atlantick Ocean which bears its Name by Cape de Guer by various windings and turnings stretching it self Eastward to the Deserts of Barca It s prodigious height occasioned the Fable of Atlas bearing Heaven on his back That Lucifer the Chief Leader and Champion of the laps'd Angelick Host should swoln with rage be compared to Mountains of such vast Immensity will seem modest enough when parallell'd with the liking of AEneas by Virgil to some others not so much inferior to these as his Heroe must be allowed to have been below any one of those Spiritual Beings Quantus Athos aut quantus Eryx aut ipse coruscis Cum fremit ilicibus quantus gaudetque nivali Vertice se attollens pater Apenninus ad auras AEn 12. Dilated Stretch'd out extended Dilatus Lat. of dilatare to spread out Collecting gathering together summing up all his strength of colligere Lat. Stature statura Lat. height V. 989. And on his Crest sat horror plum'd And on his Helm sat horror hatch'd Dreadfully graven and delineated The Helmets of ancient Heroes were made terrible by Horses Tails stuck in their Crests and by representations of divers angry Animals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et Conum insignem galeae cristasque comantes AEn 3. Terribilem cristis galeam flammasque vomentem AEn 8. tremunt in vertice cristae Sanguineae AEn 9. Crest of Crista Lat. a Comb or tuft of Feathers on a Bird's head thence a Plume of Feathers or any other Ornament on a Helmet Horror plum'd Horror full-fledg'd ready to fly upon the Enemy Fury in perfection Plum'd of Pluma Lat. Feathers in imitation of which any thing carved graven or embroidered was called Opus plumatile a kind of damasking Shields and Helms Virgil has something like it Quem pellis ahenis In Plumam squamis auro conferta tegebat AEn 11. Sat Horror plum'd has something in it quod nequeo monstrare sentio tantum V. 995. With violence of this Conflict In the fury of this Engagement Conflictus Lat. a Fray a Fight of confligere to encounter V. 998. Betwixt Astrea Or Justice accounted the Daughter of Jupiter and Themis who during the Golden Age with other Gods frequented the Earth and was the last that left it when defiled by all Abominations and has her place among the Signs of the Zodiac Virgo caede madentes
ye stately Pines Et rigidas motâ—re cacumina quercus Ecl. 6. Factis modò Laurea ramis Annuit Utque caput visa est agitasse cacumen Met. Lib. 1. To Wave is to move a Wave being nothing but Water put into motion of the Sax. Wagian to be in motion or to move to and fro V. 196. Mellodious Murmur Ye little purling Rills that by your Motion make a pleasing sound Ceu Saxa Morantur Cum rapidos amnes Clauso fit gurgite Murmur AEn 11. Is not half so sweet as the Harmonious Complaint seeming to be made by Rivers interrupted in their Watry Way V. 200. Ye that in Waters glide c. Fish and Beasts and creeping things V. 204. Made Vocal by my Song made to resound and eccho forth thy Praise taught by my assiduous and repeated Song Horace gave Ears to the Woods that danc'd after Orpheus Auritas Fidibus Canoris Ducere quercus Carm. Lib. 1. Od. 12. And Milton here mentions the Voices inhabiting in Hills and Woody Shades Cujus recinet jocosa Nomen imago Aut in umbrosis Heliconis Oris Aut super Pindo Gelidove in Haemo Hor. Ibid. Vocal Vocalis Lat. Endow'd with a Voice so he calls the Divine Poet Vocalem Orphea Hor. Ibid. and the Nerves instrumental to the Formation of Speech are call'd Nervi Vocales V. 214. Their pamper'd Boughs their wanton luxurious Branches abounding in Leaves Pamper'd of the Ital. Pamberato fat or of Pamprer Fr. to be full of Leaves of Pampinus Lat. a Vine-Leaf Tibi Pampineo gravis Autumno Floret ager Georg. 2. V. 216. The Vine to wed her Elm Used not only to support Vines but to ennoble and meliorate them Longo usu compertum Nobilia Vina non nisi in arbustis gigni in his quoque Laudatiora summis sicut uberiora imis Adeo excelsitate proficitur hac ratione arbores Eliguntur Prima omnium Ulmus Deinde Populus nigra c. Plin. l. 17. c. 23. Viribus eniti quarum contemnere ventos Assuescant summasque sequi tabulata per Ulmos Geor. 2. Illa tibi laetis intexet vitibus Ulmos Ibid. V. 217. Her Marriageable Arms. Ergo aut adultâ vitium propagine Altas Maritat Populos Hor. Epod. 2. Inde ubi jam validis amplexae stirpibus Ulmos Exierint Geo. 2. Haec quoque quae junctâ vitis requiescit in Ulmo Si non nupta foret terrae acclinata jaceret Met. 14. V. 218. Her Dow'r th' adopted Clusters the fruitful Vine brings her Grapes her Noble Off-spring as her Dower adopted by the barren Elm. Dower or rather Dowry properly signifies the Portion a Woman brings her Husband in Marriage Dower being that setled on her in lieu thereof for her life if she survive him It is of the Lat. Dos and this of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to give Conjugium quaesitas sanguine Dotes AEn 7. Et numeras in Dote triumphos Juv. Sat. 10. Adopted of adoptare Lat. to take into ones care as a Son Adoptati were such who for their Courage Virtuous Education and promising Parts were by the Childless Romans chosen out of other Families to heir the Estates of those who did adopt 'em and past into their Power as absolutely as if begotten by 'em better pleased that Nature left them the choice of a Successor than if she had imposed and entailed one on them unworthy perhaps of their Famous Ancestors V. 221. Raphael the Sociable Spirit the Friendly Angel Raphael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Health of God of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to heal by the Cabalists he is made Governor of the West Part of Heaven and Ruler of the Coolihg Zephirus the soft gentle Wind named Fovonius à Favendo of his cherishing Influence Scciable Socialis or Sociabilis Lat. Friendly of Socius Lat. a Companion Tob. 5. Vers. 4. V. 223. The seven-times Wedded-Maid Sarah Tob. 7. Vers. 11. V. 232. To respit with repast with Food and rest interrupting his Days Work Repast Repas Fr. a Meal of Repascere to feed V. 238. He swerve not too secure he depart not from his Duty through too much Security and Presumption Swerve of the Bel. Swerven to wander to go astray V. 249. Thousand Coelestial Ardors but from among a Multitude of Heavenly Angels well exprest by Ardors Ardor Lat. Brightness Fervency Exceeding Love c. to which the Angelick Excellency may well be assimulated in respect of their Purity Activity and Zeal His Ministers a Flame of Fire Psal. 104. Vers. 4. Hebr. 1. Vers. 7. Ardor is by Virgil used for Fire Cui Pineus Ardor acervo Pascitur AEn 11. Thence expressive of any Passionate Impulse Idem omnes simul ardor habet AEn 4. V. 254. The Gate self open'd of its own accord the Gate opened wide Hung on Homer's Hinges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 257. To obstruct his sight no Cloud or Star stood in his way to hinder his Immortal Eye Obstructs of obstruere Lat. to build before to take away ones Prospect to stop up Placidasque viri Deus obstruit aures AEn 4. V. 259. Not unconform c. He sees how ever small shewing but like a Point the Earth not unlike other shining Globes and in it Paradise the Garden of God Not unconform not unsuitable of in Lat. un and conformis Lat. alike This resemblance of the Earth to other shining Coelestial Bodies here hinted at is more largely treated of Book 8. Vers. 140. What if that Light Sent from her the Earth through the wide transpicious Air To the Terrestrial Moon be as a Star Enlightning her by Day as she by Night This Earth And that faint Light which in the New and Waning Moon in spight of her Silver Horns discovers to us her darker Disk formerly reputed her Native Luster now called her Secundary Light is found to be reflected from the Earth upon her when nearer us she moves within the Region of this Terrene Reflection Gassend Lib. 2. Inst. Astron. V. 262. Of Galileo less assured The Angel in his flight from Heav'n discovering the Earth is compared to Galileo the Italian Astronomer Native of Florence and Professor at Padua whose Glass is said to be less assured that is not so infallible and undeceivable as the Angelick Opticks though it gave him so clear a prospect of the Moon that he affirms Ex quo deinde sensatà certitudine quispiam intelligat Lunâ—m superficie leui perpolitâ nequaquam esse indutam sed aspera inaequali ac veluti ipsusmet Telluris facies ingentibus tumoribus profundis lacunis atque anfractibus undiquaque confertam Galil Nunc. Syd Hence these Imagin'd Lands and Regions in the Moon V. 264. The Cyclades are the Northern Islands in number about 53 lying in the form of a Circle in the Egean Sea so call'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Circle Sparsasque per aequor Cycladas crebris legimus freta consita terâ—is AEn 3. Pelago credas
illi Dulcis compositis spiravit crinibus aura Atque habilis membris venit vigor Geor. 4. Ambrosial Book 2. Vers. 245. V. 643. Whence Light and Shade spring both More fully described in the beginning of Book 6. Vers. 4. There is a Cave Within the Mount of God fast by his Throne Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns which makes through Heav'n Grateful Vicissitude like Day and Night c. V. 646. In darker Veil Night comes not there in darker Dress Veil Fr. Voile Lat. Velum à Velando from covering Night well resembling a Veil thrown o'er the dark'ned World Nox ruit fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis AEn 8. Ibid. Roseat Dews Dews resembling Roses both as to scent and shew Roseat of Rosaceus Lat. of a Rose Colour of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for that charming Flower V. 647. All but th' unsleeping Eyes of God Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is thy Keeper Psal. 121. Vers. 4 and 5. V. 649. Than all this Globous Earth c. Larger and more capacious than this round Earth if flatted and spread out all into one wide open Plain Globous Lat. Globosus round of Globus any thing of a round shape So at Vers. 750. of this Book Regions to which All thy Dominion Adam is no more Than what this Garden is to all the Earth And all the Sea from one entire Globose Stretch'd into Longitude Then Paradise is in Comparison of Earth and Sea if from their vast great Round they both were stretcht and drawn out into Length Longitudo Lat. Length V. 654. Coelestial Tabernacles Heav'nly Tents Tabernaculum Lat. a Tent. V. 657. Alternate all Night long By turns singing and answering one another of Alternare Lat. to do any thing by turns Illi Alternantes multa vi praelia miscent Geor. 3. V. 661. Preeminence Praeeminentia Lat. a state of extraordinary Splendor and Dignity of Praeeminere Lat. to be raised in Power and Place above others V. 664. Messiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Anoint as Christ of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the same as interpreted by the following words King Anointed We have found the Messias which is being interpreted the Christ Joh. 1. Vers. 21. The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed Psal. 2. Vers. 2. V. 671. His next Subordinate The Angel commanding next under him of the Lat. Subordinatus Lat. next in order and degree V. 675. Has past the Lips of Heav'ns Almighty According to the Scripture where God is spoken of after the manner of Men But by every word that proceeds out of the Mouth of God Matth. 4. Vers. 4. V. 677. Was wont to impart Used to communicate my most secret Thoughts Impart of the Lat. Impertire to make Partner in to discover and disclose V. 679. Thy Sleep dissent How come we now so far to disagree that thou shouldst sleep so soundly while I wake disorder'd and disturb'd at the Almighties new and strange Decree Dissent of Dissentire Lat. to be of contrary Opinion and Sentiments to disagree V. 697. The Regent Powers The Commanders of Regere Lat. to bear Rule to Govern V. 700. Had disincumber'd Heav'n Night had disingaged Heaven Had clear'd it by withdrawing it self of dis the disjunctive Preposition and encumbrer Fr. to hinder to trouble or perplex or of the Ita. Ingombrare to hinder as Darkness does Hierarchal Standard that belonging to Satans whole Hierarchy V. 702. Tells the suggested Cause Acquaints 'em with the pretended Occasions of their March Suggested of Suggerere Lat. to prompt to put in mind slily to insinuate V. 703. Casts between ambiguous Words Le ts fall doubtful Expressions and Words that seem to soâ— Suspicion Ambiguus Lat. doubtful that may be taken in a double sense Hinc spargere voces In vuigum ambiguas AEn 2. Ibid. Jealousies Suspicions Jalousie Fr. is properly a mistrust arising between Lovers concerning their plighted Truth and Honour from thence translated to signifie the Suspicions Cities and Bodies Politick have of Incroachments on their Liberties c. V. 704. To sound or taint Integrity To fathom or infect their Loyalty To try or â—aint their Obedience To sound is a Marine Metaphor from the Plummet so necessary to the Seaman's safety of the Fr. sonder to try the depth of the Water Taint of the Fr. teindre Lat. tingere Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to die to colour to infect Corruption shews it self by discolouring Integritas Lat. Truth Loyalty V. 708. As the Morning-Star that guides c. The Morning-Star Lucifer as he is named at Vers. 760. How art thou fallen from Heav'n O Lucifer Son of the Morning Isal. 14. Vers. 12 Diffugiunt Stellae quarum agmina cogit Lucifer Coeli Statione novissimus exit Met. 12. Qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer undâ Quem Venus ante alios Astrorum diligit ignes Extulit os sacrum Coelo tenebrasque resolvit AEn 8. Translated from Homer's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 710. Third part of Heav'ns Host Behold a great Red Dragon c. and his Tail drew the third part of the Stars of Heav'n and threw them to the Earth Revel 12. Vers. 3 and 4. V. 711. The Everlasting Eye God Omniscient whose Everlasting Eye beholds the â—nmost Motions of our Minds as the Psalmist reasons admirably He that formed the Eye shall he not see The Lord understandeth the Thoughts of Man Psal. 94. Vers. 9 and 11. Discerns knows distinctly of discernere Lat. to see plainly Abstrusest the most hidden the most secret Thoughts of abstrudere Lat. to thrust into a Corner out of the way and search of Men. V. 713. The Golden Lamps c. And there were seven Lamps of Fire burning before the Throne Revel 4. Vers. 5. V. 716. Among the Sons of Morn Among the Angels So called of their early Creation before this lower World as many suppose and as the Series of our Poem assumes at Vers. 577. As yet this World was not c. V. 720. In full Resplendence In its fullest and most perfect Brightness Resplendescentia Lat. Brightness Ibid. Heir of all my Might whom he hath appointed Heir of all things Hebr. 1. Vers. 12. V. 726. Throughout the spacious North According to that of Isaiah where he parallels the insulting Assyrians with Satan For thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heav'n I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit in the sides of the North Chap. 14. Vers. 13. V. 732. Our Sanctuary Sanctuarium Lat. Heaven God's holy Seat Look down from thy holy Habitation from Heav'n Deut. 26. Vers. 15. V. 736. Hast in derision Despisest laughest to scorn He that sitteth in the Heav'ns shall laugh The Lord shall have them in derision Psal. 2. Vers. 4. Of deridere Lat. to laugh
at V. 739. Illustrates Gives greater Lustre to Of Illustrare Lat. to render Renowned V. 741. Be dextrous to subdue Be ready and resolute to tread down thy Enemies Dextrous successful quick of dextra Lat. for the right the most ready Hand Quis rebus dexter modus AEn 4. Et nos tua dexter adi pede sacra secundo Ibid. 8. V. 746. Or Stars of Morning Dew-Drops Innumerable as Leaves Stars c. are usual Similes but as the Drops of Dew the Stars of the Gay Morning and the Pearls of Day Light which the Sun hangs on every Leaf and Fragrant Flower is our Authors own and as infinite as any of the others Impearls turns by his reflected Beams into seeming Pearls or hangs like Pearls V. 748. The mighty Regencies The Dominions and large Governments of Fr. Regence of Regere Lat. to Govern V. 750. In their triple Degrees In their three distinct Orders of Seraphims Potentates and Thrones that is Principalities Powers and Lords according to their several Offices and Distinctions observable in Holy Writ Of the first Rank there seem to be seven from Tob 12. Vers. 15. I am Raphael one of the seven Princes which go in and out before the Glory of the Holy One c. Typified by the seven Stars and seven Golden Candlesticks Revel 1. Vers. 12 and 16. Gabriel another of these Princes was the Messenger of the Blessed Incarnation of our Saviour Luk. 1. Vers. 26. Of a different Order is supposed to be the Angel that deliver'd St. Peter out of Prison Acts 12. Vers. 7. Of their Subordination in their Offices And they answer'd the Angel of the Lord that stood among the Mirtle-Trees and said We have walked to and fro through the Earth Zech. 1. Vers. 11. Some have the Dominion over the Winds c. I saw four Angels standing on the four Corners of the Earth holding the four Winds of the Earth Revel 7. Vers. 1. Triple Lat. Triplex threefold V. 759. From Diamond Quarries hew'n Hew'n out of Pits of Diamond Quarry of the Fr. Carriere or Quarrier a Pit whence Stone is dug because hew'n out generally formâ Quadratâ in great Squares V. 761. In the Dialect of Men Interpreted The Palace of Lucifer so called in the Language of Men his other glorious Name being razed out and lost in everlasting Oblivion as as V. 659. His other Name is heard no more in Heav'n see Isai. 14. Vers. 12. How art thou fallen from Heav'n O Lucifer Son of the Morning in the Dialect of Men. So Homer of one of the bold Invaders of Heav'n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lucifer Lucem ferens Lat. being the brightest of the Stars and as such relating to the bright Station of Satan He of the first if not the first Arch-Angel Vers. 660. Lucifer this Morning-Star is Graphically described by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dialect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Speech and the various forms of it belonging to divers Nations Interpreted explained of Interpretari Lat. to give the meaning of V. 766. The Mountain of the Congregation The Prophet Isaiah has well exprest the Pride and Rebellion of Lucifer in Chap. 14. Vers. 13 and 14. For thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North. I will ascend above the heights of the Clouds I will be like the most High V. 770. With calumnious Art c. With sly malicious Insmuations resembling Truth With probable Surmises Calumnious Calumniosus Lat. of Calumniâ—â—i Lat. to 〈◊〉 to forge malicious Accusations against one Counterfeited imitated of the Fr. 〈◊〉 V. 773. If these Magnifick Titles c. If these our Noble Names and mighty Titles have any thing in them besides the sound If these our lofty Dignities are any thing but empty Names Magnifick Magnificus Lat. Noble Mighty Titles of Titulus Lat. Honour hence Titular one that has the Style but not the Estate or that carries the Name without the Possession and Advantage thereto belonging as several Foreign Titular Bishops that are so only Titulo tenus V. 778. Hurried meeting This hasty assembling Hurried of Harier Fr. to toil to vex to weary V. 782. Prostration vile Mean and abominable submission Proftratio Lat. a lying flat on the Ground of Prosternere to lie along to worship by falling flat on the Earth Knee-Tribute an odious and scornful exposing of the Worship due to the Son of God See Tribute Vers. 343. of this Book V. 788. If I trust to know you right If I conceive rightly of you as I trust as I believe I do V. 793. Jar not but well consist Orders and Degrees are Distinctions that do not destroy Liberty but agree well with it To jar is to quarrel with to disagree of the Fr. Gnerroger to fall out with as well as to fight Consist of consistere Lat. to suit with V. 797. Introduce Law or Edict Can bring or impose on us new Laws and Ordinances As if Orders and Degrees and Liberty could be maintain'd without ' em Introduce Introducere Lat. to begin to broach a new Opinion Edict Edictum Lat. a Law of Edicere to proclaim to ordain V. 799. Err not Are faultless need no Laws to guide us can do nothing amiss Of errare Lat. to be mistaken V. 802. Ordain'd to govern not to serve Another Instance of his counterfeited Truth Service being but the subordinate Duty of Degrees and Orders of Angels or Men. V. 803. Without controul Without any Contradiction Controul of the Fr. Contrâ—rolle an Examination and scanning of Accounts Contreroller Fr. to observe to inspect Thus far Satans bold blasphemous Discourse past without any due Consideration or Reflexions made on it without check or opposition V. 805. Abdiel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. Servant of God Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to serve V. 809. O Argument Blasphemous O wicked and malicious Discourse detracting from the Honour Glory and Goodness of GOD Almighty Blasphemous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one who by scandalous and ill report endeavours to hurt the Fame and ruine the Reputation of another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who is this that speaketh Blaspemies Luk. 5. Vers. 21. V. 813. With impious Obloquy With wicked Detraction With impious Gainsaying Obloquium Lat. scandal reproach V. 825. And circumscribed their Being Bounded and limited their Powers Of Circumscribere Lat. to draw a Line about to appoint V. 828. How Provident How careful of our Honour what Provision he has made for every ones just esteem Providens Lat. heedful circumspect V. 849. The fervent Angel The zealous Angel grown warm in his Discourse Fervent of Fervere Lat. to wax warm Fervet Opus AEn 1. The Work goes on in good earnest V. 850. None seconded No one back'd or supported his Zeal Of the Lat. secundus second V. 854. Of secondary Hands
Mankind is should be a stranger to the Omniscience of GOD Almighty V. 23. Acclamations Shouts of Joy Acclamatio of Acclamare Lat. to shout for Joy V. 26. High applauded Highly commended extreamly extoll'd Applauded applausus Lat. of applauderc to clap Hands in token of liking and approbation Ingeminant plausum Tyrii AEn 1. V. 44. Michael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. the Power of God of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to be mighty Gabriel Book 4. V. 549. V. 45. Military Prowess Warlike Courage Military of Militaris Lat. Soldier-like of Miles Lat. a Soldier Prowess Prouësse Fr. Valour V. 48. By Millions By mighty Multitudes Million Lat. Millio 1000000 of Mille Lat. a Thousand V. 54. Of Tartarus Book 2. V. 858. Hell the bottomless Pit that stands gaping wide to receive 'em into its Flaming Confusion V. 56. The Sovereign Voice God Almighty whose Omnipotent Word made all the World and makes it tremble and melt before him V. 58. In Duskie Wreaths reluctant Flames Now Clouds began To hide his Holy Hill and rowling Smoak Fraught with fierce Fire contending to get free The signal of his rising Wrath. Reluctant Flames Striving to break forth Of Reluctari Lat. to Struggle V. 62. In mighty Quadrate In a vast square Gross Of Quadratus Lat. Square whence Agmen Quadratum V. 66. Heroick Ardor Noble Courage like that of Heroes Book 1. vers 552. Ardor Lat. Courage Diine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt Euryale AEn 9. V. 69. Indissolubly firm So strongly Embattled and Embodied as not to be broken Indissolubilis Lat. not to be dissolv'd Ibid. Obvious Hill No Hill stood in their way or opposed their March Obvious Lat. what meets or stands in ones way V. 73. When the total Kind of Birds When the Generation of Birds when the whole species of Fowls appeared upon the Wing And Adam gave Names to all Cattel and to the Fowl of the Air Gen. 2. vers 20. V. 77. Manyâ—a Province wide Many a large Country Province Provincia Lat. for any Country not formerly part of Italy added by fair or foul means to the Roman Empire Sicilia Princeps se ad fidem amicitiamque populi Romani applicuit prima omnium Provincia appellata est Cice. pro Fla. V. 78. Of this Terrene Ten times the length of this Earth of this Terrene Globe Terrenus Lat. Earthly Of Terra Lat. the Earth Terreno ex aggere bustum AEn 11. V. 79 Far in th' Horizon to the North As far as Angels Eyes could see Northward The Horizon is a Circle dividing the Heavens into two half Circles and thereby determining our Sight By the Greeks styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By the Lat. Finiens The Horizons are various according to the variety of Situations Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. To Terminate as they do our view Nec sidera tota Ostendit Lybicae finitor circulus Orae Luc. l. 9. V. 80. A fiery Region The North is call'd from the Clearness and Brightness of the many Stars in that Quarter though the South is better provided with them than Antiquity was aware of But fiery seems here to relate to the Bright Beams that darted from the flaming Arms of Satans innumerable Host marching from the North. AEraque fulgent Sole lacessita lucem sub nubila jactant AEn 7. V. 81. Stretcht in Battailous Aspect The whole North had the Face and Front of one great Battle set in orderly Array extended and stretcht from skirt to skirt from one side to the other Battalions Of Battailer Fr. to Fight to wage War to give Battle V. 82. Bristled with upright Beams The Beams that shot upright into the Air from Sphears and Helms and shining Shields made the flaming Region of the North appear as if quite full of fiery Bristles V. 84. With boastful Argument Portray'd Painted with Vain-Glorious Boastings of what they now design'd Portraid Of the Fr. Pourtraire to Paint Of the Lat. Protrahere as our English to Draw V. 86. They Ween'd They Thought they Foolishly imagined an old Word V. 93. In fierce Hostings meet Joyn in adverse Encounters charging each other in destructive Deeds such as Hosts and Armies shock one another with Of Hostis Lat. for an Enemy V. 105. A dreadful interval A dismal space Intervallum Lat. a space between properly that between the Stakes in a Roman Trench which being but small an Interval is put for any small space of Place or Time and thence a Rest in Musick which made Virgil add to it longâ— to express a great distance Longo sed Proximus intervallo AEn 5. V. 107. Before the Cloudy Van Before the black main gross Van Book 2. vers 537. V. 108. On the rough Edge of Battel On the bold brink of Battel Edge is a word not to be exprest by any other in our Language and in the Sense here meant it has a strange Relation to the Lat. Acies that signified both the sharp Edge of any Weapon and also an Army in Battel Array ready for the Charge in which it is expressive of this rough edge of Battel Haud aliter Trojanae Acies Aciesque Latinae Concurrunt AEn 10. V. 113. His own undaunted Heart explores Trys and Sounds his own Courage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Explores Of Explorare Lat. to Search Try and Consider well Non lupus insidias Explorat Ovilia circum Geo. 4. V. 115. Realty Truth Integrity Realitas Lat. V. 118. Or weakest prove where boldest Why should not Strength and Might there be wanting where Virtue wanting is Or weakest prove and most inferior where Impudently and Impiously rely'd on Where Boldest where most Audacious and Brutal V. 129. At this prevention more incens'd More enraged by Abdiel's being before-hand with him and preventing his bold Defiance by his Challenge Praeventio Lat. a getting the Stars of Praevenire Lat. to get before to gain ground of V. 134. His side Abandon'd His party Deserted and Forsaken Of Abandonner Fr. to leave to quit V. 138. Incessant Armies to defeat thy Folly The Almighty who Created all Things out of nothing could easily raise Armies Everlasting new and never ceasing Forces to disappoint and humble thy Ambition Defeat Defaire Fr. to destroy to unmake V. 139. With Solâ—â—ary Hand With his own single Arm without Second or Assistance Solitarius Lat. alone of Solus the same V. 146. Erroneous to Dissent When I alone among thy multitudes mistaken seem'd to disagree with all th' Etherial Host. Erroneous out of the way deceiv'd Of Errare Lat. to be deceived V. 147. My Sect thou seest Those that are of my Party and Opinion Secta Lat. for a Side Faction Family of Philosophers c. Philosophorum Sectae Familiae Disciplinae Cice. V. 149. Askance Book 4. Vers. 504. V. 152. Seditious Angel Thou that lovest Factious Broils Mutinous and Troublesome Seditiosus Lat. a maker of Mutinies Seditione potens AEn 11. V. 159. Omnipotence to none Who while they feel Divine Power and Strength within themselves
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
Lat. to drive and stick into Intus figere Plagues Of Plaga Lat. a stroke Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Doric 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to strike the Pestilence properly called the Plague seems the more immediate stroke of Gods Vengeance sent from Heaven to sweep Sinners from off the Polluted Earth V. 841. Prostrate Fell'd before him Of Seraphim groveling and over thrown Prostratus Lat. lying all along Of Prosternere Lat. to fell to overthrow V. 845. From the four fold visaged four From the four Cherubims that had each four Faces as at Vers. 753. Visage Fr. the Face Of the Lat. Visus the sight V. 846. Distinct with Eyes Beset with Eyes sprinkled all o'er with Eyes like Stars as at Vers. 755. Distinctus Lat. set full off V. 848. One Spirit in them Ruled One Spirit guided and govern'd both the four faced Cherubim and the living Wheels beset with Starry Eyes Whithersoever the Spirit was to go they went thither was their Spirit to go and the Wheels were lifted up over against them for the Spirit of Life was in the Wheels Ezek. 1. 20. Glared shot out Lightning Book IV. Vers. 402. Pernicicus Book 1. Vers. 282. V. 850. That wither'd all their Strength That blasted all their Might as excessive Heats and scorching Winds kill the Trees by consuming their exhausted moisture Drain'd emptied Of the Fr. Trainer to draw up or out Exhausted quite emptied and worn out Exhaustus Lat. dried up Terraeque marisque Omnibus exhaustos jam casibus omnium egenos AEn 1. V. 854. In mid volie Stopt his Thunder in the midst of its flight Check'd Book III. V. 732. Volie Of Volée Fr. a flight not only or Birds but Arrows and Shot V. 857. A Herd of Goats To which the Wicked are compared by our Saviour in the Description of the last Judgment And he shall set the Sheep on his Right Hand but the Goats on the Left Then shall he say unto them on his Left Hand Depart from me ye Cursed c. Matth. 25. 33. and 41. Timerous fearful Of Timidus and Timor Lat. fear V. 861. Rowl'd inward c. Turn'd inward and opened a wide out-let into the empty Deep Gap a hole an opening of the word Gape to stretch the Mouth wide open V. 864. Urged 'em behind Pursued and terrified 'em from behind Urgere Lat. to push to press upon Uâ—gente ruinâ volvitur AEn 10. V. 865. The Verge of Heaven Down from Heavens Borders Verge Book II. V. 1038. V. 868. Heaven ruining from Heaven The Heavenly Angels tumbling headlong down from Heaven Ruinare Lat. to fall down V. 869. Strict Fate Gods unalterable Decree Strict Book II. Vers. 239. V. 873. Anarchie Through his mad misrule Anarchie Book II. Vers. 895. V. 874. Incumberd him So vast a rout and such a huge Confusion disorder'd and disturb'd him Incomber Ingombrare is of the old Fr. Combre now Comble a heap whence it signifies to hinder as heaps of Rubbish that lie in the way do Fraught Book II. Vers. 715. V. 877. The House of Woe and Pain Described by our Saviour by the Worm that dieth not and Fire unquenchable Mark 9. 44 45 48. and also by Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth Mat. 25. 30. the last part of which Gnashing of Teeth seems to have given our Poet the Rise for heightning Hell and the Torments of its Fire by the intense extremity of Cold Book II. Vers. 587. A frozen Continent of Whirlwinds and dire Hail c. alluding to Job 24. 19. of which the Latin Translation comes nearer the Original than ours Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis niveum Let him be snatcht from melting Snow to extream Fire V. 879. Her mural Breach The Gap made in her Chrystal Wall Vers. 861. Mural Muralis Lat. belonging to a Wall Of Murus Lat. a Wall V. 884. With Jubile advanc'd Set forward came on with Songs of Joy and great Rejoycing Jubile Of Jubilum Lat. rejoycing Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the year of the Jewish Jubile when every Man returned to his Family and Possession Levir 25. 10. V. 888. He Celebrated He praised and extol'd Celebrated Celebratus Of Celebrare Lat. to Praise and Magnifie Ex illo Celebratus honos AEn 8. V. 894. That thou mayst beware The Reason the Schoolmen give why they believed this dismal downfal of the Rebellious Angels was not unrevealed to Adam to keep him in humble Obedience to his Maker and under the Awe of his Righteous Judgments who spared not the Angels that Sinned but cast them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2. 4. And the Son of Sirach discoursing of Gods dealing with the first Fathers of Mankind has these Words He shewed them Good and Evil. He made an Everlasting Covenant with them and shew'd them his Judgments Eccles. 17. 7. and 12. by which Judgments most Interpreters understand this terrible Revelation of the routed Angels Et Judicia sua ostendit illis Quae Judicia nimirum quibus Deus Revelavit illis transgressionem pessimorum Spirituâ—m quomodo judicaver at eos damnaverat Cathar Comment in Gen. Cap. 1. That the Ruin of these Rebellious Angels was known to the Prophets is plain from Isaiah who denouncing Gods Judgments against the wicked Belteshasar speaks of him as of Satan himself How art thou faln from Heaven Oh Lucifer Son of the Morning Thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Tâ—rone above the Stars of God Isai. 14. 13 14. Our Saviour speaks plainly of this Arch-Rebel Into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. I saw Satan like Lightning fall from Heaven Luk. 10. 18. And he was in the Wilderness forty days tempted of Satan Mark 1. 13. The Angels that kept not their Principality but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under Darkness c. Jude 1. 6. V. 903. Bereav'd of Happiness Rob'd of all thy Bliss Bereaved Of the Sax. Bereapan to spoil Reapian Of Rapere Lat. to snatch from V. 906. A despite done A Dishonour and Affront done against God Despit Fr. a Provocation Of the Lat. Despicere to under value to dispise V. 909. Warn thy Weaker Advise thy Wife to have a care Giving Honour unto thy Wife as unto the Weaker Vessel 1 Pet. 3. 7. Ibid. Let it profit thee Profit tibi Lat. of Prodesse to make advantage of Here I must take leave to shew the Latin Translator of our excellent Poet how much Virgil would have assisted him if he had not been too hasty in that noble Description of Satans Roaring Engines hurling linkt Thunderbolts and Iron Hail it begins Vers. 584. Nec mora flammatis Coelum omne ardescere visum est Cardinibus subitâque iterum caligine tectum Amisisse Diem commistis igne tenebris Machina quas raucis incendia caeca volutans Faucibus eructat lacerus mugitibus aether Intonat horrendum Toto ruit
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
heavens Psal. 148. 4. To this sense our Poet agrees and thus infers that as God built the Earth and founded it on Waters stretched out the earth above the waters Psal. 136. 6. By the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth consisting out of the water and in the water 2 Pet. 3. 5. So also he establish the whole Frame of the Heavenly Orbs in a calm Crystalline Sea surrounding it lest the Neighbourhood of the unruly Chaos Bo. II. Vers. 960. or as others the furious Conflict of contesting Winds should disturb it But all search in Works so wonderful so distant and undiscernable as well as undemonstrable is quite confounded Circumfluous Waters that flow round about it Circumfluus Lat. Circumfluous Humour Ultima possedit solidumque coercuit Orbem Met. 1. Crystalline Bo. III. Vers. 482. V. 275. Chorus Lat. Quire and for that repeated part of a Song in which all the Performers joyn V. 277. Embryon immature The substance of the Earth was made but still lay in the dark Womb of many Waters and like an imperfect Creature inclosed and hid appeared not Embryon Bo. II. V. 900. Immature Immaturus Lat. unripe like a Creature yet unfinish'd in the Womb unfit for Birth a Metaphor from Green Fruit. Involv'd Involutus Lat. propt up V. 279. Main Ocean flow'd Who cover'dst it the Earth with the Deep as with a Garment the Waters stood above the Mountains Psal. 104. 6. V. 280. With Prolific Humour With fruitful Moisture Humidity being the Subject and as it were the Mother of all Generation Prolificus Lat. fruitful V. 280. Fermented the Great Mother Stirred up and excited the Earth the Universal Mother leaven'd and swell'd her filled with enlivening Moisture to conceive and bring forth her innumerable Offspring Fermented of Fermentare Lat. to puff up rise or heave as Dow does when leaven'd the main Ocean covering all the Earth did with its natural Saltness and Acidity provoke stir up and stimulate the soften'd Earth into Conception Fermentum nihil aliud est quam penetrantissima seu spirituosissima quaedam substantia alterationum mutationumque variarum Parens Satiate Bo. I. V. 179. Genial Bo. IV. V. 712. V. 284. Into one place Gen. 1. 9. Into their proper place the Sea as V. 10. the one great and most considerable Congregation of the Waters not but that many were received into the Earth's vast hollows Earth and Water making but one Globe whose Center is the same with that of the World V. 286. The Mountains emergent Rising up out of the Waters Of Emergere Lat. called Tumid Hills from their bulk of Tumidus Lat. swoln Jussit extendi campos subsidere valles Fronde tegi silvas lapidosos surgere montes Met. 1. V. 290. Capacious Bed Fit to contain Of Capax Lat. vast Receptacle of Waters Le lict dune Riviere The Bed or Channel of a River V. 291. With glad Precipitancy The Waters ran down from the haughty Hills to the wide humble Valleys with glad haste their natural Tendency Praecipitantia Lat. a fall from a high place V. 292. Uproul'd as drops on Dust c. Sinking down in vast Circles as Water falling on much Dust casts it self into round drops desirous by drawing it self into that circular most perfect form to preserve its native Purity from the foul Invasion Conglobing a Military Metaphor from Soldiers casting themselves into a Ring when on all sides beset V. 294. Such flight Such speed the Almighty Command imposed on the swift Floods At thy Rebuke they fled at the voice of thy Thunder they hasted away they go up by the Mountains and down by the Valleys unto the place which thou hast appointed for them Psal. 104. 7 8. V. 299. With Torrent Rapture With headlong Fall Torrent Bo. VI. Vers. 830. Rapture of Rapere Lat. to snatch away V. 302. With Serpent error wandring c. Or wandring round about creeping to and fro like the turnings and windings of Rivers in and out Of Serpere Lat. to creep Errour of Error Lat. a wandring of Errare to go out of the way V. 303. Oose deep Channels wore And on the soft yielding Slime and Mud wore their easie way Oose is the soft Mud and Soil at the bottom of Rivers Channel whence our Kennel of Canalis Lat. a Water-pipe called their Humid Train their watry Course V. 307. The great Receptacle of Congregated The vast Spaces that receive the assembled Waters he called Seas Receptaculum Lat. any thing that contains another Congregated of Congregare Lat. to gather into a Herd V. 310. The verdant Grass The green Grass Verdant of Verdoyant Fr. of Viridare Lat. to grow green V. 312. Whose Seed is in her self Gen. 1. 11. seems to imply that there is no Herb or Plant growing out of the Earth that has not its proper Seed when some as Mushroms and Fern and divers others either have none at all or so small that they are undiscoverable but most probable it is that God created only the most excellent which were to be perpetuated by their Seed but the less noble and such as out of a meer mixture of the Elements might in their Seasons spring up as being created in their Causes needed not his particular Command as amongst the Animals Mice Worms and Flies capable of being from the corruption of other Creatures Of the Spontaneous Productions of the Earth the Heathen Poets had some smattering Ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta nec ullis Saucia vomeribus per se dabat omnia tellus Met. 1. V. 314. Desert and bare Wild unfurnished Of Desertus Lat. forsaken as all Deserts are because bare and barren V. 321. The Corny Reed embattled c. The horny Reed stood upright among the undergrowths of Nature like a Grove of Spears or a Battalion with its Pikes aloft Corneus Lat. of or like Horn. Tumulus quo cornea summo Virgulta densis hastilibus horrida myrtus AEn 3. V. 323. With frizled Hair implicit The Bush with his frizled Locks intangled Frizled of Frizer Fr. to turn in curls Implicit Implicitus Lat. entangled of Implicare to twist V. 325. Gemm'd their Blossoms Put forth their Blossoms of Gemmare Lat. to bud forth and rive Blossoms are called Gemmae Lat. V. 333. A dewy Mist went up c. For the Lord had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground Gen. 2. 5 6. V. 337. On the green Stemm On the green Stalk Stemm of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. so signifying Hence Stemmata the Stocks and Originals of Families branching into their Genealogies Stemmata quid faoiunt Quid prodest Pontice longo Sanguine censeri Juv. V. 341. For Signs c. Gen. 1. 14. Divers are the Interpretations of these Words some understand 'em of the Solemn Feasts and New Moons celebrated under the Mosaic Law Others for Signs
called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Preheminence Dulcimer Of Dolcemelle Ital. an old Musical Instrument so named a Dulcedine Lat. of its Sweetness 598. Temper'd soft Tunings e. Join'd their soft Notes in Consort with Angelick Voices in full Quire or single sometimes Choral of Chorus Lat. a Quire Unison Unisonus Lat. of one Sound a Note Of Unus Lat. one and Sonus Lat. sound V. 608. Who can impair thee Who can lessen or diminish thee O thou Infinite and Almighty Impair Of Empirer Fr. to worst to hurt V. 619. On the clear Hyaline As before in wide Chrystalline Ocean Vers. 271. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Revel 4. 6. And befere the Throne there was a Sea of Glass like unto Chrystal By some understood of the Chrystalline Heaven the Waters above the Firmament as our Author By others of the Empyrean Heaven the Heaven of Heavens from its Calmness Perspicuity and Solidity as well as largeness likened to a Glassy or Chrystalline Sea the Street of the Heavenly Jerusalem being said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 21. 21. Hyaline Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Glassy Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Glass Hyali saturo fucata colore vellera Geor. 4. V. 623. Thou knowst their Seasons The Motions of the Stars and the Seasons of their Rising and Setting V. 628. In reward to rule over his Works c. Large and absolute was Adams Empire his Dominion reacht over the Fish of the Sea the Fowl of the Air and every living thing that moveth on the Earth Gen. 1. 28. and easie his Obedience bounded by one single Injunction Not to eat of one Tree rewarded not only by such a vast unlimited Power here but by absolute Happiness hereafter more Boundless and Eternal yet all this he forfeited tempted to Disobedience by one of his mean brute Subjects as to appearaace insomuch that he has lost the awe of his Earthy Empire to that degree as to be forc'd to use his utmost Powers of Body and Mind too all his Strength Reason and Subtilty to keep under those Animals that at first obey'd his Beck scorn'd and contemned to that degree of Derogation to his Power that feeble Insects Lice and Locusts are able to famish or eat up their Universal Lord. V. 634. Thus was Sabbath kept In these Holy Exercises was the first Sabbath celebrated A Portion of Time which was appropriated to the Service of him who is Eternal and which in Holy Writ he calls his own The Seventh day is the Sabbath of Rest it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your Dwellings Lev. 23. 3. Bold therefore was the Blasphemy of him who durst term it Lassati mollis Imago Dei Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to Rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because in it God rested from all the Works that he had made Gen. 2. 3. NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VIII Verse 1. MR. Hog who has crowded our Author's six last Books into four has joyn'd the Seventh and Eighth together omitting the first four Verses of this Book which to shew him that they are neither ungrateful nor untoward to turn are here render'd The Angel ended and in Adam 's Ear So charming left his Voice that he a-while Thought him still speaking still stood fix'd to hear Then as new-wak'd thus gratefully reply'd Finierat caelo satus divina canoris Eloquiis bibulas vox sic pellexerat aures Ut nondum cessasse ratus stupefactus Adamus Auscultaret adhuc inhians fixusque maneret Dein velut evigilans grato sic pectore fatur V. 7. Divine Historian Relator of Things and Actions exceeding Human Knowledge Heavenly Historian of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a knowing Person V. 9. Condescention to relate c. Since thou hast been pleased thus friendly to humble and degrade thy lofty Understanding by stooping to my mean Capacity and human Measure in the relation of such high Mysteries to the knowledge whereof I could no other way attain Condescentio of Condescendere Lat. to stoop to to come down Solution Bo. VI. V. 694. Resolve of Resolvere Lat. to untie Doubts and hard Questions resembling Intricate Knots V. 18. An Atom When I compare the Heavens and the Earth and reckon what proportion this Globe of Earth and Water bears in bulk to the wide Firmament and those many Stars that come within my counting which seeming to move in Compasses so unconceivable only to enlighten for 24 hours this low dark Earth a meer bare Point in respect of those Circles immense and incomprehensible that surround her in their vast Journeys useless as to any thing else I cannot choose but wonder c. Atom Bo. II. V. 900. a Point as at V. 23. a Punctual Spot of Punctum Lat. a Point thô the compass of the Earth be reckon'd 8810 Leagues such as make 26400 Italian Miles yet in comparison of the Firmament it is but as a Point gather'd from half the Heaven being visible from any part of the Earth and from the Stars keeping the same size from what place soever they are observed Besides the Astronomers argue it to be no more in respect of the Sun's Sphear because the Shadow moves about the Central Point of a Dial as regularly as the Sun moves about the Earth's Center as if there were no difference between her Center and her Surface that Seneca had good reason to say Hoc est Punctum quod inter tot Gentes ferro igni dividitur â—O quam ridiculi sunt mortalium termini V. 19. And all her number'd Stars Not as if the Stars were numberable by any but him who telleth the number of the Stars and calleth them all by their names Psal. 147. 4. But the Earth is said to be but a Spot a Grain nay a meer Point if compared with the Firmament and those its Fixed Stars that come within the compass of Human Account reckon'd to be 1022 and those so vast that they of the sixth size the smallest discoverable by the naked and unassisted Eye are computed to exceed the Earth's whole Round 18 times those of the first Magnitude being 108 times bigger well then may the Earth appear a Central Spot to the unmeasurable Sphere in which these shine there being innumerable others their Companions by their vast distance invisible without the admirable Invention of Glasses V. 20. Spaces incomprehensible The vast compass the Fixed Stars take in 24 hours is to Mankind most unimaginable their distance from us being such that whole Herds of 'em are undiscoverable without Telescopes and some most probably removed beyond their reach and the sufficiency of Human Sight Incomprehensibilis Lat. unconceivable V. 22. To officiate Light To administer Light round Earth's dark Globe according to the Ptolemaic and Vulgar System where the Earth is Center'd in the middle of the World 's wide Frame round which unmoveable the Sun Moon and Stars Fix'd and Erratic wheel
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
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
80. West from Orontes Westward from Orontes a River of Syria springing out of Mount Libanus and running by the Walls of Antioch into the Mediterranean Sea Jam pridem Syrus in Tâ—berim defluxit Orontes Juv. Sat. 3. V. 81. To the Ocean Bard at Darien To the South Sea stop'd by the Isthmus of Darien It is a Neck of Land of 18 Leagues over from East to West by which the South and North America are tack'd together having on one side Panama and on the other Nombre de Dios both belonging to the Spaniard This Barricado is also called The Streight of Panama its modern Name V. 82. Ganges and Indus Thence to the East-India where Ganges and Indus flow Ganges the greatest River of East-India dividing it into two parts called still by the Inhabitants Ganga it riseth out of Mount Imaus in the Confines of Great Tartary and empâ—ies it self into the Gulph of Bengala Decolor extremo quâ â—ingitur India Gange Met. l. 4. Ceu septem surgens sedatis amnibus altus Per tacitum Ganges AEn 9. From the many Islands that beset and obstruct his entrance into the Sea Indus another great River of East-India whence the Country took its Name it has its Rise out of the highest part of Imaâ—s by some called Taurus and empties its four full Mouths three others being stop'd into the Indian Ocean the Natives call it Sinde Thus the Orb he roam'd Bo. I. V. 382. thus round the Globe he roved in Latitude from Pole to Pole and in Longitude from West to Eastern India V. 183. With Inspection deep With nicest View with thorough search Inspectio Lat. of Inspicere Lat. to look to search into V. 85. Opportune might serve his Wiles What Creature was fittest for him to play his Cheats and Pranks in Opportune Bo. II. V. 397. Wiles of the Fr. Guille Deceit Fraud V. 86. The Serpent suttlest Beast c. Many Instances are by the Naturalists opposed in Apes Foxes Dogs c. to the Supreme Suttlety of the Serpent above other Beasts but if we consider how many Wiles have been observed in this sly Animal it will be hard to produce an equal number in any other Creature The first is that of stopping her Ears thô the Charmer charm never so wisely Psal. 58. 4 5. On which words St. Austin shews us its Posture Alteram Aurem terrae admovet alteram caudâ— obturat The second is the fortifying it self when attack'd by many intricate folds encircling its Head the seat of Safety and its sleeping in the same posture as our Author well observes In Labyrinth of many around self-rowl'd his Head the midst well stor'd with suttle Wiles V. 184. A third Remark is that this cunning Creature disgorges its Poison when it goes to drink for fear of infecting its own Beverage as Epiphanius A fourth is that he feeds on Fennel the easier to get rid of his old Skin Plin. l. 8. c. 27. Fifthly that he sharpens his Sight by anointing his Eyes with the Juice of the same Herb besides all which we have the Testimony of the Inspired Moses Gen. 3. 1. confirmed by our Saviour Be wise as Serpents and harmless as Doves Matth. 10. 16. Where as the Innocence of the Dove is above comparison so the Wisdom of the Serpent seems beyond parallel V. 89. Fittest Imp of Fraud Fittest Stock to graft his devilish Fraud upon Imp of the Sax. Impan to put into or of Ente Fr. a Graft and Entere Fr. to graft upon Thus Children are called Little Imps from their Imitating all they see and hear Young Grafts just shooting up to Sense Debate Bo. II. V. 42. Revolv'd Bo. IV. V. 31. Irresolute Come to no Resolution of In and Resolutus Lat. Undetermin'd V. 90. His dark Suggestions hide Wherein to hide himself and his dark Designs Suggestions Bo. I. V. 685. V 93. As from his Native Suttlety proceeding Diabolus colubrum in Paradiso corporali animal scilicet lubricum tortuosis anfractibus mobile operi suo congruum per quem loqueretur elegit Aug. l. 14. De Civ D. c. 11. Which our Author has well explain'd by the Serpents natural Suttlety disguising the Devil 's dark Designs his natural Slyness leaving less room for Suspicion V 95. Of Diabolic Power c. Of being Possess'd and Actuated by the Devil and thence assisted by Satan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of the Devil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Slanderer of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to slander misrepresenting God to Man and accusing Man to his Maker The Accuser of the Brethren as Rev. 12. 10. V. 101. As built with second Thoughts After Heaven for that the Angels were created contemporary with Man and their Creation shadow'd by those words of Moses Let there be light Gen. 1. 2. and their Ruine notified by God's dividing the light from the darkness V. 4. seems such a huddle as Human Understanding cannot comprehend Quod agebatur in mundo sensibili imago erant eorum quae in intelligibili agebantur Nam sicuti primo die Deus divisit lucem à tenebris ita tunc simul Angelos à Daemonibus gratiam à peccato gloriam à paenà caelum ab inferis dispescuit Hugo Victor l. 1. de Sacr. c. 10. Conjectural and Allegorical Our Poet supposes therefore Heaven the Seat of Angels created before the Habitations of Men who after Tryal and Obedience were to supply the Place that Rebellious Crew had forfeited and therefore in this most incomparable Prosopopeia of Satan makes him magnifie the beautiful Creation Terrestrial Heaven built on second Thoughts more wary and refined according to the manner of Men thô all the Works of God in their destin'd degrees are absolutely perfect Reforming what was old for what God after better worse would build Being the Insinuations of Satan's Misprision of the Almighty corresponding with his malicious Character undervaluing the All-wise Creator of all Things as if his Infinite Understanding like our Imperfections were improbable by experience V. 103. Terrestrial Heaven A Heaven on Earth as hinted at before What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven and Things therein Each t'other like more than on Earth is thought Bo. V. Vers. 575. V. 106. In the Concentring all c. of Sacred Influence Darting on thee and in thy Bosom as their common Center uniting all the wealthy Rays of vast inestimable Virtue and most powerful Efficacy as if thou alone were the sole only Object of all their glorious Eyes Sacred Influence great vast Efficacy as Homer names a great Fish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a holy Fish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Darkness Sacred that is Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. The great strength of And Virg. Auri sacra fames AEn 3. So the Original in the holy Page calls great Mountains the Mountains of God Psal. 36. 6. and lofty Cedars the Cedars of God Psal. 80. 10. Concentricus Lat. that
as the most divine Diet I become perfect and absolute in all knowledge as the Gods who know every thing As before Godhead was not from her thought ran in her mind V. 790. Eve sick as she supposed of innocent Ignorance was resolved to diet her self with the Fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil as Physicians prescribe a certain Diet to their disorder'd Patients Diet of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. Mature ripe thence perfect and compleat Bo. I. Vers. 660. Animi maturus Alethes AEn 9. Wise Prudent V. 807. Experience next to thee I owe Next I owe my Thanks to the Experience my best guide Experientia Lat. Trial the Mistress of Mankind V. 812. Heaven is high and remote to see According to Lucretius Omnis enim per se divum natura necesse est Semota ab nostris rebus sejunctaque longè Lib. 1. V. 821. Without Copartner Without a Sharer and Partner in my new acquired knowledge Copartners and Coparceners of Con and Particeps Lat. are Law-terms for such as have equal shares in the Inheritance of their Ancestors V. 829. I extinct Dead destroyed the Lamp of Life being quench'd Extinctus Lat. dead of Extinguere Lat. to put out V. 837. Sciential Sap Eve probably enough adored and reverenced the Violated Tree as conceiving some wonderful Power dwelt therein which had bestowed upon the Plant the Juice and Sap productive of extraordinary knowledge as if not made by God to grow among the rest out of the Earth but being able to make others that eat it such of its own Innate Virtue As hinted before If they all things who enclos'd Knowledge of Good and Evil in this Tree That who so eats thereof forthwith attains Knowledge without their leave V. 722. Sciential Scientialis Lat. belonging to knowledge Scientia Lat. V. 845. Divine of something ill misgave him Yet oft his Heart foreboding and foretelling some Disaster made him fear all was not well Told him the joy he promis'd to his Thoughts and the new solace in her Return so long expected would disappoint him Divine Divinus Lat. one that foretells what shall happen Falli sperat Chaldaeos caeterosque Divinos Cic. So Divinare futura So Helâ—nus foretelling AEneas what was to befal him is said Canere Divino ex ore Sacerdos AEn 3. Misgave gave him to think something was amiss Mis as the Fr. Mes in composition depraving and depressing the word to which it is joyn'd as Misdeed Mishap c. V. 846. He the faultring measure felt He found his Heart kept not true time he felt the false and intermitting Measure the natural description of our Minds foreboding ill by the unequal beatings of the Heart and Pulse discovered Faulter of the Span. Faltar of the Fr Faillir to fail to be wanting V. 851. That downy smiled That cover'd with soft Down look'd sweetly Down of the Belg. Dun thin that Lanugo the soft Beard on Fruits Ipse ego cana legam tenerâ languine mala Ecl. 2. V. 852. And Ambrosial Smell diffus'd Virgil's very words Et liquidum Ambrosiae diffudit odorem Geo. 4â— Ambrosial Bo. II. V. 245. Diffused Bo. III. V. 137. V. 854. In her face Excuse came Prologue and Apology In her looks Excuse sate ready to declare the Reason of and to defend-the Occasion of her long Absence Excuse Excusatio Lat. of Excusare Lat. to lessen an objected Fault Prologue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Introduction or entring into or opening the matter of a Speech and among the Poets a Speech made before the Play to entreat the favour of the Auditory Apology 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Defence that part of an Oration in which the Accusation is endeavoured to be avoided and wiped off To Prompt Prontare Ital. to mind one of to suggest Promptum reddere Lat. to prepare or have in readiness V. 855. With bland Words With fair winning Words Of Blandus Lat. soft flattering fawning V. 858. Depriv'd thy Presence Robb'd of thy dear Society Depriv'd of thy Company Of Deprivare a disused Latin word to bereave of Ibid. Agony of Love Strange tormenting Passion not felt by Eve before she became sinful Love as all other her Passion while innocent easily obeying the Rule and Reign of Reason Agony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an inward Conflict and Disturbance See Bo. II. V. 861. V. 876. Dilated Spirits ampler Heart c. My Understanding wider and my Heart large and more open Dilated Bo. I. v. 429. Ampler of Amplior Lat. larger Many are of Opinion that Eve did not relate to Adam the Promises the sly Serpent had made her and that if she had acquainted him therewith he would have suspected Satan's design and have stood upon his Guard grounding it on St. Paul's words Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression 1 Tim. 2. 14. But that of meer fondness and impotency of Passion he was perswaded by his lovely and lost Eve to Ear against his better knowledge undeceiv'd yet the sad Sarcasme And the Lord God said Behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil Gen. 3. 22. intimates that Adam was attack'd on the side of his Understanding which he hoped by eating of that Fruit to improve into Perfection Our Poet therefore has entertain'd both these Opinions in his Discourse of Adam's Transgression V. 880. Unshared and Odious soon Like Juturna Haud quicquam mihi dulce meorum Te sine frater erit AEn 12. V. 885. Too late renounce Deity c. Quo vitam dedit aeternam Cum mortis adempta est Conditio Ibid. V. 886. With Countenance blith With a chearful Countenance pleased and chearful Of the Sax. Blide or Belg. Bliide joyful V. 890. Blank while Horror chill c. Blank Blanc Fr. white pale Obstupuere animi gelidusque per ima cucurrit Ossa tremor AEn 2. V. 891. All his Joynts relax'd Illi solvuntur frigore membra AEn 12. Relax'd loosen'd Of Relaxare Lat. V. 895. He inward Silence broke He thus reason'd with himself discours'd with his own Thoughts inwardly in his Mind V. 901. To Death devote Made liable to Death given up and destin'd to Destruction Pesti devota futurae AEn 1. V. 914. The Link of Nature drawn The natural Affection by which I am link'd to thee who art the dearest tenderest part of my own self Flesh of my Flesh c. Link of Lien and Lier Fr. to bind together V. 917. So having said So having said to himself so having thought and considered in his Mind as at V. 895. V. 922. Who thus hath dar'd Misprinted for Hast dared V. 924. Sacred to Abstinâ—nce Set apart and secluded from use Dedicated to forbearance Abstinentia Lat. forbearance Arbor erat Luci medio in penetralibus umbris Sacra comam nullos morsu violanda per annos Quam Pater omnipotens fertur cum conderet orbem Perpetuae sacrasse fami Imitated from
grievous and more grating Aggravate Bo. 3. v. 524. Pennance the contraction of Penitence Penitentia Lat. Punishment or the fear of it being the Parent ef Repentance V. 557. Could not abstain Could not forbear Abstain of Abstinere Lat. properly to forbear eating to fast from Delude Bo. 9. v. 639. V. 560. That curl'd Megaera Hung thicker on those tempting Trees than curling Serpents on the dreadful Head of dire Megaera her hissing horrid Hair Megaera one of the three Snaky Sisters Daughters of Acheron and Night-Furies of Hell so invidious and detestable of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to hate Odit ipse pater Pluton odere sorores Tartareae monstrum tot sese vertit in ora Tam saevae facies tot pullulat atra colubris AEn 7. Tot Erynnis sibilat Hydris Tantaque se facies aperit Ibid. Quas Tartaream nox intempesta Megaeram Uno eodemque tulit partu paribusque revinxit Serpentum Spiris AEn 12 Curl'd Megaera Crinita Draconibus ora Met. l. 4. So Medusa's Hair was turn'd into curling Snakes Gorgâ—neum turpes crinem mutavit in Hydros Ibid. V. 562. Bituminous Lake where Sodom flam'd The Lake Asphaltites near which Sodom and Gomorrah burnt by Fire from Heaven Gen. 19. 24. were situated Josephus affirms the Shapes and Fashions of 'em and three other Cities called the Cities of the Plain were to be seen in his Days and Trees loaden with fair Fruit styled the Apples of Sodom rising out of the Ashes which at the first touch dissolved into Ashes and Smoak Bo. V. of the Wars of the Jews c. 5. This Lake is named Bituminous Bituminosus Lat. of Bitumen Lat. a fat clammy Slime gathered on the Lake See Asphaltic Bo. 1. v. 411. V. 563. This moâ—e delusive c. This fair Fruitage was more deceitful and disappointing than Sodom's cheating Apples which only deceiv'd the Touch by dissolving into Ashes but this endured the handling the more to vex and disappoint their Taste by filling the Mouths of the Damned with grating Cinders and bitter Ashes in stead of allaying their scorching Thirst provoking and inflaming it So handsomly has our Author improved their Punishment Gust Taste of Gustus Lat. the pleasure of Tasting V. 567. With spattering Noise As the manner of those is that disgusted by any ill Taste spit out its Cause with a spattering Noise A word coin'd of the Sound thereby made Rejected cast out of Rejicere Lat. to throw out V. 568. Drug'd as oft c. Vex'd as often with hatefullest Distaste Drug'd of the Sax. Drecan to vex to toyl whence a Drudge one employed in the vilest and most loathsome Offices Disrelish Disgust Distaste Bo. 5. v. 305. Illusion Bo. 4. v. 803. V. 572. Laps'd Fall'n Lapsus Lat. Of Labi Lat. to fall V. 578. Tradition they dispers'd They spread abroad some Account among the Gentiles Tradition Traditio Lat. an ancient Account of Tradere Lat. to deliver down as those of the Jews were from Father to Son Dispers'd Bo. 3. v. 54. Heathen the Idolatrous Gentiles of the Sax. Haeden or Ger. Heyden of Heyde Ger. a Heath because when Christianity was received in the great Cities the Heathen practised their wicked Rites in little Villages and Country Obscurities for a long time V. 581. Ophion with Eurynome c. And reported how the Serpent whom they disguised under the Name of Ophion with his Wife Euâ—â—nome that Govern'd far and near was the most ancient of all the Gods and Reign'd on Olympus till driven thence by Saturn and Ops long before Jove their Son was born and Nurs'd in Crete Ophion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Serpent was one of the Titans possess'd of the Empire of all things before Saturn but overthrown by him as he was at last by his Son Jupiter as Isacius reports Eurynome was the Daughter of the Ocean and Consort of Ophion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. wide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Law thence here styled The wide encroaching Eve who by her powerful sway over the Souls and Bodies of her Sons subjected 'em to Sin and Death encroaching and usurping wide on her Posterity involved both in her Crime and Punishment down to her last Descendent Haec arma Mimantis Sustinet hos onerat ramos exutus Opion Claud. de Raptu Proserp l. 3. V. 584. Saturn The Son of Caelus and Vesta espoused his Sister Ops on whom he begot Jupiter named Dictaeus of Dicte a Mountain in Crete Di nempe suâ—s habuere Sorores Sic Saturnus Opim junctam sibi sanguine duxit Met. l. 9. Dictaeo caeli regem pavere sub antro Geo. 4. V. 587. Once Actual When the first fatal Transgression was committed now in Body now personally present Actualis Lat. done ab Agendo V. 588. Habitual Habitant A constant Inhabitant Habitual of Habitus Lat. a custom a constant habit of Body or Mind Habitant Habitans Lat. of Habitare Lat. to dwell to aâ—ide constantly in a place V. 590. Not mounted yet on his pale Horse The first Generations of Men were so vicavious there Longevity being necessary to the Peopling the World that Death seemed as then to walk on foot and follow Sin but slowly He had not those dreadful Executions to do that have since required his mounting on Horse-back as he is described Rev. 6. 8. And behold a pale Horse and his name that sate on him was Death and Hell follow'd with him c. V. 592. Second of Satan sprung Death is said to be the second Offspring of Satan Sin being his first and Death her Son and his therefore styled the Sin-bred Monster V. 596. according to the Holy Writ When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death Jam. 1. 15. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. V. 599. Where most with Ravin I may meet Where I may best find wherewithal to glut my self Ravine of Rapina Lat. Pillage Spoil all Ravenous Creatures being violent and rapacious V. 601. This vast unhide-bound Corps This vast wide Womb of mine Death is so all-devouring that his Body may well be styled Not hide-bound as those Creatures are whose Leanness makes their Skin stick to their Ribs Death on the contrary seems of so loose a Constitution that thô he eats up all things nothing stays with him Maw of the Ital. Magone the Stomach Corps the contraction of Corpus Lat. a Body V. 602. Th' incestuous Mother Sin the Mother of Death by Satan her own Sire Incestucsus Lat. one that has carnal knowledge with a Person within the Degrees forbidden Of Incestare Lat. V. 605. No homely Morsels No course Fare Morsel of Morceau Fr. of Morsus Lat. a bit V. 609. And season him c. Season him with much Sinfulness thy sweetest and most delicious Dish the highest Morsel of Mortality Season Assaissonner Fr. Sasonare Ital. to relish with Salt or Spice V. 611. Or unimmortal
had four Faces like a twofold Janus According to Ezekiel's Vision And every one had four faces ch 1. v. 6. And their whole bodies and their backs and their hands and their Wings were full of eyes round about Ezek. 10. 12. Double Duplex Lat. twofold Janus was King of Italy in whose Court Saturn took Sanctuary for his great Wisdom he was inrolled among the Gods and Numa Pompilius built him a Temple in which his Image stood adorn'd with two Faces thence by some taken for Noah who saw the restor'd World as well as the destroy'd this being Renown'd also for teaching the Use of the Vine Others say he was called Biceps and Bifrons from his Skill in Things past being good at guessing at those to come His Temple stood always open in time of War and was never shut but when Rome was in perfect Peace which happen'd but twice in all the Progress of the Roman Power Saturnusque senex Janique bifrontis imago Vestibulo astabant AEn 7. V. 131. Of Argus Argus was a Shepherd feign'd to have had 100 Eyes to whose custody Juno committed the white Cow into which her wanton Jupiter had changed his Mistress Io. Aristoridae servandam tradidit Argo Centum luminibus cinctum caput Argus habebat Met. l. 1. V. 132. Charm'd with Arcadian Pipe The Angelic Eyes were more watchful than to be â—ull'd asleep by the Shepherds Pipe named Arcadian of Arcadia a part of Greece abounding in Pasturage and therefore resounding with the Pastoral Pipe To Drouze of Droosen Belg. to be sleepy Pastoral Pastoralis Lat. of Pastor a Shepherd V. 133. Of Hermes or his Opiate Rod Of Mercury who by the help of his Pipe and drowsie Rod charmed Argus fast asleep and struck off his Head Hermes Bo. 3. v. 603 Opiate drowsie of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Opium Lat. Poppy Juice of which sleeping Medicines are made This Rod was one of the Utensils of Mercury Virgamque potenti Sâ—mniferam sumpsisse manu Languida permulcens medicatâ lumina virgâ Met. l. 1. V. 135. Leucothea wak'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Morning the White Goddess as her Greek Name imports Cicero says her Latin Name was Matuta by which that the Morning was meant he proves out of Lucretius lib. 5. Tempore item certo roseam Matuta per auras AEtheris auroram defert lumina pandit Homer makes her a Sea-Nymph and a Friend to Saylors Day-break is a Darling no less at Sea than on Shore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Resalute to Revisit Resalutare Lat. Orisons Bo. 5. v. 145. Imbalm'd Bo. 2. v. 842. V. 139. So prevalent as to concern So powerful as to affect the Mind of God in Heaven ever happy Prevalent Bo. 6. v. 411. Ibid. Or to incline his Will Or to render him propitious to our Prayer Of Inclinare Lat. to bend often applied to God Humanitùs Let my prayer come before thee incline thine ear unto my cry Psal. 88. 2. Bow down thine ear O Lord hear me Psal. 86. 1. Encline thine ear O Lord and hear open thine eyes O Lord and behold Isa. 37. 17. Placable Placabilis Lat. reconcilable of Placare Lat. to appease V. 159. Eve rightly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to live Because she was the mother of all living Gen. 3. 20. He had named her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Woman the common Appellative of all her kind Gen. 2. 23. expressive of her Original Extraction out of Man Now he gives her a proper and particular Name denoting her Excellency above all her Sex that she was to be the Mother of all Mankind living here and of those that were to inherit everlasting life since Mother to her who bore our Saviour the Seed of the Woman Some think Adam gave his Wife this Name by way of Ironie and cruelest Reproach because Recorded by Moses just after their Sentence received when she deserved in the bitterness of his Soul to have heard her self styled the Mother of Death and Damnation Rupertus is of an Opinion more improbable that Adam seeing his Death not instant despised the Denunciation of it and slighting its Sentence styled his Spouse the Mother of all things living Dicenti Deo Pulvis es in Pulverem reverteris adeo non credidit â—t è contrario vocaret nomen â—xoris suae Evam id est vitam eo quod mater esset cunctorum viventium Lib. 3. c. 26. de Trinit But our Poet better applies it to the early Promise of the Victory over Satan by our Saviour the Seed of the Woman as do the most Judicious and Authentic Commentators Demeanour Bo. 4. v. 128. V. 169. The Sourse of Life The Well-spring of Life La Source Fr. the Fountain-head V. 178. Till Day droop Till Day decline or decay as Flowers do that droop hanging down their Heads withering V. 182. But Fate subscribed not But God's Eternal Decree consended not to her Desires Sed fata resistunt Geo. 4. Non se fata suis patiuntur ducere viam Auspiciis AEn 4. Subscribed of Subscribere Lat. to under-write thence to agree to Imprest mark'd made manifest Bo. 3. v. 388. V. 185. The Bird of Jove The Eagle a Bird sacred to Jupiter and feigned by the Poets to attend on his Thunder Fulmen non percutit è volucribus Aquilam Plin. l. 2. c. 22. Rubrâ fulvus Jovis ales in aethrâ AEn 12. Quem praepes ab Idâ Sublimem pedibus rapuit Jovis armiger uncis AEn 5. Ibid. Stoop'd from his aëry Tour Descended from his lofty Flight To stoop at is a term among Faulconers when a Hawk got up aloft on the Wings comes down at his Quarry Tour Fr. a wheeling such as Birds make in their flight Cycnos AEthereâ quos lapsa plagâ Jovis ales aperto Turbabat caelo AEn 1. V. 187. The Beast that reigns in Woods The Lion King of the Forrest V. 194. By these mute Signs By these dumb shews in Nature Adam was an early Augur and if any Observations were to be made upon the flight of Birds c. had the most Skill therein as being best acquainted with their Nature A Prediction of this kind Virgil has introduced Alto Dat signum caelo Quo non praesentius ullum Turbavit mentes Italas monstroque fefellit Namque volans rubrâ fulvus Jovis ales in aethrâ Littoreas agitabat aves turbamque sonantem Agminis aligeri AEn 12. V. 204. Darkness ere Day 's mind course Noctis faciem nebulas fecisse volucres Sub nitido mirata die Met. l. 1. V. 207. With something Heavenly fraught That comes down loaden with something from Heaven Fraught of the Fr. Freter to load a Ship whence our Fraight Jasper Bo. 3. v. 363. Alt Bo. 6. v. 532. Apparition Bo. 8. v. 293. V. 214. Jacob in Mahanaim The Vision that Jacob saw in Mahanaim of his Angelic Guardians was not more Glorious than this of the descending Angelic Host into
a Wilderness of Wet produced as to have overwhelm'd the whole Earth 15 Fathoms above the highest Hills And thô this Opinion forceth 'em not only to open the Windows of Heaven but to make wide and unanswerable Breaches through the Inferior Orbs nay and to make use of God's high hand to depress the motion of these Waters which could not in 40 days no not in 100 years falling have prevailed so eminently over the haughty Hill as Dr. Gregory one of its Maintainers confesses according to received Nature and the ordinary course of Motion yet fortifying their Opinion by divers Texts of Scripture as of God's laying the beams of his chambers in the great waters Psal. 10. 4. 3. and that of the Angel How many springs are above the fâ—rmament 2 Esdr. 4. 7. they seem to satisfie themselves in that of which no Man can be sure If the Astronomical Supposition that the Earth compared with the Heavens is but a Spot a Point have any Truth in it 't is easie enough to imagine how the greatest part of the vast Aërial Expanse condens'd into continual Rains and assisted by the Sea and all its Subterraneous Sourses might raise so vast an Invasion able to over-run the whole Earth with that dreadful Inundation V. 826. Heave the Ocean to usurp Shall swell the ocean to invade Earth's Territories beyond Nature's Laws and Boundaries Usurpare Lat. to seize upon what is not our own A word well chosen to express the Preternatural Invasion of the Waters over the Dry Land 's ancient Right Ocean Bo. 1. v. 202. Inundatio Lat. the overflowing of the Sea V. 830. Push'd by the horned Flood Great Rivers are by the Poets express'd in the shape of Bulls and stiled Horned to denote the strength and violence of Torrents Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus Hor. Carm. 4. Od. 14. Gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu Eridanus Geo. 4. Corniger Hesperidum Fluvius Regnator aquarum AEn 8. Well then may our Author suppose the Deluge that General Assembly of all the Seas and all other Tributary Rivers able to displace Paradise Verdure of Verdure Fr. greeness Viriditas Lat. adrift driven away V. 832. Down the great River Down the great River Tigris into the Persian Gulf where he emptieth his open mouth V. 833. An Island Salt c. Salt according to its situation in the Sea Insula quasi in salo sita Sir Walter Rawleigh is of opinion That the Flood might spoil the Beauty and destroy the Plenty of Paradise but not so displace and remove it from its Original Site but that it may still be very well known Haunt Bo. 3. v. 27. V. 834 Seals and Ores and Sea-mews clang Now frequented by Sea-monsters and wild Birds Seales of Sel and Selhund Dan. a Sea-calf Phoca Lat. Ores of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a great Fish Enemy to the Whale Sea-mew a Sea-bird so called of Sea and Mew a word coin'd of their Note Clang Bo. 7. v. 422. Attributes Bo. 8. v. 565. Nunc ibi deformes ponunt sua corpora phocae Met. 1. V. 839. Hull on the Flood Swim to and fro on the Deluge Hull of Hollen Belg. to run apace Abated grew less of Abbatre Fr. to beat down V. 841. Driven by a keen North Wind The North is a clearing Wind that dissipates the Clouds thence said to blow dry and therefore by Ovid in Dcucalion's Deluge lock'd up Protinus AEoliis Aquilonem claudit in antris Et quaecunque fugant inductas flamina nubes Met. 1. Nimbisque aquilone remotis Ibid. V. 842. Wrinkled the face of Deluge Gen. 8. 1. Made the Deluge grow wrinkled signs of of its decaying and growing old Wrinkles metaphorically thô natural to Water furrow'd with the Wind applied to the decreasing Flood being the marks of old Age preying on the plumpness of Faces formerly fine and smooth Deluge Bo. 1. v. 68. V. 843. The Sun on his watry Glass The Sun warming the Waters by beholding his glorious Face in that large Looking-glass exhaled great quantities of 'em by his Potent Beams Ergo ubi diluvio tellus lutulenta recenti Solibus aetheriis altoque recanduit aestu Met. 1. V. 846. To tripping Ebbe Which made the mighty Flood shrink from a vast Universal Lake to a soft gentle Ebbe that insensibly stole away Tripping of To trip to go softly on the Toes end of Tripudiare Lat. to dance Lake Bo. 1. v. 229. Flumina subsidunt Met. 1. V. 851. Tops of Trees as Rocks Which expresses the Sea-Scene better than Ovid's Postque diem longam nudata cacumina silvae Ostendunt Ibid. V. 854. A Raven flies Gen. 8. 7. V. 856. A Dove sent forth c. Gen. 8. 8 10. V. 859. An Olive Leaf Pacific Sign Gen. 8. 11. Sign of Peace of God's Mercy to Mankind the Olive was sacred to Pallas and born by those that sued for Peace as being the Emblem of it and Plenty Placitam paci nutritor olivam Geo. 2. Ramis velatos Palladis omnes AEn 7. Pacific Pacificus Lat. Peaceful V. 865. A Bow conspicuous with three listed Colours A Bow remarkable for its gawdy Verge stain'd with three shaded Colours Three listed Colours like a List of three Colours List of Lez Fr. the edge or brim of Cloth Conspicuous Bo. 2. v. 258. Erst Bo. 1. v. 359. V. 879. Distended as the Brow of God appeas'd Arched like the Eye-brows of God reconcil'd as many things are spoken of God after the manner of Men. As his eyes are said to behold and his eye-lids to try the children of men Psal. 11. 4. Distended Distentus Lat. stretched out V. 880. As a floury Verge to bind c. Or do those colour'd Streaks in Heaven serve like a flourish'd Border to bind up the bottom of that watry Cloud lest it should break and wet the Earth again Verge of Virga Lat. a Twig of which Bandages are made Fluid Bo. 7. v. 236. V. 883. Dextrously thou aimest Thou judgest luckily or properly Aimest taking aim at a Mark being something like giving a guess at things Dextrously Dexterè Lat. happily V. 886. Grieved at his Heart It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart Gen. 6. 6. V. 887. The whole Earth fill'd with Violence c. God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt and the earth was filled with violence Gen. 6. 11 12. V. 891. And makes a Covenant c. And I behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you and with every living creature that is with you of the fowl of the cattle and of every beast of the earth c. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flloud neither shall there be any more a floud to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 9 10 11. V. 895. A Cloud will therein set his triple-colour'd Bow That the Rain-bow and its various Colours proceed from the Reflection of the Sun's Beams beaten back by a watry
Cloud opposite to him taking its Arch'd Figure from his circular Face is the general Opinion as has before been hinted The cause of its three most distinct Colours is thus assigned It s deep full Red proceeds of the Sun 's bright Beams reflected from the Clouds greatest opacity or thickness The Green of that part next to the most opace and the light Red Puniceus Colour of the thinnest and easiest pierc'd part of the Cloud Vall. de Sac. Phil. c. 9. Triple Book 5. vers 750. V. 897. And call to mind his Covenant And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth Gen. 9. 16. That the Rainbow was seen in the Clouds often before the Deluge is not to be doubted because its Natural Causes were then in being the Sun shining on opposite Clouds But God made choice of it for a sign of his Covenant with Noah and his Posteritp it being naturally the most fit and proper as the Token of decreasing Rain as never to be seen but when the Clouds are thin and the chearful Sun shines on them as Vallesius has well observed c. 9. Those that suppose the Rainbow was at God's Covenant with Noah first set in the Clouds are forc'd to believe that till the 600 years of his Life God had not caused it to rain on the Earth but water'd it with Mists or by overflowing of Rivers as Egypt by the Nile otherwise it must have been there before Of which Opinion among others the Learned Dr. Gregory seems to be ch 23. on Gen. 1. 7. V. 898. Day and Night Seed-time c. While the earth remaineth seed-time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease Gen. 8. 22. V. 899. Till Fire purge all things new Refining them like Gold by Fire at the last Day Wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 7. 12 83. This last Purgation by Fire is mistaken by Mr. Hog and odly render'd Lustralibus undis Cleansing Waters contrary to the plain words of our Poet and the express Promise made by Covenant with Noah NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK XII Verse 1. BAtes at Noon Refreshes himself with necessary Food To bate or rather bait is to feed of Baisse Belg. Meat Noon Ital. Nona Mid-day à nonâ diei horâ The ninth hour of the day at which the Romans used to eat Interpose Bo. 2. v. 737. Paus'd Bo. 5. v. 64. The first Five Verses of this Book are omitted by Mr. Hog in which thô the Simile be modern yet is it neither mean unseemly nor untractable in turning As one who in his Journey bates at Noon Thô bent on speed so here th' Archangel paus'd Betwixt the World destroy'd and World restor'd If Adam aught perhaps might interpose Then with Transition sweet new speech resumes Interrumpit iter medio ceu sole viator Accelerans licet ut victu vinoque refectus Sit potis exercere viam hîc Archangelus haesit Inter demersum medius mundumque renatum Forte rogaturo ceu responsurus Adamo Deinde habili nexu seriemque verba resumpsit V. 5. Then with Transition c. Then handsomly passing on the Archangel renew'd his Discourse Transition Transitio Lat. passing over or forward of Transire Lat. to go over used here for passing from one thing to another in discourse Relate Bo. 1. v. 746. Sours or Source Bo. 11. v. 169. V. 18. Labouring the Soil Ploughing the Earth Tilling the Ground of Laborare Lat. to take Pains with Hence Country Employments and Rural Business are by Virgil stiled Hominumque boumque labores Versando terram experti Geo. 1. Soil or Soyl Solum Lat. the Ground Ibid. Reaping plenteous Crop Gathering happy Harvests of Corn Wine Oyl Plenteous abounding of Plenus Lat. full Crop of the Verb to crop to gather Lat. Carpere Wine Vinum Lat. Oyl Oleum Lat. Paternal Bo. 6. v. 749. V. 26. With fair Equality c. Who not content to live in that equal condition which becomes Brethren That all Primitive and Natural Power was Paternal that is the Authority Fathers of Families had over their Descendents is undoubted whence the Head of every Tribe was its Patriarch governing all its Particulars for their common Peace and mutual Support according to the Dictate of right Reason the Law of Nature under whom all the easie Subjects were of the same common size and equal condition as being Brethren Which is evident from Holy Writ where Noah who was the Universal Patriarch of Mankind after the Flood as Adam was before it denounc'd the Dominion of Brethren over one another as a Curse on the Posterity of wicked Cham. Cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren Gen. 9. 25. Equality AEqualitas Lat. likeness of Condition Fraternal Fraternalis Lat. of a Brother V. 27. Will arrogate Dominion Will take upon himself undeserv'd Power Not deserv'd by him as more Worthy Wise or Virtuous than his Brethren over whom he shall usurp this unjust Authority Arrogate Arrogare Lat. to lay claim to to assume Dominion Book 2. v. 978. V. 29. Concord and Law of Nature Utterly displace peaceful Agreement founded on Nature's Laws The Law of Nature is thas Rule of Rectitude which God has implanted in the very Nature of Man resulting from his Reason known to all and obliging all Mankind Lex est naturae vis mens ratio prudentis Juris atque Injuriae regula Non scripta lex sed nata quam non didicimus accepimus legimus verum ex naturà ipsâ arripuimus hausimus expressimus ad quam non decti sed facti non instituti sed imbuti sumus As Cicero excellently Pro Mile Dispossess Desposseder Fr. to put out of Possession of the Privative Dis and Possidere Lat. to enjoy to use Concord Bo. 2. v. 498. V. 30. Hunting and Men not Beasts This proud ambitious Man is by Holy Scripture stiled A mighty hunter Gen. 10. 9. Hunting being a Preparatory Exercise both as to the Fatigue and Fury of the War a Preliminay to the slaughter of Mankind by that of Wild Beasts As Xenophon observes in the first Book of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 34. Before the Lord Gen. 10. 9. So famous for his Power that he became Proverbial Most Interpreters take the words Before the Lord in the worst sense as our Author does In despite of Heaven others expound 'em Under Heaven from Heaven claiming second Sovereignty taking upon himself all Authority next under God Nimrod says St. Hierom arripuit insuetam primus in populos tyranidem In traditi Hebr. in Gen. Despite Bo. 10. v. 1044. Tyrannous Tyrannicus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
here Postponed by a Day twice as long as ordinary Was not one Day as long as two As this Miracle is Descanted on Eccles. 46. 4. Recorded Josu 10. 12 and 13. V. 265. Sun in Gibeon stand c. The Word of Command given to the restless Sun Jos. 13. 12. V. 267. Israel third from Abraham Son Isaac Abraham's Grandson was first named Jacob 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. a Deceiver a Supplanter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. a Heel because by taking hold of his Brother Esau by that part he strugled with him for Precedence in his Mothers Womb Gen. 2 26. Afterwards wrestling with God's Angel he was by him named Israel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be a Prince to be Powerful and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God For as a Prince hast thou Power with God and with Men and hast prevailed Gen. 32. 28. Both which are Recorded together by Hosea He took his Brother by the Heel in the Womb and by his strength he had Power with God yea he had Power over the Angel and prevailed c. 12. 3 and 4. From this new Name all his Descendents the Chosen Seed God's People were Named the Children of Israel and Israelites Descent Descensus Lat. Posterity V. 274. First mine Eyes true opening Relating to that false Promise made Adam by the lying Serpent Your Eyes shall be opened Gen. 3. 5. so does what follows Forbidden Knowledge by forbidden means relate to the same Text and his Transgression V. 288. Law was given to evince their Natural Pravity The Law of God was given to convince us like a Rule of the Crookedness and many Deviations of our depraved Nature For by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin Rom. 3. 20. Where no Law is there is no Transgression Chap. 4. 15. And in many other places of that Epistle Wherefore then serveth the Law It was added because of Transgressions Galat. 3. 19. Evincere Lat. to prove V. 289. Sin against Law to Fight Moreover the Law enter'd that the offence might abound Rom. 5. 20. Of the terrible Conflict between Sin and Law St. Paul gives a lively Idea his Soul being the place of Combat I see another Law in my Members warring against the Law of my Mind and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin which is in my Members Rom. 7. 23. Pravity Pravitas Lat. Crookedness and Wickedness V. 290. Law can discover Sin Sin by the Commandment becoming exceeding Sinful as St. Paul Rom. 7. 13. was to be expiated by the Sacrifices of Bulls and Goats according to the Mosaic Institution under the Law So that without shedding of Blood there was no Remission Heb. 9. 22. These Types and weak Shadows of Expiation and Pardon were to inform Mankind of some Sacrifice of more absolute Satisfaction of the Just for the Unjust Jesus Christ who not by the Blood of Goats and Calves but by his own Blood enter'd once into the holy place having obtained Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12. Expiatio Lat. a cleansing by Sacrifice thence Pardon V. 295. To them by Faith imputed That Christ Righteousness and Satisfaction being by Faith made and reckon'd as their own c. By the Righteousness of one came the Free-Gift upon all Men unto Justification of Life by the Obedience of one shall many be made Righteous Rom. 5. 18 and 19. Therefore being justified by Faith we have Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ v. 1. V. 298. Nor Man the Moral part perform No Man is able to keep God's Commandments call'd the Decalogue or Moral Law Therefore by the Deeds of the Law there shall no Flesh be justified in his sight Rom. 3. 20. From which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 13. 39. Moralis Lat. appertaining to Manners V. 300. So Law appears imperfect for the Law made nothing perfect Heb. 7. 19. V. 303. From Shadowy Types to Truth From the Types and Shadows of the Legal Sacrifices to Christs real Satisfaction From the Law having a shadow of good things to come Heb. 10. 1. To Grace given by Jesus who fulfill'd all Righteousness Matth. 3. 15. V. 305. To free acceptance of large Grace c. Much more the Grace of God and the Gift by Grace by one Man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many The Freegift is of many Offences untó Justification Rom. 5. 15 and 16. V. 306. Works of Law c. By what Law of Works Nay but by the Law of Faith Rom. 3. 27. V. 307. Shall not Moses lead his People into Canaan Moses Died in Mount Nebo in the Land of Moab from whence he had the prospect of the Promised Land but not the honour of leading the Israelites in to possess it which was reserved for Joshuah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Jesus a Saviour of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hiph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to save Deut. 34. 1. Jos. 1. 2. Commentators on the Death of Aaron in Mount Hor Numb 20. 28. Remark that neither Mariam that is the Prophets nor Araon the Priests nor Moses the Deliverer of the Law but Josuah that is Jesus Christ was able to lead Gods People into the Promised Land to Heaven and Everlasting Bliss St. Jerom. Theod. Rabanus c. V. 320. By Judges first Such as were Othoniel Deborah Gideon Jeptha Sampsen Eli Samuel Recorded in the Book of Judges and Samuel V. 324. His Regal Throne for ever c. Thy House and thy Kingdom shall be establisht for ever before thee Thy Throne shall be Establisht for ever 2 Sam. 7. 16. V. 326. That of the Royal Stock of David c. I have found David my Servant with my Holy Oil have I anointed him Thou art my Father c I will make him my first Bern higher than the Kings of the Earth His Seed will I make to endure for ever And his Throne as the days of Heaven Psal. 89. 20. 26. 29. Interpreted of our Saviour Heb. 1. As the sure Mercies of David Esa. 55. 5. are also apply'd to him Acts 13. 34. David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Beloved He that is feeble among them shall be as David and the House of David as God as the Angel of God before them Zechar. 12. 6. V. 329. Shall trust all Nations There shall be a Root of Jesse and he shall rise to rule over the Gentiles in him shall the Gentiles trust Esai 11. 10. Acts 15. 12. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust Matth. 12. 21. V. 330. For of his Reign no end He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Luk. 1. 32. and 33. V. 332. His next Son for Wealth and Wisdom c. Solomon to whom God gave a Wise and an Understanding Heart
their continual Courses Officiate to afford to do Duty of Officium Lat. service V. 24. In all their vast Survey useless As if all these innumerable Eyes of Night were made for no other end than to center their shining Rays on this small spot of Earth V. 26. How Nature wise and frugal How Nature so wise as to make nothing in vain so frugal and thrifty as not to employ many hands where few will do the work could commit such seeming Disproportions as Prodigally to create so many nobler and greater Bodies for the sake of one so much inferior and less by so many Degrees Frugal Frugalis Lat. thrifty V. 31. Such restiess Revolutions And from their Sphears exact such endless Roulings round every day performed still and repeated Revolutions Revolutio Lat. a turning round of Revolvere Lat. to turn round Repeated of Repetere Lat. to return or come again V. 32. While the sedentary Earth While the lazie Earth sits still that might better move as being less than those vast Celestial Orbs and fetching a lesser turn Sedentarius Lat. sitting still of Sedere Lat. the same V. 36. As tribute such a sumless Journey And receives her Warmth and Light like a Tribute paid by the more noble and more glorious Bodies of the Sun Moon and Stars brought from so far yet with such Spiritual Speed that it puzzles Arithmetic to reckon it Speed inexpressible by Numbers that have name Tribute Bo. V. Vers. 343. Abstruse Bo. V. Vers. 711. V. 47. And touch'd by her fair Tendance And touch'd by her fair Hand more fresh sprang up Tendance of Tendre and Attendre Fr. to tend and wait on V. 50. Such Pleasure she reserv'd She delay'd and put off that Pleasure till another time when Adam should relate she only hear Reserv'dâ— of Reservare Lat. to keep in store V. 55. Would intermix grateful Digressions Would mingle with the nice and abstruse Enquiry other pleasing and diverting Discourse Intermix of Intermiscere intermixtus Lat. mingled with Digressions Digressio Lat. a departing from the first design and aim of a Discourse Digressio à proposita Oratione Cic. de Orat. V. 56. With conjugal Caresses Determine the Dispute and close the Controversie with Matrimonial Love and kind Embraces Conjugal Bo. IV. Vers. 492. Caresses Fr. kind Entertainment Embraces Ibid. From his Lip not words alone So Ovid Ac mediis interseret oscula verbis Met. 10. Of Venus relating a Story to her beloved Adonis V. 65. Benevolent and facil Favourable and Gentle Benevolens Lat. friendly Facil Facilis Lat. easie affable V. 66. Heaven is as the Book of God The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work Psal. 19. 1. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time also he hath set the world in their heart so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end Eccles. 3. 11. Which the Latin Translation explains Cuncta fecit bona in tempore suo mundum tradidit Disputationi corum ut non inveniat Homo opus quod operatus est Deus ab initio usque ad finem To which our Author alludes at V. 77. V. 71. This to attain imports not To attain to the knowledge of this hard Question Whether Heaven or Earth move is of no concern or consequence to thee N' importe Fr. it matters not of Importer Fr. Importare Lat. V. 73. And not divulge his Secrets Not declare and make common his Secrets to be pryed into by Men who ought to admire and not hope to discover their unimaginable Springs and Contrivance Divulge of Divulgare to spread abroad To be scan'd to be measured of Scandere Lat. to climb up into as Mankind would do if possible to measure the Heavenly Sphears and Bodies V. 78. At their quaint Opinions wide At their Guesses and Conjectures by them esteem'd so fine and well contriv'd and yet so wide and distant from the Truth Quaint of the Fr. Coint neat well made of the Lat. Comptus trim fine V. 79. To model Heaven When in After-ages thy Descendants shall come to contrive Models and Patterns of the Heavens and to compute their many various Motions how they will tumble and toss the mighty Frame how build their Heavenly Houses and straight demolish them again what contrivance they will use to solve and satisfie those things that so apparently confound and contradict their Suppositions To Model is to make a Pattern of a thing in little of Modelle Fr. and Modulus Lat. Calculate Calculare Lat. to reckon to compute V. 82. To save Appearances To answer Objections drawn from the Appearances of the Heavenly Bodies in different Places Sizes and Positions from those hammer'd out of their mistaken Heads As why the Planets appear at some times bigger than at others why they move now faster and anon slower how it comes to pass that the Sun spends 187 Days in passing from the Vernal to the Autumnal Equinox and but 178 in his return With many more which made the Searchers after this uncertain Science not only multiply the Sphears but also gird and encumber them with others Centric and Excentric c. V. 83. Centric and Excentric Centric are such Sphears as have their Center the same with that of the World sometimes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Concentric Excentric 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having their Centers different from the Earth's or World's V. 84. Cycle and Epicycle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Circle with another less in its circumference as our Author expounds it Orb in Orb Scribled o'cr a fit Reproof The many Appearances 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that puzzle the most perfect Hypothesis of the Heavens have forc'd their Inventors to allow the Sun Moon and Stars more Orbs than one some Centric or Concentric with the Earth others Excentric different from it Eudoxus gave the Sun three partial Centric Sphears the Moon as many and to each of the Planets four the first subject to the Primum Mobile the second moved towards the East according to Longitude the third afforded the variation of Latitude and the fourth by a kind of Libration attended the Direct and Retrâ—grade Motion of the Planet Thus the Sphears amounted to 26 by Aristotle encreas'd to 56 and by Fracastorious to 70 Wheels within Wheels intricâ—te Revolutions ending in Giddiness and Ignorance V. 102. And his Line stretch'd out so far According with that of Job Wâ—â— hath stretch'd the Line upon is ch 38. v. 5. The Earth is placed in the middle of the World and on the same Center so round that all its extream Parts are equally distant from its Center and from the Circumference of the Heavenly Orbs that surround her and all this is so exactly disposed and ordered as if the Sovereign Architect had from Pole to Pole stretch'd his Line and in the center of it placed the Earth as created out of nothing so hung upon the same Job
27. 7. V. 106. For Uses to his Lord best known Thô the Heaven's wide Circuit does well demonstrate its Maker's high Magnificence yet Man is lodg'd in a sinall Apartment of it as unable to conceive the Uses the rest is ordain'd for as to fill so large an Edisice Nam quòd vastitas tanta reputetur superflua videri illos qui ità sentiunt summi Opificis magnificentiae injurios dum non capientes â—uorsum Deus tam amplum Mundum fecerit ejus patentiam sapientiamque ad sui captûs ad suae pâ—â—simoniae augustias deducunt Gass l. 3. c. 8. Edifice Edificium Lat. a Building V. 116. To shew invalid To shew the Reason you urged against the motion of so many glorious Bodies for the sake of one so mean and inconsiderable weak and of no force Invaâ—id Invalidus Lat. infirm V. 122. What if the Sun be center to the World According to Copernicus his Opinion thô first broach'd by Pythagords and Aristarchus two Samian Philosophers who placed the Sun in the center of the World's Frame immoveable as not departing thence thô proved to turn round on his Axle in the space of 27 days by the motion of his Spots discover'd by the Telescope V. 125. Incited dance about him And other Stars moved by their own Innate Vigour as well as the Sun 's Attractive Power and Magnetic Beams dance round him various turns Incited Incitatus stirred of Incitare Lat. to provoke V. 127. Progressive Retrograde c. The Planets are said to be Progressive or Direct Retrograde or Returning back Standing still or Statonary not that they really do so but because sometimes so situate that our Eyes cannot make a right judgment of their Motions Gassendus tells us five only of the Erratics are thus affected l. 2. c. 11. but something so like these Motions at least an extraordinary slowness is sometimes observable in the Moon that our Author according to the Opinion of others has added her to the number in six thou seest Progressive of Progredi Lat. to go forward Retrograde of Retrogredi Lat. to go backward V. 129. The Planet Earth And what if the wandring Earth should be a seventh Planet dancing round the Sun and althô she seem so fix'd and stedfast should move three different motions so gently as to be unfelt and unperceiv'd by thee The three different motions the Copernicans suppose in the Earth are the Diurnal the Earth's wheeling round on her own Axis Eastward and compleating her compass in 24 hours Her Annual Motion is her Progression through the Zodiac between Mars and Venus still turning Eastward finishing her Circle about the Sun in a Year Her third Motion is that of Inclination by which she keeps her Axis always Parallel to that of the World Planet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a wandring Star V. 132. With thwart Obliquities If the Earth move not those three Motions they must be ascribed to several other Spheres intangled and incumber'd with strange contrary crooked and indirect Wheelings crossing and thwarting one another intricate and unimaginable Obliquities Obliquitas Lat. crookedness V. 134. Nocturnal and Diurnal Romb Or the Earth must save the Sun his infinite labour and the Primum Mobile or First Mover too that turns the mighty Sphere on which depends the Wheel that guides the Intercourse of Day and Night The First Mover or Primum Mobile is a vast Sphere a Superstructure raised by Astronomers above that of the Fixed Stars therefore said to be Invisible above all Stars inclosing and snatching away all the Stars and their Sphears with incredible Rapidity round from East to West in the space of a Natural Day thence termed The Wheel of Day and Night while the Earth that better may with far less compass move easeth the whole Frame of Nature by her narrower compass performing that alone with more facility than all the rest twisted and contorted with different and disagreeing Motions can do according to the uncontested Axiom Frustra fit per plura quod fieri possit per pauciora Râ—mb of Rhombus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Wheel or turning round Rotatio of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to run round from hence the Rhumbs or the Mariner's Compass on which the 32 Winds are circled took its Name So that the swift Nocturnal and Diurnal Rhomb is the rapid Round by which Day and Night are brought incessantâ—y about the Supreme Whirligigg above the Firmament supposed V. 137. If Earth industrious c. If the moving Earth by her own Industry and Labour earn the Day by turning one side towards the Sun enlighten'd by his Rays while the other half averse and turn'd from him is covered with Night and Darkness Industrious Industrius Lat. active laborious Luminous Luminosus Lat. enlighten'd V. 140 What if that Light c. What if the Light darted and reflected from this Earth through the open transparent Air to the Moon that seems another Earth be like a Star shining on her by day as she shines on this Earth by Night By turns assisting and enlightning one another if Lands there be in the pale Moon 's clear Globe Fields and their Owners AEquà grat aque permutatione rependit Tellus parem illuminationem ipsi Lunae qualem ipsa à Lunà in profundioribus noctis tenebris tâ—to ferè tempore recipit Gal. c. 1. Non modo Terram Lunam commutare vices dum sese vicissim obscurant illuminant sed etiam quicquid Venus aut Mercurius apparent Terrae apparere Terram Marti Jovi Saturno c. Gass. l. 3. c. 8. Transpicuous Transpicuus Lat. transparent that may be seen through of Transpicere Lat. to look through Terrestrial Terrestris Lat. of or like the Earth Reciprocal Reciprocus Lat. mutual by turns V. 145. Her Spots thou sâ—est Those great Spots which Antiquity discover'd in the Moon perswaded Pythagoras to think her a Globe not unlike the Earth Lunam scilicet esse quasi tellurem alteram ejus pars Lucidior terrenam superficiem obscurior vero aqueam magis congruè representet And Galileus by the aid of his admirable Glass discovered so many new ones and her Surface to be so like that we live on that he had good reason to affirm Lunae superficâ—em inaequalem asperam cavitatibus tumoribusque confertam non secus ac ipsiusmet telluris facies quae â—ontium jug is valliumque profunditatibus binc inde distinguitur Nun. Sid. c. 1. The Egyptian styled the Moon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pythagoreans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Stoiâ—s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 149. Other Suns with their attendant Moons Every Fixed Star in the Opinion of the best Astronomers and according to the best Hypothesis is a Sun-like Body danced round by divers Attendant Stars called Lunulae Little Moons of which Galilaeo's Glass gave the first Discoveries in two that move about Saturn and four about Jupiter two of the Planets Esse ingentem aliquem globum qui