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A45116	Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost wherein the texts of sacred writ, relating to the poem, are quoted, the parallel places and imitations of the most excellent Homer and Virgil, cited and compared, all the obscure parts by P.H. ...	Hume, Patrick, fl. 1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing H3663; ESTC R12702	483,195	324

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

Collision Collisio Lat. of Collidere Lat. to strike one thing against another as Flints on Steel or Stones against each other thence forcing Fire The Air attrite the Air fretted into forc'd into Fire Attritus Lat. ground of Atterere Lt. to bruise to break Silici Scintillam excudit Achates AEn 1. V. 1074. Justling or push'd c. As lately we observ'd the Clouds rushing on one another or hurried by the Winds kindling the sidelong Lightning in their violent encounter whose Flame darting across down fired the uncteous Bark of Fir or Pine Justling of Jouster Fr. to run a-tilt at Rude violent of Rede Sax. fierce Shock Bo. 2. v. 1014. Tines Sax. Tynan to light a word still used in the West of England whence our Tinder slant or slanting Lightning that is darted awry of the Ger. Schlange a Serpent a Creature moving indirectly Thwart crosswise oblique of the Ger. Zwerch cross V. 1076. The Gummy Bark Fires the fat Juice that runs down the sides of the Fir or Pine-trees Gummy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a barbarous Word used by the Greeks for the Juice that sweats through the Bark of divers Trees whence our Gum. It is not improbable but Mankind had the first hint of Fire its Usefulness and the way of obtaining it from some such natural Accident An Observation as old as Lucretius Fulmen detulit in terras mortalibus ignem Primitus inde omnis flammarum diditur ardor Multa videmus enim caelestibus incita flammis Fulgere cum caeli donavit plaga vapores Exprimitur vàlidis extrictus viribus ignis Et micat interdum flammaï fervidus ardor Lib. 5. Pine Bo. 4. v. 139. V. 1081. Of Grace beseeching him Intreating and praying for his Favour Gratia Lat. V. 1085. Dust our Native Home From whence we came and to which we must return out of which we had our Being and in which we must be buried thence Native to us Nativus Lat. of our Birth Gen. 3. 19. V. 1087. Prostrate Bo. 6. v. 841. Reverent of Revereri Lat. to worship V. 1091. With our Sighs the Air freqenting Sending up many frequent Sighs to Heaven of Frequentare Lat. to do any thing often Contrite Contritus Lat. broken Humiliation Humiliatio lowliness of Mind and Humility from a sense of the vileness of Sin V. 1097. Penitent Repenting Penitens Lat. Remorse Bo. 1. v. 604. V. 1099. Repairing where c. This is an Homeric Repetition of the six foregoing Verses it being usual with him to deliver Messages c. in the same words he first conceived them as in the beginning of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. where five preceeding Verses are repeated and in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where Talbythius delivers his Message to Machaon in the same three Verses that preceeded and in many other places at has been remark'd before NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK XI Verse 3. PRevenient Grace c. God's free Grace sent down into their Souls had removed all Hardness and Obduracy from their Hearts Prevenient Preveniens Lat. coming before Preventive Grace Gratia Lat. Quia gratis data The Spirit of Grace and Supplication promised to be poured out upon God's People Zech. 12. 10. Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began 2 Tim. 1. 9. V. 5. Regenerate grow in stead And made a relenting Tenderness like the Flesh of a new-born Babe grow in their Hearts in stead of their stubborn Hardness express'd by Rancor Pride Impatience Despite and Reluctance against God Bo. 10. v. 1044. The Conversion of a Sinner is in Scripture Phrase styled Regeneration a New-birth Except ye be converted and become as little children Matth. 18. 3. Of this New-birth Regeneratio Lat. our Saviour discoursed with Nicodemus John 3. 3. Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God Unto a lively hope of which kingdom God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath begotten us again by the resurrection of his Son from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Regeneravit nos Regenerate Regeneratus Lat. begot again anew V. 6. Unutterable That Sighs unexpressible burst forth which God's holy Spirit the Spirit of Supplication and Intercession breathed into 'em and wafted up to Heaven with nimbler speed than the most audible and loudest Oration could ever reach According to St. Paul Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered Rom. 8. 26. Oratory Oratoria Lat. Rhetorick the Art of Speaking well and readily Port Bo. 4. v. 869. V. 9. Nor important less c. Yet neither did they for their Persons seem mean Supplicants nor was their Request less weighty or considerable than that of the ancient Couple devout Deucalion and chast Pyrrha less Ancient yet than Adam and Eve when Praying they approached the Temple of just Themis begging to be instructed how to restore Mankind destroy'd by a Deluge as the Poets write Important Fr. considerable of Importer Fr. Importare Lat. to be of weight valuable Petitio Lat. a Request V. 12. Deucalion and chast Pyrrha Deucalion was Son of Prometheus and Husband to Pyrrha his Brother Epymetheus's Daughter O soror ô conjux ô faemina sola superstes Quam commune mihi genus patruelis origo Deinde torus junxit nunc ipsa pericula jungunt Met. l. 1. V. 14. Before the Shrine of Themis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. was a Goddess supposed to prompt Men those Petitions that were fit to be ask'd of the Gods of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Fas Lat. fit and right She did also preside over Oracles and General Assemblies whose Consultations she prosper'd or perverted as she thought right and just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 She Summon'd the Consulting Gods together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dic Themi quâ generis damnum reparabile nostri Arte sit mersis fer opem mitissima rebus Met. 1. She had a Temple in Baeotia near the River Cephisus Adeunt pariter Cephesidos undas Ibid. Shrine Bo. 1. v. 388. V. 16. By envious Winds blown Vagabond c. Not blown away by blustring Winds vain and disappointed The Poets feigned Prayers and Vows ineffectual to be blown away as not able to obtain Audience of the Gods Voti Phaebus succedere partem Mente dedit partem volucres dispersit in auras AEn 11. Multa patri portanda dabat mandata sed aurae Omnia discerpunt nubibus irrita donant AEn 9. Nec ferre videt sua gaudia ventos AEn 10. So Horace Tristitiam metus Tradam pro tervis in mare Creticum Portare ventis Vagabond Vagabundus Lat. a Wanderer a Vagrant Frustrate Bo. 2. v. 193. Dimentionless Spiritual and

to exercise their Fancies as their Comparisons will shew hereafter The holy Poet thought their Vicissitudes so pleasant that he tells us God makes the Outgoings of the Morning and Evening to sing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thô we render it Thou shalt make the East and the West to rejoyce Psal. 65. v. 9. It is observable that the Hebrew word for Morning is a Derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to enquire to search after that being the time fittest for Study and Business Aurora musis amica as the Evening is for Retirement and Diversion Cum frigidus aëra vesper temperat Ante focum si frigus erit si messis in herbâ Geor. 3. Approach l'Approche Fr. of Approcher to draw nigh to V. 43. Of Vernal Bloom Of the beautious Spring when all things are in Blossom of which Bloom seems a Diminutive of the Ger. Bluhen to blow to be in Flower Vernal of the Lat. Vernus of the Spring V. 44. Or human Face divine Because created in the Image of God his Maker Gen. 1. v. 27. V. 48. Presented with a Universal Blanc I cannot perswade my self but it should have been a Universal Blot and that it is a mistake of the Printer Blanc is Fr. for White and the Phrase Donner la carte Blanche á to send one a Blanc is to submit absolutely to what Conditions the Conquerour shall set down Now Blindness as well described by Clouds and continual Darkness does so fully import an entire Ignorance and Privation of Colour that a Person born blind has doubtless no notion of any such thing but for a Man that had for many years enjoyed his Eyes to say his Blindness had cut him off from the chearful ways of Men and instead of Nature's fair Book of Knowledge had presented him with a Universal Blanc like a piece of white Paper unspotted and unstained with any Impression his Memory retaining still the Idea's of all Things formerly seen thô now as to his Eye-sight blotted out seems absurd The next Verse Of Natures Works to me-expung'd and ras'd confirms that it ought to be an Universal Blot for Expung'd is of Expungere Lat. to blot out a written Word by covering it with little Pricks or Blots and Ras'd is of Radere Lat. to shave the Romans who writ on Waxed Tablets with Iron Styles when they struck out a Word did Tabulam radere rase it out V. 53. Irradiate Enlighten all the Powers and Faculties of my Mind Irradiare Lat. to shine into V. 54. All Mist purge and disperse Clear my Understanding and drive away all the Mists of Error and Ignorance that may overcast my Judgment Purgare Lat. to cleanse Dispergere Lat. to drive away to scatter Light and the Blessings of it were never drawn in more lively Colours and finer Stroaks than by these nor was the sad loss of it and them ever so passionately and so patiently lamented They that will read the most excellent Homer bemoaning the same Misfortune will find him far short of this Herodotus in his Life gives us these Verses in which he bewailed his Blindness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 57. From the pure Empyrean From the highest Heaven which the holy Page styles The Heaven of Heavens where God is pleased to reveal the unconceivable Sight of himself and his infinite Perfections Sedes mentium beatarum as it is generall phrased Behold Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens is the Lords thy God Deut. 10. v. 14. So 2 Chron. 2. v. 6. Psal. 115. v. 16. Caeli Caelorum And Psal. 148. v. 4. Many of the Fathers take this to be the third Heaven into which St. Paul was taken up 2 Cor. 12. v. 2. Understanding the AErial Heaven to be the first the Starry the second and this third the highest the Empyrean of which before B. 2. V. 771. described to be the Habitation of holy Angels and blest Spirits enlightend with the ineffable Purity and Majesty of the Divinity immoveable and shining with a Light resembling the pure Element of Fire according to its derivation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Fire V. 58. High Throned above all heighth Exalted on his Throne high above all imaginable heighth God is frequently styled The most high Psal. 7. v. 17. and Psal. 9. v. 2. Dan. 5. v. 18. The most high God V. 60. About him all the Sanctities of Heaven About him all his holy Angels stood as numberless as Stars Sanctities of Sanctitas Lat. Holiness well expressing the Purity and Perfections of the Angelic Nature The Lord thy God hath made thee as the Stars for multitude Gen. 10. v. 22. V. 62. Beatitude past utterance Unspeakable Bliss and Happiness which being unconceivable and infinite must needs be unexpressible The Things which Eye hath not seen neither Ear hath heard nor the Heart of Man hath conceived 1 Cor. 2. v. 9. Beatitudo Lat. Blessedness V. 63. The radiant Image of his Glory According to St. Paul Who being the Brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. v. 3. V. 64. His onely Son Let the discerning Linguist compare the preceeding Description of God with this of Tasso's Dal suo gran seggio il Rè del Ciel volgea Sedea col à dond ' egli è buono e giusto Da legge al tutto e'l tutto orna e produce Soura i bassi confin del mondo augusto Oue senso ò ragion non si conduce E del ' eternità nel trono augusto Risplendea con trè lumi in una luce Ha sotto i piedi il Fatto e la natura Ministri humidi e'l moto e chi'l misura Cant. 9. Stan. 55 56 57. And so on for 14 Verses more V. 68. Uninterrupted Joy unrival'd Love Joy without ceasing or intermission because Sinless and Innocent Love unrival'd and undisputed because in Solitude yet the only two and all of Mankind Interruptus Lat. disturbed of Interrumpere to break in upon Unrival'd of Rivalis Lat. a Competitor Solitude Solitudo Lat. for being alone Solitariness thence a Desart in calm and undisturbed Retirement and Loneliness V. 72. In the dun Air sublime Aloft in the dark thick Air the backside the bare outside of the Created World described more fully at V. 428. of this Book Dark wast and wild under the frown of Night starless exposed and ever-threatning Storms of Chaos blustring round in clement Skie Dun of a dark colour Dwun Welch Sublime Sublimis Lat. high lofty V. 75. Firm Land imbosom'd without Firmament c. Seemed firm solid Land without any support enclosed on all sides but uncertain whether with Water or with Air Without Firmament without any support without any thing to support and bear it up agreeable to what Job says of the wonderful Creator Who hangeth the Earth upon nothing ch 26. v. 7. Firmament Firmamentum Lat. and the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

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 th●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 Constella●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 Libran●o because when the Sun enters into this Sign N●ctes Dies librant●r the Days and Nights being equal are in a Counterpo●se I ●b●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

to cut the size of any thing being its Cut and Make. Others will have it of the Fr. Assise whence our Assise of Bread of asseoir Fr. to appoint Stature and Size being the usual Proportion and just Magnitude by Nature appointed to limit and bound the several kinds of Creatures V. 353. Condense or rare More substantial or more aery grosser or finer Condensus Lat. thick solid Rare Lat. Rarus thin light aery See Book 1. Vers. 415. and Vers. 781. But in what shapes they choose Dilated or condens'd bright or obscure Can execute their AEry Purposes c. V. 360. Refrein'd his Tongue Blasphemous Nor forbore to cast his impious Reproaches on GOD Himself The Holy One of Heav'n The Lord is in his Holy Temple the Lord's Throne is in Heav'n Psal. 11. Vers. 4. Refrein'd of Refraenare Lat. to with-hold as Horses are with Bit and Bridle a Metaphor applyed in Holy Writ to that unruly Member so apt to fly out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who bridleth not his Tongue Jam. 1. Vers. 26. And the same is persued through most part of the third Chapter V. 365. Adramelec and Asmadai c. Routed Adramelec and Asmadai two mighty Leaders two mighty Powers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Mighty Magnificent King of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glorious and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a King one of the Idols of Sepharvaim worshipp'd by them in Sama●ia when transplanted thither by Shalmaneser And the Sepharvites burnt their Children in the Fire to Adramelec 2 Kings 17. Vers. 31. The same with Moloc but with some difference in his wicked Worship and abominable Rites Asmadai The lustful and destroying Angel Asmodeus mentioned Tob. 3. Vers. 8. who robb'd Sarah of her seven Husbands of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb to destroy V. 368. Mangled through Plate and Mail Hack'd and hewen through Armour made of Plates of Metal or Coats of Mail. Mangled of the Lat. Mancus maim'd lamed Plate of Pate Fr. a broad piece of Iron or the Span. Plata both probably of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 broad Mail of the Fr. Maillé the Meash of a Net Coat of Mail Tunicae ferreae reticulatae consisting of Rings of Iron link'd together this light the other heavy Armour V. 370. To annoy the Atheist Crew To disturb and distress the Unbelieving Crew Atheist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. One that thinks there is no God or acts as if he were so perswaded That the Rebel Angels were by Satan seduced into this vain Imagination is probable otherwise they would not have disobeyed him and contended with the Almighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes. 2. Vers. 12. Without God in the World such doubtless was this Satanick Host who while they feel Vigour Divine within them can allow Omnipotence to none Vers. 158. Annoy of the Fr. Ennyer to disturb to distress V. 371. Ariel and Arioc Two fierce Spirits as their Names denote Ariel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. The Lyon of God or a strong Lyon mentioned 1 Chron. 11. Vers. 22. where Benaiah one of David's Worthies is recorded for having slain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 two Lyon-like Men of Moab By the same is Jerusalem the City of David typified Wo to Ariel to Ariel the City where David dwelt Isai. 29. Vers. 1. Arioc is of the like signification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. a fierce and terrible Lyon Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lyon and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 terrible whose Plur. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 found Jerem. 13. Vers. 21. has troubled Interpreters V. 372. Of Ramiel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. a Name well suited to one of the proud Angels that exalted themselves against their Maker Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. to exalt and raise one self in vain Opinion His Violence and Fury may well be said to be scorch'd and blasted in that Combat where all Air seem'd conflicting Fir Vers. 244. V. 374. Eternize Deliver over to perpetual Remembrance make everlasting to be remember'd Eternize aeternare Lat. Quae cura Patrum Tuas Auguste virtutes in aevum Per titulos memoresque fastos AEternet Hor. Carm. Lib. 4. Od. 14. V. 379. Cancell'd Blotted out of Cancellare Lat. to cross out to strike out V. 381. For Strength from Truth divided c. For Power and Prowess when misimploy'd not to maintain but overturn Truth and Justice is infamous and mean deserving nothing but reproach Illaudare Illaudabilis Lat. disgraceful as Virgil useth Illaudatus Aut Illaudati nescit Busiridis Aras Geor. 3. V. 384. Through Infamy seek Fame By those vile and infamous Actions which make Vain-glorious and mistaken Monarchs the Plagues and Butchers of Mankind aim at the Renown of Conquest besmeared and Sullied o'er with cursed Cruelty V. 386. The Battel Swerv'd with many an Inrode Gor'd Now the main Body was broken pierc'd through with many a wide disordering Gap Swerv'd Of the Belg. Swerven to wander up and down the Character of Rout as standing firm and unbroken Of Victory With many an Inrode Goar'd bor'd through and broken with many a sharp Invasion Gor'd Peirct Bor'd through Of Forare Lat. to peirce V. 391. And fiery Foaming Steeds According to Virgil's Description of that Noble Animal Collectumque premit volvens sub naribus ignem Geor. 3. V. 395. Fled Ignominious Quitted the Field disgracefully Ignominiosus Lat. Shameful V. 399. In Cubic Phalanx Stood firm in their square Battalion Cubic Of Cubicus and Cubus Lat. for any figure square on all sides as a Die Phalanx Book 1. Vers. 550. Invulnerable Invulnerabilis Lat. that cannot be wounded Impenitrably Book 2. Vers. 647. V. 404. Unobnoxius to be pain'd Incapable of Painful Wounds though by the furious onset of their Foes out of their Ranks removed Unobnoxious not liable to Of Un the privative Particle and Obnoxious Lat. Subject to V. 406. Over Heav'n enducing Darkness Now Night drew near and over Heav'n spread out Her seasonable darkness and inforct Welcome Cessation and silence Sweet On the dire din of Arms. So Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Concording with the Command of Night here intimated by Imposed Tasso has employed a whole Stanza to express the same less significantly Mà favor ' vsci la notte e il mondo ascose Sotto il caliginoso horror de l' ali E l' ombre sue pacifiche interpose c. Cant. 11. Stan. 82. V. 407. Inducing Darkness Has something very natural and like its silent march like that of Virgil. Viridi fontes induceret umbrâ Ecl. 9. Inducing bringing on Of Inducere Lat. to bring over Truce Book 2. Vers. 526. V. 408. Odious dinn of War The hateful noise of Arms. Dinn signifies a great noise like that of Clashing Swords and Sounding Mettal It is of Kin to the Latin Tinnio or Coyn'd of the Sound as Tinkling and others are Tinnitusque cie Martis quate cymbala circum Geo. 4.

colour when fit for Fuel whence our Sword the Rind of Bacon of its blackness Most admirable and excellent are these Episodes which here begin and adorn our Author's Poem to the end surpassing all those tedious Stories and the vain-glorious Boastings of the Homeric Heroes and Virgil's artful Enumeration of the Roman Conquerors down to Augusius Caesar and the bemoan'd Marcellus AEn 6. as much as a Relation of what was to come to pass from the beginning of the World to Adam and all Mankind to the end of it and in order to a better taken out of Sacred Story must excel any particular or Humane History whatever V. 436. Uncull'd Some green and others ripe not pick'd and cull'd Uncull'd unchosen of Cueiller Fr. Colligere Lat. to gather thence to pick and choose V. 437. The Firstlings of his Flock Lambs Gen. 4. 4. according to God's Precept Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits likewise thou shalt do with thine oxen and thy sheep seven days it shall be with its dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me Exod. 22. v. 29 30. Choicest and best if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offering if he offer it of the herd whether it be male or female be shall offer it without blemish before the Lord Levit. 3. 1. V. 439. The Inwards and their Fat According to Levit. 3. 3 4. V. 442. Consum'd with nimble glance The Lord had respect to Abel and to his Offering says Moses in the Holy Record Gen. 4. 4. which all the Fathers interpret to have been manifested by Fire coming down from Heaven and consuming his Sacrifice the same Sign signalized the offering of Aaron and God's acceptance thereof And there came a fire out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt-offering upon the altar and the fat which Moses styles The glory of the Lord appearing to the people Levit. 9. 23 34. In the same manner was Gideon's Sacrifice accepted Judg. 6. 21. Thus David was of God answered by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering 1 Chron. 21. 26. And Salomon 2 Chron. 7. 1. Elijah also received the same Miraculous Approbation 1 King 18. 38. Ibid. And grateful Steam An offering made by fire of a sweet savour to the Lord Levit. 1. v. 9 13 17. and frequently so express'd in Scripture V. 443. For his was not sincere Cain's Sacrifice was left untouch'd by the Heavenly Fire and therefore unaccepted because not offer'd in Truth and sincerity of Heart for God had respect unto Abel and then to his Sacrifice Gen. 4. 4. Sincere Sincerus Lat. Pure Upright V. 445. Smote him into the Midriff with a Stone Our Author has followed the most probable Opinion that Cain killed his Brother with a blow on the Breast with a great Stone that beat out Life that beat the Breath out of his Body as they talk'd Gen. 4. 8. as they were in Discourse about the success of their Sacrifice Abel maintain'd God's Omniscience and Omnipresence the Rewards and Punishments of good and bad Actions both in this Life and that everlasting one in the other World which introduced a Dispute of the Immortality of the Soul and its eternal State whereupon careless and unbelieving Cain enraged at his Brother 's grave Admonitions slew his innocent Adviser and sent him to experiment the Truth of his Pious Assertions as the Jerusal Targum guesses Cain was of that wicked one who was a Murderer from the beginning John 8. 44. and slew his brother because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous 1 John 3. 12. V. 447. With gushing Blood effus'd Poured out his Blood and Soul together Undantique animum diffudit in arva cruore Purpuream vomit ille animam AEn 9. Whatsoever the deadly Instrument was with which Cain slew his Brother his Death was most certainly attended with Effusion of his Blood that being mention'd To cry unto the Lord from the ground Gen. 4. 10. Remembred also by our Saviour Matth. 23. 35. Effus'd Effusus Lat. poured out spilt V. 449. Dismay'd Bo. 1. v. 57. Nothing in the World could be more terrible than the first Night and the first dismal Scene of Death Mons. Balsac V. 457. From Heaven acceptance If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4. 7. V. 472. By Intemperance more By Excess in eating and drinking undermining and sapping Life by its Supports Pius Gula quam Gladius Saevior armis Luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem Juv. V. 476. Th' Inabstinence of Which Eve's want of Abstinence and command over her Sensual Appetite shall bring on her Descendents In and Abstinentia Lat. Forbearance V. 479. A Lazar house Lazaret Fr. Lazaretto It. an Hospital Maladies Maladie Fr. Sickness of Malum Lat. as Illness in the same sense of Ill. V. 481. Of gastly Spasm The Disorders of ugly Cramps and strange Distortions Spasms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Cramp of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Contract of which one ill-favour'd kind is called Spasmus Cynicus when the Nostrils are so convulsed that the Teeth appear like those of a snarling Dog Ibid. Or racking Torture Or tormenting Pains that put the wretched Patient on the Rack Of Recken Ger. to stretch to extend Torture Tortura Lat. of Torquere Lat. to twist to torment V. 482. Qualms of Heart-sick Agony Fainting Fits that affect the Heart with Life's last struggle Qualms Swoonings Death's Sisters of Crealm Sax. Death a short one and sometimes absolute Agony Bo. 2. v. 861. Ibid. All feavorous kinds All sorts of Feavors Febris Lat. Convulsions Convulsiones Lat. à Convellendo from plucking the Nerves up together with painful twitches V. 483. Epilepsies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Falling-sickness Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to seize upon it being a seizure of such a sort as for the time deprives the Person afflicted there with both of Sense and Understanding Ibid. Fierce Catarrhs Salt sharp Rheums and furious Defluxions Catarrhs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Torrent of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to flow down as Rheums do from the Head to the Labouring Lungs V. 484. Intestine Stone and Ulcer The Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys often attended with putrifying Ulcers Intestine Intestinus Lat. inward Ulcer Ulcus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sore full of Corruption Ibid. Cholic Pangs Pains of the Cholic twisting and tearing the Guts Cholic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one of the great thick Guts so called from whose fulness either with Wind or Filth those piercing Pains arise Pangs of Pain Paena Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. V. 485. Daemoniac Phrenzie Raving Madness that looks like being possess'd by an Evil Spirit like those two possess'd with Devils coming out of the tombs exceeding fierce Matth. 8. 28. Daemoniac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Possess'd and thence furious Phrenzie Phrenesis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Madness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the

Country was first named Aonia from Aon Son of Neptune and the Muses thence styled Aonides Primus ego in Patriam mecum modò vita supersit Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas Geor. Li. 3. V. 16. Things unattempted yet so Hora. Non usitata nec tenui ferar penna but not on so sublime a Subject as this not undertaken as yet by any Poet As in the beginning of the Ninth Book he says of himself he was not sedulous by Nature to indite Wars hitherto the only Argument Heroic deem'd trita vatibus orbita So Virg. on a Subject much inferiour makes his Brags Sed me Parnassi deserta per ardua dulcis Raptat amor Juvat ire jugis qua nulla priorum Castaliam molli divertitur orbita clivo Geor. 3. Ibid. In Prose or Rhime either in Prose or Poetry Prosa Lat. for that free and easie way of writing and speaking unshackled and unconfined in its Parts and Periods used by Orators Historians and all Men in common Conversation styled Soluta Oratio as opposite to Rhime derived of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consisting of a more exact Measure and Quantity of Syllables of which Aristotle says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Probl. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 autem longitudines altitudines vocis emetitur longior mensura vocis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur altior 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aul. Gell. l. 15. c. 18. Scribimus inclusi numeros ille hic pede liber Pers. Sat. 1. Poetry of which Rhime is a Modern part is tied up to certain Measures and Quantities which among the Greek and Latin Poets till the times of Monkish Ignorance consisted in an Harmonious Modulation of Numbers that implyed nothing less than the inconvenient gingle and chime at the ends of Verses which we falsly call Rhime so deservedly disdained by our Author for the shackles it puts upon Sense no Comparison better suiting such Poetasters than that of Tagging of Points in a Garret V. 17. O Spirit Divers are the Opinions concerning the meaning of Gen. 1. 2. The Spirit of God moved upon the Waters Jerom Basil Theodoret Athanasius and many of the Fathers understand it of the third Person of the Trinity From hence the Heathen Philosophers coined their quickning and intellectual Spirit that diffused it self through the Universe as Zoroaster and Heraclitus which Orpheus calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fiery Breath Hence the Platonists borrowed their Animam Mund● and the Pythagoreans learnt this great Truth That God was all in all in all Things and all Places admirably exprest by the sublime Virgil Deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque Maris Coelumque profundum Geor. 4. Principio Coelum Terras Camposque liquentes Lucentemque Globum Lunae Titaniaque Astra Spiritus intus alit totamque infusa per ar●us Mens agitat Molem Magno se corpore miscet AEn 6. That this Spirit was not a Wind which God made to move the Waters into a Separation as Tertull. against Hermogenes nor a quickning enlivening Power fraught with Fecundity as St. Chrysost. Nor Angels as Cajetan imagines setting the Primum Mobile on work But the Spirit of God is manifest from other Texts of the Divine Writ His Spirit has garnish'd the Heavens Job 26. 13. And Psal. 104. 30. If thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created c. And to this our Author's meaning is conformable here V. 21. Dove-like sat'st brooding Spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas Gen. 1. 2. which Basil out of a Syrian Doctor interprets by incubabat and f●vebat a Metaphor taken from Birds sitting and hatching their young ones which is here extreamly heightned by Dove-like God's Holy Spirit having visibly descended on his Son the Blessed Jesus in that soft Similitude the Emblem of Meekness and Innocence Matth. 3. 16. Ibid. On the vast Abyss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Bottomless the Immeasurable Deep a Bottomless Profundity the vast Gulph and wide Womb of Nature out of which the Created World arose from the privitive à and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bottom Others fetch it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to cover and so it signifies a place overwhelmed with a mighty unfathomable Quantity of Water the meaning of it in this place and that of Gen. 1. 2. V. 22. Mad'st it pregnant Fruitful productive of all things Praegnans Lat. V. 23. Illumin Illuminate enlighten clear my Understanding Illumino Lat. V. 25. Assert Eternal Providence Prove and make plain the wise just and equal Administration of all things by God's Eternal Providence Assert from assero Lat. to affirm to prove Ibid. Providence Providentia Lat. the Infinite Knowledge and Wisdom of God Almighty by which he foresees all things and orders and disposes them as seemeth best to his unaccountable Distributions Cicero acquaints us the Exordiums and Beginnings of all great Works should be plain easie and modest Principia verecunda non elatis intensa verbis c. Orat. which our Author has in his exactly observed Now if we cast our Eyes on the stern Achilles and consider his fatal Anger so pernicious to his Party Or on the sly and subtil Ulysses who with all his Cunning after Ten Years Ramble brought home no Body but himself weary weather-beaten and old We must confess both these to be very imperfect and unfinished Heroes Virgil's AEneas is a more Correct and Manly Piece the Lines are not so gross and the Features more fine and exact yet this must be allowed much inferiour to the Protoplast who as the first and finish'd by the great Creator must needs be the most accomplish'd of his kind If we carry our Consideration to the Fields of Battel our Myriads of Immortal Spirits will in endless Strife out-do all the Heroick Havock of their Rage who fought at Thebes or Troy But when we reflect how shamefully the one exposes all his Deities though the other in that respect much better observes the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it must be acknowledged a much harder Task to form a right Idea of that Eternal Being which made the Universe and to observe with all due Veneration and Awful Respect the great Decorum requisite in speaking of the True God and to offend in nothing against the Revelations he has been pleased to make of himself and yet to manage all this under the Heats and Heights of Towring Fancy than either Homer or Virgil undertook a Task by none but himself attempted as he may justly boast and impossible to be by any Undertaker better performed V. 27. Say first Tell me first O Thou Supreme Spirit from whose vast View nor highest Heaven nor the dark deep Vaults of Hell can any thing conceal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 28. The deep Tract of Hell The low dark Region and Place of Everlasting Punishment which many imagine to be in the Center of the Earth Tractus Lat. for Coast or Country V. 29. Moved our grand Parents

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 Fu●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

do that are generally more fruitful than the Hills Sibma A City in the Vale of Moab famous for Vineyards O Vine of Sibma I will weep for thee Jerem. 48. 32. V. 411. Eleale Another City of the Moabites rebuilt by the Reubenites Numb 32. 37. Ibid. Th' Asphaltick Pool The Lake Asphaltites so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bitumen there gathered in great quantities It is a black thick Pitchy Consistence sometimes used in Lamps of the Nature of Brimstone This Pool is often in Scripture called the Sea of the Plain Deut. 3. 27. and the Sea of Sodom of its Neighbourhood thereunto also the Dead Sea because no living Creature is or can live there or from its thickness as being unmoveable by the Wind. It is 32 English Miles long and 10 broad and like the Caspian Sea has no Outlet It lies to the Southward of the Desarts of Moab and in it the famous River Jordan loseth it self See Tacitus Lib. 5. Pag. 618. Ibid. Pool Properly a standing Water of the Belg. Poel from Palus Lat. Stagnum as that perhaps of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mud. V. 412. PEOR his other Name and more usual than Chemos which seems to be given this Idol by the Prophet Jeremiah by way of disgrace Chap. 48. 7 and 13. The Sacred Text often styles him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baal-Peor and the LXX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord of Peor a Mountain in the Territories of Moab beyond Jordan where he was worshipp'd even by the Israelites enticed thereunto by the Beauty and Embraces of the wanton Midianites Read Numb 25. 1 2 and 3. where by the Peoples eating and bowing down Moses means the Sacrifices and Feasts the Heathens made to the Infernal Gods for their dead Friends and Relatives which is evident They joyned themselves to Paal-Peor and did eat the Offerings of the dead Psal. 106. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apo●●in V. 413. In Sittim The last encamping place of the Israelites under Moses in the P●ains of Moab whence came the Wood of which the Ark was made Numb 33. 49. Ibid. From Nile From Egypt of which this is often called the River Nilus Lat. is a vast River in Africa it had formerly seven Outlets Septemplicis Ostia Nili now reduced to four which run into the Mediterranean Sea on it the Fertility of Egypt depended Gurgite septeno rapidus mare summovet ●mnis Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis Aut Jovis in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo Luc. 8. V. 415. His Lustful Orgies His Lascivious and Wanton Feasts he extended even from Egypt as far as Jerusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Feasts and Sacrifices of the Drunken God Bacchus celebrated every three Years from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Anger because his Proselytes cloathed in Skins of Tigers and Panthers danced about expressing the Fury of this God who is reported in the shape of a Lyon to have torn the first Giant that assaulted Heaven in pieces Others fetch the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Mountains the Heathenish Sacrifices being usually made in High Places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoc. Idul 27. Nocturnique Orgia Bacchi Geo. 4. And Ubi audito stimulant Trieterica Baccho Orgia AEn 4. V. 416. Even to that Hill of Scandal This Hill was East of the Temple at Jerusalem something higher than that Opprobrious Hill where Moloch's Idol-Edifice stood termed Scandalous for the same Reason that the other was call'd Opprobrious And at Verse 443. Th' Offensive Mountain from Scandalum Lat. an Offence or a cause of Offence these were both built by Solomon as appears from 1 Kings 11. 7. And 2 Kings 23. 13. it is said to stand on the Mountain of Corruption in which Chapter there is a large account how the good King Josiah Son of Am●n by Jedidah drove these daring Monsters from Jerusalem to Hell V. 417. Homicide Manslayer Murderer of Mankind of Homicida Lat. from Homo a Man and Caedes Slaughter a fit Epither for the Devil the designing Destroyer of all Mankind V. 420. Of old Euphrates now Aferat and by the Arabians call'd Frat is one of the most Celebrated Rivers in the World springing from the Mountains of Armenia Major washing Mesopotamia on the West and South and dividing it from Syria and Arabia Deserta hence by our Poet rightly styled The Bordering Flood It joyns with the Tygris and with it loseth it self in the Persian Gulph Well may this River pass for old since remembred so long ago in the History of the Creation by Moses Gen. 2. 14. compared with whom these are Neotericks that speak of him as Virg. Caesar dum Magnus ad altum Fulminat Euphratem Bello Geor. 4. And Ovid Arsit Euphrates Babylonicus Met. 2. Ibid. To the Brook that parts Some Anonymous River such as Fuller mentions crossing the Desart of Shur and calls a River of Egypt near Rinocolaura entring the Mediterranean See his Map of Symeon Pag. 227. V. 421. Egypt AEgyptus so named of one of its ancient Kings is by the Turks its present Masters call'd Misir retaining something of the Hebrew Misraim It is the most ancient and most fruitful Kingdom of Africa the famous Nile runs the whole length of it and annually overflowing it in the Month of June extreamly enricheth it Ibid. From Syrian Ground From Syria a vast Country in the greater Asia containing Phoenicia Palestina and Syria properly so called V. 422. Of Baalim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Plur. of Baal By this Idol whose Name expresseth Lord the Sydonians and many other Nations worshipp'd the Sun the seeming Supreme Visible Lord of the Universe Now Baalim is here put for the other Luminous Stars in general as is evident from 2 Chron. 30. 3. He reared up Altars to Baalim and made Groves and worshipp'd all the Host of Heaven Hence Plato derives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to run the Grecians as well as the Phoenicians having worshipp'd for Gods the Sun Moon and Stars whose motions are strange and unaccountable Ibid. Ashtaroth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plur. Hebrew for Herds Flocks Kimchi tells us it was the Name of certain Images in the shape of Sheep which the Sydonians adored as Goddesses But doubtless the Holy Writ does by this word express the Host of Heaven Judg. 11. 13. Judge 10. 6. They forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth Baalim was expressive of those more mighty and vigorous Stars and Constellations that govern'd Men as Ashtaroth signified the more weak and Feminine which influenced the She-Sex as our Author well observes Male belonging to Men from Mas Lat. V. 423. These Feminine Belonging to Women Foeminius Lat. V. 424. Can either Sex assume Can take upon themselves which Sex they please Sexus Lat. kind Assumere Lat. to take to or upon ones self V. 425. Uncompounded Simple not mixt and made up of divers and different things

V. 661. For who can think Submission For who is so base and mean as but to think of truckling of humbling our selves before our Adversary Submissio Lat. Yielding Submitting V. 662. Open or Understood Publick or Private Proclaimed or Concealed V. 663. He Spake Thus he spoke an Imitation of Homer's frequent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. And to confirm his Words In approbation of his Speech in token of their agreeing to his Opinion V. 667. Fierce with grasped Arms Furious raging of Fier Fr. from Ferox as this of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Wild Beast And bold with Armed Hand bray'd on their Sounding Shields War 's dreadful Din daring outrageous Heaven's Almighty Arm A Graphick Description of the Foolish Defiance given by these Damned Spirits in their impotent Rage against the Almighty sitting in Heaven and having them in Derision Clash and Din are Words formed of the Similitude of the Sounds of which they are expressive Clash as if of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clango and Din of Tinnio the Sound that hollow Metal makes when beat upon Saeva sonoribus Arma. Says Virg. AEn 9. And Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tum scuta Cavaeque Dant sonitum flictu Galcae V. 669. Hurling Defiance This Verse seems Declaratory of the Action expressed in the two preceding the Reprobate Spirits making a dreadful Noise on their clattering Shields turned their disdainful Eyes up towards Heaven in Looks that bid Defiance to the Almighty Defiance a Challenge of Defier to Challenge to Dare to the Combat Fr. Hurl or as its Original Whirl to throw to throw round about V. 670. Whose Griesly Top Whose horrid Head Griesly an old Word for Ugly dreadful V. 671. Belch'd Fire and rouling Smoak Like Virg. of Mount AEtna Turbine fumantem piceo candente favilla AEn 3. Belch as the Latin Ructare formed of the Sounds they express V. 672. The rest entire shone with a glossie Scurf The rest all Ore was covered with a shining Crust Glossie bright shining of Gleissen Ger. to shine Scurf a thin dry and lighter kind of Scab Entire of Entier Fr. whole V. 673. In his Womb was hid Metallic Ore That his Belly his Entrails were stored with Mines of divers Metals Metallic Metallicus Lat. belonging to Metals in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quod vix ulla Metalli vena inveniatur quin altera in propinquo inveniatur unde Graeci videntur dixisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plin. l. 33. c. 6. Ibid. Ore Is crude Earth as digged up unrefined and containing Metal in proportion to the richness of the Mind Lead Tin Silver Ore of the Fr. Or Aurum Gold the Metal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 674. The Work of Sulphur The Offspring and Production of Sulphur that Vivum fossile as Celsus calls it which as if it were Soli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Subterranean Fire concocts and boils up the Crude and undigested Earth into a more profitable consistence and by its innate Heat hardens and bakes it into Metals It is called Sulphur rerum by Paracelsus and the Chymists it ordinarily signifies Brimstone Ibid. Winged with speed 'T is usual with the Poets to express Speed by Wings those Creatures that are furnished with them being the ●●●blest Thus Fulminis Ocyor alis and Mercury the Messenger of the Gods is fledged with them both at head and Foot Ut primum alatis tetigit magalia Plantis AEn 4. V. 675. A Numerous Brigade A great Company Ital. Brigata a Company of Soldiers generally Horsemen Hence our Brigadeer the Commander of a Party of Horse Numerosus Lat. for a great many V. 676. Pi●●s Of Pionnier Fr. a Digger Of Pion an old Word derived of the barbarous Latin Pedito that is Pedes a Foot Soldier V. 677. To Trench To draw a Line or digg a Trench cross a Field Of Trencher Fr. to Cut. V. 678. Or cast a Rampart Or to throw up a Defence Fr. Rempar the Wall of a Fortress Of Re en and parer to defend one against Ibid. Mammon lead them on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Riches Wealth it is no Hebrew Word though found in the Lexicon Rabbin-Philos●●h St. Austin in his 35th Sermon on the Words of our Saviour Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Luc. 16. 13. where the Greek has 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we render Riches tells us it is a Punic Word many of which were crept into and mixt with the Hebrew Language I do not find it any where used in the Sacred Text but in the 9th and 11th Verses of the above quoted Chapter and Matth. 6. 24. V. 679. The least Erected Spirit The most Abject Base and Vile Erectus Lat. for Raised Erectâ consurgit ad Oscula plantâ stands on Tip-toes Juv. V. 682. Heaven's Pavement trodden Gold As the Heavenly Jerusalem is described by St. John Revel 21. 21. And the Street of the City is pure Gold Pavimentum Lat. a Floor a Causeway of Pavio Lat. to beat down to pave V. 684. In Vision beatifick In the happy beholding of God Almighty's infinite Perfections in which the supremest Satisfaction consists Visio Lat. Sight Seeing Beatificus Lat. Beatum faciens making Happy V. 685. By his suggestion Taught Instructed by his Information Suggestio Lat. a Prompting Of Suggerere to put in Mind to Prompt V. 686 Ransack'd the Centre Dug deep down to the middle of the Earth To Ransack is to search narrowly and to pry into every Corner for Prey and Plunder as if Reinsaccare saccos Excutere Expilare Centre Centrum Lat. the middle Point in a Circle or any round Body V. 687. Rifled the Bowels of their Mother Tore out the Entrails of the Earth that bore 'em and Nurs'd 'em too the Earth was called not only Mater magna from her many Sons but as Antiquity thought the Mother of all the Gods Alma mater was another of her Attributes from her constant providing for her great Family Nec tantum segetes Alimentaque debita Dives Poscebatur humus sed itum est in viscera Terrae Quasque recondiderat Stygiisque admoverat umbris Effodiuntur Opes Met. Lib. 1. Rifler or Rafler Fr. or the Sax. Reapian all probably of Rapere to snatch to tear out V. 688. For Treasures better hid In search of Riches which had better been still in the Center lock'd up there and close concealed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Store laid up for the future Pereunt discrimine nullo Amissae leges Sed pars vilissima rerum Certamen Movistis Opes Luc. Lib. 3. V. 690. Ribs of Gold Continuing the Metaphor of Earths Bowels he calls the great Hole made in the Hill a wide Wound and here the Ore Ribs of Gold almost refined by the Natural Heat of that Infernal Soil V. 692. Deserve the precious Bane Deserve the dear Destruction Well may Riches come from Hell the Desires and Designs after which will send so many thither Bana an old word for Murderer Lucan describing Affrica praiseth it

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

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 Abi●●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

a Lump Mould or Mold of the Belg. Modder Slime or moist Earth Material Materealis Lat. consisting of Matter V. 710. Confusion heard his Voice Confusion obey'd his Command that Heap and Chaos of Confusion in which the Elements of Air Water Earth and Fire lay jumbled and commixt together covered with Egyptian Darkness and Obscurity no sooner heard his Voice but it began to separate and shew ready Obedience Ibid. And wild Uproar The dreadful disorder occasion'd by the contesting Elements enclosed and struggling to get forth by his Word was over-ruled and appeased V. 711. Stood vast Infinitude confined The vast unfinished Gulph of Non-Entity and uncreated Night that boundless Deep Illimitable Ocean without Bound without Dimension where Length Breadth and Heighth and Time and Place are lost as Book 2. Vers. 892. received its Confines the Verge of Nature and the vast Circumference of all Created Beings was fixt and their appointed compass establish'd V. 716. This AEthereal Quintessence of Heav'n This light and pure spiritual part of Heav'n took wing and flew upwards enliv'ned and inspirited with divers Forms that moved in Rounds and at last turned to Stars innumerable to the Four Elements some of the Philosophers added an AEthereal Spirit void of Corruption and Contrariety the purest and most subtle Agility and the Bond and Ligature of all the rest of which they supposed the Stars and Heavens those Glorious Bodies were made as of a Quintessence arising out of the Quaternion of Elements AEthereal Quintessence A flaming shining Spirit Quintessence Quinta essentia Lat. is the purest and highest rectified Spirit extracted out of any thing and separated from its Faeces admirably applyed to the Coelestial Bodies and Heav'nly Orbs. Orbicular Orbicularis Lat. any thing that is round or of a circular shape V. 721. The rest in Circuit Walls The rest of this pure Heavenly Quintessence encompasses the Universe round like a Wall V. 723. Though but reflected Shines Looks bright and glorious by the returning of that Light it has from hence from the Sun where Uriel and 〈◊〉 stood Reflected Reflexus Lat. return'd turn'd back again reverberated beaten back and recoyling Reflexion is a returning that Brightness that Light cast on any Opaque and Solid Body V. 725. As th' other Hemisphere c. which otherwise would be as dark as the other half of the Globe or World is when the Moon is absent who yonder comes to its assistance and interposes her feeble Light Hemisphere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. half the compass of the Heav'ns V. 727. That opposite fair Star That bright Star that is over against us being in the Sun from which she as well as the Earth has her lent Light Oppositus Lat. placed over against V. 728. And her Monthly Round And fulfils her Circle in a Month so named of the Moon the Lunar Month as Mensis of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the Moon from her encreasing coming to the Full and her abatement Quid Menstrua Luna Moneret Geor. 1. V. 730. Her Countenanoe trif●rm Her threefold Face encreasing full and decreasing Hence fills and empties from her beginning comes to be compleat and thence does by degrees decreasing vanish according to which three appearances she was called Luna Sole Diana Polo Proserpina in Orco Ovid. Nec Par aut eadem Nocturnae forma Dianae Esse potest unquam semperque hodierna sequente Si crescit minor est major si contrahit orbem Ibid. Meta. Lib. 15. Tertia jam Lunae se Cornua Lumine complent AEn 3. Her Horns at her increase regarding the East as in her decrease they point to the West Triformis Lat. of three shapes V. 731. Hence fills and empties That is from the Sun of whom the Moon being a Spherical Opaque and Obscure Body borrows all her Silver Light as Virgil hints very handsomely Nec fratris radiis obnoxia surgere Luna Geor. 1. V. 732. And in her Pale Dominion And with her feeble Empire curbs the Night hinders and opposes the Encroachment of Ancient and Hereditary Night Checks the Night Hinders the progress of dull Darkness Check a Metaphor taken from the Game called Chess where a Pawn c. when placed aright hinders and opposes the march of the Enemy or drives him upon eminent Danger V. 734. Adams Abode The Abiding the Dwelling-Place of Adam so named of the Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to his Creation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Dust of the Earth Gen. 2. Vers. 7. a sort of Coloured Earth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to look Red. V. 740. Down from th'Ecliptick Down from the Suns bright Road The Ecliptick is a Line running along the middle of the Zodiack in which the Sun compleats his Annual Course so named of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Eclipses there happening Satan discoursing with Uriel in the Region of the Sun must needs take his flight from the Ecliptick in some part of which the Sun always is Ibid. Sped with hoped Success Heightned with hopes of Success hasting with hopes to succeed Sped of Spedire It. and that of Expedire Lat. to make haste or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to make haste to be dil●gent V. 741. In man● an AErie Wheel With many a nimble turn A Wheel a round Circle according to its shape hence a Body of Men are said to Wheel when they move round V. 742. On Niphates top he lights A Mountain in the Borders of Armenia not far from the spring of Tigris as Xenophon affirms upon his own Knowledge so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great drifts of Snow covering its Crown thence styled Rigidum Niphaten by Hor. Car. l. 2. Od. 9. Urbes Asiae domitas pulsumque Niphaten Geo. 3. There is also a River of the same Name in the Neighborhood of this Hill Armeniusque tenens volventem Saxa Niphatem Luc. l. 3. The Poet lands Satan on this Armenian Mountain because it borders on Mesopotamia in ●●ich the most Judicious Describers of Paradise place it NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK IV. V. 2. WHO saw th'Apocalyps Who in a Vision saw the Revelation of what was to befal the Church of God to the end of the World St. John who though in the Front of the Revelation he be named the Divine is yet held to be the same who writ the Gospel called by his Name as Irenaeus Hieronymus Eusebius and others affirm the difference of the style being no more than that in the one he has used that of a Prophet and in the other that of an Historian Apocalyps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Discovery a Revealing of hidden Mysteries thence translated the Revelations of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to discover tho' still extreamly obscure like those Acroatick parts of Aristotle's Philosophy which he says were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This obscure Discovery was written by St. John in the Island Patmos whither he was banish'd by Domitian about the 14th Year of

repeople the Heavenly Palaces depopulated by many Millions of the Coelestial Tribes the ancient Inhabitants of those blest Abodes was the Opinion of Rupertus But Pererius and others conceive that this World and Man the heighth of the Terrestrial Creation had in the Almighties appointed time been made although the whole Angelick Nature had stood firm and obedient in their holy state which our Poet has intimated in Book 1. Vers. 651. New Worlds Whereof so rife There went a Fame in Heav'n that he ere long Intended to create and therein plant A Generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heav'n Now there being three distinct Degrees of Nature the first and highest of Angelick and Incorporeal Beings the last and lowest of Corporeal Substances Plants and Animals it seems reasonable that a third was always intended participating of both Man the Mixture and Mean of these two Extreams a Being both Corporeal and Incorporeal not made as a Supplement but rather as the Completion and Commander of the Creation under him Gen. 1. Vers. 28. V. 389. Melt Men are said to Melt into Compassion Metaphorically from the dissolving into Tenderness and Pity as Metals are melted down by Fire Melt of the Ger. Smelten or perhaps of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liquefacere V. 390. Honour and Empire c. Revenge Glory Empire Honour and such like Reasons of State are Arguments better becoming this Grand Destroyer the Arch-Enemy of all Mankind than any Earthly and Vain-glorious Monarch V. 395. On that high Tree The Tree of Life where our Poet pearch'd him at V. 195. V. 402. He stalks with fierie Glare Now like a Lyon with sparkling Eyes Majestickly he walks about ' em Glare and to Glare is of the Fr. Esclairer to sparkle to glitter as the Eyes of Lyons Tygers Cats and other fierie furious Beasts do To stalk is properly to move gravely step by step resembling the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to walk-in order V. 406. Changes his couchant Watch Shifts his Place alters his wary Watch. Couchant lying close of coucher Fr. to lie down Satan is well compared to a furious ravenous Tyger Seneca the Tragedian useth it in the same words almost in Latin Jejuna Sylvis qualis in Gangeticis Inter Juvencos Tygris erravit duos Utriusque praedae Cupida quo primos ferat Incerta Morsus flectit huc rictus suos Illo reflectit famem dubiam tenet Sen. Thyestes V. 408. Grip'd in each Paw Seized in his Claws Grip'd of the Fr. Gripper to snatch to lay violent hold on or of Griffe Fr. a Claw an Eagles Tallon It has a Similitude of sound with the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to catch Paw of the Fr. Patte a Claw the Foot of a Bird or Beast originally of Pes Lat the Foot or perhaps of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. from its distinction into several parts V. 419. Aught Any thing generally Ought of the Sax. Uht. V. 433. One easie Prohibition This one easie Injunction easie because but one Prohibitio Lat. a Forbiddance of prohibere Lat. to forbid to command to the contrary V. 438. To prune To cut to lop off the superfluous Branches of the Fr. Provin the Luxuriant Shoot of a Vine V. 447. Prae-eminent by so much Odds More excellent by divers degrees raised above me by so many degrees Praeeminens Lat. raised high excellent of praeeminere Lat. to excel Consort Companion of the Lat. Consors of the same Size and Condition hence a Wife and especially that of a King called Queen Consort attaining that Title by her Marriage with a Soveraign Prince V. 450. When from Sleep I first awak'd The entrance on Life may well be resembled to waking when our Exit Death is so fitly and frequently compared to Sleep Our Author in this Place and its Parallel Book 8. Vers. 250. where Adam relates the first Thoughts and Sentiments he had of himself and that Great Being that gave him his has litt upon something so new and strange that as it cannot square with any Persons but those of our two first Progenitors so it is exactly suitable to them created certainly at full growth perfect in Body Mind and Memory Otherwise what he says in his Introduction For Man to tell how Human Life began Is hard For who himself beginning knew Book 8. Vers. 250. It had not only been hard but impossible for any other Man to have given a Relation of his Beginning Ibid. Repos'd c. Laid under a Flow'ry Shade Repos'd repositus Lat. of the Verb reponere used by the wary Virgil in the same sense Collapsaque Membra Marmoreo referunt Thalamo stratisque reponunt AEn 4. V. 455. Into a Liquid Plain Into a smooth moist Plain of the Lat. Planus smooth even whence Planities V. 456. Pure as th' Expanse of Heav'n Clear at the out-spread Skie Expansum Lat. the Firmament answering to the Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the vast and out-streach'd Firmament Gen. 1. Vers. 6. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Expandere to stretch or spread out V. 459. Into the clear smooth Lake This Natural Looking-Glass Virgil and Ovid as well as our Author borrowed of Theocritus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. 7. Nuper me in littore vidi Cum placidum ventis staret mare Virg. Ecl. 2. Certè ego me novi liquidaeque in imagine vidi Nuper aquae As Ovid translates it V. 461. Within the Watry Gleam Within the Shining Surface of the Water Gleam of the Sax. Leoma Light and Leoman to shine both of Lumen Lat. Light warm Gleams the hot Shinings out of the Sun after Showers Milton has improved the Fable of Ovid by representing Eve like a She Narcissus admiring her self and has made it much more probable that a Person who had never seen any thing like her self should be in love with her own faint reflected Resemblance than that a Man acquainted with the World and himself should be undone by so dull a Dotage Se Cupit imprudens quae probat ipsa probatur Dumque petit petitur pariterque accendit ardet Meta. 3. V. 465. Of Sympathy and Love With Looks betokening Love and mutual Affection Sympathy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Compassion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to suffer together to be alike affected Quod petis est nusquam Quod amas avertere perdes Cupit ipse teneri Nam quoties liquidis porreximus oscula Lymphis Hic toties ad me resupino nititur ore Meta. Lib. 1. V. 469. With thee it came and goes Ista repercussae quam cernis imaginis umbra est Nil habet ista sui tecum venitque manetque Tecum discedat si tu discedere possis Meta. Lib. 3. V. 478. Under a Platan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Plane-Tree so named from the breadth of its Leaves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. broad a Tree useful and delightful for its extraordinary Shade Jamque Ministrantem Platanum potentibus

556. Swift as a shooting Star c. Swift like a darting Star that in the Autumn crosses the Night when Fat and Oily Vapours taking Fire with their Activity hurry the Air into Violence and by their shining Path direct the Seaman from what Quarter of the Heavens to beware of stormy boisterous Winds So Virgil Saepe etiam Stellas vento impendente videbis Praecipites Coelo labi Noctisque per umbram Flammarum longos à tergo albescere tractus Georg. 1. That the Stars do not shoot or fall from their Spheres according to vulgar Opinion is the Tenent of Philosophy But that their shooting is the Redundancy of their Nutritive Liquor which sometimes blurts from them as Oyl from Lighted Lamps Plin. Lib. 1. Cap. 8. Servius thought those descending Traces of Light were Particles of the AEtherial Fire blown and fore'd down by softy and vehement Winds But according to Aristotle they were esteem'd Fat and Oyly Exhalations drawn up from the Earth into the middle Region of the Air and there by the extraordinary Cold so compress'd and condens'd that they took Fire by his unintelligible Antiperistasis or by their own violent Circumgyration Longoque per aëra tractu Fertur ut interdum de Coelo Stella sereno Ersi non cecidit potuit cecidisse videri Meta. 2. Well might the bright Angel Uriel Regent of the Sun and mounted on a Sun-Beam be compared to a Sho●ting Star when Homer likens Achilles in his Brazen Armour to the same Illustrious Meteor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The same Comparison is applyed to the Armed Diomede and the Fiery Reflection shot from his Shining Shield and Flaming Helmet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the most Parallel place at which our Authors imitation seems to have aim'd and to have outdone is the Description of Minerva's Descent from Heaven into the Trojan Camp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 557. In Autumn thwarts the Night Comes across the Night thwarts and affronts the dismal darkness of the Night In Autumn Lat. Autumnus when the Heats are great Totoque Autumni incanduit aestu Geor. 3. V. 558. When Vapours fired impress the Air Here we have the Philosophy of these shooting Stars that they are Unctuous Exhalations which being fired a●ault the Air and move it violently Impress of imprimere Lat. to use force upon to make impression on and in this sense Impressio signifies an Assault an Onset given by engaging Armies Ibid. Shews the Mariner Marinier Fr. the Sailer the Seaman of Marinus and Ma●e Lat. the Sea V. 559. From what Point of his Compass From what part of the Sky from what Quarter of the Heav'n The Compass here meant is a Circle set round with the 32 different Points from which the Winds have their Denominations V. 561. Thy Course by Lot Gabriel is supposed to have the Guard of Paradise fallen to him by Lot Thus the Promised Land was divided to the Israeli●es Notwithstanding the L●na shall be divided by Lot Numb 26. Vers. 55. Every Man's Inheritance shall be where is Lot falleth Chap. 33. Vers. 54. In the same manner Matthias was chosen and numbred with the Apostles And they gave forth their Lots and the Lot fell upon Ma●thias Acts 1. Vers. 26. V. 567. Gods latest Image The newest the last Image God was pleased to make of Himself For it is not to be doubted that if Man in part of a Corporeal Substance yet bears his Maker's Image the Angels those much more Pure and Spiritual Beings are more exact Resemblances of that Eternal Purity and Perfection that Created them as being more perfect Approximations to their Maker V. 568. And mark'd his AEry Gate Observ'd his speedy March or his passage through the Air or his giddy and indecent Carriage not well suiting a Spirit seemingly so zealous AEry AErius Lat. of the Air the Epither of Birds that mount into it AEriae quò congessere palumbes Ecl. 3. Gate Walk Passage March of the Sax. Gan to go V. 569. That lies from Eden North That lies on the North-side of Eden the Mountain Niphates on which Satan alight Book 3. Vers. 742. where his Hellish Conscience and Devilish Despair disfigured him and discovered his seeming Saintship Vers. 23. of this Book 4. V. 571. Alien from Heav'n c. I soon beheld his Countenance contrary to that of Heavenly Spirits clouded and overcast with dismal Storms of Passions wild and ungovernable Alien from Heav'n estranged from God and all Goodness of Alienus a Stranger Obscur'd darken'd of Obscurus Lat. hid dark V. 574. Of the Banish'd Crew One of the condemn'd Crew thrown out of Heaven and banish'd of Bannir Fr. to expel V. 576. The Winged Warriour The Archangel Gabriel according to the usual Description of Angels adorn'd with Wings to denote the Swiftness and Agility of Spiritual Beings and as Satan in the assumed shape of a Cherubim is painted Wings he wore Of many colour'd P●me sprinkled with Gold Book 3. Vers. 641. V. 580. The Vigilance here plac'd The Watch here kept Vigilance Vigilantia Lat. Watch●●●n●ss Vigi●i●e Lat. the Watch. V. 585 Spiritual Substance c. 'T is hard to restrain and keep out Spirits and Immaterial 〈◊〉 wi●● Corporeal and Bodily Bars Corp●real Corporea●is Lat. of C●pus Lat. a Body V 5●● In whats●ever s●ape he lurk In what disguise ●o●ver he lies hid To lurk is to hide ones ●elf to lie in wait of the Bel. Loeren to lie in Ambush or the Fr. Lerre an old word Larron Fr. Latro Lat. a Thief V. 592. Bene●th th' Azores To the Sun now gone down below the Western Islands The Azores are Islands of the Western Atlantick Ocean Nine in Number commonly called the Tercera's of Tercera the largest of 'em Heylin's Geo. others confound 'em with the Canaries Bohun's Geog. Dict. Ibid. Whither the Prime Orb c. Uriel return'd on the bright Beam that brought him whose Point now mounted and raised carried him fliding back to the Sun now sunk below the Western Is●es to which the first Orb swift beyond all belief had hurried him in a Days space or this our Earth less likely to turn round taking a shorter and more easie turn Eastward left him now on her West-side gilding and adorning with various Colours and gay Reflections the Clouds that wait upon his Western Throne Prime Orb Primus Orbis Lat. the first the chief Circle the Primum Mobile V. 594. Diurnal Volubil Diurnal Diurnus Lat. belonging to a Day of a Days length or continuance Volubil Volubilis Lat. that may be turn'd round à volvendo turning or running round V. 598. Twilight gray c. Now the quiet Evening came on and dusky Twilight with her grave Livery cover'd every thing The Sun was described according to his high Quality arraying

coarse Food Nutrimentum Lat. any thing that nourisheth and feeds as Fuel is the Food of Fire Suscepitque ignem foliis atque arida circum Nutrimenta dedit AEn 1. V. 503. Whose Progeny Whose Off-spring you are Progenies Lat. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Forefather Adam is call'd the Progeny of God who was his Maker as at Vers. 519. Son of Heav'n and Earth because by God raised out of the Dust. V. 507. Propitious Guest Friendly loving Visitor Propitius Lat. kind favourable V. 509. The Scale of Nature set c. Well hast thou described to us the Compass of the Creation By instructing us in the several Degrees and Stations of Created Beings as placed nearer or more remote from God the Center whence they issue all to the Circumference of the vast Universe and from thence tend to him each in its appointed distance V. 511. Whereon in Contemplation c. There is a real visible Ladder besides that Visionary one of Jacob whose foor though placed on the Earth among the lowest of the Creation yet leads us by Steps in Contemplation of Created Things up to God the Invisible Creator of all Things for as there are many Degrees of Beings Superiour and Subordinate there must at last at the Top of this Scale be one Supreme Sovereignly Good and Great Contemplatio Lat. for Meditation deep Thoughtfulness V. 513. That Caution joyn'd That Warning given us That forewarning added to thy Instruction Cautio Lat. a Cavendo from taking heed to Cautio est Ter. we must beware V. 515. His Love desert Can we forsake and leave him who has loved us so as to place us in this Blessed Paradise Can we quit our Obedience and relinquish his Love Desert leave of Deserere Lat. to forsake as Deserters Run-away Soldiers do the side they first were on V. 524. Perfect not Immutable God made thee Good as he did all things but not Unalterable He made thee Perfect but left it in thy Power to continue so Well exprest by the Wise-man God made Man from the beginning and left him in the hand of his Counsel Eccles. 15. Vers. 14. Before Man is Life and Death and which he chooseth shall be given him Vers. 17. Perseverare Lat. to stand fast to continue constantly in V. 527. By Nature free God made thy Will in its very Nature free not over-powered by uncontroulable Fate or shackled and bound up by the Compulsive Power of Necessity The bare Notion of a Will implies and supposes Freedom and Choice for to will is to chuse which no Man can do if over-ruled by Invincible Necessity Of this before Book 3. Vers. 96 c. Ibid. Fate inextricable The unavoidable Determinations of Fate from which if there were any such we could by no means free our selves Fa●e would be like a Labyrinth in whose Description Virgil uses the same word from whence we could find no way out Inextricabilis error AEn 6. Inextricabilis Lat. that could not be unfolded not to be avoided V. 530. Not our necessitated God requires our willing Service our Free-will Offerings not such ●● are forc'd upon or from us such would be unacceptable to him Where only what we needs must do appears not what we would Book 3. Vers. 105. Voluntaire Voluntarius Lat. free of ones own accord and consent Necessitated forc'd compell'd of Necessitare Lat. to oblige by force V. 534. But what they must by Destiny But what is ordain'd and appointed by a Superiour Power unalterable and uncontroulable against which all struggle and endeavour is in vain Destiny the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Greeks and the Latins Fatum of Destinare Lat. to appoint to ordain Destiny being in their Opinion that maintain'd it an unavoidable appointment of all that Men were either to do or suffer from which they could not depart Now this Heathenish Destiny and its strange Superstructure Predestination raised on that bad Foundation our Poet explodes V. 536. In sight of God enthron'd Seated in Bliss in the Beatifick Sight of God Enthroned of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to place on a Throne the Characteristick of a Kingdom That you may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom and sit on Thrones judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel Luk. 22. Vers. 30. and Matth. 19. Vers. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Royal or Magisterial Seat of the obsolete 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to sit V. 544. Our great Progenitor Our great first Father the general Ancestor of Mankind who proceeded all from his Loins Progenitor Lat. of Progignere Lat. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to precede to be before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ancestors V. 545. Attentive Heedful giving good ear to Of Attendere Lat. to hearken and mark well V. 547. Then when Cherubick Songs c. Then when the Quires of Charming Cherubims tune their Coelestial Songs by Night A heightned Imitation of Virgil Tale tuum Carmen nobis divine Poeta Quale sopor fessis in gramine c. Ecl. 5. See Book 4. Vers. 680. V. 557. Worthy of Sacred Silence to be heard A Relation worthy to be attended to with as profound a Silence as Men employ'd in Holy Mysteries are wont to use Sacro digna silentio Hor. A serious devout Silence Relation Relatio Lat. an Account the rehearsing of any thing hap'ned à referendo from telling and repeating it V. 560. In the great Zone of Heav'n For the Sun is not yet arrived at the South has hardly reach'd his Meridian Altitude and therefore scarce has finish'd half his Journey and is hardly yet entring on the other half he is to compleat by circling the World every Day with his Glorious Girdle Zona Lat. a Girdle See Book 2. Vers. 398. V. 562. Assenting Agreeing to granting his request Of Assentiri Lat. to grant V. 571. This is dispens'd This also is allow'd and granted Of the Fr. Dispenser and the Lat. Dispensare to License whence Dispensatio a Relaxation of a Law Ibid. What surmounts the reach What riseth above the reach of Human Understanding What exceeds the compass of thy Capacity Of Surmonter Fr. to rise to mount above V. 572. Delineate so I shall so set forth and describe Of Delineare Lat. to draw the form of any thing by Lines thence to Paint V. 575. But the Shadow of Heav'ns be but the faint Resemblance of Heav'n where Spiritual Things and Beings are like to Corporeal and that Superiour more resembling this Inferiour World than Men imagine V. 577. And Chaos wild Reign'd c. The World was uncreated yet and emptiness and wild deform'd Darkness ruled o'er those Orbs where the bright Heav'ns now run and stedfast Earth now balanc'd rests upon her Central Point A short but full and noble Description of the Creation V. 580. For time though in Eternity c. For time even in Eternity being referr'd to Motion measures the Duration and Continuance of all things by what is present past and yet to come Time

says Plato is the Image of Eternity Fluid and in Motion Aristotle affirms Eternity to be a fix'd and permanent Instant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Time an Instant in Flux and Motion But the Flux and Duration the Constituents of Time can no otherwise be reckoned but by applying it to Motion Durable Durabilis Lat. lasting that has continuance V. 583. As Heav'ns great Year brings forth On such a Day as Heav'ns great unaccountable Year brings forth where a thousand Years are in Gods sight but as yesterday when it is past and as a Watch in the Night Psal. 90. Vers. 4. One Day is with the Lord as a thousand Years and a thousand Years as one Day 2 Pet. 3. Vers. 8. Our Poet seems to have had Plato's Great Year in his Thoughts of which and the Great Caldean Months see Jos. Scaliger in Can. Isago Pag. 252. Magnus ab integro Saeclorum Nascitur Ordo Et incipient magni procedere menses Ecl. 4. V. 589. And Gonfalons c. Gonfalon or Gonfanon Fr. is an old-fashion'd Banner a little square Flag born on the top of a Lance used at this Day by the Popes Forces whence Le Gonfanon de l'Eglise the General of the Churches Forces Rear of Arriere Fr. behind the hind-part of an Army that comes last V. 592. In their glittering Tissues bear unblaz'd Or in their gawdy Streamers painted bear c. Tissues of the Fr. Tissu woven as with us Cloath of Tissue of Gold Silver c. as being the most Pretious Woof Imblazed emblazonez Fr. to draw and paint Coats of Arms in their proper Colours V. 594. Recorded Eminent Recorded and remember'd for their Eminency and Excellent Example Recorded of Recordari Lat. to bear in mind to remember V. 602. Hear my desire Give ear to my Ordinance which shall stand irrevocable I will declare the Decree Psal. 2. Vers. 7. Unrevok'd irrevocabilis Lat. not to be recalled or altered V. 603. This Day have I begot c. According to the Prophetick and Inlightned Psalmist Thou art my Son this Day have I begotten thee Psal. 2. Vers. 7. V. 605. Him have Anointed I have set my Anointed upon my holy Hill of Sion Psal. 2. Vers. 6. V. 608. All Knees in Heav'n c. That at the Name of JESUS every Knee shall bow of things in Heav'n c. And that every Tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father Phil. 2. Vers. 10 and 11. Let all the Angels of God worship him Hebr. 1. Vers. 6. V. 609. Vicegerent Reign Under him as my great deputed Governour Vicegerent Vicemgerens Lat. whom I have constituted and appointed in my place V. 610. As one individual Soul Agreeing and uniting together like one Soul incapable of division Individual Individuus Lat. Inseparable that cannot be divided V. 612. Breaks Union Violates the Unity Peace and Concord of my Kingdom Unio Lat. Agreement V. 620. Mystical Dance Strange Mysterious Motions which the shining Sphere of the Seven Planets and that of the fix'd Stars does in their various Revolutions imitate nearest Mystical of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Mysterious containing some Sacred Secret V. 622. Mazes intricate Intangled and unaccountable Rounds Mazes Book 2. V. 561. In●ricate Book 2. Vers. 877. V. 623. Excentrick Intervolv'd c. Windings and Turns intangled and obscure involving and surrounding one another although not moving on the same Center yet then most regular and orderly when to our weak and distant Understanding they seem most unaccountable and disturb'd A just Reproof to the presuming Sons of Adam E gli alteri i quali esser non ponno erranti S' angelica virtù gli informa e move Advanced by the Translation And those untruly Errant call'd I trow Since he errs not who doth them guide and move Tass. Cant. 9. Stan. 6. Astra tum ea quae sunt infixa certis locis Tum illa non re sed vocabulo errantia c. Cic. Quaest. Tuscu Lib. 1. Sect. 25. Excentrick Book 3. Vers. 575. Intervolv'd rowl'd within one another of the Lat. Inter between and volvere Lat. to turn V. 626. So smooths her charming Tones And in their Motions such Divine Perfection appears and their Harmonious Proportion so tunes her Charming Notes that GOD himself pleased and delighted pronounc'd 'em Good Gen. 1. Vers. 18. There is a Text in Job 38. Vers. 37. that seems to favour the Opinion of the Pythagoreans concerning the Musical Motion of the Spheres though our Translation differ therein from other Versions Concentum Coeli quis dormire faciet Who shall lay asleep or still the Consort of the Heav'n But this in that Poetick and Harmonious Book is to be understood Metaphorically of the wonderful Proportions observ'd by the Heavenly Bodies in their various Motions For Bodies of their vast Size and incredible Celerity must either make no Noise at all or so prodigious a Sound as would not only be heard here below but make us also incapable of hearing any thing besides Tones Tunes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strain Sounds and Notes being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strainings and Extensions of the Voice V. 633. Rubied Nectar Nectar as Red as Rubies An Imitation of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The true Ruby Colour of good Claret the Remembrance of whose Charming Complexion neither of our Poets had lost with their Eyesight Nectar Book 4. Vers. 240. V. 634. In Pearl In Diamond c. Our Author has dish'd out his Angelick Banquet as richly as Homer has the Entertainment of the Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 635. Vines the Growth of Heav'n Of Heav'nly Growth These Coelestial Vines seem to allude to that of our Saviour I will not drink henceforth of the Fruit of the Vine until the Day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom Matth. 26. Vers. 29. where by new Interpreters understand Wines of another and more Noble kind V. 637. In Communion sweet In pleasing Society Communio Lat. Fellowship à Communiendo from the security it affords V. 638. Quaff Immortality and Joy Drink plentifully of the Rivers of Pleasure that are at Gods Right-Hand for evermore Psal. 36. Vers. 8. For with thee is the Fountain of Life Vers. 9. V. 639. Secure of surfeit Sure not to surfeit where satisfaction prevents excess Surfeit of the Ita. sopra fare to exceed to burden and over-do suprà facere to over-do to over-reach to exceed the bounds of Necessity V. 642. Now when Ambrosial Night Now when sweet charming Night 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Divine Night from the pleasant refreshment and necessary support Sleep affords us Ambrosia is used for the Poetick Food by which the Gods maintained their Immortality thence us'd for sweet delicious and invigorating Liquidum Ambrosiae diffudit odorem Quo totum nati Corpus perduxit at

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 so● 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 ●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 ●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

The Workmanship of some deputed Power not of GOD himself but his Son as a Task or Business shuffled off from the Father to his Son Secundarius Lat. of the second sort Transferr'd put over of Transferre Lat. to convey to turn over to V. 855. Strange Point and new A new and strange Opinion Point of the Fr. Poinct a Proposition an Argument Doctrine of Doctrina Lat. Learning Knowledge V. 861. When fatal Course c. When Powerful Fate had fetch'd its mighty Round Had compleated its accomplish'd Course we the Sons of Heav'n our Native Seat brought our selves into being the ready Off-spring and Sons of that fatal season Mature Maturus Lat. ripe seasonable V. 864. Our Puissance is our own c. Our Power and Might is our own not owing to or derived from any Superiour like that Our Lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal. 12. V. 4. To which he has subjoyn'd Thy Right Hand shall teach thee terrible things Psal. 44. Vers. 4. Puissance Fr. Power V. 868. Address Whether we intend by Prayer to make our Applications to him or to surround his dreadful Throne with Praises or Approaches or to attend him with Tunes or with Attacks Addresse Fr. a drawing near to s'addresser Fr. to sue to by approaching humbly V. 869. This Report Carry this Answer this Account Report of the Fr. Rapporter to carry back word of the Lat. Reportare V. 871. Ere evil intercept Before some Mischief prevent and hinder thy escape Intercept of Intercipere Lat. to prevent by coming between as Letters are intercepted when seized before they come where directed V. 880. Contagion spread c. I see the Infection of thy Fault and its Punishment that must attend it spread over all thy accurs'd and condemn'd Crew Contagion Contagio Contagium any infectious pois'nous Distemper Priusquam Dira per incautum serpant contagia vulgus Geor. 3. V. 883. Those indulgent Laws Those easie and gentle Commands Indulgent Indulgens Lat tender Coeli Indulgentia Geor. 4. For the good Temperature of the Air. V. 886. That Golden Scepter c. That easie Empire which thou didst refuse is changed into an Iron Rod to break and to correct thy Disobedience The first has relation to Esth 8. Vers. 4. Then the King held out the Golden Scepter to Esther the last to Psal. 2. Vers. 9. Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron c. V. 904. Which he sustein'd Superiour Through the flouting and contemptuous Reproaches of his Enemy which he bore so as to be much above it Hostilis Lat. of an Enemy sustein'd underwent of sustinere Lat. to endure V. 906. Retorted c. At once his Back he turn'd and their own disdain return'd upon 'em double Retorted thrown and driven back upon 'em of Retorquere to shoot or throw back again NOTES ON MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VI. V. 1. ALL Night the dreadless c. All Night th' undaunted Angel unpursu'd Held through Heav'ns open plain his way till Morn Roused by the Hours that keep their constant course Blushing unbarr'd the East-Doors of the Dawn Within GOD's Holy Mount Neighb'ring his Throne There is a Cave where Light and Darkness dwell By turns foll'wing each other in a Round Uninterrupted which makes through high Heav'n Pleasing Variety like Day and Night Light sallies forth while at the other Door Obedient Darkness enters till her time To overcast Heav'n though our blackest Night Shews like Gray Twilight here And now the Morn Such as with us went forth adorn'd with Gold Refin'd by Heav'ns pure Fires before her Night Fled vanquish'd with the piercing Darts of Light Shot through and scatter'd V. 3. With Rosie Hand From those Colours that adorn the Morning she was call'd by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Rosie-finger'd Morn and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from her Gay Morning Gown She is said to be waked by the Circling Hours because appearing exactly when the Hour of her rising comes ●ound Ecce Vigil rutilo patefecit ab ortu Purpureas Aurora fores plena Rosarum Atria Met. Lib. 2. Il di seguente all' hor ch' aperte sono Del Lucido Oriente al Sol le porte Tass. C. 1. Stan. 71. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imitated by Virgil Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora Cubile AEn 4. V. 4. Un●arr'd the Gates of Light As if Heaven were shut at Night and open'd every Morning As Virgil Ante diem clauso componet Vesper Olympo AEn 1. Jam nitidum retegente diem noctisque fugante Tempora Lucifero Met. Lib. 7. V. 8. Vicissitude Vicissitudo Lat. Changing by turns succeeding one another V. 10. Obsequious Obsequiosus Lat. obedient complying V. 13. The Morn such as in highest Heav'n Homer made the Day break in Heaven as well as on Earth and the Light as necessary to the Gods as Men. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From whence our Author seems to have taken the hint of his Heav'nly Cave where Light and Darkness make their Intercourse Array'd in Gold Empyreal deck'd and adorn'd in flaming Gold Array'd Arroyé Fr. Equipp'd furnish'd set out with Empyreal Book 1. Vers. 117. V. 15. Vanish'd Night shot through c. Night fled away wounded and shot quite through with the piercing Rays of Light Era ne la Flagion ch'anco non cede Libero Ogni confin la notte al giorno Mà Oriente rosseggiar si vede Et anco e il ciel d'alcuna Stella adorno Tasso Can. 18. Stan. 12. Vanish'd of Vanescere Lat. to go away on a suddain as Mists do V. 16. With thick embattel'd Squadrons With great Numbers set in Battel-array Embattel'd embodied drawn into great Squadron of in and battailler Fr. to fight to order and range an Army fit to engage V. 18. Reflecting blaze on blaze Darting sierce Fire from their Flaming Arms. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Diomedes in his shining Armour is described 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virgil of AEneas's Armour made by Vulcan says they were Arma radiantia Terribilem cristis galeam flammasque vomentem Fatiferumque ensem loricam ex aere rigentem Sanguineam ingentem Qualis cum coerula nubes Solis inardcscit radiis longéque refulget AEn 8. Blaze signifies a suddain and fierce flame of the Teut. Blasen to blow as the effect of a great blast or the imitation of its noise V. 19. War in procinct All Preparations for War ready The Angelick Host that stood for Heav'n ready to march against the Rebel Army In procinctu stare The Roman Soldiers were said to stand when ready to give the Onset Cum praecincti jam milites expediti ●d bellum erant V. 20. Had thought to have reported This is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the manner of Men for it is unconceivable that an Angel a Spirit of more pure and enlighten'd Perfection than

Fr. Resolv'd V. 679. Th' Assessor of his Throne Who sate Ent●roned at his Right Hand Assessores Lat. were such as sate on the Bench not as Judges properly but as Assistants Assess●r Lat. of Assidere Lat. to sit by V. 681. Son in whose Face invisible c. Son in whose Face all my infinite and invisible perfections are made visibly and plainly to appear and by whose Hand all my Almighty Power and Everlasting Decrees are manifested being the Image of the Invisible God according to Heb. 1. Vers. 15. Like and Equal to his Father who being altogether invisible to us was by this his Image in the fulness of time manifested in the Flesh made known and visible to Mankind V. 684. Second Omnipotence Second Almightiness as being the Second Person in the Holy Trinity of which the Father is Almighty the Son Almighty and the Holy Ghost Almighty making however but one incomprehensible Almighty according to Athanasius Exposition of the Creed V. 685. Compute the days c. As we reckon the days of Heav'n Computare Lat. to Count or reckon V. 692 Insensibly Unperceiveably Insensibiliter Lat. so little as not to be perceiv'd to scape the Notice of sense Suspend delay defer of Suspendere Lat. to put off V. 694. No Solution will be found No end no determination of their Conflict will be found Solutio Lat. for loosening or untying thence for the Answer to any hard or doubtful question thence Metaphorically for the end or decision of any dubious Affair V. 704. Immense I have Transfused I have power'd forth such vast Strength and efficacy on thee Transfused Book 3. V. 389. V. 706. And this perverse Commotion c. And have so Order'd this Obstinate and Wild Tumult Perverse Book 2. Vers. 625. Commotion Vers. 310 of this Book V. 709. By Sacred Unction by thy Holy An●inting Constituting the Heir of all things and King Unctio Lat. Anoynting See Book 5. Vers. 605. V. 712. That shake Heav'ns Basis That shake Heav'ns Firmament that make Heav'ns foundations shake Basis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a foundation that supports a Building Rapid Rapidus Lat. Swift Fierce Violent He beheld and drove asunder the Nations and the Everlasting Mountains were scattered and the Perpetual Hills did Bow Haba 3. Vers. 6. V. 713. All my War my Bow All my Instruments and Preparations for War my Bow and Thunder my Irresistible Arms. God is described by the Royal Psalmist Whetting his Sword and bending his Bow Psal. 6. Vers. 12. He bent his Bow and set me as a Mark for the Arrow he caused the Arrows of his Quiver to enter into my Reins Lam. 3. Vers. 12 and 13. Thy Bow was made quite Naked Hab. 3. Vers. 9. V. 714. Upon thy puissant Thigh According to that Psalm Prophetick of our Saviour Gird thy Sword upon thy Thigh O most Mighty Psal. 43. Vers. 3. Puissant Book 1. Vers. 632. V. 720. All his Father ful exprest He Received the fulness of his Almighty Father exprest in his Face unaccountably Ineffably Unspeakably exprest of ineffabilis Lat. not to be utter'd V. 722. The Filial Godhead God the Son Filial Lat. Filialis and Filius a Son V. 728. Is all my Bliss According to his own Testimony of himself My Meat is to do the Will of him that sent me John 4. Vers. 34. For I came down from Heav'n not to do mine own Will but the Will of him that sent me John 6. Vers. 38. Then said Lo I come in the Volume of the Book it is Written of me to do thy Will O God Heb. 10. Vers. 7. V 731. In the End thou shalt be all in all Then cometh the End when he shall have deliver'd up the Kingdom to God even the Father and when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be All in All 1 Cor. 15 Vers. 24 and 28. Resign Resignare Lat. to Restore to give up V. 739. Th' undying Worm Of gnawing and tormenting Conscience Where their worm dieth not Mar. 9. 44. V. 749. With Whirlwind sound the Chariot of Paternal Deity The Chariot of the Almighty God the Father came rushing forth with the sound of a mighty Whirlwind And I looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north Ezek. 1. 4. For behold the Lord will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind Isa. 66. 15. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury a continuing whirlwind Jer. 30. 23. By this terrible Metaphor God's Wrath and Fury is frequently described in Scripture With a tempest in the day of the whirlwind Amos 1. 14. Turbinis atri More furens AEn 10. Paternal Deity God the Father Paternalis Lat. of Pater Lat. a Father W●irlwind Wirbelwind Ger. of Wirblen Ger. to turn round V. 751. Wheel within Wheel instinct with Spirit And their appearance was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel Ezek. 1. 16. Undrawn Instinct c. When the living creatures went the wheels went by them for the spirit of life was in the wheels Ibid. v. 19 20. out of which Chapter this noble Description is taken Instinct Book II. V. 935. V. 753. Four Faces each had wondrous c. Every one had four faces and every one four wings Ezek. 1. 16. And every one had four faces the first was the face of a cherub Ezek. 10. 14. Convoy'd accompanied attended on of the Fr. Convoyer to wait on V. 755 Wings were sit with Eyes As for the likeness of the living creatures their appearance was like burning coals of fire like the appearance of lamps here called Eyes Ezek. 1. 13. According to that of Daniel His eyes as lamps of fi●e ch 10. v. 16. Ezek. 1. 18. and ch 10. v. 12. And their whole body and their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about Cui quot sunt corpore plum● tot vigiles oculi subter AEn 4. V. 756. The Wheels of Beril And the appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of Beril Ezek. 1. 16. And the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a Beril stone Ezek. 10. 10. In both which places and also Exod. 28. 20 the original word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a Sea-colour thence translated a Beril stone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a precious Stone of a Sea-green colour found in India by Aquila rendred a Chrysolite and by Symmachus a Hiacinth all of that complexion Ibid. And careering Fires between With quick and darting Fires between And the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightnings Exek 1. 13. Careering Book 1. V 766. V. 757. A chrystal Firmament A bright Firmament like the AErial expanse clear as Chrystal the Footstool of God's Throne And the likeness of the firmament upon thr heads of the living creature was as the colour of terrible chrystal Ezek. 1. 22. V. 758. Whereon a Saphir

horrida coelo Tempestas telorum adamantaeaeque procellae Fulmineique globi ferratâ grandine nimbus Volvitur alatis animosa per agmina turmis Spirituum quas nulla valet vis sistere contra Montibus immotis quamvis vel Rupibus AEqua NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VII Vers. 1. DEscend from Heav'n Urania Come down from Heav'n Urania if that Name well pleas'd thou hear'st Come down from Heav'n O Divine Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Heavenly So horace Descende caelo dic age tibia Regina longum Calliope mclos Car. 1. 3. Od. 4. So Pindar styles his Muse Daughter of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Urania was the name of one of the nine Muses of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Heaven Whence even the Heathen Poets acknowledged all their help Therefore ours invokes and calls upon the meaning not the Muse the empty Name V. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calli. Excipit Urania fecere silentia cunctae Ov. Fast. 1. 5. V. 4 Of Pegasean Wing O heavenly Spirit following thy divine Voice and Dictates I have raised my self above the lofty Hill Olympus the Abode and Heaven of the Heathen Gods above the reach of the Poetic Pegasus's Wings I call on thee for thy assistance not on that Name faintly resembling and expressing thee Pegasus was the Poets Winged Horse sprung out of the Blood of Medusa when her Head was cut off by Perseus Pennisque fugacem Pegason fatrem matris de sanguine natos Ovid. Met. 4. This Kephel was famous for opening the Muses beloved Fountain Hippocrene with a stroak of his Heels whence he was named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Fountain after many Exploits he flew up to Heaven where he is noted among the Stars in Jovis Praesepe Hence Perseus's Pegaseium melos Prolo Sat. 1. Dicite quae fontes Aganippidos Hippocrenes Grata Medufaei signa tenetis Equi Ov. Fast. 5. Olympian Book II. V. 531. Olympus Book I. V. 516. Of this famous Mountain the Muses were named Olympiades esteem'd the Daughter of Olympian Jove and Memory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesid in Theog V. 9. Thou with eternal Wisdom c. His spirit garnish'd the heavens Job 26. 13. The Lord possest me Wisdom in the beginning of his way before his works of old when there were no depths I was brought forth when there were no Fountains abounding with water before the Mountains were setled before the Hills was I brought forth Prov. 8. 22 24 25. V. 12. Pleas'd with thy Celestial Song Then I was with him as one brought up with him And I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him Prov. 8. 30. V. 15. Empyreal Air thy tempting By thee led up into the bighest Heavens I have presumed to soar an Earthly Guest and breath'd that pure Celestial Air temper'd by thee He alludes to the Air that on some very high Mountains is so extreamly thin and suttle that Humane Lungs are incapable of drawing it His Presumption is meant of the daring flights of his Fancy singing and describing this Angelic War c. in Heaven V. 16. To my native Element To this lower Region of the Air in which I had my Birth V. 17. From this flying Steed Lest by my flying and unruly Fancy thrown and dismounted as heretofore Bellerophon thô from less lofty height I fall distracted to wander all alone lost and undone He compares his swift and towring Fancy to a flying ungovernable Horse extreamly well considering with how much celerity Fancy finds her way through Heaven and Earth and Hell it self through all the Parts and Paths of Nature and how dangerous it is to lay the Reins loose on her Neck or not to have strength of Judgment enough to guide and curb her V. 18. Belleroph●n was a noble and chast Youth Son of Glaucus who refusing the amorous Applications of Antea as Homer Sthenobaea as others say the Queen of Praetus was by her false suggestions like those of Joseph's Mistress to her Husband sent into Lycia with Letters desiring his destruction where mounted upon Pegasus he kill'd the Chimaera and perform'd divers other notable Exploits but attempting vain-gloriously to mount up to Heaven on his Winged Steed Jupiter made his unruly unrein'd Horse so ungovernable that he threw his Rider on the Alean Plain where being struck blind he wandred finding no Relief till he died with Hunger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quid profuit olim Hippolito grave propositum Quid Bellerophonti Erubuit nempe haec ceu fastidita repulsa Nec Sthenobaea minus quam cressa excanduit se Concussere ambae Juv. Sat. 10. Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte Hor. Carm. l. 3. Od. 12. V. 22. Visible diurnal Sphear Half my work is still unfinish'd Six only of these Twelve Books into which he digested it being compleated but the Remainder lies in narrower bounds within the compass of discerning day firm standing on the Earth not snatch'd above the Stars with daring slight more safe I sing with manly voice not changed by straining it to hoarsness or into dumbness wearied c. Diurnal Diurnus Lat. daily Rapt Lat. Raptus snatch'd up V. 28. Solitude Lat. Solitudo solitariness living alone of Solus Lat. alone V. 32. The barbarous Dissonance c. The harsh rude Noisefulness the disagreeable discord and disturbance of Sots and Songsters Barbarous Bo. I. V. 353. Dissonance Dissonantia Lat. a disagreeing in Tune Untunableness V. 33. Of Bacchus and his Revellers Bacchus was the God of Wine and Deity of Drunkards See Bo. IV. V. 279. Revellers are such as dance and drink all night of the Fr. Resveiller as of Revigilare to watch A word well suiting the Ciconian Maenades that ran madding up and down in their drunken Dances celebrating the Rites of Bacchus who were the Murderers of the Thracian Bard here styled the Wild Rout. V. 34. The Thracian Bard Orpheus Son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope born in Thrace a noble Poet and Philosopher who after the loss of his much lamented Euridice not affecting second Nuptials as Virgil or as others for his divine Disswasives against Lust and Incontin●nce was torn in pieces by the Ciconian mad Women sacrificing to B●cchus on Rhodope a Mountain of Thrace Spreto Ciconum quo munere matres Inter sacra Deûm nocturnique Orgia Bacchi Discerptum latos juvenem sparcere per agros Geo. 4. Non me carminibus vincet nec Thracius Orpheus Virg. Ecl. 4. Ovid to the former subjoyns a more scandalous cause of this Feminine Fury Ille etiam Thracum populis fuit auctor amorem In teneros transferre mares Met. 10. But Horace gives us his true Character Sylvestres homines sacer interpresque deorum Caedibus victu faedo deterruit Orpheus Dictus ob hoc lenire Tigres rabidosque Leones De Arte Poet. Bard the Bardi were the

W●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 Reason● 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 ●nâ sede morantur Majest●● 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 Seal● the way up of Seal● Lat. a Ladd●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

vocqnt facultatem animalem iisdem instrumentis deferri exerceri puta Nervis Musculis Vall. de Sac. Phil. c. 79. V. 190. Inspired with Act Intelligential Endow'd his Brutal Sensitive Faculties with power of Understanding and Utterance altogether Preternatural above the ordinary use of Nature Intelligential Bo. V. V. 407. V. 192. Sacred Light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacer Dies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light and Day being by the Heathen esteemed the Irradiation and visible Emanation of the Sun the glorious God of Day Light may be better styled Holy by Christians in regard it is the clearest Emblem of God's Infinite Purity as at Bo. III. V. 3. as by it is Typified the Kingdom of Heaven and everlasting Happiness Partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Colos. 1. 12. And the Knowledge of Grace and Truth directing us the way to obtain it Because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth 1 Joh. 2. 8. Ut primum Lux Alma data est AEn 1. V. 193. On the humid Flours On the Flours wet with the Morn's precious Dew Humid Bo. IV. V. 151. V. 194. That breath'd their Morning Incense That breath'd forth their precious Fragrancy to wards Heaven perfuming the ambient Air their Native unfum'd Incense Spiriting odorous Breaths Bo. V. Vers. 482. as Virgil expresses it Sertisque recentibus halant AEn 1. Halare Lat. to cast out or breath a sweet smell Incense of Incendere Lat to burn dry and odoriferous Gums in sacrificing burnt V. 195. Send up silent Praise When all things that grow on Earth Plants Shrubs and Flowers from her green Altar send up their Sacrifice of Praise thô not express'd by any Vocal Sound but by obeying the Laws of their Creation V. 197. His Nostrils fill c. Spoken of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Scripture often does giving him Eyes Mouth a Heart and Nostrils to comply with the Imperfections and Infirmities of our Faculties And the Lord smelled a sweet savour and the Lord said in his heart Gen. 8. 21. V. 198. Their Vocal Worship Their Adoration paid with chearful Heart and Voice joyned to the Universal Quire of Creatures wanting Sounds distinct and articulate whereby to tune his Praise thô the warbling Lark and winged Voices of the Woods seem more immediately to bear a part in the general Thanksgiving some of which up to Heaven's Gate singing ascend Vocal Bo. V. Vers. 204. V. 201. Then Commune Then talk together Of Communicare Lat. to discourse of V. 203. The hands dispatch of two For their work grew upon 'em too fast to be dispatch'd and kept under by the hands of them two who had so large a Garden committed to their care The Dispatch the Riddance the Work of the Ital. Dispacciare to rid V. 209. Luxurious by Restraint Encreasing by being cropt sproughting the more by being Lop'd and Pruned Luxurious rank Bo. I. V. 498. So Luxuriem segetum tenerâ depascit in herbâ Geor. 1. V. 211. Derides tending to wild Scorns our scant Correction and mocks our Manuring over-running our Walks with wild ungovern'd growth Derides Deridere Lat. to laugh at to despise Tending of Tendere Lat. to spread to proceed V. 218. Of Roses intermix'd with Myrtle While I in yonder blushing Grove where all the Roses of the Spring mingled with Myrtle grow find what to reform Myrtle Bo. IV. V. 263. To redress Redresser Fr. to correct to amend V. 222. Looks intervene or smiles Our Looks or Smiles delay and hinder our dispatch coming between and interposing betwixt us and our Business Intervene Intervenire Lat. to come between Intermits Bo. II. V. 463. V. 227. Associate sole My one only Companion Of Associare Lat. to accompany V. 229. Well hast thou Motion'd Well hast thou moved and mention'd this to me To make a Motion and to move the Court Law terms to Entreat something of Motio and Movere Lat. Nor is Speech made any other way than by the motion of the Tongue and Air. V. 234. To Promote To Encourage Of Promovere Lat. to further V. 237. Refreshment Ease Refraischissement Fr. Refrigeratio Lat. by intermission of Labour or refection by Food Intercourse of Looks and Smiles this pleasant exchange of charming Looks and sweetning Smiles Intercursus Lat. a running between or from one to another V. 239. Smiles from Reason flow Smiling is so great an Indication of Reason that some Philosophers have alter'd the Definition of Man from Animal Rationale to Risibile affirming Man to be the only Creature endowed with the Power of Laughter denied to other Creatures who Reason though not contemptibly as our Author Bo. VIII V. 374. yet not perfectly enough to judge Quid sit Ridiculum what may move that in them V. 249. For Solitude sometimes c. For to be alone sometimes that is to keep one self company to be acquainted with our selves is highly necessary to Men and especially to Christians Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus is the Result of the Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tecum habita ut noris quam sit tibi curtasupellex Pers. Sat. 4. V. 250. Retirement urges sweet Return Absence makes Return more sweet and desirable Urges Urgere Lat. to push and prick forward Innatus apes amor urget habendi Geor. 4. V. 259. To circumvent Circumvenire Lat. to ensnare to deceive V. 264. Excites his Envy That moves his Malice more against us Excites Excitare Lat. to stir up to quicken Envy Lat. Invidia V. 266. Protects Defends of Protegere Lat. to cover to hide and thence protects from Harm V. 270. The Virgin Majesty The innocent unspotted Eve faultless as yet and unpolluted or the beauteous blushing Eve Quae Virgineum suffuderat ore ruborem As Virg. Geo. 1. Virgo is by the Poets used not always strictly for a Virgin but for a Woman So in the description of the Harpies by the same Author Virginei volucrum vultus AEn 3. Which Interpreters render Faeminei they had the Countenances of Women for they were far from being like Virgins whose Aspects were Pallida semper ora fame Ibid. Ovid calls Medea Adultera Virgo and after several Visits made by Leander cross the Hellespont to his beloved Hero not all surely in vain she is said to be Moritura super crudeli funere Virgo Geo. 3. But the Virgin Majesty of Eve the Awful Innocence of Eve will admit of a severer sense according to the fancy of many of the Fathers who were of opinion That Adam and his fair Eve were Virgins during their abode in the happy Garden because Moses took no notice of his knowing her till the Birth of Cain after their Expulsion Gen. 4. 1. Post inobedientiam post Paradisi amissionem tunc primum usus rei venereae caepit Chrys. Hom. 18. Adam Eva ante offensam in Paradiso virgines fuerunt at post Peccatum extra Paradisum protinus nuptiae Nuptiae ergo terram replent virginitas Paradisum Hier. l.

and Glory are frequently express'd by it in Holy Writ Thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee Psal. 21. 8. Sit on my right hand Psal. 110. 1. On the contrary the Left was esteemed weak and wicked A wise man's heart is at his right hand but a fools heart at his left Eccl. 10. 2. And the Discrimination of the Blessed and the Accursed at the Day of Judgment is typified by the same distinction He shall set the sheep on his right hand but the goats on his left Matth. 25. 33. So Virgil describes the two ways leading to Happiness and Misery after Death Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas Dextera quae Ditis magni sub maenia tendit Hac iter Elysium nobis at Laeva malorum Exercet paenas ad impia Tartara mittit And the fiery Phlegethon is placed Sub rupe sinistrâ AEn 6. Sinister Lat. of the left hand and thence unlucky V. 887. As supernumerary to my just number The number of Ribs in a Human Body being twenty four twelve on each side has put the Curious upon Enquiry whether Adam had thirteen on that side out of which the Rib formed into his Companion was taken Those that are of this Opinion seem to make him a Monster and cannot easily disintagle themselves from that Absurdity Others therefore say he had no more than his Descendents but that one of 'em which was substracted from his Side was by that Omnipotent Power who formed him from the Dust supply'd by another which the Text Gen. 2. 21. where there is only mention of closing up the Flesh will as well admit of at that other at V. 23. where Adam styles Eve Flesh of his Flesh in whose Formation there is nothing more named than a bare Rib of which our Author makes incensed Adam say it had been well if it had been thrown away as unnecessary or over and above the equal number of his Ribs on each side Supernumerarius Lat. exceeding the usual number V. 890. With Spirits masculine c. It is generally supposed that the whole Angelic Nature was entirely created at once without distinction of Sex that difference being only necessary to People this inferior World by Propagation our Saviour in his Answer to the Sadduces captious Question concerning the Resurrection having declared That those who shall arise to a blessed Resurrection shall neither Marry nor be given in Marriage but be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Equal to the Angels Luke 20. 34 35. Spirits masculine He-Angels Masculinus Lat. of Mas a Man a He Creature V. 891. This fair Defect of Nature This fair Failure in Nature this charming Want and Weakness Male and Female Creatures being of the same kind and only differenc'd by their Sex the Feminine seems to be a kind of Lameness and Weakness a Hurt and Damage of the more perfect and compleat Sex Nimirum vir est quod firmum proinde efficax faemina quod debile proinde receptivum pati idoneum So that a Woman is as it were a maim'd and imperfect Man Vall. de Sac. Philos c. 1. This Novelty this strange thing this wonderful new thing in Nature so called in respect of the supposed Peopling of Heaven with Masculine Spirits Nouveauté Fr. a new unusual thing of Novus Lat. Defect Defectus Lat. a deficiency something wanting V. 894. To generate Mankind To encrease and multiply Mankind that Men might rise like Mushroms out of their Mother Earth's moist lap As Lucretius Maternum nomen adepta Terra tenet merito quoniam genus ipsa creavit Humanum atque animal propè certo tempore fudit Omne Lib. 5. V. 902. Through her Perversness By her Frowardness or Obstinacy Perversitas Lat. crossness V. 905. To a fell Adversary Chain'd by ill-made Marriage to an angry Enemy his Curse or his Confusion Fell curs'd cruel of Felle an old Fr. word of Fel Lat. the Gall as if Felleus bitter Wedlock-bound Married as Wind-bound V. 909. He added not He said no more Repuls'd Repulsus Lat. refus'd dishearten'd of repellere Lat. to overthrow to drive back Tresses Bo. 4. v. 305. V. 913. Besought his Peace Begg'd his Pardon entreated to be restored to his Favour V. 918. And elasp thy Knees And humbly embrace thy Knees an Universal Custom among all Nations Hominis genibus quaedam religio inest observatione gentium Haec supplices attingunt ad haec manus tendunt haec ut aras adorant Plin. l. 11. c. 45. The Knees were Sacred to Pity and Compassion as the Forehead to the Genius and the Right Hand to Fidelity Genua amplexus genibusque volutans Haerebat AEn 3. The Heathens used to affix their Supplications or their Vows for obtaining them to those parts of their Idol-Gods Genua incerare Deorum Juven Suppliant Supplicans of Supplicare Lat. to sue to entreat Subsist Bo. 9. v. 359. V. 931. I against God and Thee I have offended both God the supreme Sovereign Lord of all Things and Beings and thee also my immediate and particular Lord. V. 933. Importune Heaven Beseech God who dwels in Heaven with most earnest Entreaties c. Importune earnestly to Entreat of Importunus Lat. Bo. 9. v. 609. V. 937. And her lowly Plight immoveable Her humble Posture from which she refused to rise till she had made her Peace Plight Bo. 1. v. 335. Immoveable Immobilis Lat. unremoved Deplor'd lamented bewail'd Deploratus Lat. Commiseration Commiseratio Lat. Pity Reconcilement Reconciliatio Lat. a return to Kindness and Friendship V. 955. All Might be visited c. That all the Punishment might light on To visit in Scripture Phrase signif to Punish In the day of my Visitation I will visit their sin upon them Ex. 32. 34. Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Jer. 5. 9. So Jerusalem because of her Abominations is called The City of Visitation Jer. 6. 6. Visited of Visitare Lat. to go to see to enquire into a thing Expos'd Expositus Lat. laid open as here to danger V. 965. To our Seed deriv'd Streaming down to all Succession A Metaphor from Water running forth from its Spring head Derivare aquam ex fonte as Quintil. As Water issueth from its Well-spring and runs till it mingle with its Original Ocean so does Adam's Sins spread over his Posterity till Time shall be swallowed up of Eternity Derived Derivatus Lat. flowing down to V. 967. By sad Experiment By woful Experience Experimentum Lat. Tryal Proof Erroneous Bo. 6. v. 146. By just Event by what is deservedly come to pass Event Eventus Lat. of Evenire Lat. to happen V. 978. Tolerable as in our Evils c. Yet better to be undergone in this our ill condition and sitter to be chosen and preferable to it Tolerabilis Lat. sufferable V. 979. If Care of our Descent c. If the Concern of our Offspring of those that shall come of and

v. 749. Express Expressus Lat. manifest apparent V. 359. Supernal Grace Grace sent from God above Supernus Lat. high Enured Bo. 2. v. 216. V. 367. For I have drencht her Eyes For I have shed dewie Sleep into her Eyes which the Latin Translator mistaking has render'd For I have made her weep Ast Eva interea quoniam nunc ejus ocellos Vox mea compuler at Lachrymarum fundere rivum Dormiat hic placidam capiens per membra quietem Rather thus Ast Evae interea medicata papavere multo Lumina cujus hebent placidum sine serpere somnum Drencht wet moisten'd Of the Sax. Drencan to water A Drench is a Medicinal Potion Foresight the seeing of things yet to come the seeing them before they are V. 373. However Chastning How ere it please to punish me Chastning Fr. Chastier Lat. Castigare to correct V. 374. Arming to overcome by Suffering Putting on a Resolution to bear with Patience and with my Constancy to overcome all my Afflictions Qui●quid erit superanda est omnis fortuna ferendo AEn 5. V. 377. In the Visions of God As in Scripture the preternatural Revelations of Futurity are call'd And the Spirit brought me in the Visions of God to Jerusalem Ezek. 8. 3. In the Visions of God brought he me into the Land of Israel Ibid. 40. 2. V. 379. The Hemisphere of Earth It was the highest Hill of Paradise from whose lofty Head half the Globe of Earth plain to be seen lay spread out wide in open prospect round Hemisphere Bo. 3. v. 725. Ken Bo. 1. v. 59. Prospect Bo. 3. v. 77. V. 383. Our second Adam Jesus Christ. The second Man is the Lord from Heaven 1 Cor. 15. 47. The last Adam was a quickning Spirit Ibid. v. 45. In the Wilderness and the Devil taking him up into a high Mountain shewed unto him all the Kingdoms of the World Luk. 4. 6. V. 386. Or Modern Fame Of old or late Renown Modern Modernus Lat. new latter V. 388. From the Destin'd Walls of Cambalu From the design'd Walls of Cambalu a great City in Cathaie a Province of Tartary seated on the River Pol●sanga numerous in Inhabitants and rich in Merchandize the ancient Seat of the Tartarian Chams thence of Cham Lord and Balu a City named in the Tartarian Tongue Kambalu as Paulus Venetus affirms City of the Lord thence Seat of Cathajan Can. Cathaie was anciently known by Scythia extrà montem Imaum It s old Inhabitants the Cathei of Strabo giving it this new Name Destin'd Destinatus Lat. appointed as not being then built V. 389. Sarmacand by Oxus Temir's Throne Sarmacand is a City of Zagathaian Tartary famous for having been the Birth and Burial-place of the mighty Tamerlain where he kept his Royal Residence thence called Temir's Throne Temir Iron of his hardy Courage and Temir-Cutlu happy Iron c. Tamerlain was the Son of Ogg and by the Marriage of the Daughter of Ginocham obtain'd the Tartarian Empire which he so vastly enlarged that he alone subdued more Provinces than all the Romans had done in 800 years when most flourishing at one time he inriched this City with 8000 Camels laden with the Spoils of Damascus only Oxus a River in Zagathaie famous for the overthrow of Cyrus by the Scythians and Sabacham of Zagathaian Tartary by Ismael Sophie of Persia It riseth out of Mount Taurus and falls into the Caspian Sea V. 390. To Paquin of Sinaean Kings As far as Paquin the Royal Seat of the Chinese Kings Paquin Paquina Lat. Pequin Pechinum Lat. is a vast and populous City of China Capital of the Province of Pekin to which their Emperor removed from Naquin in the year 1404 to reside nearer the Tartars their perpetual Enemies and now their Conquerors Sinaean Kings Emperors of China called to this day Sinarum Regio Lat. where Ptolomy the old Geographer placed the Sinae of which China V. 391. To Agra and Lahor of Great Mogul Agra Lat. Capital of the Mogul's Empire is an Indian modern City rich and populous situated in Agra a Province of India beyond the River Ganges Lahor Lahorium Lat. a great City of East-India in a Province of the same Name 360 miles from Agra where the Moguls formerly had their Residence Mogul so called says Heylin as descended from the Mogul Tartars there being others called Sumoguls Jecomoguls c. V. 392. Down to the Golden Chersonese Down as far as to the Golden Peninsula now called the Promontory of Malaca from its chief City is the most Southern Headland of the East-Indies between Sumatra and Borneo two of the Oriental Islands it was known anciently by the name of Aurea Chersonesus Lat. Chersonese 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. is a Peninsula a Place almost quite surrounded by the Sea of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Earth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Island being almost an Island only tied to the Land by a small Isthmus or Neck of Land This of four others very considerable was named the Golden being very rich by a vast and universal Trade V. 393. The Persian in Ecbatan Ecbatana now Tauris and Tebris by the Inhabitants the ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Persia founded anno 786 once ruined by an Earthquake often sack'd by the Turks and ever since 1603 recover'd and kept by the Persians V. 394. Hispahan Or Hispaham Aspahamum Lat. the Royal City of Persia where the Sophies have resided near 100 years extreamly rich and populous seated in the Province of Hierach part of the ancient Parthia Ibid. Or Rassian Ksar in Mcsco Or the Russian Emperour in Mosco Russia is a vast Country in the North-East part of Europe formerly Sarmatia Europaea Ksar or Czar in the Slavonian Tongue is the Title of their Great Duke now Emperor of Muscovy so called of his Capital City Mosco or Mosqua a Wooden City seated on a River of the same name denominating the whole Nation and Empire V. 395. Or Sultan in Bizance Or the Grand Signior in Constantinople of Tartarian Original Byzantium Lat. now Constantinople is a City of Thrace and Capital of the Turkish Empire so named by Constantine the Great who Rebuilt it and made it the Eastern Seat of the Empire taken by Mahomet the Second The Sultan has his Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Dominion which no Monarch exerciseth more absolutely Turchestan is a Province of Zagathaian Tartary so styled because inhabited by the Turks before their inrode into Armenia V. 396. The Empire of Negus to Ercoco The Empire of Negus is that of the Ab●ssines whose Emperor is by the Europeans styled Prester John by the Moors Aticlabassi and by his own Subjects Acegue and Neguz that is Emperour and King His mighty Territory stretcheth from the Red Sea to Niger ending in the Ethiopic Ocean and almost from one Tropic to the other anciently called AEthiopia sub AEgypto c. Ibid. Ercoco Erquico Erquicium and by Heylin and others Erroco a Sea-port Town of Ethiopia in Africa having a

〈◊〉 Gr. cruel like a Tyrant V. 36. From Rebellion shall derive his Name Nimrod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to rebel as being the Arch-rebel against the Universal Law of Nature which allowed only of Paternal Power This Nimrod is with great probability thought to have been the ancient Belus the Builder of Babylon and Father of Ninus as well from Gen. 10. 10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel by the 70 render'd Babylon as from Profane Authority Tyrannize Tyrannizare Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Govern Arbitrarily V. 40. From Eden towards the West And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east Gen. 11. 2. V. 41. Wherein a black bitumenous Gurge That they found a plain in the land of Shinar Gen. 11. 2. And slime had they for mortar Ibid. v. 3. This Plain of Shinar near Babylon is famous for a great Pool out of which much bitumenous clammy Slime is gather'd Babylone locus est amplissima magnitudine habens supernatans liquidum bitumen quo bitumine latere testaceo structum murum Semiramis Babylonicum circumdedit Vitruvi l. 8. c. 3. Bituminous Bo. 10. v. 562. Gurge of Gurges Lat. à Gyrando a Pool Mater quae gurgitis hujus Ima tenes Geo. 4. This black Bituminous Pool is by our Poet stiled The Mouth of Hell for the same Reasons that the Lago d' Averno between Bajae and Puteoli in Campania was for its Sulphureous Streams mix'd with Sulphur Nitre and Bitumen called Alta Ostia Ditis Geo. 4. V. 44. Whose top may reach to Heaven Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth Gen. 11. 4. Whose top may reach to Heaven that is of a vast and incredible height Dispers'd Dispersus Lat. scatter'd abroad V. 51. Comes down to see their City Gen. 11. 5. Spoken of God after the manner of Men and denotes in Scripture the greatness of the Provocation and the immediate approach of the Punishment Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great I will go down c. Gen. 18. 20. V. 52. Obstruct Heaven's Towers Before their Tower was raised high enough to hinder his Prospect from Heaven's lofty Towers said in Derision Obstruct Obstruere Lat. to stop up to dam up Strue quadam obstare Derision Bo. 5. v. 736. V. 53. A various Spirit to rase their Native Language In derision of their proud and impious Attempt God set upon their Tongues a various Spirit a Spirit and Breath of Confusion which made 'em quite forget that which had till then been the Universal Language and turned and tuned their Tongues to different Speeches not heard before with which he inspired on the Sudden the Families and Tribes proceeding from the three Sons of Noah Hoc nempe modo Linguarum illa confusio divisio facta est Primò quidem fecit Deus omnes illos homines praeter Heber familiam ejus oblivisci primae linguae quae antea fuerat hominum communis Deinde pro diversitate illarum gentium quae tribus ex filiis Noë proseminatae concurrerant ad aedificationem Civitatis Turris diversos habitus variarum linguarum mentibus eorum insevit Deus Peter in Gen. A Miracle no less wonderful this of dividing the one Universal Languagage into so many and so various and thereby dispersing Mankind over the Face of the Earth than that of assembling all sorts of Tongues and Languages in the Apostles mouths on the Day of Pentecost Act. 2. in order to reunite all the Inhabitants of the Earth into one Faith and Holy Communion as the same Author observes Rase Bo. 1. v. 362. V. 55. A jangling Noise A scolding clamour of Words not understood At the confusion of Tongues strange was the Astonishment and mighty the Mockery and Madness that befel so vast a Multitude in one moment distracted as if deriding one another with their jangling unintelligible Nose Jangling of Jangler Fr. to scold or Jancken Belg. to bark and bawl at one another Well stiled A hideous Gable a dreadful Prattle an astonishing Din. Gable of the obsolete Javioler Fr. of Jayon a Jay a noisie Bird or of Habler Fr. Hablar Span. both of Fabulari Lat. to Prate to tell incredible Stories Hideous Bo. 1. v. 46. V. 58. Not understood That they may not understand one anothers speech Gen. 11. 7. Hubbub Bo. 2. v. 951. Din. 6. v. 403. V. 61. The Work confusion named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Confusion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to confound And they left off to build the City therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth Gen. 11. 8 9. Ridiculous Ridiculus Lat. Reproachful Execrable Bo. 2. v. 681. V. 68. Over B●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

As Ice more hardened after Thaw For Ice warm'd gently into a Thaw is made more receptive of those Saline and Nitrous Particles which fill the freezing Air and insinuating themselves into the Water already weakened are the cause of a harder Concretion Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis Geor. 3. Isicles freeze as they drop into a wonderful hardness V. 197. On dry land between two Chrystal Walls The Children of Israel went into the midst of the Sea upon the dry ground and the Waters were a Wall unto them on their right Hand and on their Left Exod. 14. 22. V. 198. Aw'd by the Rod of Moses c. Compel'd by the potent Rod of Moses to stand on either hand divided like a watry Wall Lift thou up thy Rod and stretch out thine hand over the Sea and divide it Exod. 14. 16. Rescu'd Bo. 11. v. 682. V. 203. By Day a Cloud by Night a Pillar of Fire The Lord went before them by Day in a Pillar of a Cloud to lead them the way and by Night in a Pillar of Fire to give them light to go by Day and Night Exod. 13. 21. which God performed by one of his Ministring Angels whom he appointed to be their Guardian The Angel of God which went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the Pillar of the Cloud went from before their face and stood behind them Exod. 14. 19. Obdurat Bo. 1. v. 58. V. 209. Will trouble all their Host Exod. 14. 24 and 25. And craze their Chariot Wheels break 'em in pieces of the Fr. Escraser to bruise or break as Exod. 14. 25. V. 214. And overwhelm their War Drown'd their whole Army as Exod. 14. 27. and 28. V. 216. Not the readiest way c. least War terrifie 'em inexpert God led them not through the way of the Land of the Philistines although that was near But God led the People about thorow the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea Exod. 13. 17 and 18. Terrifie Terrificare Lat. to affright Inexpert Inexpertus Lat. untrain'd undisciplined V. 219. Fear return them back to Egypt As is manifest by their Murmuring Expostulations with Moses when Pharaoh persued them Because there were no Graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the Wilderness Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt saying Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians Exod. 14. 11. and 12. V. 225. Found their Government and their Senate c. Exod. 18. 25. and 26. Found Fr. Fonder Lat. Fundare to lay the Foundations of to establish V. 227. Whose grey top shall tremble he descending Whose hoary Head shall shake while God comes down upon it Grey Lat. Canus is the usual Epithete of Mountains because the Snow lies longer there than in the Vallies and upon some of their lofty brows all the year long Gelidus canis cum montibus humor Liquitur Geo. 1. Sinai Bo. 1. v. 7. Of the Promulgation of the Law there with Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets Sound Exod. 19. 16 and 18. Tremble Trembler Fr. Tremere Lat. to shake V. 232. By Types and Shadows By Signs and dark Resemblances Type Typus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Mark or Impression made by striking a hard Body against one more yielding of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strike hence taken for obscure and Mystical Representations of things to come such Images as the Jewish Sacrifices were of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World Revel 10. 8. Read Hebr. 9. V. 238. And terror cease And the fear that fell on them by hearing the Almighties Dreadful voice might be remov'd They said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we Die Exod. 20. 19. Report Rapporter Fr. to relate V. 240. Without Mediator And Moses alone shall come near the Lord Exod. 24. 2. according to his own Testimony of himself Behold I have taught you Statutes and Judgments even as the Lord my God commanded me Deut. 4. 5. to which that refers The Law was ordain'd by Angels in the hand of a Mediator Moses Galat. 3. 19. One Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. Mediator Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that comes between the Offended and Offendor an Intercessor V. 241. Moses in Figure bears That Moses was a Type of Christ and the Deliverance of the Children of Israel from their Egyptian Bondage and their Purifications by Sacrifices a mysterious Representation of our Saviours Death and Redeeming us from the Slavery of Sin and Eternal Punishment is most manifest St. Paul draws the Parrallel very plain between 'em For Moses took the Blood of Calves and of Goats c. for Christ is not enter'd into the holy places made with hands which are the Figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9. 19. 24. V. 243. And all the Prophets And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he Christ himself expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself Luk. 4. 27. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet like unto me Deut. 18. 15. Propheta Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that foretels things to come Messiah Bo. 5. v. 664. V. 257. To set up his Tabernacle Let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them according to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 8 and 9. Tabernacle Bo. 15. v. 654. V. 250. By his Prescript a Sanctuary of Cedar According to his appointment Praescriptum Lat. form fashion Sanctuary Bo. 1. v. 588. of which the Ark and Mercy Seat Read Exod. 25. 8 9 10. 17 18 c. V. 252. His Testimony the Records of his Covenant In the Ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee Exod. 25. 21. Records Bo. 1. 361. Testimony Testimonium Lat. the Witness and Evidence of God's Covenant made with his People obliging them to Obedience and promising his Blessings Temporal and Eternal V. 256. Seven Lamps representing the Heavenly Fires And thou shalt make the Seven Lamps thereof Exod. 25. 37. This Sevenfold Candlestick was the Image of the Heavenly Sphere representing the Seven Planets as Philo Tropologizes on the Text. Mysticè Candelabrum hoc septifidum imago erat caelestis Sphaerae septilustris sive septem Planetarum Tabernaculum Typus Mundi● Sanctum Sanctorum Typus Caeli Empyrei Beatorum V. 257. A Cloud by day a fiery gleam by night The Cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day and Fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their Journeys Exod. 40. 38. Gleame Bo. 4. v. 461. V. 264. And Nights due course adjourn By putting off and delaying the usual approach of Night To Adjourn Adjourner Fr. is to put off to another Day as Night was

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

c. as also gave him what he asked not Riches and Honour 1 Kings 3. 12. 13. of his Building the Temple read 1 Kings 6. Enshrine Bo. 5. v. 272. Register'd Recorded in their Chronicles where their Stories are to be Read Of Registare Lat. to enter into the Publick Rolls and Records V. 343. Babylon thence call'd Bo. 1. v. 717. Believ'd to have been built by Nimrod and named Babel Confusion from that of Tongues afterwards Wall'd by Semiramis and beautified and enlarg'd by Nabuchadneser Dan. 4. V. 345. The space of seventy years This Captivity happened in the beginning of Jehoiakim's Reign whom Nabuchadneser carried with all his People and the Wealth of the Land and the Holy Vessels of the Temple to Babylon 2 Kings 24. 6. 11 12 and 13. according to the Prophesie of Jeremiah This whole Land shall be a Desolation and an Astonishment and these Nations shall serve the King of Babylon seventy years c. 25. 11. As long as she lay Desolate she kept Sabbath to fulfil threescore and ten years 2 Chron. 36. 21. at the end of which Cyrus King of Persia releast them out of Captivity v. 23. V. 347. Stablisht as the days of Heaven Everlastingly firm and as indefeisable as Eternity His Throne as the days of Heaven Psal. 89. 29. Stablisht of Stabilire Lat. to make stedfast V. 350. They first reedifie First they Rebuild Gods House begun in the Reign of Cyrus and by his Decree according to Isaiah's Prophesie That saith of Cyrus he is my Shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure even saying to Jerusalem Thou shalt be built and to the Temple thy Foundation shall be laid ch 44. 28. and finisht in the sixth year of Darius Ezra 1. 2. and ch 6. 15. Reaedificare Lat. to rebuild V. 357. At last they seize the Scepter c. Though the Posterity of Jeconia's viz. Zerobabel the Son of Salathiel were stiled the Princes of Juda and of the Jews as Hagai 1. v. 1. yet great part of the Power remain'd in the hands of the High Priests as is evident out of Josephus Antiq. l. 20. c. 81. and descended down to the Machabaeans Judas surnamed Aristobulus being the first who joyned the Kingdom to the Priesthood which was at last utterly lost the Romans Creating Herod King of Judea V. 360. That Messiah might be Born bard of his Right According to the Prophesie of Jacob. The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Lawgiver from between his Feet until Shilo come Gen. 49. 10. which came to pass in the 36th year of Herod when the Jews after many struggles submitted quietly to his Government Messiah Bo. 5. v. 664. Bard of Bazzè Fr hinder'd depriv'd of V. 362. The Eastern Sages The Wise Men that came from the East to Jerusalem Matth. 2. 1. 2. Sages Sage Fr. Saggio Ital. Wise of Sagire Lat. to be Wise. V. 363. To offer Incense c. Matth. 2. 12. V. 367. By a Quire of Squadron'd Angels hear his Carol c. Luk. 2. 9 13 14. Carol Carolle Fr. a Song of Rejoycing used at Festivals and anciently at Christmass of the Sax. Carl or Ceorl a Rustick sort of a Song as being first Sung to Shepherds or as some will have it of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Joy the glad tidings of a Saviours Birth V. 368. A Virgin but his Sire the Power of the most High The Virgins Name was Mary The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the Power of the highest shall over shadow thee Luk. 1. 27. and 35. V. 370. His glory with the Heavens Imperium Oceano famam qui terminat Astris Virg. V. 387. As of a Duel As of a Personal Fight Duel Duellum Lat. a Combate between two of Duo Lat. two Recure Recurare Lat. to heal again V. 395. His Works in thee and in thy Seed For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the Works of the Devil 1 St. John 3. 8. V. 402. The Law of God exact he shall fulfill According to his own Testimony of himself Think not that I am come to destroy the Law and the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill Matth. 5. 16. as appears by those more excellent and spiritual Precepts refined and rais'd far above those of the Law deliver'd in that Chapter V. 404. Though Love alone fulfill the Law Rom. 13. 10. V. 407. Proclaiming Life to all c. For God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3. 16. V. 410. Not their own though Legal Works Knowing that a Man is not justified by the Works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ and not by the Works of the Law for by the Works of the Law shall no flesh be justified Gal. 2. 16. V. 411. Be Blasphem'd Be spoken of Reproachfully And many other things hlasphemously spake they against him Luk. 22. 65. Blasphem'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to reproach to revile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to destroy to take away ones good Name or Reputation V. 413. To a Death shameful and accurst Christ hath Redeemed us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us For it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree Gal. 3. 13. and Deut. 21. V. 415. But to the Cross he nails the Law that was against thee Blotting out the hand writing of Ordinances that was against us nailing it to his Cross Gal. 2. 14. Crucified Crucifigere Lat. to fasten to the Cross. V. 420. Soon revives Returns to Life Christs Resurrection Of Reviviscere Lat. to live again V. 421. Ere the third dawning Light As it began to dawn towards the first day of the Week Matth. 28. 1. Very early in the morning as St. Mark 16. 2. to which St. Austin applies Prophetically that of Psal. 57. 8. I my self will awake right early V. 427. By Faith not void of Works For as the Body without the Spirit is Dead so Faith without Works the evidence and activity of it is dead also Jam. 2. 26. V. 428. Annuls thy Doom Cancels and Blots out the Sentence given against thee Annuls Anuller Fr. to make void of Annihilare Lat. to destroy to bring to nothing V. 435. A gentle Wafting c. An easie and safe passage to Immortality to Waft is properly to guard as Convoys do Fleets of Merchant Ships of Wachten Bel. to guard to watch over V. 438. To appear to his Disciples Mat. 28. 16 17. Mark 16. 14. Luk. 14. 36. John 20. 19. Discipulus Lat. a Scholar a Learner V. 440. To teach all Nations c. Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them c. Mat. 28. 19. Mark 16. 15. V. 442. Baptizing in the profluent Stream Washing them in the pure running Stream To Baptize is of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

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 T●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 emp●ies it self into the Gulph of Bengala Decolor extremo quâ ●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 Ima●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 caud● 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

have one common Center V. 107. As God in Heaven is Center c. As God above is the Center of all Created Nature extending his Goodness round the Circumference of the Creation so thou O Earth below seemest the receiving Center of all that mighty Goodness shower'd down on thee Deus est indivisible centrum cujus irradiatio in omnium rerum peripheriam extenditur Mersen V. 112. With gradual Life of Growth Sense Reason The three degrees of Life are set forth by Growth in Plants and Trees to which Sense being added makes that of Animals and Reason raising it still a step higher crowns the Creation with Man its Master-piece Gradual Gradualis of Gradus Lat. a Step a Degree V. 120. So much more I feel Torment within me Satan broke loose from his dark Prison Hell the dismal Seat of Desolation and Territory of Eternal Torment was so far from finding any case among all the charming Varieties of this wondrous World that all its Pleasures served but to inhance his Pain made by them more intense as from the hateful struggle of Contraries besieging one another with the most implacable Rage of Antipathy And worse would be his state in Heaven for wheresoe'er he goes is Hell he himself is Hell Bo. IV. Vers. 75. Bane Bo. I. Vers. 692. V. 128. Thô thereby worse to me redound Thô thereby more Misery be multiplied on my own Head of Redundare Lat. to return back upon Hoc facinus in tuum redundabit caput Plaut A true Instance of Satan's Malice against the Almighty wreck'd on Mankind V. 130. To my relentless Thoughts That scorn all Repentance Of Ralentir Fr. to grow soft to melt or Relentless cruel that torment me without intermission of the same Ralentir to grow slack and remiss V. 136. In one day to have marr'd In one day to have spoil'd what The Almighty call'd was six Days and Nights in making Marr'd of the Ital. Smarrire to disturb to confound V. 139. Had been contriving Considering of and finding out A blasphemous Thought of the Omniscient All-wise Creator but suitable to the ambitious and envious Invader of his Throne Contriving of Controuver Fr. to invent to find out by much thinking V. 147. Are his Created If Angels are his Creatures if they derive their Being from him their Creator as in Satans haughty Speech before presumed We know no time when we were not as now Know none before us self-begot self-rais'd By our own quickning Power The Birth mature Of this our Native Heav'n Etherial Sons Bo. V. Vers. 859. V. 150. Exalted from so base Original Raised from so base Beginning to the hopes of Heaven our Inheritance Man made up of mean Mould Original of Origo Lat. Beginning of Oriri Lat. to rise to spring up V. 155. Subjected to his Service c. Humbled the Winged Angels to wait on him Placed Angels round about him for a Guard a mighty Aggravation of Satan's Grief Subjected of Subjicere Lat. to put under to make subject and serviceable to Vigilance Bo. IV. V. 580. O Indignity O grievous Affront O vile Disgrace Of Indignitas Lat. Unworthiness Ibid. Flaming Ministers Angels a Flaming Fire Psal. 104. 4. Nothing better setting forth the Purity and Activity of the Angelic Nature V. 158. To Elude c. To avoid whose watchful Eyes thus I creep along h●d in dark Disguise of Midnight's blackest Mist. O how fall'n how chang'd From him who in the happy Realms of Light Cloath'd with Transcendent Brightness did outshine Myriads thô bright Bo. I. V. 84. Elude Eludere Lat. to deceive Glide Bo. IV. V. 555. Vapor Bo. III. V. 445. V. 161. In whose mazie Folds In whose cunning and intricate Turns and Twistings to conceal my self and my dark Design Mazie of Maze Bo. II. V. 561. Intent Intentio Lat. an Aim a Design V. 165. This Essence to Incarnate c. To hide this my Spiritual Being in Flesh nay worse to sink it down into a Beast and mix my self with bestial Slime and Filthiness I who attempted to raise my self above God over all Supream O foul dismal Descent and Downfal A fierce Reflexion and as furious and tormenting as hottest Hell it self A Degradation to ambitious Lucifer doubtless most grievous Constrain'd forc'd of Contraindre Fr. Constringere Lat. to compel Slime of Lumia Ital. Limus Lat. a watry and thin Mud. To Incarnate Incarnare Lat. to put on Flesh as our blessed Saviour's taking our Nature upon him is styled His Incarnaation Imbrute a word excellently coin'd by our Poet to express Satan's debasing himself into a Beast to accomplish his devilish Malice against God and Man Of In and Brutus Lat. dull heavy reasonless as Brute Beasts are V. 169. Who aspires must down as low c. Whoever aims to raise himself on high must humble himself as low one time or other liable to court the meanest Men and submit to the basest Offices Maxime most true Obnoxious Obnoxius Lat. exposed to liable to Non ulli obnoxia curae Georg. 2. Recoils Bo. II. V. 880. Reck Bo. II V. 50. V. 174. Since higher I fall short Since I cannot reach the most High since I cannot Master God my Maker I will fall upon his Favourite Man Favor Lat. kindness good will V. 176. This Man of Clay According to his Original Composition and final Resolution Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again Job 10. 19. I also am cut out of the clay Job 33. 6. therefore said To dwell in houses of clay whose foundotions are in the dust Job 4. 19. Ibid. Son of Despite Hateful Offspring the Object of our Envy formed and raised out of the Dust and designed to inherit our Heavenly Habitations the more to imbitter and inrage our Ruine Son of Despite is a Hebraism by which Wicked Men are termed Sons of Belial Deut. 13. 13. Valiant Men Sons of Courage 2 Sam. 2. 7. Untameable Beasts Sons of Pride Job 41. 25. The Disciples Sons of Light Luke 16. 8. So Satan calls Man The Son of Despite the Offspring of Hatred and Envy created to encrease his Punishment by seeing this Man of Clay substituted into that glorious Station of him Forlorn Outcast of Heaven Despite Despit Fr. Dispetto Ital. Despectus Lat. contempt V. 183. In Labyrinth c. Who had rouled himself up in many intricate Windings like a Maze Labyrinth Bo. II. V. 584. V. 186. Nor nocent yet The Serpent as yet unhurtful did not hide himself in dreadful Woods or dismal Den. Fearless unfear'd not afraid because not fear'd obvious and easie because yet innocent Nocent Nocens Lat. harmful V. 189. In Heart or Head possessing c. Seizing upon his Brutal Sense whether lodg'd in Heart or Head in which latter the best Philosophers place it Nam Medici multis neque inevidentibus argumentis indicant sensum motum ab eodem principio fluere puta à Cerebro ejusdemque animae partis esse quam