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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
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. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
reasons excellently ch 6. v. 6 and 7. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and how my self before the high God Shall I come before him with Burnt-offerings with Calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl Shall I give my First-born for my Transgression the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul No alas nothing less than the First-born of the Almighty The Image of the Invisible God and the First-born of every Creature Coloss. 1. 15. could attone whom God ordained to be a Propitiation for us Rom. 3. 25. Atonement under the Mosaic Law was an Offering brought to appease God's Anger by Sacrifice out of the Herd or the Flocks which was to be slain by him that offered it Lev. 1. v. 4 and 5. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the Burnt-offering and it shall be accepted for him to make Atonement for him And he shall kill the Bullock before the Lord. The Word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies Redemption or Ransom all the Judaic Immolations being Types and Figures of that Immaculate Lamb Jesus Christ The Lamb of God who taketh away the Sins of the World John 1. 29. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood Eph. 1. 7. Atonement seems a Musical Metaphor like Accord to bring Jarring Differences and Diffonancies ad Toman into Tune V. 241. On me wreck all his Rage On me let Death revenge himself with his utmost Rage Wreck of the Sax. Wpaecan to be revenged V. 249. With Corruption there to dwell According to the Prophetic Psalmist For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither suffer thy holy One to see Corruption Psal. 16. 10. Illustrated and applied to our Saviour who rose the third day by St. Peter Act. 2. v. 20 21 c. V. 253. And stoop inglorious And be humbled and subdued disgraced and disarmed of his irresistible Dart. Positis inglorius armis AEn 10. Inglorious Inglorius Lat. disgraced V. 255. Maugre Hell In spight of Hell Maugre of the Fr. Malgré against ones will of the Lat. Malé and Gratum V. 256. The Powers of Darkness bound According to the Apostle to the Colossians ch 2. v. 15. And having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them confirmed by St. Luke ch 10. v. 17 and 18. Lord even the Devils are subject unto us through thy Name and he said unto them I saw Satan as Lightning fall from Heaven V. 259. Glut the Grave Satisfie cloy the wide gaping Grave that e're it be satisfied must devour all Mankind The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death 1 Cor. 15. 26. Glut of the Lat Glutire to swallow V. 269. Filial Obedience The Duty and Submission which as a Son he paid his Almighty Father exceeded only his everlasting Love to mortal Men Filial of Filialis Lat. belonging to a Son Obedientia Lat. Duty Obedience V. 273. Thus replied Answered thus Of Replicare Lat. to reply to speak again to V. 276. My sole Complacence My only Delight and Pleasure In whom alone I am well pleased Complacentia Lat. of Complacere to like well See before V. 168. of this Book V. 282. Their Nature c. Joyn and unite their Manhood to their Godhead Perfect God and perfect Man c. according to St. Athanasius's Creed V. 285. By wonderous Birth Behold a Virgin shall Conceive and bear a Son Isa. 7. 14. and Matth. 7. 18. V. 286. The Head of all Mankind thô Adam's Son The Answer to the Question with which our Saviour posed the Pharisees Matth. 22. 45. Christ is Adam's and David's Son as to his Humanity and David's and Adam's Lord as to his Divinity therefore in the holy Page styled The last Adam The first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. V. 287. As in him perish For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22. Restored of Restaurare Lat. to renew revive V. 291. Thy Merit imputed shall absolve Thy holy Life and meritorious Death accounted and imputed to Mankind shall obtain Pardon and Forgiveness for as many as renounce their own Deserts and through Faith lay Claim to thine For as by one man's disobedience many were made Sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 19. And therrfore it was imputed to him for Righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone Abraham that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe him c. Rom. 4. v. 22 23 and 24. Imputed of the Lat. Imputare to reckon to account Absolve of the Lat. Absolvere to absolve to acquit to free V. 292. Who renounce their own both Righteous For who can justifie himself before God We must all say as Job did If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will I not lift up my head I am full of confusion Job 10. 15. We are all an unclean thing and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa. 64. 6. But could we do all that is commanded us we are unprofitable Servants Luke 17. 10. Renounce of the Lat. Renuntiare to forsake to disclaim V. 293. Live in the transplanted Removed from the killing Letter of the Law to the gracious Gospel that brought Life and Immortality to light pursuing the Simile used before at V. 288. of Christ being a second Root by whom we are Regenerated Transplantari Lat. to be removed as Trees are into another place a better soil V. 304. Degrade thine own Debase dishonour of Degradare Lat. to disgrace V. 307. God-like Fruition All that God enjoys Fruition of the Lat. Frui to enjoy Quitted all left forsaken all of the Fr. Quitter to leave V. 313. This Humiliation This thy humbling and debasing of thy self to redeem lost Man The greatest Humiliation sure that ever was where the Son of God made himself of no Reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of Men And being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Phil. 2. v. 7 8. V. 314. Thy Manhood to this Throne According to our Creed As also 1 Tim. 3. 16. God was manifested in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World received up into Glory And Ye Men of Galilee why stand ye Gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Acts 1. 11. Hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the Clouds of Heaven Matth. 26. 64 V. 315. Here shalt thou sit Incarnate Here
nuditas esset incognita sed turpis nondum erat quia nondum libido membra illa praeter arbitrium commovebat Nondum ad hominis inobedientiam redarguendam suâ inobedientiâ caro quodammodo Testimonium perhibebat Aug. l. 4. c. 17. de Civit. Dei. V. 1058. Naked left to guilty Shame Stript of their Innocence and Virtue the just Assurance of themselves and Original Uprightness they were left naked and open to dishonest Shame the Son of Guilt He cover'd 'em indeed but 't was with Confusion a wretched Robe that laid 'em much more open to which St. Paul seems to allude What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed Rom. 6. 21. V. 1060. The Danite strong Herculean Samson He was the Son of Manoah of Zorah of the Tribe of Dan thence named the Danite Judg. 13. 2. Herculean Herculeus Lat. as strong as Hercules the mighty Hero celebrated by all the Poets for his Prowess and famous Labours Son of Alemena and Jupiter who assumed the shape of her Husband Amphytrio V. 1061. Of Philistean Dalilah From the Lap of the Harlot Dalilah a Daughter of the Philistines Judg. 16. 4. V. 1062. Shorn of his Strength Bereaved of all his Strength by being shorn for he was a Nazarite from his Mother's Womb according to the command of the Angel Judg. 13. 5 16 19. Destitute Destitutus Lat. deprived of forsaken V. 1078. Of foul Concupiscence Of base vile Lust Concupiscentia Lat. a covetous disorderly Desire V. 1087. Their Umbrage Their Shadows Of Umbrage Fr. Umbra Lat. a Shade V. 1092. May from the present Misprinted for the present V. 1097 This new-comer Shame The disobedience of the Flesh became no small part of the shameful Punishment of their disobeying their Maker Ut paenâ reciprocâ inobedientia plecteretur extitit in motu corporis quaedam impudens novitas fecit attentos reddidit confusos Aug. de Civit. Dei l. 14. c. 17. V. 1103. In Malaber or Decan Malabria is a vast Peninsula or Promontory of the East-Indies lying between the Indian Sea West and the Gulph of Bengala or Ganges to the East of which Decan is a considerable Kingdom and Boundary V. 1104. Braunching so broad Of these Indian Fig-trees Sir Walter Rawleigh tells us he saw many thousands in the West-Indies in a Valley near Paria after they have shot up 20 or 30 Foot high having no Twig in the Stem they spread a large Top out of which there issueth a a Gummy substance which hanging down like a Cord in some Months time reaches the Ground and there Rooting grows speedily up into a Tree producing others in like manner Daughters as our Poet says that grow about the Mother-shade not renowned for Fruit which is no bigger than a great Pea Hist. of the World Bo. 1. ch 4. A Pillar'd Shade a cool Shade supported by many Trees that stand by one another like rows of Pillars Latitudo foliorum Peltae effigiem Amazoniae habet Plin. l. 12. c. 5. Ducit Amazonidum lunatis agmina peltis AEn 1. V. 1110. At Loop-holes cut At Passages cut through the thick Wood. Loop-hole of the Dut. Loopen Holes to run out at V. 1111. Broad as Amazonian Targe As large as an Amazonian Shield The Amazons had their Name of the Privative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Breast because they burnt off their right Breasts the better to draw their Bow They inhabited the North part of the Lesser Asia near the Euxine Sea where they built a famous City Themiscyra on the Banks of the River Thermodoon Quales Threiciae cum flumina Thermodoontis Pulsant pictis bellantur Amazones armis AEn 11. Targe a Shield of Tergum Lat. a Hide a principal part of it Clypeum tot ferri terga tot aeris Cum pellis toties obeat circumdata tauri AEn 10. V. 1116. Columbus found th' American Columbus by Birth a Genoese made the first Discovery of America Anno 1492. American an Inhabitant of America the fourth part of the World greater than the other three named of Americus Vespucius a Florentine who seven years after Columbus compleated the discovery of that vast Continent V. 1117. With feather'd Cincture With a Covering of Feathers girt about their Waste Cinctura Lat. a Girdle Not only the wild and naked Americans but the Gymnosophists that had their name from Nakedness who studied Philosophy in the vast Solitudes of India veiled their Wastes as do every where the most barbarous Nations confessing tacitly themselves the Descendents of a finful and ashamed Adam Turbulent Stormy Turbulentus Lat. Contentious V. 1133. Speech intermitted His discontinued Discourse Intermissus Lat. left off broken off Bo. II. v. 463. V. 1145. Imput'st thou that to my Default Lay'st thou the Fault on me Imputare Lat. to blame to charge with Default Fr◠a failing a fault V. 1160. Fix'd in thy Dissent Resolure in thy Refusal determinate in thy Denial Dissent Dissensus Lat. a denial a disagreeing V. 1185. If Evil thence ensue Nihil est audacius illis Deprensis iram atque animos à crimine sumunt Juv. Sat. 6. NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK X. V. 1. THe Hainous c. The hateful and despightful Deed for Satan out of Hatred and Revenge on God was push'd upon this direful attempt against Man his new Favorite Hainous Haineux Fr. hateful Of Haine Fr. hatred V. 16. Manyfold in Sin Interpreters give us Eight sorts of Sins contain'd in or springing from Adam's first Transgression First That of Pride in desiring to be like God in Knowledge according to Eccles. 10. 13. For Pride is the beginning of Sin The Second An inordinate Affection and immoderate Love of his Wife Thirdly A wicked curiosity to try the hidden Virtue of the forbidden Tree Fourthly A doubting whether the Sentence That in the day he should eat thereof he should surely die were absolute or only comminatory and deterring because not immediately executed on Eve Fifthly That he thought it a small Fault as his excuse seem'd to infer The Woman which thou gavest me gave me of the Fruit and I did eat Sixthly That he was moved thereunto by his low sensual Appetite seeing the goodliness of the Tree that it was good for food and pleasant to the eye The Seventh was the Sin of Disobedience in contrarying Gods positive Command As by one mans disobedience c. Rom. 5. 19. The Eighth Offence or its highest Aggravation was his wicked excuse laying the fault at Gods Door The Woman that thou gavest me c. Gen. 3. 12. V. 25. Violated not their Bliss Yet their fad concern going no farther than to Compassion did not interrupt or hazard their Happiness V. 45. With lightest moment of impulse Or touch with the least motive that might incline his Freewill to his own election left in even balance Moment Momentum Lat. weight Id est maximi momenti ponderis Cic. Impulse Bo. III. V. 120. V. 56. Vicegerent