and preheminence ouer others Thus God is the Head of Christ and Christ the onely Head of his Church and the husband the head of his wife Ephes. 5 23. 1. Cor. 11 3. The Prince is the head of his people Ex. 6 14. Exo. 18 25. Heads ouer the people Because of the Soueraignty and power ouer them The first is a spirituall the second is an oeconomicall the third a politicall Head or Gouernor the Pope is so farre from being Head of the Church as he is no sound member of the holy Catholicke or of the whole Church being the head of that Apostacy and falling from the Faith 2. Thes. 2 3 4 5. 3 A chiefe or principall member in any society Thus is a Pastor a Head in respect of his flocke 1. Cor. 12 21. The Head cannot say vnto the foote Esay 9 15. The honorable man is the Head 4 The chiefe vigor and force Gen. 3 15. Hee shall breake thine Head That wherein thy cheefe strength and power consisteth 5 The whole man or the man himselfe Prou. 10 6. Blessings are vpon the Head of the righteous In this sence it is threatned to the wicked that their sinne shall be vpon their head that is vpon themselues to Heape sig To store vp or lay vp together as men which will gather treasure into one place Rom. 2 5. Heapest vp wrath against the day of wrath to Heare sig To graunt and fulfill our desires Iohn 9 31. God Heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God him heareth he And often in the Psalmes and elsewhere Thus God Heareth our Prayers and his not granting is his not hearing 2 To listen vnto the words of God only with the outward sence of the eare Mat. 13 19. They Hear the word and vnderstand it not Thus all Wicked men which be within the Church Heare the word 3 To yeeld willing assent in our mindes to the word of God with a firme purpose to obey Iohn 8 47. He that is of God Heareth Gods word 1. Iohn 4 6. Iohn 10 27. My Sheepe Heare my voice and follow me Thus good children heare Gods word 4 To submit ones selfe to Christ as to an heauenly and perfect Schoolmaister Mat. 17 5. Hear him that is be content to be his Disciples 5 To beleeue and giue credit to that wee heare Iohn 9 27. I haue told you and you Haue not heard it 1. Tim. 4. ver last Thou shalt saue them that heare thee 6 Barely to vnderstand and know Iere. 5 21. They haue eares and Heare not Heart sig pro The fleshly part of mans body which is the seat of affections 2 The whole man by a Sinerdoche of the part Psal. 45 1. My Heart will vtter forth a good matter I will entreat c. 3 Soule with the faculties of vnderstanding Reason Iudgement Will c. because the Soule keepes resident in the Heart and there shewes it selfe most present as it were in her chaire of State Hence it is that Heart is put for the Soule with hir faculties Pro. 23 26. My Sonne giue me thy Heart Math. 15 19. Out of the Heart proceedeth euill thoughts Psal. â—5â— 10. Create in me a cleane heart Verse 17. 1. Pet. 3 14. Psal. 26 6. and 73 13. 4 Will and affections onely which are seated in the heart Thus it signifieth when Heart and soule bee named together Math. 22 37. With all thy Heart with all thy Soule 5 The affection and meaning Exod. 23 9. Yee know the heart of a stranger 6 Vnderstanding Rom. 2 15. Which shew the effect of the Law written in their hearts 7 The middle part of any thing Exod. 15 8. In the heart of the Sea Ezek. 27 4. with all thy Heart sig Perfection Mat. 22 37. Loue the Lord thy God withall thy hart This is a Legal sentence requiring perfection of loue which is found in Christ onely and in the Saints which be in Heauen 2 Sincerity Ezechiah and Dauid serued GOD withall their Heart and Psalm 119 2. This is an Euangelicall sentence requiring but vprightnesse of loue which is found in all the Saintes heere on Earth with the whole hart sig Without Hypocrisie and faining euen sincerity Ier. 3 10. Iudah hath not returned to me with her whol Heart but fainedly from the Heart sig Willingnesse without compulsion Secondly singlenesse without Hypocrisie Thirdly cheerefulnesse and alacrity without sad pensiuenesse Rom. 6 17. Ye haue obeyed from the Heart honest hart sig Such a Hart which studieth inwardly to bee indeede that which outwardly it seemes to others or a firme resolution of the Soule to doe and practise the good thinges which the word teacheth Luke 8 15. They which heare the word with an honest Heart Hearts desire sig Vnfained and earnest desire Rom. 10 1. My Hearts desire is that Israell might be saued One Heart one way sig Agreement and consent both in Religion and in affection Ezeck 32 39. a Man after Gods Heart sig Such a man as is liked and loued of God for his vprightnesse of life 1 Sam. 13 14. to harden the Heart sig To leaue one in his naturall hardnesse not softning his Hart but as a iust Iudge deliuering him to Sathan to be more hardned Thus God hardened Paraohs Heart Exod. 9 12. 2 To inspire blinde thoughts and to make hard Thus Sathan 3 To follow his owne lustes stubbornely Thus Pharaoh hardned himselfe stony heart sig Extream hardnesse of Mans wit and Heart with stubbornesse resisting Gods will Ezec. 11 19. I will take the stony Heart out of their bodies Disobedient and vnyeelding Heart Heb. 3 13. Least your heart be made hard through deceitfulnesse of sin This is the Brazen fore-head the Iron sinnew the stony hart the hart of Adamant which nothing can bow nor break neither promises nor threatnings blessings nor afflictions It is called Rom. 2 5. An Heart that cannot repent Vnto which Estate men come by long custome of sinne This hard Hart comes by the iudgement of God Secondly by the malice of Satan thirdly by the peruerse wil of man fleshly hart sig An Heart made soft and tractable by the Spirit of God Ezek. 36 26. I will giue you an Heart of Flesh. Sée Flesh. strength of my Heart sig God who maketh very strong the fainting harts of his Children Psal. 73 26. double hart or minde sig An hypocriticall dissembling Heart which goes two waies speaking one thing and meaning another Psal. 12 2. They speake with a double Heart 2 A wauering doubtfull and vnresolued Heart Iames 1 8. A double minded Man is vnstable in all his waies to write the law in the Hart. sig To engraue and print naturally the difference of good and euill in mans vnderstanding Rom. 2 15. Which shew the effect of the Law written in their Hearts 2 To renew supernaturally the Soule vnto the Image of God to resemble him in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ier. 31 33. I will write my Law in their Hearts to
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B. Abba Sig FAther Thus Christ expoundeth it Mark 14 36. and Paul Rom. 8 15. to cry Abba Father the doubling of the worde ioyning to the Syriacke Abba the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serueth to teach that God is not God of the Iewes onely but of the Gentiles also and will be called vpon in all Languages requiring of his people a strong confidence in his fatherly goodnes through Christ. To abhorre sig To haue a thing in vtter detestation and loathing Esay 1 13. I abhor your Sabbothes and newe Moones Iob. 42 6. I abhor my selfe Sometimes abhorring signifies loathing in shew and profession only and not in truth as Rom. 2 22. Thou abhorrest Idols that is seemest to detest them Abhomination sig Some accursed spirituall filthinesse which deserues to be fled from and abhorred of all men as ominous fearful vnhappy Deut. 22 5. The man that weareth Womans apparell and the Woman that puts on mans raiment both are abhomination vnto the Lord. Prou. 12 22. The lying lips are abhomination vnto the Lord. Matth. 24 15. And often in Moses and the Prophets See Deut. 25 26. 2 Something which for the vncleannesse sake might not be eaten or touched Levit. 11. 10 11. Abhomination of Desolation sig That which all good men detest and hold accursed by reason of the shamefull and foule filthinesse of it deseruing and bringing desolation And this is meant as some thinke of the Idolles which the Romans not long after Christ his Ascention set vp in the Temple at Ierusalem whereupon followed desolation that is the laying wast and downfall of the Temple Citty and Nation of the Iewes this is the abhomination of desolation fore-spoken of by Daniell 9 27. and after spoken of by Mat. 24 15. But Maister Iunius not without great apparance of reason interpreteth Abhomination of the Army of the Romans which consisted of abhominable men to wit Infidels who brought desolation vpon Temple Citty and people Absence referred to God sig His with-holding some signe of his fauor or the sending some Iudgement For as touching his
vs and blesse vs verse 6. Prou 10 22. The blessing of the Lord maketh rich Thus the word Blesse is taken in good part 5 To flatter and please ones selfe and to boast of his doings to others Psal 10 2. The couetous blesseth himselfe Heere it is taken in euill part 6 The contrary namely cursing an Euphismos when vnseemly things are spoken in seemly words Iob 1 5 Least my sonnes haue blessed God so it is in the Originall that is Blasphemed 1. Kings 20 10. He hath blest God and the King so it is in the Originall for he hath Blasphemed Heere also it is taken in ill part To Blesse abundantly sig To heape benefits plentifully vpon one Heb 6 14. Surely I will aboundantly blesse thee Blessed sig All them which be in the estate of an happy life which consists in Gods loue and fauour Some bee such by nature as Adam in Paradise had naturall happinesse Some are blessed by grace as all the godly euen heere in this life Mat 5 2 3 4. Some are blessed by glory as the glorifyed Saints in Heauen Reuel 14 13. Blessednes sig The happy condition of such as are in the fauour of God hauing their sinnes forgiuen them by saith in Christ. Rom 4 6. Blessed is the man whose sinnes be forgiuen Blessing sig Gods prospering of vs and of our affayres and labours when all haue good successe and turne to our good Psal 3 8. His blessing is vpon his people 2 All good thinges be they spirituall or bodily earthly or heauenly They are in Scripture phrase called Gods blessings euen euery good guift from God to men Eph 1 4. Blessed be God who hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings Deut 28 2. All these blessings shall come vpon thee blessed shalt thou bee in thy Cattle c. 3 A gift from man to man Gen 33 11. I praythee take my blessing Cup of Blessing sig Cup of Thankesgiuing which we take with giuing of thankes to God for the guift of his sonne 1. Cor 10 16. Blinde sig pro Such as by byrth or casualty lacke their naturall sight 2 Such as be ignorant and lacke knowledge which is the eye of the minde Rom 2 20. A guide to the blinde Math. 15 14. The blinde leade the blinde To make Blinde sig To keepe men from seeing the truth when the light of it is set before them Psal 69 23. Let their eyes be blinded 2 To encrease Ignoraunce for the abuse of former knowledge as happened to them spoken of 2. Thess. 2 11. and Esay 6 10. Blindnesse sig Want of knowledge or ignoraunce in matters of Saluation eyther in whole as in all natural men Eph 4 18. Thorow the ignorance that is in them or in part as in men regenerate who doo see and know but in part 1. Cor 13 12. We know in part we see as in a glasse Bloud sig Death or slaughter Psal 51 14. Deliuer mee from bloud Math 27 24. I am innocent of the bloud of this man Gen. 4 10. Will I require his bloud 2 Reuenge or punishment due for the shedding of blood Math 27 25. His blood be vpon vs our children 3 Cruelty Habak 2 12. Woe vnto him that buildeth a Citty with blood Esay 1 5. Your hands are full of blood 4 The slaine man Iosh. 20 5. If the auenger of blood pursue after him 5 The price of bloud Actes 1 13. The fielde of bloud that is purchased with the price of blood 6 Cause of their owne destruction Acts 18 6. Your blood be vpon your owne head 7 The vnpure beginnings of our birth and conception Iohn 1. 13. Not of blood Ezek. 16 6. 8 The first man of whom all men came as of the first stocke Acts 17 26. God hath made of one blood all mankinde 9 The iuice of the Grape Gen 49 11. And his Cloake in the blood of Grapes To betray innocent Bloud sig To deliuer by Treason an innocent person vnto death Mat. 27 4. Betraying the Innocent bloud Bloud of Christ. sig The death and whole sufferinges of Christ. One part of his sufferings being put for all Eph 1 7. By whom we haue redemption through his blood And often in the Romans and Hebrewes and throughout Paules Epistles is the bloud of Christ one part of his sufferinges put Sinecdochically for the whole sufferings visible and inuisible Therefore it is absurd to stick to the Letter concluding from thence that Christs outward visible suffering were sufficient For from the Letter of Scripture it wil follow that if this blood-shedding was enough therefore his flesh might be spared and all the paines felte therein also his soule with the heauinesse and sorrow thereof whereof there was as great need as of the rest For Christ suffered nothing in vaine our soule hauing sinned yea and that principally it was therefore to be redeemed no lesse then our bodies Blood of the Couenant sig The blood of Beasts sacrificed vnder the Law as signe and pledge of the olde Couenant which was administred in figures prefiguring or being type of the bloud of Christ wherewith the New Couenant is ratified Exod 24 8. Then Moses said Behold the bloud of the Couenant B. O. Body sig That part of man which is made of flesh bones 1. Cor 15 43. The Body is sowne in weaknesse 2 The whole man Rom 6 12. Let not sinne raigne in your mortal bodies that is in your selues which be mortall A Sinecdoche 3 Pith and substance Col 2 17. But the bodie is in Christ. 4 The vnregenerate part of man 1. Cor 9 28. I beat downe my body that is the Old-man Bodie of Christ. sig The one part of Christs man-hood distinct from his soule Heb 10 5. A body c. 2 Whole Christ with all his good things Mat. 26 26. 1. Cor. 10 8. This is my body that is a Sacramentall signe of me and of all that is mine Christs body is not made of bread 3 His Church which is his misticall body consisting of the faithfull onely Ephes 1 22. Head to the Church which is his body Col. 1 18. He is the head of the body of the Church The wicked are not of this body 4 The man-hoode of Christ onely 1. Pet. 2 24. Who bare our sinnes in his body Body of death and body of sin sig Sinne being as it were a body hauing many lusts as members annexed to it and a deadly thing deseruing and leading to death such as serue it Rom. 6 24. Who shal deliuer me from the body of this death Rom. 6 23. The wages of sinne is death Body of flesh sig The humane Nature of Christ. Col. 1 22. That body of his flesh 2 The Old-man and masse of corruption Col. 2 11. Putting off that sinfull body of the flesh Booke sig The whole Scripture or some part of it written together in one Volume Reuel 22 18. The Booke of this prophesie Luke 4 17. He tooke the Booke The Booke
Bridegroomes friend B. U. Buckler sig pro A weapon for defence in time of fight 2 The mighty defence of GOD which is as a Buckler to them that trust in him Psal. 18 1. Thou art my Buckler or shield Bud. sig Christ in respect of his mean estate amongst men Esay 11 1. A graft or a Bud shall grow out of his root 2 The Church of Christ springing vp out of the remnant of Israel as a bud out of the earth Esay 4 2. In that day the bud of the Lord shall be beautifull glorious Buffeting sig Some shamefull temptation inward or outward as a buffetting to abase vs. 2. Cor. 12 7. The Messenger of Satan to buffet me Buggery sig Vncleannesse against nature about generation 1. Cor. 6 10. Leuit. 18 23. Building sig Making â—raming Gen 2 23. He built woman of a Rib. 2. Cor 5 1. 2 Teaching and instructing hence Ministers called builders 1. Cor. 3 10. How he buildeth Burden sig pro Some heauy thing which doth load or greeue vs with the weight of it Ier 17 27. 2 The Doctrine or commaundements of Christ. Mat 11 30. My burthen is light So it is to the regenerate to whom the commandements of Christ are not greeuous because they are led by the spirit and haue their sinnes forgiuen them but to the vnregenerate they are as a greeuous burthen 3 Prophesies and fore-telling of greeuous calamities as it were heauy burdens to come vpon a people for sinne Esay 13 1. The burden of Babell The burden of Aegypt 4 All heauy and hard things Psal. 55 24. Cast thy burden vpon the Lord. Esay 9 4. Mat. 23 4. Acts 15 28. 5 Imperfections and wants which appear in our duties Gal. 6 2. Beare ye one anothers burden that is seeing ye are all subiect to Infirmities support and vphold one another through loue All sins are burdens Psal. 38 4. For with their weight they presse vs downe Heb. 12 1. 6 Euery trouble or greefe euen to the least Eccles 12 5. Grashoppers shall be a burthen Bulles of Basan sig Strong powerfull and cruell enemies Psal 22 12. Many young Buls haue compassed me Buriall sig The putting of a Corpes into the graue to bee couered with earth which is the proceeding of naturall death Acts 8 2. 1. Cor 15 2 3. Dead buried 2 The wasting of sinne by mortification as a dead corpes wasteth in the graue Rom. 6 3. Wee are buried with him This is the proceeding of the death of sin which is one part of our sanctification and is effected by the Vertue of Christ buried To be buried with Christ. sig To be partaker of Christ his death and burial for a further mortification of sinne Col. 2 12. In that ye are buried with him Burning sig Earnest desire and lust after Sex which is when one hath an vnconquerable Army of vnruely and vnchast desires thoughts in him dishonoring him and his body 1. Cor 7 9. It were better marrie then burne Rom. 1 27. To builde sig pro To set vp or make an house where none was before Mat. 7 26. 2 To encrease or to enlarge a family and stocke by multitude of children Ruth 4 11. Rahell and Leah did build the house of Israell 3 To strengthen and encrease others in the knowledge and faith of Christ. 1. Cor. 3 10. I haue laide the foundation and another buildeth thereon Iude 20. 4 To prosper and blesse the Gouernour and gouernment of a family Psal. 127 1. Vnlesse the Lord build the house c. Building sig pro A materiall house set vp with hands 2 The Church and people of God heere on earth 1. Cor. 3 9. Ye are Gods building 3 A place of eternall blisse and glory 2. Cor. 5 1. We haue a building giuen of God Builder sig pro One which of nothing maketh something to be Heb. 11 10. Whose builder is God 2 A faithfull Minister of the Gospell who doth lay the elect vpon Christ as builders doo lay one stone vpon another 1. Cor. 3 10. As a skilful master Builder 3 Any Gouernour of Citty or family Psal. 127 1. The builder buildeth in vaine Wise builder sig One who layeth a sure foundation that is one who beleeuing the promises concerning Christ endeuoureth to do his commandement Mat. 7 24. Foolish Builder sig One who neglecteth a good foundation hauing the knowledge and profession of Christ without faith and repentance Mat. 7 26. To Buy sig To get some commodity by giuing the due price of it Gen. 49 30. Ruth 4 5. 2 To obtaine or get a thing by our endeuour Prayer or other good meanes Prou 23 23. By the trueth Esay 55 1. Come and buy without Money C. A. To Call sig TO Inuite Sinners vnto Repentance by the Outward preaching of the word or otherwise by afflictions and benefits Mat. 2 16. Many called few chosen Prou. 1 24. I haue called but you haue refused A common and outwarde calling 2 To draw effectually the elect vnto Christ by the Inward work of the spirit through the word Rom. 8 28. To them which are called of his purpose An inward and speciall calling 3 To appoint and chuse vnto some worke and to giue fitnesse thereunto Exod 31 2. A speciall and free worke of Gods spirit singling drawing the elect from amongst the Reprobate making them to become that which before they were not euen true beleeuers members of Christ Saints Sonnes and heyres of God Rom. 8 30. Whom he predestinated them he called 1. Cor 1 2. Saints by calling Rom. 4 17. God calleth those things which be not as though they were Calling sig A lawfull and warrantable estate of life 1. Cor. 7 10. Let euery man abide in his calling 2 The estate and condition of Christianity Eph. 4 1. Walke worthy of your calling 3 The action of God translating men into this estate 2. Pet. 1 10. Make your calling sure Calling vpon yâ— name of Jesus sig Eyther the whole worship of God by a Sinecdoche of the part for the whole or else it signifieth Prayer vnto Christ for necessary graces Actes 9 14. To bind all that call on thy name Acts 7 50. Stephen called on and sayde Lorde Iesus receiue my Spirit Called sig As much as named or one knowne by such a Name as Christ called Peter Cephas and Luke 1 60. He shall be called Iohn 2 One partaker of an effectuall vocation when the mighty God as it were by the speaking of a word doth make one to be that which he is named and called to wit a Saint and holye as God the caller is holy Rom. 1 7. Called to be Saints Candle sig pro A materiall light shining in the darknesse of the night Luke 15 8. 2 The light of knowledge or the worde of God rightly knowne seruing as a Candle to shew vs our duties and our sinnes and to direct both our selues and others Math 5 15. No man lighteth a Candle to put it vnder a Bushell but on
a Candlesticke 3 Gladnesse and Ioy by benefits or deliuerances out of trouble Psal 18 28. God will light my Candle Prou 13 9. The word and Scripture of God is the only and all sufficient Candle Candle-light of the church 2. Tim 3 16 17. It teacheth all truth of saluation it conuictes all errour it instructs in all righteous workes it reprooues all sinnes The Church and Doctors are but the Candlesticke nor that neither except they beare out this light Candlestick sig A frame of Wood Iron or Brasse or other mettall wherein to sticke a Candle being lighted to giue light to them who are in the house 2 Some perticuler Churches or companie of men professing Christ and bearing out the truth of the Gospell in their Doctrine and liues as the Candle is set forth and shewed by the candlestick Reuel 1 20. The seauen Candlestickes which thou sawest are the seauen Churches Captiue sig pro One taken prisoner and held in â—â—â—ds Captiuity is the estate of such persons 1. Kings 8 26 47 48. In the Land of their enemies which ledde them away captiue 2 One who is bondor become prisoner to Satan and sinne So are the regenerate in part and the vnregenerate wholly Rom. 7 23. 2. Tim. 2 26. In which they are held captiues at his pleasure Captiuity led captiue sig Dauid making his enemies Tributary to him Ps. 68. 18. But especially Christ his ouercomming sinne death satan hell which held the elect prisoners Ephes. 4 8. Care sig A taking thought to please God in our owne persons by doing his will 2. Cor. 7 11. Yea what care 2 A thought-taking and study for the wel-fare of others 2. Cor 8 6. The same care for you Phil. 2 20. Who will care for your matters 3 A taking thought for the thinges of this life Which when it is moderate without distrust of God it is good and commendable If it be otherwise it is euill and forbid Mat. 6 34. Care not for tomorrow Carnall sig A fraile and transitory thing which vanished at the comming of Christ. Heb. 7 16. After the Law of the carnall commandement Thus he calleth the Leuiticall Law 2 One wholy infected with sinne Iohn 3 6. That which is borne of the flesh is flesh or carnall that is fleshly and sinfull 3 One who hath more sin then grace more flesh then spirit 1. Cor. 3 1. But as vnto carnall euen as vnto Babes c. 4 One who is in part corrupted by sinne yet hauing more grace then sinne Rom. 7 14. The Lawe is spirituall but I am carnall Cart-rope Sée Cords Catholicke sig Vniuersall or generall that which concernes not one person or place or people but reacheth vnto all people of al places times ages sex conditions Thus the church of Christ in our Creed is entituled Catholicke And the Epistles of Iames Peter and Iohn be so called The Epistle Catholicke of Iames c. Because they were sent not to one church as that to Corinth to Phillippi c. or to one person as to Philemon to Titus c but to all Iewes beleeuers euery where dispersed or to al beleeuing both Iewes and Gentiles in the world Howe this Title can agree vnto the Romain church being but a particular Church if she were as sound as shee is rotten let reasonable men iudge To say the Romish Catholicke church is asmuch as to say the whole English-Brittish-Nation Cauillation forged sig False and vniust accusation a malicious inuention to trouble a man Luke 19 8. If I haue taken from any man by forged Cauillation Zacheus being a Publican or collector of Tribute and hauing wronged many vnder pretence and colour of the Weal-publicke did therefore charge all such for enemies vnto the common-wealth whosoeuer found faulte with his robberies and harmes This was his forged cauillation A speech borrowed from such as told out who transported Figs from Athens contrary to a Law made in that behalfe to scrape some money from such as being accused by them were found guilty Cause sig Suite action controuersie Esay 1 23. The widdowes cause comes not before them 2 The matter or crime wherewith one is charged Acts 25 27. And not to shewe the causes which are laide against him C. E. Centurion sig A Captaine set ouer an hundred souldiors Acts 10 1. Mat. 8 5. C. H. Chaffe sig A Reprobate like vnto Chaffe for his vilenesse vnconstancy and barrennesse Mat. 3 12. 2 False Prophets with their false Doctrine Ier. 23 28. What is the Chaffe c Chaine sig A Collar of Siluer or Iron to weare about ones necke eyther for Ornament or punishment 2 The grace of Heauenly wisedom which is as a Chaine to decke and adorne one withall Prou. 1 9. 3 The crosse or afflictions for the Gospel 2. Tim. 1 16. He was not ashamed of my Chaine Chamber 3. sig pro Some secret place in an house Mat. 6 6. Enter into thy Chamber 2 The protection of God Esay 26 20. Enter into thy Chamber Chambering sig Vncleane and wanton behauiour Rom. 13 13. Not in chambering and wantonnesse Chaire of Moyses sig The Doctrine which God deliuered to Moyses and was taught by them that succeeded him in the Office of teaching Mat. 23 1. The Scribes Pharisies sit in Moyses Chaire heare them that is to say so long as they teach Moses Doctrine obey them Papistes are heerein deceiued interpreting this of place and succession of persons and not of truth of Doctrine Charge sig Commandement Mat. 9 30. Iesus gaue them charge 2. Tim. 4 1. Gen. 26 11. 2 Cost 2. Thes. 3 8. Because wee would not bee chargeable to others 3 Gouernment or function 1. Kings 2 3. And take heede to the charge of the Lord thy God Charity sig That affection of loue which moues vs to holde our Neighbors deare and to desire and seeke their good in euery thing which is deere vnto them and that for Christ sake according to the will of God 1. Cor. 13 4 5 6 7 8. where you haue the properties of Charity at large described Charret sig A carriage wherein were fighting men of war Iud. 1 19. Because they had Charrets of Iron 2 Captaines and strength 2. Kings 2 12. Charets of Israel 3 Angels 2. Kings 6 17. Mountaine was full of charrets Chast. Sig One borne with some naturall impediment This is naturall chastity Mat. 19 12 Sée Geld. One gelded or made chast by the Art of man This is Artificiall chastitie Mat. 19 12 Sée Geld. One fitted by God for the gift of continencie This is Christian chastitie Mat. 19 12 Sée Geld. to Chasten sig To correct in loue for our profit as a Father doth his childe Heb. 12 6. Whom the Lord loues he chasteneth Chastity sig An abstinence and forbearing not from mariage but from all strange and rouing lusts about the desire of Sex Titus 2 5. To be wise chast c. Chéerefulnesse sig A readinesse and willingnesse of minde in the doing of any good
sit in Darkenesse sig To remaine and abide secure in the estate of sin and wretchednesse Luke 1 79. To giue light to them that sit in Darkenesse power of Darkenesse sig The Dominion rule and sway which Satan and Sinne do beare ouer all vnregenerate persons Col. 1 13. Who hath deliuered vs from the power of Darkenesse fiery Darts sig The most fierce dangerous temptations which Satan casteth at vs as fiery Dartes to destroy our faith Ephe. 6 16. That ye may quench all the fierie Darts of the Deuill Daughter sig pro A Woman-Childe or a Female as Thamar the Daughter of Dauid 2 The holy Catholick Church euen the company or body of all true beleeuers called a Daughter in respect of God her Father who hath spiritually begotten her and loued her as his Daughter Psalme 45 9 10 13. The Kinges Daughter is all Glorious within 3 Particuler Churches or Congregations professing the faith of Christ and begotten of that immortall seede of the word which first came out of Ierusalem Cant. ◠◠I am Blacke ô yee Daughters of Ierusalem Those Churches are called Daughters of Sion and of Ierusalem Esay 62 11. Because they were begotten by the Doctrine that came out from thence Esay 2 3. And the Law shall go forth of Sion and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem 4 False Churches which make a great shewe of piety and yet are but the assemblies of Idolaters and Heretickes Cant. 2 2. So is my Loue amongest the Daughters Also in Cant. 6 8. it signifies strange people and Nations 5 A Neece or a Sonnes Daughter Exod. 2 21. Who gaue to Moses Zepporah his Daughter 6 Posterity or off-spring Luke 1 5. Which was of the Daughters of Aaron 7 A Citty Math. 21 5. Tell yee the Daughter of Sion that is the Cittie of Sion Daughters of singing sig The eares which take delight in Musicke Eccles. 12 4. And all the Daughters of singing shall bee abased Daughters of Ierusalē sig Women which dwelt at Ierusalem Luke 23 28. Daughters of Ierusalem weepe not for me And often in the Booke of Lamentation it is so taken 2 Churches begotten by the word which came forth from Ierusalem as afore Cant. 1 2. O yee Daughters of Ierusalem Day sig pro The space of 24. houres and this is the Naturall day or of twelue houres which is the Artificiall Day Luke There be twelue houres in the Day 2 Time generally Math. 3 1. In those Dayes Luke 1 5. 3 The time of Grace vnder the light of the gospell Rom. 13 12. The Day is come Also verse 13. Heb. 4 7. Acts. 3 24. All the Prophets spake of those Dayes 4 The light of Truth or the lightsome Doctrine of Heauenly Truth Iob. 9 4. While it is Day 1. Cor. 3 13. For the Day shall declare it 1. Thes. 5 8. 5 That space that a man liueth in or dooth any notable acte or suffereth any great thing Iohn 8 56. Abraham reioyced to see my Day 6. Yeare Numb 14 34. Ezek. 4 6. One Day shall be for a yeare c. Gen. 27 46. 7 Iudgement 1. Cor. 4 3. Or of mans Day So it is in the Originall for Iudgement Dayes sig The short time of mans life who is a creature as it were of a dayes continuance Psal. 90 9. Our Dayes as spent in thine anger Gen. 47 9. 2 The time and space wherein any thing continueth Psalme 90 16 Comfort vs according to the Dayes wherein thou hast afflicted vs. Day of the Lord or of Christ. sig The time of his comming in the flesh to liue amongst vs. Luke 17 22. Yee shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Son of man This time of Christs life is called the day of his flesh Heb. 5 7. In the Dayes of his flesh Mal. 4 1. 2 The time of his second comming to Iudgement in Glory and Maiesty Luke 17 24. So shal the Sonne of man be in his Day 2. Pet. 3 10. The Day of the Lord shall come This is called the Day of Wrath Condemnation and Destruction in respect of the Wicked A Day of Redemption and Deliuering in respect of the Godly who are then to be set free from all kind of Euils A Day of Reuelation in respect of all men and Angelles who shall bee then reuealed and manifested what they be and what they haue doone A Day of Iudgement because therein all persons are to bee tried and adiudged vnto that condition and state vnto which they must sticke for euer Finally That Day by an excellency being the Last Day and Great Day full of Glory to Christ of Ioy to the Good of Sorrow to the Wicked after which there shall bee no succession of Dayes and Nights but one perpetuall Day for the Righteous and one perpetuall Night for the Sinners and Vngodly the Lordes Day sig The first Day of the Weeke being the first Day of the Creation called commonly Sonday Reuel 1 10. I was rauisht in the Spirit on the Lordes Day so called for that our Lorde rising from death on that Day brought forth the light of a new aeternall world it is also kept for Remembrance of the Mystery of our Lords Resurrection on which day for that end solemne Assemblies were kept by the faithfull 1. Cor. 16 2. Acts 20 7. By our Lords appointment Actes 1 3. Papistes erre in making the Constitution of this Day to be a meere Tradition of the Church without any authority of Scripture Day of saluation sig Time of the Gospell wherein the glad tydinges of Saluation are published and offered 2. Cor. 6 2. This is the Day of Saluation Day of Uisitation sig The time wherein God of his great Mercy shall conuert a Sinner 1. Pet. 2 12. May glorifie God in the Day of visitation good Dayes sig A blessed and happye life wherein many good things befall vs. 1. Pet. 3 10. If any man loue to see good Dayes Psal. 34. 12. Dayly bread sig That which is sufficient and necessary for our nature or Bread sufficient for euery day Mat. 6 11. The Siriach readeth it Bread of our necessity that is meete and necessary food The Papists do erre when they expound thus of the Sacrament of the Altar holy Day sig A day set apart to holy vse Esay 58 13. From doing thinewill on mine Holy-day Such are to consecrate vnto the honor of God alone this Day sig Euery Day or the Day present which nowe is Math. 6 11. Giue vs this Day Teaching vs from Day to Day to depend vpon God for things of this life 2 Shortly ere it be long Iosh. 23 14. This Day I enter the way of all the earth to Day and to morrow sig Time that now is and the time to come euen the whole time of his office Luke 13 32. I will heale still to Day and to morrow to Day sig The whole season of our calling to God euen all the time of this life wherein God offereth vs grace and
in body and soule In this sence God destroyeth the wicked Ps. 38 38. The transgressors shall be Destroyed 4 To take punnishment vpon the wicked by death as Magistrates do Psa. 101 8. Betimes wil I Destroy the wicked of the Land and cut off the workers of Iniquity 5 To hazard the Saluation of our Brother by giuing offence or by laying a stumbling block before him Rom. 14 15. Destroy not him with thy meate for whom Christ dyed 6 To execute the finall Iudgement vpon euill Spirits Marke 1 24. Art thou come to Destroy vs Destructiō sig Temporall Death Psal. 90 3. Thou turnest man to Destruction 2 The casting down of a person or place or people in such sort as they be neuer able to rise againe like to an olde ruinous house which being fallen downe cannot be built againe Ose. 13 9. O Israel Destruction is of thy selfe 2. Pet. 3 7. Ps. 37 12. There they are fallen that worke iniquity and shall not be able to rise 3 A Snare or Trap such as Fowlers and Hunters spread Exod. 22 33. It shall bee thy Destruction Destruction of y◠flesh sig The taming or mortifying our corrupt Nature Thus Beza taketh it The leannesse and wasting of the bodie thorough great heauinesse and affliction of minde for sinne Thus Piscator expoundeth it 1. Cor. 5 5. Unto the Destruction of the flesh Deuill sig A Calumniator or Accuser which accuseth vs before God day and night Reuel 12 9 10. 2 One who is like the Deuill of a Deuillish quality Iohn 6 70. Haue I not chosen twelue and one of you is a Deuill that is the Childe of the Deuill as like him as a Childe is like the Father 3 A wicked Spirit the Prince and Captaine of the rest Math. 25 41. Prepared for the Deuill and his Angels to cast out Deuils sig To driue or thrust out of mens bodies and minds by his Diuine power the Diuels which personally dwelt there as in their house or hold Mat. 8 31. and Chap. 9 33 34. seauen Deuils sig Many Diuels a number certain put for an vncertaine Luke 8 2. Out of whom went seauen Deuils to cōmand Deuils sig By his voyce effectually to bid them depart from any whom they possessed and vexed Luke 8 29. Deuise sig A thought counsell or purpose of doing some thing Psal. 33 10. Thou bringest to nought the Deuises of the people 2 The euent that doth follow vpon a mans Deuises Prou. 1 31. They shall be filled with their owne Deuises that is with the fruite of their Deuises or with that which comes of their owne purposes and plots Deuout sig One truly Religious who hath vowed bound himselfe to the true worship of the true God abhorring Idolatry Acts 10 2. Cornelius a Deuout man 2 A superstitious person which seemeth Religious and is not but is giuen to Will-worship Actes 13 50. The Iewes stirred vp Deuout Women against Paul to Deuour sig pro To eate without chawing and to swallow down whole Gen. 41 24 21. 2 With cruell fiercenesse to teare and spoile spiritually mens soules bodies as a Lyon deuoures the silly Lambe 1. Pet. 5 8. Seeketh whom hee may Deuoure A Metaphor 3 To spoyle and vndo one in his outward estate without pitty Thus mighty men oppresse and deuoure the poore as great Fish and Beasts deuoure and eate vp the small Ier. 15 3. 4 To wast and spend ryotously Luke 15 30. He hath Deuoured thy goods with Harlots 5 To apply and take to our owne vse that which was giuen and appointed once to Gods seruice or to keepe backe in our hands that which was due to him Prou. 20 25. It is Destruction to a man to Deuoure that which is Sanctified 6 To deceiue and defraud other of that which is theirs by cunning pretences and shifts Math. 23 14. Ye Deuoure widdowes houses vnder colour of long Prayers Deutronomy sig A second Law because the Law which GOD gaue in Mount Sinai is rehearsed as if it were a new Law in this Booke of Deutronomy which is a Commentary or exposition of the Morrall Law or ten Commandements Dew sig A Water or small Raine which softly dropping and falling vpon the ground euery morning doth keepe it moist and make it fruitefull 1. Kings 17 11. and by resemblance or likenesse it doth signifie and set forth the things following 2 The fruitfulnesse of good Doctrine and of the word of God Deut. 32 2. My speech shall Still as the Dew A Metaphor 3 The profit and commoditie which comes of Brotherly loue or of the Communion of Saintes Psal. 133 3. As the Dew of Hermon c. 4 Innumerable multitudes of the elect plentifully gathered into the Church of Christ as the Dew that drops from Heauen Psal. 110 3. 5 The short continuance or sudden vanishing of the goodnesse which is in Hypocrites Hosea 6 4. Your Goodnesse goeth away as the Morning Dew D. I. to Dig a pit sig To cast about to deuise plot the hurt of others Psal. 7 15. He hath made a pit and Digged it and himselfe is fallen into it Thus men Digge 2 To prepare and send destruction vpon sinners Psa. 94 13. Till the pit be Digged vp for the Wicked Thus God Digges Diligence sig The earnest bending of the minde to doo a thing well and frequenting oftentimes so to doo 2. Pet. 1 5. Giue all Diligence to ioyne c. Eccles. 9 10. Diligent hand sig A man which loueth labour and gets his liuing in the sweat of his face Prou. 10 4. The Diligent hand shall haue plenty or makes rich to Direct sig To gouerne rule and order a thing vnto happy successe when the grace of God in the heart assisteth vs to do well and his prouidence blessing vs causeth our worke to fall out well to vs. Ps. 90 18. Direct the worke of our hand vpon vs. Discerne sig To put a difference betweene things and persons which be like one another being able distinctly to know one from the other and touching things persons which do differ and be vnlike to perceiue which are most excellent and to allowe them 1. Cor. 12 10. Discerning of spirits Reuel 2 18. And triest the things which differ Phil. 1 10. Discretion referred to men sig That guift of God called Iudgement Phil. 1 9. Psal. 112 5. Whereby sundry Christians are enabled to try and iudge of things and persons to be such as they are By this guift Peter discouered Simon Magus Acts 8. and Paule bewrayed Elimas the Sorcerer Acts 13 10. and Iohn Marke Acts 15 38. It is a worthy guift proper to godly Wise men Prou. 20 5. Psal. 112 5. Most needefull it is for a Minister of the worde to haue a good measure of this guift Referred to God 2 The wisedome which God declared in making and disposing the worlde and the seuerall partes thereof to his glory and mans good Ier. 51 15. He stretched out the Heauens by his Discretion Disciple sig A Learner
If I haue found now grace in thy sight Grafting sig pro A ioyning of a science or graft so neerely firmely into a stocke as that it become one with it 2 The vniting or ioyning the elect vnto Christ most neerely by the spirit and Faith Rom. 6 5. And the word is said to be grafted into them Iames 1 21. Receiue with meeknesse the word grafted into you Graine sig A small measure or portion of any Gift Math. 13 31. If ye haue Faith like the graine of Mustard-seede that is the least degree of a liuely Faith if it be but a true desire to belieue in a truly touched humbled hart Grapes sig The fruites and woorkes of mens liues which if they be good they are likned to sweete and good Grapes if they bee wicked workes then they are compared to wilde and sowre Grapes if notoriously wicked then they are called Grapes of Sodome Grapes of gall and poysoned Grapes Esay 5 2. It brought foorth wilde Grapes And verse 4. Deut. 32 32. Their Uine exceedeth the Uine of Sodome their Grapes are Grapes of gall Grasse sig That which is fraile and of short continuance fading like the Grasse Psal. 90 5. In the morning he flourisheth like the Grasse Psal. 103 15. Grauity sig A seemely moderation of gesture words countenance and actions according to the dignity of a mans person age sex calling Titus 2 2 7. With grauity and integrity to Gréeue the spirit of God sig To vex displease and make sad Ephe. 4 30. Grieue not that holy spirit of God that is to say doe nothing against that light set vppe in your conscience by the word and spirit for this wil grieue the Spirit and make him vn willing to abide in you as a Guest hath no pleasure there to remaine where he is despised and grieued Esay 7 13 and 63 10. Psal. 78 40. Great sig One that is in authority and power aboue others Mat. 20 19. Will be Great among you 2 One who is authour of much people Gene. 48 19. He also shall be Great Gréene sig Flourishing and prosperous Psal. 37 35. Like the greene Bay Tree Gréene trée sig An innocent and vnguilty person Luke 23 31. If this be done to the greene Tree what will be done to the dry that is if God giue the Iewes leaue thus to crucifie me who haue no fault to deserue this punnishment what grieuous iudgements will fall vpon impenitent Sinners who are like dry sticks apt and meete to burne in the Fire of Gods wrath G. U. Guile sig pro One that sheweth another his way 2 Teachers who are called Guids because they goe before the Flocke as Guides to shew them the way to saluation Rom. 2 19. And perswadest thy selfe that thou art a Guide to the Blinde to Guide sig Effectually to moue and stirre the heart towards God 2 Thes. 2 5. The Lord Guide your harts to his loue Guile sig A subtile inuention or deuise to deceiue another by when as one thing is done and another thing pretended 1 Pet. 2 1. Lay aside all Guile This is Guile in practise and action 2 Deceitfull speech tending to deceiue when one thing is said and another thing is meant 1 Pet. 2 22. In whose mouth there was no guile This is guile in words and promises 3 Inward Hypocrisie and vnsoundnesse of hart Psalme 32 2. In whose Spirit there is no Guile This is Guile in thoughts and purposes Guiltinesse sig Worthinesse or deseruing of punishment which necessarily doth follow euery sinne Math. 5 22. Which shall be Guilty of Iudgment that is shall bee worthy Rom. 3 19. G. Y. Gyants sig Apostataēs or such as reuolt go backe and fall away from God and godlinesse Gene. 6 4. There was Gyants in the Earth in those daies The wordes lay downe the fruit of corrupt marriages mentioned verse 1. to be not ouergrowing in stature but in impiety and sinne H. A. Habitation sig A Place of Defence or refuge as an house is to the dweller in it Psalme 90 1. Lord thou hast beene our Habitation Thus is God an Habitation to his Saints 2 A Temple to dwell in to possesse and rule in it Ephe. 2 22. To bee the Habitation of God by the Spirit Thus the Saints are the Habitation of God to Halt sig To counterfet or to play the Hypocrite 1. Kin. 18 21. Why Halt ye betweene two Hebr. 12 13. Least that which is Halting be turned away When the heart goes two wayes this is halting Hammer sig The word of the Law and Gospell which is as a Hammer to breake the stony hardnesse of our hearts and to bruise them to powder as it were that they may become soft humble and contrite Hands referred to God sig pro A member of the body which is the instrument of many and manifold actions 2 Gods eternall and effectuall purpose concerning all things to be done Acts 4 28. To do whatsoeuer thine Hand and thy Counsell determined to bee done 3 Gods actuall power working all thinges which be done according to his purpose Acts. 4 30. So that thou stretch forth thine Hand Psa. 118 16. Marke 6 2. 4 Gods blessings protection and deliuerances which be speciall workes of his power Psal. 104 28. Thou fillest with thine Hand euery liuing thing Exod. 14 31. 5 The vengeance and seuerity of God in plaguing the wicked and scourging his children which also be particuler works of his power Iudg. 2 15. The Hand of the Lord was sore against him Psal. 32 2. Thy Hand was heauie vpon mee Psalme 38 2. 6 The speciall fauour of God accompanied with a singular kind of Vertue Luke 1 66. And the Hand of the Lord was with him 7 The spirit and guift of Prophesie Ezek. 1 3. The Hand of the Lord was vpon him and 37 1. 8 The spirit of strength and fortitude 1. Kinges 1 46. The Hand of the Lord was on Eliah 9 An Instrument or ministry by which God doth any thing as by the hand of Esay of Ieremy c. Exod. 4 13. Send by the Hand of him Hag. 1 1. Mal. 1 1. Referred to men 10 A man himselfe by a Sinecdoche Gen. 43 9. Of mine Hand shalt thou require him 11 A mans power Eccles. 9 10. Whatsoeuer is in thy Hands to do Prou. 3 27. It signifies Kingly and royall power Ps. 89 29. I will set his Hand in the Sea c. 12 Aide or helpe 2. Kin. 15 19. That his Hand might be with him 13 Possession 1. Kin. 15 19. And establish the kingdome in his Hand 14 Counsell and endeuour 2. Sam. 14 19. Is not the Hand of Iob in all this 15 Tiranny and seruitude Exod. 18 9. Hee had deliuered them out of the Hand of the Aegiptians 16 Disposing or ordering Ge. 39 3. The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his Hand 17 The worke and labour which is done by the Hand Acts 20 24. My Hands haue ministred to my necessity 2. Thes.
Soules aliue Thus Tremellius reades it Humaine Creatures sig All ciuill Magistrates who therefore be stiled Humaine Creatures because howsoeuer they bee appointed of God yet their kindes number and order are not so of God laide out but that Man may make more or fewer of greater authority or lesse as occasions of places times and disposition of the people require 1 Pet. 2 13. Submit your selfe to euery Humaine Creature So it is read in the Originall word for word and not ordinance of man as our Translations render it I. D. Idle sig HIm that may worke and will not but ceaseth to labour through loue of ease Exod. 5 17. Ye are too Idle 2 One that is vnoccupied because hee lackes worke Math. 20 3 6. Why stand ye heere all day Idle Because no man hath hired vs. The former are Idle voluntarily but these latter necessarily Idoll sig Any Image or visible representation of false or true God though it be not worshipped nor made with any intention of worship 1. Iohn 5 21. Keep your selues from Idols 2. Cor. 6 16. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Deut. 4 15. Exod 32 4. doth manifest the truth of this For the Image which the Iewes made of the true God is condemned of God himselfe Exod. 32 8. And they that made it were punished as Idolaters 1. Cor. 10 7. Neither be ye Idolaters as were some of them with whom God was not pleased 1. Cor. 10 5. Finally in the fore-named place of Deut. 4 15. the only making of an Image of God is precisely forbidden and learned Diuines both affirme proue that both Scriptures and Fathers haue in differently vsed the worde Idoll and Image for one and the selfe-same thing Witnesse that one place of Tertullian amongst many vpon those words of 1. Ioh. 5 21. Iohn saith he doth not write thus Keep your selues frō Idolatry that is from the seruice of them but From Idols that is from the very Image of them It is therefore a dotage in Popery to distinguish betweene Idoll and Image and to make the picture of a false God onely to be an Idoll Idoll is nothing sig The false and faigned Goddes of the Heathen 1. Cor. 8 4. An Idoll is nothing Gen. 31 19 30. 2 An Idoll to be as an empty and vaine Dreame not in respect of the matter whereof it is made for that is somthing but in respect of the forme which doth counterfaite and falsify true things making them seeme to be what they are not Also in respect of the vaine minde of the Idolater who wickedly imagineth some Diuinity to be in the Idol whereas there is but one true God in the world Therefore worthily is an Idoll saide to be nothing being a false and lying signe a very fixion being nothing for signification though something for substance a peece of wood or stone c. 1. Cor. 8 4. Idolatry sig The worshippe or adoration of an Image or of God before and by an Image 1. Cor. 10 7. Neither be Idolaters as they were Deut. 5 9. Thou shalt neuer bow to them nor serue them 2 The making of any Image or likenesse of God or of any creature in heauen or earth for a Religious end Deut. 5 8. Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image or likenesse c. Gal. 5 20. Idolatry Witch-craft 1. Cor. 6 9. 3 All humain inuentions thrust into diuine seruice Deut. 12 32. Whatsoeuer I command you that do put nothing thereto 4 Setting the heart inordinately vpon any creature by fearing louing trusting in it more then in God and aboue him Thus is Couetousnes called Idolatry Col. 3 5. And wantons make their Belly their God Phil. 3 19. I. E. Jealousie sig Griefe for suspition of dishonesty in married yoake-fellowes Husbands or Wiues Num. 5 14. If he bee moued with Iealousie and be Iealous of his Wife 2 An earnest loue of others in respect of their welfare and good ioyned with great greefe for their hurt 2. Cor. 11 2. With a godly Iealousie 3 Hot displeasure and indignation of GOD. Psal. 79 5. Shall thy Iealousie burne like fire Jealous sig One greeued with suspicion of dishonesty in the married yoak-fellow with desire of reuenge Thus are men Iealous and thus also is God saide to bee Iealous when the marriage betweene him and his Church is violated and broken Deut. 5 9. For I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God that is so grieued with Idolatry as I study to reuenge it 2 One which seemeth to bee much greeued for others but it is out of a loue to him-selfe for his owne commoditie sake Gal. 4 17. They are Iealous ouer you amisse This he writeth of the false Apostles who for their owne gaine and credite did loue the Galathians Heere Iealous is taken in euill part 3 One which loueth others truely not for lucre and glory to him-selfe but for the benefit of the persons loued 2. Cor. 11 2. I am Iealous ouer you Thus Paule and all Godly Ministers are Iealous ouer the Flocke Heere Iealous is taken in good part Jehouah sig An eternall selfe-being one that hath his essence of himselfe from euerlasting and is the cause of existance or being to all things creatures which are of him by him and for him Exod. 6 3. But by my name Iehouah was I not knowne to them Acts 17 28. Rom. 11. verse last Jesting sig Pleasant and witty words being offensiue and hindering edification Ephe. 5 4. Iesting Jesus sig A Sauiour one that saueth his people from their sinnes Math. 1 21. He shall be called Iesus It is a name of his benefites to wit saluation had by Christ. Jew outward sig He that is a Iew by Nation Name and profession onely Rom. 22 8. A Iew which is one outward Jew inward sig One who is a Iew in truth though he be not so by name or Nation Rom. 2 29. He is a Iew which is one within that is to say one who professeth himselfe to be one of Gods people and is so in deede and before God in spirit and in heart Jerusalem sig Either the Citty as Psal. 125 2. 122 2 3. or the Inhabitants Math. 3 5. Or all the faithfull people of God through the Worlde Iewes and Gentiles Ioel. 2 32. I. G. Ignorance sig Want of the true knowledge of God of heauenly things Ephe. 4 18. Thorough the Ignorance that is in them This ignorance is either simple when meanes of knowledge be wanting or willfull and affected when one may know will not Ignorance being in it selfe a sinne against the first Commandement cannot excuse sin that it should be no fault at all 2 Vnbeleefe which followes Ignorance as a Companion or fruite 1. Pet. 1 14. Fashion not your selues to the former lusts of your Ignorance that is of your blinde vnbeleefe A Metanimie of the cause 3 Error through want of iudgement and right deseruing of things Leuit. 3 2. If any
Making a noyse with our Finger or otherwise against a doore being shut that may be opened vnto vs. Acts 12 16. Peter continued Knocking 2 A faithfull earnest and constant prayer for al necessary thinges Math. 7 7. To him that Knocketh it shall be opened Iames 5 16. This is our Knocking at the gates of Heauen 3 Gods calling and inuiting of vs by his word Spirit calling to our consciences to be let in and entertained that hee may dwell with vs for euer Reu. 3 20. I stand at the doore and Knocke. This is Gods Knocking at the Gates of our Hearts to Know sig pro To take notice or knowledge of any thing Rom. 1 21. Though they knew God 2 To enquire and search into a thing that wee may perceiue it Neh. 6 12. Then I knew that behold the Lord had not sent him In this sence it is often written of GOD that hee came downe to Know and to see 3 To loue allow and be well pleased with As Psal. 1 6. The Lord Knowes the way of the righteous Rom. 11 2. God hath not cast away his people whom he Knew before 2 Tim. 2 19. Reuel 2 24. As not to Know signifies to be displeased with to refuse and punnish Mathew 7 23. I Know ye not Mat. 25 12. 4 To cherish and take care of others to protect and doe them good Iohn 10 27. I Know them 5 To Know or feele a thing by experience Eccle. 8 5. Hee that Keepeth the Commaundementes shall Know no euill thing 1 Cor. 4 19. 2 Cor. 2 9. Gen. 22 12. 6 To possesse or haue any thing in our power or to enioy it as our owne Psal. 50 11. I Know all the Foules on the Mountaines and the wilde Beasts in the fieldes are mine Amos 3 2. You onely haue I Knowne of all other Families that is chosen and taken you as my owne possession 7 To Know the honest and lawfull vse of the Marriage bed Gen. 4 1. After that Adam Knew Eue his Wife Luke 1 34. Seeing I Know not a man 8 To consider Psal. 90 11 Who Knoweth the power of thy wrath Luke 19 12. to Know God or Christ. sig Barely and nakedly to vnderstand that there is a God and a Christ and that Iesus is hee Luke 12 47. Hee that Knoweth his Maisters will and doth it not Marke 1 24. I Know thee what thou art euen that holy one of God 1 Iohn 2 4. Rom. 1 21. Thus wicked men and Deuils Know God 2 Truely and effectually to beleeue this God to be our God and Father and this Iesus to bee our Sauiour whence ariseth hope loue obedience towardes him and his word Iohn 17 3. This is life eternall to Know thee to be the onely very God 1 Iohn 2 3. Heereby we are sure we Know him if wee Keepe his Commaundements Ieremy 31 34. And often else-where it doth signifie to Know with confidence and trust Thus godly men doe Know God with this speciall Knowledge of Faith which is a part of the couenant of Grace euen the condition on our behalfe 3 To vnderstand the will of God extraordinarily by visions and dreames 1 Sam. 3 7. This did Samuell before he Knew the Lord. 4 Perfectly and fully to see God vnto eternall happinesse 1. Cor. 13 12. Then shall I Know euen as I am Knowne to Know Man sig To pierce into his Heart euen into his very thoughtes and purposes Iohn 2 24. Because hee Knew them all Verse 25. For hee Knew what was in Man 2 To put confidence in man 2 Cor. 5 16. Henceforth we Know no man after the Flesh that is I doe not admire them or their friendship riches c. So as to relie vpon them 3 To liue in Marriage and to take the vse of it Luke 1 34. Seeing I Know not a Man Sée Know 4 To commit that sinne that is against Nature Gen. 19 5. That we may Know them 5 To Know one with approbation Mathew 26 75. I Know not the Man That is I do not approoue him as the Messiah nor follow him as his Disciple to Know Sinne. sig To Know what is sinne and to haue an experiment all feeling of the force and danger of it Rom. 3 20. By the Law commeth the Knowledge of sinne Rom. 7 7. I Knew not sinne but by the Law 2 To consider it and with godly sorrow to acknowledge it Psalm 51 3. For I Know mine Iniquity 3 To be priuy to a mans owne sinnes what and how many and how great they be Psalme 19 12. Who can Know or vnderstand his faults 4 To be guilty of sin by committing or doing of it in thought word or deed 2 Cor. 5 21. Which Knew no Sinne that is neuer did any sinfull thing but is cleane void of all sinne as well in Nature as Action 5 To take notice of our Sinnes to punish them Reu. 3 15. I Know thy workes that thou art neyther hot nor cold to be knowne of God sig To be loued and approued of God 1 Cor. 8 3. If any man loue God the same is Knowne of him 2 To be taught a more perfit Knowledge of God Gal. 4 9. Ye rather are Knowne of God that is as Augustine expoundeth it ye are knowne of God because God hath made you to Know him better then ye did 3 To be perfectly vnited and ioyned vnto God in full fruition of him and his Felicity 1. Cor. 13 12. Euen as I am Knowne knowledge sig That infinite Diuine Essence seeing beholding and vnderstanding himselfe and all other thinges most perfectly 1 Sam. 2 3. For the Lord is a God of Knowledge 2 The cleare and distinct vnderstanding of heauenly truth reuealed in the word when we are enlightened by the Spirite to perceiue the Scriptures both for the meaning of the words and matters to be Knowne Prou. 15 14. The heart of him that hath vnderstanding seeketh Knowledge Prouer. 3 10. 2 Peter 1 7. Ioyne with your Uertue Knowledge 3 That speciall light of Faith which is a Knowledge with application when the elect Soule is enabled to see the doctrine of Christ and to receiue it Esay 53 11. My righteous Seruant by his Knowledge shall iustifie many This is particular Knowledge whereby we beleeue that doctrin which we Know to belong vnto vs. 4 An Idle naked and bare vnderstanding of Diuine truth seuered from Faith to God and loue of our Neighbour 1 Corin. 8 1. Knowledge puffeth vp 5 Prudence wisedome Pro. 1 2. To vnderstand the words of Knowledge 6 Vse experience 2 Cor. 8 7. Ye abound in faith in word and Knowledge 7 The guift of teaching set vp of God for the gathering and confirming of his Church through the word preached 1 Cor. 13 8. Knowledge shall cease That is the Ministry of the word whereof commeth Knowledge 8 The skill how to do thinges well and rightly 2 Corin. 6 6. By Knowledge Knowledge of truth Knowledge of Christ Knowledge of Saluation Knowledge
of God signifies the sound vnderstanding of that truth concerning God and Christ which brings saluation with it that Knowledge sig A light in some particular truth which is reuealed to one and not to another 1 Cor. 8 7. Euerie man hath not that Knowledge rich in knowledge sig One endewed with great plenty and store of Knowledge 1 Cor. 1 5. Ye are made so rich in knowledge to spread Knowledge sig To giue instruction to others helping them to Know what they did not Know. to lay vp Knowledge sig To haue it laid vp that it may bee drawne out in time of neede Prou. 1◠14. A wise man layeth vp Knowledge to preserue Knowledge sig To Keepe maintaine and encrease vnderstanding of heauenly doctrine for the instruction of others Mal. 2 7. The Priests lippes preserue Knowledge to Know the words and waies of God sig Diuersly eyther to vnderstand them onely or to beleeue them to regard and approue them to obey and practise them according to the circumstances of the place Psal. 95 10. Psalm 147 20. Math. 13 23. L. A. to Labor sig PAines euen vnto wearinesse 1. Tim. 5 18. The Labourer is worthy of his wages Verse 17. They that Labour in the word 2 All euils both of sinne and misery Reuel 14 13. They rest from their Labours that is from paine care sorrow crying teares sinne death and whatsoeuer is euill In Ps. 90 10. it sig painfull greefe and sorrow 3 The diligence care and endeuour to do the workes of our calling well and constantly Prou. In all Labor there is abundance Prou. 10 16. The Labor of the righteous tends to life 4 The fruite and encrease which comes of Labour Exod. 23 16. When thou hast gathered in thy Labours Laden sig One groaning and mourning vnder the waight and burden of sinnes being seene and felt with great desire of forgiuenesse by Christ to the ease of his greeued soule Mat. 11 28. All that are Laden 2 One pressed down with a great waight of Iniquity being full of greeuous sinnes without feeling them Esay 1 4. A people Laden with Iniquitie Ladder of Iacob sig The iourney of Iacob wherein God would bee present with him in fauour by his Angels to lead him forth well and happily also to bring him back againe Gen. 28 12. Their stood a Ladder Sée verse 15 and 20. 2 Christ Iesus and his Mediation Iohn 1 51. Angels ascending c. Lake sig Some great standing water or deepe poole or hollow pit 2 Hell the place appointed for tormenting the Reprobate Reuel 20 14. Were cast into the Lake of fire 3 Great calamities and deadly daungers Psal. 30 3. Into the Lake or pit Verse 9. Elsewhere often Lambe sig A young Sheepe meeke and tractable apt for Sacrifice vnder the Law and alwaies for meat 2 A true Christian endowed with the spirit of Grace and meekenesse Esay 11 6. And the Wolfe shall dwell with the Lambe Iohn 21 15. Feede my Lambes 3 Antichrist counterfetting and making shew of meekenesse and loue to the Saints of God Reuel 13 11. Which had two hornes like a Lambe 4 Christ. Reuel 21 23. And the Lambe is the light of it that Lamb of God sig Christ who is likened to a Lambe for his perfect Innocency and meekenesse and because by the Sacrifice of himselfe he alone tooke away the sinne of the elect making a full satisfaction for them to Gods Iustice therefore he is called by an excellency that Lambe of God as being the truth and substance of all outward oblations Iohn 1 29. Behold that Lambe of God which taketh away the sins of the world Lampe sig A Torch to giue light in the night season 2 A true liuely faith working by loue Mat. 25 4. The wise tooke Oyle in their vessels with their Lampes In the night and darkenesse of this world our light whereby wee see our way it is our faith in the word of God 3 A dead faith or naked knowledge of God voide of loue and good workes Math. 25 3. The foolish Virgins tooke their Lampes but tooke no Oyle with them Land sig The whole Continent of the earth as it is distinguished from Sea Math. 23 15. Ye compasse Sea and Land 2 One particular Region or Countrey Mat. 9 26. The brute went through all that Land as the Land of Iuda of Moab of Aegypt of Philistims c. 3 The people and Inhabitants of any Land or Countrey Esay 37 18. The Kings of Assyria haue destroyed all Lands Gen. 41. 57. The Famine was sore in all Lands Land of the liuing sig The earth or the worlde which is the place of this life Psal. 116 In the Land of the liuing Language of Canaan sig The Haebrew tongue wherein God was serued by his people while they dwelt in Canaan 2 Fellowship with Gods people in Doctrine worship Esay 19 18. Fiue Cities shall speak the Language of Canaan pure Language sig Sound and true Doctrine Zeph. 3 9. Then will I turne to the people a pure Language Last sig The Gentiles which being last yet become first Mat. 19 30. The last shall be first The Iewes who were first being reiected for their vnbeleefe became last and the Gentiles beleeuing in Christ by the calling of God were accepted before the disobedient Iewes and so became first though they were last Last dayes or last times sig The times since the reuelation of Christ by the preaching of himselfe and of his Apostles 2. Pet. 3 3. In the last dayes shall come Mockers Iude 18. 1. Tim. 4 1. These dayes since Christ are called last because all was consummated ended which was before prophesied touching mans Redemption and there remaineth nothing else but the comming of the great Iudge to finish this pilgrimage and warfare of the Church Last day sig The day of Iudgement after which there shal be no more day nor time Iohn 6 39. And should raise it vp againe at the last day to Laugh sig To smile out of doubting Thus Sarah laughed Gen. 18 12. Then Sarah Laughed 2 To smile in Token of ioy out of a true beleefe Thus Abraham Laughed Gen. 17 17. Abraham Laughed Laughing or derision sig The contempt of God toward wicked men and all their attempts against him and how much it is from God to think of releeuing them in their extreamities Psal. 2 3. The Lorde shall haue them in derision or Laugh them to scorne to Laugh at ones destruction sig To conceiue extreme fury against any person or people euen to the rooting of them out Pro. 1 26. I will Laugh when their destruction commeth When God is sayde to Laugh at the wicked it is to shew these foure things First how little he regards thē Secondly how far he is from helping them Thirdly how easie it is for him to destroy them Lastly that he is exceeding hotly displeased with them Law sig That which hath the force of gouerning moderating our actions This is the generall property
is my Name for euer And 33 19. and 34 6 7. Psal. 8 1. Iohn 17 26. 1 Tim. 6 1. Else-where often 2 The ayde and helpe of God Psalm 44 5. In thy Name we shall tread downe our Enemies 1 Sam. 17 45. I goe against him in the Name of my God 3 His honour renowne and glory Psalm 76 1. His Name is great in Israell 4 The renowned vertue and power of God Mat. 7 22. In thy Name c. Name of Christ of Jesus of lord of God sig Christ or Iesus himselfe or God himselfe Actes 9 14 16. Psal. 124 7 22. Tim. 2 19. The meaning hereof is to admonish vs to seeke to vnderstand no more of God and of Christ then is made knowne vnto vs in the word my Name shall be in him sig Christ to be very true God Coessentiall with his Father also his liuely Image by whom hee is knowne and lastly his Vicegerent authorised to be Lord and Ruler ouer his people Exod. 23 21. Because my Name is in him to giue ought for the Name of Christ. sig To entertaine one for the loue and sake of Christ because he honoureth him Marke 9 41. Whosoeuer shall giue a Cup of cold Water for my Name In the Name of a Prophet disciple righteous man sig As a Prophet as a Disciple as a righteous man because they be such Math. 10 41 42. He that receiues a Prophet in the Name of a Prophet c. A Name aboue euery Name sig Such dignity and renowne as farre excelleth all earthly and heauenly dignity and renowne whatsoeuer is in any Creature Ephe. 1 21. Hee hath giuen him a Name aboue euery Name to come in the name of the Lord. sig To be sent of God or to come from him furnished with Diuine authority as his peculiar Messenger Marke 11 9. Blessed be he that commeth in the Name of the Lord. to be baptized in the name of the Father c. sig To be dedicate and set apart by Baptisme vnto God as his peculiar people and worshippers Mat. 28 19. Goe teach all Nations and Baptize them in the Name of the Father of the Sonne and Holie-Ghost to be baptized in the Name of Christ. sig To giue our Names to Christ by Baptisme and therein to be made partakers of his death buriall and resurrection Actes 8 16. They were onely Baptized in the Name of Christ. Acts 19 5. Name of blasphemy sig One full of Blasphemies against God against goodnesse and against good men Reuel 13 1. And vpon his head a Name of Blaspemies to be Named with ones Name sig To be taken and accounted for ones Child no lesse then if hee were borne of him Gene. 48 16. Let my Name be Named vpon them New Name See New sig The Child of God Reuel 2 17. I will giue vnto him a new Name Some others expound it of the spirituall benefites of Christ and the dignity that followes them Nature sig Our state by birth being borne into the World corrupt and sinfull Ephe. 2 3. Wee are by Nature children of Wrath that is such to whom the wrath and iudgement of GOD is due euen from our Birth through the guilt of that corruption which by sinne fell into our Nature Rom. 11 24. Wilde by Nature that is by impurity and vncleannesse of Nature 2 Sensuality 2 Pet. 2 12. As Naturall bruite Beasts 3 A prerogatiue gotten by Birth or Naturall descent and generation Gala. 2 15. We which are Iewes by Nature 4 Naturall reason or iudgement shewing men what is honest what vnhonest Rom. 2 14. Gentiles doe by Nature things contained in the Law 5 A long continued and commonly receiued custome 1. Corin. 11 14. Doth not Nature teach you c. 6 In truth or in very deede Gala. 4 8. Yee did seruice to them which by Nature are no Gods that is not Gods indeede and truely but by opinion estimation of Men. 7 Godly qualities good dispositions put into our Nature by Diuine power 2 Pet. 2 4. Partakers of the Diuine Nature that is of righteousnes and true holinesse wherein wee resemble God as Children their Father 8 Essence or substance Hebr. 2 16. Hee tooke not the Angels Nature Iames 3 7. The whole Nature of Birdes and of Beasts hath beene tamed by the Nature of man Naturall Sonne sig One truely and indeede begotten by the Gospell Titus 1 3. Titus my Naturall Sonne Naturall body sig A body quickned by the Soule and maintayned in life by Naturall and ordinary meanes as meate drinke sleepe c. Contrary to this is a spirituall body which is preserued aliue without such means by the immediate worke of the Spirit 1 Cor. 15 44. There is a Naturall body and there is a Spirituall body Naturall care sig True and faithfull care voide of counterfeiting and negligence Phil. 2 20. Which hath a Naturall care of your matters Natural vse sig A custome agreeable to the Law of Nature Rom. 1 26. Did change the Naturall vse into that which is Vnnaturall Natural Man sig The vnregenerate Man who still sticketh in the old corruption of Nature his ignorance and obstinancy which hee brought with him into the World 1 Cor. 2 14. The Naturall man perceiueth not the things which be of God Naturalnesse of loue sig Truth and sincerity of loue 2 Cor. 8 8. I prooue the Naturalnesse of your loue Naturally sig By light and instinct of Nature Iude 8. What things they know Naturally Nation sig Either the Countrey or the people which inhabite it Psal. 117 1. Praise him all ye Nations Reu. 7 9. Of all Nations Kindreds and people Exo. 19 6. Ye shall be an holy Nation 2 The authour and head of a Nation or people Gen. 25 23. Two Nations are in the Womb. This is meant by a Metanimie of Iacob Esau the two rootes of the Israelites and Edomites Nauill sig That member and part of the body which is in middle of the belly c. 2 The extreame impurity and deformity of our corrupt Nature Ezek. 16 4. Thy Nauill was not cut that is thy impure and sinfull Nature was not corrected and healed 3 The middle part of any thing Iudges 9 37. I see folke come downe by the Nauill or middle of the Land Metaphor 4 The whole body Iob 40 11. His force is in the Nauill of his belly Sinecdoche 5 Both body and mind whatsoeuer is within or without a man Prou. 3 8. So health shall be to thy Nauill An Allegory As Infants in their Mothers Wombe by the Nauill take in nourishment from the Mother to strengthen the most inward parts so the godly in the Church are fed strengthened and put in good plight euery way thorow the true Knowledge and reuerence of God N. E. Neighbour sig pro One that dwelleth nye or neere to vs in the same borrow or street 2 One that is neere vnto vs in kind or blood euen euery man and woman that comes of Adam Math. 22 39. Loue
the word then it is an euill thought whatsoeuer good pretence it haue Math. 15 19. For out of the heart comes euill Thoughts 2 Our counsels touching matters to be done or not done Psalme 146 4. Then his Thoughtes perish 3. The griefe of an afflicted minde Psal. Amidst the Thoughts of my heart thy comforts haue refreshed my Soule 4 Reasoning inwardly in the Soule Luke 9 46 47. When Iesus saw the Thoughtes of their harts 5 Purpose ioyned with indeuour Gen. 50 20. When you Thought to doe me euill 6 Carking or immoderate care or care with anxiety Math. 6 31. Take no Thought Mat. 19. Take no Thought what ye speake Referred to God 7 The will counsell purpose or decree of God touching all things which he will doe or not doe Psalme 33 11. The Thoughts of his heart shall stand for euer It doth sometime signifie Gods disposition when his purpose is executed and brought vnto effect As Gen. 50 20. But God Thought c. So Tremelius translates it Thousand yeares sig The space of ten hundred yeares 2 An exceeding large space of time a finite number being put for an indefinite Psalme 90 4. A thousand yeares is but as yesterday when it is past 2 Pet. 3 8. A thousand yeares as one day Through or by in the doctine of iustification sig The cheefe efficient cause to wit the grace free fauour of God Rom. 3 24. Wee are iustified freely by or Through his grace 2 The outward meritorious cause to wit Christ Iesus our redeemer Reu. 3 24. Through the redemption which is in Christ. Ephe. 1 7. Through his bloud 3 The inward instrumentall cause to wit our Faith Rom. 3 28. We are iustified Through Faith without the workes of the Law Verse 25. Through Faith in his Bloud 4 The signes and fruits of our iustification to wit good workes Iames 2 21. Was not Abraham iustified Through workes Through him sig By his administration or powerfull gouernment Rom. 11 36. Through him are all things Thorny ground sig An heart stuffed with the cares of this World which choake the seede of the word as Thornes choake the Corne springing out of the ground Mat. 13 22. That which fell among Thornes or thorny ground Threatning sig A denunciation of some iudgement temporall or eternal from God 2 Hard and cruell speeches from one man to another Actes 14 17. Let vs Threaten and charge them 1 Pet. 2 23. When hee suffered he Threatned not to Thresh the Mountaines sig To destroy and afflict greeuously euen strong and mighty enemies Esay 41 15. Thou shalt Thresh the Mountaines and bring them to pouder Throne sig A high Seate full of Maiesty and glory fit for earthly Kinges or Iudges 1 Kings 10 18. Then the Kings made a great Throne of Iuory and the Throne had sixe steps 2 Some visible token or representation of Gods power and Maiesty Reue. 4 9. They gaue honour to him that sate on the Throne Reuel 15 1. Metaphor Thunder sig A great noyse and sound caused in the Clouds by the breaking out of hot and dry exâ—alations beating against the edge of the Cloud Psalm 18 13. The Lord Thundred in the Heauen Exo. 16 19. There were Thundrings and lightnings Thunder is a witnesse of Gods power and serueth to strike terrour and feare in men that the godly may bee humbled and the better subdued vnto God and the wicked confounded and left without excuse T. I. Time sig pro Some certaine space as houre day weeke yeare c. Dan. 2 21. Hee changeth the Times and seasons Dan. 4 20. And let his portion be among the Beastes till seauen Times passe ouer him that is seuen yeares Exod. 2 23. 2 Tearme period and shutting vp of ones life Psalme 31 15. My Times are in thy handes O Lord. 3 Opportunity or fit and conuenient season to doe thinges in Iohn 7 6. My Time is not yet come Acts 1 7. The Times and seasons 4 The whole tearme or space which a man liueth Psal. 90 10. The Time of our life is threescore yeares and ten c. Time and times and part of time sig Three yeares and ten daies Dan. 7 25. And they shall bee giuen into his handes vntill a Time and Times and the diuiding or part of Time Tithes sig The tenth part of our goods Deut. 14 28. Heb. 7 8. Men that did receiue Tithes T. O. To. sig The meanes that lead to the end Ephe. 2 11. Created To good workes 2 The end and finall cause Rom. 9 22. Prepared To destruction 1 Thess. 5 9. Appointed To saluation Ephe. 1 6. To the praise of his grace To day sig All the time that the doctrine of grace is Preached Psalme 95 7. To day if ye will heare his voice the morrow sig Time to come Mat. 6 34. Care not then for the Morrow Tongue sig pro The prinicipall instrument of speech Psalme 45 verse 1. My tongue is the pen of a ready Writer Iames 3 5. The Tongue is a little member 2 Speech itselfe Iam. 3 6. The Tongue is fire Iere. 18 18. Smite him with the Tongue A Metonimie of the cause for the effect 3 Strange language or the guift of speaking with a strange language 1 Cor. 14 2. He that speaketh a Tongue deceitfull Tongue sig A tongue vttering crafty and guilefull wordes Psalme 52 4. Thou louest all wordes that may destroy ô deceitfull Tongue that is a man speaking deceite with his Tongue Tongue imagineth mischiefe sig The Tongue to bee the Instrument to vtter that mischiefe which the heart hath thought and imagined Psalme 52 2. Thy Tongue imagineth mischiefe Tongue of the learned sig That singuler skill which Christ had in his owne person aboue measure and which hee gaue to his Ministers according to measure that they might know how to comfort and pacifie afflicted consciences Esay 50 4. The Lord hath giuen me a toong of the learned Tongues of men and Angels sig Such an excellent faculty of speach as might not only become men but euen the Angels if they could speake yet were it nothing worth vnlesse it were imployed through loue vnto the edification of others 1 Cor. 13 1. If I could speake with the Tongue of Men and Angels and had not loue I were as sounding Brasse and tinkling Cimball An Hiperbole to smite with the Tongue sig To vtter malicious and slanderous words which hurt a mans name as blows or strokes hurt a mans body Ier. 18 18. Let vs smite him with the toong Metaphor to Touch. sig To feele a thing lightly with the finger Luke 8 44. She Touched the Hâ—m of his Garment 2 To hurt or offer the least violence Psalme 105. Touch not mine annointed doe my Prophets no harme T. R. Tradition sig A doctrine first deliuered from God by speach and written downe afterward in his Booke for the vse of the Church 1 Cor. 11 2. And keepe the ordinances or Tradition for so it is in the Originall This is a written
It is applyed to those which take eyther a good or a bad course Psalme 1. Blessed is the man that doth not Walke in the counsell of the vngodly Psa. 11â— 1. Leuit. 26 27. But Walke against mee stubbornely 3 The proceeding of Gods prouidence either for our good or euill Leuit. 26 28. Then I will Walke stubbornely in mine anger against you And ver 12. I will Walke among you and be your God 4 The presence of God Gene. 3 8. When they heard the voice of the Lord Walking in the Garden to Walke by Faith sig To liue passe ouer our daies here in beleefe of such thinges as are promised in the word and not yet performed but by hope looked for 2 Cor. 5 7. We Walke by faith not by sight to Walke after the flesh sig To set and order the course of our life after our corrupt reason and affections following them as our guids Rom. 8 1. Which walke not after the Flesh. to Walke in the flesh sig To be Weake and feeble like vnto other Men. 2 Cor. 10 3. Though we Walke in the Flesh yet wee doe not warre after the flesh to Walke with God sig To liue a godly life through continuall Meditation of Gods presence whom we haue to be Witnesse of all euen our most inward thoughts Gen. 5 24. Henoch Walked with God We be or Walke with God two waies First when wee desire to please him and depend vpon him because wee are perswaded that he seeth vs and careth for vs. Secondly when we are held backe by a secret bridle of his grace wee little thinking of him Psa. 73 23. to Walke after the spirit sig To order and dispose our conuersation according to the motions and affections stirred vp in vs by the holy Spirit or to liue in newnesse of life Rom. 8 1. Sée Spirit to Walk in the darke sig To liue without the bright shining light of Gods word 1 Iohn 2 11. Wall sig pro Some frame of Woodor Stone reared and built word either for diuision of places or defence of persons 2 The cause of diuision which was betweene the Iewes and Gentiles by the Ceremoniall Law Ephe. 2 14. And hath broken the stop of the partition Wall that is the Law of Ceremonies which did deuide betweene the Iewes and Gentiles 3 Safeguard and defence affoorded from one man to another 1 Sam. 25 16. They were as a Wal to vs by night and by day 4 The surety and strength of a politicall estate as good Lawes execution of Iustice good education of Children Magistrates Riches c. Psalme 51 18. Build vp the Wals of Ierusalem 5 A spirituall Citty consisting of Iewes and Gentiles as the Inhabitants Cant. 8 9 10. I am a Wall By a Sinecdoche and Metaphor Wantonnesse sig Ranknesse in bodily Lâ—st effeminate liuing in Letchery 1 Pet. 4 4. In Wantonnesse Wantons sig Effeminate persons giuen to ribauldry and lust and delighting in soft and delicious things 1 Cor. â— 10. Wantons Warre sig Battaile and fight betweene two Princes and their people Eccle. 3 8. A time of Warre and a time of peace Luke 14. Worldly war which is lawfull or vnlawfull according as the occasion is 2 The conflict and strife of godly Ministers with the World to subdue it vnto Christ Cor. 10 3. Yet we doe not Warre after the slesh A spirituall War simply and alwaies lawfull 3 Taking part and fighting for our owne vnlawfull lusts Iames 4 2. Ye fight and Warre and get nothing This is a carnall Warre alway and simply vnlaâ—full War after the flesh sig To striue and fight not as men doe with such strength as may be resisted either by craft or force but with diuine and inuincible Weapons which cannot be matched with humaine power and pollicy 2 Cor. 10 3 4. We Warre not after the Flesh for the weapons of our Warfare are mighsy through the power of God c. Warfare sig Condition of such as liue and serue in the wars 1 Cor. 9 9. Who goes to Warfare 2 The course and condition of a mans whole life being subiect to outward and inward battailes and conflicts Iob 1. 3 The condition of the Ministers of God in regard of the stâ—ong opposition and resistance made against them by Sathan and the wicked 2. Cor. 10 4. The Weapons of our Warfare 2 Timo. 2 3. Wast sig Superfluous expence and cost vpon things lawfull or charge vpon thinges vnlawfull Lu. 15 13. He wasted his goods vpon Harlots Math. 26 8. What needed this Wast 2 Ouerthrowne and quite destroyed when God threatneth to lay Wast their Citties and Houses Leuit. 26 33. And your Lands shall be Wast Washing sig Ceremonious cleansing from Legall pollution and vncleannesse through the touching of dead Corpes c. Exod. 19 10. Let them Wash their Clothes Exod. 30 18. A Lauer to Wash 2 Iustification or Remission of sinnes beeing cleansed forgiuen in the merits of Christs bloud Psalme 51 7 Wash mee and I shall bee whiter then Snow 3 Sanctification or newnesse of life through the worke of the Spirit Psal. 51 2. Wash me from my sinnes This Washing and the former are Gods proper worke 4 Serious repentancâ— for daily and particular slips and spots Esay 1 16. Wash you make you clean This Washing is our endeuour to make our selues cleane Of these four Washings The first is Legall the three last Euangelicall The second of Iustification The third of Sanctification The fourth of daily Repentance to Wash ones féete sig pro To endeuour the conrinuall purging of our selues from our daily sinnes Sée Féet Iohn 23 10. Needs not saue to Wash his feete 2 To shew foorth the workes of mercy and Christian loue 1 Cor. 5 10. If she haue Wasâ—â—d thâ— Saints feete A Sinecdoche to Wash ones hands sig To liue purely or to lead a pure conuersation among men Psal. 26 6. I Wash my handes in innocency Psalm 23 13. Iob 9 30. Hands being chiefe Instrument of action are put for our outward doings towardes men which when they are vpright then our hands are washed A Metaphor and Sinecdoche to Watch. sig pro To keepe ones selfe awake to shake of naturall sleepe Luke 2 5 Keeping Watch by night Mat. 26 40. Could you not Watch with me one houre This is bodily Watching 2 To shake off security as one would shake off sleepe taking all good heede and care least Satan or sinne deceiue vs and ouercome vs. Mat. 25 13. Watch c. 1 Pet. 5 8. Watch and be sober Math. 26 41. 1 Thess. 5 4. This is spirituall Watchinâ— 3 To lay in waite obseruing how to accuse hurt others Thus the Pharises watched Christ and the wicked Watch the righteous Luke 11 54. Laying waite for him or Watching him This is Diabolicall Watching watchman sig pro One who in the night keepeth Watch in a Citty or Army to warne others of dangers if any be A ciuill Watch-man 2 Gods Prophets and carefull Ministers of Christ which
Path or Way to go out of the Way sig To turne aside and play Apostate from God his Law and worship Idolatry Rom. 3 12. They are al gone out of the way Waies of iudgement sig Approued and righteous wayes such as can abide the tryall of the light Prou. 2 8. That shey may keepe the wayes of Iudgement These also in ver 13. Are called the Wages of righteousnesse the Way of man sig The successe or euent of a mans purposes or actions Ier. 10 23. The Way of man is not in himselfe the Way of peace sig A peaceable quiet life Rom. 3 17. And the way of peace they haue not knowne to come in the way of righteousnesse sig To lead a righteous life being of vpright life and good conuersation Math. 21 33. For Iohn came in the way of Righteousnesse their Way sig The euent and successe of their course of life Psal. 49 13. This their Way vttereth their foolishnesse W. E. Weake sig One who is made feeble brought low with sicknesse Psal. 6 2. Haue mercie on me Lord for I am weake And 38 8. Bodily weakenesse 2 One of little faith and knowledge Rom. 14 1 He that is weake in the Faith receiue vnto you Spiritual weaknesse in part 3 One who wants all strength bodily and spirituall 1 Cor. 15 43. It is sowne in Weakenesse Rom. 5 6. When we were yet weak or of no strength This is spirituall Weakenesse totally vnto which al men from their birth be subiect Weak flesh sig Corruption of Nature which makes vs Weake either to do good or to resist euill Math. 26 41. The flesh is Weake Metonimie of the cause Weaned Childe sig One of a lowly and humble mind Psal. 131 2. I am in my selfe as one that is Weaned Weapons sig pro Instruments of Warre 2 All the faculties of soule or bodie fighting eyther for sinne in a man vnregenerate or against sin in one regenerate Rom. 6 12. Neither giue your members as weapons of vnrighteousnesse to sinne but giue your Members as Weapons of Righteousnesse to God 3 Preaching of the Word Prayer Patience in suffering c. 2 Cor. 10 3. The Weapons of our warfare are mighty through God Weary sig pro One made faiâ—t with labour and ttauell Iohn 4 6. He thus sate on the well Weary Bodily Wearinesse 2 A soule faint and burdened with the loade of sinne being as desirous of ease by forgiuenesse as a wearie man is of rest after great labour Mat. 11 28. Come vnto me all ye as are wearie Spiritual wearinesse 3 Slacke carelesse and fainting in well-doing Gal. 6 7. Be not Weary of well-doing Carnall Wearinesse Wedding Garment sig Christ Iesus himselfe whom we put on by faith Math. 22 11. Which had not on the wedding Garment Rom. 13 14. Put ye on the Lord Iesus The Papists do erre in iudging loue and Good-Workes to be this Wedding Garment Weeke sig The space of seauen dayes 1 Cor. 16 1. Euerie first day of the Weeke 2 The number of seauen yeares Thus seauenty Weekes in Leuit. 25 8. signifies seuenty times seuen yeares Also Dan. 9 25 Welles of saluation sig Eyther the Doctrine of the Gospell wherewith afflicted Consciences are refreshed as with water out of a Well or the plentifull graces of the Spirit powred out as water out of a Well Esay 12 â—3 Ye shall draw waters out of the Welles of Saluation Wel of water springing vp sig The exceeding rich loue of God continually ministring to the faithfull new supply of healthfull graces Iohn 4 14. Shall bee in him a Well of water springing vp to eternall life Wels with out water sig False Prophets which be voide of wholesome Doctrine 2 Peter 2 17. These are Welles without water W. H. Wheate sig pro A precious Graine whereof bread is made for the strengthening of mans heart 1 Cor. 15 37. Bare Corne of Wheate or some other 2 All elect and faithful persons which are fruitfull in good workes Math. 3 12. The Wheate hee will gather into his Barne Wheele sig An Instrument of wood or Iron turning round seruing either for worke or punishment 2 Punishment it selfe inflicted vppon malefactors Prou. 20 26. A righteous King will turne the Wheele vpon the vngodly 3 The whole masse and body of all things vnder heauen subiect to continuall change and mutation Ezek. 1 15. There appeared a Wheele vnto me vpon the earth by the Beastes hauing foure faces Wherefore sig A Consequent or that which followes as an effect of some foregoing cause Rom. 1 24. Wherefore also God gaue them vp c. Heere it is an Illatiue particle 2 A cause or reason of some thing Rom. 1 21. Wherefore or because when c. to Whet the sword sig To prepare and make readie some great Iudgement Psal. 7 12. He hath whet his sword Whetting their teeth sig Indignation or wrath of the wicked Psalme 112 10. The wicked whets his teeth at the Righteous White sig pro A colour bright and lightsome contrarie to blacke 2 That which is pure without blemish or glorious without infirmity Reu. 3 18. White Rayment Math. 28 3. His Rayment white as Snow It is vsual in Scripture by white to signifie Purity and Glory Sée Rayment and Robe 3 Ripe and ready to be cut downe and carried into the barne Iohn 4 35. They are white already to the Haruest white horse sig The Ministers of the Gospel made pure by Christ and preaching Christ purely Reuel 6 2. Loe there was a White horse Wholesom sig Sound or healthful making spiritually sound or bringing health to the soule 1 Tim. 6 3. And consented not to the wholesome words of Christ. Tit. 2 1. Wholesome Doctrine Whore sig An vnchast woman taking money for the vse of her body Deut. 23 17 18. There shall bee no Whore of the Daughters of Israell nor any hyre of a whore brought into the house of God 2 The Sinagogue of Anti-christ or the Romish Church as it standeth now corrupt with horrible Idolatry and Heresie obstinately maintained Reu. 17 1. I will shewe thee the condemnation of the great Whore Whoredom sig The vncleannesse of such as make their bodies common for money Deut. 21 23. 2 Generally all vncleannesse about generation Heb. 13 14. Hosea 4 11. Whoredome and new Wine take away the heart 3 Idolatry in the worship of strange Gods or in the strange worship of the true God Reu. 17 5. That Mother of Whoredome Ezek. 16 25. And multiplyed thy Whoredome Verse 17. And madest to thy selfe Images of men and diddest commit whoredom with them to go a Whoring sig To fixe our affection vpon the creatures more then the Creator and especially to put our trust confidence in worldly men and worldly thinges Psa. 73 27. Thou destroyest all them which go a Whoring from thee All confidence in the creature It is a spirituall whoredome 2 To fall in loue with Idols and to worshippe contrary to our faith plight with God
verse 11. Hauing the Glory of God that is most admirable Diuine and Caelestiall Glory Some do so vnderstand this of a most glorious Diuine brightnesse of Gods presence as withal they restraine it to the Ages of the Church which shall be next afore the end of the World Both may bee vnderstood the one as a fore-runner and preparation to the other Glory and honour of Kinges and Gentiles sig All that Maiesty with those great and excellent thinges which Kinges and people had shall be laid downe at what time the glory of the heauenly City is giuen them Reue. 21 24 26. Shall bring their Glory and honour to it to Glorifie her selfe sig To exalt and lift vp her selfe her Doctrine and decrees with great pride and insolency preferring her Traditions and ordinances aboue Gods written word his sacred ordinances as Ecclesiasticall Rome hath done Ren. 18 7. Insomuch as she Glorified her selfe c. to Glorifie his Name sig To set forth the Glory of Gods great Name by acknowledging and praysing his Iustice in his vengeance vppon the wicked and his exceeding loue and benignity toward the Saintes Reuel 15 4. Who woulde not feare thee and Glorifie thy great Name G. N. to Gnaw their toongs sig To take most grieuously the fall of their pomp Dignitie and authority also furiously for extream sorrow to bite their owne tongues Reuel 16 10. And they Gnawed their tongues for sorrow Some expound this of renouncing their owne proud words and writinges But the former signification is the better G. O. â—â— Go out no more sig To remaine for euer in the Church Triumphant being most firmely ioyned vnto Christ and immediatly Reuel 3 12. And he shall Goe no more out He alludeth vnto 1 Kings 7 15. Some vnderstand it of the stablenesse of Gods Children in the Church Militant namely of such faithfull ones as were Members of the Church at Philadelphia But it may well beare both significations for Christes true Members shall continue stead-fast in the Church Militant till they be translated into the Church tryumphant to go out of Babylon sig To depart as farre as may bee from all society and fellowshippe with the Romish Sinagogue in their Haeresies and Idolatries Reuel 18 4. Goe out of her my people c. This Exhortation and charge here in the Apocalipse is like to that in Ieremy Cha. 51 45. My people Goe out of the midst of her This of Ieremy was spoken touching departing from Babylon in the East when it was to bee destroyed and that in the Reuelation concerneth the ruine of Babylon in the West to forwarne the godly to auoid it by departing away to go into destruction sig To perish finally and vtterly to bee destroyed Reuel 17 11. And shall Goe into destruction god Almighty sig A God of infinite power Sâ—â— Almighty God of heauen sig The true God Creator of the whole World whereof Heauen is a cheefe and principall part Reuel 11 13. And gaue Glory to the God of Heauen His God sig A God fauourable vnto him in Christ euen so farre as to make him euerlastingly happy Reu. 21 7. And I will be his God to be their God sig To be ioyned vnto God by perfect and immediate fellowship which shall be the portion of the faithfull in Heauen Reuel 21 3. And God himselfe shall be their God with them before God sig In the presence of Christ the Iudge of the World being God equall to his Father Re. 20 12. I saw the dead stand before God 2 Cor. 5 10. Gog and Magog sig All the secret and open enemies of Christ and his Church both Papistes and Turkes banding themselues against the Gospell in these last times since the loosing of Sathan And thus much the verie Names themselues import for Gog signifies one couered and Magog signifies one vncouered Reu. 20 8. Euen Gog and Magog togather them to battaile For the better vnderstanding this place wee must haue recourse to Ezekiell Chapter 38 and 39. where vnder the Names of Gog and Magog are comprehended such Princes as gathered great Armies to fight against Israell after they came from the Captiuity of Babylon This Story is heere in the Reuelation applied to those Enemies as Sathan should muster together against the Church of Christ a little before his comming to iudgement Other Authours referre Gog and Magog to the Turkes and Persians and such Regions as are at their commaund Certaine it is that a mighty Army of such Heathenish people stirred vp by the Deuill being now let loose is meant here Golden Alter sig Christ Iesus who is both High-Priest Sacrifice and Altar This place alludeth to Exod. 30 3. Vnto the Altar of Incense which was before the Uaile Some expound it of the select company of Saintes the first fruits of the World Sée Altar Reue. 8 3. To offer vpon the Golden Altar Golden Censor sig An Instrument belonging to the holy of Holies whereon the Priest did burne sweete Incense before the Lord which did figure the Mediation of Christ in which the Prayers of the Saints were acceptable Reuel 8 3. Hauing a Golden Censor Golden Crowne sig Kingly Dignity and power where-with Christ himselfe or the Executioner of his iudgements shall be endowed Reu. 14 14. Hauing on his head a Golden Crowne Golden réed sig An Instrument to measure withall which being of Gold do signifie the Church measured to be of a most excellent worke and of a worthy workemanship Reu. 21 15. And he had a Golden Reede to measure the Citty withall stréets of pure Golde sig All euen the meanest partes as Streets in a Citty of the Church to bee most pretious beautifull and glorious Reuel 21 21. And the streete of the Citty is pure Gold Some heereby vnderstand that the actions of Gods Children shall be pure holie and vnblameable euerlasting Gospell sig The gladsome tydings of euerlasting reconciliation with God through Faith in Christ alone according to the eternall decree of God Reue. 14 6. Hauing an euerlasting Gospell This giues a sore checke to such as charge the doctrine of saluation by faith in Christ with nouelty slanderously calling it a yesterdaies Bird a start-vp doctrine Golden Girdle sig The diligence and readinesse of Christ in gouerning his Church whose worke heerein is pretious and acceptable to God Reu. 1 13. Girt with a Golden Girdle G. R. Great Babylon sig Rome as it is now gouerned by the Pope being like vnto Babylon a great Citty in Chaldea for tyrranny pride power power Idolatry superstition impiety Reuel 17 5. That Great Babylon Mother of Whoredome This cannot be meant of Heathenish Rome vnder the Emperors who did not thrust their Idolatry vpon other Nations and Kinges but left them euery one to their religion neither had Heathenish impiety any such Mystery in it as with shew of piety it shuld deceiue numbers seeing Heathenish superstition was palpable and execrable to all sorts of Christians therefore this must signifie Popish Rome which with
6 His left Hand is vnder mine head his right Hand doth embrace me Hands like rings of gold sig All in Christ to be rich and shining Cant. 5 14. His Hands as Rings of Gold Hanginges of purple sig Litterally the great Riches of Salomon Mystically the exceeding great spirituall riches of the Church Cant. 3 10. The Hangings thereof of Purple Haire sig The company of the faithfull Cant. 4 1. Thine Haire is like the flocke of Goats like to the yong Hart. sig Celerity and speede vsed in comming vnto the Church Cant. 8 14. Bee like vnto the Roe or to the young Hart vpon the Mountaines of spices H. E. to Heare sig The same that Hearken to Hearken sig Reuerently to giue eare vnto the Doctrine of God Can. 8 17. The companions Harken to thy voice Cause me to Heare it Heart sig The soule with all faculties of minde and will Cant. 5 2. I sleepe but mine Heart waketh Heart gone sig The deepe greefe and sorrow of a godly soule in the sence of sinne and for the absence of Christ and his comfort Cant. 5 6. Mine Heart was gone when he did speake H. O. Hole of the doore sig The Key-hole properly whereby one may looke in when the doore is shut Mystically a little creauice whereby to winde into the heart which is after a sort shut and lockt vp Cant. 5 4. My welbe loued put in his hand at the hole of the doore Holes of the rocke sig The eternall Counsell and election of the Church vnto glory wherein as in a hollow Rocke it resteth safe Cant. 2 14. My Doue that art in the Holeâ— of the Rocke Hony comb Honie sig The sweet ioyes of which the faithfull with Christ shall enioy in heauenly glory Cant. 5 1. I ate mine Hony Combe with mine Hony I. E. Jealousie sig pro SVspition betweene married folkes of their fidelity one towards another 2 Vehement affection of loue in which the Church desireth that Christ his affection may bee continued to her Cant. 8 6. Iealousie is as cruell as the Graue I. N. Mountaine of Incense sig Ierusalem aboue our Caelestial habitation where the Saints performe duties most delightful to God Cant. 4 6. I will go to the Mountaine of Incense I. O. Joynts and Jewels sig Turnings or things which compasse about as a Girdle which the Bride was wont to weare ful of rich Iewels 2 All rich and glorious inwarde graces and spirituall Ornaments Cant. 7 1. The Ioynts of thy thighes are like Iewels K. E. to Keepe sig TO reserue graces and all giftes vnto Christ alone Can. 7 13. My welbeloued I haue kept them for thee Keeper of the vmyard sig A Godly and faithfull Minister whome God trusteth with the Vine of his Church to trim and dresse it to Keepe and watch it Cant. 8 11. Hee gaue the Uineyard vnto Keepers K. I. Kiddes sig The company of the faithfull and of the true Worshippers of God Cant. 1 7. Feede thy Kiddes by the Tents of the Shepheards King Salomon sig Salomon who as King ruled ouer Gods people Israell a glorious King yet not compareable to Christ in glory Cant. 3 11. Come forth ye daughters of Sion and behold King Salomon to Kisse sig To shew and expresse most neere loue by presence and neere coniunction all signes of loue Cantic 1 1. Let him Kisse mee with the Kisses of his mouth L. E. from Lebanon sig FRom remote partes and out of places furthest off so the elect are gathered vnto Christ out of all Nations Cant 4 8. Come with me from Lebanon springes of Lebanon sig The graces or waters of life which doo flowe from Christ vpon his Church and are neuer dryed vp like to those cleare springs which run and flow from Lebanon Cant. 4 15. And the Springs of Lebanon Leaniâ—g vpon sig Accompanying or being in company with one Cant. 8 5. Leaning vpon her welbeloued Leaping sig Great celerity and speede that Christ vseth in comming to his Church for her succour solace Cant 2 8. He commeth Leaping by the Mountaines L. I. Licor sig Nourishment or continuall supply of nourishment Cant 7 2. Thy Nauell is as a round cup wanteth not Licor Lillies sig Pleasant sweetnesse or glorious beauty See before Lips of the ancient sig The readinesse of old men whose spirits be dul to vtter the praises of Christ yea they which sleep in death as the worde importes by force of preaching shall be made to speake the truth and glory of Christ. Cant 7 9. And causeth the Lips of the ancient to speake Lippes like Lillies c. sig The Doctrine of the word sweet and precious to the elect comming from Christ as Author froÌ„ the Church as Instrument hauing charge to teach and spread it Cant. 5 13. And his Lippes like Lillies dropping downe pure Myrrhe Lippes like honey sig Sweet and delectable words Cantic 4 11. Thy Lips my Spouse drop as Hony combes Little sister sig The Church to be gathered from amongest the Gentiles Cant. 8 8. We haue a Little Sister L. O. Loue. sig One most deere affectionately desired Cant. 5 2. Open vnto me my Sister my Loue. Loue better then wine sig That Christs loue to his beloued church in sweetnesse and wholesomenesse doth excel any delicate banquet noted by wine Cant. 1 1 c. 4 10. How much better is thy Loue then Wine L. Y. to Lye betweene sig To bee very deare and in precious account alwayes in sight and presence Cant. 1 12. He shall lye betweene my breasts M. A. Mandrakes sig ALl amiable flowers which be faire and louely by Sinecdoche of the part for the whole 2 All holy vertues and fruits of faith Can. 7 13 The Mandrakes haue giuen a smell Marriage sig Betroathing the first degree of marriage Cant. 3 11. Behold the King Salomon with the Crown wherwith his Mother crowned him in the day of his Marriage M. E. powder or dust of the Merchant or spices sig Those heauenly graces of the spirit where-with the members of the Church be perfumed Can. 3 6. Spices of the Merchant M. I. Middes sig The inward parts of the Chamber which were paued with loue that is wrought with louely and most excellent workes Cant. 3 10. Whose Middes was paued with the loue of the Daughters of Ierusalem Honey and Milke c. sig The speech or instruction of the Church not only sweet as Hony but also wholesome and norishable as Milke Cant. 4 11. Hony and Milke are vnder thy tongue Myrrhe See Jneense M. O. Moone sig The spirituall brightnesse of the Church shining as the cleare Moone which giueth great beauty in the night Cant. 6 9. Faire as the Moone Morning sig The same thing Mother sig Ierusalem which is aboue whereof the church on earth is daughter Cant. 8. 1. O that thou werest as my Brother which sucked the breasts of my Mother Mountains sig Le ts and difficulties that be in the way Cant. 2 8. He commeth leaping