a Lump Mould or Mold of the Belg. Modder Slime or moist Earth Material Materealis Lat. consisting of Matter V. 710. Confusion heard his Voice Confusion obey'd his Command that Heap and Chaos of Confusion in which the Elements of Air Water Earth and Fire lay jumbled and commixt together covered with Egyptian Darkness and Obscurity no sooner heard his Voice but it began to separate and shew ready Obedience Ibid. And wild Uproar The dreadful disorder occasion'd by the contesting Elements enclosed and struggling to get forth by his Word was over-ruled and appeased V. 711. Stood vast Infinitude confined The vast unfinished Gulph of Non-Entity and uncreated Night that boundless Deep Illimitable Ocean without Bound without Dimension where Length Breadth and Heighth and Time and Place are lost as Book 2. Vers. 892. received its Confines the Verge of Nature and the vast Circumference of all Created Beings was fixt and their appointed compass establish'd V. 716. This AEthereal Quintessence of Heav'n This light and pure spiritual part of Heav'n took wing and flew upwards enliv'ned and inspirited with divers Forms that moved in Rounds and at last turned to Stars innumerable to the Four Elements some of the Philosophers added an AEthereal Spirit void of Corruption and Contrariety the purest and most subtle Agility and the Bond and Ligature of all the rest of which they supposed the Stars and Heavens those Glorious Bodies were made as of a Quintessence arising out of the Quaternion of Elements AEthereal Quintessence A flaming shining Spirit Quintessence Quinta essentia Lat. is the purest and highest rectified Spirit extracted out of any thing and separated from its Faeces admirably applyed to the Coelestial Bodies and Heav'nly Orbs. Orbicular Orbicularis Lat. any thing that is round or of a circular shape V. 721. The rest in Circuit Walls The rest of this pure Heavenly Quintessence encompasses the Universe round like a Wall V. 723. Though but reflected Shines Looks bright and glorious by the returning of that Light it has from hence from the Sun where Uriel and 〈◊〉 stood Reflected Reflexus Lat. return'd turn'd back again reverberated beaten back and recoyling Reflexion is a returning that Brightness that Light cast on any Opaque and Solid Body V. 725. As th' other Hemisphere c. which otherwise would be as dark as the other half of the Globe or World is when the Moon is absent who yonder comes to its assistance and interposes her feeble Light Hemisphere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. half the compass of the Heav'ns V. 727. That opposite fair Star That bright Star that is over against us being in the Sun from which she as well as the Earth has her lent Light Oppositus Lat. placed over against V. 728. And her Monthly Round And fulfils her Circle in a Month so named of the Moon the Lunar Month as Mensis of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for the Moon from her encreasing coming to the Full and her abatement Quid Menstrua Luna Moneret Geor. 1. V. 730. Her Countenanoe trifâ—rm Her threefold Face encreasing full and decreasing Hence fills and empties from her beginning comes to be compleat and thence does by degrees decreasing vanish according to which three appearances she was called Luna Sole Diana Polo Proserpina in Orco Ovid. Nec Par aut eadem Nocturnae forma Dianae Esse potest unquam semperque hodierna sequente Si crescit minor est major si contrahit orbem Ibid. Meta. Lib. 15. Tertia jam Lunae se Cornua Lumine complent AEn 3. Her Horns at her increase regarding the East as in her decrease they point to the West Triformis Lat. of three shapes V. 731. Hence fills and empties That is from the Sun of whom the Moon being a Spherical Opaque and Obscure Body borrows all her Silver Light as Virgil hints very handsomely Nec fratris radiis obnoxia surgere Luna Geor. 1. V. 732. And in her Pale Dominion And with her feeble Empire curbs the Night hinders and opposes the Encroachment of Ancient and Hereditary Night Checks the Night Hinders the progress of dull Darkness Check a Metaphor taken from the Game called Chess where a Pawn c. when placed aright hinders and opposes the march of the Enemy or drives him upon eminent Danger V. 734. Adams Abode The Abiding the Dwelling-Place of Adam so named of the Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to his Creation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Dust of the Earth Gen. 2. Vers. 7. a sort of Coloured Earth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to look Red. V. 740. Down from th'Ecliptick Down from the Suns bright Road The Ecliptick is a Line running along the middle of the Zodiack in which the Sun compleats his Annual Course so named of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Eclipses there happening Satan discoursing with Uriel in the Region of the Sun must needs take his flight from the Ecliptick in some part of which the Sun always is Ibid. Sped with hoped Success Heightned with hopes of Success hasting with hopes to succeed Sped of Spedire It. and that of Expedire Lat. to make haste or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to make haste to be dilâ—gent V. 741. In manâ— an AErie Wheel With many a nimble turn A Wheel a round Circle according to its shape hence a Body of Men are said to Wheel when they move round V. 742. On Niphates top he lights A Mountain in the Borders of Armenia not far from the spring of Tigris as Xenophon affirms upon his own Knowledge so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great drifts of Snow covering its Crown thence styled Rigidum Niphaten by Hor. Car. l. 2. Od. 9. Urbes Asiae domitas pulsumque Niphaten Geo. 3. There is also a River of the same Name in the Neighborhood of this Hill Armeniusque tenens volventem Saxa Niphatem Luc. l. 3. The Poet lands Satan on this Armenian Mountain because it borders on Mesopotamia in â—â—ich the most Judicious Describers of Paradise place it NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK IV. V. 2. WHO saw th'Apocalyps Who in a Vision saw the Revelation of what was to befal the Church of God to the end of the World St. John who though in the Front of the Revelation he be named the Divine is yet held to be the same who writ the Gospel called by his Name as Irenaeus Hieronymus Eusebius and others affirm the difference of the style being no more than that in the one he has used that of a Prophet and in the other that of an Historian Apocalyps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Discovery a Revealing of hidden Mysteries thence translated the Revelations of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to discover tho' still extreamly obscure like those Acroatick parts of Aristotle's Philosophy which he says were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This obscure Discovery was written by St. John in the Island Patmos whither he was banish'd by Domitian about the 14th Year of
Last in the Train of Night Diffugiunt Stellae Quarum agmina cogit Lucifer Coeli statione novissimus exit Met. Lib. 2. V. 168. Sure Pledge of Day c. Sure Earnest of the coming Day that dost adorn with thy bright Coronet the lovely Morn the Circlet a diminitive of Circle Qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer undâ Quem Venus ante alios Astrorum diligit ignes Extulit Os sacrum Coelo tenebrasque resolvit AEn 8. V. 170. That sweet Hour of Prime The early Morning Hour when Air and Earth are both sweet and fresh Dum mane novum dum gramina canent Et ros in tenerâ pecori gratissimus herbâ Georg. 3. V. 171. Of this great World both Eye and Soul Thou Sun the Worlds vast Universal Eye Natures Illustrious Polypheme styled The God of this new World Book 4. Vers. 33. early esteem'd one and worshipp'd in stead of his Creator The Ancients thought the Sun not only the General Surveyor of the World but the Observer of all that was transacted in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I invoke the All-seeing Circle of the Sun AEscul in Prometh and in all Leagues Confederacies and other publick Transactions he was called to Witness as the Universal Eye from which nothing could be conceal'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esto nunc Sol testis AEn 12. Sol oculis juvenem quibus aspicit omnia vidit O Lux immensi Publica Mundi Met. Lib. 2. Ibid. And Soul The most Ancient Philosophers were of Opinion that there was one Universal Intellectual Soul the Emanation of the Great Mind God created and diffused over the whole World by whose general Virtue and Plastick Power all things are generated and preserved and the whole Frame of Nature continued in her uninterrupted Course and beautiful Order this the Platonists called Animam Mundi and with them Mercurius Trismegistus Theophrastus c. the Stoicks and the Peripateticks agree Zâ—roaster styles it a Catholick Invisible Fire Virgil A Mental Spirit actuating the Heavens Earth Seas and Stars Principio Coelum ac Terras camposque liquentes Lucentemque Globum Lunae titaniaque Astra Spiritus intus alit Totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem c. Igneus est olhis vigor coelestis Origo Seminibus AEn 6. So that our Poet has conformably seated this Universal Invigorating Spirit in the Sun by the Platonists termed the Sphere of Equality or of the Soul of the World corresponding with the Heart the Vital Center of the Microcosm V. 173. In thy Eternal Course in thy Continual Course For the Sun is not Eternal not so Ancient as Light by some Days but was made in time of which his Motion is the Measure Virgil uses the Adverb AEternùm in the same manner for Continually Glebaque versis AEternum frangenda bidentibus Georg. 2. AEternumque Arida Barce Luc. V. 176. Fixt in their Orb that flies The fixt Stars are not so call'd as if Stationary and Motionless but because moving constantly in the round of their own Sphere without any deviation and thereby distinguish'd from the wandring Planets therefore styled in the following Verse The Five wandring Fires being Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury he having just been speaking of the Sun and Moon that compleat the Septenary V. 178. In Mystick Dance not without Song Pythagoras is vouch'd for the Author of the Musical Motion of the Spheres though misunderstood the Harmony he meant relating to their Proportion and Concinnity rather than their Consonancy Many have endeavoured to find an Agreement with our Earthly Harmony in the Distances and Motions of the Heavenly Spheres Sound being only the Noise of Motion diversly modified And doubtless there are many Proportions among the Stars nearly approaching the Harmonick their benign and favourable Aspects and Conjunctions as also the evil ones do strangely correspond with Concord and Dissonancy But all that we certainly understand is that we cannot sufficiently comprehend and admire the admirable Proportion and Congruity the Regular and uninterrupted Methods and Motions of Nature charming above all the strains of Humane Harmony and obeying his Commands who from the beginning ordered all things in measure number and weight Wisd. 11. Vers. 20. Orpheus his Harp had its seven Strings contrived according to the Number of the Planets which the Poets tell us was the reason his Musick was so Compulsive and Irresistible and he compared the Four Elements and their Harmonious Mixture by which the World is maintain'd in continual Concord to the Tetracordon resembling the vast Universe to the Monocord V. 180. Air and the Elements c. Air and ye the rest of the Elements Fire Earth and Water the Constituents of all Corporeal Beings the eldest Birth of Natures Womb according to Gen. 1. Vers. 1. V. 181. That in Quaternión run c. That in their four-fold Mixture run perpetual Rounds producing divers Forms The Generation of all things is Circular as of Seed an Egg of that a Bird of that Bird Seed again and of that an Egg in a continual round The Quaternion or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the mysterious and much-admired Number of the Pythagoreans It was their most sacred and solemn Oath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyth. in Carm. Aur. â— sware by him who gave my Soul the Quaternion the Fountain of Everlasting Nature It related as some say to the Four Elements the Four Faces of the Moon to the Four first Qualities Heat Cold Dryness and Moisture But the Pythagoreans had it in so high Veneration because it contained all Numbers that is ten for beyond which no Nation Numbers the rest being but Multiplications of this wherefore Four contain all Numbers Quaternion Quaternio Lat. the Number Four à Quatuor Lat. Multiform Multiformis Lat. of divers Fashions and Shape of Multus Lat. many and Forma Lat. shape kind V. 189. Th' uncolour'd Skie The Air which by reason of its thinness clearness and perspicuity is invisible can therefore have no pretence to colour as not being capable to terminate our sight That more impure part of it that moves in the Region of Meteors is of a duskish and dark Complexion near the misty Horizon by reason of the thick Vapours of the Neighbouring Earth at a greater distance thinner Exhalations give it a whiteness and in serene Seasons it is of that we call Skie-Colour but all these are the Tinctures given to the Uncolour'd Air as patcht and drest with Clouds as our Author styles them Virgil seems to have exprest this Uncolour'd Air by Purum Dum se laetus ad auras Palmes agit laxis per Purum immissus habenis Geor. 2. Skie of Scinan Sax. to be bright V. 192. That from Four Quarters blow From the Four Cardinal Points East West North and South which multiplyed by Eight their Collateral and Circular Sub-divisions compleat the Compass with 32 distinct Breaths V. 193. And wave your Tops ye Pines and bow your lofty Heads
one Coelestial Father c. That one great Heav'nly Father feeds us all V. 405. To Man in part Spiritual To Man who as to his Nobler Part his Soul is Spiritual Spiritualis Lat. of the Nature of a Spirit V. 407. Pure Intelligential Substances Angels and Spirits those refined understanding Beings whose clearer Intellects and inlighten'd Minds are sublimed and exalted so far above Mankind immers'd in matter must be sustain'd and supported with some sort of Spiritual Aliment as the Rational and all Created Beings are nothing but the Infinite and the Almighty One being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Self-sufficient Intelligentia Lat. Knowledge in the Abstract such as is expressive of Angels and Spirits from the Purity and Sublimity of those Coelestial Minds See Vers. 414. V. 412. Concoct The Office of the Stomach macerating our Meat by its Internal Heat Of Concoquere Lat. to boyl Ibid. Assimilate turn into their own likeness As all Creatures turn their Food into their Corresponding Flesh Blood and Animal Spirits of Assimilare Lat. to be like V. 417. Earth and the Sea feed Air c. There being a constant Circulation of the Elements they do by continual Mutations and Vicissitudes make and maintain one another Earth being nothing but the Dregs and Faeces of Water coagulated by Condensation as Water is Air by the same means thickned into Visibility as Fire is Air sublimely rarified each support other by an incessant Circumrotation interchangeably running round Thus from the Humid Unctuous Earth Vapours and Exhalations are rarified into Water that supports the Seas vast source from the Earth and the Sea the thinner and lighter Perspirations are the same way transmuted into Air and Air exalted and inspirited to Fire and by the contrary Condensation in Quaternion run Perpetual Circle multiform as before at Vers. 181. V. 420. Unpurged Vapours gross Exhalations and foul Mists mounting up to the Moon that look like black Patches on her fair Face Vapours undigested unrefined not yet clarified and converted into her clear Complexion V. 421. No Nourishment exhale the moist Moon sends from her humid Globe Food more refined up to the higher Orbs to exhale exhalare Lat. to breathe out as rising Mists seem to be exhaled Quae tenuem exhalat nebulam fumosque volucres Geor. 2. V. 423. That Light imparts That affords and communicates Light to all things Imparts of the Lat. impertire to bestow a part or share on V. 424. His Alimental Recompense The Sun himself that on the Universe bestows his chearing Light and enlivening Rays receives in moist Returns and unctuous Vapours his Nourishment from all as Toll and Tribute paid him in grateful Recompense Alimental Alimentum Lat. Food Nourishment V. 426. Sups with the Ocean According to the Opinion of Thales who supposed Water the First Matter of the Creation borrowed of the Description of the Creation by Moses Gen. 1. Vers. 2. So Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Render'd by Virgil Oceanumque Patrem rerum Nymphasque sorores Geor. 4. Not only the Sun but all the Homerick Inhabitants of Heaven are entertained by the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now these Ethiopians dwelt near the Suns Supping-Room Oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem Ultimus AEthiopum locus est AEn 4. Audiet Herculeo stridentem gurgite solem Juv. Sa◠15. V. 429. Mellifluous Dews and Pearly Grain A Description of Manna Angels Food the Bread of Heav'n And when the Dew that lay was gone up behold upon the Face of the Wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the Hoar-frost on the Ground and it was like Coriander-Seed white And the taste of it was like Wafers made with Honey Exod. 16. Vers. 24 and 31. Man did eat Angels Food Psal. 78. Vers. 25. Mellifluous Mellifluus Lat. sweet as Honey V. 434. To their Viands their Victnals Their Food Fr. Viande Ita. Vivande both of Vivere Lat. to live as Victus Food V. 435. Not seemingly nor in Mist The Angel did not make as if he did eat nor put the cheat upon 'em by casting a Mist before their Eyes according to the Gloss of Theodoret in his 68 Question on Gen. 18. Vers. 8. who tells us that as those Angels who appeared to Abraham were by Moses styled Men having nothing of Human Nature but the outward appearance so they were said to eat when they did but seem to do so Cibum simulatis illis manibus capientes in simulatum quoque os ingerentes clam consumpserunt prout illis placuit Of the same Opinion is St. Thomas Tom. 1. Part. 9. 51. Art 2. which they support by the Confession of Raphael himself All these Days I did appear unto you but I did neither eat nor drink but you did see a Vision Tob. 12. Vers. 19. The Angel that appeared to Manoah declared against it And the Angel of the Lord said Though thou detein me I will not eat of thy Bread Judg. 13. V. 16. Our Author on the contrary believes the Angel did with keen and hungry dispatch eat digest and turn what was convertible of it into his proper substance evacuating the rest by Perspiration nor does there seem any absurdity in the Asseveration since most Texts of Holy Writ where the Appearances of Angels are Recorded make 'em subject to Human Sight Hearing and Feeling too why not then to Eating as literally affirm'd of 'em as any of the other Actions falling under Sense But these Enquiries are too subtle and exceed the compass of our Capacities Ibid. The common Gloss of Theologians the usual Interpretation of Doctors and Divines Gloss Glossa Lat. of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Tongue signifies an Exposition or Interpretation of an obscure place of Holy Scripture or other Writing Protinus enim potest Interpretationem Linguae Secretioris quae Graeci Glossas vocant dum aliud agitur ediscere Quint. Lib. 1. Cap. 2. Theologians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that writes or reasons concerning GOD and his Holy Mysteries that treats and teaches Divine Matters the School-Divines and Doctors V. 438. To transubstantiate and heat sufficient to digest and turn into the substance of the Creature fed the Food it eats The proper Office of the Stomach aided by its innate vigorous heat Transubstantiate and Transubstantiation Barbarous Lat. Words that have much disturbed the World Ibid. What redounds transpires What remains over and above what is necessary and fit for nourishment breathes out vanisheth into Air Is voided and evacuated as Sweat evaporates through the Pores Redundare Lat. to be over and above to exceed to overflow Transpirare Lat. to sweat to breathe through V. 440. The Emperick Alchemist The Prying the Experimental Chymist Emperick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that is taught by tryal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Endeavour Experiment hence a bold daring and unskilful Quack is call'd an Emperick from venturing by dangerous Medicines to make
the Diameter can touch the Center the middle Point of a round Body V. 216. Silence As the same omnipotent and omnific word Incarnate said to the tumultuous Sea Peace be still Mar. 4. 39. Omnific Maker of all Things Omnificus of Omnis all and Facere Lat. to make V. 222. Follow'd in bright Procession Seems a contradiction for Procession shrictly signifies A going before and is used to express a solemn Pomp and Shew preceeding a Prince or the Sacrament in Catholic Countries carried in Procession but the meaning is that a bright Train of admiring Angels attended and waited on this Omnific Word to see the mighty Works of his Creation Processio Lat. of Procedere to set out to go on V. 224. The fervid Wheels The warm Wheels from the swiftness of their Motion Motus est causa caloris Horace his Epithete Metaque fervidis evitata rotis Car. l. 1. Od. 1. Fervidus Lat. hot V. 228. One foot he center'd One foot of his Golden Compasses he fix'd in the center of the Universe and turn'd the other round through the vast and deep Obscurity and said Thus far shall the Creation reach thus far shall its Bounds extend this shall be thy compass O thou rising World Profundity Profunditas Lat. Depth the Deep V. 231. This be thy just Circumference This shall be thy vast Round Pronounced by him who sitteth on the circle of the Earth Isa. 40. 22. Who alone compass'd the circuit of the Heavens Eccles. 24. 5. V. 233. Matter unform'd and void 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Desolation and emptiness Gen. 1. 2. Says Moses Without form and void as our Translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 70. Invisible and unadorn'd The vulgar Lat. Inanis vacua Empty and void doubly empty Aquila vanitas nihil Emptiness and nothing All amounting to the same sense and agreeing with our Poets that God made the Heaven and Earth which on the first day of the Creation were one confused heap of uninform'd Matter containing Earth Air Fire c. all mix'd and cover'd over with a dark Deluge and black Abyss of Water So that the Author of the Book of Wisdom had reason to say Manus tua creavit orbem terrarum ex materiâ invisâ ch 2. v. 18 Which we translate Thy hand made the World of Matter without Form The Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 234. Cover'd the Abyss Darkness was upon the face of the deep Gen. 1. 2. Deep and incomprehensible Darkness cover'd the vast Abyss in whose watry Womb the unborn World yet lay So the Prophetic Psalmist Thou covered'st it with the Deep as with a Garment the Waters stood above the Mountains of the establish'd Earth Psal. 104. 6. And Job describing the Original Birth of Waters I made the cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness its swadling band Job 38. 9. Bede in his Exemeron is of opinion That all that vast space between the Earth and the Empyrean Heaven was filled with Water that is with a humid aqueous and misty Matter part of which was afterwards thickned into Water some rarified and spun out into Air and the rest miraculously hardned and fix'd into the Matter of the Celestial Orbs all extracted out of this immeasurable Abyss Bo. I. Vers. 21. which before Light was created must necessarily be cloath'd with Darkness V. 235. His brooding Wings the Spirit of God The Holy Spirit the third Person of the Blessed Trinity The spirit of the Lord filleth the world Wisd. 1. 7. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Psal. 33. 6. The breath of the power of God Wisd. 7. 25. I came out of the mouth of the most High I alone compass'd the circuit of Heaven and walked in the bottom of the Deep Eccles. 24. 3 5. See at Vers. 17. Bo. I. the various Interpretations of Gen. 1. 2. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters V. 236. And Vital Virtue infused c. And spread and dispers'd its quickning Power and enlivening Heat quite through the humid heap and moving watry mass of Matter Vallesius interprets The spirit of God moving upon the waters Gen. 1. 2. to signifie the Creation of Fire moving through and actuating the watry Abyss into warmth and vital Fecundity esteeming it term'd a Spirit as approaching nearest of all Bodies to a spiritual Substance as being so light and subtle as not to fall under the perception of sense unless when immers'd in and preying on gross Materials that it is term'd the Spirit of God for its mighty Power and Excellency as the Mountains and Cedars of God in holy Phrase frequently are Hic igitur spiritus nimirum ignis hoc est haec substantia tenuissima ac perfectissima ferebatur incubans faecundans aquas per hunc spiritum factae sunt aquae fluxiles alioqui futurae concretae Sac. Phil. c. 1. Nevertheless our Author has rightly attributed this vital Influence and quickning Emanation to the Spirit of God Fluid Fluidus Lat. thin liquid V. 238. The black tartareous cold c. But drove downwards towards the Center the black cold gross and muddy Dregs Enemies to Life and Being On the first day of the Creation God made the mighty Mass of all Things capable of Generation and Corruption consisting of the Elementary Bodies Earth Water Air and Fire heap'd up and mix'd together Earth Water and dark Air blended together the invisible Fire moved together through the muddy Mass hindring its congealing into unactive Ice then God's Spirit breathing upon the Watry Confusion disingag'd and separated the intangled Elements bringing like Things to like and fixing them together thereby forming the Earth within the Womb of Water and spreading out the ambient Air then out of deepest Darkness called forth Light Tartareous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shake with extream cold V. 239. Conglobed Gather'd together Of Conglobare Lat. to gather in heaps V. 241. Disparted Shared divided Of Dispertire Lat. to allot to divide into Parts Ibid. Spun out the Air And like the finest Web drew out the Air An excellent description of the thinness purity and invisibility of the Air mixing with all things as being spun out so fine between V. 242. Earth Self-Ballanc'd c. Hung on her Center by wondrous Counterpoise which Job styles Nothing He hangeth the Earth upon Nothing Chap. 26. 7. Circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus Ponderibus librata suis. Meta. l. 1. But how the unconceivable Counterpoise is made he only knows Who hath measured the Waters in the hollow of his Hand and meeted out the Heavens with a Span who weigheth the Mountains in Scales and the Hills in a Balance Isa. 40. 12. V. 243. Let there be said God God who Created all Things out of Nothing by his infinite Power could do it no other way than by his Almighty Word For there being no first Matter out
because all solid Bodies are made of a mixture of Earth and Water sicci humidi crassi Fire and Air being uncapable of Generation though contributing to the Temper as Arist. c. 4. l. 4. Meteo Birds therefore being of an AErial Nature and Agiliâ—y are supposed to have taken their Being in that of the two Productive Elements nearest of kin to it viz. Water easily extenuated and spun out into Air as this is often crowded and condensed into Water Volucres agitabilis aer Cesserunt nitidis habitandae piscibus undae Met. 1. V. 399. The Sounds Are narrow Seas between two Lands as the Baltic eminently so called their Name is borrowed of their Noise Sounds as Fretum Lat. à Fremendo such enclosed Seas being more boisterous and foaming V. 402. Sculles that bank the mid Sea Shoals of Fish so vast that they appear like mighty Banks in the midst of the Sea Sculles and Shoals are vast multitudes of Fish of the Sax. Sceole or the Ital. Stuolo an Assembly V. 405. Through Groves of Coral 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. called also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Stony Tree because growing in the Sea like a Bush soft and green thence called a Grove when it gets above the Water or is taken thence à molliore aëre illico duratur it immediately grows hard like a Stone of a curious Red colour when dress'd and clear'd from its enclosing Moss Nunc quoque curaliis eadem natura remansit Duritiem tacto capiant ut ab aëre quodque Vimen in aequore etat fiat super aequora saxum Met. 4. V. 406. Their wav'd Coats Their Scales like little Waves wrought over one another glistering in the Sun like Gold V. 407. Pearly Shells That are of that colour and often contain Pearls in them as those of Oysters do Pearl of Sphaerula Lat. from their roundness V. 409. In joynted Armour watch In hard Shells resembling Armour that have their Overtures at which the fenc'd and defended Fish takes in its Nourishment Ibid. On smooth the Seal Play on smooth Seas in calm weather disport themselves Seal Phoca Lat. the Sea-calf V. 410. Bended Dolphins play Delphinus Lat. is taken to be the Sea-hog an Animal Friendly to Mankind and delighted with Music painted crooked or bent according to the Errors of Antiquity seeming only so by the force and swiftness with which he rises out of the Sea and exceeds all Creatures Velocissimum omnium animalium non solum marinorum ocyor volueri ccyoâ— telo tantâ vi exilit ut plerumque vela navium transvolet Plin. l. 9. c. 8. Delphinum similes qui per maria humida nando Carpathium Libycumque secant luduntque per undas AEn 5. Famous is the Escape of Arion on the back of one of these who forc'd to leap into the Sea to save himself from murdering Pirates was supported and set safe on shore by it Celebrated by Ovid. Inde fide majus tergo Delphina recurvo Se memorant oneri supposuisse novo Ille sedens citharamque tâ—net pretiumque vehendi Cantat aequoreas carmine mulcet aquas Fast. l. 2. V. 411. Enormous in their Gate Irregular in their Motion Wallowing unweildy in their way Gate signif way going a Lincolnshire word of the Sax. Gan or Belg. Gaen to go Enormous Bo. V. Vers. 297. V. 412. Tempest the Ocean By their vast bulk and violent wallowings rouse the Sea and make it roar as in a Tempest Of these Job is to be understood He maketh the deep to boyl like a pot he maketh a path to shine after him one would think the deep to be hoary Chap. 41. v. 31 and 32. V. 414. Stretch'd like a Promontory A Comparison not immodest since Basilius and Theodoret tell us That Whales when they heave their broad Backs above the Sea appear like mighty Islands as Leviathan is liken'd Bo. I. V. 201. Some have been taken capable of covering 4 Acres of Land Plin. l. 9. c. 30. Upon the earth there is none like him Job 41. 33. Prâ—montory Bo. VI. V. 654. V. 417. The tepid Caves The warm moist watry places Pools and Shores Our Author seems to intimate the Water-Fowl only to have had their Aqueous Birth with the Fish on the fifth day and therefore takes notice here of their numerous Brood soon hatch'd from multitudes of Eggs laid in wet Plashes fenny and sandy Shores which compared with what he says at V. 451. Let the Earth bring forth Fowl living in her kind amounts to a confirmation and had he only instanced in those Sea or Water-Fowl that breed and live in them or on their Banks or dare in Aiery Caravans pass over them his Opinion had been plain but mentioning Cock and Peacock c. he has left it dubious and uncertain Tepidus Lat. warm Unde cavae tepido sudant humore lacunae Geor. 1. V. 419. Bursting with kindly Rupture Opening with seasonable Breach bring forth their unfledg'd rough-skind Young Opening when Hatching Heat has swell'd its Inmate now too big for its small Tenement mature and struggling to get forth with its Bill working its way out Rupture Ruptura Lat. a breach of Rumpere Lat. to break V. 420. Their callow Young Their yet unfeather'd unfledg'd Young Ones Callow is of Callum Lat. for the Skin grown hard on labouring Hands to which is compar'd that of Birds rough and harsh upon the breaking out of their Feathers Callow Callosus Lat. rough and porous Ova callosa Hor. new-laid Eggs whose Shells are rough Namque marem cohibent callosa vitellum Lib. 2. Sat. 5. Fledge Book III. Vers. 627. V. 421. They summ'd their Penns Compleated their Feathers had their just number wherewithal to waft them through the Air. Summare Lat. to reckon up to number V. 422. With clang despis'd the Ground Forsake the Earth with their shrill Note mounted among the Clouds Clang Clangor Lat. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a word coined by the Noise that Geese Cranes and Swans make when they rise on Wing or light down again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Magnis quatiunt clangoribus alas AEn 3. V. 424. Their Eyries build Their Nests of Eyer Ger. Eggs. Eagle Aigle Fr. Aquila Lat Doth the Eagle mount up at thy command and make her nest on high she dwelleth on the rock upon the crag of the rock Job 39. 27. V. 426. Rang'd in Figure wedge their way Order'd and rank'd in several Figures cut their way more easie through the yielding Air as Cranes are reported to fly in the form of a Wedge when crossing the Seas thence said to be Palamedes Bird from whose Figur'd Flight he found out the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some of them not unlike a Wedge Turbabis versus nec littera tota volabit Unam perdideris si Palamedis avem Mart. l. 13. Ep. 75. V. 428. Their Aiery Caravans Their vast Assemblies in the Air.
Winds Heyl. Geog. Ibid. Their Cane Wagons Their Carriages made of Canes and therefore the lighter Pliny tells us there were in India Arundines tantae proceritatis ut singula internodia alveo navigabili ternos interdum homines ferant l. 7. c. 2. V. 440. So on this Windy Sea of Land Beaten by Eternal Storms and Tempests The bare outside of this World that seem'd Firm Land imbosom'd without Firmament Uncertain which in Ocean or in Air. As described V. 75. Bo. 3. From the Chineses sailing in their light Waggons over Land he brings the Comparison up and calls this cruel stormy Climate A Windy Sea of Land V. 445. Like AEreal Vapours Like Mists arising in the Air light and empty and therefore easily mounting aloft The Philosophers distinguish a Vapour from an Exhalation this being the Offspring of the Earth as that of the Water yet both convertible into Air or Water the Word is used promiscuously by Virgil Lentusque carinas est vapor for Fire AEn 5. Volat vapor ater ad auras of boyling Water AEn 7. AEreal Aëreus Lat. of the Air and thence any thing that riseth up into it hence the Cranes are called AEriae Geor. 1. and the Alpes AErias by the same Author from their high situation Geor. 3. V. 446. Transitory Short-lived trivial Transitorius Lat. of short stay and duration that quickly pass away of Transire Lat. to go by Vain Vanus Lat. empty foolish false V. 452. Of painful Superstition Superstitio Lat. a vain Esteem and Reverence of that which deserves none Will-worship of Saints c. not required at our hands which the easie Folly of some Men and the cunning Knavery of others have imposed on great part of the World deservedly called Painful because the deluded Votaries take so much pains in Fastings Scourgings Processions Pilgrimages in vain and to no purpose Our Author seems to have had the advice of St. Paul to the Colossians in his thoughts Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels c. Which things have indeed a shew of Wisdom in will-worship and humility and neglecting the Body not in any honour to the satisfying the flesh Coloss. 2. v. 18 and 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by us well translated Will-worship such as the vain Devotions of fantastic Zealots choose is by the Latin Translation rendred Superstitio which among the Heathens was an excess beyond their established Religion thô Idolatrous Non haec solennia nobis Has ex more dapes hanc tanti Numinis aram Vana superstitio veterumque ignara Deorum Imposuit AEn 8. V. 454. Fit Retribution The just Reward a Recompence as vain and em pty as their idle Adorations according to their Fopperies And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads Judg. 9. 57. according to his most exact and adequate Retributions Retributio Lat. a Return a Repayment Reward of Retribuere Lat. to restore to make amends V. 455. All the Unaccomplish'd All the imperfect unfinish'd Works of Nature such are Abortive Abortivus Lat. for any thing born dead or cast out of the Womb imperfect and before due time Monstrous Monstrosus Lat. any thing contrary to Nature exceeding the common in size parts or proportion Unkindly mixt begotten by different kinds as the unnatural Mixtures of Men and Beasts like the Fabulous Minotaure Unaccomplish'd Inaccompli Fr. Incompletus Lat. unfulfilled V. 457. Fleet hither Swim and slide hither of the Lat. Fluitare to glide as Rivers do thence to wander Dissolv'd Dissolutus Lat. dead loosed from the Ligatures that tye Life together Till final Dissolution until utter Destruction overtake 'em at last V. 459. Not in the Neighbouring Moon In the Moon of all the Planets the nearest Neighbour to the Earth as before Bo. 2. V. 1053. This Pendant World in bigness like a Star Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon Bold and prying Philosophy has assigned the Moon the Mother of Moisture and Mutation for the Receptacle of monstrous Births Embryo's and Creatures imperfectly and unkindly mixt our Author rather supposes her Silver Fields Peopled with Saints removed thither or Inhabited by Spirits of a kind and make between Angels and Men inferiour to the first and transcending the latter V. 460. Those Argent Fields Since the Discoveries made in the Moon of vast Provinces Lakes Woods Valleys Caves c. or something very like them by the Optic Glasses invented by Galilaeus and Kepler and the manifestation of three or four Planets moving about Jupiter within few Degrees of him many do not only fancy the Moon to be another World whose Globe appears so very like that of our Earth but that there may be many other Worlds as well in the Stars as in the Sun himself nor it is easie to disprove the Opinion of those who imagine that this our World does as officiously by turns enlighten the Moon and shine on her as she lends her borrowed Light to us Argent Fields Silver of Argenteus Lat. of the Moon 's faint white Complexion Argentum Lat. Silver of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. White V. 461. Translated Saints Removed thither from this lower World Translatus Lat. of Transferre Lat. to carry over V. 462. Betwixt the Angelical c. Those that please themselves with a Plurality of Worlds bring this Argument to support their Imaginations that there seems wanting in this lower World many Degrees of Beings that between Angels and Men divers ranks and kinds of living Creatures by our Poets styled Middle Spirits inferiour to the Angelic Agility and Purity but surpassing the grossness of Human Debility might be placed and another Set inserted between the Rational and Animal Life as also between Plants and other mixt Beings all which being not to be found in this World they suppose there are divers others or at least one more in which all these seeming Deficients are supplied V. 463. Hither of ill-joyn'd Sons c. Hither not into the Neighbouring Moon but unto the barren stormy back-side of the World first of all the Giants came from the old World the Offspring of the Sons of God ill-joyned with the Daughters of Men Gen. 6. 2. V. 464. Those Giants came from the old World destroyed by the Floud The Giants came whose Oppression Pride Tyranny and all manner of Impiety were the Provocations of God's Vengeance poured out on all the Inhabitants of the Earth by the Deluge as is implied by Job 26. 5. where the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is better Translated Giants as usually Deut. 2. 11. 2 Sam. 21. v. 16 and 18. then Dead things Rapha or the Giant of Gath with his three Sons is Recorded 1 Chron. 20. v. 4. to the end the last of which is according to the usual Hebraism named A Man of Measure that is of mighty Stature That the general size of Mankind in the vigorous Youth of Nature before the Flood was superiour to that of their Successors is
ANNOTATIONS ON MILTON's Paradise Lost. WHEREIN The Texts of Sacred Writ relating to the POEM are Quoted The Parallel Places and Imitations of the most Excellent Homer and Virgil Cited and Compared All the Obscure Parts render'd in Phrases more Familiar The Old and Obsolete Words with their Originals Explain'd and made Easie to the English Reader By P. H. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Uni cedit MILTONUS Homero Propter Mille annos Juv. vii 38. LONDON Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street MDCXCV NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK I. PARADISE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a word of Persian Extraction whence the Jews borrowed it and of them the Grecians Though they who affect such Gingles derive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to water round about because it was a Place according to the Description of Moses watered by some of the most famous Rivers of the World This adopted Hebrew word is found but in three places in the Old Testament Eccles. 2. v. 5. Nehem. 2. v. 8. and Cantic 8. v. 13. where it is styled a Paradise of Pomegranates expressive every where of a Place of the greatest Perfection Pleasure Plenty and Delight imaginable Xenophon tells us of divers Paradises like Fortunate Islands encompassed by Euphrates and Phil. in Vit. Apoll. mentions Many in which not only the choicest Trees and Fruits the most sweet and beautiful Flowers the most fragrant and lasting Greens but Multitudes of living Creatures of the selectest sorts were enclosed whence Aul. Gell. Est autem Paradisus omnis locus amaenissimus voluptatis plenissimus quem etiam vivaria dici à Latinis l. 2. c. 20. Noct. Alt. That Paradise was not Allegorical or Figurative according to Origen St. Ambrose and others is not only confirmed by the general Consent of the Greek and Latin Fathers nor Fantastical according to the Jewish Cabbala But a part of Asia where Babylon was afterwards built and known by the Name of Mesopotamia as lying between the Euphrates and the Tygris both the Description of Moses the Nature of the Soil and the Comparison of many places of Scripture most evidently make out Of the Fertility of the Country Q. Curtius gives this Testimony Resudat toto ferè solo humor qui ex utroque amne Euphrate Tigri manat per aquarum vends solo Babylonico foelicitatem affert maximam In this Garden of God as it is called Gen. 13. 10. abounding with all things the choicest and most excellent the Earth ever bore God seated our great Progenitors in a Condition so superlatively happy that our blessed Saviour was pleased by it to Typifie the high and happy State of Everlasting Life Luk. 23. 43. This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise The Forfeiture of this Innocent and Blissful Seat by the Disobedience of our first Parents and their deserved Expulsion out of this Paradise is the sad Subject of this unparallell'd Poem V. 2. The Fruit of that Forbidden Tree It imports not much to know nor can it be determined what kind this Interdicted Tree was of the Prohibition having no regard to or influence on its Fruit more than that it was made the Trial of Man's entire Obedience to his Maker Moses Barcepha endeavours to prove it a Fig-Tree because the Offenders had its Leaves so ready at hand to cover their Nakedness Gen. 3. 7. But this implies no more than that a Tree of that kind stood in its dangerous Neighborhood It seemeth on the contrary not reasonable to imagine Adam should presume to cloath his Nakedness the Consequence of his Offence with the Leaves of the same Tree the Eating of whose Fruit had been the cause of his Offending especially when according to Gen. 3. 3. the Prohibition was so strict and severe that it had been a Daring second to his shameful Sin but to have touch'd that sacred Tree sacred as our Author tells us to Abstinence secluded and set apart from all Enjoyment The common Opinion That this Tree so set apart and secluded by God's Command was an Apple-Tree is weakly grounded on Cantic 8. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. sub arbore malo suscitavi te Ibi corrupta est mater tua ibi violata est genetrix tua more expressive of the Original than our Translation I raised thee up under an Apple-Tree there thy Mother conceived thee there she conceived that bare thee But this excellent Song is wholly Allegorical and not to be literally understood V. 2. Whose mortal taste Mortalis Lat. deadly The taste of this Forbidden Fruit is called Deadly not as such in its own Nature and therefore prohibited but by the Prohibition being made the Test of Man's Obedience became pernicious to him by violating his Creator's Command and brought forth Death and Hell V. 4. With loss of EDEN Of Paradise which by God was planted Eastward in Eden as to the place where Moses wrote Gen. 2. 8. though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Pleasure and Delight from whence perhaps the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and also Adonis horti from some knowledge the Ancient Poets had of the Writings of Moses and this Garden of Eden And although St. Hierom and after him Cajetan and others and in some places the LXX though not in this translate Eden Pleasure as Gen. 2. 8. Plantaverat autem Dominus Deus Paradisum voluptatis yet undoubtedly Eden is here the proper Name of a Region as will be more evident from Gen. 4. 16. Ezech. 27. 23. Isai. 37. 12. Divers have been the Opinions of Men and Many even of the Learned absurd enough concerning the Site of this Terrestrial Paradise Some have fancied it in the Moon others beyond an Unnavigable Ocean others under the Equinox some near the North-Pole others above the middle Region of the Air But the Learned Sir Walt. Rawleigh plainly proves God planted this Delightful Garden in Eden Eastward in respect of Judaea which was afterwards called Mesopotamia where Tygris and Euphrates joyn their Streams and taking several Courses water Chus and Havilah according to Moses the Seat of Chus and his Sons being then in the Valley of Shinar where Nimrod built Babel A Climate of all others the most temperate 35 Degrees from the Equinoxial and 55 from the Pole abounding with most Excellent Wines Fruits Oyl and Grain of all sorts where as the most perfect proof of Fertility Palm-Trees grow in great numbers at this Day without Care or Cultivation Ibid. One greater Man the Man Christ Jesus much greater than the Protoplast Adam as being both God and Man the perfect Image of his Father who fulfill'd all Righteousness and was made a Propitiation for us V. 6. Sing Heav'nly Muse Inform me Heavenly Muse who didst instruct the Shepherd Moses who first taught the Sons of Israel how the Heavens and Earth were made and how this Beauteous Universe arose in such bright various Forms out of Confusion The Poets
Lat. appointed designed for Here Belial makes and answers an Objection If destin'd thus and doom'd to everlasting Sufferance why should we fear or scruple to provoke the Victor with immediate War What have we worse to fear or more to feel Which thus he refutes Thô our Punishment be endless yet it is not so severe as when first we fled and fell from Heaven into this burning Lake nor as it may be if by our daring we should awake his Anger somewhat abated and allayed who can make our Torments much more intense and everlasting too V. 165. When we fled amain As fast as we were able with might and main of the Sax. Maegen Strength Power V. 168. A Refuge c. A shelter from those Sufferings Refugium Lat. a place of safety to which Men fly in time of danger of Refugio to fly to V. 172. And plunge us in the Flames And drowned us in that fiery Floud Plonger Fr. to put over Head and Ears into Water V. 173. Should intermitted Vengeance c. Or what if from Heaven our angry Victor somewhat now appeased should reassume his Thunder Intermitted Intermissus Lat. broken off respited V. 174. His red Right Hand God Almighty's Power is in Holy Text expressed by his Right Hand as Psal. 17. 7. and 44. 4. which is called Red as being Armed with his flaming Thunder Read Deut. 33. 2. where a Fiery Law is said to be in his Right Hand V. 176. Should spout her Cataracts of Fire And this flaming Roof of Hell should shower down her Spouts of Fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Locus abruptus praeceps in flumine unde aqua rult potius quam fluit as Eustathius describes it Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to flow and rush away with violence and impâ—tuosity as overflowing Rivers do A Cataract is a headlong fall of Water from a steep place like those of Nile deafning the Neighbourhood and these Cataracts of Fire do well enough agree with Hell's Firmament vaulâ—ed with fluid Flames V. 177. Impendent Horrors Dreadfully hanging over us Impendent of Impendere Lat. to hang over so as to seem instantly ready to fall on ones Head Horror Lat. shivering quaking for Cold and thence any extraordinary Dread or Fright that scares into a Trembling V. 179. Designing or Exhorting Contriving or perswading c. Designo Lat. to mark out Exhortor Lat. to perswade V. 180 and 181. Caught in a fiery Tempest c. each on his Rock transfix'd Snatch'd in a flaming storm up shall be dash'd each on a pointed Rock struck through borrowed of Virgil in his description of the Fate of Ajax Oilëus Illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas Turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit Acuto AEn 1. Homer has not expressed it half so terribly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. The Sport and Prey Vacuis ludibria ventis Prey of Praeda Lat. for Spoyl and Plunder V. 182. Of racking Whirlwinds Of tormenting Tempests according to the Hurricane of Hell set out by our Poet in the beginning of the first Book O'rewhelm'd with Floods and Whirlwinds of tempestuous Fire Ver. 64. V. 184. To converse with c. To entertain our selves with dismal Groans to all Eternity Conversari Lat to be familiar to be acquainted with V. 185. Unrespited Unpitied Unreprieved Without Delay or Pity or Reprieve Unrespited without the least Respit a Law Term of the Fr. Respit a Delay time or a Term given of Respectus Lat. for looking back and considering before things are brought to a final determination so Sentence or Judgment is said to be respited Unrespited without any intermisssion Unpitied of Pitié Fr. for Mercy and Compassion Unrepriev'd to reprieve Reprendre Fr. is to bring back from the place of Execution and to suspend the Punishment for some time V. 187. Open or concealed Publick or private declared or secret Concelare Lat. to hide to keep close V. 191. Derides Laughs at Of Deridere Lat. to scorn to expose and laugh at V. 192. To resist our Might To withstand our Power Resistere to withstand to stand against V. 193. To Frustrate To make vain to disappoint Frustare Lat. to deceive V. 194. Thus vile Thus base mean and contemptible Of Vilis Lat. of no worth or account V. 195. Thus expell'd Thus driven out Outcasts and Exiles of Heaven Of Expellere Lat. to drive out V. 197. Since Fate inevitable Since unavoidable necessity o'repowers us Inevitabilis Lat. that is not to be avoided Subdues of Subdere Lat. to overcome to subdue V. 198. Omnipotent Decree And the All-powerful Sentence of him who has subdued us Decretum Lat. an Ordinance a Sentence Fatorum Decreta were accounted unalterable V. 200. Nor the Law unjust that so Ordains Nor is the Law that orders our Sufferings to bear proportion with our Sins unequal or unrighteous Ordinarâ— to dispose to order to appoint V. 206. To endure Exile To undergo Banishment Endurer Fr. to suffer of in and durare â—xilium Lat. Banishment V. 210. May much remit Asswage diminish and abate his Anger Remittere Lat. to abate V. 214. Will slacken These raging Fires will be less fierce will abate their Heat Slack of the Lat. Laxus loose remiss V. 215. Our purer Essence c. Our more Spiritual Beings will o'recome their noisom Fumes Noxius Lat. hurtful Vapor a hot Breath or fiery Exhalation V. 216. Or enured not feel Or used and accustomed to 'em of in and ure a contraction of Usura Lat. V. 217. And to the place conform'd Or at length altered and to our sad Seat becoming suitable Conformis Lat. like to V. 219. Familiar the fierce Heat Will entertain with less disorder the scorching Flames familiar and customary grown Familiaris Lat. wonted what one is acquainted with and accustomed to V. 222. Of future Days Besides what hope Futurity may help us to Futurus Lat. for what is to come Ibid. What Chance what Change Here our Haranguer does not consider that neither Chance or Change take Place on God Almighty and his Wife and Unalterable Determinations Chance as if Cheance of Cheoir Fr. to fall Chance being to poor Purblind Mortals what seems to befall 'em who see not from whose Hand their Mischiefs come or that their own oft pull 'em down deservedly upon their Heads V. 225. If we procure not If we encrease not our Unhappiness if we provide not for our selves more Woe Procurare Lat. to busie ones self in anothers Matters also to encrease augment V. 226. With Words cloath'd in Reason's Garb Thus Belial cloathing his Discourse with Reason's comely Dress arraying his Oration with fine Expressions full of seeming Sence and Reason Garb of Garbe an old Fr. Word for a gentile comely Dress Words are the Garb Men dress their Thoughts in V. 227. Counsell'd ignoble Ease Advised dishonourable Ease Ignobilis Lat. base dishonest Ignobile otium V. 229. Either to Disinthrone Either to Dispossess the King of Heaven and to Displace him from his
in her Shield Nata Jovis Gorgoneum turpes crinem mutavis in hydros Nunc quoque ut attonitos formidine terreat hostes Pectore in adverso quos fecit sustinet Angues Met. 1. 4. Ovid relates the Provocation given the Goddess to have been of another nature but I prefer this both as more probable and more modest Româ—ve ferâ— monstra tuaeque Saxificos â—ultus quâ—câ—nque ea talle Medusae Met. 1. 5. Bellumque immane Deorum Pallados è medio confecit pectore Gorgon Luc. l. 9. AEgidaque horrificam turbatae Palladis arma Connexosque angues ipsamque in pectore Divae Gorgona desecto vertentem lumina collo AEn l. 8. This Gorgon's Head was so terrible that it stood the Gods in good stead when the Giants attempted Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 613. Living Wight Living Creature of the Sax. Wiht an Animal a Creature V. 614. Of Tantalus The Crime as well as Punishment of this miserable Tantalus is diversly related by the Poets He was reputed the Son of Jupiter and the Nymph Plota punish'd in Hell with Fugitive Banquers and Eternal Thirst because at an Entertainment of the Gods he Dish'd up his slain Son to heighten the Festival or as others affirm for disclosing the Secrets of the Gods at a Banquet to which he was admitted or as some would have it for Prating impertinently there Others differ about his Torments telling us he had a great Stone always hanging over and ready to fall on his Head Homer describes his Sufferings without mention of his Offence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virgil in a different manner punisheth him with Hunger but omits his Thirst. Lucent genialibus altis Aurea fulcra toris epulaeque ante ora paratae Regifico luxu Furiarum maxima juxta Accubat manibus prohibet contingere mensas AEn 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eurip. in Oreste Tantalus est illic ciroum stagna sed acrem Jam jam potuero deserit unda sitim Tibull Quaerit aquas in aquis poma fugacia captat Tantalus hoc illi garrula lingua dedit Tantalus à labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina Hor. l. Ser. Nec miser impendens magnam timet aere saxum Tantalus ut perhibent cassâ formidine torpens Lucret. V. 616. With shuddering Horror pale Pale and shivering trembling and pale shaking and quaking with Cold not able to hold a Joint still for extream Cold a Word used in Lincolnshire of the Dut. Schudderen to quake Horror Lat. for Cold and thence for a fright Mihi frigidus horror Membra quatit gelidusque coit formidine sanguis AEn 3. Ibid. And Eyes agast Staring with fix'd affrighted Eyes Agast affrighted of the Particle á and Gast Belg. a Ghost V. 619. Many a Region dolorous Many a sad Country Dolorous of Dolorosus sad sorrowful of Dolor Lat. Grief V. 620. Many a Fiery Alpe They pass'd o're many a Frozen and many a Flaming Mountain Alpes Lat. for the famous Barrier of Hills parting Italy from France and Germany called Alpes from Albedine whiteness as being covered with Snow the old Latins pronouncing Alpum for Album white Alpinas ah dura nives Virg. Ecl. 10. V. 622. A Universe of Death IA World of Death or rather of never-dying Torments Universe of Universum Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole World V. 623. Created Evil for Evil only Good Which God on purpose made so ill so dismal and so woful as proper and most fit for the Punishment of Evil Doers Wicked Angels or Men. V. 624. Where all Life dyes c. Where all the Pleasures of Life are consumed if any thing can be called Life there when Martial says truly Non est vivere sed valere vita Death lives Death everlasting lives and reigns well express'd Where the Worm never dyeth and the Fire never goeth out Mar. 9. v. 44. V. 625. Perverse all Monstrous and Prodigious c. Nature GOD's Handmaid is said to breed in Hell all terrible and astonishing Mischiefs perversely as if turned aside and diverted from her ordinary course for as Holy Writ the most Authentick Record of the Creation testifies GOD saw all that he had made and behold it was very good So that the production of the place of Punishment as it relates either to fallen Angels or sinful Men seems a Deviation from the Infinite Good created Good for the chastisement of Evil as before Perverse of Pervertere Lat. to turn awry Prodigious fearful dreadful of Prodigiosus Lat. Monstrous contrary to the common course of Nature V. 628. Gorgons Of this see Verse the 611th where you will find Virgil's Imitation of Minerva's Breast-Plate thus described by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Hydra's Hydra was a Monstrous Serpent living both on Land and in the Water whence it took its Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Water some say it had Seven others Nine and some Fifty Heads and when any one of 'em was cut off two sprang up out of the Wound Hercules with Fire and Sword tamed this Monster in the Lake of Lerna between Mycenas and Argos searing with Burning Brands the Wounds he gave it Quinquaginta atris immanis hiatibus Hydra AEn 6. Non te rationis egentem Lernaeus turbâ Capitum circumstetit anguis AEn 8. Lernaeaque pestis Hydra Venenatis posset Vallata colubris Lucr. Lib. 5. Pars quota Lernaeae Serpens eris unus Echidnae Vulneribus foecunda suis er at illa Nec ullum De centum numero Caput est impune recisum Quin gemino cervix haerede valentior esset Meta. Lib. 9. Ibid. And Chimera 's dire Chimera of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Goat was a Monster that vomired Fire and had three Heads one of a Lyon another of a Goat and the third of a Dragon as Hesid will have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer says it was like a Lyon before a Goat in the middle and behind a Dragon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With the latter part of this Virgil agrees Ac bellua Lernae Horrendum stridens flammisque armata Chimaera AEn 6. A Composition so contrary to all the Miscarriages of Nature that it was long since exploded by Lucretius as a most improbable Fiction that une Chimere may well express a Whimsie a Castle in the Air. Qui fieri potuit triplici cum corpore ut una Prima Leo postrema Draco media ipsa Chimaera Ore for as acrem flaret de corpore flammam V. 632. Explores his solitary Flight Endeavours diligently to
341. God shall be all in all According to 1 Cor. 15. v. 24 25 and 28. Then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all Ibid. All ye Gods adore him Worship him all ye Angels the Powers and Principalities of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hebrew word Gods is generally understood in Scripture of Idols or Angels as Psal. 97. 7. Worship him all ye Gods Translated by the Latin all ye Angels and in the Hebrews ch 1. v. 6. where this very Text is quoted it is expressed by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Psal. 95. 3. A great King above all Gods Which Title also is bestowed in holy Writ on Princes as God's Vicegerents I have said ye are Gods Psal. 82. 6. Alledged by our Saviour himself John 10. 34. V. 342. Who to compass all this dies Who yields himself up to Death to bring all this to pass O faelix-culpa quae talem ac tantum meruerit habere Redemptorem Greg. Our Author has been entertaining us for 264 Lines with a Discourse of the highest Nature as the Mysteries of God's Mercy and Justice to Mankind of Free-will of the inconceivable Incarnation of his Son and all the nicest Points of Faith And has acquitted himself of this great Undertaking as well as is possible for Human Understanding to do in things so much exceeding the compass of our Capacities He has kept close to the Revelations of Holy Writ as appears by the Quotations vouching each Verse Homer instead of Treating the Deities of his Days with any tolerable Decency makes them Quarrelsome Vulnerable and of a Behaviour below that of a Stoic Philosopher as is frequent through all his Iliads His Venus stands with a Fly-flap in her hand to keep the corrupting Insects from infecting the Corps of her Son 's dead Favourite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Virgil thô less blameable gives the same Goddess the weakness of Weeping Lacrymis cculos suffusa nitentes AEn 1. And the Character of his Juno is very angry and spiteful Nec dum enim causae irarum saevique dolores Exciderant animo manâ—t altâ mente repostum Judicium Paridis spretaeque injuria formae AEn 1. And he styles her frequently Saeva Jovis conjux and there is so bitter an Altercation between her and Venus AEn 10. that enraged Jupiter is forced to end it by swearing he will take neither of their Parts The Parallel therefore as to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of these Poems and our Authors is infinitely to his advantage V. 348. With Jubilee With great shouts of Joy and Rejoycing from Jubilare Lat. to rejoyce a Word that probably enough derives its Original of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Year of Jubilee Celebrated with extraordinary Rejoycings every Fiftieth Year by the Jews when every Man was restored to his former Estate and Liberty of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Ram because proclaimed by the sound of those Creatures Horns on the 10th day of the 7th Month. Levit. 25. 9. Ibid. And loud Hosanna's Songs of Salvation and Deliverance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 21. 9 15. Mark 11. 9 10. and John 12. 13. the joyful Exclamations and Prophetic Exultations made not only by a great multitude of Men but even by Children at our Saviour's riding into Jerusalem the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Save us of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to save and deliver An exstatic Confession of the Saviour of the World even by those who believed not in him V. 352. Down they cast their Crowns Agreeing with Rev. 4. 10. The twenty four Elders fall down before him that sate on the Throne and worship him that liveth for ever and cast their Crowns before the Throne V. 353. Immortal Amarant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for unfading that decayeth not a Flower of a Purple Velvet Colour which thô gathered keeps its Beauty and when all other Flowers fade recovers its Lustre by being sprinkled with a little Water as Pliny affirms Lib. 21. c. 11. Our Author seems to have taken this hint from 1 Pet. 5. 4. To an Inheritance incorruptible undefil'd and that fadeth not away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 1 Pet. 1. 4. Ye shall receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both relating to the name of his everlasting Amarant which he has set finely near the Tree of Life Immortal Amarant Job asks in ch 27. v. 24. Doth the Crown endure from Generation to Generation That is Is the Crown Eternal The Greek has it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Immarcessible Amarantus Flos Symbolum est Immortalitatis Clem. Alex. Paedag. l. 2. c. 8. V. 356. Where first it grew If there be any such immortal unfading Flower it must grow in Heaven for all Things beneath are subject to change and decay and it is as true that there is nothing Everlasting as that there is nothing New under the Sun V. 358. Where the River of Bliss The abundant Happiness and immortal Joys of Heaven are in Scripture generally expressed by the Fountain of Life and Rivers of Pleasure So Thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures for with thee is the Fountain of Life Psal. 36. v. 8 and 9. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living Fountains of Waters Revel 7. 17. And he shewed me a pure River of Water of Life clear as Chrystal ch 21. v. 1. V. 359. Rouls o'rè Elizian Flowers The Elizium Fields were the imaginary happy Regions where the Souls of good Men that had passed through Life with the least Infection after a Purgation by Water Wind or Fire according to the foulness of their Faults enjoyed pure and everlasting Ease hence the Papists borrowed their Heathen Purgatory as is evident from Virgil Ergo exercentur paenis veterumque malorum Supplicia expendunt Aliae panduntur inanes Suspensae ad ventos aliis subgurgite vasto Iafectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni Quisque suâ—s patimur manes Ex inde per amplum Mittitur Elysium AEn 6. Much Dispute has been about the Situation of these delightful Fields Virgil places them beneath in the Neighbourhood of his Place of Purgation AEneas and his Guide after they had passed by the dreadful Place of Punishment Devenere lucos laetos amaena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas AEn 6. Others have placed this blest Abode in the Fortunate Islands the Canaries and such might interpret our Author's Amber Stream according to the Letter Others fancy it in the Moon 's Silver Fields some in the quiet Sedate Region of the Air in the middle between Heaven and Earth AEris in campis latis AEn 6. Homer placed it in Spain near Gades now Cales 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
Original of the Fair Sex her charming Descendants Accomplished of accompli Fr. â—inish'd compleated of the Lat. ad and complere to fulfil furnished and stored with all the beauties of Body and perfections of Mind V. 664. Ministring Light prepared c. They set and rise affording Light prepared for Nations not yet in being Ministring of Ministrate Lat. to furnish Jamque ministrantem Platanum potantilus umbram Geor. 4. V. 665. Lest total Darkness The Stars says our Author those everlasting Lamps afford us their constant Light tho sometimes hid from our eyes by terrene Mists Clouds and Vapors lest universal Darkness should regain her ancient Empire and destroy Life in all things cherished and maintained by these celestial Fires Darkness and Night are the privative Notions of Noâ—enâ—ity Light was the first glorious production of the Almighty Word whose Spirit moved upon the face of the Deep covered with Darkness Gen. 1. v. 2 3 From this Light and its Coâ—comitant Heat is the Original of Life Darkness and Cold are the Constituents of Destruction and Death Extinguish of extinguere Lat. to quench to put out as Fire is by Water hence extinctus Lat. d ad one in whom the vital heat is quite extinguished V. 669. Of various influence foment That the Stars those soft Fires do by their kindly heat not only enlighten the World but warm and cherish all things in it tho their various Influence is very imperceptâ—ble in respect of the Suns enlivening Rays is most evident by their attracting extenuating raising and subliming the terrestrial Vapours and by the Temperament and Alterations that from thence affect all Natural Bodies the intensions and remissions of Cold and Heat depend on their Associations and no signal Changes happen here below that have not some observable connexion with their celestial and superior Combinations Foment Lat. fome tare to warm V. 670. Temper or nourish Give due temperament or nourishment to all things Temper of temperarâ— Lat. to maintain an equal mixture of the four elementary qualities the Ingredients of all things that live and grow Nourish of the Fr. Nourrir the contraction of nutrire Lat. to feed to maintain V. 671. Their Stellar Virtue Virtus Stellaris their Stâ—rry Power and Influence There have been who tell us That every Species of Plants and Vegetables as well as superiour living Creatures have one at least of these celestial eyes that with its Astral influence particularly regards and cherisheth all of its kind hence that Astrological division of 'em into Saturnine Jovial Mertial Mercurial Venereal and Lunar Plants according to the respective qualities shed down and infused into them by their presiding Planets hence the Telesmatical Traditions of certain Images made and erected under the concurrent Influence of some powerful Constellations as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Byzantium the Columna Serpentina and the Statua equestris Ahenea while it stood esteemed the Preservative of Constantinople against the Plague frequently infected with it since the destruction of this Statue V. 681. From the steep of ecchâ—ing Hills From the hollow sides of upright Hills Ecchâ—ing Hills Hills where Echoes generally inhabit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sound and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to resound an Echoe being the representation or repercussion of a Voice or Sound fabled to have been a fair and modest Nymph in love with Narcissus and by her shamefac'dness forced to confess her flames in broken and repeated Accents 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Resonabilis Echo quae infine loquendi Ingeminat voces auditaque verba reportat Oâ—id Met. 3. where read her Story V. 683. Sole or Responsive Singly or together singing answering one another Sole solus Lat. alone Responsive Lat. answering of respondere Lat. to return thence to contest as Et cantare pares respondere parati Ecl. 7. V. 686. Touch of Instrumental Sounds Touching their heavenly Harps in full harmonious Chorus Instrumental Instrumentalis Lat. belonging to an Instrument here of Musick V. 687. In full Harmonick Number In compleat Musical Measure Harmonick Harmonious Musical 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Harmony of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to agree to be suitable as concording Sounds are to the Ear. V. 688. Divide the Night c. Interrupt the dull dead silence of the Night and raise our thoughts to Heav'n or alluding to the Gallicinia distinguish the Divisions and Watches of the Night V. 691. The Sov'reign Planter By God the Sovereign Creator of the World as well as the Planter of this particular place and pleasant Garden And the Lord God planted a Garden easâ—waâ—d in Eden Gen. 2. 8. Planter the contraction of Plantator Lat. V. 69◠〈◊〉 and Myâ—â—le Two Trees remarkable for their lasting greenness the Laurel Laurus Apollo's favourite Tree and from his honouring it used to encircle the Victors brows Myrtle Myrtus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an everlasting Green of pleasant smell dedicated for its delicacy to Venus Et vos o Lauri carpam te proxima Myrte Sic positae quoniam suaves miscetis odores Virg. Ecl. 2. V. 695. Of firm and fragrant Leaf The blissful Bower's Roof was thickest shade the covering of Laurel and sweet-smelling Myrtle interwoven and the lofty growth of every odoriferous and lasting Leaf Firm Lat. firmus strong lasting V. 696. Acanthus Is by some reckoned a Tree Theoph l. 3. Hist. Pl. c. 4. by others a spicy Shrub 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Thorn because beset with multitudes of 'em It has a long large and winding Leaf therefore used to embellish the Capitals of Pillars of the Corinthian Order for its being imitated in such sort of Ornaments taken notice of by Virgil. Et molli circum est ansas amplexus Acantho Ecl. 8. V. 697. Fenc'd up the verdant Wall Raised up the green Enclosure Verdant of the Lat. viridans grown green Odorous smelling sweet Odorus Lat. the same ut viridante toro consederat herbae AEn 5. V. 700. Wrought Mosaick Within each lovely Flower fair to the sight or fragrant to the smell all-colour'd Iris and the blushing Rose and snowy Jessemin advanc'd their flowry Heads mix'd and inwoven chequer'd the beauteous Bower with the most charming variety of view Iris the Flower-de-luce called so of its imitating the divers Colours and their confusion in the Rainbow thence interpreted All-bues Jasmin Fr. an Arbor-Plant bearing a white fragrant Flower Flourished flourishing of florere Lat. to spring Mosaic Musivum or Musaicum Lat. whence the Fr. Mosaique 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Opus eximia concinnitate tessellatum as Spartianus A curious Chequer-work of Stones of divers colours and several sorts of Metals wrought into shapes of Birds or pretty Knots with such exactness that it seems one entire Stone or piece of Metal the production of Nature rather than the performance of Art abundance whereof are to be seen in St. Mark 's Church
of which they were to be Framed about which the Eternal Mind was to concern it self Creation was nothing else but his Powerful Command the Almighty Fiat proceeding from his Infinite Goodness Wisdom and Power that produced this Beauteous All suitable to his most perfect Idea By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the Host of them by the Breath of his Mouth He Spake and it was done He Commanded and it stood fast Psal. 33. 6 9. And as he at first Commanded all Things into Being so he does still uphold them by the Word of his Power Heb. 1. 3. Let there be Light Gen. 1. 3. And immediately Light the first Bright Offspring of the Creation arose out of the gloomy deep Quintessence pure the brightest and most refined Being See Book III. Vers. 716. whether Light be Corporeal or according to Aristotle Qualitas inhaerens Diaphano is much contested among the Philosophers and has puzzled the greatest Masters of Nature This we are sure of that this visible Light so necessary to the World both for its Use as well as Ornament was in the Beginning Created by God and by his Sovereign Command call'd out of Darkness God Commanded the Light to Shine out of Darkness 2 Cor. 4. 6. V. 245. From her Native East From the East her Birth place whence rising every day she seems New-Born V. 247. Sphear'd in a Radiant Cloud Placed in a shining Cloud according to the Opinion of Bede Hug. de St. Vict. Bonav Lyra Tostatus and others who held Light Created on the first day to have been a shining Body placed in a bright Cloud and moving in that superiour part of the World in which the Sun made on the fourth day was placed this Light Sojourn'd in her Cloudy Tabernacle wheeling round the Infant and yet imperfect World and by her Motion constituting the three first days and nights But Pererius imagines this Light to have been the same with that of the Sun Created on the first thô not compleated till the 4th day The Secret is unsearchable Sphear'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to make round Sojourn'd remain'd stay'd Of Sojourner Fr. to reside V. 249. God saw the Light was good Gen. 1. 4. The Eulogie and divine Approbation of Light God's brightest Image and his purest Emanation amongst all his Creatures styled himself the Father of Lights Jam. 1. 17. Lucem inhabitans inaccessibilem Dwelling in unapproachable Light 1 Tim. 6. 16. From hence Catharin would infer this Primitive Light to have been the Sun even on the first day perfect and compleat because God pronounced nothing good before it was entirely finish'd Although Moses relates the Sun the Moon and Stars to have been the Work of the fourth day with whose Historical Relation our Author exactly agrees V. 250. By the Hemisphere divided God divided the Light from the Darkness Gen. 1. 4. By half the Globe says Milton that is the new created Light shining on one side of the great mighty Mass enlighten'd one half of it by Day the averse half making its own Darkness was cloath'd with Night whose alternate Round is still continued constantly Hemisphere Bo. III. Vers. 725. V. 252. The first Day even and morn Moses thus describes the Natural Day consisting of 24 hours Gen. 1. 5. The new-born Light journying about the mighty Mass of the as yet unseparated Elementary Bodies the Evening and the Morning made one compleat Day That this is a plain description of Day and Night Basilius affirms in his Second Homily on Genesis Day doubtless says he had the Precedence and took place of Night in the beginning of Time and therefore the Evening the close and end of the Day is by Moses first named and then is added the Morning the end and conclusion of the Night both together making but one Natural Day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Quasi Noctidialis For the World 's obscure condition before the Birth-day of Light was not named Night but Darkness Night being the part of Time distinguished from but yet succeeding and relating to the Day V. 281. Let there be Firmament c. Gen. 1. 6. This word Firmament of the Lat. Firmamentum corresponding with the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying Solidity has given occasion to mistake it for the solid and most firm Body of the Heavens incapable of Division Thinness or any decaying Alteration The Maintainers of this Opinion endeavour to support it by these Texts Tu forsitan cum eo fabricatus es Caelos qui solidissimi quasi aere fusi sunt Job 37. 18. Translated much amiss but in ours render'd aright Hast thou with him spread out the Sky which is strong as a molten Looking-glass And by that of Job 14. 12. Donec atteratur Caelum Till the Heavens be worn out better express'd by our Translation Till the Heavens be no more As if that employ'd their Solidity Homer is vouch'd also in their defence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. signifies Extension and Expansion and by the best Interpreters is understood of the wide outstretch'd Air as our Poets explains it Expanse of Liquid pure Transparent Elemental Air diffused c. Spread out on all sides to the utmost compass of the World 's wide Round Which Moses seems to agree with in his Discourse of the Fowl that fly above the Earth in the Firmament of Heaven Gen. 1. 20. Express'd by the same word and said to be stretch'd out like a Curtain Psal. 104. 2. That stretcheth out the Heavens like a Curtain and spreadeth them out as a Tent to dwell in Isa. 40. 22. Partition firm and sure for its certainty not solidity Non appellatur Firmamentum quasi sit corpus Firmissimum sed quia est Interstitium terminus interjectus inter aquas superiores inferiores terminus firmissimus immutabilis non proper stationem sed propter firmitatem aut intransgressibilem terminum superiorum inferiorum aquarum Aug. lib. 2. Su. Gen. ad Litt. c. 10. Transparent that may be seen through of Transparere Lat. to appear through V. 268. Waters underneath dividing They who understand the Firmament to be the vast Air expanded and stretch'd out on all sides to the Starry Heavens esteem the Waters above it to be those generated in the middle Region of the Air of Vapours exhaled and drawn up thither from the steaming Earth and nether Waters which descend again in such vast showers and mighty floods of Rain that not only Rivers but Seas may be imaginable above as appeared when the Cataracts came down in a Deluge and the Flood-gatcs of Heaven were opened Gen. 7. 11. Others and those many by these Waters above understand the Crystalline Heaven by Gassendus made double by our Author better named Crystalline Ocean by its clearness resembling Water who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters Psal. 104. 3. Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters above the
19. have something respecting their Natures or Necessities V. 345. Fealty with low subjection Moses Barcepha in his Book of Paradise seats Adam on its highest Eminency with awful and majestic look and his Face shining like Moses's Exod. 34. 29. naming the Animals Terrestrial passing by in pairs beneath him Cowring low with blandishment cringing before him and the Birds humbly stooping on Wing paying their Fealty as at V. 350. Fealty Bo. III. V. 204. V. 348. To draw the thinner Air 'T is the general Opinion that Fish breath not because they want Lungs the Organs in other Creatures prepared for that purpose but whether their Gills may not supply the Office is not determined Certain it is that in the Indian Sea some there are that fly about a considerable time to avoid their Persuers and only dip to wet their Finny Wings and get up again Some Fish live much longer out of their Element than others and Gesner from Albertus tells us That Eels in a long Frost have been found bedded in a Haycock adjoyning to a River lusty and lively and that an Eel has in warm Weather lived 5 days out of the Water Our Author therefore does not affirm Fish not to breath but that they cannot draw our Air more thin and subtle than that embodied with Water for if Rivers be quite frozen up the Fish die for want of it V. 350. Cowring low Creeping lowly not daring to stalk and gaze upon their Governor Cowre of Couver Fr. Cubare Lat. a creeping near the Ground next to lying down Blandishment Blandissement Fr. Blandimentum Lat. fawning V. 354. God endu'd my sudden Apprehension Wonderful was the Knowledge God bestowed on Adam nor that part of it least which concerned the naming Things aright As Cicero agrees with Pythagoras Qui primus quod summae sapientiae Pythagorae visum est omnibus rebus nomina imposuit Quaest. Tusc. lib. 1. sect 25. V. 355. But in these I found not what I wanted As it is related in the Holy Leaf That after Adam had given Names to every Beast of the Field to the Fowl of the Air and to all Cattel But for Adam there was not found a help meet for him Gen. 2. 20. Four Reasons are alledged why God brought these living Creatures to be Named by him That he might see how much he excelled them made of more Noble Frame and to more Noble Ends That they might pay him Fealty as their Lord That he might enlarge his Language by so many Words And that seeing each of 'em in his kind Paired and Mated he might desire of his Maker a Companion and Help meet for him to support his single Imperfection From which last our Poet taking the hint has raised it to an unimitable Height outdoing all the Episodes of the most glorious Poems Ibid. Thus presum'd Took upon me to speak thus made bold to say Of Presumere Lat. whence Presumptuous Daring often used in an ill sense but here Encouraged by God's Goodness and Condescention to his Creature V. 365. In Solitude what Happiness Man being made a Communicative and Conversing Creature wanted a Help meet for him not only as to the Propagation of his Kind but for the Solace and Mutual Assistance arising from Conversation with something Rational and Discursive like himself In vain had he found his Tongue and named all his Brute Subjects and had all his Crawling Slaves and Winged Messengers at his Command if denied an intelligent Companion with whom he might share his Universal Empire Wâ—e to him that is alone Eccles. 4. 10. Homer describing the Dejected and Solitâ—ry Bellerophon tells us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That wandring solitary in the Alean Fields he avoided the Paths of Men gnawing and devouring his own Heart well expressing Anxious Solitude Solitudo Lat. Solitariness living alone Quis beatus in solitudine esse queat Horten. V. 371. Replenish'd Bo VII V. 447. V. 373. Their Language and their ways Following the General Opinion of the School-Divines that with good reason held Adam created in a more perfect knowledge of Nature than any of his Descendents ever had not excepting Salomon himself and his high Character 1 King 3. 12. because created by God himself in the state of Innocency of all certainly the most Perfect and Accomplish'd Hence that before And understood their Nature with such knowledge God endued my suddain Apprehension V. 352. V. 374. And reason not contemptibly Sense by all allowed to Beasts is hardly separable from Reason or something very like it according to Hippocrates Qui parte aliquâ corporis dolentes dolorem non sentiunt iis mens aegrotat Of the Ostrich it is said She leaveth her eggs in the earth and forgetteth that the foot may crush them She hardeneth her self against her young ones as if not hers and the Reason is subjoyn'd because God hath deprived her of wisdom neither hath he imparted to her understanding Job 39. 14 15 16 17. After this Instance of a foolish and forgetful Animal follows the description of the couragious and docile Horse He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted he smelleth the battel afar off Vers. 22 25. Intelligentiam habet belli odoratur procul bellum Man has a superior Reason considerative of sensible Objects and immaterial and immortal Beings Animals a subordinate sort and of that no contemptible Share exercised in this or that natural Inclination applicable in some more in others less about their Safety Propagation Food and Physick Mens humana naturâ suâ ex sese nata est rationari simpliciter circa Quidvis Brutorum vero nullum ratiocinari natum est nisi circa Quiddam Val. de sac Phil. c 55. V. 378. And humble Deprecation And Pardon humbly prayed Deprecatio of Deprecari Lat. humbly to entreat V. 381. Thy Substitute Hast thou not made me thy Deputy below Hast thou not transferred to me thy Dominion over the Creation and set all these in the degrees and order of Nature inferior far beneath me Substitute Substitutus of Substituere Lat. to put one in the stead place or power of another V. 383. What Society can sort What Society Friendship Agreement or true Delight can arise from Unequals Treasures different in their Understandings and thence insuitable Sort suit agree of Sortiri Lat. to order V. 386. But in Disparity the one intense c. But in Inequality such as is between Brute and Rational the one Intense Man high wound up and strain'd to nobler understand and of more lofty Faculty the other still Remiss the Animal let down and slacker groveling in more low and mean Perceptions can never suit together Intense Intensus Lat. strained Remiss Bo. VI. V. 458. a Musical Metaphor from Strings of which the stretch'd and highest give a smart and sharp sound the slack a flat and heavy one Disparity of Dispar Lat. unlike V. 390. Fit to participate c. Made by thee fit and capable of purest
Make Or to make 'em perishable and less lasting to put 'em into the condition of Decay and Mortality and to mature 'em for Destruction make 'em ready and ripe for Ruine Maturare Lat. to ripen Transcendent Bo. 1. v. 86. Havoc Bo. 2. v. 1009. V. 624. Conniving seem to gratifie c. Winking at their Wickedness seem to oblige my proud Enemies Connivere Lat. to take no notice of Gratificari Lat. to oblige Adherents Bo. 6. v. 266. V. 630. To lick up the Draff To drink up the Dregs to lap up the Lees. Draff of Drabbe Sax. Dregs Random Bo. 4. v. 930. V. 633. With suck'd and glutted Offal Almost burst with indrawn Swill and gorging Filth Suck'd of the Lat. Sugere Glutted of Glutire Lat. to swallow in Offal the Refuse of Beasts thrown to Dogs and Swine Taint Bo. 5. v. 704. V. 636. Obstruct the mouth of Hell Dam up the mouth of Hell Obstruct of Obstruere Lat. to stop up V. 645. Who can extenuate thee Who can diminish thee Who can do any thing to impair thy Power Glory or Goodness Extenuare Lat. to lessen to undervalue V. 651. As sorted best c. As best agreed as suited best with the present state of Things Of Sortire Lat. to suit with Precept Preceptum Lat. a Command V. 654. Scarce tolerable Hardly to be endured Tolerabilis Lat. sufferable V. 655. Decrepit Winter Old wither'd Winter called from the North because the Sun is at that Season farthest from it Decrepitus Lat. very old V. 656. Solstitial Summer's Heat Midsummer's roasting Heat Solstitialis of Solstitium Lat. à Sole stante because the Sun is then at his greatest height and utmost journey in the Crab called Circulus Solstitialis proceeding from his most Southern Elevation the Days neither increasing nor decreasing for some time seem to be at a stand Solstitium pecori defendite Jam venit AEstas Torrida Ecl. 7. Ibid. The Blanc Moon The Pale-faced Moon Blanc Fr. white Moon Mona Sax. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. V. 658. Their Planetary Motions The various Wandrings Planetaris Lat. of a Planet from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. wandring Ibid. Aspects Of Aspectus Lat. the Countenance The Aspects of the Stars among Astronomers are those different Positions in which they variously behold one another at divers Distances V. 659. In Sextile Square and Trine and Opposite If a Planet in one part of the Zodiac be distant from another by a sixth part of Twelve that is by two Signs their Aspect is called Sextile Sextilis Lat. a sixth If by a fourth a Square Carré Fr. Quadrare Lat. By a third Trine of Trinus Lat. a third the Aliquot Parts of Twelve by which the Zodiac is divided And if by one half Opposite Oppositus Lat. over-against which last is said to be of Noxious Efficacy of Evil Effect because the Planets so opposed are thought to strive and like Engageing Enemies to fight debilitate and overcome one another deemed of evil Consequence to those born under or subject to the Influence of the distressed Star Noxious Noxius Lat. hurtful Efficacy Efficacia Lat. power strength force V. 661. In Synod unbenign In unkind Conjunctions in hurtful and severe Assemblies Synod of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Assembly a Senate a General Meeting of the Stars in consultation for the Good or Ill of miserable Mankind Unbenign Inbenignus Lat. unlucky disastrous V. 662. The Fix'd their Influence malignant c. And instructed the Fix'd Stars how to dispose themselves so as to dart down upon us their unlucky Rays Influence Bo. 2. v. 1034. Malignant Malignans Lat. hateful malicious V. 664. Should prove Tempestuous Which of 'em attending on the Rising or Setting Sun should raise Storms and Tempests Tempestuosus Lat. stormy Ipse Pater statuit quid Menstrua Luna moneret Quo signo caderent Austri Frigida Saturni sese quo stella receptet Quos ignis caeli Cyllenius erret in Orbes Geor. l. 1. V. 665. With bluster to confound Sea Air and Shoar When with blustring Storms to toss Water and Air and Earth into a common Confusion Bluster seems coyn'd of the Noise the high blowing Winds make Confound of Confundere Lat. to mix together to toss and tumble into Confusion So Juvenal Mare caelo confundas Sat. 6. V. 668. His Angels turn ascanse He commanded his Angels to turn the Poles of the Earth above 20 Degrees aside from the Sun 's Orb. The Poles of the Earth are two Imaginary Points directly opposite North and South Ascanse Bo. 4. v. 504. Poles Bo. 1. v. 74. Axle Bo. 2. v. 926. The Heavenly Orbs are divided into 360 equal Parts called Degrees of Gradus Lat. V. 671. Oblique the Centric Globe They with much difficulty moved awry Earth on her Center seated Oblique Obliquus Lat. crooked awry Centric Bo. 8. v. 83. Globe Bo. 2. v. 513. V. 673. Like distant breadth to Taurus c. Others say the Sun was order'd to turn out of the Equinoctial Road driving the same distance in breadth up to Taurus Pleiades and Gemini Northern Signs up to the Tropic of Cancer as he does down again apace by Leo Virgo and Libra the descending Signs as low as Capricorn thereby to introduce the various Seasons over all the World Taurus Lat. the Bull placed among the Stars by Jupiter in memory of the Trick he played Europa in the shape of one Hinc quâ tepenti vere laxatur dies Tyriae per undas vector Europae nitet Sen. Her Fur. Vacca sit an Taurus non est cognoscere prâ—mptum Pars prior apparet posteriora latent Seu tamen est Taurus sive est hoc faemina signum Junone invitâ munus amoris habet Ov. Fast. l. 4. Candidus Auratis aperit cum cornibus annum Taurus Geor. l. 1. Equinoctial Bo. 9. v. 64. V. 674. The seven Atlantick Sisters Are seven bright Stars in the Bull 's Neck Fabled to have been the Daughters of Atlas King of Mauritania and Pleione Daughter of Oceanus whence called also Pleiades Duxerat Oceanus quondam Titanida Tethyn Qui terram liquidis qua patet ambit aquis Hinc sata Pleione cum stellifero Atlante Jungitur ut fama est Pleïadâ—sque parit Ov. Fast. l. 5. Six of 'em had Gods for their Gallants which makes 'em appear so conspicuous but Merope being forced to take up with a Mortal ashamed to shew her self is out of Countenance Septima mortali Merope tibi Sisyphe nupsit Paenitet facti sola pudore latet Fast. l. 4. Ante tibi Eoae Atlandites abscondantur Geo. 1. Ibid. The Spartan Twins The Sign Gemini Castor and Pollux Brothers by Leda their Mother Wife of Tyndarus King of Sparta Jupiter was the Father of Pollux and Tyndarus of Castor whence the first was Heir to his Father's Immortality unpleasant to him without the company of his belov'd Brother and therefore shared between 'em by turns The Fable took its Rise from the nature of the Stars called still Tyndaridae
wasted Sons of Cain exhausted by their vicious Intemperance that from the mixture of the Godly and goodly Sons of Seth with the Debauch'd Daughters of Men sprang a Race more Robust and Mighty than their decay'd Pregenitors esteem'd Giants being as perverse and wicked cruel and bloody as strong potent and able of Body which our Author calls Prodigious Births for the enormity both of their Bodies and Minds mighty and malicious Atchiev'd Bo. 2. v. 364. V. 700. The Seventh from thee Enoch That is in the Holy Linage of which our Saviour was to come Adam Seth Eâ—os Cainan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch Enoch also the seventh from Adam Prophesied of these things Jude 5. 14. Gen. 5. 19. and Luk. 3. 37. 38. Rapt Raptus Lat. snatch'd away V. 703. The Brazen Throat of War The Trumpets Wars hoarse voice were heard no more Trumpets and Instruments used to incite Men to Battle were usually made of Brass AEre ciere viros martemque accendere cantu AEn 6. Jollity Jolieté Fr mirth Prostituting Prostituere Lat. to become common V. 717. Where passing fair c. Where any extraordinary Beauty enticed 'em Passing fair that exceeded the ordinary as if surpassing V. 719. A Reverend Sire Noah who found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord Gen. 6. 8. V. 724. To Souls in Prison c. By whom our Saviour Preach'd to the Spirits in Prison bound and chain'd under the dark Delusions of Sin which sometime were disobedient when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. V. 730. Measured by Cubit Noah's Ark The length shall be 300 cubits Gen. 5. 15. Cubit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the length from the Elbow to the end of the middle Finger generally V. 735. Came sevens and Pairs Seven of the clean Beasts such as were used in Sacrifice that Noah might have at least an odd one to offer in grateful Thanksgiving for his Deliverance And two of beasts not clean Gen. 7. 2. Gen. 8. 20. Insect Bo. 4. v. 704. V. 737. God made fast the Door And the Lord shut him in Gen. 7. 16. His three sons and their four wives v. 13. V. 738. The South Wind rose and with black Wings Madidis notus evolat alis Terribilem piceà tectus caligine vultum Barba gravis nimbis canis fluit unda capillis Fronte sedent nebulae rorant pennaeque sinusque Met. l. 1. V. 740. To their Supply To their Aid and Encrease Of Suppléer Fr. to furnish to store Dusk of Duster Ger. dark Alimentaque nubibus addunt Ibid. V. 743. Like one dark Ceeling stood The Heavens overcast like one great cloudy Cieling shew'd Ceeling or Cieling of the Ital. Cielo Lat. Caelum and from thence any lofty Roof that interposes between us and it V. 746. With beaked Prow c. With its pointed Prow ran a-tilt o'er the Waves Beaked of Bec Fr. a Bird's Bill Prow Proüe Fr. It. Proda Lat. Prora Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Head of a Ship Tilting moving to and fro of Tealtrian Sax. to shake as Tilters do their Launces V. 747. All Dwellings else Pressaeque labant sub gurgite turres Met. 1. V. 750. Sea without Shoar Omnia pontus erant deerant quoque littora ponto Ibid. Stabled Stabulare Lat. to house Cattle Imbark'd Embarqué Fr. on board V. 756. Depopulation An universal Dispeopling of all the World at once Depopulatio Lat. V. 765. Each Day 's Lot enough c. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof Matth. 6. 34. Lot chance share V. 767. The Burden of many Ages Those Evils that by the Ordinance of Heaven and God's Dispensations are to be Punishments of many Generations yet to come do all this minute at once fall heavy upon me my Foreknowledge affording 'em untimely Birth to torture me before they are in being with the most cruel killing Thought that one Day they most certainly must be Dispens'd design'd of Dispensare Lat. to dispose Abortive Bo. 2. v. 442. V. 775. In Apprehension then in Substance The Notion and Foreknowledge of an Evil that certainly will come to pass will be as painful as the feeling it tormenting us by advance often for once Apprehensio Lat. Conceit knowledge V. 779. Wandring that watry Desert Wandring o'er that watry Wilderness that yields no supply Desert Bo. 7. v. 314. Quibus unda pepercit Illos longa domant inopi jejunia victu Met. 1. V. 795. Hostile Deeds in Peace Wrong and Oppression that often are the Offspring of Luxurious Peace Hostile Hostilis Lat. of Enmity V. 802. Worldly and dissolute Worldly or wantonly Dissolutus Lat. debauch'd or loose of Life Practise learn Practiquer Fr. Praxis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Exercise V. 807. The only Son of Light c. A Graphic Description of Righteous Noah Derided scorn'd Bo. 2. v. 191. V. 818. A wondrous Ark Of Arca Lat. a Chest any close and capacious hollow in which things are kept safe Quod arceat fures says Varro V. 820. Devote to universal Ruck The World design'd for universal Deluge destin'd universally to be drown'd Rack should have been printed Wrack implying the general Punishment by the Flood wherein the whole World at once suffered Shipwrack Devote Book 3. vers 208. V. 822. Select for Life Chosen by God's great Goodness to be saved from the general Destruction Select Bo. 8. v. 513. V. 823. All the Cataracts of Heaven All Heaven's Flood-gates were set open called by Moses The windows of Heaven Gen. 7. 11. of which the most reasonable account is That the middle Region of the Air the Generative Womb of rain-Rain-water was against the Day of that dismal Deluge stored with vast quantities of Vapours and multitudes of black thick Clouds which being converted into Water came rushing down like so many tumbling Torrents falling from Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word interpreted Windows and Cataracts seems to belong to the Bed-chambers of the Rain since used in other places of Scripture in relation to it as 2 King 7. 2. and by Malachi Prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing c. c. 3. v. 10. meant of moderate Rain and seasonable Showers Cataracts Bo. 2. v. 176. V. 825. The Fountains of the Deep The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Moses All the fountains of the great deep Gen. 7. 11. By which thô most Commentators understand the vast Abyss and General Assemblies of Waters contain'd in the Earth's many and mighty Caverns the sourse and support of the Seas and which in the days of the Deluge being let loose heav'd 'em above and beyond all their Bounds yet divers of the Fathers by this Great Deep take the Waters above the Firmament mentioned Gen. 1. 7. to be meant and that without their spoughting down their Chrystalline Cataracts there could not have been by whatsomever quantities of Rain or condensation of the Aâ—rial Region so vast
As Ice more hardened after Thaw For Ice warm'd gently into a Thaw is made more receptive of those Saline and Nitrous Particles which fill the freezing Air and insinuating themselves into the Water already weakened are the cause of a harder Concretion Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis Geor. 3. Isicles freeze as they drop into a wonderful hardness V. 197. On dry land between two Chrystal Walls The Children of Israel went into the midst of the Sea upon the dry ground and the Waters were a Wall unto them on their right Hand and on their Left Exod. 14. 22. V. 198. Aw'd by the Rod of Moses c. Compel'd by the potent Rod of Moses to stand on either hand divided like a watry Wall Lift thou up thy Rod and stretch out thine hand over the Sea and divide it Exod. 14. 16. Rescu'd Bo. 11. v. 682. V. 203. By Day a Cloud by Night a Pillar of Fire The Lord went before them by Day in a Pillar of a Cloud to lead them the way and by Night in a Pillar of Fire to give them light to go by Day and Night Exod. 13. 21. which God performed by one of his Ministring Angels whom he appointed to be their Guardian The Angel of God which went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the Pillar of the Cloud went from before their face and stood behind them Exod. 14. 19. Obdurat Bo. 1. v. 58. V. 209. Will trouble all their Host Exod. 14. 24 and 25. And craze their Chariot Wheels break 'em in pieces of the Fr. Escraser to bruise or break as Exod. 14. 25. V. 214. And overwhelm their War Drown'd their whole Army as Exod. 14. 27. and 28. V. 216. Not the readiest way c. least War terrifie 'em inexpert God led them not through the way of the Land of the Philistines although that was near But God led the People about thorow the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea Exod. 13. 17 and 18. Terrifie Terrificare Lat. to affright Inexpert Inexpertus Lat. untrain'd undisciplined V. 219. Fear return them back to Egypt As is manifest by their Murmuring Expostulations with Moses when Pharaoh persued them Because there were no Graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the Wilderness Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt saying Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians Exod. 14. 11. and 12. V. 225. Found their Government and their Senate c. Exod. 18. 25. and 26. Found Fr. Fonder Lat. Fundare to lay the Foundations of to establish V. 227. Whose grey top shall tremble he descending Whose hoary Head shall shake while God comes down upon it Grey Lat. Canus is the usual Epithete of Mountains because the Snow lies longer there than in the Vallies and upon some of their lofty brows all the year long Gelidus canis cum montibus humor Liquitur Geo. 1. Sinai Bo. 1. v. 7. Of the Promulgation of the Law there with Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets Sound Exod. 19. 16 and 18. Tremble Trembler Fr. Tremere Lat. to shake V. 232. By Types and Shadows By Signs and dark Resemblances Type Typus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Mark or Impression made by striking a hard Body against one more yielding of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strike hence taken for obscure and Mystical Representations of things to come such Images as the Jewish Sacrifices were of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World Revel 10. 8. Read Hebr. 9. V. 238. And terror cease And the fear that fell on them by hearing the Almighties Dreadful voice might be remov'd They said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we Die Exod. 20. 19. Report Rapporter Fr. to relate V. 240. Without Mediator And Moses alone shall come near the Lord Exod. 24. 2. according to his own Testimony of himself Behold I have taught you Statutes and Judgments even as the Lord my God commanded me Deut. 4. 5. to which that refers The Law was ordain'd by Angels in the hand of a Mediator Moses Galat. 3. 19. One Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. Mediator Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that comes between the Offended and Offendor an Intercessor V. 241. Moses in Figure bears That Moses was a Type of Christ and the Deliverance of the Children of Israel from their Egyptian Bondage and their Purifications by Sacrifices a mysterious Representation of our Saviours Death and Redeeming us from the Slavery of Sin and Eternal Punishment is most manifest St. Paul draws the Parrallel very plain between 'em For Moses took the Blood of Calves and of Goats c. for Christ is not enter'd into the holy places made with hands which are the Figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9. 19. 24. V. 243. And all the Prophets And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he Christ himself expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself Luk. 4. 27. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet like unto me Deut. 18. 15. Propheta Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that foretels things to come Messiah Bo. 5. v. 664. V. 257. To set up his Tabernacle Let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them according to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 8 and 9. Tabernacle Bo. 15. v. 654. V. 250. By his Prescript a Sanctuary of Cedar According to his appointment Praescriptum Lat. form fashion Sanctuary Bo. 1. v. 588. of which the Ark and Mercy Seat Read Exod. 25. 8 9 10. 17 18 c. V. 252. His Testimony the Records of his Covenant In the Ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee Exod. 25. 21. Records Bo. 1. 361. Testimony Testimonium Lat. the Witness and Evidence of God's Covenant made with his People obliging them to Obedience and promising his Blessings Temporal and Eternal V. 256. Seven Lamps representing the Heavenly Fires And thou shalt make the Seven Lamps thereof Exod. 25. 37. This Sevenfold Candlestick was the Image of the Heavenly Sphere representing the Seven Planets as Philo Tropologizes on the Text. Mysticè Candelabrum hoc septifidum imago erat caelestis Sphaerae septilustris sive septem Planetarum Tabernaculum Typus Mundi◠Sanctum Sanctorum Typus Caeli Empyrei Beatorum V. 257. A Cloud by day a fiery gleam by night The Cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day and Fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their Journeys Exod. 40. 38. Gleame Bo. 4. v. 461. V. 264. And Nights due course adjourn By putting off and delaying the usual approach of Night To Adjourn Adjourner Fr. is to put off to another Day as Night was
of the changes of the Weather Winds Plenty Health and their Contraries Others of those Preternatural Signs and Miracles that appeared in the days of Joshua Hezekiah and at the Passion of our Saviour and that shall be before the Last Day And there shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Stars Luke 21. 25. The vain Asserters of Judicial Astrology would have 'em meant of the Signs placed in the Heavens whereon to ground their Presumptuous Predictions The best and genuine is That God appointed them for Signs of the Seasons of Time of Days and Years for the motion of the Stars and chiefly of the Sun and Moon is the measure of Time A Day is the time of the Sun's circuit about the Earth an Hour the 24th part of it a Year his compleat Journey through the Zodiac a Month his motion through one Sign of it while the Moon travels quite through it Now Celestial Motion and that chiefly of the Sun being the most regular unalterable and communicable to all Mankind is the best and most common Calculation of Times and Seasons and of circling Years compleating their radiant Rounds V. 346. Great for their use to Man Because the Moon excepting Mercury is less than any of the fixt or erratic Stars though her Neighbourhood to the Earth deceive our sight therefore she is said to be one of the two Great Lights in regard of her illustrious Office in chearing and illuminating the Night more effectually than all the innumerable Stars are able to do with their vaster but far more distant Lights V. 355. A mighty Sphear Of all the Heavenly Bodies first he made the Sun a vast round Circle void of Light though of the same substance with the Heavens Ad sidera rursus AEtheria AEn 7. V. 357. The Moon Globose The Moon round also Globose as Globous Bo. V. Vers. 649. Ibid. And every Magnitude of Stars And all the Stars in their different Magnitudes and distinctions of Size V. 358. The Heaven thick as a Field is said to be sown with Stars to express their vast number Astra tenent Caeleste solum Met. 1. V. 360. Transplanted from her cloudy Shrine In which as in a cloudy Tabernacle she had sojourned three days as at V. 248. Shrine Bo. I. Vers. 388. V. 361. Made Porous to receive c. Made spungy to suck in the streaming Light and solid to retain her congregated Rays Porous of Pori Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to pass through those small and unsensible Passages in Human and other Bodies by which any thing is received into or cast out of them V. 364. As to their Fountain other Stars repairing c. 'T is the received Opinion that the Fixed Stars shine and appear by their own Native Light but the Planets are Opaque Bodies illustrated and made bright by the Sun 's borrowed Light and are the other Stars here said to draw Light in their Golden Urns from that great Fountain The reason why our Author did not affirm it of all the Stars as also why many imagine that even our Opacâ—us Earth shines as gloriously on most of the Planets and their Inhabitants if any such there be as they in their turns do on it and us Urns of Urna Lat. a Pitcher V. 366. Guilds her Horns The Morning Planet is Venus which according to the most exact Observations moves round the Sun sometimes above at other times below him bor owing all her Light of him and like the Moon having the same threefold appearance Encreasing Full and Decreasing therefore said to Guild her Horns as being at some distances from that Great Luminary Corniculata Lat. horned When this Star appears above the Horizon proceeding the Sun it is called Lucifer and when it sinks beneath it after him Hesperus V. 367. By Tincture or Reflexion c. The Stars better their Complexion by Tincture by their Approaches towards the Sun new-colouring their Countenances Tinctura Lat. Colour or Dye Or by Reflexion or by his Light reflected on them heighten and enhance the little which may properly be thought their own at such vast distances to human sight appearing much diminish'd Peculiaris Lat. Particular Diminutio Lat. a lessening V. 373. Jocond to run his Longitude c. Brisk and chearful in his vast Diurnal Race from East to West the length of Heaven's High-way He rejoyceth as a Giant to run his course Psal. 19. 5. Jâ—â—â—nd of Giocondo Ital. the depravation of Jucundus Lat. merry Horizon Bo. VI. V. 79. V. 374. The gray Dawn and the Pleiades c. Day-break or the first approach of the doubtful Light is of a gray Colour whence the Morn is styled Gray-eyed by the Poets The Pleiades are seven Stars in the Neck of the Bull one of the twelve Celestial Signs so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Sail because they rise about the Verna Equinox thence called Vergiliae the usual time of venturing to Sea among the unexperienced Ancients They as well as the early Dawn are said to dance before the Sun because they constantly rise before him for one half of the Year commencing it by their auspicious Influence Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades Job 38. 31. Taygete simul os terris ostendit honestum Pletias Geor. 4. V. 379. In that Aspect The regard the Stars and Heavenly Lights have to one another by reason of their Places and Positions are called their Aspects Aspectus Lat. of Aspicere Lat. to look on Therefore the Moon placed in the West just opposite against the Sun like his Looking-glass is said to need no other Light in that Situation V. 381. Revolv'd on Heaven's great Axle Turn'd to the East on the World 's mighty Poles by the First Mover Revolv'd of Revolvere Lat. to turn round Axle Bo. II. V. 926. V. 382. Dividual Holds And maintains her Empire o'er the Night assisted by thousand lesser Light as to appearance not like the Sun sole Sovereign and Regent of Day the universal Lord of Light by all unrivall'd V. 387. Generate Reptil Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life Gen. 1. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly Reptile Lat. creeping a word denoting the motion of Creatures without Legs Jam maris immensi prolem genus omne natantum Geo. 2. V. 389. And let Fowl fly above the Earth According to the Hebrew and Chaldee Text for the vulgar Latin and our Version of Gen. 1. 20. And God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth c. has given occasion to the Controversie That Fowl as well as Fish were originally made of Water contradicting the plain declaration of Moses Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air Gen. 2. 19. yet the greatest Philosophers and Schoolmen too affirm the former Opinion