A Complete Christian Dictionary
Consuming fire]
;;The infinite wrath of God against faithless and unrepentant sinners. Heb. 12. 29. Our God is a 〈◊〉 fire. And often in the Prophets the wicked are likened to stubble, and God's wrath to fire, which as easily and fiercely destroyeth wicked men as the fire doth consume stubble.
Consuming fire]
The most severe God, who is like a fire to consume and destroy the wicked contemners of his Word, Heb. 12. 27.
Day and fire]
;;Light of truth, one thing being expressed by two words. For as the truth of the Gospel is day and light to reveal sound and unsound Doctrine; so it is fire, either to try if it be Gold or stubble: or to make it 〈◊〉 if it be Gold, or to consume it if it be stubble, 1 Cor. 3. 13. Very foolishly here the Papists would build their 〈◊〉 Purgatory, which hath not here nor elsewhere 〈◊〉 ground to set foot on.
〈◊〉 of fire]
;;The holy Angels of God, endowed with a strong, agile and active Nature, like unto a flame of fire, Heb. 1. 7.
Frame of fire]
;;Most lightsome and piercing, entering into all things, even the most secret and hidden, bringing darkness it 〈◊〉 into light. Of this property be the eyes of Christ. Rev. 19. 12. And his eyes were as a flame of fire. See Rev. 1. 14. or Breast-plates of fire.
Flames of fire]
;;The piercing knowledge of Christ searching and piercing into all things, even the most secret 〈◊〉 of the heart. Rev. 1. 14. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Fire and 〈◊〉 mingled with blood]
;;A spiritual tempest, and storm of error, lies and strong delusions, casting down, over-spreading, and wasting grievously men's souls, even as if Fire, Blood, and Hayl, were all mingled together; and cast down unto the earth, to beat down, corrupt, and waste the fruit thereof. Rev. 8. 7 There was 〈◊〉 and fire mingled with blood.
Fire from heaven]
;;Such lying signs and wonders, as Antichrist and his Ministers should be suffered to do; thereby to deceive the world with errors. See Mat. 24. 2 〈◊〉 . 2. 12. Rev. 13. 13. He made fire to come from heaven.
By Sorcery; for some Popes have been Conjurers, and have made some such shows to the people; as Pope Zacharias had fiery Armies going before him to Ravenna, that he might be thought to be another Elisha. 2 King. 6. 17. When Pope Steven went into France, to get help of King Pipin, Balls of fire were seen running up and down in the air. Such other stories the Popish Writers have store of to prove their Pope to be Antichrist, Or, the excommunicated men, as if he did thunder and lighten on them. Annot.
The holy Ghost and with fire]
;;The holy Ghost, which is like fire, of a fiery quality, enlightening and purging our souls. Matt. 3. 11. He shall 〈◊〉 you with the holy Ghost and with fire.
Fire out of their mouth]
;;The Doctrine of the Gospel, devouring and consuming as fire, such as resist and fight against it; for that word 〈◊〉 is the savor of life to some, is the savor of death to others. Rev. 11. 5. If any will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies.
To pass or go through the fire]
;;To offer up, or to sacrifice one as a Burnt-offering: as Israel did their children to the Idol Moloch, 2 King. 21. 6. And he caused his sons to pass through the fire. Lev. 〈◊〉 . 2, 3.
;;2. To purge or purify metal by fire, that it may be meet for the Lord's use. Numb. 31. 33. All that will abide the fire, ye shall make pass through the fire, and it shall be clean.
;;3. To endure affliction, or to abide the trial of the Cross. Psal. 66. 12. We did pass through fire and water, and thou broughtest us to a wealthy place.
Pillar of fire]
;;A token of God's visible presence, serving to guide the people of Israel in the night season, through the Wilderness. Exod. 13. 31. By night in a pillar of fire.
Fire and smoke]
;;The sour bitterness of God's plagues, even unto choking and strangling of men, which is the property of smoke. Rev. 9. 17. Out of their mouths went forth fire and smoke.
Strange fire]
;;Common fire, such as was not sent down from heaven. Lev. 10. 1. And offered 〈◊〉 fire before the Lord. Unto which by allusion, strange Worship, and strange Doctrines are likened.
Uiolent fire]
;;Most servant and hot indignation. Heb. 10. 27.
Firebrand]
;;A piece of wood almost burnt, consuming itself, ready to be quite extinct.
;;2. The two Kings of Israel and Assyria, which threatened Judah, as if they would destroy it themselves, being shortly (for all their brags) to fall and perish. Isa. 7. 4. 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 firebrands.
;;3. One in danger of destruction, Amos 4. 11.
Firebrands]
Judge. 15. 4. or Torches, marg.
Fire-pans]
Exod. 27. 3. wherein coals of fire were put, Englished sometime Censers, Lev. 10. 1. & 16. 1, 12. These Instruments figured the Ministry of the Word in the Church of Christ, which serveth to purge the filth and corruption of the flesh, and to kindle the fire of the Spirit, for the pure service of God, Zec. 14. 20.
Fires]
Isa. 24. 15. Glorify ye the Lord in the fires. Ye that abide yet in the fire of tribulation, despair not, nor be discouraged, but by your patient sufferings glorify God, and depend upon him for deliverance. Annot. or, in the valleys, marg.
Firkin]
Joh. 2. 6. It was a measure in use among the Athenians. It was of the same quantity with Cadus, and Cadus was equal to the Hebrew bath, so that it contained four Gallons and an half: Goodwin, Moses and Aaron, p. 323.
Firm]
put for Sure, settled, Josh. 3. 17. Strong, immovable, Job 41. 23. Fat, Psal. 73. 4. marg. Certain, undoubted, unchangeable, Dan. 6. 7. Solid, stable, durable, Heb. 3. 6. As a pillar standeth sure and firm on its base or foundation; so must not we waver in our profession, but continue constant, and persevere therein even unto the end.
Firmament]
;;The whole cope of heaven, (or the orbs of the heavens) with the air; which because it is spread over the earth, as Silver and Gold being beaten with hammers, is spread into sheets, or plates and leaves: hence it is called of the Hebrews by a word which signifies firm expansion or out-spreading; and being fast and firm (though it be soft and liquid) thence it is of Latins, and of us in English called a Firmament, Psal. 19. 1. Also in Gen. 1. 6. under [Firmament] Moses comprehendeth the three heavens, whereof Scripture makes mention. First, the Air, with the three Regions which be next us. Secondly, the Sky or Firmament where the Stars be fixed. And thirdly, the Heaven of the blessed: And together therewith, were made the Angels, the Inhabitants of those highest heavens, by the name whereof, the holy Angels be sometimes named, Job 15. 15. and being creatures, and made within the six days, and yet created neither the day before, nor any of the other days following, they must be created the second, when the highest heaven their habitation was framed: for by Job 38. 4. they appear to be made before the third day, when earth was made dry land.
;;Note further, that Moses speech of the Firmament is threefold, or of three fashions: sometimes the whole compass and space above us, with all the bodies in it, be so called, as Gen. 1. 8. Secondly, it signifies the superior part, that wherein the stars be fixed, Gen. 1. 14. Thirdly, the inferior part alone, namely the middle Region of the air, where the clouds be, as Gen. 1. 6. The reason is, because every part of the firmament is no less the firmament then the whole out-stretched body of the heavens.
Firmament]
A thing spread abroad, according to the Hebrew, or fast thing, according to the Greek, for the heavens are stretched out as a curtain, and spread out as a tent to dwell in, Psal. 104. 2. Isa. 40. 22. The skies are also firm and fast, and as a molten looking-glass, Job 37. 18. Prov. 8. 28. These tell God's glory, and show his handy-work, Psal. 19. 2. for in the heavens he buildeth his stories (or spheres) Amos 9. 6. and plankereth his 〈◊〉 in the waters, Psal. 104. 3. and stretcheth out the North over the empty place, Job 26. 7. And in Visions of God's glory the firmament is mentioned, Ezek. 1. & 10. And as his 〈◊〉 is shown in making the earth, so is his prudency in stretching out the heavens, Jer. 10. 12. Psal. 136. 5. There's an upper firmament, where the Sun, Moon, and Stars are 〈◊〉 , Gen. 1. 16, 17. and a lower, which is the air, wherein Winds, Clouds, and Fowls do fly. Ainsworth on Gen. 1. 6. & 8.
Firmament]
Gen. 1. 6. Heb. expansion, marg.
Fir]
Our rafters of fir, Cant. 1. 17. The word for rafters may express galleries, or walks, or cloisters, or roofs. It signifies also gutters or watering troughs used by the Eastern Shepherds. Gen. 30. 38. 41. (Exod. 2. 16.) Annot.
This last may also have use here, to signify the Pipes and Conduits of God's graces, through which the waters of his Spirit are conveyed into their hearts; but because she spake of houses, this may rather be understood of galleries, signifying the means of conversing with Christ, in the communion of his graces. They are named of running, because they run along by the house sides. Ainsworth.
They were certain walks built on the top of houses, the railing in of whose sides (lest any should fall down) was by the Law (Deut. 22. 8.) commanded. Clapham.
But of what matter they were made is questionable, the word Brothim being only found in this place. Ainsworth. rendereth the word 〈◊〉 or Borative trees, being like Cypress, and of a pleasant smell like Cedar, especially being kindled; for Fir it is well known to be a tall, straight tree, very airy, and fiery natured, and well savouring. Clapham.
They may be applied both to the persons of men, and to the Doctrines wherewith the Church is built on the foundation Christ, 1 Cor. 3. 9, 10, 11, 12. all which set forth by these similitudes are strong and firm, and of sweet odour unto the comfort of the Saints and glory of Christ. So the holy persons and graces wherewith the Church should be adorned are by the Prophets likened to goodly Trees, Isa. 41. 19. & 55. 13. & 60. 13. Ainsworth.
〈◊〉 -tree]
Taken properly, figuratively.
Properly, for a tree so named, which is great, high and long, very straight, and plain beneath; without joints, and green both in Summer and Winter; Hos. 14. 8. from out of the bark whereof is gathered a fair liquid 〈◊〉 , and dry white Gum, taken by the common sort for Frankincense. It commonly groweth upon Mountains, as on Mount 〈◊〉 , 2 King. 19. 23. Isa. 37. 24. and Senir, Ezek. 27. 5. The fruit is like to the Pine-apple, goodly in show, but worth nothing. Thereof Musical Instruments were made, 2 Sam. 6. 5. Thereof houses built, wherewith they were also adorned, 1 King. 9. 11. compared with 1 King. 5. 5, 8, 〈◊〉 . & 6. 15. 34. The Boards thereof used for Ships, as the trees for Masts. Ezek. 27. 5. Thereon the Stork buildeth her nest, Psal. 104. 17.
Figuratively, 1. For the common people, Zech. 11. 2. 2. Great ones, Isa. 60. 13.
First]
;;That which is afore other, in respect of time: and then it is a word of order, and hath reference to second, third, fourth, &c. Mat. 10. 1. The first is Simon called Peter; that is, he was first called to be an Apostle, 1 Cor. 15. 47. The first man is of the earth, the second man, &c. 1 Cor. 12. 28.
;; Note: How substantially doth this prove the power of Peter in power and dignity over his fellow Apostles: by this reason, James must be Primate, because he is named first, Gal. 2. 9.
;;2. That which is chief or more excellent, Rom. 3. 2. The word which is here translated Chiefly, in the Original it signifies First. And so it is also in Luk. 〈◊〉 . 47. Act. 28. 2. where the First of the Jews and of the people, is put for the Chief of the Jews and of the people. So Luk. 15. 22. Here it is a word of dignity and honor, Rom. 1. 8. Dan. 6. 2, 3.
;;3. The greatest, and then it is a word of power and authority. Rev. 1. 5. The first begotten of the dead, and that Prince of the Kings of the earth.
A thing may be said to be first,
- 1. In number, Gen. 8. 〈◊〉 , 13.
- 2. In order, Mat. 28. 1.
- 3. In dignity, Dan. 6. 2.
- 4. By creation, 1 Cor. 15. 47.
- 5. By generation, Gen. 4. 9. 3.
- 6. Birth, Luk. 2. 7.
- 7. In time, Heb. 9. 1.
First Adam]
;; 〈◊〉 man named Adam, first of that name, and first in respect of the second Adam ( 〈◊〉 brought in sin and death) as the 〈◊〉 Adam 〈◊〉 Christ, who destroyed these works of 〈◊〉 first Adam, and became Author of righteousness and 〈◊〉 to his members. 1 Cor. 15. 45. The first man Adam was 〈◊〉 a living soul. See 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 A.
First]
Ezek. 20. 40. or Chief, marg. So 44. 40. marg.
First- 〈◊〉 ]
;;The principal or chief, Psal. 73. 50. & 89. 27. Amongst the Jews the 〈◊〉 had 〈◊〉 Prerogatives: First, a double portion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 . 21. 17. Secondly, the government or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 2 Chr. 21. 3. Thirdly, the Priesthood; 〈◊〉 the first-born 〈◊〉 ministered to God, and 〈◊〉 those, the tribe of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their stead, Num. 8. 14, 15, 16, 17. Mal. 2. 5, 6, 7. & 3. 3. Numb. 3. 40, 41, 45. & 8. 13. This 〈◊〉 is peculiar unto Christ, who is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every Creature, and the first-born among the dead, that in all things he might have the 〈◊〉 , Col. 1. 15. 18. To be worshipped therefore of all the 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 . 1. 6 And Prince of the Kings of the earth, Rev. 1. 5.
First-born, or first- 〈◊〉 ]
;;The first Male-child that was born to a man, 〈◊〉 there were none other born after it. Gen. 49. 3. 〈◊〉 my first-born. 〈◊〉 . 21. 17. 2 Chr. 21. 2, 3, 4. Mat. 1. 25. 〈◊〉 the Jews, the firstborn had a twofold Prerogative above his brethren: One was, a double portion in his Fathers substance; the other was, preeminence and rule over his 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 Apostle alluding to this custom of the 〈◊〉 , called Christ the first-begotten of all Creatures, Col. 1. 15. and first 〈◊〉 of the dead, ver. 18. 〈◊〉 he was 〈◊〉 (as 〈◊〉 was the Son of God) before things were 〈◊〉 ; and being the chief Heir of the world, he had chief rule amongst all 〈◊〉 brethren; which 〈◊〉 once dead, shall after rise to eternal life, Heb. 1. 2.
;; Note. First-fruits were offered to sanctify all the rest: also to teach us, that we are to consecrate our best things and persons unto God: compare Exod. 〈◊〉 . 2. with Prov. 3. 4.
;; Note: The first- 〈◊〉 , besides the 〈◊〉 fore-named Prerogatives, were also peculiarly 〈◊〉 and given to God, Exod. 22. 29. and were next in honor to the Parents, Gen. 49. 3. succeeded them in Government of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kingdom, 2 Chro. 21. 3. And in the Administration of the Priesthood, and in the 〈◊〉 of God, Numb. 8. 14. 20, 27. And first-born is used 〈◊〉 one dearly 〈◊〉 of his Father, Exod. 4. 22. and for one higher then his 〈◊〉 , Psal. 89. 20. Rom. 8. 20. Heb. 12. 20. Lastly, it figured Christ, and true Christians.
;;Christ is the first-begotten of all that are begotten:;;
- ;;First, as God, two ways;;;
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- ;;1. By his eternity, before all created things, coming by generation one from another.;;
- ;;2. By his dignity and supremacy above them.;;
- ;;Secondly, as man, not in time, yet three ways:;;
- ;;1. By his incarnation and birth, being the first that ever was, and the last that ever shall be so miraculous.;;
- ;;2. By his Resurrection, which was as a new birth to him out of the belly of the earth; and this is the cause virtually of all other persons rising from death.;;
- ;;3. By his exaltation into heaven, where he as heir of all things, and elder Brother to the Church or godly, reigneth over them, and they all both under him, and by him.;;
First-begotten]
;;Christ, as Mediator, who is called elsewhere the First-begotten among his Brethren, for his preeminence over them, Heb. 1. 6.
First-born]
;; Jacob, Gen. 27. 19. So he was not properly, yet so he was in mystery and spiritually, as John the Baptist 〈◊〉 Elias, Mat. 11. 14. and we Gentiles are of the Circumcicision, Phil. 3. 3. Rom. 2. 28. and the children of promise are counted for the seed, Rom. 9. 8. Gal. 4. 28.
First-born]
The first-born of every creature, (or, the whole creation ) Col. 1. 15. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , beside the ordinary notion of first-born (which cannot so well here 〈◊〉 to Christ's eternal generation, because of that which is added to it, the first-born of every creature, which only gives him a precedence before all other creatures, and doth not attribute eternity to him) is used sometimes for a Lord, or person in power, who hath the privilege of the first-born, dominion over all his Brethren; and according to this notion it is used commonly in Scripture for a Prince, or principal person. See Psal. 68. 27. Job 18. 13. And this may it fitly be a title of Christ incarnate, in respect of his power over his Church, the Key of the house of David laid upon him. But it is possible it may peculiarly refer to his resurrection, in which he was the first-born from the dead, verse. 18. the first which from the grave was raised and exalted to heaven; and being so risen, all power was given unto him in heaven and in earth. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.
Church of the first-born, Heb. 12. 23. The first-born had not only the privilege of the Priesthood before the Law, but always since the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the double portion, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the portion not only of possessions, but of dignity and honor above the rest of the Brethren. And proportionably the Apostles, which were either simply the first converted to the Faith of Christ, or else preferred before others, as Judah to the primogeniture of dignity, and Levi in respect of the Priesthood are called here the first-born, and the Church first founded in them, and planted by them, is here called the Church of the first-born, the Apostolical Church. Dr. Ham. Annot. h.
The first-born of the dead]
;;Christ, the first-born among them which rise from the dead to go into life everlasting, Col. 1. 18.
The first-born of the poor]
;;The most needy, weak, and beggarly Jews shall feed (that is) under 〈◊〉 as a Shepherd, shall rest and enjoy good things, Isa. 14. 30. A Metaphor. For as the first-born by the Law were to excel their Brethren in wealth, as having a double portion; so these poor in misery should exceed other miserable persons.
To 〈◊〉 the first-born]
;;That Christ the first-begotten of all creatures; that is, begotten afore any creature in respect of his God-head; and according to his Manhood, the first-born of his Mother, Col. 1. 15. Mat. 1. 25. was consecrated the Prince of our Salvation, or the Author and finisher of our faith, Heb. 2. 10. & 12. 2.
;;2. That Christians by the Spirit of Adoption, as it were by the first-fruits of the Spirit, are assured that all they do, and themselves are acceptable to God, till they obtain full redemption, Rom. 8. 23.
;;3. That the first kindnesses and favors of God to any Nation, Country or Family, seal up his love to all the rest, 1 Cor. 16. 15. Rom. 〈◊〉 . 16. Exod. 13. 1, 2. Sanctify to me the first-born, Exod. 22. 29. & 34. 19. Deut 15. 19.
First Faith]
;;Vow in Baptism, whereby we are bound to profess the Christian faith: or that promise which younger Widows made to the Church to remain such, that they might serve the poor, 1 Tim. 5. 11, 12.
The first of the feast]
;;Matt. 26. 17. signifieth the First day of the feast, as Mar. 14. 12. expounds it. So, first of the month, Exod. 40. 17. signifieth the 〈◊〉 day of it.
First fruits]
;;That small portion of fruits which was first gathered to offer unto God. Exod. 22. 29. & 24. 26. The first ripe fruits of the Land thou shalt bring to the Lord, Numb. 15. 20, 21.
;;2. Christ raised from the dead, by his own resurrection, sanctifying all the Believers to a blessed Resurrection, as the first Fruits under the Law did sanctify the whole mass and heap of other fruits. 1 Cor. 15. 20. The first fruits of them that siecp. Also as in order of time, the first fruits under the Law were reaped and cut down before the Crop; so the Resurrection of Christ shall go before, and by the force thereof, the rising of Believers again shall follow at the last Judgment: Unbelievers rise again, not by virtue of Christ the Mediator, with whom they have no communion; but by the force of God's curse denounced against Adam, Gen. 2. Thou shalt die the death. The death here threatened, being principally that which is etemall, the wicked by a general power of God must rise again to suffer as their sin deserveth.
;;3. An holy kind of offering, taken out of the residuē of men (as first fruits were taken out of the rest.) Jam. 1. 18. As the first fruits of his creatures.
;;4. A certain measure of the special and saving graces of the Spirit; as Faith, Hope, Love, &c. which therefore are likened to the first fruits, because the having of these graces, gives hope of enjoying heavenly bliss and joys in due time: even as the 〈◊〉 , by the offering up of their first fruits to God, were raised up to a good hope, to enjoy the whole crop in due season. Rom. 8. 23. We also which have received the first fruits of the Spirit, do wait for the redemption of our bodies.
;;5. The forefathers, or first fathers of the Jews, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Rom. 11. 16. If the first 〈◊〉 be holy, so is the whole lump.
;;6. One who preventeth others in believing, being converted to Christ before others, Rom. 16. 5. 1 Cor. 16. 15.
Hereby being absolutely put, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, with the rest of the Patriarchs are understood, Rom. 11. 16. as by the first fruits of the Spirit, a certain measure of the saving graces thereof. Rom. 8. 23. The first fruits of Achaia; such as were converted to Christ before others. 1 Cor. 16. 5. The first fruits of them that slecp, Christ, Rom. 15. 20. The first fruits of the creatures; the regenerate taken out of the residue of men, Jam. 1. 18. termed, Rev. 14. 4. The first fruits unto God, and 〈◊〉 the Lamb.
Being the first fruits unto God, and to the Lamb, Rev. 14. 4. First converted, or openly making the first profession of the Reformed Religion. Chap. 5. 9. and 20. 5. An allusion to the first fruits in the Law. Deut. 18. 4. Prov. 3. 9. Jam. 1. 18. They were paid to the Priest as God's due. All the world is the heap; the Elect are God's and Christ's in a peculiar manner. The Lamb hath a peculiar right in them. Annot.
First veaven]
;;Heaven, as it is now under vanity; or, as some think, the former good and pure estate of the Church, giving place to a purer, or to the calling of the Jews. Rev. 22. 1. 〈◊〉 heaven is passed away.
First heavens and first earth]
;;Heavens and earth considered in that corrupt estate wherein now they are through our sin, before that perfect restoring and change which shall be at the great and last day. Rev. 21. 1. First heaven, and 〈◊〉 earth.
First love]
;;Former affection of love, which being decayed, needed refreshing, Rev. 2. 5.
First love]
;;Charity toward God, and toward our neighbors, which the Angel of the Church of Ephesus did show forth at the beginning of his Ministry, very zealously performing all good means, and using all duties, for the furthering of God's glory, and the good of his Flock. Rev. 2. 4. Because thou hast left thy first love.
Or, sormer love, 1 Tim. 5. 12. shown in diligent teaching and ordering of his people, Joh. 21. 16, 17. He was not, it may be, so careful in feeding, and tending his Flock, as when John was there to oversee him. Not only Idolatry and false Doctrine, but negligence in a Minister is blame-worthy. Annot.
Christ speaks not of the grace of Charity wholly, but of that degree and measure wherewith he had formerly been adorned: He commends him for two notable fruits of Faith and Love which he did still exercise, patience and constancy, verse. 2, 3. Leighs Annot.
First resurrection]
;;Sanctification, whereby the Elect arise from the death of sin, to walk in newness of life. Rev. 12. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. Rom. 6. 4. Christ hath raised us from the dead, to walk in a new life. Mr. Brightman expounds the first resurrection, of the calling of the Jews again unto the faith; which is after a sort a raising them from the dead. This exposition in substance is one with the former, because the calling of the Jews will be the quickening of them by grace.
The first day of the Sabbath]
;;The first day of the week, called in Scripture the Lord's day, and with us Sunday. Joh. 20. 1. The first day of the Sabbath. So it is read in the Original, 1 Cor. 16.
The first of his strength]
;;The Man-child which is first begotten when his Parents were in their best strength and vigor. Deut. 21. 17. For he is the first of his strength. Gen. 49. 3. He is called the beginning of strength.
First things]
;;Sins, and their effects of sorrow and misery. Rev. 21. 4. There shall be no more crying, nor death, nor sorrow, nor pain, for the First things are past.
First voice]
;;That Revelation which from heaven John did first receive touching those things which were to be done for the time to come. Rev. 4. 1. And the first voice which I heard, was like a trumpet.
First works]
;;Former actions which they were wont to do while they heartily loved the Gospel, Rev. 2. 5.
First works]
;;Great diligence in preaching the Word, and administering the censures of the Church, for the preventing of crimes, or recovery of such as be fallen, Rev. 2. 5. And do thy first works.
To give first]
;;To give before, Rom. 15. 35. Who hath given him first. This place is diligently to be observed against such as would have foreseen faith and works the moving causes of election: and our actual and present works proceeding of faith, to be meritorious causes of salvation: whereas all creatures, even angels as well as men, are debtors to God, of whose free gift they hold all they have: he being debtor to none, of whom he takes nothing, nor takes ought from, therefore cannot be obnoxious and injurious to any.
Firstling]
Spoken of Beasts (as first-born of man ) that which openeth the Matrix, Ex. 13. 12. It was of the firstlings of the flock that Abel offered, because it was fit that God should have the first fruits of his own increase. Annot. Lev. 27. 26. Heb. first-born, marg.
Fish]
Taken properly, which may be diversely distinguished; as,
- 1. From their quantity, some being small, Mat. 15. 34. some great, Joh. 2. 11.
- 2. From the places where they are; as, In the sea, Gen. 1. 26. In the River, Exod. 7. 18, 21. In ponds, Isa. 19. 10. In pools, Cont. 74. In brooks, Isa. 9. 8.
- 3. From the divers ways whereby they are caught; as, with nets, Mat. 13. 47. Joh. 21. 8. Angels, Isa. 19. 18. Hooks, Mat. 17. 27. Spears, Job 41. 7.
- 4. From the manner of dressing it for food; as, by broiling it, Joh. 21. 9. Boiling, Baking, &c.
- 5. From their adjunct; some have, some have not fins and scales, Lev. 11. 9, 10. They are very numerous, Gen. 1. 20, 21. Numb. 11. 12. Psal. 104. 25. Ezek. 47. 10. Gen. 48. 16. but know not the time when they shall be caught, Eccl. 9. 12. Prey one upon another, Hab. 1. 14. Of which even Solomon himself wrote, 1 King. 4. 33.
Figuratively, for a great multitude of people, Ezek. 29. 4, 5. Spiritual Fish in spiritual waters, Matt. 13. 48.
Fish]
Jer. 16. 16. And they shall fish them; so environ them, as Fisher-men do fishes, to make havoc of them, that they should be wholly at their mercy, either to slay, or to save. Annot. The Chaldeans shall be as so many Fishers to drag them out of their good land. Hall Paraph.
Fishermen, or Fishers]
Luk 5. 2.
Fishers]
;;Such as make benefit unto themselves by fishing. Isa. 19. 8. The Fishers shall mourn; that is, the Egyptians shall be sorry, when that the river Nile is dried up, wherein they were wont to fish to their commodity.
;;2. The Armies of the Chaldeans, pursuing the Jews to destruction, like as Fishers take Fishes in their net. Jer. 16. 16. I will send out many Fishers to take them.
Fishers of men]
;;Ministers of Christ, who by the Word (as by a net or hook) do draw men (as fishes) to God's Church and Kingdom. Mat. 4. 16. I will make you fishers of men.
Fish-gate]
Neh. 3. 3. So called because it was towards the Sea, and fish was brought into the City that way, and a Fish-market might be near it. Annot.
Fish-hook]
Amos 4. 2. And your posterity with Fish-hooks. He will by the power of the Assyrian snatch you away out of your Country, as the fish is caught up out of the water, by the hook of the Angler. Hall.
Fish-pools in Heshbon]
;;Pools of goodly, pure, and clear water, unto which the Spouse likeneth the eyes of her Husband, for their rare clearness, Cant. 7. 4. Thine eyes are like the Fish pools of Heshbon.
The Analogy betwixt the eyes and pools, or fountains of water, is so natural, that both are expressed by one word in the holy language, and as the one are pure, gentle, transparent, untroubled, clear, so are the other. Annot.
Eyes like water-pools, clear to see the truth, and to look unto the ways and actions of herself and others. It may also intend her watery eyes, weeping for her former sins, as Jeremy lamenting the sins of his people, wisheth that his eyes were a fountain of tears, Jer. 9. 1. and prophesying their conversion, he saith, they shall come weeping, &c. Jer. 31. 9. Heshbon by interpretation signifieth a count, computation, or artificial devise, and thus some expound it here, pools artificially made. It was a City where King Sihon sometime dwelt, Numb. 21. 26. and was situate in a goodly fertile Country, Numb. 32, 3, 4, 37. So it seemeth to have in it fair and clear pools or ponds of water which beautified it, as eyes do the body. The Hebrew Expositors understand by these eyes, the Prophets, or (as the Chaldee Paraphrast saith) Scribes. Ainsworth.
Fish-spear]
Job 41. 7. An instrument wherewith they smite fish in the water, to catch or kill them, like our Eelspears. Annot.
Fist]
Properly, the hand, either closed up to smite, Exod. 21. 18. or, to hold fast, Prov. 30. 4.
Figuratively, violence and wrong, Isa. 58. 4.
Fit]
is all one with meet, apt, convenient, expedient, profitable, ready, prepared. A fit man, for a man of opportunity, Lev. 16. 21. marg. Fitted, or made up, Rom. 9. 22. marg. Fitly, put for upon his wheels, Prov. 25. 11. Fitly set, put for fitting in fullness that is, fitly placed and set as a precious stone in the foil of a ring, Cant. 5. 12. marg.
Fit • hes]
1. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Isa. 28. 25, 27. is rendered by Tremellius, Melanthium, by Montanus, Nigella, by Buxtors. both ways. An herb called Gith, of sweet savor, and good against rheums. The seed is less then Cumin, and black
2. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Ezek. 4. 9. is rendered by Tremellius, Zeam; by Montanus in the Text, Speltas; in the marg. Viciam. By Buxt. both ways, Spelt, a Tare; or, according to some, a kind of Wheat. The same word in Exod. 9. 32. is translated Rye.
Fitted]
1 King. 6. 35. Fitted upon the carved work. That is, beaten so close to the carved work, as every part of the engraven was distinctly discerned through the Gold. Annot. Rom. 9. 22. or made up, marg. Isa. 44. 13. He fitteth it, Heb. maketh it, or worketh it. It cometh from a root that signifieth to scrape, or pare away. Lev. 14. 41. Annot.
Fitly]
Aptly, agreeably, Eph. 2. 21. & 4. 16. A word fitly spoken, Prov. 25. 11. Hebr. spoken upon his wheels, marg.
Fitly set]
Cant. 5. 12. Heb. Sitting in fullness, that is, fitly placed, and set as a precious stone in the foil of a ring, marg. So fully placed as is most comely, and most expedient for the perfect sight of the estate and necessities of his servants, Hall.
So guiding and directing his sight to look perfectly into all things, yea into the depth of the secret of men's hearts. Finch.
He hath only an eye of Providence over the whole world; but an eye of grace and favor, lively, and lovely in regard of his Church, He that is Judge of all, had need to have eyes that will pierce through all, Sibs.
The glorious eyes of Christ are resembled to Jewels or Diamonds, which are so artificially set, that there is no disproportion, nor inequality in them, for he is no respecter of persons, but as his eyes radiate and sparkle like Orient gems, so are they even and just, and upright; and there is no partiality, no hypocrisy, no unrighteousness in him. Annot.
Fixed]
That is, prepared, Psal. 57. 7. marg. Trusteth, is established, Psal. 108. 1. & 112. 7. Set or placed, Luk. 16. 26.
Five]
Spoken of,
- 1 in Units, both simply, as of Bars, Exod. 26. 27. & 36. 32. Basis, 1 King. 7. 39. Berries, Isa. 17. 6. Brethren, Luk. 16. 28. Changes of raiment, Gen. 45. 22. Cities, Isa. 19. 18. Curtains, Exod. 36. 10. Cubits, Exod. 27. 1. Damosels, 1 Sam. 25. 42. Days, Numb. 11. 19. Golden Emrods and Mice, 1 Sam. 6. 4. He-goats, Numb. 7. 17. Heads of the house of their Fathers, 1 Chr. 7. 7. Horses, 2 King. 7. 13. Husbands, Joh. 4. 18. Kings, Josh. 10. 5. Lambs, Numb. 7. 17. Loaves, Luk. 9. 13. Josh. 13. 3. Measures of parched corn, 1 Sam. 25. 18. Men, Judge. 18. 2. Moneths, Luk. 1. 24. Oxen, Exod. 22. 1. Pillars, Exod. 26. 37. & 36. 38. Pieces of silver, 2 King. 6. 25. Persons, 1 Sam. 22. 18. Porches, Joh. 5. 2. Pounds, Luk. 19. 18. Righteous, Gen. 18. 28. Sheep, 1 Sam. 25. 18. Shekels, Numb. 3. 47. Sockets, Numb. 36. 38. Smooth stones, 1 Sam. 17. 40. Sons, 1 Chron. 2. 4, 6. Sparrows, Luk. 12. 6. Talents, Math. 25. 15. Times, 2 Cor. 11. 24. Virgins, Mat. 25. 2. Words, 1 Cor. 14. 19. Years, Gen. 5. 6, 11. Yoke of Oxen, Luk. 14. 19. And with the addition of twenty Years, 2 King. 15. 33. Furlongs, Joh. 6. 19. And thirty, Gen. 11. 12.
- 2. In hundreds, Gen. 5. 30.
- 3. In thousands, Numb. 31. 32.
- 4. In hundred thousands, 2 Sam. 24. 9. 2 Chr. 13. 17.
Five 〈◊〉 ]
;;A short space of time, (as Locusts are bred in April, and die in September ) a definite number put for an indefinite, for the comfort of the faithful, lest they should imagine that this Plague was to increase without measure. Rev. 9. 5. That they should be vexed five months. Others by five months do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . years, 〈◊〉 every day for a year. Others by five months, do think five ages to be finished. But Mr. Bullinger doth interpret the five months wherein these Locusts here spoken of, should be suffered to rage and vex men, of that whole space of time, whatsoever it was wherein it should continue, which yet is limited by a few months, for the consolation of the Elect. This is the best exposition, as I do judge.
The 〈◊〉 vexed Italy from the year Eight hundred and thirty, to the year Nine hundred and Eighty. Annot.
Fixed]
My heart is fixed, Psal. 57. 7. Firmly prepapared. Ainsworth. Wholly bent to give thee praise for my deliverance. 〈◊〉 . A great Gulf fixed. Luk. 16. 26. Set, placed.
F L.
Flag]
Exod. 2. 3. Sea-weeds, or Sedge such as grew by that River, and in the Red Sea, and other Seas, Jonah 2. 5. Whereof the Red Sea had the name. Ainsworth. Job 8. 11. Some take it for a less reed; others, for a meadow, as Gen. 41. 〈◊〉 . meaning the grass that is on the Meadow, on which the Cattle feed. The word hath its Original from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , a Brother, because flags, and so also grass in a Meadow, grow together as in a brotherhood. Annot.
〈◊〉 ]
Isa. 22. 24. The word first and properly, signifieth a 〈◊〉 , such as they used commonly to carry or keep Wine in, 1 Sam 1. 24. & 10. 3. & 25. 18. which were usually of earthen stusfe, 〈◊〉 . 19. 1, 10. & 48. 12. and therefore of no great value, Lam. 4. 2. Put therefore here for persons of the 〈◊〉 rank, and least esteem; as the Bowls before for men of 〈◊〉 prime note and repute. Annot.
〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 ]
;;The most comfortable promises of God's mercies for salvation; which are as wholesome wine abundantly drawn out of Christ's Cellar, which is his Word. Cant. 2. 5. Stay me with flagons; that is, the plentiful comforts of the Word, and the rich graces of the Spirit, poured into my heart for my strengthening.
Flaggons]
〈◊〉 me with 〈◊〉 , Cant. 2. 5. The Church in her soul-sickness, speaketh to her friends (the Ministers of Christ and other Christians) that they with the comfortable Doctrines and promises of the Gospel applied unto her conscience, would sustain, strengthen, stay, and uphold her ready to fall as into a 〈◊〉 through trouble of mind, because of her own infirmities, and want of 〈◊〉 of Christ's grace and blessing, see 2 Chron. 32. 6, 7, 8. Act. 14. 21, 22. & 18. 23. Rom. 1. 11. Flaggons are named for the Wine, in them (the wine of grace and consolation, which God's people have distributed among them, in the spiritual Banquet of the Gospel) as the cup for the Wine therein, Luk. 22. 20. Ainsworth.
Or ointments, or flowers, it is a general word for all delights, which the Church here calleth either upon Christ, or his Ministers to bring her peedily in the cordial promises and refocillations of the Gospel, which may support and comfort her in 〈◊〉 absence. Annot.
Arias 〈◊〉 turneth the Hebrew thus, 〈◊〉 me in the flagons, comfort me in the apples, that is, amidst the flagons amidst the fruits, so the sense should be this, O my wellbeloved 〈◊〉 that thy Ministers may cheer and strengthen me, who am ready to saint and swoon amidst this divine banquet, my senses being over-weak to sustain the strong odour of thy graces. Clapham.
〈◊〉 ]
Job 41. 23. Hebr. the fallings. All is fast and hard about him, even those parts that hang loose in other 〈◊〉 . Or, the refuse, or vilest parts, as the word is translated, Amos 8. 6. Some take it for flakes of flesh, distinguished by veins, like branches of oak or ash. Annot.
Flame]
;;signifies usually great afflictions from the hand of God, Isa. 30. 30. Lam. 2. 3. because that flame is said to burn up Mountains and trees, Psal. 83. 5. Joel 1. 19.
Put also for fire, Psal. 106. 18. Isa. 5. 24. The burning heat of the sun, Joel 1. 19.
Flame]
Judge. 20. 38. Heb. clevation, marg.
Flame]
Which hath a most 〈◊〉 flame, Cant. 8. 6. Flame of Jah, the consuming flame of the Lord, that is, most vehement and ardent, after the Idiome of that phrase in holy Scripture, which useth to attribute great things unto the Lord, as Psal. 36. 6. Thy righteousness is like the great Mountains, Heb. the Mountains of God, marg. Mercer. Annot. The word noteth a vehement or consuming flame of the Lord, as the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; but meaneth the fire of his Spirit, which is compared unto fire, Mat. 3. 11. for the power and efficacy thereof in the hearts of the children of God. Ainsworth.
Flaming]
Nah. 2. 3. Heb. fiery, marg.
Flank]
Lev. 3. 4. or Loins, as Psal. 38. 7. 〈◊〉 . on Job 15. 27.
Flash]
Ezek. 1. 14. As the appearance of a flash of lightning, most speedily as it were in the twinkling of an eye, Matth. 24. 27. Luk. 17. 24 Annot.
Flat]
Lev. 23. 18. Flat nose, in Greek, short nosed, or having the nose cut off. It implieth all manner of desormity in the nose. Ainsworth. Numb. 22. 31. Down. Josh. 6. 5, 20. Heb. under it. marg.
To flatter]
;;To speak pleasing or salse words, with a mind only to please and beguile, for our own profit. Prov. 18. 23. He that reproves finds more favor at last then be that flattereth, Prov. 26. 22.
It may be considered with respect unto ones self, others.
Ones self, Psal. 36. 2. He flattereth himself in his own eyes; that is, he alloweth, liketh, and praiseth himself.
Others; God. Psal. 78. 6. But they flattered him with their mouth; that is, went about by fair words and speeches to deceive him, as it were; neither unfeignedly confessing their offenses, nor rightly 〈◊〉 his Majesty. Our neighbor, and that by secret enemies, Psal. 5. 9. & 12. 2. The strange woman, or whore, Prov. 2. 16. & 7. 21. False Prophets and Teachers, Ezek. 12. 24. & 1 Thess. 2. 5. Whence cometh much evil, Prov. 26. 28. & 29. 5.
Flatter]
Prov. 20. 19. or, Entice, marg.
Flattery]
〈◊〉 17. 5. When men's words are smooth, Prov. 7. 21. Psal. 55. 21. Shall be corrupt by flatteries, Dan. 11. 32. or, cause to 〈◊〉 , marg.
Flax]
This is well known to the good Housewife, Prov. 31. 13. About which there were (there are) that wrought, Isa. 19. 9. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being a special commodity among Merchants, 1 King. 10. 28. The stalks thereof were beneficial to the Spies, Josh. 2. 6. Being dry, it soon takes fire, Judge. 15. 14. Lines have been made hereof, Ezek. 40. 3. It hath been abused to Idolatry, Hos. 2. 5, 9. It's seed is useful in Physic.
Smoaking flax]
;;Weak Christians (like to flax) which hath neither heat nor flame, and yieldeth forth but smoke only: even such as be infirm and weak Christians, who have no more but an unfeigned desire to believe and repent; as it were a spark ready to die. Mat. 12. 20. Smoaking flax shall be not quench. Isa. 42. 3. Bruised 〈◊〉 hath the same signification.
To flay]
Mic. 3. 3. To strip off. D. Trans.
Flea]
;;A vile and base creature so called.
;;2. A mean and contemptible person. 2 Sam. 24. 15. 〈◊〉 whom dost thou pursue, after a dead Dog, or after a Flea? that is, an abject or base person.
Flee]
Taken for,
- 1. To run away, Gen. 16. 8.
- 2. To refuse, or eschew, 2 Tim. 2. 22.
- 3. To escape or avoid, Mat. 3. 7.
- 4. To fain flight, or seem to flee, Judge. 20. 32.
- 5. To pass away or vanish, Job 14. 2.
- 6. To be speedily gone from a place, 2 King. 9. 3.
- 7. To be in fear and terror, as one that fleeth from his enemies, Prov. 28 1.
- 8. To seek unto, or rely upon, Isa. 10. 3. See To fly.
Flee away]
See 〈◊〉 .
Flee]
Rev. 14. 6. Making hast to publish his message through the world. A type of the Ministry of those times. And indeed it passed from place to place very swiftly at first. So that this intimateth the free and speedy passage of the Gospel from place to place by their Ministry. Annot.
Fleece]
Job 31. 20. Put for woollen Garments made of the fleece of Job' s sheep, which kept the poor warm. 〈◊〉 .
Flesh]
;;The body consisting of sundry members. Rom. 2. 28. Which is outward in the flesh; that is, in the body, 2 Cor. 5. 5. 2 Cor. 7. 1. Gal. 2. 20. Psal. 79. 2. The flesh of thy Saints unto the beasts of the earth.
;;2. A Wife. Gen. 2. 23. This is flesh of my flesh. Eph. 5. 31. Who ever hated his own flesh? In Matt. 19. 5. (Flesh) is put for (Person) Shall be one flesh. Eph. 5. 31. Joh. 1. 13.
;;3. One of our kind, a neighbor which is like unto our self, even every man and woman. Prov. 11. 17. He that hateth his own flesh, is cruel. Isa. 58. 7. Turn not thy face from thine own flesh; that is, from him that hath a common nature with thee.
;;4. Consanguinity, or nearness of blood. Rom. 9. 3. My 〈◊〉 according to the flesh. Rom. 11. 14. If I might 〈◊〉 them of my flesh; that is, my kindred which were born of the same flesh or Ancestors.
;;5. The whole man, consisting of body and soul. Gen. 6. 12, 13. All flesh had corrupted his day upon earth. 1 〈◊〉 . 3. 18. Christ was put to death concerning the flesh; that is, concerning his Manhood; for his body was dead naturally, and his soul felt the sorrows of death spiritually, Act. 2. 26. Luk. 3. 6. 1 Pet. 2. 24. & Mat. 24. 22. And elsewhere often is Flesh put to signify the whole human nature, Rom. 1. 3. & 8. 5. as it is simply considered, without sinful corruption: but together with all other properties and infirmities of a man.
;;6. Mankind, being weak and feeble, either to help himself or others. Jer. 17. 5. Cursed be he that maketh flesh his arm; that is, which placeth his strength and safety in weak and vain man. Isa. 40. 6. Psal. 78. 39. Joel 2. 28. In these and many other places Flesh doth signify our whole kind, as it is wrapped in great imbecility and frailty.
;;7. The quality of corruption, which is not sinful, but the effect of sin, accompanying our bodies in this life. 1 Cor. 15. 50. Flesh and blood shall not inherit eternal 〈◊〉 , neither corruption inherit 〈◊〉 ; that is to say, our corruptible bodies cannot come to heaven. That which shall inherit heaven must be as incorrupt flesh, a body without 〈◊〉 .
;;8. What thing soever belongs to this present life. 1 Cor. 7. 18. Such shall have trouble in the flesh: Thus Beza expoundeth it. Also, it signifies the estate of this present life, Phil. 1. 24. To abide in the flesh is more needful for you, Gal. 4. 14.
;;9. Whatsoever is in man reputed most excellent and glorious without the grace of Christ; as nobility, birth, wisdom, wit, understanding and reason. Matt. 16. 17. Flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee. Joh. 1. 13, 14. Born not of flesh and blood, Joh. 3. Phil. 3.
;;10. All that in Religion which is outward, and to be seen with the eye, as moral works or ceremonies. Rom. 4. 1. What hath Abraham gotten according to the flesh? This word [Flesh] in the second verse, is expounded to be the works of Abraham, which did not justify him before God. Thus Beza and Piscator interpret the place. See Gal. 6. 12. & 3. 3. where Flesh signifies the Ceremonies of Moses Law; and whatsoever it is which is without is noted by this word, Phil. 3. 3. Unbelief, and all motions of the soul which be evil, all wicked desires, all our words and works done without grace: how good, holy, or spiritual soever they seem to be, and show for: also, our learning, Doctrine, preaching, prayers, and what else soever cometh not of the Spirit of Christ, is called Flesh in the phrase of Scripture.
;;11. The whole nature of man, as it cometh into the world, corrupt and vile, infected by sin; or that part of man which is unregenerate. Joh. 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. Rom. 7. 5. When we were in the flesh. Rom. 8. 8. They that are in the flesh. Gal. 5. 13. that is, in the corruption of sinful nature; and in all other places, where the word Flesh is applied to men unregenerate, it signifies the whole corruption and naughtiness of our nature, raging and reigning both in the reason and will: but in those places of Scripture, where Flesh is attributed to new born persons and is set against the Spirit, as in Gal. 5. 17, 19. 24. Rom. 7. 18. 25. In all these (I say) and such like Texts, the word Flesh signifies the remainder of natural corruption, even so much of that vicious quality of sin, as still sticketh behind in regenerate persons, and is unmortified. The reason and cause why sin is noted out by the name of Flesh, it is because through the Flesh (to wit, 〈◊〉 seed) or through carnal generation, sin is conveyed into the whole man, soul and body. Also, for that the flesh or body is the instrument to execute the lusts of our natural concupiscence, Rom. 6. 13. Thus Piscator and Peter Martyr do judge. Illyricus adds another reason, to wit; because man, as he is sinful, tends wholly unto carnal things. By this we see how such are deceived, who will have only the inferior part of the soul (as will and affections) meant by Flesh.
;;12. Common or ordinary course of nature. Gal. 4. 29. He that was born after the Flesh. Thus was Ishmael born of Agar, after the manner of other men.
;;13. The inferior or unreasonable part of the soul, as it is corrupt by sin, to wit, the sinful will and affections. Eph. 2. 3. In fulfilling the will of the Flesh; that is, the desires of our corrupt will.
;;14. Every living Creature, reasonable and unreasonable. Psal. 136. 25. Which giveth food to all flesh. Gen. 6. & 7. Lev. 17.
;;15. Authority, dignity, wealth, worship, corporal conversation. 2 Cor. 5. 16. We know no man after the flesh.
;;16. Outward appearance. Joh. 8. Ye judge aocording to the flesh.
;;17. A glorified person, 〈◊〉 body and soul is perfectly blessed. Job 19. 26. And shall see him in the flesh.
;;18. The secret parts of man or woman. Lev. 15. 2. Whosoever hath an issue from his flesh. In all the places following, Flesh is put for the member of generation, Gen. 17. 13. Ez. 16. 26. & 23. 20.
It's taken also,
- 1. For Beasts and Fowls, Gen. 6. 19.
- 2. The company of the faithful called unto the knowledge of God, Joel. 2. 28.
- 3. An outward, humble, and laborious conversation, Heb. 5. 7.
- 4. The body of Christ, Joh. 6. 51.
- 5. Vain confidence, Jer. 17. 5.
- 6. The 〈◊〉 of Idolatry, Ez. 23. 20.
- 7. The weakness and frailty of man's nature, Gen. 6. 3.
- 8. A type of the resurrection, Ez. 37. 6.
- 9. The conjunction of male and female, Eph. 5. 31.
- 10. Christ's human nature, Rom. 8. 3.
- 11. The skin, Psal. 102. 5. marg.
- 12. That red, soft, and tender part of the body of every living creature, Gen. 2. 21.
- 13. The naughtiness and lewdness of licentious livers, 2 Pet. 2. 10.
- 14. This present life, with all such things as belong thereunto, 1 Cor. 7. 28.
- 15. That which is man's food, Gen. 9. 4. Deut. 12. 15.
- 16. The head, Job 4. 15.
- 17. Weak mortal man, Eph. 6. 12.
- 18. Mans natural strength, Gal. 3. 3.
- 19. Mans natural judgment and capacity as man, Mat. 16. 17. Joh. 8. 15. Rom. 6. 19. 1 Cor. 1. 26. 2 Cor. 1. 17.
- 20. Slaughter (or beasts slain) 1 Sam. 25. 11. marg.
Flesh is often taken for corrupt nature, as Rom. 7. 25. & 8. 1, 5, 9, 13. Hence those lusts are called fleshly lusts, or the lusts of the flesh, which proceed from corrupt nature, Gal. 5. 1. Rom. 13. 14. Eph. 2. 3. 2 Pet. 2. 18. Sometimes the lusts of the flesh, are taken for those lusts which are against the seventh Commandment, as 1 Joh. 2. 16. Annot.
According to the flesh]
;;As concerning, or for so much as toucheth the body and outward things which Masters have in their power; for the Conscience, that is only in God's power. Eph. 6. 5. Obey your Masters according to the Flesh.
Flesh and blood]
;;The whole human nature, such as it is in respect of corruption, considered without the grace of regeneration. Mat. 16. 17. Flesh and blood hath not revealed this; that is, human nature, as it is corrupt and sinful, hath not taught it thee: or such as it is in itself, without respect to sin and corruption, Heb. 2. 14.
;;2. Mortal men as they are weak and feeble, Eph. 6. 12. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Gal. 1. 16. I communicated not with flesh and blood; that is, with any man in the world.
;;3. An human living body subject to rottenness, 1 Cor. 15. 50.
Flesh and blood, Mat. 16. 17. It's an Hebrew phrase, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , signifying no more then a mere man here upon the earth, one that hath ascended no higher then the common state of men. Idem. Annot. c. In 1 Cor. 15. 50. It signifies that state of growing, feeding, corruptible bodies, such as these we carry about us; this being the difference betwixt the natural body we have here, and the spiritual hereafter. Id. Ann. d.
Flesh]
Heb. 2. 14. Partakers of flesh and blood, understand hereby man's human nature subject to weakness, misery, and death. So Mat. 16. 17. Gal. 1. 6. Ephes. 6. 12. Annot.
Heb. 12. 9. We have had fathers of our flesh, that is, bodies, Rom. 2. 18. 1 Cor. 5. 5. Ephes. 6. 5. 1 Pet. 4. 6. Annot.
Heb. 5. 7. Who in the days of his Flesh, that is, of his Humiliation, while he was subject to our common, human, yet blameless infirmities. Annot.
Heb. 10. 20. through the veil, that is to say his flesh. Human nature, Psal. 16. 9. and 27. 2. Joh. 1. 14. called flesh, because of the infirmities and weaknesses thereof, Psal. 78. 39. And whereby his Divine nature was veiled and covered over; even as the Ark of the Covenant, the Mercy-seat, and the most holy places were by the veil. Annot.
Heb. 9. 13. sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, that is, freeing those who used them (the carnal ordinances) from legal pollutions and irregularities. Annot.
The flesh of Christ]
;;Whole Christ, both God-head and Man-hood in one person, with all his benefits. Joh. 6. 55. My flesh is meat indeed, that is, myself being believed on. A Synecdoche.
;;2. The Man-hood of Christ, as it is considered apart from his God-head or Divine nature. Joh. 6. 63. The flesh profiteth nothing; that is to lay, the human nature of Christ is not profitable to us of itself, but as the God-head dwelleth in it, giving life to it, and quickening us by it. Thus Mr. Tiadal and the Bible-note expound this place. Augustine and Chrysostom expound it of understanding the words carnally, and not spiritually. The former is the better. Which sense also Augustine alloweth: But Mr. Beza understandeth Flesh generally of all flesh, or corporeal meat, and not specially of Christ his flesh, because he faith not my flesh, but flesh indefinitely.
To be condemned in the flesh]
;;To have the wicked naughtiness of our nature mortified and subdued 1 Pet. 4. 6. That they might be condemned according to men in the flesh, 1 Cor. 5.
To 〈◊〉 the flesh]
;;To weaken the strength and power of natural corruption. The death of Christ doth this by merit, and the Spirit doth it by the efficacy of his grace, and the Saints by godly endeavor stirring up that grace. Gal. 5. 24. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, Rom. 8. 12, 13, 14.
Destruction of the flesh]
;;The taming and making lean the body, the vital juice or moisture being dried up, by heaviness of the heart for sin. 1 Cor. 5. 5. He be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh. Thus Piscator expoundeth this place.
For the destruction of the flesh, 1 Cor. 5. 5. i. e. To the bringing of some sore disease upon them. Dr. Ham. on Mat. 17. Ann. c.
To eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ]
;;All manner of participation with Christ in the Word, by the Faith of the Promises, as well as by Sacraments, Joh. 6. 35.
Flesh of flesh, or to be one flesh]
;;Natural conjunction, such as is between husband and wife, or between Kinsmen. 2 Sam. 6. 2. He is flesh of our flesh. Gen. 2. 13. This is flesh of my flesh. Mat. 19. 5. They twain shall be one flesh; that is, as one man most nearly coupled; or, one person, as before.
;;Man and Wife are said to be one flesh:
- ;;1. For the undividable society of life.
- ;;2. For the conjugal copulation and unity of the whole.
- ;;3. For the generation of one flesh; that is to say, one child.
- ;;4. For the mutual right which each hath unto the body of the other, 1 Cor. 7. 4. Gen. 2. 24.
;;Note further, that this phrase, to be one flesh and bone, as it peculiarly noteth the most near conjunction of man and wife, by natural and worldly marriage; and of Christ to his Church by spiritual marriage: so it importeth at large, and commonly any consanguinity or kindred whatsoever, as in Laban's speech to Jacob, Gen. 29. 14. Thou art my bone and my flesh: and in David's words to the Elders of Israel, 2 Sam. 19. 12. Are not ye my bone and my flesh? and in their 〈◊〉 to him, 1 Chr. 11. 1. Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Woman was of Adams flesh, both originally: 2. And by communion of nature: 3. And by right of marriage, Gen. 2. 23.
;;2. Spiritual union and conjunction, such as is between Christ and his Members. Eph. 5. 30. We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; that is, most straightly coupled to Christ by the spiritual band of our Faith.
Heart of flesh]
;;A tender and soft heart yielding unto the Word of God, and easily receiving the impression of grace. Ez. 11. 19. I will give you an heart of flesh, which is set against a stony heart, that is, hard and hardened, not yielding to God. Such an heart Josiah had, 2 King. 22. 19. and David prayed for it, Psal. 51. 17, 18.
Holy flesh]
;;Flesh to be offered in Sacrifice, Hag. 2. 13.
;;Such holy flesh and meats as were assigned to the Priest to eat, might not be eaten of any Priest as was unclean, nor of any strangers, or of hired servants: which signified and figured, that they which serve in the Ministry, should live by it, and that things appointed to that purpose should not be converted to other uses, 1 Cor. 9. 13.
To be in the flesh]
;;To be a mere natural man, unregenerate, drowned in the lusts of sin, and a servant of sin, Rom. 7. 5. When we were in the flesh, Rom. 8.
To sow to the flesh]
;;to apply a man's care and labor to heap unto himself carnal and earthly things, which belong to the cherishing of this mortal flesh or body. Gal. 6. 8. He that sows to the flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption.
Uncircumcision of the flesh]
;;Flesh or natural corruption, which is an abominable thing, Col. 2. 13. Uncircumcised ones were in times past abominable to God and his people; as David in detestation of Goliath, termed him that uncircumcised Philistine.
The infirmity of the flesh]
;;The weakness of our understanding being more carnal then spiritual, and having in it more ignorance then knowledge. Rom. 6. 9. I speak after the manner of a man, because of the infirmity of your flesh.
;;2. The cross 〈◊〉 afflictions, which make one outwardly infirm and weak. Gal. 4. 13. Paul being considered according to the outward man, was weak.
Flesh of the kings, Captains, &c. ]
;;The great dainties wherewith God will feed such as he calleth to this Feast, even all sorts of men which fight for Antichrist. See such a description, Ezek. 39. 17, 18. Rev. 19. 18.
As pertaining to the flesh, Rom. 4. 1. This connecteth with the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , hath found, for so it lies, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , sound according to the flesh, and is not joined with Abraham our Father, as in reason it would have been (and not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 interposed) if the meaning of it had been, Our Father according to the flesh; which being supposed, it will likewise follow, that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , according to the flesh, must signify the same with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , by works, verse. 2. in like manner as found and jusified import the same. Dr. Ham. Ann. a.
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, Joh. 6. 53. For the understanding hereof, consider,
- 1. That the flesh and blood of the Son of man, is put for the Son of man, or Christ himself, a part being put for the whole.
- 2. That flesh and blood, frequently are used not only to signify our mortal condition, which this our flesh and blood is subject to; but also this mortal nature, as it is subject to much weakness and afflictions, and so it notes Christ in his state of humiliation.
- 3. That the occasion of Christ's discourse here, was for that they sought him, because they did eat of the loaves and were filled, v. 26. which he reprehends in them, and bids them seck and desire that food which endureth to everlasting life verse. 27. i. e. that doctrine of his, which is food for their souls, and being received, and digested, and turned into increase of good life in them, would bring them to immortality. All which being put together, make up this complete sense of the words, that Christ, this mortal, despised, crucified Christ that took our 〈◊〉 on him, came down from heaven, here lived and died, to reveal his Fathers will unto us, and work belief in us, is the food of our souls the believing and obeying of whom, will as food, sustain corporal life, 〈◊〉 and maintain spiritual life in us, and bring us to eternity. Dr. Ham. Ann. e.
No flesh should be saved. Mat. 24. 22. Here is meant none of all the Jews; that is, The sharpness of this War from the Romans without, and of the Zealots within ( Jerusalem ) that killed all that were averse from War, was such, that if it had continued, if it had gone on farther against the City, all the Jews everywhere had been destroyed utterly. Idem Annot. i.
To walk after the flesh]
;;To follow the motions of corrupt nature, in the guiding of our life and manners. Rom. 8. 1. Which walk not after the flesh, v. 12.
;;To walk in the flesh] To live in this frail body until we be taken up into heaven. 2 Cor. 10. 3. Though we 〈◊〉 in the flesh. Also, to live in the flesh hath the same signifi- cation, Phil. 1. 22. Col. 2. 20.
Flesh]
For that it was weak through the flesh, Rom. 8. 3. The flesh in this place cannot so fitly be said to signify the state and condition of men under the law, (mentioned ch. 7. 5.) but that which is the means, by which occasionally (as the 〈◊〉 notes) the Law became so weak and unable to restrain men, viz. the carnal or fleshly appetite, which is contrary to the proposals and prescriptions of the Law. The carnality of men's hearts was too strong for the Mosaical Law to do any good upon them. And so the Law was weak, not absolutely, but through the flesh i. e. The Mosaical dispensation by the promises, and terrors which it proposed. was not able to subdue carnal affections, to mortify lusts, to bring men to inward purity which to the 〈◊〉 was more ungrateful, then that temporal promises should persuade any man to undertake it, when there were not temporal punishments to drive them to it, as in case of concupiscence opposed to that inward purity, there were not. And so it was not possible for the Law to bring them to any good: Christ reformation was necessary thus to call carnal sinners to repentance. Dr. Hammond Annot. a.
Fleshed]
Gen. 41. 2, 3. Fat-fleshed, and lean-fleshed; or fat in flesh, lean in flesh. Ainsworth.
Flesh-hooks]
Instruments with teeth, to take flesh out of pots, &c. 1 Sam. 2. 13, 14. 2 Chr. 4. 16.
Fleshy]
Spoken of the tables of the heart, 2 Cor. 3. 3.
Fleshly]
put for frail and mortal, 2 Chr. 32. 8. Soft, tractable, docible, Ezek. 11. 19. & 36. 26. 2 Cor. 3. 3.
Fleshly]
Spoken of 〈◊〉 , (whereby worldly wisdom is to be understood, Dr. Ham. ) 2 Cor. 1. 12. Mind, Col. 2. 18. Vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, (without cause puffed up by the imagination of his own flesh, Dr. Ham.) lusts, 1 Pet. 2. 11. Whereby the doctrines and practices of the Gnostics are to be understood, Dr. Ham.
Flesh=pots]
Exod. 16. 3. Vessels wherein they boiled their flesh.
Fley]
To pull or take off the skin, Mic. 3. 3. To slay, fley, cut in pieces, and lay beasts on the Altar, were works proper to Priests, Lev. 1. 5, 6. Annot. on 2 Chr. 29. 34. See Flay.
A Fly]
Herewith God plagued the Egyptians, Psal. 78. 45. Put for enemies, by whom God would punish his people, Isa. 7. 18.
To 〈◊〉 for Fly and Be]
;;To call unto him to fight against Ahaz: and Judah's enemies, as Egyptians, Philistines, 〈◊〉 , Chaldeans, &c. compared to Flies and Bees for their number, swiftness, strength and warlike skill, Isa. 7. 〈◊〉 .
To fly]
put for, To be greedy upon, 1 Sam. 15. 19. Ascend, Job 5. 7. Vanish or pass away, speedily, Job 20 8. To make great hast, Psal. 143. 9. To be swift, Zech. 5. 〈◊〉 2. See to Flec.
To fly]
;;To come speedily to the Church by grace to direct and govern her, that she may be able to do that which Christ had commanded, Cant. 8. 14.
Flight]
A running away, 1 Chr. 12. 15. 〈◊〉 armies of the Aliens were turned, Heb. 11. 34. Which at sometime is impossible, Amos 2. 14. sometime dangerous, Mat. 24. 20.
Flint]
A most firm and hard stone. Ezek. 3. 9. As an adamant, harder then flint, have I made thy forehead; that is, powerfully confirmed and strengthened thee; upon which ground take the words of the Prophet, The Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my sace like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed, Isa. 50. 7. Their 〈◊〉 hoofs shall be counted like flint; that is, hard and durable. The bringing water out of the flint, Deut. 8. 15. and turning the flint into a fountain of 〈◊〉 , Psal. 114. 8. argue God's 〈◊〉 for the good and preservation of his own. Man having found out the use of flint, for the house, in kindling fire; abroad, for the discharge of his piece, &c. may be said, To put forth his hand upon the flint, Job 28. 9. marg.
Flinty]
Deut. 32. 13. Oil out of the 〈◊〉 rock. 〈◊〉 places like rough and craggy rocks, were made to 〈◊〉 fruit; or (according to the letter) Olive trees prospered in stony places. Annot.
This honey and oil figured the heavenly graces, which God bestoweth upon his Church in Christ, who is likened to a rock, 1 Chr. 10. 4. Ainsworth.
Flix]
Act. 28. 8. Bloody flix. A perilous Flix, with excoriation and painful wringing of the bowels, and some blood issuing. Thomas.
An exulceration of the bowels. The Latins call this disease Tormina, because through it the bowels are tormented. Leigh Crit. Sac.
〈◊〉 ]
;;A great company of Sheep gathered together, into one pasture, Jer. 49. 29. or Goats, Gen. 38. 17.
;;2. The whole Church of Christ upon earth. Cant. 1. 7. Get theeforth by the steps of the rock. A Metapor. Luk. 12. 32.
;;3. Some particular Church, Act. 20. 20. Take heed to the slock, 1 Pet. 5. 2.
;;4. An host of men, or a rude and unskillful multitude. Jer. 49. 20. The least of the flock shall draw them out.
5. A multitude of inhabitants, Ezek. 36. 38.
6. An army, Jer. 6. 3.
Flock]
Gen. 4. 4. Heb. sheep or goats, marg. Numb. 31. 30. Of the flocks, or goats, marg.
Flock]
;;The whole company of true worshipers of God, Cant. 1. 8. Get thee forth 〈◊〉 the steps of the Flock.
By the footsteps of the Flock, or in the footsteps of the sheep, that is, go in those ways, and do those works which the sheep or flock of Christ have gone in, or done before thee, see 1 Cor. 11. 1. Heb. 13. 7. 1 Thess. 2. 14. Heb. 6. 11, 12. The flock here spoken of, seemeth to be opposed to the flocks (or herds) in verse. 7. as Christ is to his companions, (or fellows) there mentioned, who as he is the one great pastor, so hath 〈◊〉 generally one fold and flock, Ezek. 34. 22, 23. Joh. 10. 16. which is his Church, as he saith, Ezek. 34. 31. Ainsworth.
Fitly may the Church be compared unto a flock, as whereof Christ taketh an especial care, over which he continually watcheth, else would we quickly go astray, quickly become a prey unto Satan and our other enemies, who seek to take us at an advantage; The flock obeyeth the voice of the Shepherds, it's profitable unto its owner, is in itself at unity, we must obey the voice of Christ, be fruitful in good works, and live in love and peace one with another.
Flock of Goats]
;;The multitude of the faithful, assembled to holy exercises, being like a flock of Goats spread abroad, and feeding upon a Mountain, Cant. 4. 1. Thine hair is like the flocks of Goats.
Flocks of companions]
;;Idolaters, false-worshipers, societies of Heretics. Gant. 〈◊〉 7. For why should Ibe as 〈◊〉 that turneth aside to the flocks of thy companions? See 〈◊〉 .
Flood]
;;The overflowing of waters, as Noab' s flood, Gen. 6. Psal. 93. 3, 4.
;;2. Extreme dangers and violent troubles stirred up by wicked men against God's children, or such great evils as be otherwise sent of God. Psal. 42. 7. All thy 〈◊〉 and waves are gone over me, Rev. 12. 15. The Serpent cast water (like a flood) out of his mouth. Psal. 69. 15. Psal. 18. 4.
;;3. Mighty Kings and people, who for strength and power are like unto a flood. Isa. 59. 19. For the enemy shall come like a flood. A 〈◊〉 . Psal. 93. 3.
;;4. Great store, rich plenty of good things bodily and spiritual. Isa. 41. 18. I will open the floods on the tops of the hills. Joh. 7. 38. Out of his belly shall flow floods (or rivers) of waters of life. A Metaphor.
5. The red sea, Psal. 66. 6.
6. Spiritual blessings, Isa. 44. 3.
Swallowed up the flood, Rev. 12. 16. The Earl of Tholous, and divers others that were Papists, fought for their Clients and Subjects the Waldenses, and destroyed many of the Popes Soldiers, sent against them, so that they could never quite be rooted out. Or, the Carcases of such as went to sight against the Protestants, were scattered upon the earth, dying by Famine, Plague, or War, as the Israelites did in the Wilderness, Numb. 14. 29. So the Land is said to cat up her inhabitants, Numb. 13. 32. And divers of the Popes Soldiers were so consumed. It may be an allusion to Numb. 16. 31, 32. where the earth swallowed up Dathan and Abiram, and so preserved Moses and Aaron, from their insurrection. Or, the Roman Empire, which is the earth, in this book, when opposed to the Church, was divided in itself, and so God's people escaped. Annot.
Flood]
Job 20. 17. The 〈◊〉 , or streaming brooks, mar. The word carries with it plenty and swiftness, as floods bring plenty of water, and run apace. Annot.
And the floods came, Mat. 7. 25. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , doth not particularly signify rivers, i. e. streams, or channels, either beginning from Springs, or proceeding from the Sea, but is a general word, of which as those rivers are one species, so are Land-floods or Torrents, that arise from any tempestuous sudden rain, another; and the latter of these is here meant, being joined to the descending of the rain, and accompanied with the blowing of the winds. Dr. Ham. Annot. e.
Floods]
;;Great and liberal store of waters overflowing. Mystically, deep and grievous afflictions, Cant. 8. 7. Much waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Floor]
;;The visible Church as it contains good and bad, (like wheat and chaff in a Barn floor) Matth. 3. 21. He hath his faa in his 〈◊〉 , and will purge his floor. A Metaphor.
It's put also for the Barn-floor, Hos. 9. called the Threshing-floor, Dan. 2. 35. and the Corn-floor, Hos. 9. 1. and the floor of a House, 1 King. 6. 15, 16, 30.
Floor]
2 Chr. 34. 11. or, to rafter, marg.
Flotes]
Flat-bottomed vessels or boards fastened 〈◊〉 , and towed with ropes, 1 King. 5. 9. Annot.
Flourished]
See Vine.
Flourished again]
Phil. 4. 10. or, revived, marg.
Flourishing]
;;The outward frail estate and short prosperity of wicked men. Psal. 37. 35. I have seen the wicked strong and flourishing (or spreading) like a green Bay tree. Psal. 103. 15. As a flower of the field, so flourisheth he.
;;2. The happy prosperity of the goodly. Prov. 14. 11. The 〈◊〉 of the just shall flourish.
;;3. Spiritual livelyness and vigor. Psal. 92. 14. They shall be fat and 〈◊〉 .
Flow]
That the spices thereof may flow out, Can. 4. 16. that is, the 〈◊〉 may ripen and be abundant; for by the gracious gifts of the Spirit, breathing upon the Church, corruption is purged away, the souls are refreshed, quickened, comforted, and all graces do increase, 1 Cor. 2. Ainsworth.
Flowing]
;;Plentifull increase either of earthly blessings, or of spiritual graces. Joh. 7. 38. Out of his belly shall flow the water of life. Psal. 23. 4. My cup doth flow (or 〈◊〉 over. )
It's put also for, To increase greatly, Psal. 147. 18. To run over, Josh. 4. 18. To abound plentifully, Exod. 3. 8. Levite. 20. 24. Job 20. 28. Jer. 3. 18. And for much gathering together to a place, Isa. 2. 2. & 60. 5. Jer. 51. 44.
Floure]
2 Sam. 13. 8. or, Paste, marg.
Flower]
;;Frail and vanishing men, which flourish for a while, and suddenly vanish like a flower that withereth in a day, Isa. 40. 8. The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth. Metaphor.
;;2. Riches, prosperity, and all good things of this life. Jam. 1. 10. For as the flower of the grass he shall vanish away. That is, his riches and plenty of worldly goods shall fade as a flower fadeth.
;;3. The prayers and thanksgiving of the faithful Christians, whereof the flower offered in the Law was a shadow and type, Lev. 7. 12.
It's put also as properly, Psal. 103. 15. so for the likeness and resemblance of a flower, Exod. 37. 19. 1 King. 7. 26. For man's most lively, lusty, and flourishing time, 1 Sam. 2. 33. The prosperity of the ungodly, Job 15. 33. The fit time for marriage, 1 Cor. 7. 36. A woman's separation and uncleanness, Lev. 15. 24, 33.
Flowers appear]
;;The time of the Spring, but figuratively, the state of a man regenerate and called, who bringeth forth pleasant and sweet fruit, Cant. 2. 12. The flowers appear in the earth.
A description of a fruitful and pleasant Spring, after a doleful Winter, signifying Christ's gracious and 〈◊〉 gifts, for the delight and benefit of his Church, after the removal of the former evils. These flowers may be understood both of the Saints themselves, which now began to hold up their heads; or of the graces of the Spirit wherewith they are adorned for their mutual comfort, while the joyful tidings of the Gospel are discovered unto the consciences of afflicted sinners to assure them of the favor of God, see Psal. 72. 16. & Isa. 27. 6. Ainsworth.
Christ was born in Nazareth, which signifieth flowers, and he soweth and planteth seeds of grace in the hearts of his people, which in due time will shoot up, and produce both flowers and fruit. Annot.
By flowers (which are appointed rather to favor unto, then to feed upon) are under-stood the first fruits of the Spirit, whereby the elect give a pleasant smell, and therein sweetness of speech and words, going before works, even as flowers before fruits. Clapham.
Mr. Cotton applieth this to the time when Cyrus made open proclamation for the people's 〈◊〉 out of Babel, and return unto their own Country. The flowers appear on the earth; that is, (saith he) even they of the people of the Country among whom they 〈◊〉 , both praised God for their deliverance, and furnished them with gold and silver, and other useful things for their journey.
Every thing now resembles the face of a spiritual Spring; all the sweet flowers and blossoms of holy profession put forth, and show themselves in their opportunities. Hall.
Sweet Flowers]
Cant. 5. 13. or Towers of sweetness, ( towers of persumes, marg.) or, (as others) ripe plants that breed ointments, or that are planted and strengthened by the confectioners; which are rich symbols of that sweetness, life, comfort, that live in the amiable countenance of the Lord Jesus Christ; in whose presence and favor is fullness of joy, and pleasures for evermore. Annot.
Flute]
A musical instrument, Dan. 3. 5. The word there used is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which cometh of the root 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , to hiss or whistle; for such a sound doth this instrument make.
Flutter]
Deut. 32. 11. As an Eagle fluttereth, &c. or moveth, and 〈◊〉 . This is the word used in Gen. 1. 2. The Spirit of God moved (or fluttereth upon the face of the waters. That openeth the meaning here to be God's motions by his Spirit in the hearts of his people. Ainsworth.
F O.
Foal]
Gen. 49. 11. Hebr. the Son of his Ass; that is, his young Ass. Ainsworth.
Fodder]
Job 6. 5. The word signifies mixed food, and such give we Cattle at this day, Isa. 30. 24. 〈◊〉 .
Foes]
Enemies, Psal. 27. 2. & 30. 1.
Fold]
To wrap up Heb. 1. 12. Folden, Nah. 1. 10. Joyned unto, or wrapped one within another. Eccles. 4. 5. The sool 〈◊〉 his hands together. Puts himself into a posture of idle nesse, composeth himself to do nothing. Labor requireth the streching forth of the hands, Prov. 31. 19. Lazinesse wraps them up in one another, Prov. 6. 9 10. & 26. 14. & 19. 24. Annot.
Fold]
;;A sheep-coat, or sheep-house, to keep them safe from the cruelty of Wolves, or other wild beasts.
;;2. The invisible Catholic Church of Christ, consisting of believing Jews and Gentiles. 〈◊〉 . 10. 16. I have 〈◊〉 sheep which are not of this fold. The elect are gathered into the Church, as sheep into a fold, by the Ministry of the Pastors. A Metaphor.
3. A safe place for God's people, Jerem. 23. 3. Ezek. 34. 14.
Seven-fold]
;;Manifold, or abundantly; also oftentimes. Psal. 79. 12. And 〈◊〉 to our 〈◊〉 sevenfold.
〈◊〉 fold]
;;Plentifully, or very much. Mat. 19. 29. He shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hundred-fold.
Folk]
People, Gen. 33. 15. Which is also applied to 〈◊〉 , Prov. 30. 26. They are termed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which cometh from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which signifieth to hide, haply for that Conics hide themselves in holes.
To follow]
;;To come after one which goeth before. 1 Sam. 25. 27. Let it be given them that follow my Lord, Mat. 4. 19. As servants follow and go after their Masters. Also, to accompany others, Mar. 9. 38. Luk. 9. 49.
;;2. To imitate or do as another gives us an example. Mat. 10. 38. He that takes up his cross and follows me, 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of me, as I am of Christ.
;;3. To believe and obey. Joh. 10. 27. My sheep hear my voice and follow me, 1 King. 18. 11. 2 Pet. 1. 16. And in all places where men are said to follow strange gods: it doth signify, to put trust in them, and rely upon them, yielding them service.
;;4. To endeavor and strive towards the obtaining of something. Phil. 3. 12. I follow, & v. 14. I follow hard; which is expounded in v. 13. I 〈◊〉 .
;;The word in the Original tongue, is affirmed either of a thing, or of a person: When it is referred to a thing, then it signifies a desire with 〈◊〉 to obtain that thing, and is put in good part, as in Rom. 9. 30, 31. But being applied to a person, it is then put in ill part, for persecuting, and desire to hurt, as Rom. 12. 14.
;;5. To die with one, Joh. 13. 36. Thou 〈◊〉 not follow me now; that is, die with me.
Being referred 〈◊〉 Man,
- I. In respect of Christ, it signifieth,
-
- 1. Corporally to attend upon him, Mat. 8. 23.
- 2. To become his Disciples, Mat. 4. 30.
- 3. To believe, obey, and cleave unto him, Joh. 10. 27.
- 4. To be conformable unto Christ in conversation, life, sufferings, &c. Joh. 8. 12. Joh. 21. 22. 1 Pet. 2. 21.
- 5. To partake with him in glory, Rev. 14. 4.
- II. In respect of strange gods, it signifieth his worshiping, serving and relying on, Judge. 2. 12.
- III. In respect of Man; it signifieth,
-
- 1. To purse, 1 Sam. 31. 2.
- 2. To side or take part with, 2 Sam. 2. 10.
It's spoken also with relation both unto that which is good, Psal. 38. 21. Heb. 12. 14. And that which is evil, Psal. 119. 150. Isa. 5 11. 2 Pet. 2. 2.
It's put also for, To practice what we hear and learn. Joh. 10. 27. To walk after, Ezek. 13. 3. marg. To be led away with, Ruth 3. 10. To keep company with, 1 Sam. 30. 21. To be like, Prov. 12. 11. To go with one, 1 Cor. 10. 4. marg.
To follow]
;;To come after others, in believing and living well, as they have given us example, Heb. 6. 12. & 12. 8.
To 〈◊〉 Christ]
;;signifieth, First, corporal attendance on Christ 〈◊〉 person while he lived, Matth. 8. 28. & 9. 9.
;;Secondly, to become his Disciple for to be after employed in the Ministry of the Gospel, Joh. 1. 43. and so all the Apostles.
;;Thirdly, to deny ourselves to take up the Cross of Christ, to rest and depend on him by a true 〈◊〉 in life and death, Mat. 16. 24.
Follow]
Rev. 14. 4. These are 〈◊〉 which follow the 〈◊〉 where soever he 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 Ordinances, though with peril and loss, having 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the 〈◊〉 Church. And 〈◊〉 following 〈◊〉 christ for their head and guide, as others 〈◊〉 , but Christ only. 〈◊〉 .
They follow him,
- 1. For information.
- 2. By conformation of themselves to his will. Cowper.
And their 〈◊〉 follow 〈◊〉 , Rev. 14. 13. The reward of their works, 1 〈◊〉 . 15. 58. Annot.
Follow 〈◊〉 , Exod. 11. 8. 〈◊〉 . that is, at thy 〈◊〉 , marg. 1 Sam. 25. 27. Heb. 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of, 〈◊〉 . 1 King. 20. 10. Heb. are at thy feet, marg. 2 King. 6. 19. Heb. come ye after me, marg. Deut. 1. 36. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Hebr. fulfilled to go after, marg. Amos 7. 15. As 〈◊〉 followed, Heb. from 〈◊〉 , marg. 2 Sam. 17. 23. Followed, Hebr. 〈◊〉 , marg.
Follower]
One that imitateth 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 is properly referred to 〈◊〉 of virtues, 1 Cor. 11. 1. Eph. 5. 1. Phil. 3. 17. Heb. 6. 12. 1 Pet. 3. 13.
Folly]
Josh. 7. 15. or Wickedness, marg. Isa. 9. 17. or Villany, Jer. 23, 13. or, an absurd 〈◊〉 , Heb. unsavory. See foolishness.
Folly in Israel]
;;signifieth, a filthy, wicked, ignominious act and deed, done to the 〈◊〉 of God, and scandal of his Church, Gen. 34. 7. Deut. 21. 21. 〈◊〉 . 7. 15. Judge. 20. 6.
Fome]
Froth, Hos. 10. 7. See Psal. 62. 9. Jam. 4. 14.
Fome]
Mar. 9. 14. And he fometh, or so that he fometh. Which foaming and gnashing of teeth were signs of vehement torture, and hot pains. Annot.
Jude v. 13. Foming out their own shame. By their vain words revealing their internal corruptions, as the raging Sea casts out dirt and 〈◊〉 , Isa. 57. 20. Phil. 3. 19. Annot.
Food]
;;for Corn, Gen. 44. 25.
It's put also for all that sustenance, by which man liveth, Exod. 21. 10. Deut. 10. 18. 1 Sam. 14. 28. Psal. 136. 25. Act. 14. 17. 1 Tim. 6. 8.
Food]
Job 23. 12. More then my necessary food, or my appointed portion. I took more pains to lay up God's Word in my heart, then men do lay up in store provision for the belly, Prov. 30. 8. & 31. 15. Gen. 47. 22. Annot.
Job 24. 5. The wilderness yieldeth food. Though the Wilderness be very barren, yet the wild Ass can pick out sustenance there for him and his young ones. So Oppressors can pick maintenance for them and theirs, out of the throats of the poor. Annot.
〈◊〉 or foolish]
;;An Idiot, or one destitute of wit, of little or no capacity and discretion.
;; 〈◊〉 is named after a word in Hebrew ( Nabal ) which hath the signification of fading, dying, or falling away (as doth a leaf or flower, Isa. 40. 8. 1 Pet. 1. 1, 24.) This name is given to a foolish man, as having lost the juice and sap of wisdom, reason, honesty, and godliness: being fallen from grace, and without the gift of God, as a dead carcass, and therefore ignoble, and of vile esteem, opposed to the noble man, Isa. 32. 5.
A fool is also named 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in respect of his rashness and headyness, Psal. 38. 5. Prov. 12. 15. and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in respect of his inconstancy, fickleness, and mutability, Psal. 49. 11.
;;The Apostle in Greek turneth it, Inprudent, or without understanding, Rom. 10. 19. from Deut. 32. 21.
;;2. A sinner and wicked man, who despising the wisdom of the Word, follows his own lusts, and the sinful vain customs of this wicked world. In this sense, the word is used throughout the Proverbs of Solomon. Also, Psal. 14. 1. The fool hath said in his heart: and often elsewhere, as Psal. 73. 3. I fretted at the foolish, to see the prosperity of the wicked: thus expounded, Psal. 5. 5.
;;3. A covetous worldling. Luk. 12. 20. O fool, this night shall thy soul be taken from thee, 1 Sam. 25. 25. It is put for an Idolater in Rom. 1. 22. They become fools.
;;4. A man that is unprovident without foresight. Mat. 7. 26. He that heareth these words and doth them not, shall be like unto a fool which built his house, &c.
;;5. One who (though he be godly) yet hath much ignorance and unbelief remaining in him. Luk. 24. 15. O ye fools and slow of heart to believe. It is also put for all unbelievers, which wholly want faith, Mat. 25. 2. Five were fools.
;;6. One possessed with natural, ignorance from his birth. In which sense, all men, yea young infants, naturally be fools. Tit. 3. 3. We were fools, or unwise.
;;7. A name or word of reproach. Mat. 5. 22. Whosoever shall say, Fool. A Synecdoche. Every word of disgrace, as Knave, Ass, &c. is understood by this one.
;;8. One which doth see and acknowledge his own spiritual foolishness, 1 Cor. 3. 18. Let him be a fool that he may be wise; that is, saith Musculus, let him be a believer.
;;9. One accounted a fool by the world. 1 Cor. 4. 10. We are fools for Christ.
;;10. One spiritually bewitched, having the eyes of his mind so held and hood-winked by the policy of Satan and his instruments, false Teachers, as not to see manifest errors and blasphemies, but to apprehend them for the sound truth. Gal. 3. 1. O ye foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you.
It's put also for,
- 1. One that is wise in his own conceit, Rom. 1. 22.
- 2. One wholly void of faith, Mat. 25. 2,
- 3. Every unregenerate person, Tit. 3. Such are fools indeed, who are full of words, Eccl. 10. 14. Pratlers, Prov. 10. 8, 10. Atheists in their hearts, Psal. 14. 1. & 53. 1. Hypocritical blind guides, Mat. 23. 17. For outward cleanness, being filthy within, Luk. 11. 40. Slow to believe the truth, Luk. 24. 25. Idolaters, and such as think themselves wise in prescribing a worship to God, Rom. 1. 22. False Prophets, Hos. 9. 7. Possessed with natural ignorance, Tit. 3. 3. Enticed by an adulterous woman, Prov. 7. 22. Self-wise, Prov. 26. 12. Hasty in words, Prov. 29. 20. Sloathful, Eccl. 4. 5. Rash and unadvised before God, Eccl. 5. 1. Despisers of wisdom, and haters of knowledge, Prov. 1. 7, 22. Evil doers, Psal. 107. 17. Also the secure wealthy worldling, Luk. 12. 20. He that uttereth all his mind, Prov. 29. 11. Such as understand not the works of the Lord, Psal. 92. 6. Such as believe not his resurrection, 1 Cor. 15. 36. He that feedeth on foolishness, Prov. 15. 14. Whose heart is at his left hand, Eccl. 10. 1. Such a one as trusteth in his own heart, Prov. 28. 26. He that makes a mock of sin, Prov. 14. 9. He that dealeth foolishly, Psal. 75. 4. Such as get riches unjustly, Jer. 17. 11. One that committeth filthiness, 2 Sam. 13. 13. Such as suffer anger to rest in the heart, Eccl. 7. 9. He that hideth hatred with deceitful lips, and uttereth a slander, Prov. 10. 18. That holds it an abomination to depart from evil, Prov. 13. 19. Such as be wicked, and will not depart from evil, Ibid. & 26. 10. Such as will be meddling with strife.
Foolish]
Deut. 32. 6. or Vile. The Heb. Nabal, is such a fool as hath his understanding and judgment faded and depraved, whereupon he becometh vile and wicked, Psal. 14. 1. & 74. 18. This fool or vile person, is opposed to the noble or liberal, Isa. 32. 5. Ainsworth.
Job 5. 2. The foolish man. He that doth things rashly for want of wit, Psal. 5. 5. Annot. The Heb. word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , doth more properly signify mad-men, as it is here translated by most Interpreters; roarers, roysters, riotous persons. Annot.
It's spoken of the Heart, Rom. 1. 21. a King, Eccl. 4. 13. Knowledge, Isa. 44. 25. Lusts, 1 Tim. 6. 9. Man, Job 5. 2. Nation, Deut. 32. 21. People, Deut. 32. 6. Prophets, Ezek. 13. 3. Questions, 2 Tim. 2. 23. Tit. 3. 9. Shepherds, Zech. 11. 15. Son, Prov. 17. 25. Talking, Eph. 5. 4. Things, Lam. 2. 14. Virgins, Mat. 25. 2. See Fool.
Foolish questions]
;;Questions or doubts moved about things curious and unprofitable. 2 Tim. 2. 23. Put away foolish questions.
Foolish things]
;;Such things as the world esteemeth for foolish. 1 Cor. 1 27. God hath chosen foolish things to confound the wise.
Job 2. 10. As one of the foolish women. As a woman that wants understanding, and makes herself ridiculous to all men, 2 Sam. 13. 13. The Heb. word comes from a verb that signifies the falling of a withered leaf from a tree, Psal. 1. 3. As it hath no moisture in it, so there was no wisdom in her speech. Or, as a wicked woman, for so the word foolish often signifies, Psal. 14. 1, 2. Prov. 1. 32. & 7. 22. & 9. 13. Annot.
Foolish words]
;;Such words as be void of reason and godliness, having in them no edification, Eph. 5. 4. Neither filthiness nor foolish talking.
Foolishly]
Unwisely, unadvisedly, Gen. 31. 28. Nor charged God foolishly, Job 1. 22. or with folly, Heb. nor attributed folly or unsavouriness to God. The word signifies that which wants due or right temperature; or any kind of meat not well seasoned, chap. 6. 6. Untempered mortar, Ezek. 13. 10, 11, 14. His heart was so well seasoned, that he had no unfitting thoughts of God and his providence, that might be unbecoming God's justice, or displeasing to him, as unsavory meat is to us. Annot. 2 Cor. 11. 21. I speak foolishly, Gr. in foolishness. Annot.
Foolishness or folly]
;;All naughtiness whatsoever generally. Prov. 22. 15. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child.
;;2. Some particular 〈◊〉 sin, as Incest, idolatry, and such like, 2 Sam. 13. 12. Commit not this folly, Josh. 7. 15.
;;3. That which men do account absurd and foolish. 1 Cor. 2. 1, 23. We preach Christ crucified, unto the Grecians foolishness.
;;4. That which is indeed and truth most foolish and absurd. 1 Cor. 2. 19. The wisdom of the world is foolishness with God.
;;5. It signifieth a shameless impudency in open professing, excusing, and defending wickeduess, Isa. 9. 17.
;;There is a threefold foolishness, whereof the first only is properly so called as being seated in the mind; the other figuratively or metonymically, viz. ;;
- ;;1, Mental, so are erroneous thoughts, 1 Cor. 3. 19, 20. Prov. 22. 25.;;
- ;;2. Vocal or Verbal, so are all impertinent, sophistical, unprofitable, unreasonable, and absurd speeches, Eph. 5. 4. Job 2. 10. Prov. 15. 2.;;
- ;;3. Actual or real. So is every wicked work, and the whole life and course of wicked men, if we compare their poor gains with their infinite 〈◊〉 and eternal undoings, Mat. 16. 20. and consider their opposition against the wisdom, will, and power of God, Luk. 20. 18. and the vanity of all their earthly expectations, Luk. 12. 20. See also Wisd. 5. 3, 4, 5, &c. ;;
Accordingly, fornication, Gen. 34. 7. Taking of the accursed thing, Josh. 7. 15. Uncleaness, Judge. 20. 6. Incest, 2 Sam. 13. 12. are termed folly or foolishness. So in 1 Cor. 3. 19. The wisdom of the world is termed foolishness with God, or imaginary; as unto the Greeks the preaching of Christ crucified, 1 Cor. 1. 23.
Foolishness]
Psal. 38. 5. The Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , meaneth rash and unadvised folly, through want of prudency. Therefore, though commonly in Gr. it is termed imprudency, yet it is sometime called unadvised rashness, Prov. 14. 17. & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the fool, is named rash or heady, Prov. 10. 14. and by foolishness is meant usually viciousness, or sin, and is so expressed by the Greeks, Prov. 13. 16. & 15. 2. & 26. 11. And our Savior numbereth foolishness among other evils that 〈◊〉 a man, Mat. 7. 22. Ainsworth.
Psal. 69. 5. Thou knowest my foolishness; that is, thou knowest whether I be guilty of any such thing, or no.
Prov. 14. 24. The foolishness of fools is folly, A fool is a 〈◊〉 though he be never so rich. Annot.
Foolishness]
Mat. 7. 22. Of the several notions that the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , imprudence or folly may be capable of; that which seems most proper to this place is that of boasting, which is the most unseemly thing, and so the most contrary to prudence or wisdom of conversation. In this sense the word is used, 2 Cor. 11. 1, 19. & 12. 6, 11. In this notion it will accord and associate very well with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , calumny, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Pride, which immediately precede the calumniating, fastuous, (insolent) and vain-glorious behavior, going ordinarily together. Dr. Ham. Annot. d. See Folly.
Fools]
Job 12. 17. And maketh the Judges fools, or mad; as Eccl. 7. 7. Isa. 44. 25. God will deprive them of understanding, or so go beyond them, that he will cross their Sentences. Annot. Job 30. 8. Of fools. Of men that had no understanding in them. Annot.
Uain=glorious fools]
;;Mad-boasting people, (of Halal ) a word which signifies to extol, praise, glorify, which when it is of ones self, and immoderate, it proveth dotage, folly and madness, Psal. 5. 5. Hence is the word used for mad, wood, raving with folly, Eccl. 2. 2, 12. & 7. 9. & 10. 13. Isa. 44. 25.
Foord]
Gen. 32. 22. or Passage. Ainsworth.
Foot]
put
- 1. properly, Gen. 8. 9.
- 2. For an artificial foot, Exod. 30. 16.
- 3. For the person, Prov. 1. 15.
- 4. For the affection of the heart, Psal. 26. 12. Eccles. 5. 1.
- 5. For doings Isa. 58. 13.
The holy City shall they tread underfoot, Revel. 11. 2. He alludeth to Jerusalem called the holy City, Dan. 9. 24. Mat. 27. 53. because in it was the Temple, the Priests, the Sacrifices, and all the Consecrated things. See Dan. 9. 26. Both Temple and City possessed by the enemies. They shall banish Religion out of those places where it was visibly professed before. Or, they shall exercise their false Religion there, so treading God's court is taken for public service. Isa. 1. 12. Or, the people of God that worship God in the Desert, shall be persecuted by them, and kept under, Isa. 14. 25. Dan. 7. 13. Amos 5. 11. Annot.
Immediately after the death of Theodasius the Great, the Goths, Huns, Alans, with other Barbarous Nations invaded the Roman Empire, ruined and destroyed the same on all sides, whereby the Church, as the holy City, begun to be trodden underfoot, and the Antichrist had an occasion given to breakforth and show himself. Clav. 〈◊〉 . pag. 59.
The Papists and Antichristians shall destroy the City and Sanctuary; that is, some of the Church evangelical, the City and Sanctuary of Christ, according to the visible appearance thereof, in public worship, and external Ordinantes. Parker on Dan. 9. 26. pag. 61.
Foot]
Heb. 10. 29. Who have trodden underfoot the Son of God. In treading this truth under their feet, by a malicious resisting and persecuting thereof, they do as it were tread Christ himself under their feet; or, thereby they show such a spiteful mind against him, that they could (if it were possible) pull him out of heaven, and ttample him under their feet, for that which we reject and forsake, that we hold as impure, and unholly in God's worship. Annot.
Foot breadth]
Deut. 2. 5. or, to the treading of the sole of the foot. The Gr. translateth it, not the step (or breadth) of a foot; which phrase Luke useth in Act. 7. 5. Though the Edomites were wicked, yet God continued their estate for a time, during which, no man might lawfully disturb them. By this God teacheth also the difference between Esau' s portion, and Jacob' s. See Rom. 9. 11, 12, &c. Col. 1. 12. Ainsworth.
Footed]
The words Cloven, Levite. 11. 3, 7, 26. Broken, Lev. 21. 19. Four, Act. 10. 12. hereunto prefixed, make known the meaning of such places.
Foot-men]
1 Sam. 22. 17. or Guard, Heb. the runners, marg.
He set his right foot on the Sea, and his left foot on the 〈◊〉 , Rev. 10. 2. To note the subjection of the Sea and Earth, and all creatures to him. Leighs Annot.
The right foot is said to be over the Sea, because it is more unruly then the earth, Psal. 93. 1, 3, 4. Annot.
Foot-steps]
put sor good conversation and behavior, Psal. 89. 51. and for the miraculous work of God's divine providence for Israel in drying up the Red-sea, and covering again the way of the people's passage, so as it could not be known, Psal. 77. 19.
Foot-steps]
Psal. 89. 51. or Foot-soles; that is, the ways, life, actions, and sufferings, Psal. 56. 7. & 49. 6. This referred to Christ, respecteth the Oracle, Gen. 3. 15. that the Serpent should bruise the foot-sole of the woman's seed. Referred to Christians, which follow his foot-steps, in suffering and dying with him, that we may be glorified with him, (Rom. 8. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 21.) it noteth the scandal of the Cross of Christ, 1 Cor. 1. 23. 1 Pet. 4. 13, 14. Ainsworth.
Foot- 〈◊〉 ]
put for a low place, Jam. 2. 3. It is spoken of God. 2. Chr. 28. 2. and thus, the Temple or Ark in it, 1 Chr. 28. 2. The Sanctuary or Ark, Psal. 99. 5. Isa. 60. 13. The Earth, Isa. 66. 1. Mat. 5. 35. The enemies of Christ, Psal. 110. 1. Mat. 22. 44. are called.
- ;;1. Earth, which is subject to God, and put under his will and power, as a stool under our foot. Isa. 66. 1. Heaven is my seat, and earth is my soot-stool. A Metaphor.
- ;;2. The Temple of God, or the Ark where God promiseth to hear his people. Psal. 96. 5. Fall down before his foot stool. I am. 2. 1. See Bible note in Geneva Translation.
- ;;3. Rebellious sinners subdued under Christ, by the power and decree of God the Father, either voluntarily, as the 〈◊〉 , or violently, as the Reprobates; yea, and Devils also made subject to him, and cast down to everlasting ruin, Psal. 110. 1. see Rom. 14. 11. & 16. 20. Ephes. 1. 21, 22. Phil. 2. 10. Rev. 20. 10.
Foot-stool]
;;That which is put under the feet of him that sitteth, to tread upon it: The meaning is, that all Christ's enemies, even to Death, which is the last, shall be suod 〈◊〉 unto him forever, as Paul teacheth, 1 Cor. 15. 16. Heb. 1. 13. & 10. 13.
Foot-stool]
Heb. 1. 13. until I make thine enemies thy footstool; It is an allusion to a custom in the Eastern parts, where they were wont to put their feet upon the necks of those whom they conquered. So that hereby we are to understand that perfect victory which Christ had over all his enemies, Joh. 10. 24. 2 Sam. 22. 41. Isa. 8. 8. Annot.
For]
;;An efficient original cause of a thing, Rom. 8. 2. Rom. 3. 23. And elsewhere very often, this word (For) is a casual particle, Luk. 19. 44. Therefore the Papists do dote, when they do hereupon gather that love and works be the meritorious cause of forgiveness of sins: whereas, the forgiving much debt, is 〈◊〉 down as the cause of much love, v. 42. 38.
;; Note: These words sor and because, be general notes setting forth the coherence 〈◊〉 knitting of one thing with another in what sort soever.
;;2. A sign, or a consequent of a thing, Luk. 7. 47. Many sins are forgiven her; for she loved much. Here this particle [For] noteth the consequent, and that which followeth, forgiveness of sin; to wit, the earnest love of Christ: and doth not note the cause why her sins were forgiven her, which was her faith in Christ. Mat. 25. 34, 35. Come ye blessed of my Father, For when I was hungry: Here likewise the particle [For] noteth not the cause, but the signs and tokens of blessed persons, or the fruit by which they were discerned and known. Here it is a particle redditive, rendering the reason of the foregoing sentence, Rev. 14. 13. Rom. 4. 2, 3. & 10. 16. For Elias saith, &c. is not to be understood, that therefore the Jews believed not, because Elias foretold it, but he foretold it because they were not to believe.
;;3. In behalf of another, or in ones stead, to ones benefit or good: as to suffer for the Gospel, or for the name of Christ, to die for the brethren; and Christ died for us, and such like. Whereof all do note the impulsive cause, Mar. 10. 45. Matt. 17. 27.
;;4. The final cause or end, as Rom. 11. 36. All things for him; that is, his own glory is the end to which all things, both made of him, and governed by him, are referred and disposed. Prov. 16. 4. God made all things sor himself. 1 Cor. 11. 15. Heb. 11. 2.
;;5. In the stead, or place, or lieu, as in cases of permutation by contracts, &c. Gen. 29. 20. Jacob served seven years for Rachel, viz. to enjoy her as his Wife, instead of his seven years service, Gen. 23. 13. Heb. 12. 16.
;;6. The reason or proof of a matter not well before understood, or believed: the proofs or arguments are of many sorts, and as well from effects to prove the causes being duties or reprove them being sins as contrarily, Mat. 16. 24, 25, 26. 1 Sam. 2. 25.;;
;;7. It is taken actively for the effect of a thing on any others, Mar. 10. 20. Joh. 17. 19. 2 Thess. 1. 5.;;
;;8. It's taken passively for the event or passive effect of a thing to be received, 2 Thess. 1. 5. Heb. 12. 2.;;
;;9. For is taken as a note of the object, toward which the thing spoken of hath relation, Rom. 8. 10.;;
For]
Gen. 24. 10. or And, marg. Josh. 2. 14. For yours, Heb. instead of you to die, marg. Josh. 23. 29. or Then, marg. Judge. 3. 15. Heb. 〈◊〉 . Judge. 5. 15, 16. or In, marg. Est. 3. 8. Heb. meet, or equal, marg. Job. 8. 4. Heb. in the hand of, marg. Job 22. 17. or To, marg. Psal. 3. 3. or About, marg. 〈◊〉 . 68. 18. For men, Heb. in the man, marg. Psal. 119. 76. 〈◊〉 my comfort, Heb. to 〈◊〉 me, marg. Zeph. 2. 7, 14. or 〈◊〉 , marg. Mar. 1. 4. or Unto, marg. Rom. 1. 5. For 〈◊〉 to the faith, or, to the obedience of faith, marg. Heb. 2. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , marg. 1 Pet. 1. 24. or For that, marg. Rev. 9. 15. or 〈◊〉 , marg.
Forasmuch]
It's all one with Seeing, Because, Because that, Whereas, Gen. 41. 39. Numb. 10. 31.
Forbear]
〈◊〉 for, To cease, Exod. 23. 5. marg. Deut. 23. 22. To leave off, 1 Sam. 23. 13. 1 King, 22. 6. To hold ones place, 2 Cor. 25. 16. To 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 . 9. 30. marg. To 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 , Prov. 24. 11. To go back, Jer. 40. 4. To suffer or 〈◊〉 , Jer. 44. 22. Not to hear Ezek. 2. 5. & 3. 27. To be silent, Exek. 24. 17. marg To let alone, Zec. 11. 12. To cease srom, 1 Cor. 9. 6. To support, Eph. 4. 2. To moderate. Eph. 6. 9. marg. To be patient, Rom. 2. 4.
Forbear]
Col. 3. 13. Forbearing one 〈◊〉 . The Original word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is rendered sometime to maintain, Act. 18. 14. sometime to suffer, to endure, 1 Cor. 4. 12. 2 Thess. 1. 4. sometime to support, Eph. 4. 2.
This hath in it,
- 1. A freedom from the thirst of revenge.
- 2. A bearing with the infirmities of others, by covering them if they be secret; and by silence, in not reproving them, when they fail merely in frailty.
3. As a bearing with them, so a bearing of them, in not 〈◊〉 or provoking their infirmities, and by pleasing their 〈◊〉 in that which is good to edification.
4. A not prosecuting of wrongs either by Answers or Suits, and that even when we are able to revenge.
〈◊〉 , there's a 〈◊〉 in judgment, when in doubtful 〈◊〉 we suspend our opinions or censures; in words, in not answering, or giving soft answers; in deeds, when we render not 〈◊〉 for evil. In some things we must forbear 〈◊〉 , as in some 〈◊〉 that are by mere oversight or ignorance; and in some things 〈◊〉 must forbear for a time, that is, 〈◊〉 there 〈◊〉 a fit opportunity to admonish or correct. Byfield on Col. 3. 13.
〈◊〉 ]
Rom. 3. 25. Through the forbearance of God, Gr. in the 〈◊〉 . Through his patient and suffering nature; or word for word, according to the Greek, in the forbearance, or in time of his patience; that is, when God did show forth his goodness in suspending his judgments upon the world, not suffering them to perish for their sins, although he had not as yet fully opened the treasure of his grace for an 〈◊〉 pardon, the clear manifestation whereof he reserved for the time of the Gospel, Rom. 16. 24, 26. Annot.
Forbid]
To enjoin silence, Numb. 11. 28. To hinder both by words and with force, Mar. 9. 39. Luk. 6. 29. Act. 24. 23.
God forbid]
;;A form of denial, with a loathing of the thing objected, Rom. 3. 31. also 9. 2. This is usual with Paul so often as he 〈◊〉 cavils unworthy of a direct refutation. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Let it not be.
Force]
Violence, Gen. 31. 31. Vigour, strength, or moisture, Deut 34. 7. marg. Strength, Jer. 23. 10. Amos. 2. 14. Validity Heb. 9. 17.
God of forces]
The true God the God of Israel, of infinite strength, in whose seat Antiochus should honor a strange god, never known to his predecessors, even Jupiter Olympus, of whom you may read in the second of Mac. 6.
Force]
Ezr. 4. 23. Chal. arm, marg. Ezek. 35. 5. Heb. hands, marg.
Forces, Isa. 60. 11. or Wealth, marg. Dan. 11. 38. or Munitions, marg. Obad. v. 11. or Substance, marg.
Force]
Deut. 22. 15. or take strong hold of, marg. Judge. 20. 5. Forced, Heb. humbled, marg. So 2 Sam. 13. 12. marg.
Forcible]
Job 6. 25. How forcible are right words? There is much force in solid reasons; the force of strong arguments are persuasive. Annot.
Forecast]
Dan. 11. 24. And he shall forecast his devices, Heb. think his thoughts. Cunningtly to get and gain the rest of all the strengths of Egypt, or Syria rather. V. 25. They shall forecast devices against him. Many of the States and Potentates of Egypt shall betray their King, and being corrupted and bribed by Antiochus Epiphanes, shall treacherously forecast, and plot and devise secretly with Antiochus against him. Annot.
But Mr. Parker in his Exposition of the Visions and Prophesies of Daniel, understands this of Antichrist, who took the strong Holds, Castles, and fenced Towns of the Waldenses, by deceit and pretence of peace, p. 101. Whose Captains also made passage for their conquests of the Holy land, by politick designs, having plotted with the native and dome stick Christians of Asia and Syria, from Nicaea forward, p. 103.
Fore-fathers]
Jer. 11. 16. Heb. first fathers, first for former, as Eccl. 7. 10. Isa. 61. 4. 1 Tim. 5. 12. Annot. 2 Tim. 1. 3. Not his immediate Fore-fathers, who brought him up in Pharasaisine, but his Ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, &c. who served God in the same true Religion for substance which the Apostle now professed, Act. 23. 1. & 24. 16. Annot.
Fore-front]
1 Sam. 14. 5. Heb. tooth, marg. 2 Chr. 20. 27. Heb. head, marg. It's applied to a house, 2 King. 16. 14. Ezek. 47. 1. and to a battle, 2 Sam. 11. 15.
〈◊〉 ]
The forepart of the head, and upper part of the face above the eye-brows. Here Aaron ware a plate of pure gold, whereupon was engraven Holiness to the Lord, Exod. 28. 38. Here Goliath was slain with a stone, 1 Sam. 17. 49. Here Leprosy appeared in Uzziah, 2 Chr: 26. 10. Here gracious Mourners were marked, Ezek. 9. 4. and the Followers of Christ, Revel. 14. 1. On this a Jewel was worn by Women, Ezek. 16. 12. A whores forehead, Jer. 3. 3. a proverbial form. Shame appears in the face, Psal. 69. 7. Dan. 9. 8. and none more shameless then common Harlots, whence Babylon hath her title, telling what she is, written in her forehead, Rev. 17. 5. Annot. In Ezek. 3. 7. the Heb. stiff of forehead, is rendered impudent, comp. the marg. & text. But the Lord promised to make his Prophets forehead strong against their foreheads, verse. 8, 9. He would assist him, and give him boldness and constancy. See Annot.
Forehead]
;;Openly, before men, in profession and practice. Revel. 17. 5. And in her forehead was a name written.
Fore-know]
Rom. 8. 29. Whom he did foreknow. The word is not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , he knew before, but 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , he acknowledged before, 2 Tim. 2. 19. Rom. 11. 2. By prescience here we understood not simply the fore-knowledge of God, but his fore-acknowledging, which is a knowledge with approbation. Leigh' s Annot.
Whom God hath foreapproved, and acknowledged for his, according to the purport of the Gospel, whom he knew as a Shepherd doth his flock, Joh. 10. 14. ( i. e. the lovers of God, so favored by him, verse. 28.) & chap. 11. 2. Dr. Ham.
Those whom he marked out as it were out of all other men in the world, and set his affection upon, Psal. 1. 6. Jer. 1. 6. Jer. 1. 5. Mat. 7. 23. Annot.
Fore-knowledge]
;;A bare fore-sight of things to come, or to be done hereafter; which in God is ever joined with his counsel or determination. Act. 2. 23. Being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God.
;;2. God's eternal love or good pleasure. Rom. 8. 29. Whom we knew before, &c. Rom. 2. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Elect, according to the fore-knowledge of God.
;;Fore-knowledge, purpose, good pleasure of God, be indifferently used and put one for another in Scriptures, where it is usual by knowledge to signify approbation, embracing with favor, when God speaks of his Creature, as Psal. 1. 6. Mat. 7. 23. Joh. 12. 18. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Rom. 8. 29. & 11. 2. Rom. 9. 11. Eph. 1. 11. In this kind of knowledge, which is the efficient of approbation, and ever joined with his good pleasure, there is contained the effectual will of God, to confer grace to persons so known. Isa. 53. 6. & 22. 16. 8. Rom. 4. 17. 2 Tim. 1. 9. Titus 3. 4, 5. Deut. 7. 6, 7, 8. & 8. 17, 18.
;;Such as sever God's will from his foreknowledge, or do make his fore-knowledge of things, the highest cause of their existence, (whereas God fore-knoweth what things shall be, because he hath first decreed they shall be) or which will have fore-knowledge of faith and works, to be causes of Election; they are deceived.
Fore=most]
The first, Gen. 32. 17. & 33. 2.
Fore=ordained]
1 Pet. 1. 20. The word in the Original is properly foreseen.
Now there are three kinds of fore-sight.
- 1. That bare knowledge of things, and this reacheth to all things that ever shall be.
- 2. That knowledge of approbation, God knowing man above others, with his special favor: this reacheth only to the Elect.
- 3. When God is said to know things, as a Judge doth in giving sentence. In this last sense the word is here taken, and therefore well rendered fore-ordained; to note such a foresight, as had a determination and statute in it. Byfield on Peter, p. 149. 150.
Fore-ordained]
Rom. 3. 25. Set forth. Compare the marg. with the Text.
Fore-part]
That which is before, or the former, Exod. 8. 27. 1 King. 6. 20.
Fore=runner]
Heb. 6. 20. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, that is, Christ, so called, because he is ascended into heaven, to prepare mansions for us, Joh. 14. 2, 3. Annot.
Fore-see]
To see before, or fore-espy, Prov. 22. 3. Act. 2. 25. I fore-saw, Heb. I have 〈◊〉 . Annot.
Fore-ship]
The Prow or foremost part of the Ship, Act. 27. 30.
Fore-skin]
Gen. 17. 11. To wit, of the genitall part, which so soon as sin appeared, was for shame kept out of sight; and which is not only corrupt in itself, but the means to convey corruption to another, which yet God can dignify with a holy use in a Sacramental sense, and hereby upon this dishonorable part he hath set so much honor, according to that of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 12. 23. that many Nations have willingly taken up Circumcision, as an honor to themselves, and the want of it hath been sometimes upbraided with contempt, 1 Sam. 17. 36. 〈◊〉 . The Hebr. 〈◊〉 signifieth a super-fluity and stoppage, that hindereth the due effect and operation of a thing; and the Gr. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (which the Apostle useth in Rom. 2. 25.) is in special that 〈◊〉 , which is on the top of man's flesh, to wit, on the member of generation: the foreskin that covereth the secret part, which God here commandeth to be cut quite off, as a sign of mortification, and regeneration of nature. The same word is applied figuratively to other parts; and spiritually all sin is signified by this superfluous fore-skin, Jam. 1. 21. Ainsworth. Deut. 10. 16. The sore-skin of your heart. This the Gr. translateth 〈◊〉 of heart. The Chaldee. foolishness (or 〈◊〉 ) of the heart. Hereby is taught repentance and mortification of the inward man by circumcision of the heart in the Spirit, Rom. 2. 29. in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, Col. 2. 11. Ainsworth. Jer. 4. 4. The sinful body of the flesh, Col. 2. 11. The obstinacy that groweth like a thick skin over your hearts, ch. 6. 10. Ezek. 44. 9. Act. 7. 51. Annot.
Foreskin of the flesh]
Gen. 17. 11. Of the heart, Deut. 10. 16. Jer. 4. 4.
Fore-tell]
To tell before, 2 Cor. 13. 2.
Fore-warn]
To foreshow, manifest, make known, Luk. 12. 5. Tell before, 1 Thess. 4. 6.
Forfeited]
Ezr. 10. 8. Heb. devoted; that is, his goods or temporal estate shall be taken from him, and given to the public use of the Temple, or of the State, or of the Poor, he should have no more right unto it. Annot.
Forge]
The proud have forged a lie, Psal. 119. 69. or composed, adjoined. So Job 13. 4. Ainsworth.
Forger]
Ye are forgors of lies, Job 13. 4. So it is translated, but the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , never signifies so, but 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is used for to invent lies, as a Work man frames a building. The word is used but twice more in Scripture, and it signifies sowing, whereby one piece of cloth is sowed to another, as Ch. 14. 17. Some take it as an accusation of his friends, that they had as it were sowed one lie to another to disgrace him, that is, had multiplied many lies against him. But it rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lies upon God, or him, as one piece of cloth is 〈◊〉 upon another; as it should be translated, Psal. 119. 69. The proud have sowed or fastened a lie upon me. He 〈◊〉 his friends that they did go about to wrong God and him, by speaking 〈◊〉 of both. Annot.
To forget]
;;To let things slip out of mind. This is the general signification.
;;2. To let God, his Word, and benefits slip out of mind, whereof followeth disobedience, neglect of God's Worship, and wicked contempt of God, as a fruit and consequent of such forgetfulness. Judge. 3. 7. They did wickedly, and forgot the Lord. Psal. 78. 42. Thus men sorget God; the wicked wholly, the godly in part.
;;3. To cast off one, to cease to love, care, and provide for him. Psal. 77. 9. Hath God forgotten to be 〈◊〉 ? Isa. 49. 15, 16. Thus God forgets the wicked; and the godly do sometime think that they are thus sorgotten, yet are not so. Psal. 137. 5. If I forget thee (O Jerusalem) that is, if I cease to love thee.
;;4. To defer or put off the punishment of the wicked; and to remove punishment from the godly. Psal. 74. 23. Forget not the voice of the 〈◊〉 . Amos 8. 7. I will not forever 〈◊〉 any of their 〈◊〉 ; that is, I will not always defer to punish them, though it may seem I have forgotten, Jer. 32.
To forget]
;;See also to 〈◊〉 . ;;
-
;;1. To lose the memory or thought of a thing 〈◊〉 , or of the knowledge thereof.;;
;;And this is either by natural 〈◊〉 , or by accident, or voluntary, by thinking too little and seldom thereof, or too much of other matters.;;
- ;;2. Not to esteem, but to pass by a matter as not worthy our remembrance, Phil. 3. 15. Gen. 41. 51.;;
- ;;3. To leave undone or unused anything good, as Jam. 1. 24, 25.;;
- ;;4. To be freed or delivered from evils, or evil, Gen. 41. 51.;;
Referred to 〈◊〉 ; signifieth,
- 1. Not to be moved at, troubled with, but freed from danger and grief, Gen. 41. 51.
- 2. To cease to love, pity, or take care of, Isa. 49. 15.
And with relation to God, To neglect true Religion, not keep his Commandments, not call to mind his mercies, not call upon him, not trust in him, &c. Jer. 2. 32.
Referred to God; it's sometime to be understood of his casting off a people, Jer. 23. 39. God is not forgetful of us, Isa. 49. 15. We must not forget him, Deut. 6. 12. His covenant, Deut. 4. 23. His works, Psal. 78. 7. His benefits, Psal. 103. 〈◊〉 . His Word, Statutes, Precepts, 〈◊〉 , Commandments, Psal. 119. verse. 16, 83, 141, 153, 176. Prov. 3. 1. & 4. 5. What we hear out of his Word, Jam. 1. 25. His grace of conversion, 2 Pet. 1. 9. 〈◊〉 Church, Psal. 137. 5. His fatherly correction in love and comfort therein, Heb. 12. 5. Our faults, Deut. 9. 7. Jer. 44. 9. Jam. 1. 24. Hospitality, Heb. 13. 2. Mercy to the poor, Heb. 13. 16. The enemies of God's people to punish them, Deut. 25. 19.
To forget that which is behind]
;;Not to think upon, or mind that which one hath done or suffered for Christ or his Gospel, looking foward to things which are to be done hereafter. Phil. 3. 15. I forget that which is behind.
To forget thy fathers house]
;;To renounce and abandon all carnal and worldly affections, which spring from inbred corruption, and whatsoever may hinder our faith and love unto Christ. Psal. 45. 11. Forget thine own people, and thy Fathers house.
To forget his labor]
;;Not to be moved nor troubled with remmebrance of calamities past. Gen. 41. 51. God hath made me forget all my labors.
Forgetfull]
Heb. 13. 2. He is a forgetful 〈◊〉 , that is, not a doer of the work, Jam. 1. 25.
Land of forgetfulness]
;;The place and estate of the dead, who forget the living, and the living them. Psal. 88. 12. And thy righteousness in the Land of forgetfulness.
Forgive]
To forgive 〈◊〉 , is all one with, To pardon, Exod. 34. 9. To spare, Nehem. 13. 22. To cover, Psal. 32. 2. To blot out, Isa. 43. 25. To mention no sin, Ezek. 33. 16. Not to lay sin to ones charge, Act. 7. 60. Not to impute sin, Rom. 4. 8. To be merciful, and not to remember sin anymore, Heb. 8. 12. We must pray for the forgiveness of our own sins, Psal. 25. 18. For the forgiveness of others, Exod. 32. 32. Yea forgive men their trespasses, as we would that God should forgive our trespasses. Mat. 6. 14. See forgiveness.
Forgiveness]
;;The pardoning of our sins done against God, as if one should cross a Debt-book. Psal. 32. 1. Whose sins are forgiven. In the Hebrew it cometh of a word which signifieth, to lift up, or take away: it hath reference to Christ, who bare and took away the sins of the world, Joh. 1. 29.
;;2. A forbearing to revenge trespasses done against us, being ready to take unto favor such as wrong us, upon their repentance. Mat. 18. 35. Except ye forgive from your hearts. Col. 3. 13.
;;3. A releasing of the censure of Excommunication, which power belonged to the Church, 1 Cor. 5. 10.
Whose sins the Lord forgiveth, he covereth, Psal. 32. 2. Blotteth out, Neh. 4. 5. Spareth, Neh. 13. 22. Layeth them not to their charge, Act. 7. 60. Imputeth them not, Rom. 4. 8. Maketh no mention of them, Ezek. 33. 16. Remembreth them no more, Heb. 8. 12.
Forks]
1 Sam. 13. 21. An instrument which Husbandmen use about their corn, hay, grass, &c.
Form]
- ;;Favor, beauty, outward dignity, and glory. Isa. 53. 1. He hath 〈◊〉 form.
- ;;2. Substance or essence. Heb. 1. 3. The engraved 〈◊〉 of his person.
- ;;3. Vain show, 2 Tim. 3. 5.
- 4. Nature and properties, Phil. 2. 7.
- 5. A pattern or rule, 2 Tim. 1. 13.
- 6. Shape or likeness, Mar. 16. 12.
- 7. Face or Visage, Job 4. 16. God the Former of all things, Jer. 10. 26.
;;By form, some understand condition, divine and human, majesty and infirmity, which doth necessarily follow substance, as a shadow doth the body.
〈◊〉 in form and countenance]
;;signifieth for body or personage, also for beauty of color; both together make perfect beauty, Gen. 29. 17. the like is said of Esther, Est. 2. 7. and of Joseph, Gen. 39. 6.
Form of God]
;;God himself, or one who is God, and that truly and in very deed, of the same substance and giory that God is. Phil. 2. 6. Who being in the form of God. Form, Nature, or Substance be all one in this argument.
Form]
Who being in the form of God; Phil. 2. 6. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifies not only an external and accidental form, as Mar. 16 12. Nor at all an image or picture (as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 seems to do, Rom. 2. 20. 2 Tim. 3. 5.) but it is taken also in good Authors, for an internal essential form or being. It signifies that which hath a being of itself, and needs not the assistance of another to its being; so that being in the form of God, is known in the essence of God being God, and by the rays and beams of his divinity (shining even in his first conception and birth) discerned and known to be so. Dr. Hammond, Annot. a.
Form, or shapes of the Locusts]
;;The figure, likeness, and guise; to wit, such as be strong Horses prepared to battle. Such are the Popish Clergy, strongly linked together with ready and prepared minds, against all such as should any way mutter against the usurped power of the Pope and Sea of Rome. This hath been, and is apparent enough, though the fierce incursions of the Saracens, have been more famous. Revel. 9. 7. And the sorm (or fhapes) of the Locusts, was like unto horses prepared to battle.
Form of a servant]
;;A very man, one having the true nature of a man, being like a man in all things (sin excepted) Phil. 2. 7. He took the form of a servant, and was made like to a man; that is, he took the substance, nature, properties, affections and infirmities of a man, all except sin, Heb. 3. 17. & 4. 15.
Form of wholesome words]
;;Some short and rude description of Christian Doctrine delivered in writing, to be a pattern for Timothy, or a rule to direct his teaching. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Hold fast the sorm of sound words. It is a Metaphor from Painters, who being to draw a Picture, do first make a draught or portraiture of it, before they express it in lively colors.
Form]
Isa. 45. 7. Frame. Annot. Job 26. 5. Are formed srom under the waters. The word signifieth to bring forth children out of the womb, when they have their right sorm, ch. 39. 1. Thus it is taken here. Such things are formed in the bottom of the waters, or under them, as in a womb, and by God's providence brought forth to light as children are. Annot.
Job 33. 6. I am formed, Heb. am cast out. An allusion to the Potters, who when they purpose to make an earthen Vessel, cut out a lump of clay to make it of. So did God form Adam' s body, Gen. 2. 7. Annot. And of him all things are sormed, beasts, Gen. 2. 19. the crooked Serpent, Job 26. 13. the earth, Psal. 90. 2. the eye, Psal. 94. 9. All things, Prov. 26. 10.
Formed]
;;Fashioned, framed; Christ is said to be formed in us, either when the lively Faith of Christ is at our new birth engendered in us, or is 〈◊〉 after some great fall. Gal. 4. 9. Till Christ be formed in you.
;;The Apostle Paul signifies hereby some knowledge of Christ to remain in the 〈◊〉 , yet such as was rude and unformed, which he did cover by this Epistle written to them, to bring to a more perfect form.
Former]
Spoken of manner, 2 King. 17. 34. Persons, Neh. 5. 15. Time, Job 8. 8. Things, Eccles. 1. 11. Whatsoever was before, Psal. 79. 8. & 89. 49. Isa. 65. 16. Zech. 14. 8.
Former]
Psal. 79. 8. or, of them that were 〈◊〉 , marg. Mal. 3. 4. or Ancient, marg.
Former things are passed away. Rev. 21. 4. All the miseries of this world. Or, the Beast, false Prophets, and all that did hurt the Church. Annot.
Fornace]
Taken
- I. properly, Prov. 17. 3. & 27. 21.
- II. Figuratively,
-
- 1. For heavy and cruel bondage, Deut. 4. 20. Jer. 12. 4.
- 2. The place where God will sore afflict his people, Ezek. 22. 18, 19, 22.
- 3. A place of torment, Dan. 3. 6, 22.
- 4. Hell torments, Mat. 13. 42.
Fornication]
;;The uncleanness of unmarried persons, about generation, Gal. 5. 19. The works of the flesh are manifest: 〈◊〉 , fornication, &c.
;;2. All uncleanness that way, by whomsoever, married or unmarried or howsoever, 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9. He that committeth Fornication, sinneth against his own body. This is bodily fornication. A Synecdoche: See Mat. 5. 32. Fornication put for Adultery.
;;3. Idolatry, or strange worship, which is spiritual fornication: wherein the faith plight with God (as with an husband) to worship him only after his own will, is violated and broken. Ezek. 16. 15. Thou hast poured out thy sornications; and elsewhere very often, in this and other Prophets: as Jer. 3. 9. Judah hath committed fornication with stocks and stones.
4. The uncleanness of married persons, or adultery, Mat. 5. 32.
5. Incest, 1 Cor. 5. 1.
Fornication]
There is Fornication among you, 1 Cor. 5. 1. Fornication in this place is a general word to comprehend all unlawful desires of the flesh, acts of whatsoever prohibited carnality under it. Dr. Ham. An. a.
Fornication]
;;All sorts of bodily uncleanness about generation, whether whoredom, adultery, rape, incest, buggery or fornication. For all these (as it is too well known) were rife, and still be, in the Kingdom of Antichrist. Revel. 9. 21. They repented not of their sornication.
To commit fornication]
;;To exercise Merchandise, and by the gain thereof to prosper, (as Harlots grow rich by the lucre which cometh of the prostitution of their bodies) A Metaphor, Isa. 23. 17. And shall commit fornication. Elsewhere this phrase importeth either Idolatry, Rev. 17. 2. or Adultery, Incest, or any bodily uncleanness. 1 Cor. 5. 1.
Fornicator]
Heb. 12. 16. 1 Cor. 5. 11. We ought not to have any intimate familiarity, or common usages, or manner of life and conversation with such. Annot.
Such shall not inherit the Kingdom of God, 1 Cor. 6. 9.
Fortainer]
put for one, not an Israelite, Exod. 12. 45. Deut. 15. 3. An Heathen, not a Christian, Eph. 2. 19. One living a life contrary to the vain conversation of the world, 1 Pet. 2. 11.
Forest]
;;Mighty men and valiant Soldiers, strong as trees in a Forest, wherein the King of Assyria gloried, Isa. 10. 18. And the glory of his Forest.
Put also for, A 〈◊〉 place of wood, Isa. 44. 14. The place of wild Beasts, Jer. 5. 6. Lebanon, where Solomon built a goodly house, 1 King. 7. 2. The building in Jerusalem, Jerem. 21. v. 14. Desolation, Hosea 2. 12.
To forsake, referred to God ]
;;Not to withdraw his essence or power from his creature, (for they be everywhere present) but his grace and blessing, which is done diversely, in respect of them whom he doth forsake. 2 Chr. 15. 2. If you forsake him he will forsake you. This is the general signification.
;;2. Wholly, and forever, to take away from men all such graces as he had given them, leaving them altogether to Satan, and their own lust. This is called a giving up, or delivering up to vile affections, Rom. 1. 24. Thus God forsakes wicked men, and Hypocrites. Thus did he forsake Cain and Judas, and Saul, 1 Sam. 16. 4. The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, 2 Sam. 7. 15. And thus will not God forsake his people. 1 Sam. 12. 22. The Lord will not forsake his people for his name sake.
;;3. To take away some particular grace, and that for a time only. Thus was David forsaken, having lost (after 〈◊〉 grievous sin) cleanness of heart, peace and joy of conscience, freedom of Spirit, stableness of mind, &c. Psal. 51. 10, &c.
;;4. To take away the knowledge, feeling, fruit, and working of his graces for a season. Thus was Peter forsaken, Matt. 26. and against this forsaking David prayeth in Psal. 119. 8. Forsake me not over long.
;;5. 〈◊〉 ithdraw for a time, or forever, his blessings and good success from our labors, and his temporal protection from our persons, both ourselves and ours. Heb. 13. 5. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Psal. 22. 1. Why hast thou forsaken me.
;;6. To with-draw and take away his Word, his Worship and Ministry. Lam. 2. 7. The Lord hath forsaken his 〈◊〉 ; that is, he hath caused his Worship to cease, he hath taken away his Law, his Prophets, his Visions, his Sabbaths, as verse. 7, 9. This is God's forsaking man.
;;7. When he doth for a long time visit his Church, not withdrawing his judgments, Lam. 5. 20.
Referred to men]
;;To withdraw our heart from God, when we cease to put our trust in his promises and providence, and to obey his Commandments. Deut. 32. 15. Israel forsook the strong God that made them. Psal. 119. 53. I am asraid of the wicked because they sorsake thy Law. Heb. 13. 12. Psal. 119. 118. Heb. 10. 39.
;;2. To depart from the service of the true God, to the service of strange God's. This is a branch and fruit of the 〈◊〉 forsaking. Judge. 2. 11, 12. They served Baalim, and forsook the Lord God of their Fathers. This is man's forsaking os God, Isa. 1. 4.
;;3. To deny our help and aid to others in their necessities and dangers. 2 Tim. 4. 16. No man assisted me, but all forsook me. Thus man sorsaketh man.
To forsake Father and Mother]
;;Not to deny honor, love, obedience, succor, and thankfulness to Parents, (this were unnatural, and to be worse then Infidels, yea then beasts.) but to leave the Family and house of Parents, that he may dwell together with his Wife, and with her begin and erect a new household, Gen. 2. 24. Mat. 19.
;; Note: As touching reverence, obedience and succor, we owe more to parents, then to Wives; but in respect of household society and cohabitation, the man is more bound to the wife.
;;Christ is forsaken, either by denying himself flatly: or in turning from his Commandments.
To forsake one]
;;To deny help, or refuse to succor him in his need. Heb. 13. 5.
To forsake the promise]
;;Not to believe, give credit to the word of promise, Heb. 4. 1. In the last Translation the words are thus 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 a promise being left us.
A forsaking all for Christ]
;;A settled and well-governed purpose and affection to leave all outward good things of 〈◊〉 lise, and 〈◊〉 itself, for the love of Christ his Gospel; and to leave them indeed actually, when occasion serves. Luk. 14. 33. He that 〈◊〉 not all that he hath, cannot be my Disciple. Mar. 10. 29. Thus the Christian man forsaketh all, first in affection and desire, then in effect and deed, if need be, and occasion serve thereunto, as then it doth, when we cannot hold life and earthly things, without denying Christ and his Word.
〈◊〉 ]
Mat. 5. 33. Not to do that which one hath sworn to do.
Fort]
A sortification, fence, or hold, 2 Sam. 5. 9. A bulwark, Block-house, Ezek. 4. 2.
Forth]
Psal. 113. 2. From this time forth, or 〈◊〉 now, henceforth, 2 Chr. 29. 23. Heb. near, marg. Jer. 49. 5. Right forth, as Amos 4. 3. Not daring either to stand 〈◊〉 , or to look back. Annot.
Forthwith]
Incontinently, immediately, upon the sudden, without delay, Ezr. 6. 8. Joh. 19. 34. Act. 9. 18.
Fortieth]
Spoken of Year, Numb. 33. 38. Deut. 1. 3.
Fortifie]
To assault, or hardly press, Judge. 9. 31. To strengthen, 2 Chro. 11. 11. To repair, 2 Chr. 26. 9. marg. To leave, Nehem. 4. 2. marg. 〈◊〉 . 11. 10. 〈◊〉 on the Confines and 〈◊〉 of Egypt, which Antiochus Magnus took from 〈◊〉 Philopater. Annot.
〈◊〉 ]
;;Courage, when 〈◊〉 are born, and Duties done with a valiant and stout mind. Isa. 11. 12. The Spirit of fortitude shall rest upon him.
;;2. Divine might upholding and strengthening us. Psal. 18. 1. The Lord is my fortitude or strength.
Fortress]
;;A strong hold, or place of defense: such is God's providence to them that trust in him. Psal. 18. 2. The Lord is my Fortress. A Metaphor.
Fortunatus]
Lucky or fortunate. The name of a godly man, 1 Cor. 16. 17.
Fortune]
;;Chance, when some things fall cut beside our purpose, and whereof we can give no reason. This is called Fortune or chance: but in respect of God, who knoweth all things, and ordereth them most wisely, to just and due ends, there is no chance nor fortune. Eccl. 9. 11. Time and chance cometh to them all. Luk. 10. 21. And it fortuned or chanced. Christians must always beware how they do commonly use this word ( Fortune and Chance ) in their mouths, or attribute ought to it, setting it up against God's Providence, which ordereth all things, both good and evil, great and small.
;;I give this signification of Fortune, only to show how far it may be allowed; namely, so far, as that in such things (as in regard of our foresight happen accidentally to us) we do yet acknowledge a divine Providence, ordering all events most wisely and righteously.
Forty]
Spoken of Baths, 1 King. 7. 38. Camels, 2 King. 8. 9. 〈◊〉 , 1 King. 6. 17. Days, Gen. 7. 4, 12. Exod. 24. 18. 1 King. 19. 8. Jonah 3. 4. Mat. 4. 2. Kine, Gen. 32. 15. Stripes, Deut. 25. 3. Years, Gen. 5. 13. Exod. 16. 35. Hereunto are added one, 1 King. 14. 21. two, Numb. 35. 6. sour, 1 Chr. 5. 18. Five, Gen. 18. 28. six, Joh. 2. 20. seven, Gen. 47. 28. eight, Numb. 35. 7. nine, Lev. 25. 8. thousand, Numb. 1. 33. one thousand, Numb. 1. 41. two thousand, Judge. 12. 6. three thousand, Numb. 26. 3. four thousand, 1 Chron. 5. 18. five thousand, Num. 1. 25. six thousand, Numb. 1. 21.
Forward]
Gen. 26. 13. Went sorward, Heb. went going, marg. as who did still thrive. Exod. 14. 15. Go forward, pass on. 1 Sam. 16. 13. From that day forward, thenceforth. 1 Chr. 23. 4. To set forward, or to oversee. Annot. Job 30. 13. To further and increase, Jer. 7. 24. Not forward, Heb. not to face. Annot. 2 Cor. 8. 10. Gr. willing, marg.
Forwardnesse]
2 Cor. 8. 8. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , an earnest and serious bending and application of the mind, which was in some about contributing to the Saints. See Leigh C. S. 2 Cor. 9. 2. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , cheerfullnesse, a ready mind. Idem. lb.
Foule]
Of fouls, some were clean, Gen. 8. 20. Some unclean, Lev. 20. 25. Some that did creep, going upon all four, Lev. 11. 20. Feathered, Psal. 78. 27. Winged, Deut. 4. 17. Of the heaven, Jer. 7. 33. Of the air, Matt. 6. 26. Of the Mountain, Isa. 18. 6.
Foule]
Psal. 148. 10. Flying Foule, Heb. 〈◊〉 of wing, marg.
Foule]
Job 16. 16. Bedaubed, or soiled, besmeared or smutched. The Hebrew word doth signify Filth that comes from moisture which is troubled and stirred about, Psal. 46. 4. & 75. 9. D. T. and Ann.
It's applied to Weather, Mat. 16. 3. and Spirit, Mar. 9. 25. Rev. 18. 2.
Foule]
Ezek. 34. 18. To trouble, marg. tread, trample upon.
Fouler]
Taken,
- 1. Properly, for a taker of Birds (whether by snares, 〈◊〉 , or otherwise) Prov. 6. 5.
- 2. 〈◊〉 , for a deadly enemy, Psal. 91. 3. 124. 7. Hos. 9. 8.
To found]
;;1. To decree firmly, to appoint, and so consequently to fit and perfect. Psal. 8. 2. Thou hast founded strength. Mat. 21. 16. Est. 1. 8. The King hath founded, Psal. 21. 2.
;;2. To build surely, to establish and confirm. Psal. 24. 2. He hath sounded it upon the Seas.
Found]
I found him not, Cant. 3. 1. to wit presently till afterward, v. 4. For neglect of taking hold on grace when it is offered, or not keeping it when it is 〈◊〉 , God often withdraweth the light of his countenance to stir up zeal and fervency in his children, Prov. 1. 24, 28. Jer 11. 10, 11. Mic. 3. 4. I found him, Cant. 3. 4. Here after much seeking, without fainting and discouragement, when means fail, she findeth Christ to the comfort of her conscience, according to the promise, Seck and ye shall find, Matth. 7. 7. Sometime Christ seemeth coy and stately, and even when most 〈◊〉 indeed, suspends and keeps off his beams, 〈◊〉 , as if altogether lost, so that he is not perceived, nor enjoyed so sweetly as we desire, especially when we seek him distrustfully, or coldly. Though we find him not in our 〈◊〉 in our own ways, yet he will be found at last. He may hold us off and suspend us, as Laban did Jaco, and Joseph his brethren; but when we are almost hopeless, and seem utterly 〈◊〉 , he will present himself, and not suffer us to be tempted above measure, yet a little while, &c. Heb. 10. 37. Annot.
I was in his eyes as one that found savor, Cant. 8. 10. Heb. peace, marg we all in our natural corruption are enemies to God, Rom 5. 10. but being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Rom. 5. 1. for the work of righteousness is peace and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever, Isa. 92. 17. and this place is enjoyed by the holy Ghost, Rom. 8. 6, 9. and it is opposed to all the troubles, temptations, persecutions, and afflictions in this life and world, Joh. 16. 33. and is that which guardeth our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus, Phil. 4. 7. Ainsworth.
Found]
Heb. 11. 5. And was not found, because God had translated him, 〈◊〉 was not found in any place here upon the earth. He was taken from one place, and put into another; from earth, and placed in heaven. It's like some sought for Enoch, but a Writ of non inven us was returned. 〈◊〉 . Heb. 12. 17. he found no place of repentance, or way to change his mind. marg. All that Esau could do or 〈◊〉 , could not make his father to repent. Jones. To reverse or call back his blessing, wherewith he had blessed his younger brother Jacob above him. Annot.
Found out]
1 King. 7. 47. Heb. searched.
Found no more]
;;To be no more at all, to be utterly rooted out, as if it had never been. Rev. 18. 21, 22. And shall be found 〈◊〉 more.
Foundation]
;;The ground work, which upholds the whole building, as the foundation of an House, of a Castle, or of a Fort, 〈◊〉 , &c.
;;2. Christ, who in respect of his person and office, is the only foundation and rock of his Church, to support and bear it up against Hell-gates; he being the firm foundation or corner-stone. 1 Cor. 3. 11. Other foundation can no man lay, then Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. 2. 4, 5, 6. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, and precious. Christ is the foundation of foundations.
;;3. The Apostles and Prophets, who in respect of their Doctrine are as a subordinate or second foundation, laying the Elect upon Christ the only sure foundation, Eph. 2. 20. Built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles. These be such foundations, as that themselves also be lively stones, built upon that foundation, Christ. All be equally foundations, not Peter more than the rest. A Metaphor.
;;4. The Doctrine of Christ, taught in an easy and short manner: or the sum of Christian Doctrine. Heb. 6. 1. Not laying again the foundation, &c.
;;5. The immovable strength and firmness of God's elect, being grounded upon his eternal love. 2 Tim. 2. 19. But the foundation of God remaineth sure. As a foundation stayeth an house, so upon the decree of election the godly are stayed.
;;6. Princes and Rulers of the earth, upon whom the Common-wealth resteth, as the house doth upon the foundation. Psal. 82. 6. All the foundations of the earth were moved. Or else expound it thus: All things from the highest to the lowest, are out of order.
;;7. The bottom of the waters, or bowels of the earth, or lowest parts of the world. Psal. 18. 15. The foundations of the world were discovered.
;;8. The great Mountains and highest hills, which seem to bear up the heavens upon their tops. Psal. 18. 7. The foundation of the heavens moved and 〈◊〉 . Thus it is read in Tremellius, according to the Original.
;;9. The sincerity of the heart, or the integrity of life which consisteth in doing the will of God toward God and man, is the foundation of our faith, and hope of happiness to come, and of happiness itself, Mat. 7. 24, 25. Luk. 6. 47, 48. 1 Tim. 6. 19. & 1. 19. 2 Pet. 1. 10. 1 Joh. 3. 21, 22, 23.;;
10. The first sound preaching of Christ in a place, Rom. 15. 20.
11. The ground of assurance, 1 Tim. 6. 19.
12. God's decree concerning the salvation of his elect, 2 Tim. 2. 19.
13. Firm unchangeableness, Heb. 11. 10. Where's implied, that the estate of the elect in heaven, and their glory there is not subject to corruption, or the least alteration. So, there's a corporal, spiritual, eternal, and a foundation by way of resemblance.
Foundation]
Ezr. 3. 6. The foundation of the Temple of the Lord was not yet laid, Heb. the Temple of the Lord was not yet founded, marg. Job 38. 6. Heb. sockets, marg.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation, 1 Tim. 6. 19. Treasure, or pledge, bill, or bond. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 coming from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , to lay up, as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 doth, it may possibly signify no more then a treasure, somewhat laid up. But it may signify in the same latitude, that the Hebr. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (which is answerable to it) doth, i. e. not only a foundation, but as the Rabbins use the word,, a bill of contract, a bond or obligation that he receives that lends out anything, upon which he may found a confidence of having it returned to him again. To this perhaps it may be appliable that the Hebr.