A Complete Christian Dictionary

Rachab]

A place, 1 Chr. 4. 12.

Reckon]

1. To give or take account, Mat. 18. 24.

2. To set, put, propround to ones self, or think within ones self. Isa. 38. 13. I reckoned until morning.

3. To conclude, collect, and gather, as by reason and argument, Rom. 6. 11. & 8. 18. It is a Metaphor from such as casting account find the true total sum; as if he should say, I have cast the cross, with all the encumbrances of it.

;;4. To esteem, number, repute, Luk. 22. 37.

Recommend]

To deliver, or give up, Act. 14. 26. & 15. 40. where the word is taken in a good sense, as elsewhere offten in a bad.

Recompense]

;;A due and just requital for former evil merits. Rom. 1. 27. They received in themselves such recompense of their error as was meet. Rom. 11. 9. In both these places, Paul speaketh of that judgment of God, by which sin is punished with sin; 1 In the Gentiles, abusing their natural knowledge. 2 In the Jews, abusing their revealed knowledge, for which they received increase of spiritual blindness and sin for a recompense, whereof God is directly Author, but not as it is a sin, whereof men themselves be authors.

;;2. Reward freely given unto good works, Luk. 14. 14.

;;3. Reward, rendered of debt, or for some former merits, Rom. 11. 35.

Recompense]

;;The rendering, or giving of blessedness in mercy, according to promise, Heb. 11. 26. & 10. 35.

;;2. The revenging of sin in justice, Heb. 10. 30.

To recompense]

To give, Ezek. 7. 3. marg. To make amends, Lev. 9. 15. To requite, Judge. 1. 7. To reward, Rev. 18. 6. To do as done unto, Obad. 15.

〈◊〉 ]

;;An agreement of parties which were at veriance, as God and the elect were through sin, till of enemies they became friends through the atonement made in the blood of Christ, and received by faith. 2 Cor. 5. 19. And hath committed to us the word of reciliation.

;;To the making of Reconciliation three things are required in him who shall be the Mediator of it.

• ;;1. That he make intercession for him that hath grieved the party offended.
• ;;2. That he satisfy the offended party for the wrong 〈◊〉 .
• ;;3. To provide that the offender shall offend no more: All this Christ doth.

Reconciliation]

;;An agreement and atonement with God by dying to take away sin, or by remission of sins through his death, Heb. 2. 17.

Day of reconciliation]

;;A time set apart of the Jews, once a year, by God's appointment, to seek atonement for sins by prayer and tasting, Rev. 23. 27. The 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 month, shall be a day of Reconciliation.

Ministry of reconciliation]

;;The ministry, of the Gospel, pronouncing and declaring 〈◊〉 with God, by free forgivnesse of sins, and Justification offered unto us by Christ. 2 Cor. 5. 18. And hath given unto us the Ministry of reconciliation.

Word of reconciliation]

;;Message or doctrine of atonement. 2 Co. 5. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 .

To reconcile]

;;To restore all former love, concord, and familiarity that was wont to be; (all hatred and discord set apart) Matth. 5. 24. Go, be 〈◊〉 to thy Brother; that is, of 〈◊〉 be made friends in truth.

;;2. To take to grace and favor, such as were enemies through sin. 2 Cor. 5. 19. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. God is reconciled, to man, when forgiving his sins unto him, he takes him unto his favor. Man is reconciled unto God, when believing the forgivnesse of his sins, he accepts the love and favor of God, and forbeareth (what he can) to offend him, Col. 1. 20. & 2 Cor. 5. 20.

3. To make atonement Numb. 16. 46. & 31 50. Gather in one, Eph. 1. 10. Make nigh, Eph. 3. 13. Make peace, Col. 1. 20.

Reconcile]

Be reconciled, Mat. 5. 24 Reconcile thyself, appease, get his favor. So 1 Cor. 7. 11. So Rom. 5. 10. Reconciled to God, i. e. restored to his favor, God pacified toward us. Dr. Ham. Annot. m.

Record]

1. Witness, Job 16. 19. Act. 20. 26. Deut, 30. 19.

2. A memorial or remembrance, Ezr. 6. 2. or book of Chronicles, wherein memorable acts are written, Ezr. 4. 15.

3. Testimony. Job 1. 19. This is the record of John.

To record]

To make a memorial, Exod. 20. 24. To bear witness, Isa. 8. 2.

Recorder]

Remembrancer, or Writer of Chronicles, 2 Sam. 8. 16. marg.

Recover]

1. To gather in, 2 King. 5. 3. marg.

2. To take away, Hos. 2. 9. marg.

3. To awake, 2 Tim. 2. 26. marg.

4. To go up, Jer. 8. 22. marg.

5. To get again. 1 Sam. 30. 8, 18, 19.

6. To regain, 2 Chr. 13. 20.

7. To renew, Psal. 39. 13.

8. To get, buy, purchase, Isa. 11. 11.

9. To be healed, or cured, 2 King. 1. 2.

Recount]

To take a view of, show, rehearse, or tell by name, Neh. 2. 5.

Red]

;;A sign of the choleric, cruel bloody disposition found in Esau himself, and his posterity, Gen. 27. 40, 41. Obadiah 1. 10. Ezek. 25. 12. So the cruel persecuting Dragon was of a red color, Revelations 12. 3.

Red, or porphyry, Est. 1. 6. marg.

Red Sea]

Exod. 10. 19. In the Hebrew it is the 〈◊〉 of bulrushes, (or weedy, Jer. 49. 21. marg.) The Greek and Latin use to render it the red Sea; so called (as some think) because the water is red; some, because it seemeth red, by reason of the red sand, or gravel; or, from red mountains near unto it; but it is rather thought by the most judicious, that it is so called from a King who had his Dominion near unto it, whose name was 〈◊〉 ( Erythros in Greek signifying red ) which may be Edom, that is, Esau the red Son of Isaac. Annot.

Hereof see also the Hist. of the world, lib. 2. c. 3. sect. 8. p. 260.

Red horse]

;;Cruel and bloody wars for contempt of the Gospel. Revel. 6. 4. Another horse that was red.

Reddish]

Lev. 13. 19. That hath any red color, little or much, mingled with it. Ainsworth.

To redeem]

;;To buy again something which he had once sold, by giving back the price unto him that bought it, Lev. 27. 20. & 25. 4. Also, to give the true valuation of a thing, Exod. 13. 13, 15. Lev. 27.

;;2. To pull out of Captivity with a strong hand and without any ransom, such as are violently held prisoners by their enemies. Thus God redeemed Israel out of Egypt, Deut. 32. 6. Is not he thy Father, and thy Redeemer?

;;3. To free the elect from the tyranny of Satan, by a price and ransom given and paid to God's judgment. Luk. 1. 68. Blessed be the Lord God, because he hath redeemed his people. Tit. 2. 14. Thus is Christ our Redeemer.

;;4. To deliver someone out of an outward trouble and danger. Psal. 25. 22. Redeem Israel out of all his troubles.

;;5. To recover by diligence something lost by our own sloth. Eph. 5. 16. Redeem the time. It is a metaphor or speech borrowed from worldly Merchants, who diligently observe their occasions and seasons, buying their commodities whilst the Mart and Market holdeth, preferring a little gain before great delights and delicacies so godly Christians (like wise Merchants) do prefer a little increase in godliness, before all worldly profits and pleasures. Contrary to this Redeeming of the time it is to let time and opportunities slip and slide away, either without doing anything (like 〈◊〉 ) or not doing our own things but the things of other men (like busy bodies.) Whereas provident men will not let slip seasons, though it be with some loss. This phrase also signifieth to gain time by wasting it till occasions be past, Dan. 2. 8.

〈◊〉 us]

Rev. 5. 9. It appeareth that those sour living wights, do not represent the Angels, as those, Ezek. 1. 5. but men redeemed by the blood of Christ, Act. 20. 28. 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. 〈◊〉 .

Redeemed from the earth]

Rev. 14. 3. Bought by the blood of Christ, and brought out of Popery, 1 Cor. 6. 20. & 7. 23. 1 Pet. 1. 18. from Antichrist's earthly Church. Chap. 12. 12. Annot.

Redeemer]

;;A deliverer, or one that payeth a ransom to set free such as are bound. Psal. 19. 14. O God my strength and my redeemer.

;;This word [ Redeemer ] is of large use, for one that redeemeth things sold and mortgaged, Lev. 25. but applied to redemption and deliverance from danger, Psal. 69. 19. from violence. Psal. 72. 13. from corruption, Psal. 103. 4. from the enemies hand, Psal. 116. 10. from death Hos. 13. 14. and from all evil, Gen. 48. 16. And in special, a Redeemer is one 〈◊〉 challengeth or 〈◊〉 any person or thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alienated and restoreth it to the first estate by right 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 1 King. 16. 11. Ruth. 3. 9, 12, 13. & 4. 1, 3, &c. Therefore is this title given to God and Christ who is our 〈◊〉 , and allied to us as concerning the 〈◊〉 , Isa. 43. 14. & 44. 6. & 47. 4. 1 Thess. 1. 10. Heb. 2. 14, 15.

;;Note further, that Moses (who by the calling of God redeemed the people from a bodily and temporal thralldom under Pharaoh ) bears the person, and is the figure of Christ who wrought redemption from spiritual and eternal captivity: whereunto it cometh that Moses prayer was always heard whatsoever he prayed, or whatsoever he asked. See Act. 7. 35.

Redemption]

;;The freedom of sinners both from the guilt and power of sin, by forgivnesse and sanctification, as touching the beginning anp first act of our Redemption. Eph. 1. 7. By whom we have Redemption.

;;2. The whole work of a sinners salvation, comprehending all things that belong unto it. Heb. 9. 12. And obtained eternal redemption for us. Our whole redemption, from the first act to the last, is wholly from the mercy of God in Christ, and not at all from ourselves, nor any part of it.

;;3. The last act only of our salvation is the resurrection of our bodies, and in the 〈◊〉 of the last judgment, when being freed from all misery, perfect felicity shall begin, as the full fruit of our redemption: Luk. 21. 28. Lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth near. 1 Cor. 1. 30. He is made to us 〈◊〉 , wisdom, sanctification, and redemption. Our whole redemption, from the first act to the last both for merit and efficacy, 〈◊〉 is wholly from Christ, and not at all from ourselves, no not in any part, or least degree.

;;Or thus:;;

• ;;1. There is a redemption of man from the causes of sin, Gal. 1. 4. This is grace.;;
• ;;2. A redemption from sin itself, Tit. 2. 14. Psal. 130. 8. This is godliness, or righteousness.;;
• ;;3. There is a redemption from enemies and evils, (i.) from misery of all sorts, Luk. 1. 68, 74. bodily and ghostly, earthly, and hellish, temporal and eternal, 1 Cor. 1. 30.;;

;;It's put also for Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 1. 30.;;

There's Redemption,

• 1. Corporal, Psal. 111. 9. & 130. 7.
• 2. Ceremonial, Exod. 13. 13, 15. & 30. 12. Numb. 〈◊〉 . 15, 16.
• 3. Political, of persons, Exod. 21. 8. Lands, and houses, Lev. 25. 24, 31.
• 4. Spiritual, Luk. 1. 68. & 2. 18. Rom. 2. 24. From the guilt, of sin, Rom. 3. 24. Eph. 1. 7. The power of sin, Rom. 6. 6, 7, 11, 18. The punishment, 1 Thess. 1. 10.
• 5. 〈◊〉 , Luk. 21. 28. Eph. 1. 14. & 4. 10. Heb. 9. 12.

Redemption of our bodies]

;;Either deliverance from our body, by death, that our soul may be received into heaven; or rather that perfect consummation of our bliss, when our bodies shall be delivered from the grave at the last day. Rom. 8. 13. Looking for the redemption of our bodies.

;;Scripture speaks of a twofold redemption or deliverance.

;;One whereby the elect of God are freed from bondage of sin and death by the price of Christ's blood paid to the righteous judgment of God: hereof Paul in Eph. 1. 7. Another whereby the same elect are put in full possession of their redemption at the last and great day, when they shall be wholly freed from all remainder of sin and corruption of the grave. The former redemption is past, as touching the actual payment of the ransom, and the imperfect application of it here unto believers; the latter being to come is yet hoped for and when it cometh, it shall be the consummation of the former. Hereof we read in Luk. 21. 28. Rom. 8. 23. Eph. 4. 30.

Redemption of our bodies]

Rom. 8. 23. Deliverance (which is one kind of adoption from servitude and oppressions, the rescuing our outward man out of the afflictions which encompass us at the present (See verse. 18.) and deliverance (from which, it's clear we have not yet attained unto) and also from death itself by the resurrection of the body. Dr. Ham. Par.

Redemption of transgressions]

;;The freedom and deliverance of transgressors from guilt and pain, Heb. 9. 15.

It is not the meaning of the Apostle, that sins committed under the Old Testament were not pardoned before Christ died, but that they were pardoned only by virtue of Christ's death, who was the Lamb stain from the foundation of the world, Rev. 13. 8. Annot.

Rednesse]

Spoken of the eyes coming through drunkenness, Prov. 23. 29.

Redound]

To abound, overflow, 2 Cor. 4. 15.

Reed]

;;A rush or kind of straw, shaken with every puff of wind.

;;2. An inconstant man, wavering with the wind. Mat. 11. 7. A reed shaken with the wind.

;;3. An helper or friend, which doth rather hurt then help such as use him. 2 King. 18. 37. Thou trustest on this 〈◊〉 staff of reed.

;;4. A stalk or rod of reed, Mat. 27. 29, 30.

5. Infirm and weak, Isa. 42. 3. or such as have some good in them, Mat. 12. 20.

Reed bruised]

;;Infirm and weak believers, which Christ did not contemn, but, 〈◊〉 bear withal, and support. Matt. 12. 10. A bruised read he shall not break.

Reed and Rod]

;;An instrument wherewith to mete and measure a thing withal; and because things are not measured but for repairing and building up and not 〈◊〉 them down; therefore the further restoring of the Church, is signified by measuring the Temple with a Reed. Rev. 11. 1. Then was given me a Reed like a Rod, &c. This place hath respect to Ezek. 40. Zech. 1. where the building and restoring of the Church, is signified by measuring.

Reelaiah]

A shepherd to the Lord, or a companión to the Lord himself. One who returned with 〈◊〉 , Ezra 2. 2.

Reel]

To stagger, or be moved exceedingly, Psal. 107. 27. Isa. 24. 20.

〈◊〉 ]

To purge or purify.

Spoken of Gold, 1 Chr. 28. 18. Silver, Ibid. 29. 4. Wine, Isa. 25. 6. The two former are refined by melting one of them; whatsoever drossy matter is mixed with them. The latter by drawing it clear and clean off from the lees, that being the thing wherein its purity consisteth.

Resiner]

One that by melting his oar or metal in the fire, purgeth the gold or silver from the dross. See Prov. 17. 3. Jerem. 9. 7. Applyed unto Christ, Mal. 3. 2, 3.

Reformation]

;;Framing again, or bringing back of persons and things disordered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of course, unto their first 〈◊〉 and state wherein 〈◊〉 were set, either by God's creation, or institution, and ordinance. Psal. 50. 17. Seeing thou 〈◊〉 to be reformed. Heb. 9. 10. 〈◊〉 the time of reformation. This time of reformation (or 〈◊〉 ) is the time when Legal ceremonies and shadows were to cease and fade; it took the beginning upon Christ his first showing himself in the flesh, and had further progress by his death and resurrection: but thorough perfection, when he ascended to heaven, which was the consummation of the Old Testament, and the full initiation of the New.

Reformation]

;;Direction, leading aright, (not by windings and turnings, as under the Law) and directly to Christ the mark and scope of our faith, Heb. 9. 10. Untill the time of Reformation.

That is, of Christ's coming, who should and did resorm the carnal Rites or Ceremonies, and services of the Law by fulfilling them; exhibiting the truth and those spiritual blessings typified and signified by them; 〈◊〉 by instituting a more simple and spiritual worship. This is that which is meant when God promises to create new heavens, and a new earth, Isa. 65. 17. and when St. Paul saith, all things are made new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. Annot.

Greek, the time of correction; that is, the time of Christ's 〈◊〉 , who was the body of all those shadows. Leighs Annot.

Of correction, not as if anything were amiss, simply evil in the Ceremonial Law. A reformation, properly to speak, is of abuses: there was no fault, no abuses in the Law itself, it was a good and holy thing for the time: but it is said to be reformed by Christ, because he did perfect 〈◊〉 which was wanting in the Ceremonial Law: he actually introduced the Justification and Sanctification of the faithful, which the Ceremonial Law could not effect, of and by itself. And it may be termed the time of Reformation, because Christ abolished those old Ceremonies and Sacrifices, and brought better in their room, namely the sacrifice of his own body once offered, which was a thousand 〈◊〉 more effectual for the redemption of mankind then all the Sacrifices of the Law. The Gospel is a time of Reformation; and shall we ourselves remain 〈◊〉 ? Jones.

Reformed]

Lev. 26. 23. that is, chastised, nurtured, restrained.

〈◊〉 ]

1. To withhold, Gen. 45. 1.

2. To bridle, Est. 5. 10. Prov. 10. 19.

3. To keep back, Psal. 119. 101.

4. To forbear, or be far from, Eccl. 3. 5. 〈◊〉 .

To 〈◊〉 ]

;;To give rest, or make fresh again, after some bodily or spiritual decay and weariness. Psal. 60. 9. Thou didst refresh thy land when it was weary.

2. To breath, Job 32. 20. marg.

3. To take rest, Exod. 23. 12.

4. To take care of ones self, Act. 27. 3.

5. (By meat and drink) to strengthen ones self, 1 King. 13. 7.

Refreshing]

;;That most comfortable rest and repose which the elect shall have at their resurrection forever, after all their labor and miseries of this life. Act. 3. 19. 〈◊〉 the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

Refreshing]

Times of refreshing shall come, Act. 3. 19. It is a figurative manner of speaking, taken from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 themselves in the cool shades; to represent eternal rest after the labors and travels of this life. See Luk. 16. 25. Rev. 7. 15, 16. & 14. 13. Or he 〈◊〉 here at that which Paul writeth, Rom. 11. 23, 26. the final calling of the Jews by the Gospel preached; to which those words which before were preached unto you, verse. 20. many also relate. Annot.

Refuge]

;;A place to fly unto for succor and defense in dangers; or an high Tower, or fort to resist the enemy, Jcr. 48. 1. wherein men be protected, and escape the enemy, Deut. 2. 36.

;;2. The defense and protection of God, who is our best refuge. Psal. 59. 16. Thou art my refuge in the time of trouble. Psal. 32. 7.

3. An high place. Psal. 9. 9. marg.

There were Cities of refuge which God allowed, whither they were to fly, which casually or by chance killed any, Deut. 4. 41, 43. Josh. 20. 7. where being guiltless, in respect of their intention, they were in safety. The ways leading hereunto were made fit and prepared, all stumbling blocks and obstacles being removed out of them that nothing might hinder him that fled thither. At the partitions of them they set up in writing, Resuge, Refuge, that the manslayer might know and turn thitherward. See Goodwin' s Moses and Aaron, p. 95. 96.

Refuge]

Heb. 6. 18. Who have fled for resuge to lay hold of the hope set before us, that is, who have in all our doubts and distresses, fled to him as 〈◊〉 sure stay and refuge; laying hold upon that glory and happiness which is set before us, by the hand of a lively and steadfast hope, and confident expectation thereof. Hall.

The Greek word rendered to lay hold, doth not signify to hold 〈◊〉 away, but so to 〈◊〉 and embrace a thing, that thou suffer it not to be taken from thee. Leighs Annor.

〈◊〉 ]

Corrupt, lean, in a languishing pining condition, 1 Sam. 15. 9. Such base drossy stuff as cometh away from metal and oar, in the melting and trying of it, Lam. 3. 45. Sweepings, trash, of no value or reputation, Amos 8. 6.

To refuse]

Ii's in effect the same with disallow, 〈◊〉 , cast-away, reject, set at naught, Exod. 4. 23. Prov. 8. 33. Jer. 8. 5. Hos. 11. 5. Zech. 7. 11. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is translated in Act. 7. 35. & Heb. 11. 24. refuse, but in 〈◊〉 . 10. 33. deny. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Act. 25. 11. & 1 Tim. 4. 7. & Heb. 12. 25. translated refuse, rendered in Luk. 14. 18, 19. to have excused, in 2 Tim. 2. 23. to avoid, in Tit. 3. 10. to reject, The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , rendered refused, in 1 Tim. 〈◊〉 . 4. imports a casting or hurling away with dislike.

Refuse]

Heb. 12. 25. See that ye resuse not him that speaketh. See that ye refuse not Christ, which speaketh unto you in his heavenly Gospel. Hall.

See that ye shift not him off that speaketh. Leighs Annot.

Look to it, that ye despise him not; the danger is great if ye do. Christ is despised by some openly, by refusing to hear him at all, or hearing contemptuously; by others secretly, by careless and negligent hearers. Jones.

Regard]

1. To set ones heart unto, Exod. 9. 21 marg.

3. To lay to heart, 1 Sam. 25. 25. marg.

3. To attend, or attention, 1 King. 18. 29. marg.

4. To delight in, Isa. 13. 17.

5. To consider, Isa. 18. 4. marg.

6. To observe, Rom. 14. 6. marg.

To regard no God]

;;To be impious, without 〈◊〉 of any God, true or false: and inhumane also, without equity or honesty, Dan. 11. 36, 37. These two verses contain a plain and full description (not of Antichrist, except in a fingure and type, but) of 〈◊〉 Epiphanes, King of Syria, a monster among men, and most 〈◊〉 godless person, the great and grand enemy of God's worship, and the Jews his people: a type of the man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, that singular Antichrist, who magnifieth himself above all that is called God, 2 Thess. 2.

Regard]

In regard of the oath of God, Eccl. 8. 2. Because of, in respect of.

And to him they had regard, Act. 8. 11. Attended, applied their mind or heart unto, were wholly addicted, gave ear unto, obeyed, did so observe that they placed their hope and confidence in him, became his followers. See Leigh Crit. Sac. in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 .

Regarded]

Heb. 8. 9. And I regarded them not saith the Lord, or, loathed (Greek, I did not care for them. Leighs Annot.) In the Prophet (Jer. 31. 32.) it is, should I have continued a husband unto them? Annot.

They have played the harlot, and broken the Covenant on their part, and shall I stand to the Covenant, shall I be as an husband to them, when as they are no wife to me? Nay, I will set them as light as they do me. I regard them not, 〈◊〉 off the care of them. He was even with them; they cast off him, and he cast off them. Jones.

Regem]

Stoning, stoned, or purple. The Son of 〈◊〉 , 1 Chr. 2. 47.

Regem- 〈◊〉 ]

〈◊〉 the King, a Counselor of the King; or, the purple of the Counselor. One sent unto the House of God to pray before the Lord, Zech. 7. 2.

Regeneration]

;;New-birth, after we be once born naturally, to be born again spiritually. Tit. 3. 5. By the laver of regeneration, or by the washing of new-birth.

;;2. The day and time of the last judgment, when our whole Nature, being perfectly restored, both body and soul, shall enjoy the heavenly inheritance. Mat. 19. 28. You which have followed me, shall in the regeneration sit upon thrones, &c.

;;Regeneration is commonly put and used by Divines, for Sanctification and Renovation; and then it imports and signifies as much as the reformation of a Man, which consists in the mortification of sin, and newness of life. Whereas if we speak exactly, and as the thing is, this renewing of our nature is but an effect and fruit of our regeneration, which properly is our incorporation and engraffing into Jesus Christ by faith, whereby we have our spiritual being of Children in the Kingdom of grace, as by 〈◊〉 generation we have natural being in the Kingdom of this world. See Joh. 1. 12, 13, 14. Regeneration may therefore thus be defined.

;;It is a work or act of God's wonderful power, begetting the elect again to himself, by the Ministry of the Word, through the Spirit, that of the children of wrath (by the desert of sin) they might be made by grace, (through faith in Christ) the Sons and Daughters of God. Jam. 1. 18. Of his own will begat he us by the Word of truth. Tit. 3. 4, 5, 6. Therefore, the confounding of Regeneration with Sanctification, I take to be an oversight: but I judge it a gross error to think ourselves to have any stroke in our new birth, so much as to assent to it; till of unwilling we be made willing.

Regeneration]

Mat. 19. 28. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifies properly a new or second state. In sacred Writers it's used agreeably for the resurrection, whether that of the future being of body and soul, or that which Christ is pleased to make preparative to it, the spiritual 〈◊〉 , expressed by that phrase, Tit. 3. 5. The change and renovation of the soul and affections in this life, and as a token, and sign of that work of Christ's, it is used for baptism, that being 〈◊〉 of water, and the holy Ghost, Joh. 3. Farther yet, and by the same analogy it may signify that second or new state, that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , in Isaiah, that age to come, i. e. the state of the Church under Christ, or his spiritual Kingdom, beginning at the resurrection of Christ; and this either in respect of the beginning of it, Christ's resurrection, which is fitly styled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the new birth of Christ; or else in regard that all other things ( i. e. the general disposal of all things in the Church ) are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. The Gentiles received into the Church, the Jewish Priesthood and ceremonies abolished, &c. Dr. Ham. Annot. d.

To be 〈◊〉 ]

;;To be born again by the Spirit, that we may be the children of God. Joh. 3. 3. Unless a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

One whom the Lord hath washed, Isa. 4. 4. whom he hath formed for himself, Isa. 43. 21. in whom he hath put a new Spirit, Ezr. 11. 19. bestowed on him a pure language, Zeph. 3. 9. purified and purged him as gold and silver, Mal. 3. 3. who is pure in heart, Mat. 5. 8. born of God, Joh. 1. 13. clean through the Word, Joh. 15. 3. led by the Spirit, Rom. 8. 14. transformed by the renewing of his mind, Rom. 12. 2. A new 〈◊〉 , 1 Cor. 5. 7. A new creature, 2 Cor. 5. 17. One that is Christ's, Gal. 5. 24. light la the Lord, Eph. 5. 8. risen with Christ, Col. 2. 12. a new born babe, 1 Pet. 2. 2.

Region]

A Country or Province, Act. 13. 49. & 16. 6. The state of dark ignorance, called, The Region and shadow of death, Mat. 4. 16.

Regions]

;;Fields, or Corn in the field properly: but by a Metaphor, the people which being docible and ready to learn the Gospel of Christ, are therefore said to be white unto the harvest, Joh. 4. 35.

Register]

A public record, wherein the genealogy of the Priests was set down, Ezr. 2. 62. Nehem. 7. 5, 64.

Rehabiah]

The breadth, or street of the Lord. The Son Eliezer, 1 Chr. 23. 17.

Rehearse]

To declare, publish, tell, make known, Judge. 5. 11. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , in Act. 11. 4. translated rehearse, signifieth, to conduct, and direct, and lead a man as it were by the hand to the finding out of something that was hid before. In 1 Joh. 1. 18. it's rendered, declare. So in Act. 10. 8. & 15. 12, 14. & 21. 19.

Rehob]

〈◊〉 , a dilating, or a street. A City, Josh. 21. 31. A King of Zobah, 2 Sam. 8. 3. A Levite that sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 11.

Rehoboam]

Dilating the people, the breadth of the people; a savor, or savouring with the people. The Son of 〈◊〉 , 1 King. 11. 43.

Rehoboth]

Breadth, roomth, largeness, or streets. A City, Gen. 10 11. A Well, Gen. 26. 22.

Rehum]

Pitiful, pitied, godly 〈◊〉 , or after the Syrian, a friend. One that returned with Zerubbabel, Ezr. 2. 2. Artaxerxes his Chancellor, Ezr. 4. 8. The Son of 〈◊〉 , Nehem. 3. 17. One that sealed the Covenant, Nehem. 10. 25.

〈◊〉 ]

A companion, a shepherd, evil; or, my breaking asunder. One that did not conspire with Adonijah, 1 King. 1. 8.

Reject]

To forsake, Jer. 7. 29. To loath, 〈◊〉 . 14. 19. To frustrate, Mar. 7. 9. marg. To disallow, despise, disobey, cast from, put away, &c.

Rejected]

Heb. 6. 8. But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected. As the earth painfully tilled, and plentifully watered with rain from heaven, is good for nothing but to be burnt, if instead of good fruit, it bringeth forth thorns and thistles: so these who have been plentifully watered with many sweet showers of the Word of God, and enriched with divers excellent graces, are good for nothing but to burn in hell fire for evermore. See Isa. 55. 10, 11. Annot.

Heb. 12. 17. He was rejected, viz. by his Father, Gen. 27. 35, 37, 40. he obtained 〈◊〉 that which he would. Leighs Annot.

Reign]

Dominion, Rule, Government, 1 King. 6. v. 1.

And shall reign with him a thousand years, Rev. 20. 6. Whether those thousand years are begun, or to begin, as when they did, or when they are to begin, is controverted, as also, whether Christ shall reign personally, &c. About which see Archer, Alstede, Mede, with many others.

To reign]

;;To command with power, as King; and with readiness to be obeyed. Thus David reigned in Israel, Josiah in Judah, 1 King. 11. 42.

;;2. To command and rule in the soul, without opposition or resistance. Rom. 6. 12. Let not sin reign in your mortal bodies. Sin is said to reign, when the lusts and motions of sin be readily obeyed, as one would obey the Law and command of a King. Thus sin reigneth.

;; Death is said to reign, because it exerciseth over all mankind, that power which through sin it hath gotten. Rom. 5. 14. Death reigned from Adam to Moses. Thus Death reigned.

;; Grace is said to reign, when the righteousness of Christ, being freely imputed, his Spirit reigns in our hearts, and we be governed by the motions and impulsions thereof; so as now sin cannot condemn us to death; not rule over us, as it did before grace, which hath quit the believers from the reign of sin and death. Rom. 5. 21. So might grace reign by righteousness, to eternal life. Thus Grace reigneth.

;;3. To govern and dispose all things in heaven and earth, according to his royal decrees. Thus God reigns over the world. Psal. 93. 1. The Lord reigns, and is clothed in Majesty. The whole Psalm throughout.

;;4. To govern and rule the faithful by the Word and holy Spirit. Thus Christ reigneth over his Church. Psal. 97. 1. The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice.

5. To begin to reign, 1 King. 15. 25. marg. 2 King. 8. 16. marg.

6. To restrain in, 1 Sam. 9. 17. marg.

This is also spoken of Christ's members, sound Christians, Rom. 5. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Rom. 5. 10. & 20. 4, 6. & 22. 5.

To reign upon earth]

;;To be made Lord's and Kings over earth and heaven (as all the faithful are by Christ) through whom they shall reign in heavenly glory at last, and in mean while they are in earth, though they be in warfare, yet they are Kings, having Hell, Sin, Satan, and Death subdued to them; and all things in this world subject and put under. See Col. 2. 8. Psal. 8. Rev. 5. 10. And we shall reign on the earth.

To reign forever]

;;To 〈◊〉 not for a small time, but forever, in those Kingdoms which in these latter days, afore Christ's coming, shall receive the sincere profession of his truth. Rev. 11. 15. Who shall reign for evermore. And Rev. 22. 5. These words teach, that the Kingdom of Saints begun in the earth, shall never be broken off, but continue still in heaven.

To reign over the Kings of the earth]

;;To rule and exercise Dominion and Empire, above and over the chiefest of mortal men, over earthly Kings and Monarchs. Now because Rome only at that time when John wrote, had power over the great Kings of the earth, and the great Antichrist must sit and reign in that City where the Heathen persecuting Emperors were: Hence it clearly 〈◊〉 , that Rome is the gorgeous and filthy Whore spoken of in Rev. 17. 17. The woman which thou sawest, is that great City, which reigneth over the Kings of the earth. Papists are deceived, which interpret this City of the universality of the wicked in the world.

To reign a thousand years]

;;To rule by the Scepter of the word among the Gentiles, for a great continuance of time, according as we have seen it come to pass in these our Regions and Countries. Rev. 20. 6. And shall reign with him a thousand years. These words must not be understood of the eternal bliss wherein the Saints shall reign in heaven, but of the reign of the faithful here in earth, for the space of those thousand years in which Satan should be bound, that the Gospel might flourish. Some Interpreters will have this thousand years of Satan's binding, to begin when Christ first preached the Gospel. Others at the death of Christ: others at the time when the Apostles were dispersed, and gathered Churches to Christ in all parts of the world. But all these conjectures are crossed by chap. 4. 1. which teacheth, that the whole prophesy (from the fourth chap. forward) doth respect the years which followed the age and time of John the Evangelist, which wrote this prophesy: But hereof more in the word [ A thousand years.

Reins]

1. Those in man's body which are so called; or the Kidneys.

2. The whole man, Job 19. 27.

3. The affections of the heart, Psal. 7. 9. & 26. 2. Prov. 23. 16. Jer. 11. 20.

4. The thoughts and desires, Psal. 73. 21. Jerem. 12. 2. and most secret parts within, Psal. 139. 13. Lam. 3. 13.

5. Loins, Isa. 11. 5.

6. Secret inspiration of God, Psal. 16. 7.

Rejoice]

;;To take comfort and be made glad, by the opinion, presence, or hope of some good thing; earthly or heavenly. 1 Thess. 5. 16. Rejoice evermore. Luk. 1. 58. They rejoiced with her. It signifieth open and manifest joy, outward gladness as well as inward, Psal. 3. 10.

2. To sing, Psal. 65. 8. marg.

3. To praise or sing, Deut. 32. 43. marg.

4. To shout for joy, Joh. 8. 21. marg.

5. To glory, 1 Thess. 2. 19.

It's in effect the same with, To delight, be glad, joy, clap hands, go forth with tabarets, take pleasure in, lift up ones self, be joyful, &c.

It's

• 1. Unlawful, as, to rejoice in evil.
• 2. Good and lawful. Spoken of God, of Jesus 〈◊〉 , of the godly and righteous Saints.

To rejoice and be glad]

;;To conceive sweet comfort and gladness for the access of the Jews (so long divorced) unto the body of the Church, an for the near approach of Christ to judgment, when he will take his Spouse (consisting of believing Gentiles and Jews ) into a most ear society in heaven. Rev. 19. 7. Let us rejoice.

Let us prepare for feasts and triumphs against the marriage of the Lamb. Annot.

To rejoice in Christ]

;;To rest wholly in him and his sufferings, with full comfort and contentment of mind, Gal. 6. 14. Phil. 4. 4. Rejoice in the Lord. Whereas not godly alone, but hypocrites and ungodly rejoice in Christ preached, as Mat. 13. 20. Mar. 6. 20. Herod heard John gladly. There is a fivefold difference.

• ;;1. In the antecedent: the godly they mourn for sin before they find joy in Christ, Isa. 61. 2. Mat. 3. 4. & 11. 28.
• ;;2. In the matter, which is the Lord Christ, and peace with God through him, Rom. 5. 1, 11. Phil. 4. 4. Thus the Samaritans, thus the Eunuch rejoiced, Act. 8.
• ;;3. In the measure, which is greater then ever they or other worldlings took in worldly things. For it is unspeakable and glorious, 1 Pet. 18. Such as passeth understanding, Eph. 3. 9. Fulness of joy, Joh. 15. Full joy, 1 Joh. 3. 4, 5.
• ;;4. In the concomitants, righteousness, peace, love, and a good conscience, Rom. 14. 17. 2 Cor. 1. 12.
• ;;5. In the continuance, for it abideth ever; the world cannot take it away from the godly, who keep their joy in persecution, poverty, &c. Rom. 5. 3. Act. 5. 41. 1 Pet. 4. 13. Heb. 10. 34.

To rejoice the heart]

;;To make the soul merry and cheerful in prosperity and adversity, Psal. 19. 8.

To rejoice in himself]

;;To find matter (not espying other men's faults, but) in his own graces and holiness, of being glad and glorying; not before God (as if he had goodness of his own without God) but before men, to the praise of God the author of his graces, and to the example of others. Gal. 6. 4. He shall have rejoicing in himself alone. This is far from the fleshly and corrupt brags of proud Justiciaries, Pharisees, Pelagians, and Papists, which ascribe their faith and conversion to God, in whole or in part, to the natural power of Free-will, or justification to the merit of works. All such glorying and boasting is carnal and devilish: also too highly to think of ourselves, and to despise others.

To rejoice]

;;To be made spiritually glad by the sight of heavenly treasures, Cant. 1. 3. We will rejoice and 〈◊〉 glad in thee. See Glad.

To rejoice over them]

;;To make common mirth and joy among themselves, 〈◊〉 the true Prophets of God being 〈◊〉 (which were wont to vex and trouble the members of the false Church, with their wholesome interpretations of Scriptures, and sound reproof of errors and vices) the wicked Antichristian crew might now make merry, being eased of that yoke, and depending only upon the Popes pleasure for sense of Scripture. Rev. 11. 10. And they that dwell on the earth shall rejoice over them, and 〈◊〉 glad.

Rejoicing]

Heb. 3. 6. And the rejoicing of the hope 〈◊〉 unto the end; that is, gloryin in those things for which we hope, Col. 1. 5. 1 Thess. 5. 8. Tit. 1. 2. or, our hope, which makes us to rejoice, Rom. 5. 2. Annot.

The doctrine of the Gospel whereby these are dispensed and confirmed. Leighs Annot.

Rekem]

Void, vain, or divers pictures. A king of Midian, Numb. 31. 8. A City, Josh. 18. 27. The Son of Hebron, 1 Chr. 2. 43.

Release]

A remission, or intermission, called in Hebrew Shemittah, in Greek Aphesis, that is, forgiveness, or remission; the word which the New Testament useth for forgiveness of sins, Mar. 1. 4. Mat. 26. 28. Whereof this release of debts was a shadow. Ainsworth on Deut. 15. 1.

In Est. 2. 18. it signifieth rest, marg.

To release]

To forgive, remit, acquit, Deut. 15. 2. To forgive, pardon, discharge, absolve, dismiss, let loose, Mat. 27. 15. Mar. 15. 9, 11.

〈◊〉 ]

To repose or place 〈◊〉 in one, 2 Chr. 13. 18. & 16. 7, 8.

Belief]

Act. 11. 29. that is, Service, Rom. 15. 31. Ministry, 1 Cor. 16. 15. Ministring, 2 Cor. 9. 1. Ministration, Ib. 13. (in all those places is the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ) namely a Collection for the help of the poor Saints.

〈◊〉 ]

1. To strengthen, Lev. 25. 35. marg. or, To take hold on him, and so confirm his weak hands; that is, the Greek translateth, help him. Ainsworth.

2. To set upright, or make to continue sure, Psalm. 146. 9.

3. To righten, or do right, Isa. 1. 17. marg.

4. To make come (or fetch it) again, namely the soul when it is fainting, Lam. 1. 11. marg.

5. To aid, help, or succor fully and plentifully (for so 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifieth, 1 Tim. 5. 10, 16.

Religion]

;;Godliness even that inward piety of the heart, whereby God is truly acknowledged and feared, witnessed by the fruits of charity to men-ward. Jam. 1. 27. Pure Religion, and undefiled is this.

;;2. The outward lawful worship and service of God, prescribed in his Word, and professed by men. Jam. 1. 26. That man's religion is vain.

;;3. The doctrine which teacheth Religion, Act. 25. 19.

;;4. The whole Jewish external worship of God, as it was corrupted by the tradition of the Pharisees. Act. 26. 5. I lived a Pharisee, after the perfect Sect of Religion.

;;5. Superstition. Col. 2. 18. By worshiping of Angels. Vers. 23. In voluntary Religion.

Religious]

;;A worshiper of God outwardly. Jam. 1. 26. If any man among you seem religious.

;;2. A true worshiper of God, or a godly person. Act. 10. 5. A religious or devout man, one that feareth God.

;;3. A person devoted to Religion, and studious to know better the way of God's worship. Act. 2. 5. There were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, Religious men.

;;4. Superstitious and hypocritical persons, which would seem to be lovers of Religion, and be not. Act. 13. 50. They stirred up certain religious or devout women against Paul.

〈◊〉 ]

To stand, 2 King. 13. 6. marg. To watch, Job 21. 32. marg. It's in effect the same with, To stay, tarry, abide, continue, rest, &c.

Things which remain]

;;That little portion of graces which was left in the Pastor of Sardis, and in his stock. Rev. 3. 2. Strengthen the things which remain.

Those graces which are not yet quite dead in thee. Or, the rest; to wit, of thy flock, which are in a languishing condition. Annot.

Remainder]

That which remaineth, or the surplusage, Exod. 21. 34. Lev. 6. 16. One alive, 2 Sam. 14. 7.

Remaining]

;;A portion of time which is behind, how little soever. 1 Pet. 4. 2. That time which remaineth.

;;2. Constant, continuing and abiding forever. Joh. 16. 15. And that your fruit remain.

Remaliah]

The exaltation or greatness of the Lord; or east away from the Lord. The Father of Pekah, 2 King. 15. 25, 27.

Remedy]

Healing, 2 Chr. 36. 16. marg. Recovery, Prov. 6. 15.

To remember, as it is referred to God ]

;;To care for one, to deliver, succor, and save him: God remembered Abraham, or thought upon him, Gen. 19. 29. Also in Luk. 23. 41. Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom. Heb. 13. 4. And in all places of the Psalms, where the Prophet prayeth to be remembered, it hath this meaning, to be blessed, cared for, helped and comforted. If we speak properly, there falls into God no forgetfulness, but as men use to help such as they remember and think upon; so the helps, blessings, and comforts, which God doth afford to his people, shows and makes it known that he remembers them. 1 Sam. 1. 19, 20. And the Lord remembered Hannah.

;; Note. God is said to remember Noah, Gen. 8. 1. not that God can forget, but that he declared his divine goodness and power; whereby Noah might know that he was not forgot.

;;2. To punish or correct sin. Psal. 25. 7. Remember not the sins of my youth; that is, remember them not to punish me for them. Jer. 31. 34. I will not remember your iniquities.

;;3. To call to mind and think upon with purpose to punish. Heb. 10. 17.

;;3. Graciously to accept; and favourably to fulfil. Psal. 20. 3. Let him 〈◊〉 all thy burnt offerings.

To remember]

;;Either to call to mind something past, or to keep in mind something for the time to come. Exod. 20. 8. Remember thou keep holy the Sahbath. Matth. 26. 75. Then Peter remembered the words of the Lord.

;;2. To make mention with liking, to praise, commend, and celebrate a thing. Psal. 105. 5. Remember the wondrous things that he hath done. Ps. 6. 5. In death there is none remembers thee. Isa. 26. 8. Eccl. 12. 1. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth; that is, worship and praise him, Eccl. 9. 15.

;;3. To trust or put confidence in another. Psal. 20. 7. Some trust in horses, but we remember thee, O Lord. In this sense we are commanded to eat the Lord's Supper, in remembrance of his death and passion: For we are warned thereby, and stirred up, both to call to mind his sufferings, and trust in them for salvation, 1 Cor. 11. 25.

4. To think or muse upon, Psal. 63. 9. or consider, Mat. 16. 9. Act. 20. 3. 1 〈◊〉 . 2. 9.

5. To keep in mind, Luk. 17. 32. Joh. 15. 20. or, be mindful of, Gal. 2. 10.

6. To call to an account, 3 Joh. v. 10.

7. To esteem, or make an account of, Eccl. 9. 15.

Remember from whence thou art fallen, &c. Rev. 2. 5. Three things required of a penitent sinner: A serious consideration of the heinousness of his sin; hearty remorse for it; and a renewed course of life. Annot.

;;To call to mind something done and past, to profit by it, by patience and thankfulness, Heb. 10. 32.

Remembrance]

;;A calling to mind, or keeping in mind. This is the proper signification.

;;2. Memory, good name, and report. Eccl. 9. 5. Their remembrance is forgotten. Exod. 17. 14.

;;3. Having in mind, with faith and love. 1 Cor. 11. 25. Do this in remembrance of me: Remembering the mercy and benefit which by my death is given to you: this is spoken of a thankful remembrance.

4. The memorial, Psal. 97. 12. marg.

5. Mention, Phil. 1. 3. marg.

Your remembrances]

Job 13. 12. What glorious or excellent things soever may be recorded, or reported of you; as your state, wealth, might, name, life. D. Annot.

To come in remembrance before God]

;;To either execute some promised mercy, or some decreed and threatened judgment, as here. For as God seemeth forgetful whilst he defers the punishment of wicked men, so his taking revenge (as here he threatened to do upon Constantinople the Turkish Babylon ) is called his remembrance. Rev. 16. 19. And that great Babylon came in remambrance afore God. Also ch. 18. 5. And God hath remembered her iniquities.

He shown by destroying her utterly, that he remembered, all her wickedness. So good works are remembered, when rewarded, Act. 10. 4, 31. Annot.

Remeth]

Highly, or cast away. A City, Josh. 19. 21.

Remission]

Rom. 3. 25. or passing over, marg.

Remission]

Heb. 9. 22. And without shedding of blood is no remission. If Christ's blood had not been shed for us we could never have had remission of sins. Then how are we beholding to the Lord Jesus; And as by Christ alone we have the forgivnesse of our sins, which all the Sacrifices in the Law could not purchase, nor anything that we can do under the Gospel: So let the love of Christ in dying for our sins, cause us to die to sin daily more and more: and as he in wonderful love offered up himself as a sacrifice for the putting away of our sins; so let us offer up ourselves, our souls and bodies, as a holy, living, and acceptable Sacrifice to him all the days of our lives; that the power of Christ's passion appearing in us in this world, we may reign with him in the Word to come. Jones.

Remission of sins]

;;Forgivnesse of sins, when both the guilt and punishment are freely pardoned, for Christ alone, to such as believe in him. Act. 10. 43. All that believe in him, shall receive remission of their sins. These are our spiritual debts, which being wholly pardoned by Christ only, what place is there for Popish satisfaction?

;;2. All the 〈◊〉 and benefits of Christ, by a Syneedoche of a part for the whole. Mat. 26. 28. Which is shed for many for the remission of 〈◊〉 . Under this one benefit is comprehended the whole mass of his merits.

;;Remission of sins is 〈◊〉 in Scripture placed after repentance, as Luk. 24. 47. Act. 3. 19. & 26. 18. because it followeth not in nature but in our sense. For we first feel in us a contrite heart, afflicted with grief for the offense of God and then are erected and comforted with the sense of God's 〈◊〉 pardon by Christ. Secondly because repentance must be taught before remission of sins, which men 〈◊〉 not for, nor eagerly desire it till their hearts be penitent and wounded with sense of sin, Act. 2. 37. And this is the reason also why repentance is sometime mentioned before faith (the root and fountain of repentance) namely, for that the preaching of the Law goeth before to humble sinners; and prepare them to the desire of grace and to repentance, Mar. 1. 15.

To remit, or forgive]

;;To forgive, or not to require the payment or debt of sin, at our hand. Joh. 20. 23. They are remitted. Thus God alone remitteth authoritatively, by his own right: and thus no creature remitteth.

;;2. To declare and pronounce sin to be forgiven to such as show their faith by true repentance. Joh. 20. 23. Whose sins ye remit. Thus Ministers are said to remit declaratively as witnesses only.

;;3. To put wrong done us out of our remembrance. Mat. 18. 21. And I shall forgive or remit him. Thus one man forgives another.

;;4. To receive an excommunicate person into the Church upon repentance. 2 Cor. 2. 7. Ye ought rather to forgive him. & verse. 10. Thus the Church forgives scandalous livers. See Forgivnesse.

Remmon]

A Pomegranate apple, or high. A City, Josh. 19. 7.

Remmon-methoar]

A Pomegranate apple, or high, which is drawn. A place, Josh. 19. 13. marg.

Remnant]

;;Certain persons reserved out of a great number or mass of people. Rom. 9. 17. Though Israel were as the sand of the Sea, yet but a remnant shall be saved. Isa. 10. 20, 21. As a remnant of cholth left of an whole web or 〈◊〉 .

The escaping that remaineth, 2 King. 19. 30. marg.

2. Excellency, Job. 22. 20. marg.

Remnant]

The remainder is ordinarily (in a Stewards account) a very contemptible low sum; and so is it that the Prophets call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , a remnant, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , that which remains of a far greater sum, and so is fit to denote that small number of the Jews which received the faith of Christ (at the preaching of the Gospel then unto them) in proportion to, and comparison with the far greater number that stood out against it. Dr. Ham. on Rom. 9. 24. Annot. k.

Remnant]

;;So many men as were left alive, and not 〈◊〉 by the former calamities mentioned in verse. 16, 17, 18, 19. Rev. 9. 20. And the remnant of men. Also Rev. 19. 21. The remnant was slain with the sword.

Remnant of herseed]

;;The 〈◊〉 of the faithful which being scattered abroad by the iniquity of the time, cannot publicly assemble to worship God, but privately (as they can) do exercise piety. Rev. 12. 17. And made war with the remnant of her seed.

To remove]

;;To put a thing out of his due place. Prov. 23. 10. Remove not the ancient bounds.

;;2. To destroy and to confound. Psal. 15. 5. He that doth these things shall never be removed.

Cloth to be removed]

;;That man's own best righteousness deserveth to be removed out of the sight of God, as a contagious or filthy cloth deserveth to be removed from the sight of men. Isa. 64. 6. As a cloth of removing. So Tremellius readeth.

Remphan]

Act. 7. 43. That which the Prophet Amos calleth Chiun, Amos 5. 26. Stephen here nameth Remphan. Most probable it was Moloch, or Saturn; now Saturn among the Egyptians (where the 70 translated) was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 . Annot.

Mr. Goodwin in his Moses and Aaron, p. 184. understandeth Hercules, (or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Rephaim in the Holy tongue signifieth Giants ) by which he understandeth the Planet of the Sun, saying, that there are Etymologists which derive Hercules his name from the Hebrew, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Heircol, Illuminating or enlightening all things; and that the Greek Etymology holds correspondence, with the Hebrew ( Heracles, what is it else but 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , that is, the 〈◊〉 of the air? and what other glory is there of the air, but the illumination of the Sun?) and both signify universal light that which floweth from the Sun as water from a fountain. And that Pophyrie 〈◊〉 Hercules his twelve labors, so often mentioned by the Poets, to be nothing else but the twelve signs of the Zodiac, through which the Sun passeth yearly.

〈◊〉 Siculus mentions Remphis Son of Cephna as King of Egypt, about the time that Jacob went down thither, and saith of him, that he gathered an infinite mass of wealth, and left behind him at his death 4000000 〈◊〉 , which makes it probable that he was the Prince which in the famine by Joseph' s advice got all the wealth of Egypt, and the neighbor Countries. This person was afterward worshipped as a God, for having preserved Egypt, and accordingly placed among the stars and so the image of one of the planes here called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , a star, set to signify him. This star it seems was Saturn, for so an old Egyptian Alphabet which 〈◊〉 down the names of the planets for Saturn hath 〈◊〉 , 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 . Of this person, that tradition in Soudas, is very intelligible, where of Apis, the Egyptian god, it's said, that he was a certain rich man, to whom at his death they erected a Temple, in which an Ox wasfed, as being the Hieroglyphic of an 〈◊〉 . By which also it appears, that this was that Cals or Bullock worshipped by the Israelites, Saturn being among the Gemiles president of Husbandry, and therefore sometimes worshipped in the shape of that beast, (under the name of Apis ) as being the chief instrument in ploughing of the ground. Dr. Ham. Annot. f.

Rend]

The rending of ones garment was a sign of sorrow, Gen. 37. 34. It was done standing, 2 Sam. 13. 31. and that the forepart thereof, not behind, or in the sides, nor beneath (save the High-priest who did rend beneath) and that on the upper garment only, and thereof an hand breadth. This was used for the death of the Prince, or of the Father of the Synedrion, or of the multitude of the Congregation, as David and the men with him did for Saul, and for Jonathan, and for the people of the Lord, 2 Sam. 1. 11, 12. Also, when they heard the name of God, blasphemed, Isa. 36. 22. For the burning of the book of the Law, Jer. 36. 23, 24. and for the Cities of 〈◊〉 , and for Jerusalem, and for the Sanctuary destroyed, Jer 41. 5. Ainsworth on Lev. 10. 6.

It signifieth,

• 1. To tear, Gen. 37. 33. Psal. 7. 2. Judge. 14. 6.
• 2. To take away by violent means, 1 Sam. 15. 18. 1 King. 11. 11.
• 3. To cleave asunder, 1 King. 13. 4, 5.
• 4. To be broken asunder, Ezek. 30. 16.
• 5. To crack the skin, Jer. 4. 30.
• 6. To shake and pull as it were in pieces, Mar. 9. 26.
• 7. To be divided, Luk. 23. 45.

To render]

;;To give something back where he had it. Psal 116. 12. What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits toward me? that is by way of thankfulness to return unto his praise, all those graces and good blessings which we receive of him, Mat. 22. 21. Rom. 13. 7.

;;2. To require or recompense, or to do one like for like, Psal. 94. 2.

;; Note. There be four sorts of recompenses or retributions.

• ;;1. Of good for good.
• ;;2. Of evil for good.
• ;;3. Of good for evil.
• ;;4. Of evil for evil.

;;The last showeth a wicked man, the second a very wicked and ungracious person. The first an honest man, the third a true Christian induced with the spirit of Charity, Rom, 12. v. last.

Renew]

1. To confirm, ratify, and establish, 1 Sam. 11. 14.

2. To bring one after another, Job. 10. 17.

3. To change, Job 29. 20. marg. & Isa. 40. 31. marg.

4. To make more steadfast, Psal. 51. 10.

5. To repair and cleanse, 2 Chr. 15. 8.

6. To make fresh and lively, Psal. 103. 5.

7. To make new, Psal. 104. 30.

8. To alter into a better condition, Lam. 5. 21.

9. To be strengthened, 2 Cor. 4. 16.

10. To recover, turn again, Heb. 6. 6.

〈◊〉 ]

Heb. 6. 6. To renew them again to repentance. If ever they come to repent, they must be not reduced to that former estate though that be not enough; that is, to have knowledge and light of mind only, it must be in a more powerful vay. Leighs Annot.

〈◊〉 in knowledge, Col. 3. 10. The knowledge of the faithful in this life, even after calling needs daily to be renewed, for sin makes a breach both in the heart and mind. And Satan plants daily temptaions and objects against the doctrine of God, against which the mind needs new store of provision, out of the Word, for 〈◊〉 . And our affections are wonderful apt to lose sense and feeling, and then there is no other way to recover 〈◊〉 , but by renewing con templation. And 〈◊〉 in as much as faith and repen tance must be daily renewed, therefore also must examination of life, and meditation of God's promise and grace, be renewed also. Finally we know but in part and successively; and therefore ought continually to be growing and adding to the measure of the knowledge received. Byfield on Col. 3. 10. p. 67.

Renewing]

;;Th at work of the Spirit, whereby the elect, of the enemies of God, children of his wrath, ungodly and sinners, they are become the Children of God, Citizens with the Saints, heirs and coheirs with Christ being made partakers through faith, of Christ his righteousness and his sufferings, unto perfect reconciliation with God. This is the first work of Grace, and is the same with engraffing into Christ, or regeneration, Joh. 3. 3, 4, 5, 6, &c.

;;2. The restoring of our corrupt Nature to our first image when Satan's image, consisting of ignorance and sin, being defaced and blotted out; instead thereof there is printed in our breasts, God's image, consisting in true righteousness, holiness, and knowledge. Tit. 3. 4, 5. By the renewing of the holy Ghost. Col. 3. 10. Put on the new man which after God is created in knowledge. Eph. 4. 24. This is an effect of the former Renewing, as a second work of Grace yet done at the same time.

;;3. The refreshing and strengthening of that which is somewhat decaying and blemished, by our daily slips, stains, and falls. Psal. 51. 10. Renew a right spirit within me. Rom. 12. 2. Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 2 Cor. 4. 19. The inner man is renewed daily. This third grace is the proceeding of the second work of Grace, until it be fully prefected.

• ;;1. Referred to God: ;;
• • ;; ( i. ) taken Actively for that work of God's Spirit, upon and in man. Effectio sed 〈◊〉 ut effectum. ;;

  ;;This is referred unto God as his mere works, Joh. 15. 4, 5. Act. 16. 14. Rom. 8. 9, 10, 11.;;

• ;;2. As referred to Man: ;;
• • ;; ( i. ) Taken pasively for a grace in Man received of God, and by which he is apt to receive goodness. ut effectum spiritus S. & non tantum effectio. ;;

;;This is referred unto man as his new estate received of God, but now 〈◊〉 and possessed by man's own self. Which is the first degree of man's duty and is but merely passive, or to 〈◊〉 God to work upon us this cure of our corruptions. See Jam. 1. 21. Heb. 13. 22. Act. 9. 6. & 26. 19. Gal. 1. 16. Act. 16. 14.;;

;;The second duty or degree of it, is to be active also, or to use the graces and gifts of God by him offered and given, and by us received, as workers together with God, under God, and for God, 1 Cor. 15. 10.;;

Renewing of the holy Ghost, Tit. 3. 5. It's so called, not that it is not wrought as well by the other persons, being a work without themselves; for the Father reneweth as being the foundation and fountain, not of the Deity alone, but of all divine actions and good things whatsoever; and the Sun reneweth as the Mediator and Meriter of it; but it is here ascribed to the holy Ghost, because he is the immediate and next Applyer of it to the conscience and therefore is said more properly to renew; and this he doth ordinarily work by means. Taylor on 〈◊〉 . 3. 5. p. 650.

Renewing of our mind]

;;The altering and changing from evil to good, of the two principal Faculties of the Soul, Understanding and Will. Rom. 12. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Not only when the inferior parts, but even the principal powers be corrupt with blindness unbelief and sin. For nothing needeth renewing, but what was first corrupt old, and decayed.

;;Also note, that this Renewing, is called sometime the 〈◊〉 of life, from the effects which show themselves in the life, as Rom. 6. 4. Sometime, the newness of Spirit, from the efficient cause, which is the Spirit, as Rom. 7. 6. Sometime the Renewing of the mind, from the place and subject where this renovatian beginneth; as Eph. 4. 23.

Renounce]

To reject, refuse forsake, 2 Cor. 4. 2.

Renown, or Name]

Men of renown, or renowned, are those who are named again, whose names are irerated, who are often mentioned, or much spoken of; as are such persons, who are either notable or notorious for any eminent difference from ordinary men. Annot. on Gen. 6. 4.

Thus Tyrus is termed a renowned City, as being very famous, Ezek. 26. 17. Thus also the Church and Commonwealth of Judah, Ezek 16. 14, 15.

Renowned]

Numb. 1. 16. or the called, that is, Statesmen, such as were men of renown, for age and wisdom and called to consult about matters of State. See Numb. 16. 2. Aynw.

Shall never be renowned, Isa. 14. 20. Hebr. shall not be called forever; that is, it shall not last always, not continue for any long time, but be cut off ere long. Annot.

Rent]

The High priest rent his clothes, Mat. 26. 65. That rending of clothes was an expression of indignation, holy zeal and piety among the Jews, expressed on several occasions, especially of grief in humiliation, and of anger on the hearing of any blasphemous speech, is ordinarily known by all; only the dificulty here is, how this could be fit or proper for the High-priest to do which is made unlawful for the Priests, Lev. 10. 6. & 21. 10. But the answer is easy, That that Prohibition in Leviticus extends only to the not tearing of the 〈◊〉 garments, i. e. of those which are 〈◊〉 only in the Priests office, Ezod. 28. 32. & 39. 23. Dr. Ham. Annot. l.

To rent the heart]

;;To endeavor by Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting, to bring the heart to an unfeigned and deep sorrow and mourning, for the offense of a most gracious God by our grievous sins. Joel. 2. 13. Rent your hearts, &c.

To rent a Kingdom]

;;To take a way and deprive one of his Kingdom, 1 Sam. 15. 28. The Lord hath rent the Kingdom of Israel from thee this day.

A rent]

Isa. 3. 24. Renting of garments for extremity of grief, Jer. 41. 5. or rags; having no whole garment to put on. It comes of a word that signifies to cut down, Isa. 10. 34. or to cut asunder, Isa. 29. 1. Some therefore expound it of their garments, by the enemy cut short in scorn, to the discovery of their shame, as 2 Sam. 10. 4. & Isa. 20. 4. Others render it looseness, dissolution; opposed to girding, and the word it comes from seems so to signify, Job 19. 26. Their rags; such as they shall have shall in a slatternly manner hang loose about those that were so curious in girding and fitting their garments to their bodies before; as it is wont to be with those who either being in a sad and forlorn condition, are wholly regardless of themselves; or whose apparel is so tattered and torn, and by reason thereof so unuseful that they hold is not worthy of any regard, nor would stand them in any stead, were they never so careful to gird it unto them. Annot.

The Original 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , in Mat. 9. 16. translated rent, that is, the tearing properly signifieth a section in a solid body, but by a Metaphor is applied to diversity of opinions, and signifieth both division and dissension, Joh. 7. 43. schism, 1 Cor. 11. 18. marg.

Renring of garments]

;;Some great indignation and heavynesse conceived for some horrible crime done, or supposed to be done or some great and extraordinary calamity and judgment present or imminent. Mat. 26. 62. They rent their clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy, Act. 14. 14. When they heard 〈◊〉 , they rent their clothes. Gen. 37. 34. Jacob rent his clothes, and sorrowed for his 〈◊〉 a long season. 2 King. 22. 19. A sign of sorrow and renting the heart with grief.

To repair]

;;To build up, and raise that. which is fallen down. Amos 9. 11. I will repair or build up the decayed Tabernacle of David.

2. To close, 1 King. 11. 27. marg.

3. To revive, 1 Chr. 11. 8. marg.

4. To renew, 2 Chr 24. 4. marg.

5. To found. 2 Chr. 24. 27. marg.

6. To set up, Ezr. 9. 9. marg.

7. To mend. 2 Chr. 34. 10.

Repairer of the breach, Isa. 58. 12. that is, The maker up of the breach that God had made in the wall or fence of their City and State, for their sins. Annot.

To repent]

;;To be truly touched with godly grief for sins, and to turn unto God to do his will, Rev. 9. 20. And they repented not of the works of their hands. Also Rev. 16. 9. They repented not to give him glory: that is, howsoever they made a show of repentance whilst God scourged them, yet they did not leave their sin, and amend their lives.

To repay]

;;To pay back again, or to pay a man with his own money (as we use to say) Rom. 12. 18. I will repay, saith the Lord. This is to mete sinners in their own measure. To requite, Phil. 19.

Repeat]

To rip up injuries forgotten, or not to be mentioned, Prov. 17. 9.

To repent referred to men ]

;;To be wise after the fact, and to come to ourselves again, 2 Cor. 7. 8. I repent not, though I did repent. Luk. 15. 17. And he came to himself. Mat. 21. 29. Yet afterward he repeated.

;;2. To wish with grief, something which is done, to be undone, in regard of the hurt that comes of it. Mat. 27. 2. Judas repented, &c.

;;3. To change the mind being sorry for sin (as it is sin and the offense of God) with purpose of amendment. Act. 8. 22. Repent that thy wickedness may be done away, & 17. 30. Now he warneth every man everywhere to repent.

;;4. To repair and refresh Grace, being decayed by negligence or security, Rev. 2. 5. Repent and do thy first works.

5. To be sorry, Luk. 17. 34. 2 Cor. 7. 7.

6. To be amended and reformed, Mat. 3. 2. Act. 17. 30. Ezek. 14. 6. Rev. 2. 5.

7. 7. Greatly to humble ones self, Job 42. 6.

This is to circumcise the forskin of the heart, Deut. 10. 16. to lament after God, 1 Sam. 7. 2. to know the plague of a man's own heart, 1 King. 8. 38. to seek God, Job 8. 5. to put sin far away, Job 11. 14. to sow in tears, Psal. 126. 5. to confess and forsake sin, Prov. 28. 13. to wash and be clean, and put away the evil of our doings, Isa. 1. 16. to return unto the Lord, Isa. 55. 7. to be of a contrite and humble spirit, Isa. 57. 15. not to walk anymore after the imagination of our evil heart, Jer. 3. 17. to break up the fallow ground, and circumcise ourselves to the Lord, Jer. 4. 3, 4. to wash our heart from sin, Ib. 14. to be ashamed that we have committed abomination, Jer. 6. 15. to be made clean, Jer. 13. 27. to search and try our ways, and turn again unto the Lord, Lam. 3. 40. to loath ourselves for the evils which we have committed, Ezek. 6. 9. to be ashamed and confounded for our own ways, Ezek. 36. 32. to return to our first Husband, Hos. 2. 7. to prepare ourselves to meet God, Amos 4. 12. to rent our hearts, and not our garments, and turn unto the Lord our God, Joel 2. 13. to consider our ways, Hag. 1. 7. to be pricked in our hearts, Act. 2. 27. to come to ourselves, Luk. 15. 17. to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness, 2 Cor. 7. 1. to arise from the dead, Eph. 5. 14. to cleanse our hands, and purify our hearts, Jam. 4. 8. to be afflicted, and mourn, and weep, Ib. 9. In Act. 17. 30. there's this duty required, to repent; the persons changed herewith, all men; the place where it is charged on them, and ought to be performed by them everywhere; the manner how it's prescribed, by way of commandment; the person commanding it, God; the time, now. Now God commandeth all men everywhere to repent.

;; Referred to God ]

• ;;1. To alter ones purpose and counsel. Thus God is said not to repent. 1 Sam. 15. 29. The eternity of Israel 〈◊〉 repent; for God never altars his purpose.
• ;;2. To undo that which was once done. Thus is God said to repent after the manner of men, who repenting themselves of that was done they do undo, and afterward overthrow their first work. Gen. 6. 6. God repented that he had made man.

He is said to repent, when he doth not what he threateneth, Exod. 32. 12. Jonah 3. 9, 10. Amos 7. 3. or what he promiseth, Jer. 18. 10. Where note, that such his threatenings and promises are conditional, and so upon the non-performance of the condition, alterable.

Repentance]

;;Any change of mind or purpose in any matter whatsoever. Heb. 12. 17. Esau sound no place for repentance; that is, could not move Isaac to change his mind touching the blessing given away to Jacob, Rom. 11. 29. Without repentance; that is, without change and alteration, God still continuing his saving gifts to the elect, even forever.

;;2. A great grief of mind, thorough the sense of God's wrath threatened to sin, without any true hatred of sin. This is a Legal repentance, Mat. 27. 2.

;;3. The whole change of a sinner in mind, will, and actions, from evil to good, at his first conversion. Act. 11. 18. Hath God given the Gentiles repentance to life? This is an Evangelical repentance, and comprehends faith under it, Matth. 3. 8, 11. This repentance is wholly the work of God's grace: for in that we are willing to turn to God, it is because grace of unwilling hath made us willing.

;;4. A reparation of our spiritual decays by a turning from some particular sins, after our first conversion. 2 Cor. 7. 10. Godly sorrow brings forth repentance, not to be repented of. This is the progress of Evangelical, repentance.

;; Repentance is a very sore displeasure which man hath in his heart sor his sins (even because they are the breach of God's holy Laws, and the 〈◊〉 of God his most merciful Father) which engendereth in him a true hatred against sin, and a settled desire to live better in time to come, ordering his life by the Will of God, revealed in his Word.

There are several sorts of repentance.

• 1. A 〈◊〉 repentance, such as that's of most on their deathbed or bed of sickness, which for the most part is unsound.
• 2. A desperate repentance, Such as that of Judas, Cain, Pharaoh, 〈◊〉 , which is not with any true 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 of their sins, but only in regard of the punishment due thereunto.
• 3. A saigned repentance, such as that's of those who outwardly make show of their sorrow for sin, &c. but secretly continue therein.
• 4. A compelled repentance, such as that's of malefactors, who at their deaths being called upon by the company then present to repent, acknowledge their fault, like unto Simon of Cyrene, who against his will bare the Cross of Christ.
• 5. An 〈◊〉 repentance, such as that's of the superstitious, which conceit that by much watching, fasting, going on long pilgrimages, scourging their naked bodies, &c. they shall be acceptable to God, their sins so purged and done away, as if they had never been committed.
• 6. An inconstant repentance, such as that's of those, who notwithstanding their pretending repentance, and abstinence from sin for a time, will not forsake their evil courses, but with the dog return unto their vomit, and with the 〈◊〉 that was washen to their wallowing in the mire.
• 7. An inperfect repentance, such as that's of those which 〈◊〉 are grieved for someone or more sins by them committed, who in the mean time give themselves over to others as bad.
• 8. An Evangelical rapentance, already described. Of all those this only is acceptable being a repentance unto life, repentance not to be repented of.

I am weary with repenting]

Isa. 15. 6. Or, of repenting, as Isa. 1. 14. I am weary of reversing or staying the execution of such dooms and denunciations, as from time to time have been past upon thee for thy wicked courses; and reprieving thee, from the destruction pronounced against thee, upon thy formal reformation and sained repentance. I am now resolved to sorbear, and spare thee no longer. So Gen. 6. 3, 6, 7. Psal. 78. 36 — 38. 56 — 64. Chap. 4. 28. Annot.

My repentings are kindled together]

Hos. 11. 8. or, healed; The sounding of my bowels; the yearning of them. See 1 King. 3. 26. Cant. 5. 4. Isa. 16. 11. Gen. 43. 30. Lam. 1. 20. Annot.

As if one should say, My repentings, or repentnesses, or comfortablenesses, are a burning together. God is said to repent when he withholds, mitigates, or removes the deserved and threatened punishments, and consequently by repentance here may be underslood the compassions and the bowels, which through compassion are warmed, affected, and moved. D. Annot.

Repentance]

;;Penitency or remorse in Isaac, who would not with Esau' s tears be moved to recall his blessing, Heb. 12. 17.

;;2. True conversion or turning of a sinner to God, after a fall, Heb. 6. 6.

Which need no repentance, Luk. 15. 7. The difference of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 change of mind, from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 grief or sorrow for sin, or dislike of what a man hath done, is sufficiently known, and as it hath place in many other passages, so eminently in this. For as he that lives a godly life, may and doth often fall into such sins as deserve his sorrow and displeasure at himself, and so cannot be said not to want that sorrow; so it is certain, that, that man continuing all his life so, without any eminent fall into willful sin, may be said not to need that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , that change which is here spoken of, and is required to bringing home of a lost sheep, a prodigal to his Fathers house. So he that was washed already had no need (saith Christ) 〈◊〉 to wash his feet, but is clean every whit, Joh. 13. 10. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.

No place of repentance, Heb. 12. 16. or way to change his mind, marg.

Repetitions]

Use not vain repetition, Mat. 6. 7. The Original is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , speak not 〈◊〉 things, bal ble not the same things, 〈◊〉 not, be not talkative, speak not much, use not many words. The Syriac signifieth, to 〈◊〉 as water out of a narrow mouthed bottle. It signifieth to inculcate the same things again and again. It is derived of Battus a Poet, an egregious babbler. Leigh Crit. Sac.

〈◊〉 ]

The releasing of the snare. The Son of Beriah, 1 Chr. 7. 25.

Rephael]

The physic or medicine of God. The Son of Shemaiah, 1 Chr. 26. 7.

Rephaiah]

The physic or medicine of the Lord: or the recreating of the Lord. The Son of 〈◊〉 , 1 Chron. 4. 42. The Son of 〈◊〉 , 1 Chr. 7. 2. The Son of Binea, 1 Chr. 9. 43. The Son of Hur, Neh. 3. 9. See 1 Chr. 3. 21.

Rephaim]

Giant, Physician, Preserver; or released. A valley, 2 Sam. 5. 18.

〈◊〉 ]

Giants, Physicians, Preservers; or, released. A people of Moab, Gen. 14. 5. & 15. 20.

Rephidim]

Bending things, litter, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , or the medicine of the hands. A place or mansion, Exod. 17. 1, 8. & 19. 2.

〈◊〉 ]

To fill, Gen. 1. 28. To haunt, and enrich, Isa. 23. 2. To supply with all manner of good and matter of comfort to their fill to the utmost of their desire, Jerem. 31. 25. To increase in fame and riches, Ezek. 26 2.

〈◊〉 ]

To answer again, or dispute, Rom. 9. 20. marg.

Report]

;;Fame, rumour, good or evil, true or false, 1 Sam. 2. 24.

;;2. Hearing or Doctrine heard from the Prophets and Apostles, Isa. 53. 8. Rom. 10. 19.

Evil report]

;;Wicked carriage, which caused evil report of them, Gen. 37. 2. or infamy, their infamous carriage, which caused ill report of them, Exod. 23. 1. Tale, rumour, hearing or hearsay, Prov. 15. 30. Hearing. Isa. 53. 1. Rom. 10, 16. Doctrine or preaching, Act. 7. 3. Testimony, 2 Chr. 9. 7. Word or sayings.

There's a true report, 1 King. 10. 6. 2 Chr. 9. 5. and a false report, Exod. 23. 1. An evil report, Numb. 13. 32. & 14. 37. and a good report, Prov. 15. 30. Act. 10. 22. An honest report, Act. 6. 3. and a report not good, 2 Sam. 2. 24.

Good report]

;;Credit and estimation from good men upon good grounds, Heb. 12. 2.

To report]

To declare, manifest, make openly known, divulg, noise 〈◊〉 , Jer. 20. 10. Mat. 28. 15. 1 Cor. 14. 25.

Reproach]

Sterility in women, Gen. 30. 23.

2. Sin, evil, disgrace Gen. 34. 14.

3. A great dishonor or disgrace, 1 Sam. 11. 2.

4. 〈◊〉 sive contempt, 1 Sam. 25. 29.

5. A scoffed and derision, Neh. 2. 17.

6. Blasphemy, Psal. 44. 16. & 74. 10.

7. Reproof, Psal. 119. 42. marg.

8. A reviling, Isa. 51. 7. Zech. 2. 8.

9. Infamie, 1 Tim. 3. 7.

10. Injury or contumely both in word and deed, and that in a 〈◊〉 and insolent manner, 2 Cor. 12. 10.

11. A rebuke, taunt, railing, scoffing, Rom. 15. 3.

〈◊〉 ]

I have 〈◊〉 away the reproach of Egypt, Josh. 5. 9. i. e. I have freed you from that shame and dishonor which did 〈◊〉 upon you whilst ye were Bond-slaves in the Land of Egypt, by receiving you into covenant with me, acknoledging you for my peculiar people, and admiting you to have this 〈◊〉 , sealed 〈◊〉 you by this seal of Circumcision. Some understand hereby the Egyptians reproaches, which they cast upon them whilst they were in the Wilderness, as though God had not out of his love delivered them out of Egypt, but rather to wear and waste them in the Wilderness, even unto utter ruin, seeing they remained there still, after so many years spent, till they were almost consumed, and were not brought into the Promised land. See Deut. 8. 28. Numb. 14. 16. The which report was now taken away, by their entering into the 〈◊〉 , which was unto them an earnest of all the rest, and now further secured by God's renewing his Covenant with them, concerning their full possession of it, and confirming their faith in full assurance of it, by Circumcision and the Passover, which were as seals added to the pormise. Some understand hereby, the wicked religion of Egypt, with which they were infected and corrupted by living and conversing with them; from which he now delivered them by his covenant with them, and confirming it unto them by his seals, the Sacraments. Others, by this reproach understand the reproach which did lie upon the Egyptians themselves as upon all other Nations, in that being out of covenant with God, and not partakers of the seals of it, they were aliens and strangers from God, in an Heathenish and damnable condition, and were so reputed and had in abomination with the Church & the people of God, Gen. 34. 16. 1 Sam. 17. 26. From which reproach they were now freed by receiving the Sacrament of Circumcision. Others understand, and that very probably, the reproach which the Israelites themselves had contracted in Egypt, when as living among them for above 200 years, they immitated their evil manners, and were tainted with their superstitious and false worship, Exod. 32. 1. neglect ing God's sincere worship and service; and hereby, as also by their late rebellion, had left this reproach upon their children, through the just judgment of God, that they had not the Sacrament of God's covenant, but had their foreskin still upon them all the while they lived in the Wilderness, Numb. 14. 34, 35. From which wicked Nation they were now differenced, in that they did by Circumcision take upon them, and wear God's livery and cognizance. Annot.

See Roll, where this is more briefly set down.

Reproach]

To shame, Ruth 2. 15. marg. To blaspheme and dishonor, 2 King. 19. 4, 16. To cast aspersions upon, Neh. 6. 13. To disgrace, and speak contumeliously of, Job 19. 3. To upbraid, Luk. 6. 22.

Reproaches]

;;Slanderous and disgraceful words, Heb. 10. 33.

Reproachfully]

To ones disgrace, Job 16. 10. 1 Tim. 5. 14.

Reprobate]

;;1. A refused one, or one cast out and rejected: also one, not being found such an one as he ought to be. 1 Cor. 9. 27, Lest I be found a reprobate, or be reproved; that is not such as I should be, by living otherwise then I teach and profess.

;; Reprobation is the most wise purpose of God, whereby he hath before all eternity (for his own Wills sake) constantly decreed without any in justice, not to have 〈◊〉 on those Angels and men whom he hath not loved, but hath passed them over when he did choose others; that by their just condemnation he might declare his wrath towards sin, to the glory of his justice, Rom. 9. 10, 11, 18, 22, 23.

;;In the decree of Reprobation, there be two acts to be considered by us; viz. a purpose of not showing mercy, and of not 〈◊〉 , of not calling, justifying, &c. This is privative, or negative, or absolute reprobation, having no cause inpulsive without God, Eph. 1. 11. Prov. 16. 4. Jer. 6. 30. The second act is a purpose of condemning, or an ordination to pain, even eternal and most just damnation. This is positive, affirmative, or respective reprobation, which respecteth sin original or actual (as the meritorious cause of destruction.) But note further, that this ordination to pain (which is the second act of Reprobation) is either simple, whereby this or that man (as Cain or Judas ) were ordained to pain: or comparative, whereby Cain rather then Abel, and Judas rather then Peter, be ordianed: of this latter the Will of God is the sole cause, but the sovereign cause of both; yet in the former not without relation to sin as a mean of the pain. Note yet further, that what place Christ in whose obedience and suffering we are chosen, (Eph. 1. 4.) hath in the election of saved persons; that place sin hath in the reprobation of the wicked; in which it is no efficient, that is God's will, but a material cause of their condemnation.]

2. Unapproved, or without proof; unsound, not sound or approved Christians, but hypocrites, 2 Cor. 13. 5.

3. Vain, void of judgment to discern, Rom. 1. 28.

4. Alltogether unfashionable, and sitlesse, Tit. 1. 16.

Note: this word in 1 Cor 9. 27. doth not signify reprobate, as the word is opposed to the elect; for Paul was elect, and knew himself so to be, and therefore could not become a reprobate, but reproved, reprovable, or unapproved. So the word is taken, 2 Cor. 13. 7. Heb. 6. 8. for it is opposed to the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which signifieth approved, and therefore not so much to be referred to the person of Paul, as to his Ministry, lest his Ministry should be rejected, and himself be worthy to be reproved. Leigh Crit. Sac.

It's applied to silver, Jer. 6. 30. ( refuse, marg.) to men out of the Church, Rom. 1. 28. to false Teachers creeping into the Church, 2 Tim. 3. 8. to evil livers professing God, Tit. 1. 16.

Reprobate]

The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hath two notions especially, one among the Metalists, the other belonging to the Agones; any metal that will not bear the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or, trial; or, which being tried, betrays itself to be adulterate, is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , reprobate. But the notion that seems most peculiarly to belong to it in the New Testament, is the other, taken from the Agones, whereas he that strives as he ought, and conquers, is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , approved, 2 Tim. 5. 15. & Jam. 1. 12. So he that loses the game and prize, that doth not run or strive, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , according to the Laws of the game, and so overcome, is said to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , to miscarry in the race, and so to lose the reward of it. Thus 1 Cor. 9. 27. it's at the conclusion of an Agonistical discourse of running and cuffing, &c. The close of which is, that the Apostle uses all his most earnest endeavors, lest being a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Preacher, 〈◊〉 , officer in the 〈◊〉 , to propose the laws and rewards of the Agones to 〈◊〉 (which is to proclaim such a man conqueror, such a man to have lost ) he himself should 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 be rejected, found uncapable of reward by all aspired to, i. e. fail of that crown of eternal life. So 2 Tim. 3. 8. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , in the matter of faith, such as were found unworthy of reward by God, proposed to Christians. So Tit. 1. 16. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , to every good work, that do nothing fit to be approved by God or man. Dr. Ham. on Rom. 1. 28. Annot. g.

Reprobate mind]

;;A mind destitute and void of judgment and common reason, to discern between good and evil. Rom. 1. 28. Delivered into a reprobate mind.

Reprobate to good works]

;;Counterfeit and unsincere professors, which know not how to do or go about any good work. Tit. 1. 16. And to every good work reprobate.

Reproof]

Applyed,

• 1. unto God, Job 26. 11. (whereby some understand the signs of God's indignation; others, the thunder; others, earthquakes. Annot. )
• 2. Unto the Scripture, being profitable for reproof, 2 Tim. 3. 16. that is, to convince the enemies of the truth.
• 3. Unto Wisdom, (of which when we come to the Word) Prov. 1. 20. whose reproofs as they are intended for the conversion of a sinner, Prov. 1. 23. and very advantageous unto such as give ear unto them, Prov. 13. 18. & 15. 5, 31. arguing that they are wise, Prov. 17. 10. (and indeed the rod and reproof give wisdom, Prov. 29. 15.) So to sleight, contemn, or despise the same is very harmful, and fearfully punished, Prov. 1. 25-. 30. & 10. 17. & 12. 1. & 15. 10, 32.

To reprobe or rebuke]

;;To check and censure by works a sinner, for some sinful deed or speech; either privately, as in Prov. 27. 5. or openly, for some public scandal, 1 Tim. 5. 20.

;;2. To manifest the evil conversation by our holy and honest life. Eph. 5. 11. Reprove them rather.

3. To argue, Isa. 11. 4. marg. Hab. 2. 1. marg.

4. To discover, Eph. 5. 13. marg.

5. To convince, Job 16. 8. marg.

6. To make manifest, Joh. 3. 21.

Reprover]

A wise 〈◊〉 , Prov. 25, 12. One that is advised and discreet in advising, admonishing, counseling, reproving; observing time, place, the nature and disposition of the parties to be reproved, the fault for which, and the like 〈◊〉 .

A reprover, Ezek. 3. 26. Hebr. a man reproving. Annot.

Reputation]

Had in reputation, Act. 5. 34. that is highly repured, esteemed of, precious, honorable.

To them which were of reputation; Gal. 2. 2. that is, To those which were in chief account; viz. Peter, James, and John, who were such as they seemed to be.

Made himself of no reputation, Phil. 2. 7. that is, Empried himself evacuated himself, humbled and abased himself, devested himself, of his robes of majesty and glory, and brought himself as it were to nothing.

Hold such in reputation, Phil. 2. 29. that is, Honor such.

Repute]

Reputed vile, Job 18. 3. Heb. polluted or unclean, and therefore fit to be rejected. Annot.

Reputed, Dan. 4. 35. Thought, held, esteemed, accounted.

Request]

A demand, Judge. 8. 24. Word or desire, 2 Sam. 14. 15, 22. A petition, Ezr. 7. 6. The deprecation of some evil, Est. 4. 8. That which one asketh or desireth importunately, Job. 6 8. A supplication for things needful, Rom. 1. 10. The asking for of such things whether corporal or spiritual, temporal or eternal, whereof we stand in need. See Heb. 5. 7. and 〈◊〉 cometh of 〈◊〉 , to stand in need, be in want.

Request]

To demand, desire, pray, entreat for, Judge. 8. 26. 1 King. 19. 4. 1 Chr. 4. 10. Dan. 1. 8.

Require]

To seek out, and consequently punish, Gen. 9. 5. To ask, Deut. 10. 12. To require by punishment, or take vengeance on one, Deut. 18. 19. To call to account, and thereupon inflict deserved punishment, Josh. 22. 23. To lay a charge on one, 2 Sam. 3. 13. Earnestly to seek after, 1 Cor. 1. 22. Luk. 11. 50. To exact or look for at ones hands, 1 Cor. 4. 2. To choose, 2 Sam. 19. 38. marg.

Requite]

Rendring to render, Gen. 50. 15. To reward, recompense, Deut. 32. 6. 2 Sam. 2. 6. To inquire, Psal. 10. 13. To repay, Psal. 41. 10. To recompense, or pay what one oweth, 1 Tim. 5. 4. To do according to kindness, Gen. 21. 33. Deserving, Judge. 9. 16.

The Lord will requite good for his cursing this day, 2 Sam. 16. 2. that is, turn his cursings into blessings, when by his fatherly chastisement he hath humbled me, and fitted me for them.

Rearward]

The gathering host, the last of all the Camp, Josh. 6. 9. marg. The Lord's careful heed over his people, Isa. 52. 12. & 58. 8. To this David alludeth, Psal. 27. 10.

Rescue]

To save, Deut. 28. 31. To deliver out of imminent danger, 1 Sam. 14. 45. & 30. 18. To return, Psal. 35. 17.

Resemblance]

This is their resemblance, Zech. 5. 6. or this is their eye. Hereby is meant God's universal providence, which is president over his judgments, and sees in the Church the whole bulk and body of wicked men. Others thus, this resembles them and their wickedness bounded in, and circumscribed by God's all-knowing and all-disposing providence, who sees how every ones sins fill up the common measure. Annot.

To resemble]

To compare, or linken to, to make comparison, Luk. 13. 18. to be according to the form of a thing, Judge. 8. 18. marg.

Resen]

A bridle. A City, Gen. 10. 12.

To reserve]

;;To leave, or cause to remain. Rom. 11. 4. I have reserved to myself, &c.

;;2. To be set apart in God's eternal counsel, to be delivered unto the custody and safe keeping of Christ, Jude v. 1.

3. To have in store, Gen. 27. 36.

4. To be left, or remain, Numb. 18. 9.

5. To be kept back, or kept out of common calamites, or spared, Job 21. 30.

6. To lay up, Job 38. 23.

7. To be carefully kept, Act. 25. 21.

8. To be delivered unto safe custody for judgment, 2 Pet. 2. 4. Jude v. 6.

9. To appoint, Ib. 13.

Residue]

That which is left, or remaineth, Exod. 10. 5. The rest, Neh. 11. 20. The remainder, Isa. 44. 17. Excellency Mal. 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 . Other or the rest, Mat. 16. 13. Act. 15. 17.

To resist]

;;To withstand, to stand up against, or in order to set against as they which do 〈◊〉 themselves in battle array. This is either by men against men, Rom. 13. 2. or by God against men, Jam. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 5. 5.

;; To resist.

• ;;1. Absolutely good, to resist sin and Satan in ourselves and others, Jam. 4. 7. Luk. 9. 29.;;
• ;;2. Absolutely evil, to resist God and goodness, Act. 6. 10. & 7. 51.;;
• ;;3. Indifferent, or respectively good or evil.;;
• • ;;1. Good to repel some injuries, of some persons abusing our patience, at some time when we will and quietly may; from some persons not able to defend themselves.;;
  • ;;2. Evil and forbidden, Mat. 5. 39. viz. 1 To private persons, or men in their own causes. 2. To them also by others help, if they that are Magistrates be adversaries, either to our Religion, as 1 Cor. 6. 12. or to our persons, or to goodness. 3. In a time of public persecution, when right cannot be had, &c. ;;

Resist not 〈◊〉 ]

Mat. 5. 39. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , may here signify (in a notion wherein 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 composition imports vicem refer) repayment of injury, violence, &c. And it's observable that the word is applied in the Old Testament to impleading or prosecuting at Law, as Jer. 49. 19. where the Heb. reads 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , diem dicere, to implead, the Gr. have 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , who shall resist me? And so the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , when it's rendered 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , to resist, Isa. 5. 8. it signifies impleading in judgment, & Obad. 11. to use violence against any. So 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which signifies any kind of return to another in word or action, is rendered 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , to resist, as Deut. 19. 18. Isa. 3. 9. & 59. 12. Jer. 14. 7. By which (as it's here set in opposition to the lex 〈◊〉 , law of retaliation, the eye for eye, v. 38.) it will appear, that in cases of this nature ( a light contumely, &c. ) not only private revenge is interdicted Christians, but also the exacting of legal revenge before the Magistrate. But besides this, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifies ordinarily violent and armed resistance, Rom. 13. 2. and then the matter of precept will be, that in injuries (of this nature again) we may not for the securing of ourselves from more, fly to any violent resistance. Patience at the present, and depending on God's providence for the future doth much better become a Christian. See Jam. 5. 6. Dr. Ham. Annot. q.

To resist him, Zech. 3. 1. Heb. to be his adversary, marg.

Resolve]

Luk. 16. 4. I am resolved what to do; that is, know what course to take; like and approve what I have purposed to do, which I will also put in execution.

Resort]

To assemble, Neh. 4. 20. To enter, Psal. 71. 3. To present ones self, 2 Chr. 11. 13. marg. To come, Mar. 2. 13. To meet together. Joh. 18. 20.

Respect]

It's spoken both of God, Gen. 4. 4. Exod. 2. 25. Lev. 26. 9 1 King. 8. 28. 2 King. 13. 23. Psal. 119. 6. Psal. 138. 6. and of Man; lawful, Psal. 119. 6, 15, 117. Isa. 17. 8. Heb. 11. 26. Sinful. Lev. 19. 15. Deut. 1. 17. Prov. 24. 23. Jam. 2. 3. Isa. 17. 8. As God doth not prefer one before another for some qualities, whether riches or poverty, 2 Sam. 14. 14. 2 Chr. 19. 17. Act. 10. 34. So man ought not, Lev. 19. 15.

To have respect to one, &c. ]

;;To cast a favorable eye upon one, and to declare that favor by some outward visible sign, as God did in the act of Abel' s sacrifice, which he shown himself well pleased withal, either by fire sent from heaven to consume it, as was done to the sacrifice of Aaron, Lev. 9. verse. last; of David, 1 Chr. 21. 26. of Solomon, 2 Chr. 7. 1. of Kings, 1 King. 18. 38. Or by some other ways God gave witness to his gifts, as the Apostle speaks, Heb. 11. 4. See Gen. 4. 4. God had respect to Abel, and his gifts. First to his person, then to his gifts; works make not acceptable.

2. To know, Exod. 2. 25. marg.

;;3. To rely with confidence upon God. Isa. 17. 7. In that day a manshall look to his Maker, and have respect to the holy one of Israel. This word [ respect ] being attributed to the Creatures, signifieth Confidence; but it signifieth Benevolence, being affirmed of the Creator.

Respect of persons]

;;The preferring of one before another for some outward qualities, as riches, poverty, &c. Jam. 2. 1. Have not the saith of Christ in respect of persons. Deut. 16. 〈◊〉 . See Acception of persons.

Respecter]

God is no respecter of persons, Act. 10. 34. Or, hath no regard in his acceptance, to the external condition of the person, as of what nation, family, name, or quality he be of. He speaketh here of those following degrees of grace, faith, and obedience, which where ever they are found, it's evident they are acceptable to him Annot.

Respite]

A breathing, respiration, refreshing, Exod. 8. 15. A certain time wherein to advise and resolve what to do, 1 Sam. 11. 3.

Rest, as it is refered to men ]

;;A ceasing from labor or work of mind or body.

;;2. A ceasing from bodily labors, and a refreshing after weariness by sleep. Psal. 104. The day for man to labor: also he hath given the night for man to rest in. Luk. 9. He called them to rest a while. This is natural rest. Psal. 127. 2. he will give rest to his beloved. Mat. 8. 20. Rest hath two things; fist a cessation from work; secondly, a refreshing of our wearied members.

;;3. A ceasing from outward words of our worldly calling for a certain time, to fit us for God's service. Thus the Jews Seventh day, and our Lord's day with us, is a day of rest: Commandment the fourth. This is Ceremonial rest.

;;4. A ceasing from disobedience to God and the works of sin. Heb. 4. 3. We which have believed, do enter into rest. Also v. 10, 11. When an elect soul ceaseth from the works of corrupt nature. This is spiritual rest.

;;5. A perfect ceasing, and full freedom from all sins, sorrows, and miseries. Rev. 14. 13. They that die in the Lord rest from their labors. This is eternal rest.

;;6. Peace and quietness of a good conscience under sure hope of eternal rest. Mat. 11. 29. And ye shall find rest to your souls.

;;7. The quietness of the mind, being freed from all worldly cares and 〈◊〉 of enemies and dangers, Psal. 116. 5, 6. Take thy rest, O my soul, for God. &c.

;;8. The Doctrine of God, whereupon we ought to stay and rest ourselves. Isa. 28. 12. This is the rest, &c.

;;9. A place of quiet and constant abode, Psal. 132. 8. Psal. 95. 11. So was Canaan to God's people, and Jerusalem to the Ark, Psal. 132. 14.

;;10. A ceasing from Tillage and Husbandry. Thus the ground is said to rest. Lev. 25. 5, 6. A year of rest to the Land.

;;11. Ease and idleness, Gen. 49. 15. He shall see that rest good. Thus the wicked rest.

;;12. The Church and House of God, wherein Christ resteth by his love and grace. Psal. 132. 13. Isa. 1. 11. And his rest shall be glorious. The Papist which translate, This his 〈◊〉 shall be glorious, to prove the adoration and religious worship of our Savior's Sepulcher, deal both ignorantly and superstitiously therein.

13. Keeping of a Sabbath, Heb. 4. 9. marg.

14. A release, Est. 2. 18. marg.

15. Peace or health, Psal. 38. 3. marg.

16. A lying still, Lev. 25. 4, 5. and relaxation from labors, Exod. 35. 2.

17. Freedom from Wars, Judge. 3. 11. & 5. 31.

18. An husband, Ruth 1. 9. & 3. 1.

〈◊〉 , referred to God ]

;;A ceasing from his work of creation at the end of six days. Heb. 4. 4. Gen. 2. 2. He rested the seventh day from his work: That is, he ceased to create any new works, or creatures of a new kind. A Metaphor from men, who are said to rest, when they leave to work.

Rest]

;;Ceasing from the works of sin, as mortified men do from all sin and misery, as glorified persons do, Heb. 3. 18. and 4. 3, 4.

No rest]

;;Eternal torment, without any the least intermission or hope of any ease and mitigation. Rev. 14. 11. And they shall have no rest, day nor night.

To rest]

1. To dwell, Psal. 16. 9. marg. Rest in hope, that is, Dwell confidently.

2. To be silent Psal. 37. 7. marg. Rest in the Lord; that is, Be silent to the Lord.

3. To cease. Turn from him that he may rest, Heb. cease, Job 14, 6. marg.

4. To lean, and the people rested themselves, Heb. leaned, 2 Chr. 32. 8. marg.

5. To cease laboring, and refresh ones self by sleep, or sitting quietly, Cant. 1. 7. Isa. 28. 12.

6. To make a nest, 〈◊〉 . 34. 14.

7. To bide and continue, Isa. 51. 4. Ezek. 5. 13.

8. To be free from all evil, Isa. 57. 2. all sorrows and troubles, Rev. 14. 13.

9. To be quiet, Jer. 30. 10.

10. To dwell in an abiding place, Jer. 31. 2.

11. To cease, and be at an end, Ezek. 16. 42.

12. To be with continuance, Ezek. 44. 30.

13. To lie in the grave, Act. 2. 26.

To rest in hope; that is, To dwell confidently, Psal. 16. 9. marg.

Rest not; that is, have no rest, Rev. 4. 8 marg.

Cause to rest upon him; that is, lay upon him, Isa. 30. 32. marg.

Rest]

Where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon, Cant. 1. 7. There is rest for the people of God scorched with afflictions; which rest only Christ giveth, and maketh them to lie down in good pastures, Isa. 43. 13. 〈◊〉 .

Rest]

The residue, remainder, other part, others, spoken of and applied unto divers things, Gen. 30. 36. Lev. 5. 9. Numb. 31. 8, 32. Judge. 7. 6

Rest of the dead]

;;Such as for the thousand years wherein Satan lay bound, were drowned in ignorance and superstition, being falen deadly asleep in their sins. Rev. 20. 5. The rest of the dead shall not live again till the thousand years be finished.

Restitution or restoring]

;;The setting in joint again, or placing in good estate, that which was once broken down and decayed, Gen. 40. 21. And he restored the chief Butler. In this signification, God is said in Scripture to restore his people: and thus are we commanded to restore such as sin by infirmity. Gal. 6. 1. Ye that are spiritual restore such an one. This shall be perfectly done at the last day, when everything now corrupted) shall have due perfection and proportion.

;;2. A giving again that which one had before lost. Psal. 51. 12. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation.

;;3. Returning that which is not a man's own to the proper owner. Luk. 19. 8. I will restore foursold. Exek. 18. 7. If he restore the pledge, &c.

Restitution, or exchange, Job 20. 14.

Restitution]

Make full restitution, Ezod. 22. 3. Paying 〈◊〉 shall pay. So verse. 5. shall pay. Ainsworth.

Untill the times of restitution of all things, Act. 3. 21. unto the perfection of the Kingdom of Christ, wherein all shall be repaired which sin hath disordered and ruined; wherein the creature shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. Annot.

Restore]

1. To deliver back, Gen. 20. 14.

2. To set again in the first state, Gen. 40. 13.

3. To return, Deut. 28. 31. marg.

4. To recover, 2 King. 14. 25.

5. To make payment, Psal. 69. 4. Ezek. 18. 7.

6. To make good the loss, corporally, 2 Sam. 12. 6. Exod. 22. 1, 4. Spiritually, Psal. 51. 12.

7. To fulfill, Mat. 17. 11.

8. To instruct, and thereby to raise and set upright again. Gal. 6. 1. Restore such an one, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , set him in 〈◊〉 again. The phrase is borrowed from 〈◊〉 , who being to deal with a broken joint will handle the same very tenderly; so setting it that it may be as strong and sound as ever it was.

10. To bring again, Ezr. 6. 5.

11. To raise up from death, 2 King, 8. 1.

Restore]

Gal. 6. 1. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which we render restore, signifies properly to put in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any member of a body which is dislocated, and so fitly belongs to the restoring an 〈◊〉 person to the society and peace of the Church. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.

And restore all things, Mat. 17. 11. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the word here used is rendered by Hesychius and Phavorinus, to finish or perfect. According to this notation of the word, this would 〈◊〉 the importance of the place, he shall finish or perform, establish settle all things; both perform all that was 〈◊〉 of Elias, at his coming, and close and shut up the first state of the world, that of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , making entrance as an harbinger; on the second, that of the Messias. In this sense it is that it is said, that the Law and the 〈◊〉 were until 〈◊〉 , noting him to be the conclusion and shutting up, finishing and closing that state, and that was to be the office of Elias, under whose name John was 〈◊〉 . And thus the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 clearly signifies, Act 3. 21. But it's also certain that this word hath another signification belonging to it, to restore or reduce, Act. 1. 7. So for this place in 〈◊〉 . Matth. it must be observe, that Mal. 4. 8. where Elias' s coming it's there added in the 〈◊〉 , instead of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , he shall turn the heart of the Fathers (not to, but) with the children, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (the word here used) he shall reduce or restore the 〈◊〉 . And it's evident, that this place refers to that thought it repeat not the remainder of that verse, but only 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 instead of it; and doing so, it must then signify John the Baptist' s preaching of repentance (which is the signification of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , and the importance of that verse in Malichi ) and by that means converting them to the 〈◊〉 of Christ, i. e. by his preaching, endeavoring, thought not very successfully, to do so. This then being the meaning of that 〈◊〉 in Malachi, of a spiritual restoring, bringing them to repentance or preaching the doctrine of repentance to the Jews, they understood it in a more carnal sense of 〈◊〉 them to their splendid state again, which they enjoyed before their captivities, and late conquests of the Romans over them. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.

Restorer]

A restorer of thy life, Ruth 4. 15. i. e. He shall comfort and revive thee, restoring thee as it were to a new life. See Psal. 19. 8. & 23. 3. Lam. 1. 11. Annot.

The restorer of parts to dwell in, Isa. 58. 12. That is, the clearer of those ways by which men may return to those places, where they are to inhabit, whereas they were formerly neglected and disused, and consequently overgrown, either through want of people to travel, or of safety to travellers, Judge. 5. 6, 7. Lam. 1. 4. Or, the returner of those places that were made paths of before by the enemy passing to and fro over them, having ruined the buildings, and flatted the foundation of them, to be places for men to inhabit again. Annot.

Restrain]

To hold in, stay or stop, Gen. 8. 2. To be cut off, Gen. 11. 6. To close up (according to the Greek) Gen. 16. 2. To withhold or keep back, Gen. 36. 6. To frown upon, 1 Sam. 3. 13. marg. to deny a thing unto others, and appropriate it unto ones self, Job 15. 8. To gird (namely with joyfullnesse, that they may sing praises unto thee) or (if we refer it to the hot rage of the wicked) to gird or bind from attempting further evil, Psal. 76. 10.

Restraint]

There is no restraint to the Lord, 1 Sam. 14 6. that is, he is in himself so 〈◊〉 and all sufficient, that it is all one him to save with few as with many. So 2 Chr. 14. 11. Annot.

Rests]

Narrowed rests, 1 King. 6. 6. Heb. Narrowings or rebatements. At the floor of the middle chambers, there was a rebatement in the wall, a cubit thick; and at the floor of the highest chambers, such another rebatement. On these rebatements the beams of the chambers were laid. Annot.

Resurrection]

;;An action of divine power, quickening dead bodies, and raising them up to life. 1 Cor. 15. 12. How do some say there is no resurrection? This is the second resurrection.

;;2. Restoring dead souls to the life of grace, that they may live to God, being moved by his Spirit. Rev. 20. 6. Blessed are they that have part in the first resurrection. Joh. 5. 25. This is the first resurrection.

3. The raiser up of the dead. Joh. 11. 25. I am the resurrection and the life.

4. Redemption by Christ's death going before, and for life everlasting which follows after, Phil. 3. 10.

There's a spiritual resurrection, Rev. 20. 6. and a corporal 〈◊〉 , Act. 24. 15. Special, of some raised from death, both in the Old and New Testament. General at the last day, which shall be both of the just and unjust, Act. 24. 15. This resurrection of the body was denied by the Sadducees, Mat. 22. 23. denied also by some Christians, 1 Cor. 15. 12. It was 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 Philosophers, Act. 17. 32. and some taught, that it is past already, 2 Tim. 2. 8.

Resurrection]

〈◊〉 . 22. 31. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , of which the Sadducees ask, v. 23. and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which Christ undertakes here to demonstrate, doth not 〈◊〉 signify the resurrection of the body, but denotes another life (besides this, and after this) a continuing or being kept alive by God after departure out of this life; as that which is called, Rom. 9. 17. Raising up (and in Luke the phrase is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the same that there) is in the Hebr. from whence it's cited, Exod. 9. 16. to make to stand, and is rendered by the Septuagint, keeping alive, or safe. And the literal notation of the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 goes no farther; for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is standing, or subsisting, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in composition signifies re, or again. So 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is the resubsistence, or second state of men, that after this life, consisting first of the immortality and continuance of the soul in state of separation, and at length in the reunion of the body to it, whereby it becomes perfect. It's true, it sometimes signifies the resurrection of the body distinctly, but that is, when it's joined with the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of the flesh, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of the body, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of the dead, in the neuter, (as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 . signifies cadavera, or dead bodies ) or when without any of these, the context of the Author doth appear to restrain it to that sense; but here 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is the masculine (as appears by comparing it with the story in St. Luke distinctly 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in the parallel) and the context doth not so restrain it, but rather enforceth the enlarging of it, in like manner, as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , ver. 23. may be the character of the Sadducees, who denied all future life, or subsistence of soul or body after death. And thus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 seems to note, Luk. 14. 14. the reward there spoken of, being that which is opposed to our rewarding one another in this life; and so the phrase denoting all, which is not of this life, i. e. that bliss which the just enjoy after this life. And the phrase which the Jews used to signify this, is the age or world to come, which these Sadducees distinctly denied, and the Pharisees believed and affirmed. And sure St. Paul, one of those Pharisees christianized, did reckon of this continued life of the soul, contrary to the mortality or sleeping of it, when, Phil. 1. 23. he saith, that he desires 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (which sure is a phrase to express the separation of soul and body ) and to be with Christ, which I suppose most conclude a being of the soul, and that a happy one, unless Christ be imagined still to be asleep; and so again, when he calls travaling out of the body, a travelling to the Lord, 1 Cor. 5. 8. Dr. Ham. Annot.

Resurrection of condemnation]

;;Such a resurrection, as hath condemnation and eternal death to follow it. Joh. 5. 29. Others shall arise to the resurrection of condemnation.

Resurrection from the dead]

;;The whole mediation of Christ in his Incarnation, Nativity, Life, Suffering, Death, Burial, his remaining in the grave under the power of Death, Ascension, return to judgment, Rom. 10. 9. And raised him from the dead. Also it signifieth life eternal, which follows the general resurrection, Phil. 3. 11.

;;The Resurrection of Christ from the dead, is not only a witness of our being justified by Christ the Conquerou • of sin and death; but th ough faith it is the real cause o • our Justification, as his death was the cause of the remissio • of sins, Rom. 4. 25.

Resurrection from the dead, Rom. 1. 4. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is the general word which contains under it the rising again of every dead body, and is appliable to every such particular that riseth, and so here denotes the resurrection of Christ, being by the context particularly determined to that, as in other places it may denote the resurrection of any one or more men, as the context shall enforce. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.

This is the first resurrection, Rev. 20. 5, 6. At Luther's time, or, after the coming in of the Jews, and Antichrists destruction, there shall be such a new face of the Church, as if the Saints were all raised up again, Joh. 5. 25, 28. This resurrection is not of particular persons, but of whole Churches and Nations, as Rom. 11. 15. alluded to in the raising of dead bones, Ezek. 37. 1, &c. in which they are said to have part, who by the means then publicly and plentifully afforded, are spiritually quickened; that is, raised from the death of sin, to the life of grace, Joh. 5. 24, 25. Act. 8. 21. Eph. 2. 1, 5. Annot.

Some understand the first resurrection from the death of sin; and a reigning in heaven a thousand years, they interpret eternity, and a further degree of glory, for such as are called forth to suffer.

Secondly, Others understand it literally, that then shall be a corporal resurrection of all the Martyrs, that live with Christ a 1000 years.

First, It cannot be a reigning with Christ in heaven, because it is something peculiar, to those that are beheaded, a resurrection which follows that, they rise from sin before they die; besides the 9 and 10 verses, show it cannot be meant of heaven.

Secondly, it cannot be understood of the corporal resurrection, the dead in Christ rise first, yet so that all the rest shall be raised in the same moment.

Resurrection is used commonly in Scripture to express an high degree of advancement, after a low ebb of misery, Ezek. 37. Isa. 26. 19. Those that were beheaded, shall live. Leighs Annot.

This is the first resurrection, to wit, so to be enlightened with the truth, as they come from Popish superstition and idolatry, to the true and sincere worship of God, showing forth the powerful effects thereof in life and conversation. Bernard.

Resurrection and life]

;;Christ to be the author and worker of the resurrection of the soul from sin, and of the bodies from the grave, and of both from death spiritual and temporal, and to set and keep them in state of life, Joh. 11. 25. That he speaketh here of spiritual life, also, is clear by the words next following.

Resurrection of life]

;;Such a resurrection as hath eternal life following it, Joh. 5. 29. Which life, because it belongs only to the just, it is therefore called the resurrection of the just. Luk. 14. 14. At the resurrection of the just.

Retain]

To keep with one, Judge. 7. 8. To detain, Judge. 19. 4. To continue still in maintaining, Job 2. 9. To hold or apprehend, Prov. 3. 18. To receive, Prov. 4. 4. To keep or preserve, Prov. 11. 16. To shut in, or keep from going away, Eccl. 8. 8. To continue, Mic. 7. 18. To hold fast, as by a strong hand, Joh. 20. 23.

To retain God in their knowledge, Rom. 1. 28. or, To acknowledge him, marg.

I retained no strength, Dan. 10. 8. His spirits were dispersed and spent, his nerves and sinews enfeebled, joints of his loins loosed, the blood running to the heart, to maintain and strengthen it, left all the other parts cold and lifeless. Annot.

Retire]

To turn from, Judge. 20. 39. To withdraw ones self, 2 Sam. 11. 15. To depart, or be scattered, 2 San. 20. 22. marg. To strengthen ones self or (rather) to get away, Jer. 4. 6. See marg.

Return]

Gen. 14. 17. his coming back again.

At the return of the year]

1 King. 20. 22. At the coming on of the summer, when the camps are wont to take the field, to enjoy the opportunity of food and victual. D. Annot.

To return]

;;To come back again, after one is departed or gone out of the way.

;;2. To repent, as when a sinner which hath erred from the ways of God's commandments, doth come again by unfeigned repentance. Act. 3. 19. Return and repent, &c. Ezek. 18. 32. Thus sinners return to God. Isa. 10. 21.

;;3. To yield or give consent to the mind or desire of another, Jer. 15. 9. Do not return to them, but let them return unto thee. Thus the people return to their Minister.

;;4. To show fresh signs of favor, after some judgments for sins. Psal. 61. 20. Thou wilt return. Psal. 40. 13. Joel 2. 14. Who knoweth if God will return? Thus God returneth to us.

5. To take possession of, Lev. 25. 28.

6. To depart away 1 Sam. 29. 4. Luk. 23. 48.

7. To die, Gen. 3. 19. Psal. 104. 29. Act. 13. 34.

8. To relate, Exod. 19. 8.

9. To yield to others, Jer. 15. 9.

10. To iterate, Prov. 26. 11. marg.

Reu]

His shepherd, a companion, a friend, evil, or a breaking asunder. The Son of Peleg, Gen. 11. 18. called Rehu, in 1 Chr. 1. 25.

Reuben]

Seeing his Son, the vision of his Son, or the Son of vision. The Son of Jacob by Leah, Gen. 29. 32. Of him came the Families of the Reubenites, Numb. 26. 7. who in Judge. 5. 15, 16. are termed Reuben, For the divisions of Reuben, &c.

To reveal]

;;To make us understand any part of divine truth, which we knew not before. Phil. 3. 15. God shall reveal the same unto them.

;;2. To open a secret committed to us. Prov. 20. 19. Revealeth or discovereth secrets.

;;3. To propound and hold forth a thing to be seen and looked upon clearly and manifestly. Thus is righteousness and salvation revealed in the Gospel. Rom. 1. 17. Thereby is revealed the righteousness of God. Hereby is discerned and severed the Gospel from Philosophy, which teacheth things known by nature, or comprehensible by reason: Also, from the Law and Books of Moses, which taught this righteousness darkly and afar off, in shows and shadows, not plainly, as the Gospel doth: which so manifesteth this righteousness, as it giveth and exhibiteth it to the Believers, to whom it is so made known by the Gospel, as it is hid from such as perish, 2 Cor. 4. 3.

;;Two ways is the Justice of God revealed by the Gospel.

• ;;1. Because it effectually teacheth, that that righteousness whereby the sinner is made able to stand before the judgment of the most righteous God, is not a performance and observance of the Law, of Works. of Ceremonies, but a free acceptation of a sinner to mercy, and an imputation of righteousness through Christ his merit.
• ;;2. Because it showeth the way and mean how this righteousness is obtained, to wit, only by Faith.

;;4. To witness by examples, and by experiment or daily proof to declare. Rom. 1. 18. 〈◊〉 revealed from heaven. For although God's vengeance against sinners be manifested sundry ways; as by natural light accusing, Rom. 2. By the Law showing and working wrath, Rom. 4. By the Gospel, which hath a comminatory voice (Joh. 3. last) against Unbelievers, as well as a consolatory unto Believers: yet here is meant the showing of God's wrath by daily experience, as the stories of those times when Paul wrote, and the rest of this Chapter plainly and clearly convince it.

5. To open the ear, 2 Sam. 7. 27. marg. It's all one with, To show, open, bring to light, make known, &c.

Reveal]

When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, 2 Thess. 1. 7. The Revelation of Christ, as the coming of Christ, is a phrase of a doubtful signification; sometimes signifying the coming to the final doom; sometimes also that coming that was described, Mat. 24. and was to be within that generation. And so sure it signifies in several places of St. Peter, 1 Pet. 1. 7, 13. & chap. 4. 13. and the deliverance ready to be revealed in the last time, ch. 1. 5. The destruction of the Jews, being the time of the deliverance and escaping to the Christians that were persecuted by them (See Rom. 13. 11.) So again, 1 Pet. 5. 1. where St. Peter saying of himself, that he was a witness of the sufferings of Christ, addeth, he was also partaker of the glory that should be revealed, i. e. present at the transfiguration, where by Moses and Elias were represented and declared the glorious consequents of his crucifixion, i. e. the destruction of his 〈◊〉 , and deliverance of his faithful disciples. And so here it most probably signifies, where the vengeance on the Oppressors, i. e. the crucifiers of Christ, and 〈◊〉 of Christians is described, and an Appendix of that rest and release to the oppressed, which is the deliverance so oft promised to them that persevere, and endure, and 〈◊〉 those persecutions, and that v. 10. in that day, which is the notation of that time of vengeance upon the Jews. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.

To reveal Christ in us]

;;To open the eyes of our mind by the Spirit, that we may see him to be the only Savior, and to be our Savior. Gal. 1. 15. It pleased God to reveal his Son in me.

Revealer of secrets]

Dan. 2. 47. See Isa. 41. 22, 23. Psal. 139. 2. Annot. This is peculiar to God, nor can any other reveal secrets unless they be informed by him.

Revel]

A shepherd of God, the friend of God, or the breaking asunder of God. The Son of Esau by 〈◊〉 his Wife, Gen. 36. 4. The Father-in-law of Moses, Exod. 2. 18. The Son of Ibnijah, 1 Chr. 9. 8.

Revelation]

;;An uncovering or opening something that is hid, and secret. Rev. 1. The Revelation of John the Divine; that is, which was shown to him. How do some teach, that this Book is so hard that it cannot be understood? if the holy Spirit have entitled it the Revelation, that is a Declaration, or a thing revealed, immediately from Christ, as to Paul, Eph. 3. 3. or mediately by others, as to John by an Angel, Rev. 1. 1.

2. Manifestation or opening, Rom. 16. 25.

3. The gift of interpretation, 1 Cor. 14. 6. 26.

4. An extraordinary information, either by God's immediate voice, or by Vision or Dream, or inward inspiration, Gal. 1. 12. & 2. 2. Eph. 3. 3.

5. An ordinary teaching by the Spirit in the preaching of the Word, Eph. 1. 17.

6. Appearing, Tit. 1. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 13.

Revelation]

Hath a revelation, 1 Cor. 14. 26. That 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 doth not always signify a Vision; or passively, a receiving a revelation by ecstacy or dream from God, but only a sense or notion, a meaning or interpretation of a piece of Scripture, that through some figure (or the like) hath much difficulty in it, may appear by verse. 6. where in opposition to the miraculous speaking of tongues, those four ways of expounding in the Church are set down; and the first of them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , revelation, or expounding of sacred figures, &c. So verse. 26. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , hath a revelation, as hath an interpretation, is of him that can expound any such figure; as the other is he that can interpret a strange language; and so here in this verse, that which is here hath a revelation, must be expounded by the Prophets speaking, verse. 29. For thus it lies, Let the Prophets speak two or three, i. e. so many in a meeting, If another that 〈◊〉 by have any Revelation; i. e. if whilst one is speaking, another be, or conceive himself able to expound the 〈◊〉 , then let the first, i. e. the Prophet, then a speaking, hold his peace, give way to him; whereas the Prophets speaking, is all one with having a revelation; so the thing thus delivered being to be 〈◊〉 of by others, whether it be right, or no, let others judge, v. 29. is concluded not to be any special 〈◊〉 from God. For if it were supposed such, it ought not to be subject to others judging of it. Dr. Ham. Ann. b.

The day of revelation]

;;A time of declaration appointed in God's counsel, for the manifesting of dark things, which be hid and kept close, Rom. 2. 5.

The revelation of Jesus Christ]

;;That prophesy which Jesus Christ hath opened unto us out of the bosom of the Father, by the Ministry of the Angels. Rev. 1. 1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ.

;;2. His declaring himself unto us to be our Redeemer by his Word and Spirit, even in this life. 1 Pet. 1. 13. Trust persectly in the grate brought you in the revelation of Jesus Christ. This is ordinary, as here; or extraordinary, as Gal. 1. 12.

;;3. The glorious appearing of Jesus Christ at the last day, 1 Pet. 1. 13. Tit. 2. 13.

Revelation]

;;The uncovering of something which is hid, as removing a veil or curtain which hindereth out eye-fight. This is the proper signification.

;;2. A manifestation and discovery of divine things, secret in respect of men, for the common good of the Church. Rev. 1. 1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. This title of [ Revelation ] being given unto this Book of John, and to the whole Gospel of God, Math. 11. 25. teacheth us, that the search and understanding of them, doth as far exceed all mortal wit, as the knowledge of things to come till they be opened; or things hidden, till they be uncovered; or dark Riddles till they be declared. But if this Book be a Revelation, how do they well which terrify Christians from reading and studying it.

The former Books for the most part are either Historical, or Doctrinal; This is for the main matter of it, Symbolical and Prophetical, containing predictions of many things to come, both in the Church, and without it, in the world, Symbolically represented. It is called a Revelation, because it was revealed by God, and the things therein contained, are such, as no wisdom of man, without some such special Revelation, could have manifested or foreseen. So 2 Cor. 12. 1. 7. Mat. 11. 25. & 16, 17. 1 Cor. 2. 9, 10. And, of Jesus Christ, because John had it from him, as Paul his Revelations. 2 Cor. 12. 1, 2. and his Gospel. Gal. 1. 1, 2. Annot. Revelation, that is, a discovery or manifestation of things which before were hidden, and secret, for the common good of the Church. He doth not say, This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, but after the manner of the Prophets, The Vision of Isaiah. The word of the Lord which was to Hosea: And after the manner of the Evangelists, The Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ, Mat. 1. The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Mar. 1. which Ellipsis is elegant. Leigh' s Annot.

To be revealed]

;;Not now by stealth, under-hand and in secret, as at first, but openly to show himself in his Doctrine and Government, to be that Adversary of God, even that singular Antichrist, 2 Thess. 2. 8.

Revelings]

Gal. 5. 21. 1 Pet. 4. 3. Luxurious feasting and banqueting, wherein men take liberty unto all lascivious and riotous behavior; so called as some think, because such feasting and riotous feeding breeds 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (the word by which 〈◊〉 is expressed is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ) heavy sleep, that men are even buried in sleep caused by good cheer. It signifieth Excess of Belly-cheer in riotous Feasts. And because in such feasting oftentimes there is Music, the Syrian Translator (it may be) rendered it in Rom. 13. 13. not in music, meaning, vain and filthy Songs, and petulant behavior, for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifieth, to sing basely at the Cup. From hence the Heathen called their god of wantonness and revelling 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , and hereby were signified those pastimes that they used in their Festivities as Saturnalia, in honor of their heathen gods, like to which be our 〈◊〉 hitson-Ales, Mummings, &c. This was likewise that abominable Idol of Moab, Chemosh, so called from some filthy behavior used or seen in the worship of that Idol. Leigh. Crit. Sac. in the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 .

To revenge, or avenge]

;;To punish sin, commonly with some judgments like and proportionable to the sin itself. Psal. 94. 1. Revenge thyself O God; or, O God the Avenger. God revengeth either immediately from himself, or by means of Magistrates, Angels, men, or other creatures, Rom. 13. 4.

;;2. To requite an injury done us, out of some hate against our person. Rom. 12. 19. Revenge not yourselves; that is, Recompense not evil for evil, Rom. 12. 17. See Ezek. 25. 12, 15.

To revenge, or avenge]

;;To take punishment at last upon the great Whore the Romish Church, which had so long with impunity vexed the Saints, to whom this should be a great matter and occasion of joy. Rev. 18. 20. Rejoice, for God hath punished her to be revenged (or avenged) on her for your sake.

Revenge]

Unlawfull, Jer. 20. 10. Ezek. 21. 15. Lawfull, 2 Cor. 7. 11. What revenge, either taken upon the 〈◊〉 person, by the censure of Excommunication pronounced against him, or against yourselves, by the great 〈◊〉 you expressed for having been so negligent before, punishing yourselves for not having punished him. Annot.

〈◊〉 ]

Put for the pursner of a Murderer, Numb. 35 19. And for the Magistrate, Rom. 13. 4.

Revenue]

Or, strength, Ezr. 4. 13. marg. Increase, Prov. 8. 19. Rents or profit, Prov. 15. 9. All kind of increase of grain, fruits, and the like, Isa. 23. 13. The little good which cometh of all their labors, Jerem. 12. 13.

Reverence]

;;An holy fear of the heart towards God, witnessed by all seemly behavior, gesture, attire, countenance, attention, and such like. Psal. 2. 11. Serve the Lord with reverence. Mal. 1. 8. Heb. 12. 28. That we may please him with reverence.

;;2. All comely behavior towards men, which is meet for their gifts and places. As Solomon did reverence to 〈◊〉 his Mother: 〈◊〉 to the Rulers of Shechem. Math. 21. 37. They will reverence my Son. Gen. 33. 7. They drew 〈◊〉 , and did reverence. Heb. 13. 9. And we gave them reverence.

To reverence]

To have in honor and reverence, and that both inwardly, and outwardly, which the Jews should have performed toward Christ, Mat. 21. 37. and the Wife is to perform towards her Husband, Eph. 5. 33. which 〈◊〉 would not perform towards 〈◊〉 , though others did, Est. 3. 2.

Reverence my Sanctuary, Levir. 19. 30. or fear my Sanctuary, unto which they were to come on the Sabbaths, Ezek. 46. 3. which Sanctuary was now the Tabernacle, afterwards the Temple. This fear was for the presence of God therein. See Gen. 28. 16, 17. & Eccl. 5. 1. And as the Sanctuary of God was chiefly a figure of the body of our Lord Jesus, Joh. 2. 19, 21. Heb. 9 11. So this precept hath chiefest respect unto him whom all ought to reverence, and to honor the Son, even as they honor the Father, Joh. 5. 23. who when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the Angels of God worship 〈◊〉 , Heb. 1. 6. 〈◊〉 .

Reverence]

The holy fear and awe of God's Majesty and Word, Heb. 11. 7. & 12. 28.

;;2. Submission and dutiful respect to our superiors, Heb. 12. 9.

Reverend]

Psal. 111. 9. or fearful. Ainsworth.

Reverse]

To turn it away; or after the Chaldee, Turn my blessing from them, Numb. 23. 20. To revoke, abrogate, put away, Est. 8. 5.

Revile]

To curse, ban, or blaspheme, to speak evil or dishonourably, Exod. 22. 28. Spitefully to taunt, Isa. 51. 7. To reproach, and miscall, Mat. 5. 11. To rail, 1 Cor. 4. 12.

Reviler]

A Railer, one that speaketh foul words to ones rebuke or reproach, 1 Cor. 6. 10.

Revilings]

Isa. 51. 7. or spiritual taunts. Annot.

〈◊〉 ]

To become lively, or stirred up, Gen. 45. 27. To become strong and vigorous, Judge. 15. 19. To live again, or to have life restored, 1 King. 17. 22. To put life into that which was dead, Nehem. 4. 2. To restore unto ones former happy condition, Psal. 85. 6. To keep alive, Psal. 138. 7. To quicken, to make to live, Isa. 57. 15. To preserve, Hab. 3. 2. marg.

To revive]

;;is properly to stir up fire which is buried under ashes, which word Paul useth figuratively for stirring up the gift of God, 2 Tim. 1. 6. It also signifieth strengthening the heart, being weak and wavering through doubt and unbelief, Gen. 45. 27.

Reumab]

High, or elevated, the Concubine of Nahor, Gen. 22. 24.

〈◊〉 ]

To rebel, against man, 2 King. 8. 20, 22. 2 Chr. 21. 10. against God, Isa. 1. 5. & 31. 6.

Revolting heart]

Jer. 5. 23. or, refractary. They are of a refractary spirit, wholly bent unto, pitched and fixed upon rebellious 〈◊〉 . Psal. 78. 8. Annot. Rebellious. D. 〈◊〉 .

Revolt]

Isa. 59. 13. Apostasy from God. Annot.

Revolter]

Grievous Revolters, Jer. 6. 28. Hebr. Revolters of Revolters, or refractory ones, that is, grievous Revolters, or extremely resractory. Annot.

And the Revolters, Hos. 5. 2. Terms taken from such as are Highway-robbers, which turn aside or lie in Ambush for men's Estates and Lives. Others take them for Revolters from the right Religion of Judah at Jerusalem. Annot.

Reward]

;;A just recompense given unto Laborers at the end of their work, as the Laborers. Matth. 20. 8. Received their wages in the even.

;;2. A free recompense, given of mercy unto the godly after all their labors and travels in the service of God (as Laborers use to be rewarded at the end of the day, when their work is done) Math. 6. 6. Shall reward thee openly. Math. 10. 41. This is far from Popish merit and deserving, by worthiness of the work done. We teach reward by favor from God, not by desert of our own work. That which Christ in Matth. 6. 1. calls reward, in Luk. 6. 32. is called in the Greek Charis, that is, Grace, which we translate, Thanks.

;;3. An evil done of ones own accord, Gen. 50. 15.

4. A free gift, 1 King. 13. 7. termed, a Fee, Dan. 2. 6. marg. & Dan. 5. 17. marg.

5. Gifts of bribery, Deut. 10. 17. Psal. 15. 5.

6. The end and punishment, Psal. 91. 8. Luk. 23. 41.

7. A good end and issue, Prov. 24. 14.

8. That which is desired, Mat. 6. 2.

;; Reward is named of a word in Hebrew [ 〈◊〉 ] which signifieth the heel or footstool, and figuratively is used for the end of a thing, (as the head for the beginning, Psal. 119. 160.) and so for the success, event, and recompense that followeth thereupon, Psal. 12. 19. Prov. 23. 18.

;; Note. Reward is the end of the work, and is given when the work is ended.

Reward]

;;A good thing freely given after the labor and travel of this life ended, Heb. 10. 35.

Reward of the Inheritance]

;;The heavenly inheritance given instead of a reward, not of debt but of favor: for an Inheritance belongs to Sons; and is due by grace of Adoption, not by merit of works. Col. 3. 24. See Rom. 8. 17. Mat. 25. 34. A Metaphor; for as a reward is given after the labor is ended (whence reward is in Hebrew signified by two words, whereof one importeth an heel, the other an extremity or end) so after our labor in the Lord is finished, heavenly happiness is bestowed on the Sons of God. Peter in Epist. 1. ch. 1. 9. useth ( Telos, or end) in the same sense.

To reward]

;;To return and repay extreme ignominy and pain, or vexation unto the Antichristian crew and Popish Babylonish rout, in lieu and recompense of all that vexation and injury which either by enticement to their sins; or by inflicting torment upon such as refused to submit to them, they had most wickedly offered to the Saints. Rev. 18. 6. Reward her as she hath rewarded you. It is worth our noting that this charge is given to such as before were bid come out of Babylon, verse. 4. even to such as had been the Citizens of Rome, Members of the Papacy, that they should be the Ministers of this punishment and revenge, being likely to do that more thoroughly, through the fresh remembrance of their late oppressions: what may we think of them who are so favorable and indulgent to this City, that great Whore, as to wink at her sins, not to execute sharp wrath against them, not to think of ruining, but to attempt the reforming of that desperate strumpet?

Reward]

Spoken

• I. of God, and that,
• • 1. With relation unto his own children, Matt. 6. 4. which yet is wholly of Mercy, in respect of us, or our deserving; but of Justice in respect of his Promises, and Christ's merits, unto which is rendered and repaid that which he deserved for us. The Crown is due debt, because it is promised to us for Christ's sake, not because any works of ours are able to purchase it. It's a just retribution, but withal a gift of favor. (See Leigh Crit. Sac. in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 .)
  • 2. With relation unto his and his people's enemies, Deut. 32. 41. 2 Sam. 3. 39. Psal. 54. 5. & 31. 23. Prov. 26. 10. He by his justice owes them punishment for their oppression, and he will pay it.
• II. Of such as reward evil for good, 2 Chr. 20. 10, 11. 1 Sam. 24. 17. Psal. 35. 12.
• III. Of such as reward evil to themselves, Isa. 3. 9.
• IV. Of such as shall be instrumental in the destruction of the Churches enemies, Psal. 137. 8.
• V. Of such as give a good reward for things evil done, 1 Sam. 24. 17. See Annot. on Job 21. 19. He rewardeth him; where's shown, that this word sometimes signifieth to give a good reward for things well done, as Ruth 2. 12. 1 Sam. 24. 19. And sometimes an evil reward for evil deeds, as verse. 31. of that chap. Judge. 1. 7. 2 Sam. 3. 39. Jer. 32. 18.

To reward bounteously]

;;From God to his people, a plentiful giving of good things instead of the evil which they deserve, as Psal. 116. 7. & 119. 17. & 142. 8. & 103. 2. 16. also, 13. 6. But from men to men it signifies recompensing evil for good, as Psal. 7. 5. Or evil for evil, Psal. 137. 8.

To reward according to works]

;;That God will reward him in whom he shall find the undoubted sign and mark of the perfect righteousness which he hath by Faith in Christ, Mar. 16. 27. sor this word [ according ] is a note of order, and of the manner of being, rather then of the cause thereof.

Rewarder]

;;One who bountifully and freely blesseth his servants, Heb. 11. 6.

Rezeph]

A pavement, a stretching out, a burning coal, or a fiery stone. A City, 2 King. 19. 12. The Son of Ephraim, 1 Chr. 7. 25.

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The Son of Ulla, 1 Chr. 7. 39.

Rezin]

Affection, a runner, or Post-messenger. A King of Syria, 2 King. 15. 37. See Ezr. 2. 48.

Rezon]

Small, 〈◊〉 , secret; a Secretary, or a Prince. The Son of Eliadah, 1 King. 11. 23.

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