A Complete Christian Dictionary

Coffer]

1 Sam. 6. 8. A little Chest, or Casket.

Coffin]

Gen. 50. 26. Chest, or Ark; for the word Aaron here used, is the same which is used for the Ark of the Testimony, or Covenant, Dan. 31. 9. Yet though they agreed in name, they diftered much in their Fabric, both for matter and figure, and were placed at a distance one from the other, for the Ark of the Testimony was kept in the Holy of holies, in the Tabernacle where no other Ark or Coffin was admitted. Annot.

Cogitations]

Dan. 7. 28. My cogitations much troubled me. My thoughts were much perplexed with the consideration of these wonderful visions. Hall.

He had many motions in his heart, which moved him to and fro to seek out this matter cunningly. Annot.

Cold]

;;Such as be scarce indifferent, but mere careless in matters of God, and of their own salvation. Rev. 3. 15. I would ye were either hot or cold.

Cold put for,

• 1. That season of the year wherein it's usually cold, Gen. 8. 22.
• 2. Moderate, Prov. 17. 27. marg.
• 3. Faint, feeble, weak, remiss, of no value, Matth. 24. 12.
• 4. Void of zeal, faith, piety, the ear of Religion, 〈◊〉 . 3. 〈◊〉 , 16.

Cold is said to come out of the North, Job 37. 9. In some places it's scarce tolerable, Psal. 147. 17. The poor suffer under it, Job 24. 7. So Paul, 2 Cor. 11. 27. It made way for Peters denial, Joh. 18. 18. Yet are cold waters acceptable to the thirsty, Prov. 25. 25. It's applied to Snow, Prov. 25. 13. Weather, Ibid. 20. Day, Nah. 3. 17. Water, Mat. 10. 42.

Cold]

Rev. 3. 15. Thou art neither cold nor 〈◊〉 , I would thou wert cold or hot. Thou standest indifferently affected, neither eager for the truth, nor an open adversary. Neither a zealous professor, nor a professed enemy to religion, but a Neuter. I would thou wouldst manifestly declare thyself, either for the one side, or the other, as 1 King. 18. 21. I should better brook thee, if thou didst either; as the stomach can better brook meat either hot or cold, then luke-warm between both. Annot.

〈◊〉 ]

〈◊〉 Prophet; or, seeing all. The Father of 〈◊〉 , Nehem. 3. 15. The Father of Baruch, Neh. 11. 5.

Collar]

Job 36. 18. or Edge. They used in those days to wear Coats open only at top and 〈◊〉 , and such an one full of stiff with filthy matter, must needs hurt him that puts it on, or wears it, or pulls it oft. 〈◊〉 .

Collars]

Judge. 8. 26. 〈◊〉 sweet jewels, marg.

Collection]

Legal, 2 Chr. 24. 6, 9. Voluntary, 1 Cor. 16. 2.

College]

2 King. 22. 14. or in the school, or second part, which was that 〈◊〉 of the City divided from that part where the Kings palace was. Some take it to be the middle Court mentioned, chap. 20. 4. Being taken for a College (as well it may) it implieth that place where Prophets and such as were children of the Prophets had their usual abode. Annot.

〈◊〉 of fat]

Job 15. 27. So much that one may as it were take it up by handfuls. Annot.

Colony]

A City or place, the people whereof once came from another City or Country that was before it, Act. 16. 12.

Colossae]

〈◊〉 . A City of Phrygia, which is in the Lesser Asia, Col. 1. 2. It seems to be derived of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a large and tall image.

Colour]

Cloak or pretence, Act. 27. 30. Dye, paint, or tincture, Isa. 54. 11. Spoken of the Plague, Lev. 13. 55. of Manna, Lev. 11. 7. of Wine, Prov. 23. 31. of Amber, Ezek. 1. 4. of burnished Brasse, Ib. 7. of a Buryll, Ib. 16. of Crystal, Ib. 22. of polished Brasse, Dan. 10. 6. of 〈◊〉 , Rev. 17. 4. of a Coat, Gen. 37. 3. of a Garment, 2 Sam. 13. 18. of Stones, 1 Chron. 29. 2. of an Eagle, Ezek. 17. 3. Colour of it, Numb. 11. 7. Heb. eye of it, marg.

Divers colors, Ezek. 17. 3. Heb. Imbroydering, marg.

Many colors, Gen. 37. 3. or pieces, marg.

;; Many colors: An imbroydered coat, various and manifold in threads and colors, Gen. 37. 3. Such Kings 〈◊〉 used to wear, 2 Sam. 13. 18. and with such God spiritually clotheth his Church, Psal. 45. 14, 15. 〈◊〉 . 16. 10, 13. and thereby is noted the variety of wisdom, and manifold graces given to his people, Eph. 3. 〈◊〉 . 1 Pet. 4. 10. Cant. 1. 9, 10. And Christ had such above his fellows, Psal. 45. 8. Heb. 1. 9.

Scarlet coloured]

Rev. 17. 3. Hereby is meant the royal pride and bloudthirstiness of this beast, as also of this woman, as appeareth by verse. 4. and 6. D. Annot.

Colt, or Foal]

as of a Camel, Gen. 32. 15. of an Ass, Gen. 49. 11. of a wild Ass, Job 11. 12.

To come]

;;To use, or be wont to come, Ephes. 5. 6.

;;2. To return, as Jesus did to 〈◊〉 , after Satan had tempted him, Joh. 1. 29.

Referred

• 1. To God the Father, in respect of his mercies, Exod. 20. 14. His judgments, Isa. 66. 15. Both, Psal. 50. 3. Isa. 30. 27.
• 2. The Son, before his manifestation in the flesh, Josh. 5. 14. When he was manifested, Gal. 3. 19. After his mafestation, Joh. 18. 37. After his death, Luk. 23. 42, 43. His resurrection, Joh. 20. 19. His ascension, Joh. 14. 18. His second coming, Joh. 19. 22.
• 3. The holy Ghost, Joh. 16. 13.
• 4. Satan, Joh. 14. 30.
• 5. Holy Angels. In respect of God, Job 1. 6. The children of God, Dani. 9. 22. The ungodly, Isa. 37. 36.
• 6. Men: signifying,
• • 1. To go unto one, Luk. 15. 20.
  • 2. To come against, Isa. 37. 29.
  • 3. To frequent the holy assemblies for the worship of God, 1 Chron. 16. 29. Psal. 100. 2. Isa. 1. 12. Ezek. 46. 9. Psal. 95. 6.
  • 4. To appear before a Magistrate, Judge. 18. 15.
  • 5. To marry, Dan. 11.
  • 6. To commit whoredom with one, Gen. 38. 18.
  • 7. Seriously to consider of, Rev. 6. 1.
  • 8. To be joined to the Church, Isa. 66. 18. 23.
  • 9. To invade, Gen. 34. 25.
  • 10. To enter, Gen. 24. 31.
  • 11. To present, Mic. 6. 6.
• 7. The true Doctors and Pastors of the Church, Rom. 1. 10, 13. & 15. 22, 23, 24, 29.
• 8. To false Teachers, Mat. 7. 15. Joh. 10. 8. 2 Thess. 2. 9. and scoffers, 2 Pet. 3. 3. Jude 18.
• 9. Several other things: as of the bodies which shall rise again, 1 Cor. 15. 35, Dogs, Luk. 16. 21. The beasts of the field, Isa. 56. 9. The wolf, Joh. 10. 12. The fowls of the air, Mar. 4. 4. The star, Mat. 2. 9. The light, Joh. 3. 19. The wind, Job 1. 19. A voice, Mar. 9. 7. Floods, Mat. 7. 25. Luk. 6. 48. A vessel, Act. 11. 5. Peace, Mat. 10. 13. Faith, Gal. 3. 23. Good, Rom. 3. 8. Blessings, Deut. 33. 16. The day of Judgment, Mat. 24. 14. Apostasy, 2 Thess 2. 3. The Kingdom of God, Luk. 〈◊〉 . 2. The marriage of the Lamb, Rev. 19. 7. Time, Luk. 22. 7. Joh. 4. 23. Wickedness, Lam. 1. 22. Jonah 1. 2.

This word is also used both in inciting and counseling unto wickedness, Gen. 19. 32. In inviting unto the participation of kindnesses, Numb. 10. 29. In rebuking or railing, 2 Sam. 16. 7. in provoking one another, 2 King. 14. 8. as to set forth some strange extraordinary matter, Judge. 4. 22. Rev. 6. 3. It's also put for happen, or befall, Prov. 26. 2. Return, Act. 1. 11. Ready pressed, Psal. 40. 7. Arise, Numb. 24. 17. To be manifest, Rom. 7. 9.

Come]

The Church seeing Christ come to her with much willingness and celerity, Cant. 2. 8. hears him calling upon her to come forth into the comfortable light of his presence, and show herself cheerful in him, Cant. 2. 10. To shake off all that dull security wherewith she had been held, and come forth and enjoy him, verse. 13. Seeing according to her desire he 〈◊〉 come into his garden, Cant. 5. 1. she again turning obeyed his call, calleth him to come that they might 〈◊〉 together in their natural care, Cant. 7. 11. of whom Christ, who is this that cometh up from the 〈◊〉 ? Who is this that from the comfortless deserts of ignorance, of fidelity, of tribulation, ascendeth thus up into the glorious light and liberty of my chosen? Cant. 8. 5. Hall.

;; To come: To invade and take upon him the Tyrannical government and power over God's people, as Antichrist shall do. Rev. 17. 10. 〈◊〉 is not yet come, but when he cometh, &c. Some understand this of the 〈◊〉 Nerva, and his short and cruel reign, but the former is better ard fitter.

Some understand this of the Gothish Kingdom of Italy, for it lasted but a while in comparison of the Emperors, but a short space, but if it be meant of the Pope, it intimateth, that the Popes power shall not abide forever. It may seem long to those that suffer under it, but it is short in God's sight, 2 Pet. 3. 8. and in respect of the eternal happiness of God's Saints. Rom. 8. 18. 2 Cor. 4. 16, 17, 18. a longer time is said to be short, chap. 22. 6, 7, 10, 12, 20. Annot.

;;Secondly, To approach, draw near, or be present; so do the whole Church present, and that which is to succeed, and every true member in whom Christ his Spirit dwelleth, all and everyone, earnestly desire the full accomplishment of good things, promised and prophesied of in this Revelation, to be present and to draw near, especially, the Marriage of the Lamb. Rev. 22. 17.

The Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and let him that heareth, say, Come, &c.

To come down from beaven]

;;To have God for the Author and founder (not men) of anything, or to have a heavenly original and beginning. Rev. 21. 2. And I 〈◊〉 new Jerusalem come down from heaven.

;;2. To be deputed and assigned to some great service and work, about the ruinating of 〈◊〉 by the appointment 〈◊〉 God. Rev. 18. 1. I saw an Angel come down from heaven.

;;Thus also is the Devil said to come down into the earth, Rev. 12. 2. to signify, that he was sent among the reprobate, the children of this world, by the just judgment of God, to execute his vengeance on their souls and bodies.

To come anon, or quickly]

;;To follow or fall out shortly, within a small time. Thus the Scripture ufeth to speak of the last day, when eternal woe (here called the 〈◊〉 woe) shall be executed upon reprobates; as the end is at hand, the Judge is at the door, these be the last days, &c. because in God's account, a thousand years are but as a day. Rev. 11. 14. The third woe shall come anon, or quickly.

;;Other learned men think the meaning to be that the calamities which shall happen to God's enemies before the coming of Christ, shall be but short, in comparison of some miseries which shall happen under the second trumpet. Both expositions may stand well together.

Come to fulfil these things. Or, to judgment, that we may be with thee forever. Annot.

To come to God]

;;To join himself to the true God, as his servant and true worshiper, Heb. 11. 6. He that comes to God, that is, for refuge in this life, and salvation in the life to come.

Heb. 10. 37. He that shall come, will come, even the Messiah or Christ, Mat. 11. 9. Rev. 1. 4. Annot.

Heb. 7. 5. Though they come out of the loins of Abraham, that is, are descended of him, or his posterity, Heb. 4. 1. lest any of you should seem to come short of it. As those who run in a race, and yet come not to the goal, and receive not the prize, 1 Cor. 9. 24. or come late, as the foolish Virgins, Mat. 23. 10. Annot.

Come up hither]

Rev. 4. 1. Come 〈◊〉 , not by motion of the body, but attention of the mind. He must be a separate man, and after a sort go out of himself, and go up unto God, to be familiar with him, who would see the things of God. Cowper.

Come in]

Rev. 3. 20. I will come into him. I will unite myself to him, take up my lodging with him, and make mine abode in his soul. Isa. 57. 15. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Joh. 4. 16. Annot.

To come into the world]

;;To be born of a woman, and by natural birth from his mother to enter into this world, Joh. 1. 9. Thus expounded by Christ, in Joh. 18. 37. For this cause was I 〈◊〉 , and for this cause came I into the world.

To 〈◊〉 leaping]

;;To draw nigh with great speed, or to make great hast to come to one whom we love, Cant. 2. 8. He cometh leaping.

To come out]

;;To forsake all fellowship with the ungodly in their wicked manners, but especially with Idolaters and idolatry. 2 〈◊〉 . 6. 17. Come out from amongst them, and separate yourselves. Rev. 18. 4. Come out of her my people. This is a spiritual 〈◊〉 only, when the bodily and local separation cannot be had.

In time to come, Gen. 30. 33. Heb. tomorrow, marg.

Cometh on, Deut. 23. 11. Hebr. turneth towards, marg.

Come to hand, Judge. 20. 48. Heb. found, marg.

Come to naught, Job 8. 22. Heb. not be, marg.

Come to pass, 1 Sam. 14. 1. or, there was a day, marg.

Come upon, Deut. 4. 30. Heb. find, marg. Judge. 20. 41. Heb. touched, marg. Psal. 27. 2. Heb. approached against, marg.

Come with a company, Judge. 18. 23. gather together, marg.

Come]

Shall come upon him, Job 15. 21. The Hebr. word signifies,

• 1 To come to a place, Gen. 43. 21.
• 2 When it is spoken of the Sun, it signifieth the setting of it, Gen. 28. 11.
• 3 When of a Mans carriage to a Woman, it is a modest expression of lying with her, Psal. 51. title.
• 4 〈◊〉 of Days, it notes our old age, Genes. 24. 1.
• 5 When of Words, it signifies the fulfilling of them.
• 6 When of Corn, it intimates the gathering of it, Hag. 1. 6.
• 7 When of a Congregation or Society of men, it notes admission into it, as a member to enjoy all the privileges of it, Deut. 23. 3.
• 8 When of a Covenant, it signifies making of a Covenant, or accepting of it. Jer. 34. 10.
• 9 When with application to Fathers, it signifies dying, Gen. 15. 15.
• 10 When of a 〈◊〉 without life, it notes the coming to pass of a thing, Gen. 1. 19.
• 11 When it is joined with going out, it signifies administering an office in the Common-wealth, Church, or Family, Numb. 27. 17. Annot.

Before they came together, Mat. 1. 18. or were married; for betwixt betrothing and marriage, there was wont to be a 〈◊〉 space, Deut. 20. 7. in which that which is here related might well fall out, her being or 〈◊〉 to be with-child. Dr. Ham. Annot. f.

〈◊〉 thou he that should come? Mat. 11. 3. The Person or name of Christ, as the Messias of the Jews, was so unknown, that he was wont by them to be expressed by some circumlocutions; particularly, by this of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , he that cometh, & Luk. 19. 38. by 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the coming King, by which is distinctly meant the Messias, entering on those great offices to which he was designed and destined by God. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.

Shall come to me, Job 6. 37. Coming to Christ, is believing on him, and is a consequent of God's giving them to Christ, not antecedent to it; and therefore when they are given to Christ, they are not looked upon as Believers already, but those that will be such. Dr. Hammond Annot. d.

〈◊〉 shall be the sign of thy coming? Mat. 24. 3. There's a threefold coming of Christ;

• 1 In the flesh, to be born among us.
• 2 At the day of doom, to judge the world, 1 Cor. 15. 23.
• 3 A middle coming, partly in vengeance, and partly for the deliverance of his servants. In vengeance, visible and observable on his enemies and Chucifiers, (and first on the people of the Jews, those of them that remain impenitent unbelievers, ) And in mercy, to the relief of the 〈◊〉 Christians. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.

Cometh]

Joh. 5. 26. Heb. ascendeth, marg.

He cometh]

;;He shall come after the manner of the Prophets, which for certainty use the present time when they speak of things to come, Jude 14.

Comets]

Such as come, Heb. 10. 1.

Coming]

1 Sam. 16. 4. Heb. meeting, marg. 1 Cor. 1. 7. Gr. revelation, marg.

Coming of Antichrist]

;;His effectual and mighty presence and working for some great hurt unto others. 1 Joh. 2. 18. Ye have heard that Antichrist shall come.

;; Note: God's coming to men is to be taken according to the sense of men, when they 〈◊〉 his divine presence and majesty so, as they plainly know they 〈◊〉 to do with God, and are not deceived by their own fancies, as 〈◊〉 delusions, Gen. 20. 3.

Coming of Christ from the Father]

;;Christ his being born Man, 〈◊〉 he might live here, and do the work of a Mediator, by his 〈◊〉 of the Law, and suffering the shameful death of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Joh. 15. 27, 28. I am come out from the Father, 1 Tim. 1. 15. This is a coming in 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 .

Coming of Christ to the Father]

;;His leaving the world, and going up to his Father. Joh. 17. 13. And now Father, I come to thee. This is a coming in glory: As also his coming at the last day 〈◊〉 be glorious.

Coming of Christ to us]

;;The 〈◊〉 of his Spirit to convert 〈◊〉 , that our hearts may be made his dwelling place, Rev. 3. 20. I will come in to him, Eph. 3. 17. Also the time of his coming, 1 Thess. 2. 13.

;;2, Giving new tokens of his spiritual presence, by comforting and strengthening us, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 grace in us. Joh. 14. 18. I will not leave you fatherless, but will come unto you. Also verse. 23, 28. This is a coming in mercy and favor.

;;3. Executing his judgments against sin and sinners. Rev. 2. 16. 〈◊〉 , or I will come unto thee, and fight against them. This is a coming in wrath.

;;4. The manifestation of him and his coming, Mat. 10. 23. Or his coming with wisdom to teach, power to work, and mercy to redeem.

;;Coming of Christ to us is threefold.;;

• ;;1 In nature, as Man; or God incarnate.;;
• ;;2 In grace, as the Savior of Men.;;
• ;;3 In glory, as the Judge of Men.;;

;;Note that Christ's coming is,;;

• ;;1 In shadows or ceremonies of the Law, and types of the Fathers, but not in the shape assumed.;;
• ;;2 In shape of a man assumed, but not in person. Josh. 5. 13. Exod. 3. 2. Dan. 3. 25.;;
• ;;3 In the person of another man, not his own nature human, 1 Pet. 3. 19.;;
• ;;4 Insubstance of his own taken of the Virgin 〈◊〉 , Joh. 1. 11, 15. 1 Joh. 5. 20. or to be incarnate.;;

;;Christ's coming to us is distinguished by the manner thereof, or by three figures or parts of his journey from heaven.;;

• ;;1. He was in Leo, i. e. in the Law, thundering as a Lion that none could endure his voice, Exod. 20. 10. then a Law-giver or Counselor.;;
• ;;2. In Virgo, or in his incarnation or birth of the Virgin 〈◊〉 , Mat. 1. 25. Speaking to us mildly, and by the way of mercy entreating us, and his Father for us: Here he was a Mediator.;;
• ;;3. In 〈◊〉 , to weigh our works as in a balance at the last day, Dan. 5. 27. & 7. 13, 14. Here he will be a Judge.;;

;;Or according to the times:;;

• ;;1 Past.;;
• ;;2 Present.;;
• ;;3 To come.;;

;; 〈◊〉 , according to the ends and fashions of the ends:;;

• ;;1 Ad homines. ;;
• ;;2 In homines. ;;
• ;;3 Contra homines. Bernard. Serm. 3. de Advent. Dom. that is:;;

• ;;1 Ad homines, per sui incarnationem, & 〈◊〉 redemptionem.;;
• ;;2 In homines, per Spiritus S. infusionem, & nostram regenerationem. ;;
• ;;3 Contra homines, per gloriae & potestatis 〈◊〉 , per bonorum glorificationem, & malorum condemnationem. ;;

Coming of his Kingdom]

;;The erecting and enlarging, establishing, and continuing of God's Kingdom here on earth, Mat. 6. 10.

Our coming to Christ]

;;Our believing in him. Joh. 6. 36. He that cometh to me shall never hunger, &c. Faith, as it is the mouth, hand, and eye; so it is also the foot of the soul, whereby we come unto Christ.

;;We come to God the Father by repentance of our sins, and to God the Son by faith in him for the remission of sins, Mar. 1. 15. Act. 20. 21. Mat. 11. 28, 29. Mr. Downham in his Spiritual warfare. ;;

Coming of Satan]

;;His setting upon Christ with great power and subtlety. Joh. 14. 30. The Prince of this world comes and hath naught in me.

Coming up to heaven]

;;The following of sins one after another, and arising one of another in such sort, that they at length grow to such an heap, that they come up even to heaven, Jonah 1. 2.

Comeliness]

;;That which hath in it gravity and modesty, and stirreth up to godlinese, 1 Cor. 14. 40. Let all things be done in comeliness.

• 1. External, applied to a person, 1 Sam. 16. 18. Well going, Prov. 30. 29. The whole body, Dan. 10. 8. Some parts of the body, 1 Cor. 12. 24. The outward state of a man, Isa. 53. 2. The glory of a Kingdom, Ezek. 16. 14. The proportion of Leviathan or the Whale, Job 41. 12. A woman, Jer. 6. 2. Good, Eccl. 5. 18. marg. To give thanks, Psal. 33. 1. & 147. 1.
• 2. Spiritual or mystical, spoken of the Spouse, Cant. 1. 5. Cheeks, Cant. 1. 10. Countenance, Cant. 2. 14. Speech, Cant. 4. 3. Jerusalem, Cant. 6. 4. The excellent and pleasant fruits of the appearance of Christ, Isa. 4. 2.

〈◊〉 ]

Dan. 10. 8. or Vigour, marg.

Comely]

Fair. 1 Sam. 16. 18. Lovely, graceful, Job 41. 12. ( his comely proportion, Heb. the grace of his disposition, Annot. ) fit, meet, decent, becoming, to be liked and desired, Psal. 33. 1. & 147. 1. Honorable, and of good report, Eccles. 5. 18. Beautiful, amiable, Cant. 1. 5. Goodly, brave, Isa. 4. 2. Seemly, handsome, 1 Cor. 7. 45.

Comely and delicate, Jer. 6. 2. or dwelling at home, marg.

Comely]

I am black, but comely, Cant. 1. 5. The Heb. 〈◊〉 , signifieth comely, beautiful, amiable, and to be desired. The Greek here translateth it goodly or fair, and in verse. 10. beautiful, as the Apostle, Rom. 10. 15. from Isa. 52. 7. This comeliness of the Spouse, is after shown to be both in her sight, or countenance, Cant. 2. 14. and in her speech, Cant. 4. 3. and as blackness is in the color and skin; so comeliness is in the parts, features and proportion of the body, which the Church hath by her creation, or new birth, Eph. 2. 10. Thus was she black in herself, but comely in Christ; for God's strength is made perfect 〈◊〉 weakness, see 2 Cor. 12. 9, 10. & 2 Cor. 4. 8, 9, 10. Ainsworth.

I am black by nature, but fair by grace; black without, but within all glorious and comely: I am black in myself and my sufferings, as my Beloved was, (whose 〈◊〉 was marred and disfigured more then any man's, Isa. 53. 14.) but yet beautiful in him, who was fairer then the sons of men, and hath put his comeliness and beauty upon me. I am black in some blasted and dead parts, Apostates and Hypocrites; but in my true and living members I am true and 〈◊〉 ; for as there may be a decency where there is no perfection; a desireableness and loveliness, even where some spots, (why else would our gallants use so many?) So there may be a true Church full of 〈◊〉 and decency, though not perfect and wholly beautiful. Annot.

Comely.

• 1. By the present purity of God's Ordinances in the Temple, Psal. 48. 1, 2. 2 Chr. 13. 10, -12.
• 2. The constancy of the upright in cleaving to God, to the King, to the house of God, and David, the which was done in profession by whole Judah and Benjamin, and the Israelites inhabiting in the Cities of Judah, but in truth by the upright, 1 King. 12. 17, 20, 23. Cotton.

I am inwardly well-favored in the eyes of him whom I seek to please. Hall.

Inwardly and in the hidden man amiable and full of beauty, and that through Christ and his righteousness. Finch. Accordingly Christ termeth her cheeks comely. Cant. 1. 10. comely her countenance, Cant. 2. 14. her speech also comely, Cant. 4. 3. herself comely as Jerusalem (being orderly built, the glory of the world) Cant. 6. 4.

Comfort]

;;God, and he,;;

• ;;1. The Father, 2 Cor. 1. 3, 4.;;
• ;;2. The Son, Joh. 14. 16. 1 Joh. 2. 1, 2.;;
• ;;3. The holy Ghost, Joh. 14. 16, 26. & 16. 7. 2. Man.;;

• ;;1. A good comforter, 2 Cor. 1. 4. 1 Thess. 4. 18.;;
• ;; 〈◊〉 . A bad one, Job 14. 4.;;

The holy Scriptures, Rom. 15. 3. 1 Cor. 14. 3. God's good creatures, Judge. 19. 5, 8. God's Ministers, 2 Cor. 1. 4. A good conscience, Job 16. 10. The Church, Isa. 66. 11. Christians, 1 Thess. 5. 18.

It's taken properly for the strengthening and encouraging of one in misery, that he may not faint, 2 Cor. 13. 11.

Improperly,

• 1. For worldly goods, Luk. 6. 24.
• 2. Great joy, Act. 20. 12.
• 3. An assent or submission unto, or justifying, Ezek. 14. 22.
• 4. Allurement, Isa. 66. 13.
• 5. Removal or appeasing of grief, Gen. 38. 35.
• 6. Deliverance from trouble, Psal. 71. 21.
• 7. Eternal life, Mat. 5. 4. Luk. 6. 25.
• 8. Exhortation, 1 Thess. 5. 11. marg.

Comfort]

An easing or mitigating of grief, Job 6. 10. Psal. 119. 50.

Comfort]

1 Thess. 4. 18. or exhort, marg. Judge. 19. 5. Heb. strengthen, marg.

Comfortable]

2 Sam. 14. 17. Heb. for rest, marg. that is; gracious and favorable, Zech. 1. 13. Such as tended to the 〈◊〉 of the present miseries they were in. Annot.

Comfortably]

2 Sam. 19. 7. Heb. to the heart, marg. So Isa. 40. 2. marg. or Friendly, Hos. 2. 14. marg.

Comforter]

Eccl. 4. 1. It is some ease of a man in sorrow, to see others pity him, and a great aggravation of misery to be without a Comforter; when a man's adversaries are so powerful, so malicious and cruel, that others are afraid so much as to pity him, Job 6. 14, 15. & 19. 21. 〈◊〉 .

The Comforter, Joh. 14. 26. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or the Advocate. So Christ is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , 1 Joh. 21. 1. See Rom. 8. 26. They were called Advocates, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , who were called or retained to speak or plead for them, who had indictments against them, or otherwise were impleaded in any Court of 〈◊〉 . One entreated to favor another in judgment, an Intercessor. Annot.

He shall give you another Comforter, Joh. 14. 16. The word Paraclete in the Greek comes from a word of a large, and so ambiguous signification, and consequently may be rendered Advocate, Exhorter, or Comforter, and everyone of these do firly 〈◊〉 to the offices of the holy Ghost among the Apostles (on whom he was to descend) and ever since in the Church, and therefore ought not to be so rendered by any of these, as to exclude the others, but to be left in the latitude of the signification, which belongs to the Greek word; yet one notion there is of the word, which seems to be especially referred unto, both here, and chap. 16. 8. namely, that of an Advocate or Interlocutor, an Advocate of the Christians cause with God, Rom. 8. 26. and so also with Men, teaching the Apostles what they shall say, when they are brought before Kings, Mat. 10. 20. and an Advocate or Actor of Christ's cause against the world of Unbelievers and Crucifiers, Joh. 15. 26. and efficaciously convincing the Adversaries, 〈◊〉 . 16. 8. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.

Comfortless]

Joh. 14. 18. or Orphans, marg.

Command]

;;To enjoin, require, appoint, and send with power and authority, Psal. 42. 8. & 148. 5. Act. 1. 2. Forbidden by commandment, Gen. 2. 16.

;;2. To order, 〈◊〉 , execute, as Isa. 10. 6. 2 Sam. 16. 11. Jer. 34. 22. God commandeth something by his manifest will revealed in his Word, either universal to all, or singularly pertaining to some; or by his hidden will and secret providence.

;;Also to command, is effectually to procure a thing to be done, Gen. 50. 16.

This word comprehendeth, instruction, prediction, exhortation, consolation, Mat. 11. 1. compared with chap. 10. 6, 17, 26, 40. Gen. 49. 33.

It's referred,

First, To God, whose command extendeth to the earth, Psal. 33. 9. Heavens, Psal. 68. 5. His people, Exod. 34. 11. The adversaries of the Church, Lam. 1. 17. Creatures, 2 Chr. 7. 13. Clouds, Isa. 5. 6. Serpents, Amos 9. 3. Foul spirits, Mark 1. 27.

And signifieth,

• 1. His authority and power over his creatures, Psal. 148. 5.
• 2. His will and readiness to help his own children in their distress, Psal. 42. 8.
• 3. To enjoin, appoint, charge, order or decree, Jer. 44. 22.
• 4. To require, or crave due obedience unto his laws, Deut. 11. 22.
• 5. To procure, or work, Psal. 44. 4.
• 6. To give power, Job 36. 10.
• 7. Impose, Neh. 9. 14.
• 8. To restrain, Isa. 5. 6.
• 9. To stablish, Psal. 33. 9.

God's commands are either common to all, as, To fear him, love him, &c. or particular to some, according to their callings and places.

Secondly, To Man, as Parents their children, Gen. 18. 19. & 50. 16. Masters their servants, Gen. 42. 25. Governors their officers, Josh. 1. 11. Kings their subjects, 2 Chr. 14. 4. Pastors their people, 2 Thess. 3. 4, 6. It also signifieth bidding, or word, Job 39. 27.

To command]

Ezr. 4. 13. To set a decree, marg.

Command]

Job 39. 27. Heb. mouth, marg.

To command a blessing]

;;The sending it effectually, Gen. 50. 16. Lev. 25. 21. Deut. 28. 23.

Commanded]

Heb. 12. 20. They could not endure that which was commanded, namely either that, Go ye not up into the Mount, or touch the border of it, whosoever toucheth the Mount shall be surely put to death, Exod. 19. 12. or rather the Decalogue, which Moses called the ten words. Exod. 34. 28. marg. for upon the hearing thereof, they were taken with such a fear, that they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us, lest we die, Exod. 20. 19. Pareus.

Commandment]

;;Something given in charge: or the knowledge of the Law: or the Doctrine of Christ, Rom. 7. 8, 9. Joh. 12. 50. Or, the whole Word, whereof no part but either directly or indirectly requireth something, which is not in our choice to do, or not to do, Psal. 19. 8.

;; Note: That there be two sorts of Commandments, one common to all, as to love God, and to practice righteousness, &c. Another particular to some only, according to some particular gift and calling of God, as to sell all, and give to the poor, and to live unmarryed, &c. This latter the Fathers call a counsel, being indeed a precept.

Commandments are,

• 1. Of Men, Isa. 29. 13. Lawful, Gen. 45. 21. Unlawful, Act. 4. 18.
• 2. Of God, Mat. 15. 6. Natural, Rom. 2. 14, 15. Moral, Exod. 20. Ceremonial, Heb. 7. 16. Political, Exod. 21. 1, 31. Numb. 27. 11. Of trial only, Gen. 22. 2. Jer. 35. 2, 5. Mat. 19. 21.

Commandment: Gen. 45. 21. 〈◊〉 . mouth, marg. Exod. 34. 28. Heb. word, marg. Ezr. 6. 14. Chaldee. decree, marg. 1 Joh. 3. 11. message, see marg.

An old Commandment which ye had from the beginning, 1 Joh. 2. 7. That which you were taught at the first preaching of the faith unto you. Those whom this Apostle here writes unto, were they which had formerly by his preaching received the Christian faith, and the end of this Epistle being to confirm their constancy against the Seducers that were now amongst them; it might be unto them a sufficient argument to receive, that what now he said to them, was no more then he had taught them, and they had absolutely believed and entertained at the first preaching of the Gospel unto them. These Seducers bring you new doctrine. That which I bring you, is not so, but the very doctrine that you received at the very first preaching of the Gospel to you; and that which you did receive so, deserves to be looked on, not with suspicion, as novel, but with security, as an old commandment; which you can no more mistake in adhering to, then you can think you did in your first receiving of the Faith. Dr. Hammond Paraph. & Annot. a.

A new commandment I write unto you, 1 Joh. 2. 8. The phraie sure refers to the words of Christ, Joh. 13. 34. where the duty of charity to our Brethren, though it had been commanded by Moses Law, yet was now elevated to an higher pitch, by Christ's example and precept founded therein, even to loving enemies, and laying down or venturing our very lives for the spiritual advantage of other men; in which respect this degree of Charity now required by Christ, is by him styled a new commandment, Ibid.

Commandments]

Rev. 22. 14. Blessed are they that do his Commandments, Christ's, if the Angel speak in his own person; or God's, if Christ speak, or, the Angel in the person of Christ. Annot.

Commander]

Isa. 55. 4. One whose commands under pain of eternal destruction, each one standeth bound in all things to obey, Act. 3. 22, 23. 2 Thess. 1. 8. Heb. 5. 9. Annot.

To commend]

;;To praise another for virtue, and commit them of trust to be pleasured, Rom. 16. 1.

Also, To put in trust with, Luk. 23. 46. To commit to, Act. 20. 32. To extol, or praise, 2 Cor. 3. 1. & 10. 18. To make acceptable, 1 Cor. 8. 8. 2 Cor. 4. 2.

Commendation]

2 Cor. 3. 1. Epistles of Commendation, Letters commendatory, such as are written in praise or commendation of one.

Commission]

Act. 26. 12. or, Charge, Ezra 8. 36. Commands and Ordinances. Annot.

To commit]

signifieth,

• 1. To entrust to ones fidelity and care, 2 Tim. 2. 2.
• 2. To leave or resign ones self, Psal. 10. 14.
• 3. To put over, or leave a cause, 1 Pet. 2. 23.
• 4. To act or do, as Sin, Lev. 4. 35. Trespass, Lev. 5. 7. Abomination, Lev. 20. 13. Lewdness, Judge. 20. 6. Iniquity, Psal. 106. 6. Whoredom, Lev. 20. 5. Fornication, 2 Chr. 21. 11. Falsehood, Hos. 7. 1. Adultery, Mat. 5. 27. Sacrilege, Rom. 2. 22. Evils, Jer. 2. 13. Villany, Jer. 29. 23. Transgression, Ezek. 18. 22. Murder, Mar. 15. 7. Offence, 2 Cor. 11. 7.
• 5. To recommend, Psal. 35. 1.
• 6. To credit with the disposal of, Psal. 37. 5. Prov. 16. 3.
• 7. To trust or rely upon, Joh. 2. 24.
• 8. To bequeath or refer, Joh. 5. 22.
• 9. To commit unto ones charge, Gen. 39. 8. 22.
• 10. To give or enjoin, 1 Tim. 1. 18.
• 11. To imprison, Act. 8. 3.
• 12. To give charge of, Jer. 40. 7.

Commit: Psal. 10. 14. Hebrew leave, marg. 1 Chron. 10. 13. Hebrew transgress, Ezek. 15. 8. Hebrew trespass, marg.

To commit the Gospel]

;;By authority and commandment to charge and enjoin the preaching and publishing of the Gospel to Jews and Gentiles two several people, but one Gospel to be declared to both. Gal. 2. 7. The Gospel of uncircumcision was committed to me. 1 Tim. 6. 20. The doctrine of Christ, as a gage, or pledge is delivered to Ministers.

To commit fornication]

;;To partake with the Romish Church in her spiritual whoredom, namely, in the corruption of true Faith and Religion, by Heresy and Idolatry. This is one cause of Babylon's downfall, that she was not content only to adulterate and deprave God's worship, but drew people, yea Kings and Princes, into the society of her errors, and superstition. Rev. 18. 3. The Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.

That which is committed to one]

;;A gage, stake, or pledge put in trust to be kept sure and safe, either on God's part to men: thus is the doctrine of the Gospel committed to the credit and trust of Pastors, 1 Tim. 6. 20. 2 Tim. 1. 14.

;;2. On our part to God, as the Saints by faith and hope, trust God with their salvation. 2 Tim. 1. 13. He is able to keep what I have committed to him.

;;The souls and bodies of men, the natural gifts, and the artificial qualities and spiritual graces thereof, are committed by God to men, to keep them for the service of God.

Committed unto us]

2 Cor. 5. 19. Gr. put in us, marg.

Commodious]

Act. 27. 12. Was not commodious, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , of ae priv. & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , well, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , placed. The haven was not convenient and fit for their purpose.

Common]

;;That which is common for the use of it, and not in possession. Act. 4. 34. They had all things common, and gave to every man as he had need.

;;2. Unclean, polluted, unholy, and profane, Mat. 15. 11. Act. 4. 14. The word in the original Text, is Coinon, and Coinoun, common, or to make common. Meats forbid by Levitical Law, be therefore called common, because the profane Gentiles commonly eat those meats which the Jews being an holy people, might not eat.

3. That which is usual and ordinary, as a common death, Numb. 16. 29. Common bread, 1 Sam. 21. 4. A common evil, Eccl. 6. 1. Common things, Jer. 31. 5. Common temptation, 1 Cor. 10. 13.

4. That which belongeth to all God's children, as faith, Tit. 1. 4. Salvation, Jude 3. who have therein an equal interest.

5. Defiled, Mar. 7. 2.

6. Moderate, 1 Cor. 10. 13.

7. Unhallowed, free from the holy use, 1 Sam. 21. 4.

8. Profane, Jer. 31. 5.

Common bands]

;;Unwashen hands, Mar. 7. 2.

Common people]

Jer. 26. 23. Heb. Sons of the people; the promiscuous multitude, men of the meanest condition. Ann.

Common salvation]

;;That safety and freedom from sin and eternal death, purchased by Christ: which is called common salvation, because all the faithful have equal interest in it. Jude 2. To write unto you of the common Salvation: that is, (saith the Bible note) of the things which belong unto the salvation of us all.

Commonly]

Mat. 28. 15. 1 Cor. 5. 1. Usually, frequently.

Common sort]

Ezek. 23. 42. Heb. of the multitude, marg.

Common-wealth]

;;Civil society ruled by the same Laws. And one common government tending to the weal and good of all the members of that body Politick.

;;2. The Church and people of Israel set apart for God by an holy Covenant, Eph. 2. 12.

Commotion]

Jer. 10. 22. or concussion, or shaking, or noise. Annot. Seditions, Luk. 21. 9. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 there used, is in 2 Cor. 6. 5. rendered in tumults, or in tossings to and 〈◊〉 , marg.

To commune]

;;To talk together of some matter. Gen. 34. 6. To commune with him. Commonly in secret, 1 Sam. 18. 22. & 19. 3.

To question, 1 King. 10. 2. Dan. 1. 19. To meditate within a man's self as if he were conferring with another, Psal. 4. 4. & 77. 6. It's spoken of God, Gen. 18. 33. Exod. 31. 18.

Communicate]

1. To make known, Gal. 2. 2.

2. To give, bestow, impart, Gal. 6. 6. Phil. 4. 14.

3. To distribute, 1 Tim. 6. 18.

4. To relieve the necessities of others, Heb. 13. 16.

Heb. 13. 16. To do good, and to communicate forget not. This is of larger extent then That, for That concerns the relieving of the needy and poor by giving and helping them; This comprehends also all other kindnesses, and duties of charity. Pareus.

1 Tim. 6. 18. Willing to communicate, or sociable, marg.

Communication]

;;Speech or talk, whereby we make our private thoughts common to others, Eph. 4. 29.

;;Good communication signifies such talk as is wholesome and bringeth benefits to others.

Communion]

;;A fellowship or agreement, when divers join and partake together in one thing. 2 Cor. 6. 14, 16. What communion? what fellowship? what agreement?

;;2. A Sacrament or Sacred sign of our spiritual fellowship with Christ, 1 Cor. 10. 16. It is a sacramental Metonymy.

3. Agreement, 2 Cor. 6. 14. It's spoken of man with man, 1 Joh. 1. 7. Of man with God the Father and Son, 1 Joh. 1. 3. and holy Ghost, 2 Cor. 13. 13. Of the body and blood of Christ, 1 Cor. 10. 16.

Communion: Is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 1 Cor. 10. 16. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 . Is it not the communication of the body of Christ; Where what is said in Christ's words to be his body, is more manifestly said to be the communication of his body; i. e. the bestowing it upon us (as the communication of the Altar among the Jews or Gentiles, is their eating of the Sacrifice, their gods entertaining them at their Sacrifical feast) which I suppose concludes this Sacrament to be, according to the nature of Sacraments, an holy Rite, a solemn Act or Instrument instituted by God, to communicate to, or confer on us the body of Christ, i. e. the efficacy and benefits of Christ's death. Dr. Ham. on Mat. 26. 26. Annot. e.

Communion with Christ]

;;Our fellowship and partaking spiritually, and indeed, with Christ himself and all his merits, by faith, unto salvation. 1 Cor. 10. 16. The bread which we break, is it not the communion of his body? No wicked have communion with Christ (whatsoever our Papists affirm) otherwise then Sacramentally, by profession, or in the opinion of the Church.

;;We have communion with Christ,;;

• ;;1. By Election in him.;;
• ;;2. By our kindred with his humanity.;;
• ;;3. By our participation of his Spirit.;;

Communion with God]

;;God being one with him, or being united to him, as a child to the father. 1 Joh. 1. 3. If ye walk in the light, ye have communion with God.

;;Our communion with God is,;;

• ;;1. To see him in his works.;;
• ;;2. To hear him in his Word.;;
• ;;3. To speak to him in prayer and praise.;;
• ;;4. To walk with him in meditation of his presence.;;

Communion of Saints]

;;The fellowship which the Saints have with Christ and all his benefits by faith, and among themselves by love, which makes all their 〈◊〉 touching the use, common to everyone, 1 Joh. 1. 4. That ye may have communion with us, and that also 〈◊〉 communion may be with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. The Papists do untiuely restrain this communion to society with their Church, which is no true Church.

;;This communion is both Active and Passive, that is, it consisteth both of doing good, and again receiving good, one to and from another.;;

;;There be divers sorts of it, of which see some, Act. 4. 32.;;

• ;;1. In doctrine or belief. Gal. 2. 9. Act. 2. 42. Phil. 3. 16. Rom. 15. 5, 6. 1 Cor. 1. 10.;;
• ;;2. In exhortation, Heb. 10. 24, 25.;;
• ;;3. In consolation, Eph. 5. 19. 1 Thess. 4. 18.;;
• ;;4. In humility or submission, Rom. 12. 10. Ephes. 5. 21.;;
• ;;5. In love, Rom. 12. 10. Col. 2. 14.;;
• ;;6. In pity, Rom. 12. 16.;;
• ;;7. In prayer, Eph. 6. 18, 19. Jam. 5. 14, 16.;;
• ;;8. In helping and relieving one another, Act. 2. 42. & 4. 32, 34, 35. Rom. 15. 26. 2 Cor. 8. 4. Gal. 6. 10.;;

;;Heb. 13. 16.;;

Communion of the Saints]

;;The fellowship which the faithful have in the same graces and works of the Spirit. Phil. 2. 1. If any fellowship of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 13. 13. The communion of the holy Ghost 〈◊〉 with you all.

;;2. The fellowship which all the godly have by means of the same graces of the Spirit, with God the Father and the Son, and so consequently with the Spirit, as 1 Cor. 6. 17. Joh. 17. 21, 22, 23. 1 Cor. 12. 27. & 6. 15, 17, 19. 1 Joh. 1. & 2 Cor. 13. 13. Where the fellowship of the holy Ghost with the godly (not the fellowship of him with the Father and the Son, nor of one godly man with another) is meant: For,;;

• ;;1. It is said, be with you. ;;
• ;;2. Because the grace of Christ, and love of the Father is with them.;;

〈◊〉 ]

Psal. 122. 3. Joyned to itself, fitly framed and built together for an 〈◊〉 of God through the Spirit, Eph. 2. 21, 22. Ainsworth.

By the artificial joining and beauty of the houses, is signified the concord and love that is between the Citizens. Annot. See Eph. 4. 16.

To company]

To keep fellowship and be familiar with, Act. 1. 21. & 10. 28. 1 Cor. 5. 9, 11. 2 Thess. 3. 14. The words, Nations, Ishmaelites, Prophets, Horses, Armies, Priests, People, &c. added unto Company, make known the meaning of the several phrases.

Company]

To come together, or converse with, Act. 1. 21. To be mingled with, 1 Cor. 5. 9. Where such an inward familiarity is meant, as is betwixt a man and his friend. Leigh. C. S. in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 .

Company]

Psal. 68. 11. Heb. Army, marg. Camp, Gen. 32. 7. A multitude of assembly, Gen. 35. 11. Troop, Ib. 37. 25. Congregation, Numb. 16. 5, 6. Family, children, attendants, Job 16. 7. Annot.

Inquity, Job 34. 8. Annot.

Society, concourse, the multitude that run together, frequenting the public Assemblies, Psal. 55. 14. Ainsworth.

Company of two Armies]

;;A double Army, joyfully meeting Christ with his elect, Angels being one Army, and the Church with her company, another Army, Cant. 6. 13. As the company of two Armies. See Two Armies.

Companies]

Isa. 57. 13. Thy troops, Heb. thy gathered ones. 〈◊〉 .

Companion]

Taken,

• 1. For a familiar friend, Judge. 15. 2.
• 2. Fishers, Job 41. 6.
• 3. Counterfeit Teachers, Hirelings, and false Prophets, which in their pride advance themselves to be companions to Christ in the office of Teaching, Cant.
• 4. Touse the company of, or to be coversant with, Psal. 119. 63. Prov. 13. 20. Isa. 1. 23.
• 5. A confederate, or bound by some special covenant, Mal. 2. 14.
• 6. A Co-partner or fellow in any condition, as travel, Act. 19. 29. Labor, Phil. 2. 25. Sufferings, Heb. 10. 33. Tribulation, Rev. 1. 9. 〈◊〉 or counsel, Ezra 4. 7.

Companion]

;;One that taketh part with another in suffering, Heb. 10. 33. Ye were companions with them.

Companions, Ezra 4. 7. Heb. Societies, marg.

Companions]

;; 〈◊〉 Teachers, hirelings, and false Prophets, which in their pride advance themselves to be companions to Christ, in Office of teaching. This doth the Pope, none more, Cant. 1. 7. To the flocks of thy companions.

False Assemblies or corrupt Congregations, who preten ded to be 〈◊〉 , but are seducers, Mat. 24. 24. yet these 〈◊〉 guides have many followers, as Wasps have combes but no Honey, many flocks, several divisions and subdivisions of them, which we should avoid, and follow that one Shepherd, Ezek. 37. 24. whose flock is but one and without Schism, and upon whose mountains we should all abide. Annot. So in effect Ainsworth.

By companions in Cant. 8. 13. are meant her fellewchristians, partakers of the same faith, Spirit and grace, 2 pet. 1. 1. Ainsworth.

Whom it was her duty to instruct and teach, not to 〈◊〉 over them, being her compainons, not her servants, or handmaids. Annot.

Comparable]

Lam. 4. 2. To be set by, esteemed, valued, prised.

Compare]

To liken or resemble, Psal. 89. 6. Isa. 40. 18. To equal, Prov. 3. 15. & 8. 11. To fit and apply words like to the nature of the matter; as spiritual words (savouring of the Spirit) to spiritual things, 1 Cor. 2. 13. that the things taught, and manner of utterance, with agreeable words and speeches, may be alike.

Compare]

I have compared thee, Cant. 1. 9. or, I have likened, thought thee to be like. Ainsworth. Or, made thee like. By the virtue of the Word and Spirit of Christ, we are transformed, and being without anything praise worthy before, are changed from glory to glory. Annot.

Comparison]

The equalling or likening of one thing with another, either more or less, Judge. 8. 2, 3. Hag. 2. 3. Mar. 4. 30.

Comparison]

;;The putting or setting together in one sentence, two equal, or like things; by the one to manifest and make plain the other. Mark 4. 30. With that comparison, &c.

;;2. Applying the words to the matter, that things taught, and the kind of teaching may be like. 1 Cor. 2. 13. Comparing spiritual things, &c.

To compass]

put for,

• 1. To crown, Psal. 5. 12.
• 2. To stand round about, Psal. 7. 7.
• 3. To offer large sacrifice, Psal. 26. 6.
• 4. Every way to cause joy, Psal. 32. 7.
• 5. To besiege round, Luk. 19. 43.
• 6. Clothed, Heb. 5. 2.
• 7. Plentifully furnished, Heb. 12. 7.

A woman shall compass a man]

;;Either that the Church of God (which is compared to a woman or barren widow, as Isa. 54. 1.) though she were spoiled of her own children for her rebellions, yet as a widow or barren woman should compass a man, and have sons and daughters elsewhere: Or else that a Virgin should conceive and bear a man in her womb, which is a strange thing in earth, one to be born of a woman without a man. Jer. 31. 22. See Geneva' s notes and Trem.

Compass]

Psal. 5. 12. Heb. crown, marg. Psal. 139. 3. Winnow, marg.

To compass the Saints]

;;To bring the Church into a narrow straight, being beset with the Devils Army on every side. Rev. 20. 9. And they compassed the tents of the Saints about.

Endevouring that none of the faithful might escape them. See the like 2 King. 6. 14, 15. & 25. 1. Annot.

Compass]

The square compass that was within the Altar that was hallowed, Exod. 27. 1, 8. Where either by rings or on a leg, the grate was hanged on the midst. This signified the place within where the holy fire always burneth, that is, the heart which sustaineth also the Sacrifice; and where all ashes and excrements of corruption are inwardly conveyed away, as they are discovered by God's Word and Spirit, and our Sanctification furthered by afflictions, 2 Tim. 1. 3. & 2. 22. Rom. 12. 1. 11. Heb. 9. 14. & 12. 10. Ainsworth. on Exod. 27. 5. A turning about, Numb. 34. 5. A circle, Prov. 8. 27. marg. An instrument called a Compass, Isa. 44. 13.

To be compassed with infirmities]

;;To bear about a Nature subject to the same fins, and discommodities, Heb. 5. 2. Being compassed with the same infirmities.

Compassed with Lilies]

;;Abundantly blessed with pleasant sweetness, (such as Lilies yield to the body) for the spiritual delight. Thy belly is as an heap of wheat compassed about with 〈◊〉 .

Compassion]

;;Suffering together, when two or three feel the same grief; and properly, it is that motherly compassion, pittisulness, feeling, and grieving for the misery of her child, Isa. 49. 15. This is natural compassion.

;;2. ( Being reserred to God ) The merciful nature of God, infinitely inclined to pity and succor the miseries of his creature, namely, of his elect. Psal. 103. 13. The Lord hath 〈◊〉 on them that fear him. 2 Cor. 1. 4. God of all compassions. This is divine compassion.

;;3. ( Being referred to Men ) The natural pity or fellowfeeling which Christians have of each others misery, as if they suffered together. Luk. 10. 33. 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 him he had compassion on him. Heb. 13. 2. Remember them that are in bonds, as if yourselves were in bonds. This is Christian compassion.

As the Lord is full of compassion, Psal. 86. 15. and it's according to the multitude of his mercies, Lam. 3, 22. absolute and free, Rom. 9. 15. So it's diversely made known; as by multiplying a Nation, Deut. 13. 17. By reducing a people from banishment, Deut. 30. 3. By giving them favor in the eyes of them that led rhem away captive, 1 King. 8. 50. By delivering them from their enemies, 2 King. 13. 23. By sending his Messengers or Ministers unto them, 2 Chr. 36. 15. By forgiving their iniquities, Psal. 78. 38. So Christ did sympathize with others in their misery, Mat. 9. 36. & 14. 14. Mark 1. 41. & 5. 19. & 9. 22, 25. Heb. 5. 2. So the primitive Christians did, Heb. 10. 34. All should, 1 Pet. 3. 8.

Compassion]

Heb. 5. 2. Have compassion, or reasonably bear with, marg.

Compassion]

;;A disposition or affection prone to pity others, so much as need is, Heb. 5. 2. which is able sufficiently to have compassion.

To compel]

;;To enforce or offer bodily violence. Luk. 14. 23. Compel them to come in. 2 Chr. 21. 11.

;;2. With vehement and earnest persuasions to overcome one. Luk. 24. 29. They compelled him, saying. 1 Sam. 28. 23.

;;3. By ones example, credit, and 〈◊〉 to draw others to do as he doth. Gal. 2. 14. Why 〈◊〉 thou the Gentiles?

;;4. By pretext of public authority and power to drive and constrain some to do somewhat which is not equal and reasonable. Mat. 5. 41. If any compel thee to go a 〈◊〉 , &c. Of the original word Angereuo came the Latin word Angari, who among the Persians (as Erasmus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) were such as Posts be here in England, saving that the Persian Angari were not limited to stages and stations as ours be; also they might take either men, or ships, or horses for dispatch of public business, to bear burdens or to run in hast about errands and 〈◊〉 . These under color of their office, and in the name of the Prince, would wrong and vex men; 〈◊〉 , by a Synecdoche, any unjust vexation by show of authority, is here meant.

5. Through necessity to thrust one upon a business, Lev. 25. 39. 2 Cor. 12. 11.

6. To strive by all means to draw one unto God, Luk. 14. 23.

To complain]

Taken for,

• 1. To murmur or grudge, Numb. 11. 1. Jude 16.
• 2. To make known ones grief; Judge. 21. 22.
• 3. To lament or make moan because of sin, Lam. 3. 39. This is at some time very great, Job 23. 1. Psal. 55. 2. Psal. 102. 1. & 142. 2. at some time forged, Act. 25. 7.

Complain: Job 31. 38. Heb. weep, marg.

Complained]

Numb. 11. 1. or were as it were complaining, marg.

〈◊〉 ]

Jude v. 16. Out of discontent and envy, not content with their own condition, and finding fault with other men's, Mat. 20. 12. 1 Cor. 10. 10. Jam. 5. 9. Annot.

Complaint]

1 Sam. 1. 16. or Meditation, marg. The declaration of ones miseries, Job 21. 4. & 23. 2. marg. A crimination or inditement, Act. 25. 7. Annot.

Compleat]

;;Full, whole, or perfect. Ephes. 6. 11. Put on the complete or whole armor, &c.

Composition]

Exod. 30. 32, 37. Making, doing, or mingling, according to the due weight, measure, form, disposition. See 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in 〈◊〉 .

Compound]

Exod. 30. 33. To make, temper, or mix, after the manner of Apothecaries, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 .

To comprehend]

;;To reach unto a thing, to lay hold on it, to perceive or acknowledge. Joh. 1. 5, 10. They comprehended it not. Phil: 3. 12. That I may comprehend that, &c.

2. To contain or hold all, Isa. 40. 8. This is the primary signification.

3. To be concluded, fulfilled, contained, Rom. 13. 9.

To be conprehended of Christ]

;;To be laid hold on by Christ, showing us the way to heaven, and giving strength to walk in it. Phil. 3. 12. I am comprehended of Christ.

Conaniah]

;;A Levite. See Cononiah.

Conceal]

To keep hid, not to utter, divulge, or make known, Deut. 13. 8. Spoken of God. Prov. 25. 2. Of a prudent man, Prov. 12. 23.

〈◊〉 ]

To be 〈◊〉 in a man's own conceit, is to think too high of himself, to exalt and prefer himself above others, prohibited, Rom. 12. 16. Dangerous, Prov. 26. 5, 12, 16. & 28. 11.

Prov. 26. 5. In his own conceit, Heb. in his own eyes, marg.

Conceive]

Be capable to have, or have children, Numb. 5. 28. Devise or resolve, Jer. 49. 30. Applyed to mischief, Job 15. 35. Isa. 59. 4. To chaff, Isa. 33. 11. Spoken of women, Gen. 4. 1. & 25. 21. 1 Sam. 1. 20. Cattle, Gen. 31. 10. A virgin, Isa. 7. 14. Lust, Jam. 1. 15. So, there's both a natural, a supernatural, and a sinful conception.

Conceive: Psal. 51. 5. Heb. warm, marg. Contrive, Isa. 59. 13. Annot.

;; To conceive: To beget or become mother of children, as the Church is spiritually, Cant. 3. 4.

Conceived in sin]

;;That his sin (to wit, original sin) was conceived and born with him, Psal. 52. 7. Eph. 2. 3.

Conception]

Gen. 3. 16. This word is used for the whole space that the child is in the Mothers body until the birth, and so here implieth all the gifts and cumberances which women do endure that time. The Greek translateth it 〈◊〉 . Ainsworth.

Concern]

To belong to, Ezek. 12. 10. Act. 28. 31. 2 Cor. 11. 30.

Concerning]

For, of, as for, touching, &c. Gen. 19. 21. and 24. 9. and 42. 21. or Against, Jer. 49. 1. marg.

Concision]

;;Those false Teachers (whom he called Dogs for barking against the truth of the Gospel) to be of the circumcised Jews, boasting of circumcision and the law, made a concision, or a rent and schism, cutting themselves and others from the Church, whilst they ascribed salvation unto circumcision and works of Moses law. Phil. 3. 2. Be ware of Dogs, beware of concision. Paul writeth thus by an elegant allusion unto circumcision.

Conciude]

Taken for,

• 1. To determine and resolve, Act. 21. 25.
• 2. To infer, hold for certain, or be undoubtedly persuaded of, Rom. 3. 28.
• 3. To finish or end, Eccl. 12. 13.
• 4. To enclose or shut up together, Gal. 3. 22.

Conclusion]

The end, sum, and substance, 〈◊〉 . 12. 18.

Concord]

;;Agreement of heart and affections, when being many we have one heart and the same love. 2 Cor. 6. 17. 〈◊〉 concord, &c. 1 Cor. 1. 10.

It's to be in an house, Prov. 17. 1. Among Brethren, Psal. 133. 1. In politick affairs, 2 Sam. 19. 14. Isa. 11. 13. Act. 12. 20. In ecclesiastical, Josh. 22. 12. Ezra 3. 1. Act. 15. 25. In religious duties, Deut. 31. 12. Neh. 8. 1. Act. 1. 14. In charitablenesse, Act. 4. 〈◊〉 . In a spiritual condition, Isa. 11. 6, 7, 8. & 65. 25. Jer. 32. 39. Yea, there is concord even in evil, Act. 18. 12. & 19. 29. Rev. 17. 13.

Concourse]

A multitude, assembly, or throng of people, Prov. 1. 21. A seditious or factious assembling of people. Act. 19. 40.

Concubines]

;;Women which were as it were Halfwives, as the Hebrew word signifies, 1 King. 11. 3. And three hundred Concubines.

;; Note: The Hebrew Pilegesh, in Greek Pellakis, Pellex in Latin, signifieth a Concubine, which is an Half-wife; she was a Wife for the bed, and therein differing from a whore; but not for honor and govemment of the family, as Solomon's Wives were Princesses, but his Concubines not so, 1 King. 11. 3. Also, children of Concubines had ordinarily no inheritance, but gifts of their father, as Gen. 25. 5, 6. Such were Agar, Keturab, Bilhath, Zilphah, and others. And were employed to servile works, 2 Sam. 15. 16.

Concubines]

;;Women, which Princes and great per sons were wont of old to keep, together with their Wives, which were Queens, Cant. 6. 9. Even the Queens and the 〈◊〉 .

Under the names of Daughters, and Queens and Concubines, the conversion, adoption and benediction of all the reduced Nations is comprehended, who are foretold to admire and confess the glories of the Church, Deut. 4. 6. to account her happy and renowned, Ezek. 16. 14. and so indeed they did, Act. 5. 13. as Moses did Israel, Deut. 33. 29. Annot.

Concupiscence]

;;The pravity and naughtiness of our nature, lusting after things forbidden of God. Jam. 1. 14. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence. This is our original Concupiscence, which is the fountain and root of all wicked lusts and desires, and of all sins whatsoever, being itself also a sin properly even after Baptism, in the regenerate; contrary to the Papists, who deny this. See Rom. 7. 7. Also, Rom. 7. 14, 15, 16, 17, &c.

;;2. Evil desires and motions, springing from the root of this natural concupiscence, whether they be consented to or not. Rom. 7. 8. Wrought in all manner of concupiscence. This is Actual concupiscence, which is either unvoluntary, as the first motions before consent of will; or voluntary, when consent of will cometh to the motion. Both the one and the other, be properly sin, because they be the transgression of the Law, hindering that perfect love of God and of our Neighbor, commanded in the Law, and drawing us to things contrary to the Law, Rom. 7. 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, &c.

To condemn the world]

;;By his deed and example, in building the Ark at God's commandment, to convict other wicked men which swarm in the world, of infidelity, Heb. 11. By which he condemned the world.

Condemnation, or condemning]

;;The pronouncing of the sentence of punishment upon any malefactor by some Judge. Joh. 8. 10. Hath no man condemned thee? This may be done either justly or unjustly, Prov. 17. 15.

;; Note: Christ being no civil judge would not condemn the woman (taken in adultery) to civil punishment. But if she had been for her adultery condemned, he would not have acquitted her, because therein he should have been contrary to his Father, and others by impunity of the offender might have been drawn to like lewdness.

;;2. A pronouncing of sinners guilty, and adjudging them to punishment upon the conviction of a fault. Rom. 8. 34. God justifieth, who shall condemn? Rom. 8. 1. There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ; that is, they are freed from the damnatory sentence of the Law, pronouncing a curse to every sin: Also the cause and matter of damnation, Joh. 3. 19.

;;3. The punishment itself, whereunto one is adjudged and condemned. 1 Cor. 11. 32. Because we should not be condemned with the world.

;;4. The abolishing a thing, and utterly taking it away, as if it were not. Rom. 8. 3. Condemned sin in the flesh. 1 Pet. 4. 6.

;;5. Pronouncing of a sentence or censure, uncharitably, or rashly, of other men's persons and doings. Luk. 6. 37. Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, Rom. 14. 4.

;;6. The convicting or reproof of ones wickedness and fault, by the good example of another, or by words. Thus the Ninevites shall condemn the obstinate Jews, Mat. 12. 41, 42. Rom. 2. 27. Shall condemn thee, &c. Thus Paul condemned not Peters person eternally, but his sinful fact in dissembling, Gal. 2. 11.

Referred to God, it 〈◊〉 his abhorring, disliking and punishing the wicked, 1 King. 8. 32. Prov. 12. 2.

To Christ, his taking away and abolishing of sin by his death, Rom. 8. 3.

To Men signifying also, To testify or bear witness against, Mat. 12. 41. Convince, Job 9. 20. Judge, Luke 6. 37.

To a man's self, by judging another, Rom. 2. 1.

To our own hearts, 1 Joh. 3. 21.

Note: That in all civil Courts, there were always present,

• 1. The supreme Judge, whose leave was craved for the trial of actions.
• 2. The witnesses who were at least two, Deut. 19. 15, 19.
• 3. The Notaries, whereof the one stood on the right hand, to write the sentence of absolution, and what was spoken in defense of the party; the other on the left hand, to the contrary end.
• 4. The Officers, who carried up and down their staves and whips, to execute what the Judges determined.
• 5. The Pleader stood on the right hand, whether he pleaded for or against the party, Psal. 119. 31. Zech. 3. 1. Hereunto allusion is made, 1 Joh. 2. 1.

The mannner of sentencing persons varied in most Countries.

The Jews by a simple pronunciation of Sentence, (as, Thou N. art just, Thou N. art guilty ) both absolved and condemned them.

The Romans gave sentence by casting in tables into a certain box or urn prepared for the purpose: If they absolved any, they wrote the letter A. in the table, it being the first letter of Absolvo; if they condemned any, the letter C. the first of Condemno.

Among the Grecians, Condemnation was signified by giving a black stone; Absolution, by giving a white stone. To this last, there seemeth to be an allusion, Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh I will give a white stone; that is, I will absolve and acquit him in the day of Judgment. See Goodwin' s Moses and Aaron, lib. 5. p. 231.

Condemnation: 1 Cor. 11. 34. Jam. 3. 1. or Judgment, marg.

Great condemnation]

;;More severe punishment to belong to severe arrogant censurers of others men's faults, neglecting their own. Jam. 3. 1. We shall receive greater condemnation. Mark here, that there is difference of punishments, as there is an inequality of faults.

;;2. Whereas he takes himself into the number of proud reprehenders, ( We ) It is first to show, that he would not set a Law to others, to which he would not bind himself: And secondly, because no man is wholly free from this disease of judging others: unto whose arrogancy the Apostle in verse 13. opposeth meekness of wisdom.

Condemned]

2 Chr. 36. 3. Heb. mulcted, marg. Amos 2. 8. or, such as have fined, or mulcted, marg.

Condescend]

Rom. 12. 16. To be contented with, or being carried with. Annot.

Submitting yourselves, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , consenting, applying yourselves, cleaving unto, making yourselves equal. The word properly signifieth to be carried away together. Leigh Crit. Sac.

Condition]

Ground, terms, 1 Sam. 11. 2. Luk. 14. 32.

Conduct]

To lead or convey, 2 Sam 19. 15, 40. To place one who hath escaped danger in safety, Act. 17. 15. To accompany one, bring him on his way or journey, 1 Cor. 16. 11.

Conduit]

Isa. 7. 3. The word in the Hebrew signifies a going up, or ascent; and it is used sometime for a Trench made to receive water, 1 King. 18. 32, 35. Sometime for a Watercourse, Ezek. 31. 4. And it is here taken not for a Conduit (such as ours are) to receive water derived from the Pool, (though some so expound it) but for that Passage by which the water was from the Spring-head conveyed unto the Pool. As the word of ascending is used oft for to pass, Numb. 19. 26, 27. 1 Sam. 6. 20. Annot.

Confection]

Exod. 30. 35. See Composition.

Confectionaries]

1 Sam. 8. 13. Such as make sweet oils.

Confederacy]

;;A league or agreement between persons or people at peace together, Obad. 7. Taken in good part, Gen. 14. 13. Isa. 7. 2. In ill, Psal. 83. 5. Act. 23. 21.

;;It is either of peace for traffic sake, or of amity; also, for mutual offense and defense: the former may be made even with Infidels, and those of a contrary Religion, as between 〈◊〉 and Abimelech, between Israelites and 〈◊〉 : the latter may not be contracted, but with Christian Princes. Obad. 7. The men of thy Confederacy, Isa. 8. 18.

Confederate]

With, Isa. 7. 2. Heb. resteth on, marg. Entred into a league and confederacy, relieth upon for assistance, or is set down with, hath joined his camp with. Annot.

Conference]

Gal. 2. 6. In conference added nothing to me; that is, he had so full a measure of divine revelation, that when they came to talk together of the points of Christian Religion, they could tell him nothing which he knew not before. Leighs Annot.

Confer]

To consult, Gal. 1. 16. To commune, talk, or speak one with another, Act. 4. 15.

Conferred with Joab, 1 King. 1. 7. Heb. his words were with 〈◊〉 , marg.

To confess]

;;To acknowledge us as his own: Thus Christ will confess the faithful at the day of Judgment. Luk. 12. 8. Him shall the Son of man confess before the Angels.

;;2. To testify or bear witness of one, plainly and sincerely. Joh. 1. 10. John consessed and denied not, saying, I am not that Christ. Luk. 12. 8. He that 〈◊〉 me before men. Thus we confess Christ.

;;3 To utter and speak forth ones praise, or to give thanks. Heb. 13. 15. Offer to God the calves of your lips, confessing his Name; that is, acknowledge his benefits and give him thanks for them. And in the Psalms very often, to confess God is put for to praise God, Psal. 6. 5. Isa. 12. 1.

;;This duty of confessing God, was figured by the shaking of things offered to and fro before the Lord, which signified the shaking of our lips in confessing and giving of thanks; as appeareth by the words of Hosea, and by Heb. 13. 15, 16.

;;4. Frankly and boldly to tell forth what we hold and believe in matter of Religion Rom. 10. 10. With the mouth man confesseth to Salvation.

;;5. To lay open our sins and offenses, either unto God in private or public confessions; or to our Neighbor whom we have wronged; or to some godly persons, at whose hands we look to receive comfort, being cast down by some grievous sin: or finally, to the whole Congregation, when our fault is public. 1 Joh. 1. 9. We confess our sins Psal. 32. 5. I said I will confess my sins. Mat. 3. 6. Jam. 5. 16.

;;6. To acknowledge a crime before a Judge. Josh. 7. 19. Confess what thou hast done.

;;Touching Popish confessing of our particular sins, distinctly for number and circumstances every year in the ears of a Massing Priest, upon necessity of salvation, there is no one word in all the Book of God. For it is a mere device invented for the advancement of the apostatical See of Rome.

;;2. Confession of evil things, viz. our sins;;;

• ;;1. To God, as him whom we have offended, who knoweth our sins, can pardon us, or else will punish us if we refuse to confess, Psal. 32. 5, 6. 1 Joh. 1. 9.;;
• ;;2. To our Neighbor hurt by us, who else complaining to God, shall have him to revenge his quarrel; and thus man can and must forgive so much of the offense as is done against him; if his adversary repent, and confess, and seek pardon, Luk. 17. 4. Mat. 5. 23, 24.;;
• ;;3. To the Minister of God, or to some godly person, that pitying the sinners case, can and will give him spiritual advice against his sin, pray for him, and by his authority pronounce absolution to him. For if the Physician be sought for health, and the Lawyer consulted with for wealth, shall the Minister be neglected in case of salvation? Job 53. 23, &c. ;;

Referred to Christ. In respect of himself, signifying his profession or testimony which he gave unto the truth, 1 Tim. 6. 13. In respect of us, his acknowledgement of us as his own, Rev. 3. 5.

Referred to Men. In respect of God, signifying,

• 1. To set forth his praise and be thankful to him.
• 2. To pray unto him, Rom. 10. 10, 13.

In respect of Christ, signifying our real and true acknowledgement of Christ to be the Son of God, the Savior of the world, 1 Joh. 4. 15.

In respect of ourselves, signifying the acknowledging and laying open of our sins, whether in public, Neh. 9. 2, 3 or private, Dan. 9. 20. Whereunto we are encouraged, Prov. 28. 13. 1 Joh. 1. 9.

In respect of others, either when we do plainly and sincerely bear witness unto the truth, Joh. 1. 10. or acknowledge the wrongs and injuries which we have done them, Jam. 5. 16. Or, make known our sins to God's Ministers, to testify our repentance, and receive spiritual instruction from them, Mat. 3. 6. It must be also to Magistrates when called thereunto, Josh. 7. 19.

To confess and deny not]

;;To make a most 〈◊〉 and sincere confession. Joh. 1. 20. The affirming of a thing joined with a contrary negation, and a repetition (as it is here) argueth the ingenuity and evidence of the speaker, to teach us that in maintenance of the truth, especially when God's glory is called into question, (seeing it doth appertain to us) we cannot deal too plainly.

To confess Judah]

;;To praise him, Gen. 49. 8. Meaning that his Brethen should acknowledge the dignity of the first born in respect of government, and that Christ the King should come of him, 1 Chr. 5 2. Heb. 7. 14.

Confess]

Rev. 3. 5. I will confess his name before my Father, &c. I will own and acknowledge him for such an 〈◊〉 as he hath owned and acknowledged me. Mat. 10. 32. Mar. 8. 38. Annot.

Confession]

;;Profession, or declaration either of the truth of Doctrine, or of the innocence of his person. 1 Tim. 6. 13. Who before Pontius Pilate 〈◊〉 a good confession.

;;2. Invocation or prayer unto God by Christ, and all other works of Religion. Rom. 10. 10. With the mouth man confesseth to salvation. This is expounded of prayer, verse. 13.

It must not be verbal, Exod. 9. 27. Enforced, 2 Sam. 15. 24. Desperate, Mat. 27. 3. Confession to God, is of, A man himself, Psal. 32. 5. A Father for his children, Job 1. 5. A Magistrate for those under his authority, Neh. 1. 6. Dan. 9. 10. Exod. 30. 3. A Minister for his people, Luk. 26. 40. And must be with knowledge of sin, Jer. 2. 23. Consideration of that which is done, Jer. 8. 6. Humiliation, 2 Chr. 7. 14. Accepting of punishment for sin, Lev. 26. 41. A particularizing of sins, Lev. 5. 5. 1 Sam. 12. 19. Prayer, Exod. 32. 32. Faith, Dan. 9. 14. Forsaking of sin, Prov. 28. 13.

〈◊〉 ]

A settled persuasion with boldness, without fear, or wavering. It's put for succor, 2 King. 18. 19. Hope, Job 4. 6. That whereupon one resteth and trusteth unto, Jer. 48. 13. Safety, Ezek. 28. 26. Perswasion, 2 Cor. 2. 3. Assurance, 2 Cor. 8. 22. Resolution, or a resolved purpose, 2 Cor. 10. 2. Setled resolution, Ephes. 3. 12. Boldness or liberty, Phil. 1. 20. Undauntedness, Heb. 3. 6. Free profession, Heb. 10. 35.

Confidence must not be put in fine gold, Job 31. 24. Men, Psal. 118. 8. Princes, Ib. 9. The strength of a City, Prov. 21. 22. An unfaithful man, Prov. 25. 19. Egypt, Jer. 2. 37. Bethel, Jer. 48. 13. A guide, Mic. 7. 5. The flesh, Phil. 3. 3. (Such confidence shall be rooted out, Job 18. 14. is punishable, Job 31. 28. Argueth ones folly, Prov. 14. 16. is deceitful, Prov. 25. 19. is rejected of God, Jer. 2. 37.) but it must be put in the Lord, Psal. 65. 5. Prov. 3. 26. 2 〈◊〉 . 3. 4. 1 Joh. 3. 21. We may also upon good grounds have confidence, be well persuaded and assured of God's children, 2 Cor. 2. 3. & 7. 16. & 8. 22. Gal. 5. 10. Philem. 21. There's a self-confidence without ground, Prov. 14. 16. Rom. 2. 19.

〈◊〉 ]

Heb. 3. 6. If we hold fast the confidence, that is, The profession of our faith with boldness, Act. 2. 24. Rom. 10. 10. Eph. 6. 19. 1 Thess. 2. 2. Annot.

Confident]

;;Bold in an holy assurance of God's love in Christ, promised in the Gospel. 2 Cor. 5. 6, 8. We are always confident.

Confidently]

Luk. 22. 59. Affirmed confidently. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , he affirmed constantly, boldly, with all his force. It comes of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , strong, firm. Leigh Crit. Sac.

Confirm]

;;To strengthen or make strong. 1 Pet. 5. 10. Confirm and strengthen you.

;;2. To perfect or finish a thing, Psal. 68. 28. Confirm ( O GOD) the thing that thou hast wrought in us.

;;3. To perform some word or promise. 1 Cor. 1. 6. The testimony of Jesus hath 〈◊〉 confirmed in you; that is, truly performed unto you, by bestowing the gifts of the holy Ghost which were promised before.

Taken for,

• 1. To ratify, or make sure, Ruth 47.
• 2. To fill up, or back, 1 King. 1. 14.
• 3. To strengthen, or make strong, Isa. 35. 3.
• 4. To perfect 〈◊〉 finish, Psal. 68. 28.
• 5. To refresh, Psal. 68. 9.
• 6. To approve or assent unto, Deut. 27. 26.
• 7. To settle or establish, 1 Chr. 14. 2.
• 8. To renew or make 〈◊〉 , 2 Chr. 2. 8.
• 9. To perform, Psal. 105. 10.
• 10. To encourage, or make more constant, Act. 15. 32.
• 11. To settle, 1 King. 14. 5.
• 12. To make good, Rom. 15. 8.
• 13. To prove soundly, Act. 9. 22.
• 14. To assure, 2 Sam. 7. 24.

Confirm]

1 King. 1. 14. Heb. fill up. marg.

To confirm]

;;To stablish and ratify a thing with signs, 〈◊〉 , &c. Heb. 2. 3. And was confirmed.

To confirm the promises of God]

;;To make it evidently appear unto men, that God who promised to send his Son unto the Jews, was faithful and true, because in fullness of time he did send him, Rom. 15. 8. The promises of God are in themselves most firm and stable, as heaven and earth, so they be immovable and constant: they are said to be confirmed in respect of men; whose faith being weak and full of doubts, had need to be holpen and strengthened; not God's promises, but men's unbelief is feeble. Also note further, that the utmost and remote end of Christ his coming into the world, in respect of God, is to have the glory of his truth; but the nearest end in regard 〈◊〉 men, is their salvation.

Confirmation]

;;is a work of the Spirit, strengthening faint and weak minds in faith and obedience unto the end. 1 Pet. 5. 10. The God of all grace confirm and strengthen you. God confirmeth, as author or efficient cause of strength: the Word, Sacraments and Ministers confirm as instruments and helps. Luk. 22. 32. Being converted, 〈◊〉 thy 〈◊〉 . A man confirms himself when he takes heart to him in a good cause, upon hope of God's help, 1 Cor. 16. 13. Example in David, 1 Sam. 37. 34, 45. No ground in Scripture for the Popish Sa crament of Confirmation, which is a device of their own brain.

Confirmed it by an oath]

Heb. 6. 17. Gr. interposed himself 〈◊〉 . an oath, marg.

〈◊〉 ]

Ezra 7. 26. or, to confiscation of goods; that is, the taking away of a man's goods from him, and so turning them to some public use. Annot.

Conflict]

Fighting or combating, Phil. 1. 30. Fear or 〈◊〉 , Col. 2. 1. marg.

Conformable]

Phil. 3. 10. Being made conformable unto his 〈◊〉 ; or, as 〈◊〉 reads it, while I am made conformable, unto Christ being dead. Leighs Annot.

Conformed]

Rom. 8. 29. Fashioned like, Philip. 1. 21.

To confound]

;;1. To put one unto shame by some public punishment, and sometimes quite and utterly to destroy and root one out. Psal. 31. 1. I have put my trust in thee, let me not be consounded. Psal. 22. 5. They trusted in thee and were not consounded; that is, they were not forsaken and put to utter rebuke and shame before men.

2. To destroy or break to pieces, Jer. 1. 17.

3. To amaze, astonish, 〈◊〉 trouble in mind, Act. 2. 6.

4. To trouble, terrify, or put to silence, Act. 9. 22.

5. To disorder or mingle together, Gen. 11. 7. Act. 19. 32.

6. To overthrow with a consumption, Psal. 71. 13.

7. To put to rebuke, Psal. 22. 5.

8. To make ashamed, 1 Cor. 1. 27.

9. To make haste, 1 Pet. 2. 6. compared with Isa. 28. 16.

Confound]

Jer. 1. 17. or break to pieces, marg.

Confounded]

Acts 2. 6. or troubled in mind, marg.

Confused 〈◊〉 ]

Isa. 9. 5. Heb. rushing, or rustling, Ezek. 11. 12. and 37. 7. or, commotion or concussion, 1 King. 11. 12. and 29. 6. Jer. 10. 12. Ezek. 38. 19. Annot.

The 〈◊〉 was confused, Acts. 19. 32. Out of order, not knowing or caring what either they said or did.

Confusion]

;;Affection of 〈◊〉 , which appears in the countenance, by blushing or changing of the color. Dan. 9. 7. 〈◊〉 us confusion of face, or open shame, &c.

;;2. The casting down of the conscience before God and man for some sin. Psal. 119. 6. Then shall no confusion come unto me.

;;3. Perverting of order and peace: or disorder, 1 Cor. 14. 33. God is not the author of confusion.

4. Destruction, Psal. 31. 4.

5. Overthrow, 1 Sam. 20. 30.

6. An evil deserving confusion and destruction, Lev. 18. 23 & 20. 12.

7. Reproach and dishonor, Jer. 3. 25.

8. Tumultuous concourse without due order, Act. 19. 29.

9. Tumult and unquietness, Jam. 〈◊〉 . 16.

Confusion]

1 Cor. 14. 33. 〈◊〉 tumult, or unquietness, marg. So Jam. 3. 16. marg.

Congealed]

Exod. 15. 8. As ice, frozen, hardened. It may be meant of the Seas bottom, which being muddy and soft, was hardened, that they went as on dry land, Isa. 63. 13. Some understand it of the waters, that they were congealed as Ice. Ainsworth.

Hardened, either because the waters stood like confirmed walls, or the muddy part (under their feet that walked through it) was thickened and confirmed like a solid floor. Annot.

Congratulate]

1 Chr. 18. 10. To congratulate him, Heb. to bless him. To thank God for his success, and to wish that he might still prosper. The words may also be taken indefinitely, for a royal congratulation which is usual with neighbouring Kings. Annot.

Congregation]

A multitude or an assembly met together, whether,

• 1. Of a whole Nation, as of all the Children of Israel, Exod. 16. 1. (whereof some were elders, Lev. 4. 15. Renowned, Numb. 1. 16. Chief, Numb. 4. 34. Rulers, Exod. 16. 22. Famous, Numb. 16. 2. & 26. 9. Chief Fathers, Ib. 31. 16. The rest, such as were under them, termed, The 〈◊〉 of the Lord, Numb. 16. who though they were by themselves accounted holy, Ib. yet are they called an evil generation, Numb. 14. 35.) So of Judah, 2 Chr. 30. 25.
• Or, 2. of an assembly and sacred meeting in one place to worship God, Neh. 8. 2. Acts 13. 43. The Church, Psal. 74. 2, 19. The Saints, Psal. 89. 5. The righteous, Psal. 1. 5.
• Or, 3. of the meeting of the wicked, as hypocrites, Job 15. 34. Evil doers, Psal. 26. 5.
• Or, 4. of Magistrates, Psal. 82. 1.
• Or, 5. of the dead, Prov. 21. 16. Whereby may be understood, that he shall then leave his wandering, when death shall seise on him.

By the Mount of the Congregation, Isa. 14. 13. understand, God's own seat, alluding unto Mount Zion where God was worshiped.

Coniah]

The strength or stability of the Lord. The Son of Jehoiakim, Jer. 22. 24. called Jeconiah, 1 Chr. 3. 16.

Conie]

Legally unclean, Lev. 11. 5. Commended for its wisdom, Prov. 30. 24, 26. For which the rock is a refuge, Psal. 104. 18. Their young (as it's said) see not till they be nine days old, neither will their Dam willingly suckle them, until she hath been with the Buck. The female loveth procreation, and having young will not couple, for which the male killeth them (if not warily prevented) to provoke the female to copulation. It's a melancholy creature, a lover of darkness, and therefore diggeth holes in the ground, whither it runneth, when hunted. They are very fruitful, and by undermining, have brought Cities to ruin.

Cononiah]

as Coniah. A Levite, 2 Chr. 31. 12, 13.

Conquer]

To vanquish, overcome, get the victory, Rev. 6. 2.

To conquer]

;;To overcome the enemies of God by arrows of Pestilence (as some think) shot out of the Bow of God's wrath, but (as it is most reasonable to think) by the glad tidings and promises of God, shot as arrows out of the tongues of the Apostles and other Ministers of the Word, as out of a Bow, Whereby the Nations were speedily subdued under Christ. Rev. 6. 2. He went forth conquering, that he might overcome.

He had begun to conquer already, and should conquer yet further. See the like phrase, Gen. 26. 13. Annot.

Conquerer]

Worldly, Isa. 14. 16, 17. Spiritual, Rom. 8. 37. Jesus Christ, Joh. 16. 33. The Saints, 1 Joh. 2. 13, 14.

Conscience]

;;1. The knowledge of our duties, Rom. 2. 15.;;

;;2. The knowledge of our own doings, whether good or evil; or the witness of our own minds and souls, either for or against ourselves, Act. 23. 1. Heb. 13. 18.;;

;;3. The peace of conscience, or a godly course of life leading thereunto, Act. 24. 16.;;

;;The guilt and terror of conscience summoning men over to the day of Judgment, to answer for our sins, and to receive punishment for them, Heb. 10. 18.;;

;;It is a faculty of man's soul, taking knowledge and bearring witness of a man's thoughts, words and works, excusing them when they be good, and accusing them when they be evil. Rom. 2. 15. Their conscience bearing them witness, and their thoughts accusing or excusing. If the Conscience be

;;not deceived, but bear a true witness, then it is no erroneous Conscience, yet may be an evil Conscience, if it be not sanctified as well as enlightened.

;; Note: Conscience, it is a particular knowledge which we have with us of our own deeds good or evil, arising out of the general knowledge of the mind, which shows us what is good or evil, and Conscience telleth us when we have done the one or the other.

There are two kinds hereof;

• 1. Good, 1 Tim. 1. 5. Termed, A conscience void of offense, Act. 24. 16. A conscience bearing one witness in the holy Ghost, Rom. 9. 1. Pure, 1 Tim. 3. 9. Purged from dead works, Heb. 9. 14. Conscience of sins, Heb. 10. 2. Serving to excuse when we have done well, to accuse, when 〈◊〉 , Rom. 2. 15. Being at some time quiet, at some time stirring and troubled.
• 2. Evil, Heb. 10. 22. Being either drowsy, secure or seared, 1 Tim. 4. 2. A defiled conscience, Tit. 1. 15. This also is at some time quiet, at some time stirring: It accuseth where it should excuse; excuseth, when accuse. The conscience also, even of the best, is now and then erroneous or doubtful.

Clear conscience]

;;A Conscience kept without offense and spot. Act. 24. 6. To have a clear conscience.

Good conscience]

;;A Conscience, which obeyeth such light and direction, as it doth think and take to be true and sound light and direction. Acts 13. 1. In all good Conscience.

Evil conscience]

;;A Conscience accusing of sin, and terrifying with remembrance of punishment due to sin: For against an evil conscience, is set a true faithful heart, which truly believeth forgiveness of sin, Heb. 10. 22. Purge from an evil conscience.

Pure conscience]

;;A Conscience not troubled and polluted with notorious and gross crimes, 2 Tim. 1. 3.

;;2. Conscience purged and made free from the guilt and horror of death, by faith in the blood of Christ. Heb. 9. 14. Purge your conscience from dead works. Act. 15. 9. Your hearts purified by faith. Our of faith and serious purpose of living godlily, and pleasing God, doth spring a pure conscience.

For conscience sake]

;;For fear of God, lest by disobedience to authority in good things, or resisting them in evil things commanded by them, we 〈◊〉 God, and so hurt our conscience; which being wounded, proves as an Hang-man or Tormenter. Rom. 13. 5. Not only for wrath but for conscience sake.

;;Some expound this (as Chrysostom and others) of the Conscience which we ought to make not only of God's Commandment, charging us to be subject to the higher powers, but of the good benefits which we reap by our Governors, towards whom we are bound in Couscience to be thankful, seeing it is a matter of conscience, not to grieve or despise our benefactors. Both these interpretations may well (as subordinate) stand together. They are deceived, which conclude from hence, that men or their civil constitutions do simply and of themselves bind the Conscience, (which is God's own prerogative, being the only Law-giver, who obligeth Conscience absolutely upon pain of eternal wrath:) Much more erroneous is that opinion of Popish Divines, that Decrees and Traditions human in Ecclesiastical things, tie Conscience as God's Word doth. To obey lawful Magistrates, we are bound by a double necessity: (for it is no indifferent matter as if we might choose) one is, to avoid the punishments both of Rulers and God, for stubbornness and contempt; the other is to preserve our Conscience unspotted and unwounded: for we cannot rebel against authority, and be refractary and seditious, but there will a double care, or torture rather, afflict the Conscience: the first is, because we cast away God's Ordinance, even the government appointed by him, which is as much as giant-like to fight against heaven. The second is, for that we have with great ingratitude and injustice striven against that power which deserveth well at the hands of all mankind.

Seared or burned conscience]

;;A Conscience quite extinct and cut off, or utterly hardened. 1 Tim. 4. 2. And have their conscience burned with an hot iron; that is, having lost all sense and feeling of conscience, as a tooth or other part of the body, that is burned with an hot iron to dead it.

To consecrate]

;;To sanctify, to dedicate unto God, or to separate and set one apart to execute some holy function, ( Priest, Levite, Nazarite, Exod. 29. 1. When thou consecratest them to my Priests, thus thou shalt do. Numb. 6. 18. & 8. 13. The consecration is by doing some ceremonies appointed of God for such a purpose, as to fit him for a sacred function. (It signifieth primarily to fill the hand, Exod. 28. 41. or to profit.)

;;Consecration of Bread and Wine is a sacred action of the Church, wherein by reherasing and expounding the institution of Christ, also by solemn prayers and thanksgiving, the creatures are changed from a common use into a Sacrament of Christ his body and blood; a mutation in quality and use without any change of substances.

Consecrate: To hallow, Numb. 3. 13. Devote, Lev. 27. 21. Separate or set apart for an holy use unto the Lord, Exod. 13. 12. as were the Levites, Numb. 8. 13. The Nazarites, Numb. 6. 3. The first-born, Exod. 13. 2. The Priests, Exod. 29. 9. Exod. 30. 7. The sacrifices, 2 Chr. 29. 33. Certain feasts, Ezra 3. 5. Places, 1 King. 8. 64. There was a consecration sacred, by God's appointment, Num. 6. 7. Idolatrous, by Man, of his own head, Judge. 17. 5, 12. 1 King. 13. 33.

Consecrate: Exod. 29. 9. Hebrew to fill the band, marg.

;; To consecrate: To sanctify or set apart to some excellent matter, Heb. 2. 10. That he should censecrate the Prince of salvation by affliction, v. 11. For he that sanctifieth, &c. This word expounds the former. The Original, signifies to make perfect,

Consecrated]

Josh. 6. 19. Heb. Holiness, marg. Heb. 7. 28. Gr. persected, marg. Heb. 10. 20. or, new made, marg.

〈◊〉 ]

Exod. 29. 22. Of filling, to wit, the hand, as verse. 9. of Initiation. The Greek saith of perfection, Ainsworth. Numb. 6. 7. Heb. separation, marg. In Greek, the vow. In Chaldee, the crown of his God. Ainsworth.

Consent]

An unanimous agreement, whether in good, 1 Sam. 11. 7. Zeph. 3. 9. or evil, Deut. 13. 8. Psal. 83. 5. Prov. 1. 10. Luk. 14. 18. Psal. 50. 18. Act. 8. 1.

Consent]

Hos. 6. 9. By consent, Heb. with one shoulder, or to Sychem, marg. Zeph. 3. 9. Heb. shoulder marg. Rom. 1. 32. have pleasure, marg.

Conservation]

;;Salvation, which is contrary to destruction, Heb. 10. 39. Unto the conservation of our souls.

To consider]

;;To bend the mind to think upon and observe anything. Job 1. 8. Hast thou considered my servant Job? Job 2. 3. Prov. 31. 16. Isa. 5. Mat. 6. Heb. 3. 1.

;;2. To take heed and give ear unto, Psal. 69. 19. Dan. 9.

It signifieth also, to See, or take notice of, Exod. 33. 13. View, mark, or observe, Lev. 13. 13. Study or apply ones mind to a thing, Deut. 32. 29. Take advice or resolution, Judge. 18. 14. Remember, call to mind, or think on, 1 Sam. 12. 24. Regard, Lam. 1. 11. Be wary, Gal. 6. 1. Think, 2 Cor. 10. 7. Acknowledge and know, Deut. 8. 5. Be wise, Prov. 5. 6. Ponder, Prov. 24. 12. Know what to do, Judge. 18. 14. Observe and be intent upon, Heb. 10. 24. Set mind and heart upon, Hag. 1. 5, 7. Fix settledly the eyes upon, Act. 11. 6. Muse and meditate, Dan. 8. 5. Say in heart, Hos. 7. 2. This must be done diligently, Prov. 23. 1. Narrowly, Isa. 14. 16. Perfectly, Jer. 23. 20. In heart, Deut. 4. 39. Wisely, Psal. 64. 9.

Consider: 1 King. 5. 8. Hear, marg. Job 1. 8. Heb. set the heart on, marg. Prov. 24. 32. Heb. set the heart, marg.

To consider a field]

is, To be wary, circumspect and careful, 〈◊〉 in buying thereof, either buyer or seller should be deceived, Prov. 31. 16.

To consider himself]

;;To set his heart to muse upon his own frailty, how easily he may fall, being tempted to any 〈◊〉 . Gal. 6. 1. Considering yourselves, lest ye also be tempted.

To consider one another]

;;Lovingly and mutually to regard and think upon our common infirmities, with care how to cover and cure them by Chtistian exhortations Heb. 10. 24.

;;To observe, mark and watch, with loving mind, Heb. 10. 24. Let us consider one another.

;;2. To weigh, ponder and think seriously upon, Heb. 3. 1. Consider the Apostle, &c.

To consider ones ways in his heart]

;;To bend their minds very diligently to mark their 〈◊〉 course of life, what sins they lived in without repentance, and what correctious for the same they had received of God. Hag. 1. 5, 7. Consider your own ways in your hearts.

To consider the poor]

is, To judge wisely of, prudently attend unto, or skillfully carry ones self towards them, Psal. 41. 1.

Consist] Luk. 12. 15. To be, stand, or depend on, Col. 1. 17. To hang, or depend on, stand fast, and sure.

Consolation or comfort]

;;That inward spiritual refreshing and strengthening of the heart, by the consideration and feeling of God's merciful promises in Christ. Psal. 119. 50. Thy promises have 〈◊〉 me in my troubles. 2 〈◊〉 . 1. 4. God comforteth us in all our troubles: and verse. 5. Our consolation 〈◊〉 through Christ. Rom. 1. 11, 12. Where consolation and strengthening are put the one for the other. The holy Ghost being the worker of comfort, is therefore called, The Comforter, by an excellency. The promises of the Word, are the grounds of comfort: our believing hearts are the seats of comfort: Godly 〈◊〉 and the faithful, are the Helpers of our comfort. Joh. 16. 7. I will 〈◊〉 the Comforter. 1 Thess. 4. 18. Comfort one another with these words. 2 Cor. 7. 7.

It's also put for the means working comfort, Isa. 66. 11. Reward, Luk. 6. 24. Spiritual joy and encouragement, 2 Cor. 1. 5, 6, 7. The matter of comfort, 2 Cor. 7. 7. Christ and his 〈◊〉 , Luk. 2. 15.

See Comfort.

Consolation: Act. 15. 31. or Exhortation, marg.

Consolation]

;;Exhortation, Heb. 12. 5. Have ye forgot the consolation.

Consorted]

Act. 17. 4. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , as it were chonsen by lot, they joined. It importeth a near and firm conjunction. Annot.

Conspirary]

1. Of Subjects against their Prince, 2 Sam. 15. 12.

2. Servants against their Master, 2 King. 12. 20.

3. One traitor against another, 2 King. 15. 10, 15.

4. An inferior King against his Superior, 1 King. 17. 4.

5. Of a people against the Lord, Jer. 11. 9.

6. Of false Prophets against the people, Ezek. 22. 25.

7. Of more then forty Jews against Paul, Act. 23. 12, 13.

8. Of Joseph' s brethren against him, Gen. 37. 18.

9. Of such as would have hindered Nehemiah in his work, Neh. 4. 8. Amos falsely accused of conspiracy against the King, Amos 7. 10.

Conspiracy: Jer. 11. 9. or Combination, or League, 2 King. 15. 30. & 17. 4. A defection from God, as by a general consent of all sorts of people throughout the Land and State. So Ezek. 22. 15. Annot.

Conspirators]

2 Sam 15. 31. Such as bound themselves, or entered into a League together against David.

Conspire]

To agree in one to do evil, and therein to help each other, Gen. 37, 18. 2 King. 21. 23.

Constant]

1 Chr. 28. 7. Heb. strong, marg. The Hebrew word hath especial relation to the courage of the mind, which causeth an unalterable resolution, and thence followeth constancy. The manner of setting down this inference, showeth that there be conditions to be observed on man's part, for obtaining promises made by God. Annot.

Constantly]

Prov. 21. 28. The man that heareth, speaketh constantly. The true Witness that speaks no more then he heareth himself, shall be left alive to bear witness again, when God hath destroyed false Witnesses, and shall be heard with credit. Annot.

Constancy]

;;Continuance in a good thing to the end. Psal. 8. 3. Ephes. 6. 18. With all constancy or perseverance.

Constellations]

Isa. 13. 10. The word Cecil, whose plural is here used, doth signify some particular and special, either star or constellation, that is, company of stars, neighbourring and making up one sign or figure, as appears by Job 9. 9. & 38, 31. Amos 5. 8. where this and some other are reckoned up together. The Prophets words may be thus rendered, neither the stars of heaven, nor the Orions thereof (the brightest of them, or of the constellations thereof) shall give their light. Annot.

Constrain]

By importunity, Luke 24. 29. Example, Gal. 2. 14. Doctrine, Gal. 6. 12. Love, 2 Cor. 5. 14. Earnest pressing, Gen. 19. 3. Necessity, Act. 28. 19.

Constrain]

2 King. 4. 8. Heb. Lay hold on, marg.

Constraint]

1 Pet. 5. 2. Enforcement, compulsion.

Consult]

To advise with, Psal. 83. 3. Think with, Neh. 5. 7. Ask counsel, Ezek. 21. 21. Devise or plot, Psal. 62. 4. Take counsel, Dan. 6. 7.

〈◊〉 ]

A deliberation, asking or demanding. counsel or advise, Mar. 15. 1.

Consult with familiar spirits]

Deut. 18. 1. This was Saul' s sin, 1 Sam. 28. 〈◊〉 15. For which 〈◊〉 the Lord killed him, 1 Chr. 10. 13. and hath threatened to cut off all from among his people, that do inquire of such, Lev. 20. 6. Ainsworth.

Consume]

1. To bestow or spend, Jam. 4. 3.

2. To decay, wear away, or be wearied, Psalm 31. 9.

3. To be brought to nothing, or vanish away, Job 7. 9.

4. So to eat or lick up a thing as nothing be left, 1 King. 18. 38.

5. To be cut off, Psal. 119. 139. marg.

6. To make to pass away, Psal. 78. 33.

7. To trouble, Psal. 90. 7.

8. To melt away, Jer. 6. 29.

9. To crush (or root out) Est. 9. 24. marg.

10. To devour, Heb. 12. 29.

11. To burn up, Luk. 9. 54.

12. To waste, destroy, and bring to utter ruin and desolation, Exod. 32. 10. This the Lord bringeth to pass by famine, Gen. 41. 30. The locust, Deut. 28. 38. Fire, Ezek. 19. 12. Pestilence, Deut. 28. 21. Drought, Gen. 31. 40. Death, Numb. 17. 13. One another, Gal. 5. 15. and other judgments, Lev. 26. 16.

Consume: Job 6. 17. Heb. extinguish, marg. Job 24. 19. Hebrew, violently take, marg. Isa. 64. 7. Heb. melt, marg. Ezek. 35. 12. Heb. devour, marg. Zeph. 1. 2. I will utterly consume all things, Heb. by taking away I will make an end, marg.

Consummation]

Dan. 9. 27. Utter consumption and final destruction of that place and people of the Jews, Matth. 24. 2. Luk. 21. 6. See the like, Ezek. 11. 2, &c. Annot.

Consumption]

Levite. 26. 16. or shaking Ague. In Gr. scabbedness. So in Deut. 28. 22. and elsewhere the word is not used. Ainsworth. An utter riddance, Isa. 10. 22, 23. & 28. 22.

Consumption decreed]

;;Not only a thing lessened, cut off, and diminished, but withal, a thing definitely appointed and determined before, as if the sentence were already given. Isa. 10. 22, 23. The consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. So Rom. 9. 27, 28.

;;The meaning of Isaiah first, and afterwards of Paul, is all one, though the words somewhat differ; Paul following the version of the Septuagint; namely to declare that the diminishing and rejection of the Jews, which God would bring to pass both temporally in Chaldea, and spiritually under Christ, (whom few Jews received) did depend upon the purpose and predestination of God; not that the Jews had not through their sins deserved to be extenuated and rejected, but because all these things were appointed by the decree or sentence of election and reprobation. For it is a sure rule, That God doth nothing in time which was not decreed to be so done 〈◊〉 all time; therefore they grievously err, which rent the decree of God and his execution asunder, and make his Antecedent and Consequent will (which are subordinate) to be repugnant.

Contain]

To comprehend, 1 King. 8. 27. 2 Chron. 6. 18. To hold, 1 King. 7. 26. To be able to receive, Joh. 2. 6. & 21. 15. To belong unto, Rom. 2. 14. To moderate the appetite by main force and strength, 1 Cor. 7. v. 9.

To contemn]

;;See to Despise, to Kick, not to Hear. There is a difference between Contemning and thinking ill of one.;;

;;We contemn things not as they be bad or wicked, or hurtful, but as they be base, low, unworthy of our love, unable either to do good to us, or to hurt us, because they are weak. We think ill of them, hate them, fear them, and shun them, not as they be weak and unable to help or harm, but as they be wicked, and so willing, and apt or able to hurt us.;;

God by the wicked, Psal. 10. 13. As also his counsel, Psal. 107. 11. A vile person, by the godly, Psal. 15. 4.

What if the sword contemn even the rod, Ezek. 21. 13. that is, scom to rest in an affliction only of my people, but shall at once cut them off.

Contemn: Ezek. 21. 10. or Despise, marg. The glory of Moab shall be contemned, Isa. 16. 14. or, shall become mean, of light esteem, or of no repute. As 1 Sam. 18. 23. opposed to honorable, chap. 3. 5. The great weight that Moab now beareth, shall become light. He that weighs down so much now, shall then bear no weight, but fly up in the balance. The word glory in Heb. hath an intimation of weight in it, alluded to by the Apostle, 2 Cor. 4. 18. and the word contemned hath affinity with that that signifies lightness, 1 Sam. 18. 26. & 49. 6. and they are both used promiscuously, Numb. 21. 6. 〈◊〉 40. 4. Nah. 1. 14. Annot.

Contempt]

cometh

• 1. From God upon men for sin, Job 12. 21. Psal. 107. 40.
• 2. From wicked men, Prov. 18. 3.
• 3. Through ease and pride, Psal. 123. 4.

Contemptible]

Base, vile, not to be regarded, Mal. 1. 7, 12. & 2. 9. To have no worth in it, to be set at naught, and basely to be esteemed of, 2 Cor. 10. 10.

〈◊〉 ]

Psal. 31. 18. In 〈◊〉 , Ainsworth.

Contend]

put for Reasoning, Job 31. 13. Sharp and bitter striving, Neh. 13. 25. To plead, Job 9. 3. Dispute, Act. 11. 21. It's spoken of God for his people against their enemies, Isa. 49. 25. Of the godly, for the truth, Jude 3. and reformation. Neh. 13. 11. 17. 25. Of the wicked against the godly, Isa. 41. 11, 12. Jer. 18. 19.

To contend earnestly for the Faith]

;;To maintain the Apostolical doctrine with all their might, withstanding Heretics which would impugn and corrupt it, by sound teaching, and example of godly 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 v. 3. That you should earnestly 〈◊〉 , &c. This Jude speaks to the Church, and not to Magistrates, which then were averse from Christ. So that here is no color for seditious and tumultuous courses by weapons and armor, (other then that mentioned, Eph. 6.) to fight and strive with others.

To be content]

;;To be well pleased and apaid with the condition of life, and portion of goods which we have. Heb. 13. 5. Be content with those things you have, 1 Tim. 6. 6, 8. Also to give consent and approve of what is propounded, whether evil, Gen. 37. 27. or good, Exod. 2. 21. When the mind is pleased with such things as God hath thought fit and meet for us, this is contentment; so as withal, we be ready to undergo a meaner and hard estate, if God will, ever judging our present condition best for us. The word in the original signifieth a sufficiency of good.

Content: Gen. 37. 27. 〈◊〉 content, Heb. 〈◊〉 , marg.

Contention]

〈◊〉 , debate, variance, quarrelling, Prov. 13. 10. & 18. 18. It cometh of Pride, Prov. 13. 10. Scorn, 〈◊〉 . 22. 10. Folly, 〈◊〉 . 18. 6. Winc, 〈◊〉 . 23. 29. Foolish questions, and genealogies, Tit. 3. 9. Such as raise it up, Hab. 1. 3. It falleth out sometime between Pastor and people, Jer. 15. 10. Brothers, or special friends, Prov. 18. 19. Act. 15. 39. Husbands and Wives, Prov. 19. 13. That which was between Paul and 〈◊〉 , Act. 15. 39. is termed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which signifieth more then dissension; was such as whereby they moved, stirred, provoked one another to anger, gauling and grieving one another, which prevailed to imbittering their minds, In Tit. 3. 9. (and in many other places) the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 importeth evil strife, in affections, words, scolding, brawling; yea, all unjust striving, quarrelling. Leigh Crit. Sac.

A man of contention, Jer. 15. 10. A contentious person, a man given to strife and contention. One that striveth and contendeth with everyone, as Isa. 41. 11. Job 31. 35. But one whom the 〈◊〉 do all generally oppose, whom the whole Land striveth and contendeth with; the lot, as of Christ, Luk. 2. 34. Act. 4. 27. so of his Ministers, and Mesengers, Luk, 21. 17. Act. 28. 22. Annot.

〈◊〉 much contention, 1 Thess. 2. 2. Greek, in much strife, ( 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ) with much 〈◊〉 of zeal, and strong contestation with all gainsayers of the truth. Annot.

Contentious]

Rom. 2. 8. Of contention, given to contention, strife, as about lands, houses, &c. 1 Cor. 11. 16. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , one that loves strife, or is given to it.

Contentment]

' 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , 1 Tim. 6. 6. Self-sufficiency; for 〈◊〉 the Original signifieth; for not only it enricheth the soul, and giveth true contentment, but also it hath the promise of outward blessings. Annot.

Continenry]

;;is a special gift of God, whereby one is enabled to keep himself chaste without the help of marriage, 1 Cor. 7. 5. Incontinency, is the contrary.

Continual Burnt-offering]

Exod. 29. 42. or Burntoffering of continuation (as the Gr. renders it) or of 〈◊〉 , which without intermission was daily to be offered twice. And although other things have this word sometime adjoined, as the continual 〈◊〉 , Num. 4. 7. the 〈◊〉 incense, Exod. 30. 8. the continual Meat-offering, Numb. 4. 16. yet commonly the daily Burnt-offering is meant hereby; and this sometime when the Sacrifice is not expressed, as in Dan. 8. 11, 12, 13. & 11. 31. & 12. 11. Ainsworth.

With a continual stroke, Isa. 14. 6. Heb. a stroke without removing, marg. With a stroke 〈◊〉 , or irrecoverable. Annot.

Continual weeping, Jer. 48. 5. Heb. weeping with weeping, marg.

A continual diet, Jer. 52. 34. Heb. a 〈◊〉 of assiduity, that is, a daily or constant provision; as, a Sacrifice of assiduity, for the daily or set constant Sacrifice, Ezra 3. 5. Annot.

Men os continual employment. Heb. men of continuance. Men of public employment for the burying of the dead. Annot.

〈◊〉 sorrow, Rom. 9. 2. Sorrow without ceasing.

Continually]

;;Most constantly, and with an invincible mind, Dan. 6. 20.

;;2. Upon all necessities and just occasions, 1 Thes. 5. 17. Rom. 12. 12. And without fainting or 〈◊〉 , Luk. 18. 1. 2 King. 4. 9.

;;3. Every day once or twice, though not every hour of the day, as Numb. 28. 4, 6. 1 Thess. 5. 17. 2 Sam. 9. 7.

;;4. Without ceasing any day or hour or minute, Gen. 6. 5.

Put also for the space of time being, Gen. 8. 5. During life, 2 Chr. 12. 15. Constantly, Psal. 119. 44.

Continually]

Gen. 6. 5. Heb. every day, marg. Job 1. 5. Heb. all the 〈◊〉 , marg.

Continuance]

Permanent, Deut. 28. 59. in the days, Psal. 139. 16. Ainsworth.

Continue]

To abide, Gen. 40. 4. Ruth 2. 7. 2 Sam. 6. 11. Remain, Lev. 12. 4. Stay, Judge. 5. 17. Dwell, Ruth 1. 2. Persevere, 1 Sam. 12. 14. Joh. 8. 31. Be settled, 2 Sam. 7. 29. Lodge, Job 17. 2. marg. Draw out at length, Psal. 36. 10. marg. Go on, Neh. 5. 16. Job 27. 1. Stand fast, Act. 13. 41. Endure, Mat. 10. 22. Tarry, Joh. 21. 23. Prolong, Job 15. 29. We must continue in following the Lord, 1 Sam. 12. 14. Christ's word, Joh. 8. 31. The love of Christ, Joh. 15. 4, 9. The Apostles doctrine, Act. 2. 42. Fellowship, and one accord, Ib. 46. Prayer, Luk. 18. 1. The grace of God, Act. 13. 43. Faith, Act. 14. 22. Goodness, Rom. 11. 22. One spirit, Phil. 1. 27. The Lord, Phil. 4. 1. What we have learned, and are assured of, 2 Tim. 3. 14. The perfect law of liberty, Jam, 1. 25.

Continue]

Ruth 1. 2. Continued, Heb. were, marg. 1 Sam. 1. 12. Heb. multiplied, marg. Job 17. 2. Heb. lodge, marg. Job 27. 1. Heb. added to take up, marg. Act. 18. 11. Gr. sat there, marg.

〈◊〉 following, 1 Sam. 12. 14. Hebrew, Be after, marg.

To continue]

Rev. 13. 5. or, to make war, as verse. 7. Gr. to do great things, or, to do what he list, for a time, Dan. 8. 4, 12. 〈◊〉 , to 〈◊〉 , Jam. 4. 13. Annot.

Contract, Espousing or Betroathing]

;;is a free promise and mutual agreement of lawful marriage by consent of Parents, before meet witnesses, between one man and woman, in words of the present time. Mat. 1. 18. Mary was 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 . This is no Ceremonial, but a moral duty; for the very Heathens by light of Nature knew and practiced it; whereof came the difference amongst them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 , that is, Espousals and Marriages. Such also is the proceeding between Christ and his Church; first they are 〈◊〉 in earth, then married in heaven. See Exod. 22. 16. Deut. 21. 23. 2 Sam. 3. 14. Hos. 2. 19.

Contradicting]

To speak against, gain say, Act. 13. 45.

Contradiction]

Gain-saying, Heb. 7. 7. Real contention, Heb. 12. 3.

Heb. 12. 3. That endureth such contradiction of sinners. Thereby understand all that Christ suffered from man, in the 〈◊〉 of his flesh, or humiliation, even of them, whom he could have confounded with the least breath of his mouth. Annot.

Contrary]

Lev. 26. 21. Heb. in contrariety, (which word in is added in verse. 27.) or, at all adventure, by chance. The Heb. Keri signifieth both contrariety, and chance, or accident. The Gr. translateth it 〈◊〉 , or thwart, as opposing themselves to God and his commandments. The Chaldee. expoundeth it, 〈◊〉 ye walk before me with hardness, that is, 〈◊〉 .

If we understand it for chance, or adventure, the meaning is, to walk carelessly, come upon it what will; and to esteem the punishments, not as from the hand of God for their sins, but to come by chance, as the Philistines said in 1 Sam. 6. 9. Ainsworth. See marg. Est. 9. 1.

Wholly other ways, Ezek. 16. 34. Unlike, differing, Mat. 14. 24. Against them, Act. 17. 7. Against, 1 Tim. 1. 10. A liar against, as a Soldier in a trench against a Fort, Tit. 2. 8. An adversary both in judgment and practice.

Contrariwise]

On the contrary, 2 Cor. 2. 7. Gal. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 3. 9.

Contribution]

A communion, communication, distribution, a certain common gathering, Romans 15. 26.

Contrite]

Isa. 57. 15. By it here is expressed an inward contrition of heart, &c. 〈◊〉 and humbled by apprehension of wrath, joined with a deep sense of godly grief, sincere repentance, and serious remorse for sin, as sin, as offensive, displeasing and grievous to God, 2 King. 22. 19. 2 Chr. 32. 26. & 33. 12. Ezek. 6. 9. Act. 2. 37, 38. 2 Cor. 7. 10. Annot.

Of a contrite spirit, Isa. 66. 2. Heb. contrite of spirit, as some, supposing it to come from a word that signifieth to grind, or to vex, Ezek. 13. 22. and to be the same with that which from thence derived its sound, Prov. 15. 13. & 17. 22. & 18. 14. rendered sometime a broken, sometime a wounded spirit. But it seemeth to come from another root, and to signify properly smitten, and by smiting weakened: 〈◊〉 elsewhere of the body, 2 Sam. 4. 4. & 9. 3. here applied to the mind, and signifies one smitten in heart; as it is, Psal. 102. 4. or 〈◊〉 in spirit; as sometime it is used also for an 〈◊〉 , Psal. 35. 15. Annot.

〈◊〉 ]

;;The bruising of a sinners heart (as it were) to dust powder through unfeigned and deep grief, conceived of God's displeasure for sin. Psal. 51. 17. A broken and contrite heart, thou wilt not deapise. This is Evangelical Contrition, and is a work of grace, the beginning of renewed repentance, as 2 Cor. 7. 10. Godly sorrow causeth Repentance unto Salvation.

;; 〈◊〉 err, in 〈◊〉 legal contrition or sorrow, stirred up by the threatenings of the Law, to be a work of grace and part of repentance; whereas rather it is a part of the torment of hell: yet accidentally turned to the good of the Elect, by making them more fit to receive grace, being humb led by the Law.

Controversy]

1. Between man and man in civil matters, Deut. 25. 1, 2, 3. Also about matters of Religion, profitable, as that in Act. 15. Unprofitable, Rom. 14. 1. 1 Tim. 1. 4. & 6. 4, 5. 2 Tim. 2. 23.

2. Between the Church and the enemies thereof, Isa. 34. 8.

3. Between God and men, Jer. 25. 31. Hos. 4. 1. Mic. 6. 2.

It's put for disagreement, Deut 17. 8. An accusation and denial thereof, Deut. 19. 17. A plea, strife, 〈◊〉 contradiction, Deut. 25. 1. A doubtful disputation, Rom. 14. 1. Just matter for God to proceed against man, Hos. 4. 1. Judging the cause, Isa. 34. 8.

Convenient]

• 1. That which is fit and meet, neither too much nor too little, Prov. 30. 8.
• 2. Best or safest, Jer. 40. 5.
• 3. Seasonable, 1 Cor. 16. 12.
• 4. Equal and just, Philem. 8.

Convenient]

〈◊〉 a convenient day was come. Mar. 6. 21. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is a festival day, a day of vacancy, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , in Heb. a good day, i. e. a solema festival day of rest from labor, set apart for 〈◊〉 , and such it is clear was this, Herod's birth-day. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.

Covensently]

Mar. 14. 11. Fitly, for time and place.

Conversant]

〈◊〉 . 8. 35. Were conversant, Heb. walked, marg. See 1 Sam. 25. 15. To keep company with.

Conversation]

;;Not one work, or two, or a few actions, but the whole course of our life, with every degree and step of it from the time of our effectual calling, and so forwards unto the end of our race. This course is termed an honest conversation, 1 Pet. 2. 12. Have your conversation honest. But our course from the time of our birth, until the time of such calling, it is termed a vain conversation, 1 Pet. 1. 18. Redeemed from your vain conversation.

;;2. Manners, outward behavour towards men, Heb. 13. 5. Phil. 3. 20.

Conversation]

Our conversation is in heaven, Phil. 3. 20. We are Citizens of heaven, or heaven is the City of which we are free. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Citizens, is literally citizenship, and denotes a municipium, which is the state and condition of those who dwelling out of the City, have yet the jus Civitatis Romanae, the privileges of the City of Rome, belonging unto them. But this so, that these shall differ from those that had their habitation in the City, who alone might be chosen to Offices in it. See Act. 22. 28. Thus is the Christian here on earth, a fellow Citizen of the Saints, Eph. 2. 19. Though while he dwells here, he be in an inferior condition to them who have domicilium in urbe, the Saints that are in heaven, who alone are capable of reigning with God. Dr. Hammond, marg. & Annot. l.

Conversion]

;;The turning, or total change of an elect sinner from sin to God: and in this signification is comprehended, both faith and repentance, even the whole work of grace. Psal. 51. 14. And sinners shall be converted to thee. This is a passive conversion, wherein we suffer God to work upon us, but ourselves by our Natural power, work nothing, unless it be to hinder the work of Grace, what we may.

;;2. A turning from some particular sin or sins, whereby we have offended God or man. Luk. 22. 32. When thou art converted. Jer. 31. 18. Convert thou me, and I shall be converted. This is an active conversion, performed by men already regenerate, who being already renewed by grace, do work together with his Grace; coverting grace being accompanied with assisting and supporting grace.

;;God converteth a 〈◊〉 by putting grace of 〈◊〉 into his soul. A Sinner converteth himself, when he endeavoreth his own conversion, diligently and constantly using all good means, public and private.

A convert]

One that being out of the Church, is brought into the Church, Eph. 2. 12, 13. Or being in the Church is turned from sinful ways, that he is a new creature, 2 Cor. 5. 17. Is changed into the same image from glory to glory, 2 Cor. 3. 18. Hath Christ formed in him, Gal. 4. 19. It obeyeth from the heart, Rom. 6. 17. and is turned to serve the true and living God, 1 〈◊〉 . 1. 9.

〈◊〉 convert]

Spoken of God, as the Author, Jer. 31. 18. The Word, as the instrument, Psal. 19. 7. Ministers as God's 〈◊〉 to preach the Word, 2 Cor. 11. 2. Gal. 4. 19. 〈◊〉 Christians, using private 〈◊〉 and exhortations, Jam. 5. 20. Of men themselves, making use of the grace wrought in them, Jer. 3. 19. 2 Tim. 2. 26.

Convert]

Psal. 19. 7. or Restore, marg. Isa. 6. 10. or Turn. Annot.

Her Converts, Isa. 1. 28. Those that are reformed in her, from their evil courses, chap. 10. 20, 21. & 59. 20. Or, those of her that return, to wit, from Captivity, being bettered (as Manasseb sometime, 2 Chr. 33. 22, 23.) by their bonds, Ezra 6. 21. Psal. 126. 1. Annot.

Convey]

1 King. 5. 9. Put. Neh. 2. 7. Bring over, Joh. 5. 13. To go away privily.

Convicted]

Joh. 8. 9. The word in the Original signifieth the refuting of an 〈◊〉 , that men had before drunk in, and were possessed of; their consciences accusing them that they were convinced. Leigh Crit. Sac. in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 .

Convince]

To confute, or by good reason and argument to put to silence, Job 32. 12. Act. 28. 28. Thus the Law convinceth, Jam. 2. 9. As whereby the conscience is forced to acknowledge its 〈◊〉 , Joh. 8. 9. To reprove, Joh. 18. 8. See marg. Both may be understood, Tit. 1. 9.

Convoration]

An holy assembly, for performances of holy exercises upon set Festivals, Numb. 28. 18-25, 26. & 29. 1, 7, 12.

Cook]

1 Sam. 9. 23. A dresser of victuals, whether by boiling, roasting, &c. About which Women also were employed, 1 Sam. 8. 13.

Cool]

Gen. 3. 8. Heb. wind, marg.

Cool]

Luk. 16. 24. to make cold, or refresh.

Coos]

Top, Act. 21. 1. The name of an I 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 Sea, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which cometh of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , that is, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 I cleave, or of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 I desire to lie.

Copy]

That which is written out of the original of the Law, Deut. 17. 18. Josh. 8. 32. A letter, Ezr. 4. 11, 23. A writing or decree, Est. 3. 14. Proverbs of 〈◊〉 , Prov. 25. 1.

〈◊〉 Copy]

Prov. 25. 1. To write out.

Coping]

1 King. 7. 9. The top of the wall whereon the beams were laid. Annot.

Copper]

Ezr. 8. 27. Heb. yellow, or shining brass. Some take this for such Amber as Beads were made of; or for a mixture of gold and silver together. It plainly appears that this was a very choice metal that is here mentioned, in that there were but two vessels thereof, and they reckoned amongst vessels of gold. Annot.

〈◊〉 ]

2 Tim. 4. 14. Two of the greatest enemies St. Paul had, were two Smiths. The one a Silversmith, Act. 19. 24. and this Coppersmith here, and both of them (as it is conceived) maligned and opposed him and his preaching, for the same reason, because the Apostle taught that they were no God's that were made with hands, and thereby hindered their gain, and marred their handycraft, which was to make Silver or Copper Shrines or Images to the Heathen gods and goddesses. So 〈◊〉 is the bane of Religion. Annot.

Coppulation]

Lev. 15. 16. Seed of 〈◊〉 , or the effusion of seed. The Heb. and 〈◊〉 properly signifieth the lying or bed of seed; that is, by changing the order of words, the seed of the bed, or of copulation; and it is not meant here of the issue fore-spoken of, nor when he lieth with a Woman, whereof see verse. 18. but of the seed of the healthful, who by imagination, dream, or by any accident in the night may be unclean, Lev. 22. 4. 〈◊〉 . 23. 10. Ayasworth.

Cor]

A measure used amongst the Jews, of the same quantity with the Homer, Ezek. 45. 14. containing ten Ephahs, Ezek. 45. 11. that is, forty five gallons or five 〈◊〉 and five gallans. Goodwin' s Moses and Aaron, p. 321.

Coral]

Hereof mention is made, Job 28. 18. Ezek. 27. 16. It groweth like a shrub or bush, and whilst it is in the Sea, is of a color greenish, and covered with moss, but taken out it waxeth hard as a stone, and when it is 〈◊〉 , is red and smooth.

Coral]

Job 28. 18. or Ramoth. This word comes from a word 〈◊〉 signifies to be high, and it may be the Translators render it Coral, because that it is said to 〈◊〉 on rocks. Annot.

Corashan]

1 Sam. 30. 30. A City (as some think) which is called 〈◊〉 , in the Tribe of Simeon, who had their inheritance out of 〈◊〉 . Annot.

〈◊〉 :]

;; A 〈◊〉 , or an offering. Mar. 7. 11. If a man say to his Parents, Corban, that is, By the gift which is offered by me &c.

Or, the treasury of the Temple, where the money offered for the worship of God was kept, Mat. 27. 6. A Syriac word.

The meaning of these words, Mar. 7. 11. If a man shall say to his Father or Mother, It is Corban, &c.) is this: But ye say, whosoever shall say to his Father 〈◊〉 Mother, Content yourselves my Parents, I have vowed and consecrated unto God, that part of my substance which might have been beneficial and helpful unto you, and now I may not alienate or revoke it.

Cords]

;;Authority, Rule, Govenment, good Laws and Commandments. Psal. 2. 3. And cast 〈◊〉 cords from us; that is, the Doctrine and Discipline of Christ, whereby he ties us to him.

;;2. The doctrine of Faith, Repentance, Mortification, Denyal of ourselves, and bearing the Cross, be these Cords.

;;3. Strength, might and policy, whereby the wicked tie the goldly, as Oxen are tied with cords and bands. Psal. 129. The Lord hath cut the cords of the wicked. Also vain and lying excuses and pretenses.

Cords of man, and bands of Love]

;;Most singular and sweet clemency and kindness of God, to pull us peaceably to our duty. Hos. 11. 4. I 〈◊〉 them with cords of a man, &c.

Cords of vanity]

;;Worldly vanities of pleasures, profit, preferment, by which as by cords, the Devil fastening them on men's minds and affections, 〈◊〉 them from God and his laws, and the way to heaven, (to which else they would betake themselves) and draweth them along pleasantly in the way of wickedness to a place of wretchedness. See Prov. 7. 21, 22. and 2 Tim. 2. 26.;;

;;For this word ( Of ) is here expositive, and is no more but ( As ) in these words, Vanity as cords. ;;

;;2. Deceitful allurements, provocations, and occasions of sinning. Isa. 5. 18. Woe unto them that draw Iniquity with cords of 〈◊〉 . The same is also meant by Cart-ropes, viz. such idle pretenses as the more men draw on sin, the more it is excused, as in Adam, Gen. 3. 8, 9, 10.

3. The lamentable issues, events, and effects which follow upon sin, Prov. 5. 22.

4. The marrow of the sinews are expressed by the silver cord, Eccles. 12. 6.

;; Note: Strong and efficacious excuses to entice men to sin, and to detain them in it: some are drawn of sin, which offend of weakness and ignorance. Others do draw sin to them, as ropes draw a cart after, which sin of purpose and malicious obstinacy.

Or Cords of vanity, Isa. 5. 18. Those fetches and services, toilsome courses and employments, wherein men bent to wickedness, and set wholly thereupon, do labor and take pains incessantly for the compassing of their intended evil practices, and the bringing about of their wicked designs, Psa. 36. 4. Mic. 2. 1. Annot.

Core]

Bald, Jude 11. or, Ice. See Korah.

Coriander]

is a very stinking herb, and hurtful to the body. The seed weell prepared is medicinal and useful for many 〈◊〉 , but unpiepared is very dangerous. Unto this seed Manna was like, Exod. 16. 31. not in color, but roundness.

Corinth]

The name of a City in Acaia, to whose inhabitants Paul wrote two Epistles. It signifieth (according to one) 〈◊〉 , or an ornament. According to Chytreus, the Maids flower, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 . According to Calepine it's denominated from Corinthus the builder. According to Pasor, of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a young man, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the soft and tender bair that first appeareth, as if the forementioned Corinthus had been called, A little bearded young man.

Corinthians]

The inhabitants of the City of Corinth, to whom Paul wrote two Epistles, Act. 18. 8. 2 Cor. 6. 11.

Cormorant]

Hereof mention is, Lev. 11. 17. & Deut. 14. 17. It's more addicted to the water then the Duck, and can stay long under the water. It's of an hot constitution, and a great devourer. About the beginning of the spring it builds on trees, near the sea. Whilst it's in water, it foreseeth the approaching tempest, and thereupon speedily making a great noise it goeth to the shore. In the winter it's most fat, as which then moveth but a little; in the summer (when there is most plenty) waxeth lean, in respect of its frequent motion

Corn]

Laid up in Cities, Gen. 41. 48. In stacks, Exod. 22. 6. Standing corn, Ibid. In green ears, Lev. 2. 14. Beaten out, Ib. 16. Parched, Lev. 23. 14. Old, Josh. 5. 11. In an heap, Ruth 3. 7. In shocks, Job 5. 26. Corn of heayen, Psal. 78. 24. Corn on the floor, Isa. 21. 10. Corn wasted, Joel 1. 10. Withered, Ibid. 17.

Corn: Deut. 16. 13. Heb. floor, marg. Job 24. 6. Heb. mingled corn, or dredge, marg.

Cornelius]

Of an horn. A religious Centurion, Act. 10. 1. It may seem to be derived of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , as if it were 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , the beam of the sun. He seems to have descended of the noble family of the Cornelii at Rome.

Corner]

put for an hid place, or in secret, Act. 26. 26. Also for the outside or utmost part, Lev. 19. 9. 27.

Corner-gate]

2 Chr. 25. 23. Heb. the gate of it that looketh, marg.

Corner stone]

;;Properly, the head or main stone which sustains the building; and figuratively Christ, on whom the Church relieth and stayeth, being the strength and foundation of it. As the houses both of Judah and Israel were united in David the King, as a type; so the Church of the Jews and Gentiles is built on Christ, as an house leaneth on the Corner-stone. Psal. 118. 22. This stone resused of the builders, is made the Head or Corner-stone.

Job 38. 6. 〈◊〉 laid the Corner-stone thereof? By whose aid did I as it were lay an high corner-stone to uphold and keep together so great a building? Who made the parts to keep so close together, and to keep up one another. The words are metaphorical, to show the firmness of the work, as buildings 〈◊〉 that have good foundations and corner-stones. Annot. Isa. 28. 16. The choicest and firmest stones are made choice of for corner-stones, as well for the surer knitting of the walls together, as for the better bearing up, and the beauty also (Psal. 144. 12.) of the building: In both which regards the name of a corner- 〈◊〉 , suiteth well to Christ, Psal. 118. 22. Mat. 21. 42. Act. 4. 11. since that he not only beareth up the intite structure of his Church, Mat. 16. 18. 1 Cor. 3. 11. Eph. 2. 20. but also joineth and knitteth most closely and firmly together both the two main walls of Jew and Gentile, and each living stone also in either wall one to another, Eph. 2. 14 — 22. & 4. 15, 16. 1 Pet. 2. 4, 5. Annot.

Bercorius in his Dictionary on the word Angulus, relateth out of the Scholastic History, that at the building of Solomon' s Temple, there was a stone which the Builders could by no means fit for the building, but that one stone being wanting for the top of the building, that only did fit. Thus Christ, whom the builders rejected (the Jews) became the bead stone of the corner, Psal. 118. 22. Mat. 21. 42. Mar. 12. 10. Luk. 20. 17. Act. 4. 11.

Corners]

Exod. 30. 4. Heb. ribs, marg. Nehem 3. 32. or Corner-chamber, marg. Isa. 11. 12. Heb. wings marg.

Cornet]

An instrument of music, used piously, Psal 98. 6. Idolatrously, Dan. 3. 5. & 7. 10. Civilly, Hos. 5. 8.

Cornet: Psal. 150. 3. or Trumpet. See marg.

Cornse]

A dead body, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , cadaver à cadendo, for that it falleth by death, Mar. 6. 29. Leigh Crit. Sac.

Correct]

Job 5. 17. Sometimes the word signifies reproving, which is a verbal corection, as Lev. 19. 17. But here it imports a real correction by stripes and troubles, ch. 33. 17, 19. Either he means, that God's correcting wicked men for their sins, is a way to bring to blessedness, by driving them to repentance; or else he includes the use of corrections. The man whom God by afflictions brings our of his evil ways shall be blessed. Annot. Psal. 39. 11. Dost correct, chastiseth. Ainsworth. Psal. 94. 10. Rebuke. Ainsworth. Jer. 2. 19. To convince and condemn; or, to reclaim and amend. Annot.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , corrumpi, signifies sometimes to be debaucbed to sin; particularly, and in the most eminent manner, to those sins against nature, abominable Heathen lusts. So 2 Cor. 7. 2. We have corrupted no man, seems to relate to those false Teachers the Gnostics among them, who did thus corrupt and seduce their Disciples. Dr. Hammond on 2 Pet. 1. 4. Annot. b.

Correction]

Of God, Job 5. 17. Prov. 3. 12, Ibid. 11. Jer. 2. 30. Jer. 5. 3. & 7. 28. Zeph. 3. 2. who establisheth some for correction, Hab. 1. 12.

Of Man, as Masters of families, Prov. 29. 19. Fathers and Mothers, Heb. 12. 9. Prov. 23. 13. And this by words, Prov. 29. 19. The stocks, Prov. 7. 22. The rod, Prov. 22. 15.

Note, that this word signifieth a rod, Job 37. 13. marg. and instruction, Jer. 7. 28. marg. And the word 2 Tim. 3. 16. signifieth, A correction of manners, or a restitution of things decayed, or fallen, to their sormer good condition.

Corrupt]

;;Foolish, unwise, Psal. 14. 3. They are all corrupt; that is, they have not understanding to perceive the things which God offereth and doth to them.

;;2. Rotten and unsavory. Eph. 4. 29. No corrupt communication: that is, filthy in its self, and hurtful to others.

;; Corrupt or rotten talk: In this phrase there is a Metaphor or similitude: That as the mouth abhorreth rotten and filthy meat, so the ear of a good man loatheth lewd and wicked words.

Loathsome, Job 7. 5. Deceitful, Dan. 2. 9. Stinking, Psal. 38. 5. Abominable, Psal. 53. 1, 3.

To cortupt]

;;To live otherwise then we should, by doing any manner of sin, or leaving undone good duties. Deut. 4. 14. That ye corrupt not yourselves. Psal. 14. 1. Also to deal deceitfully with a thing, 2 Cor, 2. 27.

;;2. To defile or destroy. 1 Cor. 15. 33. Evil words corrupt good 〈◊〉 manners.

;; Note: Man corrupteth himself by sin, Gen. 6. 12. and God corrupteth man by destroying for sin, Gen. 19. 13, 14. The word Englished destroying, in the original signifieth corrupting.

It's put also for, to Reprove, Mal. 2. 3. Consume, Mat. 6. 19. Deal treacherously with, 2 Cor. 2. 17. & 7. 2. Break, Mal. 2. 8. Cause to dissemble, Dan. 11. 32. Make 〈◊〉 with foul sin, Dan. 4. 16. Dissolve, or make desolate, Psal. 73. 8. Entice and allure, Dan. 11. 17.

Corrupt children]

;;Such as know nothing but how to corrupt themselves, their ways, their life and actions, their neighbors, by 〈◊〉 counsel and examples, waxing every day worse then other, being corrupt more and more, and corrupting all the formerly mentioned persons and things. Isa. 1. 4. Children corrupt, or 〈◊〉 .

〈◊〉 corrupt the earth]

;;To defile and pollute men of earthly minds, both with bodily and spiritual adultery, whereinto the great 〈◊〉 , to wit, he 〈◊〉 Synagogue hath led Nations and Kingdoms. Rev. 19. 2. He hath co idemned the great 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 hath corrupted the earth with her 〈◊〉 . Of their bodily 〈◊〉 , their Vaults and Privies were witness, and their Temples of spiritual.

Corrupted]

Exod. 8. 24. or Destroyed, marg.

〈◊〉 ]

Isa. 1. 4. Children that are corrupters. Or, as some, corrupt children, children that deal corruptly, 2 Chr. 27. 2. Jer. 6. 28. Or, that have corrupted themselves, Exod. 32. 7. Deut. 32. 5. and their doings, Zeph. 3. 7. Heb. 〈◊〉 corrupting, or corrupters, that is, wastful, or wasters, as Prov. 18. 9. or destroyers, as Prov. 28. 24. Stroy-goods, or wastful children. A Metaphor taken from riotous and prodigal yonkeis, that waste and consume their patrimony, the means left them by their paients, Luk. 15. 13, 30. Applyed to this people, and having imbezeled their spiritual patrimony, derived and 〈◊〉 to them from their religious predecessors, Gen. 17. 7. Deut. 7. 6, 8. & 32. 9, 20. Psal. 147. 19, 20. & 148. 14. Rom. 3. 1. & 9. 4, 5. Annot. Jer. 6. 28. or corrupt; both corrupt themselves, and corrupting one another. Annot.

Corruptible]

That which either is, or may be corrupted; being spoken of Man, Rom. 1. 23. Crown, 1 Cor. 9. 25. Men's 〈◊〉 , 1 Cor. 15. 53. Silver and gold, &c. 1 Pet. 1. 18. Seed, Ib. 23.

Corruption]

;;Rottenness, such as the body feels in the grave. Psal. 16. 10. Thou 〈◊〉 not suffer thy holy One to see corruption. 1 Cor. 15. 42. It is sown in corruption, or a body subject to corruption, 1 Cor. 15. 50.

;;2. That vicious and naughty quality of sin, spiritually wasting the soul, being contrary unto that integrity and soundness in which we were created. Eph. 4. 24. Cast off the oldman which is corrupt through lust.

;;3. Also it signifieth a pit where n bodies do corrupt, Psal. 55. 23. & 57. 6. & 94. 13.

It's put also for wasting the body, Deut. 10. 8. Idolatry, 2 King. 23. 15. Sinful abuse, Rom. 8. 21. Man polluted with sin, 1 Cor. 15. 50. Deserved punishment, Gal. 6. 8. Sinful courses, 2 Pet. 1. 4. Sinfulness, 2 Pet. 2. 12, 19

• There's 1. A corporal corruption, 1 Cor. 15. 42.
• 2. A spiritual, through sin, Psal. 14. 1. whereby, the earth, Gen. 6. 11. our actions, Ezek. 20. 44. words, Eph. 4. 29. minds, 1 Tim. 6. 5. all are defiled.

Corruption]

Jonah 2. 6. or the Pit, marg. 2 King. 23. 13. 〈◊〉 of corruption; that is, the 〈◊〉 of Olives.

Corruptly]

2 Chr. 27. 2. The people did yet corruptly. This general is thus in particular exemplified. The people sacrifised and 〈◊〉 incense still in the high places, 2 King. 15. 35. This is set down as a fault in his government. It is thereupon said, the high places were not removed. Had he removed them, he might have prevented the people's corruption herein. Annot.

Neh. m. 1. 7. We have dealt very corruptly, Heb. with corruption we have corrupted. Annot.

Cosam]

Divining, 〈◊〉 . 3. 27. of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 he divined. The name of a man.

Cost]

Expense, charge, 2 Sam. 19. 42. 1 Chr. 21. 24. Luk. 14. 28.

Cost]

To give a price for, 2 Sam. 24. 24.

Costliness]

Rev. 18. 19. By reason of our costliness, 〈◊〉 , magnificence, stateliness, the rare, precious, and honorable things by her affected and bought.

〈◊〉 ]

1 King. 5. 17. Rare, or precious, as the word is 〈◊〉 . Isa. 28. 16. Annot. Of great price, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Joh. 12. 3. Sumptuous, 1 Tim. 2. 9.

Cottage]

Isa. 1. 8. A shade or Booth set up in the midst, or on the one side of the Vineyard, for the Keeper there to watch or repose himself, ch. 4. 6. Job 27. 18. Annot. Isa. 24. 20. A Tent; either a Soldiers tent, as some, that is taken down and removed, when they are to march, or are quitting of their Quarters; or a Shephards tent, which he removes from place to place, as he finds conveniency of 〈◊〉 for his sheep, chap. 13. 20. & 38. 12. Annot.

Couch]

Job 7. 13. Some take it for a place to rest on in the day; but it may well be all one with the Bed mentioned before (as that also in Gen. 49 4.) Annot. Psal. 6. 6. Bedstead. Ainsworth. Amos 3. 12. The Beds-feet. Annot. Luk. 5. 19, 24. A little Bed.

To couch]

To lie down, Gen. 49. 9.

Covenant]

;;A league or agreement between two or more parties, being at variance. Gen. 21. 32. Thus made they a Covenant at 〈◊〉 ba. This is a Civil Covenant.

;;The word Covenant is called in Hebrew 〈◊〉 , which hath the signification of friendly 〈◊〉 , and of explaining the 〈◊〉 of agreement: For at the making of solemn Covenants, beasts were killed and parted asunder, and the Covenant-makers went between the parts, Gen. 15. 9, 10, 17. Jer. 34. 18. Hereupon is the phrase of cutting a Covenant, Psal. 50. 5. & 83. 6. and 89. 4. The Apostles in Greek call it Diathekee, a Testament, a Testamental Covenant, or disposing of things by will at ones death, Heb. 7. 8. Jer. 31. 31. 1 Cor. 11. 25.

;;2. Our promise made unto God, for our yielding obedience to his will. Neh. 9. 38. We make a sure covenant. Or for performing duties to men, 1 Sam. 18. 3.

;;3. A league or agreement which God hath made with men for salvation, Jer. 32. 40. I will make an everlasting covenant with them. This is a Religious covenant.

;;4. The Word of God which contains the articles of our covenant and agreement between God and man. Psal. 25. 10, 14. To such as keep his covenants and his testimonies. Exod. 19. 5. And keep my covenant.

;;5. The promise whereby married persons bind themselves each unto others, for the pure use of wedlock, Mal. 2. 14. This is called the Covenant of God, Prov. 2. 17. because God is the Author of it: it is also made in his presence, and by invocation of his name, to perform duties commanded by him. This is a Marriage-Covenant. A mixed Covenant; partly Civil, and partly Religious.

;;6. Circumcision, which is the sign of the Covenant. Gen. 17. 13. My covenant shall be in your flesh; that is, the sign of the Covenant, verse. 10.

;;7. The Tables of the Covenant. Rom. 9. 4. And the Covenants; that is, the Tables wherein the articles of the Covenant were contained.

• 1. God's with Man, made with particular persons, Gen. 3. 15. & 6. 17, 18. & 15. 18. Exod. 34. 27. Numb. 18. 19. Mal. 1 5, 8. Numb. 25. 12, 13. 2 Chr. 21. 7. With Christ, Isa. 42. 6. & 49. 8. With all mankind, Gen. 9. 9. With all Israel, Deut. 4. 13. & 26. 18. With his Church, Hos. 2. 19. His Elect, Isa. 55. 3. His faithful, Isa. 61. 8. Jer. 31. 31. Heb. 8. 9, 10. & 10. 6. This is the everlasting covenant, Gen. 17. 7. The covenant of peace, Isa. 54. 10.
• 2. Mans with God, Josh. 24. 25. 2 King. 11. 17. Neh. 9. 38.
• 3. Of Man with Man, being both unlawful, as with God's enemies, Exod. 23. 32. 1 〈◊〉 . 20. 34. 2 Chr. 18. 3. And lawful; and this is either more general, as being between two or more persons being at a variance, Gen. 21. 32. Or more special, as between Husbands and Wives, Mal. 2. 4.
• 4. Of Man with Death and Hell, Isa. 28. 15.

This word is taken also for the whole covenant in substance and accidents thereto, Heb. 15. 13. A part of the covenant, the promise to Abraham, Gen. 12. 3. & 22. 18. Mans duties under this covenant, Deut. 4. 13. & 17. 2. 2 King. 8. 12. The two Tables in which the Commandments were written, Rom. 9. 4. God's people, worship, and holy ordinances, Dan. 11. 18. The thing commanded to be done, Gen. 17. 14. Deut. 29. 2. A Testament, Gal. 3. 15.

Covenant: Gal. 3. 15. or Testament, marg.

Covenant-breakers]

;;Such as be unmindful of promises and bargains. Rom. 1. 30. Covenant-breakers.

Book of the covenant]

;;The Writing which did contain the articles and conditions both on God's part what he promised to do to the people, and on the people's part what duties they were to perform to God, according to the tenor of the Covenant. Exod. 24. 7. After he took the look of the Covenant and read it.

Covenant with death and hell]

;;Agreement with them. So do wicked men imagine, Isa. 28. 15.

Covenant of 〈◊〉 ]

;;is an agreement concerning men, to be freely saved through faith in Christ. Gal. 3. 11. The just shall live by faith. 〈◊〉 . 3. 16. God so loved the World. Jer. 31. 33, 34. This Covenant is either Old or New, in divers respects and circumstances, being one for substance.

Against the holy covenant]

;;That the mind of Antiochus Epiphanes shall be exasperated against God, against his people, against the Tables of the Covenant, against the Law and the whole worship of God. Dan. 11. 28.

Covenant of Levi]

;;The agreement vhich God hath made with the Levites, to bless them with peace and life, if their duties be performed in their place. Mal. 2. 8. Ye have 〈◊〉 the Covenant of Levi, verse. 5.

〈◊〉 man's Covenant]

;;An agreement amongst men, and touching the affairs and matters of men. Gal. 3. 15. Though it be but a man's Covenant.

;;Note: If such a Covenant or appointment of men must stand firm and ratified, without abolition, or addition; much less ought the covenant and agreement which God hath made, touching giving eternal life freely by his Son through faith, to be violated and made frustrate by the adding of Circumcision to Baptism, and 〈◊〉 by works, unto the righteonsness of faith, as a supplement without which no salvation can be had.

To confirm the Covenant with many]

;;To strengthen numbers of the Elect in the covenant of grace, which Christ did by his 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 and Kingly office. Dan. 9. 27. He shall 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 with many. See 〈◊〉 . 5. 〈◊〉 . By the presching and the mighty works which the Apostles did, there were innumerable both Jews and Gentiles, through Christ his Spirit, converted to the 〈◊〉 and stablished therein, as in the History of the Acts is manifest: after which the Sacrifice ceased, through the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 , which 〈◊〉 all means of oblations, as Dan. 9. in the latter end of verse. 27. foretold.

New Covenant]

;;is made with Christian people, published by Christ most clearly, wherein more persons are renewed, and more graces bestowed, being always to endure one and the same. Hence it is called New, Heb. 9. 13. 〈◊〉 . 31. 31. I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel.

Old Covenant]

;;This was given or published by Moses, and made with the Jews only, till Christ's 〈◊〉 , being placed in ceremonies, which in time for oldness vanished away. Hence called Old, Heb. 9. 13.

Covenant of peace]

;;An agreement which God hath made 〈◊〉 his Church, to give it reconciliation by Christ, life, 〈◊〉 , and all good, Zach. 6. 15.

Covenant of Salt]

;;See Salt.

Covenant of works]

;;is a league touching the saving of some, on condition of their perfect obedience. This was made with Angels and Adam before their fall: and since that time it is propounded in the Scriptures, to convince us of 〈◊〉 , and to prepare us for Christ. Rom. 3. 20. Gal. 3. 24. The Law is our School master to Christ. Lev. 18. 5. The man that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things shall live.

To covenant]

To promise, 2 Chron. 7. 18. Annot. So Hag. 2. 5. Annot. To weigh, or pay, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 . Mat. 26. 15. To bargain or agree, Luk. 22. 5.

Cover]

To ease nature, 〈◊〉 . 3. 24. Hide, Prov. 12. 16. Preserve, Psal. 91. 4. Cloath, Isa. 61. 10. Grow over, Prov. 30. 31. Close, Exod. 29. 13. Stop, Prov. 10. 11. Keep close, Ibid. Blot our, Neh. 4. 5. Vail, 1 Cor. 11. 6, 7. Forgive, Psal. 32. 1.

Cover: Exod. 25. 29. To pour out withal, marg. Lam. 3. 16. or, To roll, marg.

To cover the 〈◊〉 ]

;;To do ones easement, or go to stool. Judge. 3. 24. Surely he hath covered his feet. 1 Sam. 24. 4. An unhonest thing uttered in honest words.

Covering]

;;The roof of an house, a veil, or ought else which serves for defense, or keeping close.

;;2. The Husband who is called the covering of his Wife, in respect of his duty towards her, by 〈◊〉 her, and of his authority over her in governing her: for the veil and covering which women did wear was a sign of their subjection, 1 Cor. 11. 6, 7. Gen. 20. 16.

;;3. Stopping or making 〈◊〉 and silent. Prov. 12. 6. Iniquity shall cover the mouth of the wicked.

;;4. The Ceremonies of the Law, which being too much respected, to hinder us from Christ himself, Isa. 25. 7.;;

;;5. The ignorance of men's minds, Isa. 25. 7. 2 Cor. 3. 16.;;

Covering]

The covering of it of Purple. Cant. 3. 10. or the curtains or hangings, 〈◊〉 . 3. 7. or the veil of it, as that of the Ark, Exod. 26. 31. which signified an holy pure life and conversation, which is soft and gentle as Silk is, but yet must be coloured in the purple streams, that is, the blood of Christ, the application, and 〈◊〉 whereof is not only our glory, but our protection, Rev. 7. 14. Annot.

The top and 〈◊〉 , which have the name here of riding, because it seemed as it were to ride upon the chariot, so the Greek calleth it Epibasis, of ascending. It seemeth to signify the outward conversation and clothing of the Church, &c. Ainsworth.

In regard of his Royal and Kingly office, he is glorious as Purple, and clothed with it to advance our baseness. Cotton.

The ornaments and hangings, are the shining glory of God, and the Lamb. Finch.

Covering of sins]

;;The forgiveness of sins for the death of Christ, which is as a mantle to cover them from the eye of God's justice, Psal. 32. 1. Blessed is the man whose sins are, &c.

;;2. Concealing, keeping close or secret, when we do not tell a thing abroad. Prov. 10. 12. Love covereth a multitude of sins, which by a charitable private reproof are hid and covered from the punishment of God, and shame of men.

Covering for the 〈◊〉 ]

;;Properly, a certain large clothing made of Rams and Badgers skins sowed together, to hide and preserve the Tabernacle and things within it, against all injury of the weather: but Typically it figured the safety of the whole Church, and every member sitting under the shadow and protection of the most High, as David singeth, Psal. 27. 5. And Isaiah alluding to this ceremony, saith, Upon all the glory shall be a defense, Heb. covering, &c. Isa. 4. 5, 6. Exed. 26. 14. Thou shall make a covering for the tent, &c. The boards or pillars to uphold the Tabernacle, Exod. 26. 15, 19. signifieth, that the Church for the ministry of it, is the pillar of truth, 1 Tim. 3. 17. and all the gifts of all members in the Church, are for the upholding of the whole body, 1 Cor. 12. 4, 5. The Tabernacle having a covering both without and within, Exod. 29. 14. & 27. 7. This signified the outward and inward condition of God's Church, as Solomon doth resemble it, Cant. 1. 5.

;; Note: This covering with Rams skins, besides the safety of the Church covered and hid from the injuries of the world, doth signify the heavenly graces wherewith Christ, and his Church in him are adorned; also their uniting together by the Spirit through faith and love.

To destroy the covering and the vell]

;;To take away from the Jews the hardness of their stubborn heart, their ignorance and blindness of mind, which was as a covering and veil before their face, that they could not see Christ the end of the Law, Isa. 25. 7. 2 Cor. 3. 16.

〈◊〉 ]

Exod. 25. 29. or (as the Hebrew Doctors understand it) Props. Ainsworth.

Covert]

A thicket for wild beasts, 〈◊〉 38. 40. That which may hide one, Job 40. 21. A shadow, Psal. 61. 4. A shelter, or refuge, Isa. 4. 6. & 32. 2. A place under which such were, as waired their courses about the Temple on the Sabbath day, 2 King. 16. 18.

To covet]

;;To love or desire money or earthly goods (for themselves) either our own or others, Josh. 7. 21. 1 Tim. 6. 9, 10 The desire of money is the root of all evil. 10. Commandment.

;;2. To desire spiritual blessings, or heavenly glory. 1 Cor. 12. 31. Covet after the best things. Phil. 1. 23. I covet to be loosed and to be, &c. This is a good covetousness, when spiritual blessings, or celestial blessedness, is even greedily and eagerly desired. Other things we may desire, no further or otherwise then as helps to these.

To turn aside after lucre, 1 Sam. 8. 3. To be greedy of 〈◊〉 , 1 Tim. 3. 3. To love silver, and not to be satisfied therewith, Eccl. 5. 10. To love to say, Give ye, Hos. 4. 18. To enlarge desire, Hab. 2. 5. To serve mammon, Mat. 6. 24. To mind earthly things, Phil. 3. 19. To love wages of unrighteousness, 2 Pet. 2. 14. This may be considered according to the matter or thing covered, as our neighbors Wife, House, Land, Servants, Cattle, &c.

Coveteth]

An eviil covetousness, Hab. 2. 9. or gaineth an 〈◊〉 gain, marg.

Covetous]

A lover of money, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Luk. 16. 14. 2 Tim. 3. 2. Such as being in a better condition then oothers, by reason of their wealth, do yet study always to have more, are not satisfied with what they have, though more then enough, use fraudulent and unlawful means to enrich themselves. See Leigh Crit. Sac. in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 .

Coverousness]

;;Desire of having more, or the inordinate love of money. Heb. 13. 5. Let your conversation be without 〈◊〉 . This is called Idolatry, Col. 3. 5. Eph. 5. 5. Because the covetous man not only prefers his treasure before 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 doth place his life in his substance, Luk. 12. 15, 16, &c.

It's condemned in all sorts of people, Kings, Magistrates, Priests, &c. And they which are addicted hereunto are hated of God, Psal. 10. 3. 〈◊〉 of the Word, Luk. 16. 14. Cruel, Prov. 12. 10. Mic. 2. 2. Zeph. 3. 3. Miserable, 〈◊〉 20. 15, 19, 20. Isa. 10. 1. Vain, Job 27. 10. Psal. 49. 17. 〈◊〉 . 23. 6. Idolaters, Col. 3. 5. Such as are guilty of this vice, have their name of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which, as it signifieth to be given unto coverousness, so also to be wounded, Joel 2. 8. For not only they hurt others, whose lives they would take away, Prov. 1. 19. but pierce themselves thorough with many sorrows, 1 Tim. 6. 10. This consists partly in getting whether unjustly or unhonestly, by violence or secret conveyance; partly in keeping, when he that should give, either giveth not all, or giveth too little, or giveth out of season, or giveth with great difficulty.