A Christian Dictionary, Dictionary 1 · Part 71
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to hold one by y• right hand. sig:
To support and stay one which is weake and sliding, that he fall not away, and to raise vp being fallen. Psa. 73, 23. Thou holdest by my right Hand.
to hold vp the Hand. sig:
To doo the part and office of a Standard or Ensigne bearer; as Moses did when he held vp his rod or staffe with his hand. Ex. 17, 11. And when Moses held vp his hand, Israel preuailed. This is not wel vnderstood of Prayer, which neither Moses could continue in an whole day, neither needed he two to hold vp his hands for this purpose.
Holy. sig:
That which is seuered from earth and earthlinesse.
2 That which is pure, cleane, and vnpolluted, separate from sinne and corruption. Such are the godly heere vnperfectly, and such they shall be in heauen most perfectly. 1. Pet. 1, 16. Bee ye Holy, Ephe. 1, 4. That we should be Holy without blame.
3 One, who is infinite pure and righteous, so is God only. Leuit. 11, 44. For I am Holy. And 19, 2.
4 One, who is consecrated or set apart of God, to be the Messiah and Mediator for mankind, hauing for that purpose all the bounty of his Father powred on him. Psal. 16, 10. Thou wilt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Luke 4, 34, I knowe who thou art, euen the Holy one of God. Such an one is Christ only, who being both properly God, & (as man) conceiued of the Holy-Ghost without sinne, ordained to be the Sacrifice for sinne, and to sanctifie and make al his people holy. In these respects, he is often and woorthily in Scripture called that Holy one. Actes. 3, 14. Ye denied that Holy one. 1. Iohn 2, 20. Also he is tearmed the Holy of Holyest, or most Holy. Dan. 9, 24. And to annoint the most holy.
5 One, who is not only most Holy in himselfe, but doth immediately by his vertue and working, renew and make Holy others, continually stirring them vp vntounto Holy duties. Thus is the spirit, the third person in the Trinity, called Holy. Mat. 28, 19. And the Holy-Ghost. Ephe. 4, 30. Greeue not the holy spirit of God. 1. Pet. 1, 2. Unto Sanctification of the Spirit.
6 The whole Church of Christ, his mystical body, euen all his chosen and peculiar people; who because they hauehave in the middest of them God his word and Sacraments to sanctifie them, and Christ his holinesse imputed to them, and the Spirite of Christ within them to purifie them, and doo endeuour to lead a holy life: In these regards, it is called the Holy Church, and Holy people. 1. Cor. 1, 2. Unto the Church of God Sanctified by Christs Saints by calling. Deut. 14, 24. Thou art an holy people to the Lorde.
7 Things, and persons, which are set apart by Gods ordinance, to Holy vses and Offices. Thus Ierusalem, and the Temple, and the Priests, and the Altar, and the Sacrifices, and the Shew-bread, & the Fire, and Incense, Vessels, Garments, Tithes, & whatsoeuer was dedicated as Sacred vntounto God, was called Holy. 1. Sam. 24, 4. Haggai. 1, 12. Leuit. 21, 6, 12. Math. 24, 15. Set in the Holie place.
to be Holy. sig:
To keep himselfe, from eating or touching ought which is Ceremonially vncleane. Leuit. 11, 44.
Holinesse. sig:
That diuine vncreated essence, which being it selfe most Holy and vndefiled, loueth euerie thing which is so, and hates the contrary. Psal. 89, 35. I hauehave sworne once by mine holinesse; that is, by my selfe, who am most Holy.
2 That created quality of purenesse wherein the Saints resemble God, being pure, seuered in part from mixture of sin, as God is Holy and pure. Heb. 12, 14. Without holinesse no man can see God.
3 All duties, which do immediately concerne God and his worship. Ephe. 4, 24. In holinesse and righteousnesse of truth. Rom. 6, 22. Luke 6, 22. Luke 1, 75. And in all other places where Holinesse and Righteousnesse are put together.
4 Purity or cleannes of body, about the act of generation. 1 Thess. 44. Possesse your vessels in holinesse
5 Sincerely, Holily, with a purpose to do as one speaketh. Psal. 108, 7. God hath spoken in his Holinesse.
habitation of his Holinesse. sig:
The Land of Canaan, which the most Holy God promised to his Holy people, by whose residence, but chiefly by the speciall presence of God there, it was sanctified. Exod. 15, 1…. Thou wilt bring them into the habitation of holinesse.
Holy of holies, or holiest of all. sig:
Some thing, person, or place, which was more Holy then others. Hebr. 9, 13. Which is called the holiest of all. It was that place in the Sanctuarie, whether the High-Priest entered once a yeare, as a Figure and Type of heauen.
Holy place. sig:
The Land or Countrey of Iudea, called the Holy-Land, and an Holy Nation, in comparison of other Nations and Landes; as Ierusalem is called the Holy Citty, being more holy then the Country of Palestine; and the Sanctuarie is called Holy, because it was more holie then the Citty, &c. Mat. 24, 15. When ye shall see the abomination of Desolation; (that is, the Armie of the Romans) set in the Holy place.
Honesty. sig:
All kinde of duties, which men are mutually to practise one towards another, without doing any vncomely, filthy, or wicked thing. 1. Tim. 2, …. In all godlinesse and Honesty.
2 Carefull couering, or comly Garments. 1. Cor. 12, 23. Put we more honesty on.
Honor. sig:
All that respect which we owe to our Gouernors of all sorts, which more particularly doth consist in reuerence, louelove, obedience, and thankefulnesse, as in the fift Commandement. 1. Pet. 2, 17. Honour the King. Exod. 20, 12. Honor thy Father and Mother.
2 Reuerence to Magistrates. Rom. 13. 7. Honor to whom Honor, &c.
3 Obedience to parents. Ephe. 6, 1, 2.
4 Honest care and regarde of others which are our Inferiors. 1. Pet. 3, 6▪ GiueGive Honor to your wiues. This is done by bearing with their weaknesse, and prouiding things meet for them, according to our degree and estate.
5 Helpe and aide, which (by way of thankfulnesse) we doo performe to our Parents or others. Mat. 15, 6. Though he Honor not Father and Mother. 1. Tim. 5, 3, 17.
6 Estimation. 1. Cor. 12, 26. If one member bee had in Honor. It also signifies, Riches and wealth, which beget estimation and Honor, by a Metanimie. Gen. 31, 1. All this Honor.
7 Comelinesse, beauty, and dignitie. 1. Cor. 12, 24. And hath giuen more Honour to that part that lacked. A more comely and seemely couering.
8 Inward reuerence, and all outward priuate duties of kindnesse and louelove. Ro. 12, 10. In giuing Honor, go one before another. Acts 28, 10. 1. Pet. 2, 17. Honor all men.
9 An earnest care to preserue from sinnefull vncleannesse, as Fornication, Drunkennesse, Gluttony, Ryot, and such like. 1. Thess. 4, 4. How to keepe his vessell in honor.
10 Some publicke function or calling, either in Church or Common-wealth, giuen to such men, as for their vertue deserue to be honoured & preferred. Heb. 4, 5. No man takes this Honor vntounto himselfe, but he that is called. Thus we may wel vnderstand that place of 2. Pet. 1, 17. For hee receiued of God the Father Honor; that is, an honourable function, with ample and honourable gifts, to be the reconciler of mankind. Iohn 8, 54.
11 Plentifull praises which wee yeeld to God, when we confesse & acknowledge his diuine vertues and properties, and that of him comes al good things, and that he alone is to be called vponupon and worshipped. Reuel. 4, 13. Praise and honor, glorie, and power be vntounto him that sitteth vponupon the Throne. And in the Psalmes verie often: as also else-where in Scripture.
12 The glorious and blessed estate of the Saints in heauen, or that exceeding great praise which they shall there hauehave with God. Rom. 2, 10. VntoUnto euerie one that doth good, shall be Glorie and honor.
to Honour God. sig:
Truly from the heart, to worship, feare, and louelove him, and aboue all things to trust in him, and obey him. Sa. 2, 30. I will honor him, which honoreth me.
to Honour with ye lips. sig:
Outwardly with the mouth and gesture, without true Faith and louelove to worship God. Mat. 15, 8. Ye Honor me with the lips.
to Honour Christ. sig:
To beleeue in him, and confesse him to bee the Messiah. Iohn 5, 23. All men should honour the Son, as they honour the Father.
to honor vsus sig:
To power his benefits vponupon vsus, and to blesse vsus with fauour before God and men. 1. Sam. 2, 20. I will Honor him.
to Honour man before God. sig:
To beare with the wickednesse of men, to the reproch and dishonor of God. 1. Sam. 2, 29. And honourest thy children aboue me.
to Honour the Father. sig:
By words and works to praise and magnify God his Father. Thus Christ honoured his Father by Doctrine, Myracle, Praises, Prayer, and Godly life. Iohn 8, 49. But I Honor my Father. How God honoureth the Sonne, see before.
to Honor another man sig:
To countenance one by presence, and keeping company. 1. Sam. 15, 30.
to Crowne Christ with Honor. sig:
To aduance Christ to the Office of King and Priest, fulfilling him with most excellent gifts, raising him from the dead, making all thinges subiect to him, hauing lifted him vp to sit at his right hand in the highest heauens. Heb. 2, 7. Thou crownest him with glory and Honor.
Hope. sig:
An assured expectation of all promised good things of this life; especially of heauenly Glorie. 1. Cor. 15, 19. If in this life only we hauehave Hope in Christ, &c. Rom. 5, 2. We reioyce vnderunder the Hope of the Glory of God. Christians build their Hope vponupon the mercies of God in Christ; Papists, vpō Gods grace and their owne merits.
2 The thing which is Hoped for. Col. 1, 4, 5. Titus 2, 13. Looking for the blessed Hope. Rom. 8, 24. Hope that is seene, is no hope. And in all places, where it is written, The Hope of the wicked shall perish. Metanimie.
3 Faith. 1. Pet. 5, 15. To them which aske a reason of the Hope which is in you.
4 Whole Religion. Ephe. 1, 18. That yee may know what is the Hope of your vocation. Psal. 39, 8.
5 Christ Iesus the Messiah, who is called the Hope of Israel, in respect of the Fathers, which looked for his promised comming. Actes. 26, 6. and 28, 20. For the hope of Israels sake, I am bound with this Chaine.
6 God himselfe. Psa. 142, 5. Thou art my Hope and my portion; that is, my God in whom I hope.
7 Some mighty King or people. Esay. 20, 5. They shall bee ashamed of Aethyopia their Hope (or their expectation.)
in Hope aboue Hope. sig:
In hope of God, and aboue the Hope of man. In desperate things Gods children Hope wel. Rom. 4, 18. Which Abraham aboue Hope, beleeued vnderunder Hope. Aboue the Hope of man, and vnderunder the hope of God; who can raise the dead, and call thinges which are not as if they were.
liuely Hope sig:
Either the good thinges hoped for, which are dureable and euer-liuing, or that vnmoueable and certaine expectation of Gods promises. 1. Pet. 1, 3 Which hath beget vsus to a liuely Hope.
the God of Hope. sig:
That God which worketh Hope by his Spirite, and nourisheth Hope by his promises, and dooth fulfill it by offering and giuing the good thinges promised. Rom. 15, 13. Now the God of Hope fill you with all ioy.
to be saued by Hope. sig:
Certainly to look for saluation promised, as if we now enioyed it, and by Hope to possesse it, Ro. 8, 24. We are saued by Hope.
Hope, what it is.
Hope (to wit, Christians) is a certaine and vndoubted expectation or looking for of al promised good thinges which bee to come, but namely of heauenly blessednes, being freely giuen vsus of God, and grounded vponupon his infinit mercies, and Christs merites alone.
Horne. sig: pro
That part of a Foure-footed-beast, which is his cheefe strength and beauty.
2 Power, might, and strength. 2 Sam. 22, 3. God is the Horn of my Saluation. Hetherto belongs the Horne of the righteous. Psal. 112. The Horne of the wicked. Psalm. 75, 4, 5. The Horne of Dauid. Psal. 132, 17. The Horne of Saluation, the Horne of his people. Psal. 149. A Metaphor.
3 Worship and renowne. Iob 16, 15. I hauehave abased my Horne vntounto the Dust.
4 Kingdomes, People, and Prouinces, with their Rulers and Kinges, which (like Beastes with Hornes) fight one against another, and eueryevery one against Gods people. Dan. 7, 7. For it had ten horns. Zache. 1, 18, 19, 21. Reuel. 17, 12. And the tenne Hornes, are ten Kings.
5 The omnipotency or almightinesse of God expressed in his workes. Habak. 3, 4. Hee had hornes comming out of his handes.
6 A Trumpet. Exod. 19, 13. When the Horne bloweth long. Verse 16.
to lift vp, or exalt the Horne. sig:
To boast, or bee proud of ones Riches or power. Psal. 75, 5. Lift not vp your horne on high.
2 To encrease the power and dignity of his people. Psal. 75. 10. Psal. 148, 14. 1 Sam. 2, 1.
to breake the Hornes. sig:
To spoyle one of his power, might, and dignity. Psal. 75, 10. All the hornes of the wicked will I break. Lamen. 2, 3. He hath cut off all the hornes of Israell. That is, taken from them their strength and glory.
Hoast of God. sig:
A company of holy Angels, attending and waiting vponupon God, as an Army of Souldiers vponupon their Generall. Gen. 32, 2. This is the Host of God.
2 All Creatures, in Heauen and in Earth, visible and inuisible, which fulfill the will of God readily, and mightily, as a strong Army. Gen. 2, 1. And all the Hoast of them.
House. sig: pro
A place to dwell in. This is an earthly habitation.
2 The Graue, which is the common House & receptable of all humaine bodies. Psal. 49, 14. Iob 30, 23. The House appointed for all the liuing.
3 The people or persons dwelling in the house. Heb. 11, 7. He prepared the Arke to the sauing of his House; that is, his Houshold. Mat. 10, 12. When ye enter into an House, salute the same. Acts 10, 1. Cornelius and all his House: else-where often. A Metanimie of the place, containing, for the persons, contained.
4 Kindred, Stocke, or Linage. Luke 1, 27. Of the House of Dauid. Luke 16, 27. Send him to my Fathers House.
5 Family and posterity. 2 Sam. 7, 18. What is mine House. Exod. 1, 21. Hee made them Houses; that is, he did encrease and prosper the Families & Posterities. Gen. 39, 4. He made him ruler ouer his House, and ouer all he had.
6 Substance, goods, and worldly riches, laid vp in Houses, to be safe kept there. Mat. 23, 14. They deuour Widdowes Houses. Gen. 39, 5, 6. God blessed the house of the Aegiptian; That is, all his substance which he had.
House of God. sig:
Heauen, where Saints, and blessed Spirits shall dwel with God for euer. Iohn 14, 2. In my Fathers House there be many Mansions. 2 Cor. 5, 1. This is a Celestiall House.
2 EueryEvery particular assembly, called the Church Militant, where God dwels, and vntounto whom hee giues Lawes, as an Housholder to his House. 1 Tim. 3, …5. That thou mayst know how to behaue thy selfe in the House of God. This is a spirituall House.
3 The vniuersall Church, or whole company of the faithfull, spread ouer the Earth. Hebr. 3, 2, 5. Moyses was faithfull in all the House of God. Also Verse sixe, Christ is as the Sonne ouer his owne house▪
4 EueryEvery faithfull and godly person, in whome Christ dwels by Faith. 1 Pet. 4, 17. Iudgement must begin at the House of God. Hebr. 3, 6. Whose House we are.
5 The true Religion of God▪ taught and professed within the Church of God. Psal. 69, 9. The zeale of thine House hath euen eaten me.
6 The Temple in Hierusalem. Luke 19, 46. My House shall be called the House of Prayer.
the house of Iacob, or of Israell. sig:
The people of Israell, or the Nation of the Israelites. Ex. 19, 3. Also the whole Church of Christ, euen all Gods people both Jewes & Gentiles. Psal. 115, 12. He will blesse the House of Israell. Luke 1, 27. He shall rule ouer the House of Iacob for euer.
House of bondage. sig:
Aegipt, where the people of Israell were in great slauery. Deut. 5, 6. From the House of bondage.
fathers house sig:
The custody, care and gouernment of Fathers. Numb. 30, 4. Being in her Fathers House.
House of Prayer. sig:
The place appointed to assemble in, for the publike worship of God. Whereof, because Prayer is a cheefe part, therefore the place of Diuine worship, is called the House of Prayer, as the people assembled in that place, are called the house of God. Math. 21, 13. My House shall be called the House of Prayer. The Papists, idlely and foolishly wrest these wordes, to prooue, that Temples are thereby made for Sacrifice; Others, as foolishly abuse it, to shut out preaching. The best way is, not to seuer what God hath ioyned.
House of Dauid. sig:
The Visible Church.
House built vppen a Rocke. sig:
EueryEvery beleeuing Christian, who relies by Faith vppon the Rocke Christ, and declares the truth of his Faith by his ready obedience to the word. Mat. 7, 24. I will liken him to awise man, who hath built his House vponupon a Rocke.
House built vponupon the Sand. sig:
EueryEvery vnbeleeuing and disobedient person, who relieth vponupon men, and not vponupon Christ, and serues his lustes, and not God. Math. 7, 25. Which hath built his House vponupon the Sand.
to make Houses. sig:
To build a House where none was.
2 To establish, increase, and prosper ones Family and posterity. Exod. 1, 21. He made them Houses.
House of God. sig:
The Sinagogues, where the Iewes assembled to worship God, but especially the Temple. Eccle. 4. Verse last. When thou enterest into the House of God.