A Christian Dictionary, Dictionary 1 · Part 18 – Part 19
B. E.
To Be. sig:
To be made. Mat. 19, 5. Shall be one flesh. Iet. 32, They shall be my people.
2 To bee knowne and apparantly seene. 1. Cor. 15, 28. That God may be all in all. Lu. 6, 35. Ye shall be the children of the most high, that is; made known to be so.
3 To be esteemed and accounted some thing; as not to be, signifies to be vile, and to be had in no account. 1. Cor. 1, 28. And things which bee not, to bring to naught things that are, or be.
To be with one. sig:
To be present, not onelyonly generall, but with speciall presence of fauour, for assisting and prospering one in the worke of his calling. Iosh. 1, 9. For I the Lord will be with thee whether soeuer thou goest. Gen. 39, 2. The Lord was with Ioseph, and he prospered.
Beame. sig:
Eyther some erime, and great sinne; or some lesser sinnes, neglected, often gone ouer, and long dwelt in. Mat. 7, 4. And hast a Beame in thine owne eye, first cast out the beame, &c.
To Beare. sig:
To take away sinnes, by suffering the punishment of them. 2. Pet. 3, 24. He did beare our sinnes in his body vponupon the Tree. Esay 53, 4. He did beare our infirmities. Mat. 8, 17.
2 To stay and keep a Sinner from falling, louingly supporting his weakenesse by Prayers, Counsels, & Exhortations. Gal. 6, 2. Beare ye one anothers burthen.
Beast, or Beasts. sig:
All wilde creatures which are vponupon the land. Psal. 8, 7. And the beasts of the fielde.
2 Some one rauenous or cruell beast. Gen. 37, 33. Some euil beast hath deuoured him.
3 One of brutish vnderstanding, hauing no more reason then a Beast. Psal. 73, 21. I was a beast before thee, &c.
4 Men of brutish and beastly qualities, like vntounto beasts for fiercenesse, vncleannesse, and obstinacy. 1. Cor. 15, 22. I hauehave fought with beasts at Ephesus. Sée Acts 19, 9. Titus 1, 12.
5 Fierce, sauage, and vnpure Heathens and Nations. Psal. 80, 13. The wilde beast of the field hath eaten it vp.
6 Ciuill Rome, cruelly persecuting the Saints: also Ecclesiasticall Rome, treading in the steppes of that barbarous cruelty. Reuel. 17, 78. The beast which thou hast seene, was, and is not. Reuel. 13, 1, 4. 17. in which place, it signifies Rome as it is restored by the Pope, vntounto the Idolatry and Tyranie of the superstitious persecuting Emperors, and made the seat of Antichrist.
7 Empires and Kingdomes, raised vp and maintained after a beastly manner, with oppression, cruelty, warre and bloud-shed. Dan. 7, 3, 17. And foure great Beastes came The foure Monarchs signifyed by the foure beastes in Daniell, are by the learned held to be: first, the Assyrians or Babylonians. 2. The Medes or Persians. 3. The Grecians. 4. The Romaines.Note.vp, &c.
Before God, or in his sight. sig:
In his presence, 2. Cor. 5, 10. Wee must al appeare before Christ. Reuel. 20, 12. I saw the dead stand before God.
2 Sincerity, so as God doth allow of vsus in mercy. Luke 1, 6. They were both iust before God: that is, vpright, thogh not persit. Ge: 7, 1. Noah an vpright man
3 Perfectly, so as God may allow of vsus in his strict Iustice. Psal. 143, 2. None liuing shal be Iustified before thee, or in thy sight. Rom. 3, 20.
4 As God can witnesse. Heere it is the forme of an oath. Gal. 1, 20. Before God, I lye not; that is, I call God to witnesse that this is truth. Sée God.
Before one. sig:
Without him. Iohn 10, 8. All that come before me are Theeues; that is to say, without mee, or not by me, who am the onelyonly doore.
2 First, in order of time. Iohn 8, 58. Before Abraham was, I am. Rom. 16, 7. And were in Christ before me.
Beginning sig: pro
The time whence any thing hath his first beeing. Gen. 1, 1. In the beginning God created the Heauens and the Earth.
2 That which is chiefe or most excellent, as Pro. 1, 7. The feare of God is the beginning of Wisedome. Prou. 4, 7. Wisedome is the beginning, that is; the chiefe thing. Psal. 105, 35. Euen the beginning of al their strength, that is; their chiefe strength.
3 A principle of Religion, or Catechising Doctrine. Heb. 6, 1. Leauing the beginning of the Doctrine of Christ, that is, the plaine familiar manner of teaching Christ.
4 An entrance into a thing. Gal, 3, 3. Are ye so foolish that after you hauehave begun in the spirit, &c.
To Behold sig:
To looke vponupon a thing with our fleshly or bodily eye, this is the proper signification.
2 To thinke vponupon a thing, with consideration and due regard. Rom. 11, 22. Behold therefore, the bountifulnesse and seuerity of God. Looke (Sée.)
Behold. sig:
A wonder worthy the beholding (as some think) or (as others thinke) a thing commonly knowne, well may be, or should be knowne, Psal: 51, 5. Behold, I was borne, &c.
To beléeue sig:
To know the Scriptures to be true. Iames 2, 19. The Deuils beleeue and tremble. Exod. 4, 31. Thus Diuels beleeue.
2 To assent willingly, and with some kinde of Ioy to the truth of the Scripture, when we reade or heare it, because it comes from God, and bringes glad tydings. Acts 8, 13. He beleeued & did cleaue vntounto Phillip. Acts 28, 27. Mat. 13, 20. They receiued the word with Ioy. Thus Hypocrites beleeue.
3 To put confidence in the Doctrine which wee know and assent vntounto, making application of it vntounto our selues. Marke 16, 16. He that beleeueth shall be saued. John 3, 18. He that beleeueth in the sonne, shall neuer bee condemned. Thus the regenerare beleeue. Gal. 2, 20. Christ loued me, and gaue himselfe for me. Papists deny application of the Doctrine, to be any part of beleefe in God.
Belial. sig:
Wicked. Deut. 13, 13. Iud. 19, 22. Men of Beliall, or wicked men.
2 The Deuil, that wicked one. 2. Cor. 6, 15. Christ with Beliall. With Satan, saith the Syriack.
Belly. sig:
Carnall pleasures, and all lawfull honest pleasures of life, being inordinately loued▪ Phil. 3, 19. Whose belly is their God. So are all pleasures, when men too much louelove them, and with immoderate affections follow after them, as if all their felicity were placed in enioying of them.
Beneuolence. sig:
Good will, or readinesse of will, to helpe such as we may helpe. 2. Cor. 9, 5. And come as of beneuolence, not of niggardnesse.
2 The guift or Almes which comes of beneuolence, and is freely bestowed. 2. cor: 9, 5. To finish your beneuolence appointed before.
3 All Co…ugall or Marriage duties, but especially bed-company betweene man and wife for iust ends, in chast and sober manner. 1. Cor. 7, 3. Let the husband giuegive vntounto the wife due beneuolence, &c.
Better. sig:
Lesse vnconuenient. 1. Cor. 7, 28. Better to marry, then to burne.
2 More conuenient 1. Cor: 7, 38. Hee that giueth not his Uirgin in marriage, doth better.
3 More good and profitable. Phil: 1, 23. Hauing a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is much better.
B. I.
Binding on earth. sig:
A solemne denounciation of Iudgement by the Minister, against impenitent sinners, according to the word of God; which is as a binding him in the fetters of his sinnes. Mat: 16, 19. Whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth, shalbe bound in heauen. And Mat: 18, 18. Papistes by binding, vnderstand not onelyonly censures of the Church, but corporall paines and corrections, the inflicting whereof, belongs not to Ministers, but to Magistrates. Rom: 13, 3.
Binding the broken. sig:
The whole cure or healing of sorrowfull sinners, both by forgiunesse of the guiltinesse, and mortifying their corruption. Esay 61, 1. He hath sent me to binde vp the broken-hearted, in Lu. 4, 18. it is called, The healing of the broken harted.
Byshop, or Byshops. sig: pro
Any that hath the charge to ouer-see and prouide things necessary. A Surueiour.
2 A spirituall ouer-seer, or one that hath charge and ouer-sight of soules, by the worde to instruct and rule them. 1. Tim: 3, 1. If any man desire the office of a Byshop, he desires a worthy worke: Sée Actes, 20, 28. the inspection into, and charge ouer the flocke for Doctrine and manners, dooth (by Gods commandement) belong to a Byshop, whereof the Greeke name [Episcopos] doth admonish vsus.
3 Pastors, Teachers, Elders, euen whosoeuer had in the primitiue Church any Ecclesiastical power, either for Doctrine, or regiment of the Church. Phil: 1, 1. To the Byshoppes and Deacons of Phillippi.
4 Christ Iesus, who because he hath chiefe care, charge, and ouer-sight of the Church, for feeding and ruling it, and he only hath vponupon him the charge of sauing soules by his Mediation, is therefore (by an excellency) called the Byshop of our Soules. 1. Pet: 2. vers: last. Ye are returned to the Byshop of your soules.