A Christian Dictionary, Dictionary 2 · Part 14
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Black horse sig:
Famine, dearth, which is full of sorrow, therefore resembled by a blacke colour, which is a sad and dolefull colour, and well agreeth to persones famished, whose bodies lacking …uyce and blood, are discouered and become blackish. Lam, 4, 7. Reuel. 6, 5. Loe a Blacke horsse.
to Blaspheme. sig:
To vtter reproachfull and railing words against God, as the Papists do, sundry wayes. First, they ascribe the plagues wherewith God plagueth them to his iniustice, not to their owne iniquities. 2. they raile vponupon the holy Gospel, and charge it to be the cause of all euils in the world. 3. It is an vsual thing with Italians and Spaniards (the Popes creatures) in their rage and fury, to vtter blasphemous speeches against God. Reuel. 16, 9. They boyled in great heat, and Blasphemed the name of God. Agayne, verse 11.
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The vnlawfull primacy, and damnable Soueraignty, whereby▪ ciuil Rome first, and afterwarde Rome Ecclesiasticall, ambitiously exalted it selfe aboue God, euen to the reproch of God, according to that in 2. Thess. 2. Reuel. 13, 1. Upon his head, the name of Blasphemy. Thus Romish SynagogueBellarmine lib. 4 de Rom. pont cap. 4. boasts it selfe to be the Church of Peter, the foundation and forme of all Churches which tooke their beginning, that shee onelyonly cannot erre, that they are to be iudged Haereticks who dissent from her in articles of faith, or Sacraments.
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Infinit Blasphemies, and most plentifull reproches, which in progresse of time, the Antichristian Kingdome did abound in, being full of all kind of impieties and iniustices in the Pope their head and in the whole body: in their orders, decrees, Doctrines, worship and manners; nothing amongest them free from Blasphemies. Rome now (especially since the Counsell of Trent) being an heape of most execrable Blasphemies, hauing many names, whereas at first it had but a name of Blasphemie borne in the head onelyonly. Reuel. 17, 3, Full of names of Blasphemy. Who so considereth with how many horrible errors (saith one) the three great Volumes☞ of Bellarmine bestuffed, will say, there is not one leafe, but it is spotted with blasphemy.
to▪ be Blessed. sig:
To be endowed in this life with spirituall and heauenly blessings, and after a short life led in the fauour of God, stored with graces and comforts of the Spirite, to bee at last lifted vp into blisse and glory, in the kingdome of God; first in soule, afterward in body. This is the fruite which is promised to them, who in all ages since Christ, reade and keepe, know and do, the words of this Reuel. See Chap. 1, 3. Blessed are they which read and heare the words of this Prophesie. Also Chap. 22, 9, 13. Ch. 14. Away then with that dotage of the Iesuite, who straineth this prophesie and the fruite of it, vntounto the three years next before the comming of Christ to iudgement.
to be Blessed fully, or to be henceforth Blessed. sig:
To be perfectly happy, when the soules of the faithfull, after martyrdome constantly suffered, shal enter into that Coelestiall glory, which they had long looked for, and greatly longed after. Reuel. 14, 13. The dead which dye in the Lord, are fully blessed. If it be translated, are [Blessed from henceforth] that is; presently or forthwith, the Greeke Word [a parti] will beare it wel, and the truth also. What then becomes of Popish Purgatory, wherein soules departed are sore tormented with infernall paines, (if we beleeue them) & do not rest frō their labors.
Blood. sig:
Cruell slaughter and death, which should happen by the plague of Warre vponupon the Antichristian armies or soldiers, which fight for the pope, as a iust & meet recompence of their cruell slaughtering & shedding the blood of Gods children. Reu. 16, 4. The Riuers & Fountains of Water becam blood. These riuers & fountaines, some expound of the Iesuites; whence other Papists draw instructions (as the Sea is nourished by Fountains and Riuers) the turning of these into blood, is the putting of those to death which were cheefe Maisters in Popery, which was done in this our Kingdome and Dominion, 1581, when an Acte was made, to make their comming into the Realme, (to disswade subiectes from their allegiance) to be treason.
Blood of a dead man. sig:
The cruell Warres which God would send vponupon the Popish Kingdoms, which should be as a Sea of blood, wherein men should dye by the sworde, as the Fishes dyed in Aegypt when the Waters were turned into blood. Ren. 16, 3. The Sea became the blood of a dead man.
to shed the Blood of the Saints. sig:
To exercise cruelty vponupon the Saints and Prophets of God, euen to death; yea, and to torment also, many times by the Antichristian, Popish, or any other Tyrants, to satisfie their owne fierce and bloody disposition and malice, conceiued against them for Christ and his Gospel sake. Reuel. 16, 6. For they shed the blood of the Saints, and the Prophets. Reuel. 6, 10.
to drinke Blood. sig: pro
To take in blood, as men take in other drinke, as Cyrus did by the compulsion of Tomyris.
2 To hauehave their owne blood abundantly shed, till they swim in it, and do drinke (as it were) their owne blood. A fit punishment, for Popish and all other cruel persecutors, that they shold one slaughter another, til they be bathed in their own bloods, as hapned to the Midianites in the Iudges; and to Papists also, as Stories witnesse. Reuel. 16, 6. Thou hast giuen them blood to drinke. This Phrase, seemeth to be fetched from Ezek. 16, 38. I will giuegive thee the blood of wrath; that is, I will cause thee be cruelly slaine, as they which are killed in furie and wrath.
Blood of the Lambe. sig:
The Sacrifice of Christ his death, together with his perfect Iustice and holinesse imputed. Reu. 7, 14. They washed their Robes in the Blood of the Lambe. Reuel. 1…, 11. The Saintes ouercame the Dragon and his army, not by their constancy to death, but by their faith, in the blood and death of the Lamb Christ Iesus. 1 Iohn 51, 5.
to Blowe. sig:
To breath, or inspire the heart with graces, as the holy Spirit vseth to doo by the Ministry of the word, which is heere threatned, to be for a time remooued and hindered. Reuel. 7, 1. That the Winds should not Blow.