A Christian Dictionary, Dictionary 2 · Part 18 – Part 20
C. A.
Cage of vncleane birds. sig:
NOt a place, commonly called a Cage, wherein Birds are so kept as they cannot flye out, but some hollowe, vast, ruinous place, wherein rauenous and ill-fauoured Birdes; as Vultures, Owles, Kites, Rauens, &c. vse to nestle and abide.
2 A seat, of fierce, cruell, sauage, and vncleane men, which liue by spoile and violence; of which kinde of men, Rome, the Westerne Babell, is as full as Eastern Babell was, of vgly, horrible Birds, when it was desolated, whereof we read in the prophets. Esay 13. Ier. 51. vntounto which places, Iohn alludeth, Reuel, 18, 2. Babilon is a Cage of eueryevery vncleane and hatefull Bird.
Calfe. sig:
Strength, because among Beasts, Calues & Oxen be strong; and because the Oxe is profitable, therefore some Diuines think, that vnderunder this one kinde by a Sinecdoche, are meant, al Beasts which are for vse and profit. Reuel. 4, 7. The second Beast like a Calfe.
Candlestick sig:
An Instrument to beare a Candle, representing the Church, wherein the eternall light of truth shineth. Reuel. 11, 20.
Carkases, or Corps. sig:
The dead bodies of the Saints, but especially of the Prophets of God, exposed and laid forth to opprobry, and the scorne of the World, by the followers of Antichrist. Reuel. 11, 8. And the Carkases shall be in the streetes of the great Citty. Verse 9. And they shall not suffer their Karkases to be buried. Hereby is expressed, the great cruelty of the Papists, not content to kill the Seruants of God, and that with torment, but dishonour their dead bodies, by casting them in the streetes, and denying buriall to them. Also, by a proportion, these Carkases may be expounded of the holy Scriptures; whereof the Papistes hauehave but (as it were) the bare and naked Corps, hauing by their Glosses and Interpretations, of the falsly (so called) Apostolique Sea, corrupted the sence and true meaning of them, which is the life and Soule of the Scriptures, which consist in sense; not onelyonly in Letters and Sillables.
Carried away of the floud. sig:
To bee ouercome and maistered with grieuous persecutions, as a House drowned and carryed away with a violent floud. Reuel. 12, 15. That hee might cause her to be Carried away of the floud.
to be carried by the spirit sig:
To be rauished after a Diuine extraordinary sort, as the Prophets were, when Visions were shewed vntounto them. Thus was Iohn rauished here, when he must see the Vision of the great Whore. Reuel. 17, 3. So he carried me away in the Spirit.
to be carried into the wildernesse. sig:
Eyther the place where Iohn must see this Vision, to be solitary, as aptest for contemplation; or that this great Whoore was seated in the Visible Church, being nov… laid wast and desolate as a wildernesse, or else, that the manifestation and knowledge of this Whore, and her Dominion, must bee☞ fetched from men liuing in some obscure place (as it were in a desert) from whence there was no such matter to be looked for. Reu. 17, 3. He Carried me away into the Wildernesse.
to be Cast into the earth. sig:
To be throwne out of the bounds of the true and holie Church, to exercise his rage among the Reprobates, both Heathen and all others, seeming godly, yet strangers from true godlinesse. Reu. 12, 9. He was euen Cast into the earth.
to be Cast into the lake of fire, &c. sig:
To be tumbled and throwne downe into Hell, which is heere called a Lake of fire, and bottomlesse pit, to signifie, the horror and sharpnesse of infernall paine. Reuel. 20, 14. Death and Hell were ☞Cast into the Lake of Fire.
to Cast out water. sig:
To inflame the Nations, and put them into raging tumults against the Church of Christ. Thus Sathan did, when he stirred vp many people to persecute the Christian Church; euen in her Infancy and Cradle. Reuel. 12, 15. The Serpent Cast a Water out of his mouth after the Woman. Some, by these Waters, vnderstand, great store of Heresies, lies, slanders, reproaches, wherewith the Serpent sought to drowne the poore Church.
to Cast out. sig.
To bee refused as prophane. Reuel. 11, 7. The Court which is without the Temple, Cast out.
great chain. sig:
The doctrine of the Gospell; and namely, that part of it which concernes Christian liberty, whereby (as it were by a Chaine, and fast bound) Christ kept Sathan fast bound for a long time. Reuel. 20, 1. And a great Chaine in his hand.
C. H.
Chalcedone sig:
A rich, pretious, pure, and glorious Stone and Pearle, representing the spirituall purity of the holy Church on earth, and the Caelestiall glory of the triumphant church in heauen. So much is meant also by the Iasper, Chrysolite, &c. Re. 20, 19, 20.
Childe, or man-childe. sig:
Either Christ alone, or ioyned to the Church hi… body, to which he communicateth his owne power, according to his promise. Reuel. 2, 27. Reuel. 12, 5 She brought forth a Man-Child.
Chrystall. sig: pro
A most cleere Glasse, through which, our eyesight may runne to espy eueryevery the least spot.
2 Either the whole World, through which Gods sight pierceth, seeing eueryevery thing more cleerly, then we see a spot in a Chrystall; or as some Diuines thinke, the most holy and pure doctrine of the Gospell, in which, as in a Chrystall-Glasse or Mirrour, we see the glory of God with open face, and not darkly, as the Iewes did before, vnderunder shaddowes of the Law. Reuel. 4, 6. And before the Throne was a Sea of Glasse like to Chrystall.
Cléere as Chrystall. sig:
The Water heere spoken of, not to be foule and troubled, like muddy Water and puddle of Mans inuentions, but most pure, and of excellent cleerenesse. Reu. 22, 1.
Church. sig:
A company of Men. called out of the World by the voice of Christ, to know and worship one true God, according to his word. Reuel. 1, 20. Seauen Stars, are the Angels of the seauen Churches.
Church of Ephesus, Pergamus, &c. sig:
That particular company, gathered at Ephesus, Pergamus, &c. vntounto the Faith and Religion of Christ. Reu. 2, 1. Unto the Angell of the Church of Ephesus.
C. I.
Citty beloued. sig:
The holy Church here Militant vponupon Earth, which because it is loued of God, through Christ; therefore neither the Turk, from the East; nor Antichrist from the West, shall vtterly destroy it, howsoeuer they fiercely assault it. Reuel. 20, 9. And they compassed the Tentes of the Saintes about, and the beloued Citty. Some Diuines vnderstand this, not of the whole Church, but by an excellency of the company of beleeuing Iewes, which toward the end… of the World, shall be gathered and ioyned to the Church of beleeuing Gentiles.
holy Citty. sig:
Hierusalem which is aboue, or the Caelestiall Church, whereof Hierusalem, that holy Cittie, in earth was a figure. Reu. 22, 19. He shall hauehave no part in the holy Citty.
2 The Church of Christ heere on earth, consisting of holy members, sanctified by the blood & Spirit of Christ. Reue. 21, 2.
Citties of Nations. sig:
The company of such people as ioyne to Antichrist, and fight against Christ. Reuel. 16, 19. The Citties of the Nations fell. These Citties, some others expound, to be the whole regiment of wicked men; as of Turkes, Iewes, Barbarians, and others, that embrace false and strange Religions. All which, it is certaine, that they must perish at the second comming of Christ, though all be not alike Christs aduersaries.☞
that great Citty. sig:
Not any one Towne inuironed with Wals, the people whereof are linked together by bonds of the same Lawes: but the intire and full iurisdiction of some one Town (as namely of Rome, the seat and place of Antichrist) together, with the whole Company of them that are subiect to the proud power of Antichrist. Reu. 16, 19. And the great Citty was deuided into three parts.