A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part FO

A Complete Christian Dictionary · Dictionary · Part FO

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Foal]

Gen. 49. 11. Hebr. the Son of his Asse; that is, his young Asse. Aynsw.

Fodder]

Job 6. 5. The word signifies mixt food, and such give we Cattle at this day, Isa. 30. 24. ….

Foes]

Enemies, Psal. 27. 2. & 30. 1.

Fold]

To wrap up Heb. 1. 12. Folden, Nah. 1. 10. Joyned unto, or wrapped one within another. Eccles. 4. 5. The sool … his hands together. Puts himself into a posture of idle nesse, composeth himself to do nothing. Labour requireth the streching forth of the hands, Prov. 31. 19. Lazinesse wraps them up in one another, Prov. 6. 9 10. & 26. 14. & 19. 24. Annot.

Fold]

;;A sheep-coat, or sheep-house, to keep them safe from the cruelty of Wolves, or other wilde beasts.

;;2. The invisible Catholick Church of Christ, consisting of believing Jews and Gentiles. …. 10. 16. I have … sheep which are not of this fold. The elect are gathered into the Church, as sheep into a fold, by the Ministery of the Pastors. A Metaphor.

3. A safe place for Gods people, Jerem. 23. 3. Ezek. 34. 14.

Seven-fold]

;;Manifold, or abundantly; also oftentimes. Psal. 79. 12. And … to our … sevenfold.

… fold]

;;Plentifully, or very much. Mat. 19. 29. He shall … … hundred-fold.

Folk]

People, Gen. 33. 15. Which is also applyed to …, Prov. 30. 26. They are tearmed foreign, which cometh from foreign, which signifieth to hide, haply for that Conics hide themselves in holes.

To follow]

;;To come after one which goeth before. 1 Sam. 25. 27. Let it be given them that follow my Lord, Mat. 4. 19. As servants follow and go after their Masters. Also, to accompany others, Mar. 9. 38. Luk. 9. 49.

;;2. To imitate or do as another gives us an example. Mat. 10. 38. He that takes up his crosse and follows me, 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of me, as I am of Christ.

;;3. To believe and obey. Joh. 10. 27. My sheep hear my voice and follow me, 1 King. 18. 11. 2 Pet. 1. 16. And in all places where men are said to follow strange gods: it doth signifie, to put trust in them, and relie upon them, yeelding them service.

;;4. To endevour and strive towards the obtaining of something. Phil. 3. 12. I follow, & v. 14. I follow hard; which is expounded in v. 13. I ….

;;The word in the Original tongue, is affirmed either of a thing, or of a person: When it is referred to a thing, then it signifies a desire with … to obtain that thing, and is put in good part, as in Rom. 9. 30, 31. But being applyed to a person, it is then put in ill part, for persecuting, and desire to hurt, as Rom. 12. 14.

;;5. To die with one, Joh. 13. 36. Thou … not follow me now; that is, die with me.

Being referred … Man,

I. In respect of Christ, it signifieth,

1. Corporally to attend upon him, Mat. 8. 23.

2. To become his Disciples, Mat. 4. 30.

3. To believe, obey, and cleave unto him, Joh. 10. 27.

4. To be conformable unto Christ in conversation, life, sufferings, &c. Joh. 8. 12. Joh. 21. 22. 1 Pet. 2. 21.

5. To partake with him in glory, Rev. 14. 4.

II. In respect of strange gods, it signifieth his worshiping, serving and relying on, Judg. 2. 12.

III. In respect of Man; it signifieth,

1. To purse, 1 Sam. 31. 2.

2. To side or take part with, 2 Sam. 2. 10.

It's spoken also with relation both unto that which is good, Psal. 38. 21. Heb. 12. 14. And that which is evil, Psal. 119. 150. Isa. 5 11. 2 Pet. 2. 2.

It's put also for, To practise what we hear and learn. Joh. 10. 27. To walk after, Ezek. 13. 3. marg. To be led away with, Ruth 3. 10. To keep company with, 1 Sam. 30. 21. To be like, Prov. 12. 11. To go with one, 1 Cor. 10. 4. marg.

To follow]

;;To come after others, in believing and living well, as they have given us example, Heb. 6. 12. & 12. 8.

To … Christ]

;;signifieth, First, corporal attendance on Christ … person while he lived, Matth. 8. 28. & 9. 9.

;;Secondly, to become his Disciple for to be after imployed in the Ministery of the Gospel, Joh. 1. 43. and so all the Apostles.

;;Thirdly, to deny our selves to take up the Crosse of Christ, to rest and depend on him by a true … in life and death, Mat. 16. 24.

Follow]

Rev. 14. 4. These are … which follow the … wher soever he …. … … in … Ordinances, though with perill and losse, having … … with the … Church. And … following … christ for their head and guide, as others …, but Christ only. ….

They follow him,

1. For information.

2. By conformation of themselves to his will. Cowper.

And their … follow …, Rev. 14. 13. The reward of their works, 1 …. 15. 58. Annot.

Follow …, Exod. 11. 8. …. that is, at thy …, marg. 1 Sam. 25. 27. Heb. … at … … of, …. 1 King. 20. 10. Heb. are at thy feet, marg. 2 King. 6. 19. Heb. come ye after me, marg. Deut. 1. 36. … …, Hebr. fulfilled to go after, marg. Amos 7. 15. As … followed, Heb. from …, marg. 2 Sam. 17. 23. Followed, Hebr. …, marg.

Follower]

One that imitateth …, … is properly referred to … of vertues, 1 Cor. 11. 1. Eph. 5. 1. Phil. 3. 17. Heb. 6. 12. 1 Pet. 3. 13.

Folly]

Josh. 7. 15. or Wickedness, marg. Isa. 9. 17. or Villany, Jer. 23, 13. or, an absurd …, Heb. unsavory. See foolishness.

Folly in Israel]

;;signifieth, a filthy, wicked, ignominious act and deed, done to the … of God, and scandall of his Church, Gen. 34. 7. Deut. 21. 21. …. 7. 15. Judg. 20. 6.

Fome]

Froth, Hos. 10. 7. See Psal. 62. 9. Jam. 4. 14.

Fome]

Mar. 9. 14. And he fometh, or so that he fometh. Which foming and gnashing of teeth were signes of vehement torture, and hot pains. Annot.

Jude v. 13. Foming out their own shame. By their vain words revealing their internal corruptions, as the raging Sea casts out dirt and …, Isa. 57. 20. Phil. 3. 19. Annot.

Food]

;;for Corn, Gen. 44. 25.

It's put also for all that sustenance, by which man liveth, Exod. 21. 10. Deut. 10. 18. 1 Sam. 14. 28. Psal. 136. 25. Act. 14. 17. 1 Tim. 6. 8.

Food]

Job 23. 12. More then my necessary food, or my appointed portion. I took more pains to lay up Gods Word in my heart, then men do lay up in store provision for the belly, Prov. 30. 8. & 31. 15. Gen. 47. 22. Annot.

Job 24. 5. The wilderness yeeldeth food. Though the Wilderness be very barren, yet the wilde Asse can pick out sustenance there for him and his young ones. So Oppressors can pick maintenance for them and theirs, out of the throats of the poor. Annot.

… or foolish]

;;An Idiot, or one destitute of wit, of little or no capacity and discretion.

;; … is named after a word in Hebrew (Nabal) which hath the signification of fading, dying, or falling away (as doth a leaf or flower, Isa. 40. 8. 1 Pet. 1. 1, 24.) This name is given to a foolish man, as having lost the juyce and sap of wisdom, reason, honesty, and godliness: being faln from grace, and without the gift of God, as a dead carkasse, and therefore ignoble, and of vile esteem, opposed to the noble man, Isa. 32. 5.

A fool is also named foreign in respect of his rashness and headyness, Psal. 38. 5. Prov. 12. 15. and foreign in respect of his inconstancy, fickleness, and mutability, Psal. 49. 11.

;;The Apostle in Greek turneth it, Inprudent, or without understanding, Rom. 10. 19. from Deut. 32. 21.

p. 238;;2. A sinner and wicked man, who despising the wisdom of the Word, follows his own lusts, and the sinful vain customes of this wicked world. In this sense, the word is used throughout the Proverbs of Solomon. Also, Psal. 14. 1. The fool hath said in his heart: and often elsewhere, as Psal. 73. 3. I fretted at the foolish, to see the prosperity of the wicked: thus expounded, Psal. 5. 5.

;;3. A covetous worldling. Luk. 12. 20. O fool, this night shall thy soul be taken from thee, 1 Sam. 25. 25. It is put for an Idolater in Rom. 1. 22. They become fools.

;;4. A man that is unprovident without foresight. Mat. 7. 26. He that heareth these words and doth them not, shall be like unto a fool which built his house, &c.

;;5. One who (though he be godly) yet hath much ignorance and unbelief remaining in him. Luk. 24. 15. O ye fools and slow of heart to believe. It is also put for all unbeleevers, which wholly want faith, Mat. 25. 2. Five were fools.

;;6. One possessed with natural, ignorance from his birth. In which sense, all men, yea young infants, naturally be fools. Tit. 3. 3. We were fools, or unwise.

;;7. A name or word of reproach. Mat. 5. 22. Whosoever shall say, Fool. A Synecdoche. Every word of disgrace, as Knave, Asse, &c. is understood by this one.

;;8. One which doth see and acknowledge his own spirituall foolishness, 1 Cor. 3. 18. Let him be a fool that he may be wise; that is, saith Musculus, let him be a believer.

;;9. One accounted a fool by the world. 1 Cor. 4. 10. We are fools for Christ.

;;10. One spiritually bewitched, having the eyes of his minde so held and hood-winkt by the policy of Satan and his instruments, false Teachers, as not to see manifest errors and blasphemies, but to apprehend them for the sound truth. Gal. 3. 1. O ye foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you.

It's put also for,

1. One that is wise in his own conceit, Rom. 1. 22.

2. One wholly void of faith, Mat. 25. 2,

3. Every unregenerate person, Tit. 3. Such are fools indeed, who are full of words, Eccl. 10. 14. Pratlers, Prov. 10. 8, 10. Atheists in their hearts, Psal. 14. 1. & 53. 1. Hypocritical blinde guids, Mat. 23. 17. For outward cleanness, being filthy within, Luk. 11. 40. Slow to believe the truth, Luk. 24. 25. Idolaters, and such as think themselves wise in prescribing a worship to God, Rom. 1. 22. False Prophets, Hos. 9. 7. Possessed with natural ignorance, Tit. 3. 3. Enticed by an adulterous woman, Prov. 7. 22. Self-wise, Prov. 26. 12. Hasty in words, Prov. 29. 20. Sloathful, Eccl. 4. 5. Rash and unadvised before God, Eccl. 5. 1. Despisers of wisdom, and haters of knowledge, Prov. 1. 7, 22. Evill doers, Psal. 107. 17. Also the secure wealthy worldling, Luk. 12. 20. He that uttereth all his minde, Prov. 29. 11. Such as understand not the works of the Lord, Psal. 92. 6. Such as believe not his resurrection, 1 Cor. 15. 36. He that feedeth on foolishness, Prov. 15. 14. Whose heart is at his left hand, Eccl. 10. 1. Such a one as trusteth in his own heart, Prov. 28. 26. He that makes a mock of sin, Prov. 14. 9. He that dealeth foolishly, Psal. 75. 4. Such as get riches unjustly, Jer. 17. 11. One that committeth filthyness, 2 Sam. 13. 13. Such as suffer anger to rest in the heart, Eccl. 7. 9. He that hideth hatred with deceitful lips, and uttereth a slander, Prov. 10. 18. That holds it an abomination to depart from evill, Prov. 13. 19. Such as be wicked, and will not depart from evill, Ibid. & 26. 10. Such as will be medling with strife.

Foolish]

Deut. 32. 6. or Vile. The Heb. Nabal, is such a fool as hath his understanding and judgement faded and depraved, whereupon he becometh vile and wicked, Psal. 14. 1. & 74. 18. This fool or vile person, is opposed to the noble or liberal, Isa. 32. 5. Aynsw.

Job 5. 2. The foolish man. He that doth things rashly for want of wit, Psal. 5. 5. Annot. The Heb. word foreign, doth more properly signifie mad-men, as it is here translated by most Interpreters; roarers, roysters, riotous persons. Annot.

It's spoken of the Heart, Rom. 1. 21. a King, Eccl. 4. 13. Knowledge, Isa. 44. 25. Lusts, 1 Tim. 6. 9. Man, Job 5. 2. Nation, Deut. 32. 21. People, Deut. 32. 6. Prophets, Ezek. 13. 3. Questions, 2 Tim. 2. 23. Tit. 3. 9. Shepherds, Zech. 11. 15. Son, Prov. 17. 25. Talking, Eph. 5. 4. Things, Lam. 2. 14. Virgins, Mat. 25. 2. See Fool.

Foolish questions]

;;Questions or doubts moved about things curious and unprofitable. 2 Tim. 2. 23. Put away foolish questions.

Foolish things]

;;Such things as the world esteemeth for foolish. 1 Cor. 1 27. God hath chosen foolish things to confound the wise.

Job 2. 10. As one of the folish women. As a woman that wants understanding, and makes her self ridiculous to all men, 2 Sam. 13. 13. The Heb. word comes from a verb that signifies the falling of a withered leaf from a tree, Psal. 1. 3. As it hath no moysture in it, so there was no wisdom in her speech. Or, as a wicked woman, for so the word foolish often signifies, Psal. 14. 1, 2. Prov. 1. 32. & 7. 22. & 9. 13. Annot.

Foolish words]

;;Such words as be void of reason and godlyness, having in them no edification, Eph. 5. 4. Neither filthyness nor foolish talking.

Foolishly]

Unwisely, unadvisedly, Gen. 31. 28. Nor charged God foolishly, Job 1. 22. or with folly, Heb. nor attributed folly or unsavouriness to God. The word signifies that which wants due or right temperature; or any kinde of meat not well seasoned, chap. 6. 6. Untempered morter, Ezek. 13. 10, 11, 14. His heart was so well seasoned, that he had no unfitting thoughts of God and his providence, that might be unbecoming Gods justice, or displeasing to him, as unsavoury meat is to us. Annot. 2 Cor. 11. 21. I speak foolishly, Gr. in foolishness. Annot.

Foolishness or folly]

;;All naughtiness whatsoever generally. Prov. 22. 15. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a childe.

;;2. Some particular … sin, as Incest, idolatry, and such like, 2 Sam. 13. 12. Commit not this folly, Josh. 7. 15.

;;3. That which men do account absurd and foolish. 1 Cor. 2. 1, 23. We preach Christ crucified, unto the Grecians foolishness.

;;4. That which is indeed and truth most foolish and absurd. 1 Cor. 2. 19. The wisdom of the world is foolishness with God.

;;5. It signifieth a shamelesse impudency in open professing, excusing, and defending wickeduess, Isa. 9. 17.

;;There is a threefold foolishness, whereof the first only is properly so called as being seated in the minde; the other figuratively or metonymically, viz.;;

;;1, Mental, so are erroneous thoughts, 1 Cor. 3. 19, 20. Prov. 22. 25.;;

;;2. Vocal or Verbal, so are all impertinent, sophistical, unprofitable, unreasonable, and absurd speeches, Eph. 5. 4. Job 2. 10. Prov. 15. 2.;;

;;3. Actual or real. So is every wicked work, and the whole life and course of wicked men, if we compare their poor gains with their infinite … and eternal undoings, Mat. 16. 20. and consider their opposition against the wisdom, will, and power of God, Luk. 20. 18. and the vanity of all their earthly expectations, Luk. 12. 20. See also Wisd. 5. 3, 4, 5, &c.;;

Accordingly, fornication, Gen. 34. 7. Taking of the accursed thing, Josh. 7. 15. Uncleaness, Judg. 20. 6. Incest, 2 Sam. 13. 12. are termed folly or foolishness. So in 1 Cor. 3. 19. The wisdom of the world is tearmed foolishness with God, or imaginary; as unto the Greeks the preaching of Christ crucified, 1 Cor. 1. 23.

Foolishness]

Psal. 38. 5. The Hebrew foreign, meaneth rash and unadvised folly, through want of prudency. Therefore, though commonly in Gr. it is tearmed imprudency, yet it is sometime called unadvised rashness, Prov. 14. 17. & foreign, the fool, is named rash or heady, Prov. 10. 14. and by foolishness is meant usually viciousness, or sin, and is so expressed by the Greeks, Prov. 13. 16. & 15. 2. & 26. 11. And our Saviour numbreth foolishness among other evils that … a man, Mat. 7. 22. Aynsw.

Psal. 69. 5. Thou knowest my foolishness; that is, thou knowest whether I be guilty of any such thing, or no.

Prov. 14. 24. The foolishness of fools is folly, A fool is a … though he be never so rich. Annot.

Foolishness]

Mat. 7. 22. Of the several notions that the word foreign, imprudence or folly may be capable of; that which seems most proper to this place is that of p. 239boasting, which is the most unseemly thing, and so the most contrary to prudence or wisdom of conversation. In this sense the word is used, 2 Cor. 11. 1, 19. & 12. 6, 11. In this notion it will accord and associate very well with foreign, calumny, and foreign, Pride, which immediately precede the calumniating, fastuous, (insolent) and vain-glorious behaviour, going ordinarily together. Dr. Ham. Annot. d. See Folly.

Fools]

Job 12. 17. And maketh the Judges fools, or mad; as Eccl. 7. 7. Isa. 44. 25. God will deprive them of understanding, or so go beyond them, that he will cross their Sentences. Annot. Job 30. 8. Of fools. Of men that had no understanding in them. Annot.

Uain=glorious fools]

;;Mad-boasting people, (of Halal) a word which signifies to extoll, praise, glorifie, which when it is of ones self, and immoderate, it proveth dotage, folly and madness, Psal. 5. 5. Hence is the word used for mad, wood, raving with folly, Eccl. 2. 2, 12. & 7. 9. & 10. 13. Isa. 44. 25.

Foord]

Gen. 32. 22. or Passage. Aynsw.

Foot]

put

1. properly, Gen. 8. 9.

2. For an artificial foot, Exod. 30. 16.

3. For the person, Prov. 1. 15.

4. For the affection of the heart, Psal. 26. 12. Eccles. 5. 1.

5. For doings Isa. 58. 13.

The holy City shall they tread under foot, Revel. 11. 2. He alludeth to Jerusalem called the holy City, Dan. 9. 24. Mat. 27. 53. because in it was the Temple, the Priests, the Sacrifices, and all the Consecrated things. See Dan. 9. 26. Both Temple and City possessed by the enemies. They shall banish Religion out of those places where it was visibly professed before. Or, they shall exercise their false Religion there, so treading Gods court is taken for publick service. Isa. 1. 12. Or, the people of God that worship God in the Desert, shall be persecuted by them, and kept under, Isa. 14. 25. Dan. 7. 13. Amos 5. 11. Annot.

Immediately after the death of Theodasius the Great, the Goths, Huns, Alans, with other Barbarous Nations invaded the Romane Empire, ruined and destroyed the same on all sides, whereby the Church, as the holy City, begun to be troden under foot, and the Antichrist had an occasion given to breakforth and shew himself. Clav. …. pag. 59.

The Papists and Antichristians shall destroy the City and Sanctuary; that is, some of the Church evangelical, the City and Sanctuary of Christ, according to the visible appearance thereof, in publick worship, and external Ordinantes. Parker on Dan. 9. 26. pag. 61.

Foot]

Heb. 10. 29. Who have troden under foot the Son of God. In treading this truth under their feet, by a malicious resisting and persecuting thereof, they do as it were tread Christ himself under their feet; or, thereby they shew such a spiteful minde against him, that they could (if it were possible) pull him out of heaven, and ttample him under their feet, for that which we reject and forsake, that we hold as impure, and unholly in Gods worship. Annot.

Foot breadth]

Deut. 2. 5. or, to the treading of the sole of the foot. The Gr. translateth it, not the step (or breadth) of a foot; which phrase Luke useth in Act. 7. 5. Though the Edomites were wicked, yet God continued their estate for a time, during which, no man might lawfully disturb them. By this God teacheth also the difference between Esau's portion, and Jacob's. See Rom. 9. 11, 12, &c. Col. 1. 12. Aynsw.

Footed]

The words Cloven, Levit. 11. 3, 7, 26. Broken, Lev. 21. 19. Four, Act. 10. 12. hereunto prefixed, make known the meaning of such places.

Foot-men]

1 Sam. 22. 17. or Guard, Heb. the runners, marg.

He set his right foot on the Sea, and his left foot on the …, Rev. 10. 2. To note the subjection of the Sea and Earth, and all creatures to him. Leighs Annot.

The right foot is said to be over the Sea, because it is more unruly then the earth, Psal. 93. 1, 3, 4. Annot.

Foot-steps]

put sor good conversation and behaviour, Psal. 89. 51. and for the miraculous work of Gods divine providence for Israel in drying up the Red-sea, and covering again the way of the peoples passage, so as it could not be known, Psal. 77. 19.

Foot-steps]

Psal. 89. 51. or Foot-soles; that is, the wayes, life, actions, and sufferings, Psal. 56. 7. & 49. 6. This referred to Christ, respecteth the Oracle, Gen. 3. 15. that the Serpent should bruise the foot-sole of the womans seed. Referred to Christians, which follow his foot-steps, in suffering and dying with him, that we may be glorified with him, (Rom. 8. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 21.) it noteth the scandal of the Crosse of Christ, 1 Cor. 1. 23. 1 Pet. 4. 13, 14. Aynsw.

Foot-…]

put for a low place, Jam. 2. 3. It is spoken of God. 2. Chr. 28. 2. and thus, the Temple or Ark in it, 1 Chr. 28. 2. The Sanctuary or Ark, Psal. 99. 5. Isa. 60. 13. The Earth, Isa. 66. 1. Mat. 5. 35. The enemies of Christ, Psal. 110. 1. Mat. 22. 44. are called.

;;1. Earth, which is subject to God, and put under his will and power, as a stool under our foot. Isa. 66. 1. Heaven is my seat, and earth is my soot-stool. A Metaphor.

;;2. The Temple of God, or the Ark where God promiseth to hear his people. Psal. 96. 5. Fall down before his foot stool. I am. 2. 1. See Bible note in Geneva Translation.

;;3. Rebellious sinners subdued under Christ, by the power and decree of God the Father, either voluntarily, as the …, or violently, as the Reprobates; yea, and Devils also made subject to him, and cast down to everlasting ruine, Psal. 110. 1. see Rom. 14. 11. & 16. 20. Ephes. 1. 21, 22. Phil. 2. 10. Rev. 20. 10.

Foot-stool]

;;That which is put under the feet of him that sitteth, to tread upon it: The meaning is, that all Christs enemies, even to Death, which is the last, shall be suod … unto him for ever, as Paul teacheth, 1 Cor. 15. 16. Heb. 1. 13. & 10. 13.

Foot-stool]

Heb. 1. 13. untill I make thine enemies thy footstool; It is an allusion to a custom in the Eastern parts, where they were wont to put their feet upon the necks of those whom they conquered. So that hereby we are to understand that perfect victory which Christ had over all his enemies, Joh. 10. 24. 2 Sam. 22. 41. Isa. 8. 8. Annot.

For]

;;An efficient original cause of a thing, Rom. 8. 2. Rom. 3. 23. And elsewhere very often, this word (For) is a casual particle, Luk. 19. 44. Therefore the Papists do dote, when they do hereupon gather that love and works be the meritorious cause of forgivenesse of sins: whereas, the forgiving much debt, is … down as the cause of much love, v. 42. 38.

;;Note: These words sor and because, be generall notes setting forth the coherence … knitting of one thing with another in what sort soever.

;;2. A sign, or a consequent of a thing, Luk. 7. 47. Many sins are forgiven her; for she loved much. Here this particle [For] noteth the consequent, and that which followeth, forgivenesse of sin; to wit, the earnest love of Christ: and doth not note the cause why her sins were forgiven her, which was her faith in Christ. Mat. 25. 34, 35. Come ye blessed of my Father, For when I was hungry: Here likewise the particle [For] noteth not the cause, but the signs and tokens of blessed persons, or the fruit by which they were discerned and known. Here it is a particle redditive, rendring the reason of the foregoing sentence, Rev. 14. 13. Rom. 4. 2, 3. & 10. 16. For Elias saith, &c. is not to be understood, that therefore the Jews believed not, because Elias foretold it, but he foretold it because they were not to believe.

;;3. In behalfe of another, or in ones stead, to ones benefit or good: as to suffer for the Gospel, or for the name of Christ, to die for the brethren; and Christ died for us, and such like. Whereof all do note the impulsive cause, Mar. 10. 45. Matt. 17. 27.

;;4. The finall cause or end, as Rom. 11. 36. All things for him; that is, his owne glory is the end to which all things, both made of him, and governed by him, are referred and disposed. Prov. 16. 4. God made all things sor himself. 1 Cor. 11. 15. Heb. 11. 2.

;;5. In the stead, or place, or lieu, as in cases of permutation by contracts, &c. Gen. 29. 20. Jacob served seven yeers for Rachel, viz. to enjoy her as his Wife, in stead of his seven yeers service, Gen. 23. 13. Heb. 12. 16.

;;6. The reason or proof of a matter not well before understood, or beleeved: the proofs or arguments are of many sorts, and as well from effects to prove the causes being duties p. 240or reprove them being sins as contrarily, Mat. 16. 24, 25, 26. 1 Sam. 2. 25.;;

;;7. It is taken actively for the effect of a thing on any others, Mar. 10. 20. Joh. 17. 19. 2 Thess. 1. 5.;;

;;8. It's taken passively for the event or passive effect of a thing to be received, 2 Thess. 1. 5. Heb. 12. 2.;;

;;9. For is taken as a note of the object, toward which the thing spoken of hath relation, Rom. 8. 10.;;

For]

Gen. 24. 10. or And, marg. Josh. 2. 14. For yours, Heb. in stead of you to die, marg. Josh. 23. 29. or Then, marg. Judg. 3. 15. Heb. …. Judg. 5. 15, 16. or In, marg. Est. 3. 8. Heb. meet, or equal, marg. Job. 8. 4. Heb. in the hand of, marg. Job 22. 17. or To, marg. Psal. 3. 3. or About, marg. …. 68. 18. For men, Heb. in the man, marg. Psal. 119. 76. … my comfort, Heb. to … me, marg. Zeph. 2. 7, 14. or …, marg. Mar. 1. 4. or Unto, marg. Rom. 1. 5. For … to the faith, or, to the obedience of faith, marg. Heb. 2. 9. … …, marg. 1 Pet. 1. 24. or For that, marg. Rev. 9. 15. or …, marg.

Forasmuch]

It's all one with Seeing, Because, Because that, Whereas, Gen. 41. 39. Numb. 10. 31.

Forbear]

… for, To cease, Exod. 23. 5. marg. Deut. 23. 22. To leave off, 1 Sam. 23. 13. 1 King, 22. 6. To hold ones place, 2 Cor. 25. 16. To …, …. 9. 30. marg. To … or …, Prov. 24. 11. To go back, Jer. 40. 4. To suffer or …, Jer. 44. 22. Not to hear Ezek. 2. 5. & 3. 27. To be silent, Exek. 24. 17. marg To let alone, Zec. 11. 12. To cease srom, 1 Cor. 9. 6. To support, Eph. 4. 2. To moderate. Eph. 6. 9. marg. To be patient, Rom. 2. 4.

Forbear]

Col. 3. 13. Forbearing one …. The Original word foreign, is rendred sometime to maintain, Act. 18. 14. sometime to suffer, to endure, 1 Cor. 4. 12. 2 Thess. 1. 4. sometime to support, Eph. 4. 2.

This hath in it,

1. A freedome from the thirst of revenge.

2. A bearing with the infirmities of others, by covering them if they be secret; and by silence, in not reproving them, when they fail meerly in frailty.

3. As a bearing with them, so a bearing of them, in not … or provoking their infirmities, and by pleasing their … in that which is good to edification.

4. A not prosecuting of wrongs either by Answers or Suits, and that even when we are able to revenge.

…, there's a … in judgement, when in doubtfull … we suspend our opinions or censures; in words, in not answering, or giving soft answers; in deeds, when we render not … for evill. In some things we must forbear …, as in some … that are by meer oversight or ignorance; and in some things … must forbear for a time, that is, … there … a fit opportunity to admonish or correct. Byfield on Col. 3. 13.

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Rom. 3. 25. Through the forbearance of God, Gr. in the …. Through his patient and suffering nature; or word for word, according to the Greek, in the forbearance, or in time of his patience; that is, when God did shew forth his goodness in suspending his judgements upon the world, not suffering them to perish for their sins, although he had not as yet fully opened the treasure of his grace for an … pardon, the clear manifestation whereof he reserved for the time of the Gospel, Rom. 16. 24, 26. Annot.

Forbid]

To enjoin silence, Numb. 11. 28. To hinder both by words and with force, Mar. 9. 39. Luk. 6. 29. Act. 24. 23.

God forbid]

;;A form of deniall, with a loathing of the thing objected, Rom. 3. 31. also 9. 2. This is usuall with Paul so often as he … cavils unworthy of a direct refutation. foreign, Let it not be.

Force]

Violence, Gen. 31. 31. Vigour, strength, or moysture, Deut 34. 7. marg. Strength, Jer. 23. 10. Amos. 2. 14. Validity Heb. 9. 17.

God of forces]

The true God the God of Israel, of infinite strength, in whose seat Antiochus should honour a strange god, never known to his predecessors, even Jupiter Olympus, of whom you may read in the second of Mac. 6.

Force]

Ezr. 4. 23. Chal. arm, marg. Ezek. 35. 5. Heb. hands, marg.

Forces, Isa. 60. 11. or Wealth, marg. Dan. 11. 38. or Munitions, marg. Obad. v. 11. or Substance, marg.

Force]

Deut. 22. 15. or take strong hold of, marg. Judg. 20. 5. Forced, Heb. humbled, marg. So 2 Sam. 13. 12. marg.

Forcible]

Job 6. 25. How forcible are right words? There is much force in solid reasons; the force of strong arguments are perswasive. Annot.

Forecast]

Dan. 11. 24. And he shall forecast his devices, Heb. think his thoughts. Cunningtly to get and gain the rest of all the strengths of Aegypt, or Syria rather. V. 25. They shall forecast devices against him. Many of the States and Potentates of Aegypt shall betray their King, and being corrupted and bribed by Antiochus Epiphanes, shall treacherously forecast, and plot and devise secretly with Antiochus against him. Annot.

But Mr. Parker in his Exposition of the Visions and Prophesies of Daniel, understands this of Antichrist, who took the strong Holds, Castles, and fenced Towns of the Waldenses, by deceit and pretence of peace, p. 101. Whose Captains also made passage for their conquests of the Holy land, by politick designes, having plotted with the native and dome stick Christians of Asia and Syria, from Nicea forward, p. 103.

Fore-fathers]

Jer. 11. 16. Heb. first fathers, first for former, as Eccl. 7. 10. Isa. 61. 4. 1 Tim. 5. 12. Annot. 2 Tim. 1. 3. Not his immediate Fore-fathers, who brought him up in Pharasaisine, but his Ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, &c. who served God in the same true Religion for substance which the Apostle now professed, Act. 23. 1. & 24. 16. Annot.

Fore-front]

1 Sam. 14. 5. Heb. tooth, marg. 2 Chr. 20. 27. Heb. head, marg. It's applyed to a house, 2 King. 16. 14. Ezek. 47. 1. and to a battle, 2 Sam. 11. 15.

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The forepart of the head, and upper part of the face above the eye-brows. Here Aaron ware a plate of pure gold, whereupon was engraven Holiness to the Lord, Exod. 28. 38. Here Goliah was slain with a stone, 1 Sam. 17. 49. Here Leprosie appeared in Uzziah, 2 Chr: 26. 10. Here gracious Mourners were marked, Ezek. 9. 4. and the Followers of Christ, Revel. 14. 1. On this a Jewel was worn by Women, Ezek. 16. 12. A whores forehead, Jer. 3. 3. a proverbial form. Shame appears in the face, Psal. 69. 7. Dan. 9. 8. and none more shameless then common Harlots, whence Babylon hath her title, telling what she is, written in her forehead, Rev. 17. 5. Annot. In Ezek. 3. 7. the Heb. stiffe of forehead, is rendred impudent, comp. the marg. & text. But the Lord promised to make his Prophets forehead strong against their foreheads, vers. 8, 9. He would assist him, and give him boldness and constancy. See Annot.

Forehead]

;;Openly, before men, in profession and practise. Revel. 17. 5. And in her forehead was a name written.

Fore-know]

Rom. 8. 29. Whom he did foreknow. The word is not foreign, he knew besore, but foreign, he acknowledged besore, 2 Tim. 2. 19. Rom. 11. 2. By prescience here we understood not simply the fore-knowledge of God, but his fore-acknowledging, which is a knowledge with approbation. Leigh's Annot.

Whom God hath foreapproved, and acknowledged for his, according to the purport of the Gospel, whom he knew as a Shepherd doth his flock, Joh. 10. 14. (i. e. the lovers of God, so favoured by him, vers. 28.) & chap. 11. 2. Dr. Ham.

Those whom he marked out as it were out of all other men in the world, and set his affection upon, Psal. 1. 6. Jer. 1. 6. Jer. 1. 5. Mat. 7. 23. Annot.

Fore-knowledge]

;;A bare fore-sight of things to come, or to be done hereafter; which in God is ever joyned with his counsell or determination. Act. 2. 23. Being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God.

;;2. Gods eternal love or good pleasure. Rom. 8. 29. Whom we knew before, &c. Rom. 2. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Elect, according to the fore-knowledge of God.

;;Fore-knowledge, purpose, good pleasure of God, be indifferently used and put one for another in Scriptures, where it is usual by knowledge to signifie approbation, embracing with favour, when God speaks of his Creature, as Psal. 1. 6. Mat. 7. 23. Joh. 12. 18. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Rom. 8. 29. & 11. 2. Rom. 9. 11. Eph. 1. 11. In this kinde of knowledge, which is the efficient of approbation, and ever joyned with his good pleasure, there is contained the p. 241effectual will of God, to conferre grace to persons so known. Isa. 53. 6. & 22. 16. 8. Rom. 4. 17. 2 Tim. 1. 9. Titus 3. 4, 5. Deut. 7. 6, 7, 8. & 8. 17, 18.

;;Such as sever Gods will from his foreknowledge, or do make his fore-knowledge of things, the highest cause of their existence, (whereas God fore-knoweth what things shall be, because he hath first decreed they shall be) or which will have fore-knowledge of faith and works, to be causes of Election; they are deceived.

Fore=most]

The first, Gen. 32. 17. & 33. 2.

Fore=ordained]

1 Pet. 1. 20. The word in the Originall is properly foreseen.

Now there are three kindes of fore-sight.

1. That bare knowledge of things, and this reacheth to all things that ever shall be.

2. That knowledge of approbation, God knowing man above others, with his special favour: this reacheth only to the Elect.

3. When God is said to know things, as a Judge doth in giving sentence. In this last sense the word is here taken, and therefore well rendred fore-ordained; to note such a foresight, as had a determination and statute in it. Byfield on Peter, p. 149. 150.

Fore-ordained]

Rom. 3. 25. Set forth. Compare the marg. with the Text.

Fore-part]

That which is before, or the former, Exod. 8. 27. 1 King. 6. 20.

Fore=runner]

Heb. 6. 20. Whither the forerunner is for us entred, that is, Christ, so called, because he is ascended into heaven, to prepare mansions for us, Joh. 14. 2, 3. Annot.

Fore-see]

To see before, or fore-espie, Prov. 22. 3. Act. 2. 25. I fore-saw, Heb. I have …. Annot.

Fore-ship]

The Prow or foremost part of the Ship, Act. 27. 30.

Fore-skin]

Gen. 17. 11. To wit, of the genitall part, which so soon as sin appeared, was for shame kept out of sight; and which is not only corrupt in it self, but the means to convey corruption to another, which yet God can dignifie with a holy use in a Sacramental sense, and hereby upon this dishonourable part he hath set so much honour, according to that of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 12. 23. that many Nations have willingly taken up Circumcision, as an honour to themselves, and the want of it hath been sometimes upbraided with contempt, 1 Sam. 17. 36. …. The Hebr. … signifieth a super-fluity and stoppage, that hindereth the due effect and operation of a thing; and the Gr. foreign (which the Apostle useth in Rom. 2. 25.) is in speciall that …, which is on the top of mans flesh, to wit, on the member of generation: the foreskin that covereth the secret part, which God here commandeth to be cut quite off, as a sign of mortification, and regeneration of nature. The same word is applyed figuratively to other parts; and spiritually all sin is signified by this superfluous fore-skin, Jam. 1. 21. Aynsw. Deut. 10. 16. The sore-skin of your heart. This the Gr. translateth … of heart. The Chald. foolishnesse (or …) of the heart. Hereby is taught repentance and mortification of the inward man by circumcision of the heart in the Spirit, Rom. 2. 29. in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, Col. 2. 11. Aynsw. Jer. 4. 4. The sinfull body of the flesh, Col. 2. 11. The obstinacy that groweth like a thick skin over your hearts, ch. 6. 10. Ezek. 44. 9. Act. 7. 51. Annot.

Foreskin of the flesh]

Gen. 17. 11. Of the heart, Deut. 10. 16. Jer. 4. 4.

Fore-tell]

To tell before, 2 Cor. 13. 2.

Fore-warn]

To foreshew, manifest, make known, Luk. 12. 5. Tell before, 1 Thess. 4. 6.

Forfeited]

Ezr. 10. 8. Heb. devoted; that is, his goods or temporall estate shall be taken from him, and given to the publick use of the Temple, or of the State, or of the Poor, he should have no more right unto it. Annot.

Forge]

The proud have forged a lie, Psal. 119. 69. or composed, adjoyned. So Job 13. 4. Aynsw.

Forger]

Ye are forgors of lies, Job 13. 4. So it is translated, but the word foreign, never signifies so, but foreign, is used for to invent lies, as a Work man frames a building. The word is used but twice more in Scripture, and it signifies sowing, whereby one piece of cloth is sowed to another, as Ch. 14. 17. Some take it as an accusation of his friends, that they had as it were sowed one lie to another to disgrace him, that is, had multiplyed many lies against him. But it rather … … lies upon God, or him, as one piece of cloth is … upon another; as it should be translated, Psal. 119. 69. The proud have sowed or fastened a lie upon me. He … his friends that they did go about to wrong God and him, by speaking … of both. Annot.

To forget]

;;To let things slip out of minde. This is the generall signification.

;;2. To let God, his Word, and benefits slip out of minde, whereof followeth disobedience, neglect of Gods Worship, and wicked contempt of God, as a fruit and consequent of such forgetfullnesse. Judg. 3. 7. They did wickedly, and forgot the Lord. Psal. 78. 42. Thus men sorget God; the wicked wholly, the godly in part.

;;3. To cast off one, to cease to love, care, and provide for him. Psal. 77. 9. Hath God forgotten to be …? Isa. 49. 15, 16. Thus God forgets the wicked; and the godly do sometime think that they are thus sorgotten, yet are not so. Psal. 137. 5. If I forget thee (O Jerusalem) that is, if I cease to love thee.

;;4. To deferre or put off the punishment of the wicked; and to remove punishment from the godly. Psal. 74. 23. Forget not the voyce of the …. Amos 8. 7. I will not for ever … any of their …; that is, I will not alway defer to punish them, though it may seem I have forgotten, Jer. 32.

To forget]

;;See also to ….;;

;;1. To lose the memory or thought of a thing …, or of the knowledge thereof.;; ;;And this is either by naturall …, or by accident, or voluntary, by thinking too little and seldome thereof, or too much of other matters.;;

;;2. Not to esteem, but to passe by a matter as not worthy our remembrance, Phil. 3. 15. Gen. 41. 51.;;

;;3. To leave undone or unused any thing good, as Jam. 1. 24, 25.;;

;;4. To be freed or delivered from evils, or evill, Gen. 41. 51.;;

Referred to …; signifieth,

1. Not to be moved at, troubled with, but freed from danger and grief, Gen. 41. 51.

2. To cease to love, pity, or take care of, Isa. 49. 15.

And with relation to God, To neglect true Religion, not keep his Commandements, not call to minde his mercies, not call upon him, not trust in him, &c. Jer. 2. 32.

Referred to God; it's sometime to be understood of his casting off a people, Jer. 23. 39. God is not forgetfull of us, Isa. 49. 15. We must not forget him, Deut. 6. 12. His covenant, Deut. 4. 23. His works, Psal. 78. 7. His benefits, Psal. 103. …. His Word, Statutes, Precepts, …, Commandements, Psal. 119. vers. 16, 83, 141, 153, 176. Prov. 3. 1. & 4. 5. What we hear out of his Word, Jam. 1. 25. His grace of conversion, 2 Pet. 1. 9. … Church, Psal. 137. 5. His fatherly correction in love and comfort therein, Heb. 12. 5. Our faults, Deut. 9. 7. Jer. 44. 9. Jam. 1. 24. Hospitality, Heb. 13. 2. Mercy to the poor, Heb. 13. 16. The enemies of Gods people to punish them, Deut. 25. 19.

To forget that which is behinde]

;;Not to think upon, or minde that which one hath done or suffered for Christ or his Gospel, looking foward to things which are to be done hereafter. Phil. 3. 15. I forget that which is behinde.

To forget thy fathers house]

;;To renounce and abandon all carnall and worldly affections, which spring from inbred corruption, and whatsoever may hinder our faith and love unto Christ. Psal. 45. 11. Forget thine own people, and thy Fathers house.

To forget his labour]

;;Not to be moved nor troubled with remmebrance of calamities past. Gen. 41. 51. God hath made me forget all my labours.

Forgetfull]

Heb. 13. 2. He is a forgetfull …, that is, not a doer of the work, Jam. 1. 25.

Land of forgetfullnesse]

;;The place and estate of the dead, who forget the living, and the living them. Psal. 88. 12. And thy righteousnesse in the Land of forgetfullnesse.

Forgive]

To forgive …, is all one with, To pardon, Exod. 34. 9. To spare, Nehem. 13. 22. To cover, Psal. 32. 2. p. 242To blot out, Isa. 43. 25. To mention no sin, Ezek. 33. 16. Not to lay sin to ones charge, Act. 7. 60. Not to impute sin, Rom. 4. 8. To be mercifull, and not to remember sin any more, Heb. 8. 12. We must pray for the forgivenesse of our own sins, Psal. 25. 18. For the forgivenesse of others, Exod. 32. 32. Yea forgive men their trespasses, as we would that God should forgive our trespasses. Mat. 6. 14. See forgivenesse.

Forgivenesse]

;;The pardoning of our sins done against God, as if one should crosse a Debt-book. Psal. 32. 1. Whose sins are forgiven. In the Hebrew it cometh of a word which signifieth, to lift up, or take away: it hath reference to Christ, who bare and took away the sins of the world, Joh. 1. 29.

;;2. A forbearing to revenge trespasses done against us, being ready to take unto favour such as wrong us, upon their repentance. Mat. 18. 35. Except ye forgive from your hearts. Col. 3. 13.

;;3. A releasing of the censure of Excommunication, which power belonged to the Church, 1 Cor. 5. 10.

Whose sins the Lord forgiveth, he covereth, Psal. 32. 2. Blotteth out, Neh. 4. 5. Spareth, Neh. 13. 22. Layeth them not to their charge, Act. 7. 60. Imputeth them not, Rom. 4. 8. Maketh no mention of them, Ezek. 33. 16. Remembreth them no more, Heb. 8. 12.

Forks]

1 Sam. 13. 21. An instrument which Husbandmen use about their corn, hay, grasse, &c.

Form]

;;Favour, beauty, outward dignity, and glory. Isa. 53. 1. He hath … form.

;;2. Substance or essence. Heb. 1. 3. The engraved … of his person.

;;3. Vain shew, 2 Tim. 3. 5.

4. Nature and properties, Phil. 2. 7.

5. A pattern or rule, 2 Tim. 1. 13.

6. Shape or likenesse, Mar. 16. 12.

7. Face or Visage, Job 4. 16. God the Former of all things, Jer. 10. 26.

;;By form, some understand condition, divine and humane, majesty and infirmity, which doth necessarily follow substance, as a shadow doth the body.

… in form and countenance]

;;signifieth for body or personage, also for beauty of colour; both together make perfect beauty, Gen. 29. 17. the like is said of Esther, Est. 2. 7. and of Joseph, Gen. 39. 6.

Form of God]

;;God himself, or one who is God, and that truly and in very deed, of the same substance and giory that God is. Phil. 2. 6. Who being in the form of God. Form, Nature, or Substance be all one in this argument.

Form]

Who being in the form of God; Phil. 2. 6. foreign signifies not only an externall and accidentall form, as Mar. 16 12. Nor at all an image or picture (as foreign seems to do, Rom. 2. 20. 2 Tim. 3. 5.) but it is taken also in good Authors, for an internal essential form or being. It signifies that which hath a being of it self, and needs not the assistance of another to its being; so that being in the form of God, is known in the essence of God being God, and by the rayes and beams of his divinity (shining even in his first conception and birth) discerned and known to be so. Dr. Hammond, Annot. a.

Form, or shapes of the Locusts]

;;The figure, likeness, and guise; to wit, such as be strong Horses prepared to battle. Such are the Popish Clergy, strongly linked together with ready and prepared mindes, against all such as should any way mutter against the usurped power of the Pope and Sea of Rome. This hath been, and is apparent enough, though the fierce incursions of the Saracens, have been more famous. Revel. 9. 7. And the sorm (or fhapes) of the Locusts, was like unto horses prepared to battle.

Form of a servant]

;;A very man, one having the true nature of a man, being like a man in all things (sin excepted) Phil. 2. 7. He took the form of a servant, and was made like to a man; that is, he took the substance, nature, properties, affections and infirmities of a man, all except sin, Heb. 3. 17. & 4. 15.

Form of wholesome words]

;;Some short and rude description of Christian Doctrine delivered in writing, to be a pattern for Timothy, or a rule to direct his teaching. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Hold fast the sorm of sound words. It is a Metaphor from Painters, who being to draw a Picture, do first make a draught or portraiture of it, before they express it in lively colours.

Form]

Isa. 45. 7. Frame. Annot. Job 26. 5. Are formed srom under the waters. The word signifieth to bring sorth children out of the womb, when they have their right sorm, ch. 39. 1. Thus it is taken here. Such things are formed in the bottome of the waters, or under them, as in a womb, and by Gods providence brought forth to light as children are. Annot.

Job 33. 6. I am formed, Heb. am cast out. An allusion to the Potters, who when they purpose to make an earthen Vessel, cut out a lump of clay to make it of. So did God form Adam's body, Gen. 2. 7. Annot. And of him all things are sormed, beasts, Gen. 2. 19. the crooked Serpent, Job 26. 13. the earth, Psal. 90. 2. the eye, Psal. 94. 9. All things, Prov. 26. 10.

Formed]

;;Fashioned, framed; Christ is said to be formed in us, either when the lively Faith of Christ is at our new birth engendred in us, or is … after some great fall. Gal. 4. 9. Till Christ be formed in you.

;;The Apostle Paul signifies hereby some knowledge of Christ to remain in the …, yet such as was rude and unformed, which he did cover by this Epistle written to them, to bring to a more perfect form.

Former]

Spoken of manner, 2 King. 17. 34. Persons, Neh. 5. 15. Time, Job 8. 8. Things, Eccles. 1. 11. Whatsoever was before, Psal. 79. 8. & 89. 49. Isa. 65. 16. Zech. 14. 8.

Former]

Psal. 79. 8. or, of them that were …, marg. Mal. 3. 4. or Ancient, marg.

Former things are passed away. Rev. 21. 4. All the miseries of this world. Or, the Beast, false Prophets, and all that did hurt the Church. Annot.

Fornace]

Taken

I. properly, Prov. 17. 3. & 27. 21.

II. Figuratively,

1. For heavy and cruel bondage, Deut. 4. 20. Jer. 12. 4.

2. The place where God will sore afflict his people, Ezek. 22. 18, 19, 22.

3. A place of torment, Dan. 3. 6, 22.

4. Hell torments, Mat. 13. 42.

Fornication]

;;The uncleannesse of unmarried persons, about generation, Gal. 5. 19. The works of the flesh are manifest: …, fornication, &c.

;;2. All uncleannesse that way, by whomsoever, married or unmarried or howsoever, 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9. He that committeth Fornication, sinneth against his own body. This is bodily fornication. A Synechdoche: See Mat. 5. 32. Fornication put for Adultery.

;;3. Idolatry, or strange worship, which is spiritual fornication: wherein the faith plight with God (as with an husband) to worship him only after his own will, is violated and broken. Ezek. 16. 15. Thou hast poured out thy sornications; and elsewhere very often, in this and other Prophets: as Jer. 3. 9. Judah hath committed fornication with stocks and stones.

4. The uncleannesse of marryed persons, or adultery, Mat. 5. 32.

5. Incest, 1 Cor. 5. 1.

Fornication]

There is Fornication among you, 1 Cor. 5. 1. Fornication in this place is a generall word to comprehend all unlawfull desires of the flesh, acts of whatsoever prohibited carnality under it. Dr. Ham. An. a.

Fornication]

;;All sorts of bodily uncleannesse about generation, whether whoredome, adultery, rape, incest, buggery or fornication. For all these (as it is too well known) were rife, and still be, in the Kingdome of Antichrist. Revel. 9. 21. They repented not of their sornication.

To commit fornication]

;;To exercise Merchandise, and by the gain thereof to prosper, (as Harlots grow rich by the lucre which cometh of the prostitution of their bodies) A Metaphor, Isa. 23. 17. And shall commit fornication. Elsewhere this phrase importeth either Idolatry, Rev. 17. 2. or Adultery, Incest, or any bodily uncleannesse. 1 Cor. 5. 1.

Fornicator]

Heb. 12. 16. 1 Cor. 5. 11. We ought not to have any intimate familiarity, or common usages, or p. 243manner of life and conversation with such. Annot.

Such shall not inherit the Kingdome of God, 1 Cor. 6. 9.

Fortainer]

put for one, not an Israelite, Exod. 12. 45. Deut. 15. 3. An Heathen, not a Christian, Eph. 2. 19. One living a life contrary to the vain conversation of the world, 1 Pet. 2. 11.

Forrest]

;;Mighty men and valiant Souldiers, strong as trees in a Forrest, wherein the King of Assyria gloryed, Isa. 10. 18. And the glory of his Forrest.

Put also for, A … place of wood, Isa. 44. 14. The place of wilde Beasts, Jer. 5. 6. Lebanon, where Solomon built a goodly house, 1 King. 7. 2. The building in Jerusalem, Jerem. 21. v. 14. Desolation, Hosea 2. 12.

To forsake, referred to God]

;;Not to withdraw his essence or power from his creature, (for they be every where present) but his grace and blessing, which is done diversly, in respect of them whom he doth forsake. 2 Chr. 15. 2. If you forsake him he will forsake you. This is the generall signification.

;;2. Wholly, and for ever, to take away from men all such graces as he had given them, leaving them altogether to Satan, and their own lust. This is called a giving up, or delivering up to vile affections, Rom. 1. 24. Thus God forsakes wicked men, and Hypocrites. Thus did he forsake Cain and Judas, and Saul, 1 Sam. 16. 4. The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, 2 Sam. 7. 15. And thus will not God forsake his people. 1 Sam. 12. 22. The Lord will not forsake his people for his name sake.

;;3. To take away some particular grace, and that for a time only. Thus was David forsaken, having lost (after … grievous sin) cleannesse of heart, peace and joy of conscience, freedome of Spirit, stablenesse of minde, &c. Psal. 51. 10, &c.

;;4. To take away the knowledge, feeling, fruit, and working of his graces for a season. Thus was Peter forsaken, Matt. 26. and against this forsaking David prayeth in Psal. 119. 8. Forsake me not over long.

;;5. … ithdraw for a time, or for ever, his blessings and good successe from our labours, and his temporall protection from our persons, both our selves and ours. Heb. 13. 5. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Psal. 22. 1. Why hast thou forsaken me.

;;6. To with-draw and take away his Word, his Worship and Ministery. Lam. 2. 7. The Lord hath forsaken his …; that is, he hath caused his Worship to cease, he hath taken away his Law, his Prophets, his Visions, his Sabbaths, as vers. 7, 9. This is Gods forsaking man.

;;7. When he doth for a long time visit his Church, not withdrawing his judgements, Lam. 5. 20.

Referred to men]

;;To withdraw our heart from God, when we cease to put our trust in his promises and providence, and to obey his Commandements. Deut. 32. 15. Israel forsook the strong God that made them. Psal. 119. 53. I am asraid of the wicked because they sorsake thy Law. Heb. 13. 12. Psal. 119. 118. Heb. 10. 39.

;;2. To depart from the service of the true God, to the service of strange Gods. This is a branch and fruit of the … forsaking. Judg. 2. 11, 12. They served Baalim, and forsook the Lord God of their Fathers. This is mans forsaking os God, Isa. 1. 4.

;;3. To deny our help and aid to others in their necessities and dangers. 2 Tim. 4. 16. No man assisted me, but all forsook me. Thus man sorsaketh man.

To forsake Father and Mother]

;;Not to deny honour, love, obedience, succour, and thankfulnesse to Parents, (this were unnatural, and to be worse then Infidels, yea then beasts.) but to leave the Family and house of Parents, that he may dwell together with his Wife, and with her begin and erect a new houshold, Gen. 2. 24. Mat. 19.

;;Note: As touching reverence, obedience and succour, we owe more to parents, then to Wives; but in respect of houshold society and cohabitation, the man is more bound to the wife.

;;Christ is forsaken, either by denying himself flatly: or in turning from his Commandements.

To forsake one]

;;To deny help, or refuse to succour him in his need. Heb. 13. 5.

To forsake the promise]

;;Not to believe, give credit to the word of promise, Heb. 4. 1. In the last Translation the words are thus …, … a promise being left us.

A forsaking all for Christ]

;;A setled and well-governed purpose and affection to leave all outward good things of … lise, and … it self, for the love of Christ his Gospel; and to leave them indeed actually, when occasion serves. Luk. 14. 33. He that … not all that he hath, cannot be my Disciple. Mar. 10. 29. Thus the Christian man forsaketh all, first in affection and desire, then in effect and deed, if need be, and occasion serve thereunto, as then it doth, when we cannot hold life and earthly things, without denying Christ and his Word.

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Mat. 5. 33. Not to do that which one hath sworn to do.

Fort]

A sortification, fence, or hold, 2 Sam. 5. 9. A bulwark, Block-house, Ezek. 4. 2.

Forth]

Psal. 113. 2. From this time sorth, or … now, henceforth, 2 Chr. 29. 23. Heb. neer, marg. Jer. 49. 5. Right forth, as Amos 4. 3. Not daring either to stand …, or to look back. Annot.

Forthwith]

Incontinently, immediately, upon the sudden, without delay, Ezr. 6. 8. Joh. 19. 34. Act. 9. 18.

Fortieth]

Spoken of Year, Numb. 33. 38. Deut. 1. 3.

Fortifie]

To assault, or hardly presse, Judg. 9. 31. To strengthen, 2 Chro. 11. 11. To repair, 2 Chr. 26. 9. marg. To leave, Nehem. 4. 2. marg. …. 11. 10. … on the Confines and … of Aegypt, which Antiochus Magnus took from … Philopater. Annot.

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;;Courage, when … are born, and Duties done with a valiant and stout minde. Isa. 11. 12. The Spirit of fortitude shall rest upon him.

;;2. Divine might upholding and strengthning us. Psal. 18. 1. The Lord is my fortitude or strength.

Fortresse]

;;A strong hold, or place of defense: such is Gods providence to them that trust in him. Psal. 18. 2. The Lord is my Fortresse. A Metaphor.

Fortunatus]

Lucky or fortunate. The name of a godly man, 1 Cor. 16. 17.

Fortune]

;;Chance, when some things fall cut beside our purpose, and whereof we can give no reason. This is called Fortune or chance: but in respect of God, who knoweth all things, and ordereth them most wisely, to just and due ends, there is no chance nor fortune. Eccl. 9. 11. Time and chance cometh to them all. Luk. 10. 21. And it fortuned or chanced. Christians must alwayes beware how they doe commonly use this word (Fortune and Chance) in their mouths, or attribute ought to it, setting it up against Gods Providence, which ordereth all things, both good and evill, great and small.

;;I give this signification of Fortune, only to shew how far it may be allowed; namely, so far, as that in such things (as in regard of our foresight happen accidentally to us) we do yet acknowledge a divine Providence, ordering all events most wisely and righteously.

Forty]

Spoken of Baths, 1 King. 7. 38. Camels, 2 King. 8. 9. …, 1 King. 6. 17. Dayes, Gen. 7. 4, 12. Exod. 24. 18. 1 King. 19. 8. Jonah 3. 4. Mat. 4. 2. Kine, Gen. 32. 15. Stripes, Deut. 25. 3. Years, Gen. 5. 13. Exod. 16. 35. Hereunto are added one, 1 King. 14. 21. two, Numb. 35. 6. sour, 1 Chr. 5. 18. Five, Gen. 18. 28. six, Joh. 2. 20. seven, Gen. 47. 28. eight, Numb. 35. 7. nine, Lev. 25. 8. thousand, Numb. 1. 33. one thousand, Numb. 1. 41. two thousand, Judg. 12. 6. three thousand, Numb. 26. 3. four thousand, 1 Chron. 5. 18. five thousand, Num. 1. 25. six thousand, Numb. 1. 21.

Forward]

Gen. 26. 13. Went sorward, Heb. went going, marg. as who did still thrive. Exod. 14. 15. Go forward, passe on. 1 Sam. 16. 13. From that day forward, thenceforth. 1 Chr. 23. 4. To set forward, or to oversee. Annot. Job 30. 13. To further and increase, Jer. 7. 24. Not forward, Heb. not to face. Annot. 2 Cor. 8. 10. Gr. willing, marg.

Forwardnesse]

2 Cor. 8. 8. foreign, an earnest and serious bending and application of the minde, which was in some about contributing to the Saints. See Leigh C. S. 2 Cor. 9. 2. foreign, cheerfullnesse, a ready minde. Idem. lb.

Foule]

Of fouls, some were clean, Gen. 8. 20. Some unclean, Lev. 20. 25. Some that did creep, going upon p. 244all four, Lev. 11. 20. Feathered, Psal. 78. 27. Winged, Deut. 4. 17. Of the heaven, Jer. 7. 33. Of the air, Matt. 6. 26. Of the Mountain, Isa. 18. 6.

Foule]

Psal. 148. 10. Flying Foule, Heb. … of wing, marg.

Foule]

Job 16. 16. Bedaubed, or soiled, besmeared or smutched. The Hebrew word doth signifie Filth that comes from moisture which is troubled and stirred about, Psal. 46. 4. & 75. 9. D. T. and Ann.

It's applyed to Weather, Mat. 16. 3. and Spirit, Mar. 9. 25. Rev. 18. 2.

Foule]

Ezek. 34. 18. To trouble, marg. tread, trample upon.

Fouler]

Taken,

1. Properly, for a taker of Birds (whether by snares, …, or otherwise) Prov. 6. 5.

2. …, for a deadly enemy, Psal. 91. 3. 124. 7. Hos. 9. 8.

To found]

;;1. To decree firmly, to appoint, and so consequently to fit and perfect. Psal. 8. 2. Thou hast founded strength. Mat. 21. 16. Est. 1. 8. The King hath founded, Psal. 21. 2.

;;2. To build surely, to establish and confirm. Psal. 24. 2. He hath sounded it upon the Seas.

Found]

I found him not, Cant. 3. 1. to wit presently till afterward, v. 4. For neglect of taking hold on grace when it is offered, or not keeping it when it is …, God often withdraweth the light of his countenance to stir up zeal and fervency in his children, Prov. 1. 24, 28. Jer 11. 10, 11. Mic. 3. 4. I found him, Cant. 3. 4. Here after much seeking, without fainting and discouragement, when means fail, she findeth Christ to the comfort of her conscience, acording to the promise, Seck and ye shall finde, Matth. 7. 7. Sometime Christ seemeth coy and stately, and even when most … indeed, suspends and keeps off his beams, …, as if altogether lost, so that he is not perceived, nor injoyed so sweetly as we desire, especially when we seek him distrustfully, or coldly. Though we finde him not in our … in our owne wayes, yet he will be found at last. He may hold us off and suspend us, as Laban did Jaco, and Joseph his brethren; but when we are almost hopelesse, and seeme utterly …, he will present himself, and not suffer us to be tempted above measure, yet a little while, &c. Heb. 10. 37. Annot.

I was in his eyes as one that found savour, Cant. 8. 10. Heb. peace, marg we all in our natural corruption are enemies to God, Rom 5. 10. but being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Rom. 5. 1. for the work of righteousnesse is peace and the effect of righteousnesse, quietnesse and assurance for ever, Isa. 92. 17. and this place is enjoyed by the holy Ghost, Rom. 8. 6, 9. and it is opposed to al the troubles, temptations, persecutions, and afflictions in this life and world, Joh. 16. 33. and is that which guardeth our hearts and mindes through Christ Jesus, Phil. 4. 7. Aynsw.

Found]

Heb. 11. 5. And was not found, because God had translated him, … was not found in any place here upon the earth. He was taken from one place, and put into another; from earth, and placed in heaven. It's like some sought for Enoch, but a Writ of non inven us was returned. …. Heb. 12. 17. he found no place of repentance, or way to change his minde. marg. All that Esau could do or …, could not make his father to repent. Jones. To reverse or call back his blessing, wherewith he had blessed his younger brother Jacob above him. Annot.

Found out]

1 King. 7. 47. Heb. searched.

Found no more]

;;To be no more at all, to be utterly rooted out, as if it had never been. Rev. 18. 21, 22. And shall be found … more.

Foundation]

;;The ground work, which upholds the whole building, as the foundation of an House, of a Castle, or of a Fort, …, &c.

;;2. Christ, who in respect of his person and office, is the only foundation and rock of his Church, to support and bear it up against Hell-gates; he being the firm foundation or corner-stone. 1 Cor. 3. 11. Other foundation can no man lay, then Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. 2. 4, 5, 6. Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone, and precious. Christ is the foundation of foundations.

;;3. The Apostles and Prophets, who in respect of their Doctrine are as a subordinate or second foundation, laying the Elect upon Christ the only sure foundation, Eph. 2. 20. Built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles. These be such foundations, as that themselves also be lively stones, built upon that foundation, Christ. All be equally foundations, not Peter more than the rest. A Metaphor.

;;4. The Doctrine of Christ, taught in an easie and short manner: or the sum of Christian Doctrine. Heb. 6. 1. Not laying again the foundation, &c.

;;5. The unmoveable strength and firmnesse of Gods elect, being grounded upon his eternal love. 2 Tim. 2. 19. But the foundation of God remaineth sure. As a foundation stayeth an house, so upon the decree of election the godly are stayed.

;;6. Princes and Rulers of the earth, upon whom the Common-wealth resteth, as the house doth upon the foundation. Psal. 82. 6. All the foundations of the earth were moved. Or else expound it thus: All things from the highest to the lowest, are out of order.

;;7. The bottome of the waters, or bowels of the earth, or lowest parts of the world. Psal. 18. 15. The foundations of the world were discovered.

;;8. The great Mountains and highest hills, which seem to bear up the heavens upon their tops. Psal. 18. 7. The foundation of the heavens moved and …. Thus it is read in Tremellius, according to the Originall.

;;9. The sincerity of the heart, or the integrity of life which consisteth in doing the will of God toward God and man, is the foundation of our faith, and hope of happinesse to come, and of happinesse it self, Mat. 7. 24, 25. Luk. 6. 47, 48. 1 Tim. 6. 19. & 1. 19. 2 Pet. 1. 10. 1 Joh. 3. 21, 22, 23.;;

10. The first sound preaching of Christ in a place, Rom. 15. 20.

11. The ground of assurance, 1 Tim. 6. 19.

12. Gods decree concerning the salvation of his elect, 2 Tim. 2. 19.

13. Firm unchangeablenesse, Heb. 11. 10. Where's implyed, that the estate of the elect in heaven, and their glory there is not subject to corruption, or the least alteration. So, there's a corporal, spiritual, eternal, and a foundation by way of resemblance.

Foundation]

Ezr. 3. 6. The foundation of the Temple of the Lord was not yet laid, Heb. the Temple of the Lord was not yet founded, marg. Job 38. 6. Heb. sockets, marg.

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation, 1 Tim. 6. 19. Treasure, or pledge, bill, or bond. The word foreign coming from foreign, to lay up, as foreign doth, it may possibly signifie no more then a treasure, somewhat laid up. But it may signifie in the same latitude, that the Hebr. foreign (which is answerable to it) doth, i. e. not only a foundation, but as the Rabbins use the word,, a bill of contract, a bond or obligation that he receives that lends out any thing, upon which he may found a confidence of having it returned to him again. To this perhaps it may be applyable that the Hebr. foreign, which is rendred foreign sometimes, is also rendred foreign, Isa. 30. 1. A compact. And then it will have this weight here, that the Almes-giver by his liberality, receives and layes up an obligation from God that this mercy of his shall be rewarded. Hereunto that of Prov. 19. 7. is very agreeable, and in this sense the word is again found, 2 Tim. 2. 19. where Gods foreign is said to have a seal affixed to it, which seems to referre to a Bill or Bond, and because those seals had their inscriptions on both sides, agreeing to the conditions of the two persons contracting, accordingly it is here added, first on Gods part, The Lord knoweth them that are his; i. e. God will be faithfull and constant in owning those that are his Servants. Then secondly on mans part. Let every one that nameth the name of … depart from iniquity. So that Gods foreign there, may very well signifie his foreign bill or bond (and so here the word may signifie also) which being left with any man, as a means to secure him, a depositum, a foreign, a pledge or pawn, may well be styled foreign, from foreign, …, somewhat delivered him for his security. Dr. Ham. Paraph. & Annot. h.

Foundation of repentance]

;;The Doctrine of repentance, as it is a principle and foundation, Heb. 6. 1.

Foundation of the world]

;;The beginning when the world was first made of nothing, Heb. 4. 3.

From the foundations of the world]

;;Before the beginning of the world, even from all eternity, God chose certain unto salvation, whose names are said to be written in the p. 245book of life, and the other not written. Rev. 17. 8. … … are not written in the book of life, from the foundation of the world. Ye have the like phrase Rev. 13. 8. to note the eternall decree of God, touching the force and efficacy of his Sons death.

Founder]

;;A Melter of Metals for Idolatrous uses, Judg. 17. 4. Jer. 10. 9, 14. & 51. 17.

Fountain]

;;A Spring, from whence waters, brooks, or rivers doe spring, or an head-water. Gen. 7. 11. The fountains were broken up.

;;2. The originall, beginning, or first cause of every good thing, which concerns true life. Psal. 36. 9. With thee is the well (or fountain) of life.

;;3. The word of God, or the Scriptures of Moses and the Prophets, whence (as from a fountain) doth spring and flow forth rivers of wholesome Doctrines giving life to such as receive them. Jer. 2. 13. They have forfaken me the fountain of living waters, and digged pits that hold none. A Metaphor.

;;4. Christ Jesus, whose blood-shed is an ever running fountain, to wash Believers from all uncleannesse of sin. Zach. 13. 1. In that day there shall be a fountain … to the house of David, for sin and uncleannesse. This is an allusion to their water of separation and sin, Numb. 19. 9, 19.

;;5. The Spirit of God, with his healthfull and saving gifts, derived unto and flowing upon the Church and every true member of it, to cheer and refresh it. Joel 3. 18. A fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord. Ezek. 47. 1. Rev. 22. 1.

;;6. Our possessions and goods whence our livelihood ariseth, as waters spring out of a fountain. Prov. 5. 10. Let thy fountain flow forth, &c.

;;7. Eyes, which (as a spring or fountain) send forth tears (as a witnesse of hearts grief,) Jer. 9. 1. Mine eyes a fountain of tears.

It's put also,

1. For God, Jer. 2. 13.

2. The Church of God, Psal. 68. 26.

3. The exceeding rich love of God in Christ, continually ministring to the faithfull new supply of healthfull graces, Joh. 4. 14.

4. An issue of blood, Lev. 20. 18.

5. Ones lawfull wife, Prov. 5. 18.

6. Holy precepts and instructions, Prov. 13. 14.

7. The liver, Eccl. 12. 6.

8. Prosperity, or outward blessings, Hos. 13. 14.

9. False Teachers, 2 Pet. 2. 17.

10. The Ministers of the Gospel, Rev. 8. 10.

Fountain of Gardens]

;;Christ the Author of every good gift, and the ever-running well-spring, from whence all particular Churches doe fetch the water of life to refresh them, and make them fruitfull withall, Cant. 4. 15. A fountain of the Gardens.

An Hypallage, for a Garden with fountains, which is usual in Scripture, Jer. 31. 12. Isa. 58. 11. to … forth the beauty and propagation of the Church, as on the contrary, it is the sad commination, which God breaths against adulterous Jerusalem, that she should be as a garden without water, Isa. 1. 30. without all manner of joy and comfort. Annot.

Fountain sealed up]

;;The Church by the Ministery whereof all such saving graces are derived to the elect, as are kept from the Reprobate, Cant. 4. 12. My Spouse is as a Fountain sealed up.

Hereby is figured the confirmation of grace to Christs people, as Sealing meaneth in Jer. 32. 29. Joh. 3. 33. 2 Cor. 1. 22. Ephes. 1. 13. and the reserving of this grace to them only, as that which is sealed is not communicated with others, not known unto them, Isa. 29. 11. Dan. 12. 4, 9. and so it is said, Binde up the testimony, seal the Law, among my Disciples, Isa. 8. 16. Aynsw.

Christ dying to this end to redeem and purifie, no question but he will obsignate and ratifie his own work; to which he hath also sealed her by his Spirit, 2 Cor. 1. 22. that she may be a chaste Wife kept unspotted and loyall to him, and admitting no unclean thing to defile her with their feet; as they used to keep their Springs and Wells in the whole … of the East, not only for scarsity, but for wholesomenesse that they might not be trodden and muddied, Gen. 29. 3. Annot.

Fountain of waters]

;;The springs from whence … flow and issue waters and rivers, for the use of men. This is the proper signification.

;;2. The Ministers of the Gospel, from whom (as Fountains and Springs) the … of … doth flow forth unto others, by a continuall flux …, which were to be depraved and corrupted by heresie and impiety of some principal teachers. Rev. 8. 10. And it fell into the third part of the rivers, and into the fountains of waters.

By rivers and fountains may be meant the Magistrates sent abroad into severall Provinces, and the Cities and Provinces unto which they were sent. Annot.

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Jer. 46. 4. or …, as 2 Chr. 4. 16. Great care there was anciently among the Sculdiers, Commanders, and Officers, especially to have their Arms glitter. Annot.

It's also spoken of a …, Ezek. 21. 9, 10.

Four]

Spoken of Anchors, Act. 27. 29 Angels, Rev. 9. 14, 15. Barrels, 1 King. 18. 33. Beasts, Rev. 4. 6, 8. Berries, Isa. 17. 6. Bowls, Exod. 37. 20. Carpenters, Zech. 1. 20. Charets, Zech. 6. 1. Children, Dan. 1. 17. Cities, …. 19. 7. Companies, Judg. 9. 34. …, Exod. 25. 12. …, 1 King. 7. 38. Daughters, Act. 21. 9. Dayes, Act. 10. 30. …, Rev. 19. 4. Ends, Exod. 38. 5. Faces, Ezek. 1. 6. …, …. 11. 23. …, 2 Sam. 21. 20. Jer. 52. 21. Generations, Job 42. 16. Heads, Gen. 2. 10. …, Zech. 1. 18. Sore Judgements, Ezek. 14. 21. Kinds, Jer. 15. 3. Kingdomes, Dan. 8. 22. Kings, Gen. 14. 9. Leaves, Jer. 36. 23. Leprous men, 2 King. 7. 3. Levites, 1 Chr. 26. 17. Living creatures, Ezek. 1. 5. Men, Dan. 3. 25. …, Judg. 19. 2. …, Numb. 7. 7. Parts, Gen. 47. 24. …, Exod. 27. 16. Chief Porters, 1 …. 9. 26. Quarters, Deut. 22. 12. … of …, Act. 12. 4. Rings, Exod. 25. 12. … of stones, Exod. 28. 17. Sheep, Exod. 22. 1. Sides, Ezek. 1. 8. Sockets, Exod. 26. 32. Sons, 1 Chro. 23. 10. Spirits, …. 6. 5. Squares, Ezek. 43. 16. Tables, Ezek. 40. 41. …, Pro. 30. 15, 24. Times, Neh. 6. 4. …, Amos 1. 9. …, 1 King. 7. 34. Wagons, Numb. 7. 8. Wheels, Ezek. 10. 9. Winds, Dan. 8. 8. Wings, Dan. 7. 6. …, Luk. 2. 37. Hereunto other numbers are annexed, as twenty, Rev. 4. 4, 10. hundred, Gen. 15. 13. hundred and tea. Ezr. 1. 10. hunthirty five, Ezr. 2. 67. hundred fifty, 2 Chr. 8. 18. hundred fifty four, Ezr. 2. 15. hundred sixty eight, Nehem. 11. 6. thousand, 1 Sam. 4. 2. thousand five hundred, Ezek. 48. 16.

Four Angels bound]

;;Administers of the wrath of God (in that number that is convenient) for the slaughtering of the four quarters of the world: these Angels being restrained before by the power of God, were now to be … up, and have the bridle given them licentiously to practise tyranny, as God had ordained. Rev. 9. 14. Loose the four Angels which are bound.

Now that one good Angel is commanded to loose four evil, is to let us see how the Elect Angels exceed the wicked in power, which is for our comfort. And it is comfortable for us to know, that all adversary power of the creature, even from the Beast to the Angel, is bound and loosed according to the will of God. Cowper.

Four corners of the earth]

;;The chief quarters and coasts of the world, which were occupyed and possess'd by the four Angels sent with commission to stop the four winds. Rev. 7. 1. I saw four Angels stand on the four corners of the earth.

Four horns of the Altar]

;;The highest part or top of the golden Altar of Incense, which stood before the Vail, against the Ark of the Covenant, where solemn prayers once a year were made by the High-priest unto God, who heard and accepted them through Christ, represented by the golden Altar; in whom, and by whom alone, the oblations of our prayers are pleasing unto God. Rev. 9. 13. I heard a voyce from the four horns of the golden Altar.

Four and twenty Elders]

;;The holy Catholick Church, even the whole company of Gods Elect; especially, such as having now ended their warfare, do triumph in heaven gloriously, every one (as it were) sitting upon a throne as a King; which honour, the Elect do attain unto, by and through Christ, who hath made all the Faithfull, Kings and Priests unto God. In the number of 24. there is an allusion unto that distribution of sacred offices, and the servants of the King mentioned in 1 Chr. 24. 25, 26, 27. Rev. 4. 4. Upon the seats I saw four and twenty Eleers sitting. Whereas some by twenty four Elders, understand the twelve Prophets, and p. 246the 12 Apostles, it cannot stand with the scope of this Vision here shewed to John, which respects not any number or company which were past and gone, but rather that which was to come, even the whole number of believing Gentiles, which as Kings and Princes should minister to God their Soveraign King.

Four windes]

;;One and the self-same winde in nature, being divers, according to the Regions and coasts from whence they blow, as from East, West, &c.

;;2. The efficacy and secret mighty force of the holy Spirit, which by Christ himself is compared unto winde. Joh. 3. 8. The winde bloweth where it list, so is every one born os the Spirit. Rev. 7. 1. Holding the four winds of the earth.

Four-fold]

Four times so much, 2 Sam. 12. 6. Luk. 19. 8.

Fourfooted]

Spoken of beasts having four feet, Act. 10. 12. & 11. 6. Rom. 1. 23.

Four-square]

Exod. 27. 1, This form signifieth firmness and stability; therefore the … Jerusalem is foursquare, Rev. 12. 16. So was the figure of it, Ezek. 48. …. and the most holy place in the Temple and Tabernacle, 2 Chr. 3. 8. The Altar propesied of under the Gospel, though it be much larger, (because the worshipers are increased all over the world) yet it is also four-quare. Ezek. 43. 16. Aynsw.

Four-square]

;;That which is steddy, of continuance and profit, such is the true Church, leaning upon. Christ as a foundation. Revel. 21. 16. And the City lay foursquare.

Fourscore]

Spoken of Concubines, Cant. 6. 8. Levites, 1 Chr. 15. 6. Males, Ezr. 8. 8. … of Wheat, Luk. 16. 7. …, Jer. 41. 5. Persons, 1 Sam. 22. 18. … os silver, 2 King. 6. 25. Priests, 2 Chr. 26. 17. …, Exod. 7. 7. Hereunto are annexed, thousand, 1 King. 5. 15. five thousand, 2 King. 9. 35. seven thousand, 1 Chr. 4. 5.

Fourteen]

Spoken of Cities, Josh. 15. 36. …, Ezek. 43. 17. Dayes, 1 King. 8. 65. Generations, Mat. 1. 17. Lambs, Numb. 29. 13. Sons, 1 Cht. 25. 5. Souls, Gen. 46. 22, …, 2 Chr. 13. 21. Yeers, 2 Cor. 12. 2. Hereunto are annexed, thousand, Numb. 6. 49. Job 42. 12.

Fourteenth]

Spoken of Day, Exod. 12. 6. Lot, 1 Chr. 24. 13. Night, Act. 27. 27. Yeer, Gen. 14. 5.

Fourth]

Spoken of …, Deut, 18. 12. Beast, Dan. 7. 7. Charet, Zech. 6. 3. Day, Gen. 1. 19. Foundation, Rev. 21. 19. The Gadites that separated themselves unto David, 1 Chr. 12. 8, 10. Generation, Gen. 15. 16. Kingdom, Dan. 2. 42. Kings, Dan. 11. 2. Lot, Josh. 19. 17. & 1 Chr. 24. 8. MonethMonth, …. 1. 1. Part, Neh. 9. 3. River, Gen. 2. 14. Row of …, Exod. 28. 20. Seal, Rev. 6. 7. Sons; as of Benjamin, 1 Chr. 8. 2. David, 2 Sam. 3. 4. God, Dan. 3. 25. Hebron, 1 Chr. 23. 19. …, 1 Chr. 26. 11. Jesse, 1 Chr. 2. 14. Josiah, 1 Chr. 3. 15. …, 1 Chr. 26. 2. Obed-Edom, Ibid. 4. Watch of the night, Mat. 14. 25. …, Ezek. 10. 14. Yeer, …. 19. 24.

Fourth generation]

;;The space of four hundred yeers, being ended and expired, Gen. 15. 16.

Fourth part of the earth]

;;The fourth part of men, dwelling in earth, which by the just judgement of God, were to be punished for the … of the Gospel, with those four great plagues here spoken of, Levit. 26. and here again distinctly mentioned; to wit, the Sword, Famine, Pestilence, and wilde beasts. Rev. 6. 8. Power was given to them over the fourth part of the earth.

Fox]

;;Every thing that hurteth the inheritance, or vineyard of the Church, be it false doctrine or corrupt manners. Cant. 2. 15. Take away the foxes.

;;2. False Prophets, which craftily undermine the safety and state of Religion, and of the Church. Ezek. 13. 4. O Israel, thy Prophets are as foxes in the waste places.

;;3. All crafty and guileful persons, which with their craft and cunning seek to deceive and hurt others. Luk. 13. 32. Tell that fox.

4. A … and crafty beast, so called, Judg. 15. 4.

5. Subtle, but yet very weak means, Neh. 4. 3.

It's a crafty, wary, deceitful, subtile, cruel, strong smelling, quick smelling beast. By laying their dung in the entrance of the Badgers den, they obtain it sor their own use. And for that the Wolf is their enemy, they lay the hearb Sea-onyon at the mouth of their den; wherewith the Wolf is so terrified, that it will not come … the place either where it groweth or lyeth. In their dens they have many passages in and out, that they may the better prevent danger. They die, if they eat any thing where Bitter Almonds or Aloes are, unless they drink presently. When sick, they eat the gum of Pine-trees, whereby they are not only cured, but their dayes lengthened. When they are pursued by Hunters, they make urine, and strike their tails wet therewith on the dogs faces. Some having been taken in a gin by the leg, have bit it off, and so escaped; as others have faigned themselves dead, till they have been taken out, and then run away. All beasts are its enemies (except the Crow, who assisteth him against the Hawk and Serpents, with whom he is at peace) against whom he useth strength, courage, and policy. Being hungry it faigneth it self dead, on whom the fowles lighting for prey, he snatcheth and devoureth them. By licking the face of the Hedge-hog, or turning it on its back, he maketh it to unfold it self, and then killeth it. Having put its tail in the water, the fishes approaching thereunto, become wrapt therein, which drawing out, he eateth. The Wasps its enemies (having hid all his body, excepting his tail, whereon they light) by rubbing his tail against a tree, he killeth, and then eateth. Where there are many Foxes, there are but a few Hares. It alwayes halteth, its right shank being shorter then its left; nor doth it go straight forward, but turneth and windeth. It preyeth rather on … then wilde Creatures. Its breath is strong and stinking. … preyeth on dead corps, Psal. 63. 10. Though never so …, yet it seiseth on what cometh within its reach, that it can master. The young ones not finding milk in their dams dugs, bite and tear her. Being to go over ice, they listen, whether they can hear any noise under it; which if they do, they forbear, as fearing that it will not bear them. Its fat, marrow, lungs, &c, are useful in physick, its skin good ….

Foxes]

;;Whatsoever hurts the truth of Doctrine, or honesty of manners; especially heresies, and the patrons thereof, Cant. 2. 15. Take us the Foxes.

The enemies of the Church, they are either hereticks and schismaticks, within her pale; or else …, and profest Tyrants without. That Tyrants are Foxes, is evident in Herod, Luk. 13. 22. who was also a kinde of heretick, a Sadducee, as some think, the more to colour his cruelty, and from him sprung the Herodians, Matth. 22. 16. And that hereticks are so and schismaticks, appeares by their fruits and nature; having not onelyonly the craft of that beast, transforming themselves, 2 Cor. 11. 13. carrying a Fox in their bosome, when they are Lam's outwardly; but also the rage and bloudy cruelty, where they get power, none being like them; for never did the Church of God suffer more from the maddest and blindest Heathen, then they have done from Hereticks and Schismaticks that were among them. The Lord complains for …, that her … were Foxes, Ezek. 13. 4. and the complaint is so much the juster, because such Foxes they are, as can never be extirpated. Annot.

Mr. Cotton hereby understandeth the …, who hindered the proceeding of the building of the Temple, and the peace of the Church, Ezra 4. 4, 5, 23, 24. and that therefore Tobiah said truly of himself and his fellows, that they as Foxes going upon the weak foundation of the wals of Jerusalem, might easily demolish the same, Neh. 4. 3.

Little Foxes]

All occasions and appearances of evils. Cant. 2. 15. These little Foxes.

Little Foxes]

;;All occasions of offence, even every shew and appearance of evill, Cant. 2. 15. The little Foxes.

To be a portion for Foxes]

;;To be cast out upon the Mountains without burial, that Foxes and beasts may feed upon them. Psal. 63. 10. They shall be the portion for Foxes.