A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part GU – Part GY
G u.
Guard]
put for souldiers attending upon the King, 1 King. 14. 27, 28. His keepers, 1 Sam. 28. 2. A watch or safeguard, Neh. 4. 22. Ezek. 38. 7.
Guard]
2 Sam. 23. 23. or Counsel, Heb. at his command, marg. 1 King. 14. 27. Heb. runners, marg.
Guard-chamber]
A place where the … shields which … had provided were safely kept, 1 King. 14. 28. 2 Chr. 12. 11.
Gudgodah]
The happinesse of felicity. A place, Deut. 10. 7.
Guest]
One that is bidden to ones Table, or resorteth to a place, there to lodge or Inne, Luk. 19. 7. Mat. 22. 10.
Guide]
;;One that sheweth another his way, Gen. 46. 28.
;;2. Teachers, who are called guides, because they goe before the flock as guides, to shew them the way to salvation. Rom. 2. 19. And … thy self that thou art a guide to the blinde.
;;3. An husband, Prov. 2. 17.
4. One going … for a direction, Act. 1. 16.
5. God, Psal. 48. 14. …. 3. 4.
To guide]
;;Effectually to move and stir the heart toward God. 2 Thess. 3. 3. The Lord guide your hearts to love.
It's all one with Direct, Gen. 46. 28. Be eyes to others Job 29. 15. And is spoken of God, Psal. 48. 14. who with his eye, Psal. 32. 8. and counsel, Psal. 73. 24. guideth the meek, Psal. 25. 9. his people, Psal. 78. 52. the …, Isa. 58. 7, 11. into all truth, Job. 16. 13. into his …, 2 …. 3. 5. into the way of peace, Luk. 1. 79. and … the patient waiting for Christ, 2 Thess. 3. 5.
Guides]
They that have the rule …. Comp. the Text of, Heb. 13. 7, 17. with the marg.
Guile]
;;A subtile invention or device to deceive another by, when one thing is done, and another pretended. 1 Pet. 2. 1. Lay aside all guile. This is guile in practise and action.
;;2. Deceitfull speech, tending to deceive, when one thing is done, and another thing meant. 1 Pet. 2. 22. In whose mouth there was no guile. This is guile in words and promises.
;;3. Inward hypocrisie and unsoundnesse of heart. Psal. 32. 2. In whose spirit there is no guile. This is guile in thoughts and purposes.
Taken in a good sense, 2 Cor. 12. 6. In a bad sense, for hypocrisie, Psal. 17. 2. Hos. 11. 12. Fraud and falsehood in opinion; either in the matter, when the Doctrine is strange and false, 2 Cor. 11. 13. Or, when good Doctrine is handled corruptly and deceitfully, for wicked ends, 2 Cor. 4. 2. 1 Thess. 2. 3. Deceit in words, and so flattery is guile, Psal. 12. 2, 3. and lying is guile, Mic. 6. 12. …. 3. 13. Deceit in works, Mic. 6. 10, 11. Mal. 1. 14. and … all lying in wait to seek occasion against others, and all subtle dealing to oppresse others, is guile, Mat. 26. 4. Mar. 14. 1. 2 Cor. 11. 12, 13. Byfield on 1 Pet. 2. 1. p. 205, 206.
No …]
;;…, truth, uprightness in Doctrine and conversation. Rev. 14. 5. In whose mouth is … no guile. Some understand this of the most pure integrity which believers have, not by perfection of their own …, but by imputation of Christs perfect holiness. Both these significations may well stand together, for the Saints themselves have an unperfect uprightnesse, by infusion of grace, and a perfect integrity from Christ, by imputation of his righteousness.
They were … in all their sayings, Or, in word they professed the true Religion, which they believed in their hearts. See Psal. 32. 2. Joh. 1. 47. ….
Guilt]
Deut. 19. 13. This word is added to the Text.
Guiltie]
Faulty, or culpable, in a matter whereof one is accused by another, or by his own conscience, Gen. 42. 21. Exod. 34. 7. Rom. 3. 19.
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Mat 23. 18. or …, or bound, marg. …. 3. 19. … before God, or subject to the judgement of God, marg. Num. 35. 27. Shall not be guiltie of Blood, Heb. no blood shall be to him, marg.
To be guiltie of all]
;;To be a Tránsgressor against God, whose Law commandeth one duty as well as another, and forbiddeth one sin as well as another, not that men can be perfect, but we must strive toward it, by baulking no duty, nor bearing with any fault in our selves. Jam. 2. 10. He that faileth in one point of the Law, is … of all. This sentence detecteth the hypocrisie of such as did cull and choose such precepts of the Law to keep, as they listed, soothing …, as if they had performed excellent obedience, by doing things which crossed not their fancy and affection, neglecting in the mean space some other work commanded in the Law, as needfull as any which they performed: as if a Judge which had acquitted one notorious …, should please himself because he had punished another.
;;Note further, that one becomes guilty of all, by wilfull breach of one; because, as one string or voyce out of tune … the whole harmony in musick: so one sin contemptuously committed, marreth the harmony of our …. Also, he can in truth keep no Commandement out of love to the Law, which obstinately lyeth in any one sin. Lastly, that divine Majesty which gave the Law, is violated in the breach of one Precept; so as the other in the whole of the Law be not transgressed (totum legis) yet the whole Law ( … lex) is broken in hurting that authority whereby it was given; yet this will not prove all … equall.
To be guilty of the body and blood of …]
;;To kill Christ, and be culpable of his death, as was properly Judas, which betrayed him, the Jews, which condemned him, and Souldiers, which pierced him, and shed his innocent blood; but figuratively, yet truely, all that unworthily eat and drink the Lords Supper, wicked men, hypocrites, and negligent Christians, become partakers of this great sin of crucifying Christ, some more, and some lesse, by abusing the holy Sacrament, 1 Cor. 11 27.
;;Or thus: He is held guilty of violating and profaning the sacred Sign and Seal, whereby the body and blood of our Lord is represented, and withall assured unto us.
Guiltinesse]
;;Worthinesse, or deserving of punishment, which necessarily doth follow every sin. Mat. 5. 22. Which shall be guilty of punishment; that is, shall be worthy, Rom. 3. 10. Also, a sin or shamefull crime, making us guilty of punishment, Gen. 26. 10. or, both sin and punishment.
Guiltlesse]
Exod. 20, 7. or clear, innocent. He will not leave him vnpunished, but he shall be plagued in this world, or in that which is to come. See 1 King. 2. 9. Aynsw.
Gulf]
Luk. 16. 26. foreign. It signifieth any distance or space of place. So it is intended by our Saviour. There is a great distance between Heaven and Hell. Leigh. …. Sac.
Guni]
A Garden; or, covering. The Son of Napthali, Gen. 46. 24. Of whom the …, Numb. 26. 48. The Father of Abdiel a Gadite, 1 Chr. 5. 15.
Gur]
A whelp. A City, 2 King. 9. 27.
Gur-baal]
A whelp of the Governour. A place where the Arabians dwelt, 2 Chr. 26. 7.
Gush]
Spoken of Blood, 1 King. 18. 28. Waters, out of a rock, Psal. 78. 20. & 105. 41. Isa. 48. 21. from the eyes, Jer. 9. 18. Bowels, Act. 1. 18.
Gush]
1 King. 18. 28. The blood gushed out upon them, Heb. powred out blood upon them, marg.
Gutter]
A place wherein water was kept, or did run for the use of Cattle, Gen. 30. 38. or a Trough, Exod. 2. 16. A Water-spout, 2 Sam. 5. 8. Psal. 42. 7.
G Y.
Gyants]
Apostates, or such as revolt, goe back, and fall away from God and goodnesse. Gen. 6. 4. There were Gyants on the earth in those dayes. The words lay down the fruit of corrupt marriages, mentioned in vers. 1. to be not overgrowing in stature, but impiety and sin.
Gyants]
Josh. 17. 15. or Rephaims, marg. See Giant.