A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part MA

A Complete Christian Dictionary · Dictionary · Part MA

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…, Maacha, or …]

Pressed down, worn, or fastened. Born of Reumah, the Concubine of Nahor, Gen. 22. 24. The Mother of Absalom, 2 Sam. 3. 3. A King, 2 Sam. 10. 6, 8. Of Gath, 1 King. 2. 39. The Mother of Abijam, 1 King. 15. 2. Caleb's Concubine, 1 Chr. 2. 48. The Wife of Machir, 1 Chr. 7. 16. The Wife of Gibcon's Father, 1 Chr. 8. 29. called Jehiel, Ibid. 9. 35. The Mother of Hanan, 1 Chr. 11. 43. of …, 1 Chr. 27. 16.

Maarhathi]

The same. The name of a place, Deut. 3. 14. Whence Maachathite, 2 Sam. 23. 34. and Maachathites, Josh. 12. 5. & 13. 11, 13.

Maadai]

Yearly, pleasant, decked, testifying, passing over; or, after the Syrian, taking away. Of the Sons of …, Ezr. 10. 34.

Maai]

A belly, or heaping up. One of the Priests Sons, …. 12. 36.

…-arrabbim]

The going up or ascent to …. The name of a place, Josh. 15. 3.

Maarath]

A den; a making empty, a powring out of water; or watching. A City, Josh. 15. 59.

Maaseiah]

The work of the Lord. The Son of Pekah slain by Zichri, 2 Chr. 28. 7. One that stood on Ezra his right hand, Neh. 8. 4. which caused the people to understand the Law, Ibid. 7. who sealed the Covenant, Ibid. 10. 25. The Son of Baruch, Ibid. 11. 5. The Son of Ithiel, Ibid. 7. A Priest, Ibid. 12. 41, 42. The Father of …, Jer. 21. 1. The Father of …, Jer. 29. 21. The Father of Neriah, Jer. 32. 12. The Son of Shallum, Jer. 35. 4.

…, or Maasia]

The defence, …, or sure trust of the Lord. The Son of …, 1 Chr. 9. 12. A Levite of the second degree, Ibid. 15. 18. Another a Singer, Ibid. 20. The Son of Adaiah, 2 Chr. 23. 1. A Ruler, Ibid. 26. 11. The Governour of Jerusalem, Ibid. 34. 8. One of the Sons of the Priests, Ezra 10. 18. Of the Sons of Harim, Ibid. 21. Of the Sons of Pashur, Ibid. 22. Of the Sons of Pahath moab, Ibid. 30.

Maath]

… away, defacing, breaking; or fearing; or after the Syrian, a smiting. The Son of Matthathias, Luk. 3. 26.

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Wood, or of wood. The Son of Ram, 1 Chr. 2. 27.

Maaziah]

The strength or succour of the …. One to whom the 22 Lot befell, 1 Chr. 24. 18. A … sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 8.

Macedonia]

A burning, worshiping; or, …; but after the Greek, losty, or excelling other. A Countrey in Greece, Act. 16. 9, 10, 12. Rom. 15. 26. Hence Macedonian. One who was born or dwelt there, Act. 27. 2.

Math …, or …]

Poverty, the smiting of his …, the … of understanding, or the smiting of the …. The Father of Gibea, 1 Chr. 2. 49. A Captain of the … that holp David, 1 Chr. 12. 11.

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Poor; or, a smiter. The Father of Gevel, Numb. 13. …

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Selling, or knowing. The Son of Manasseh, Gen. 50. … Of whom the family of the Machirites, Numb. 26. 29. … posterity of Machir, Judg. 5. 14. The Son of …, …. 9. 4.

Machnadebai]

A smiter; or, a poor man vowing of his own accord. One of the Sons of …, who had marryed strange wives, Ezr. 10. 40.

Machpelah]

Double. The place where Abraham bought the cave for a place of burial, Gen. 23. 9, 17, 19.

Mad]

;;1. One furious with raging zeal in persecuting, Act. 26. 11.

;;2. Void of reason, without diseretion, Act. 26. 24. & 12. 15.

3. One carrying himself madly, 1 Sam. 21. 13, 14. Prov. 26. 18.

4. One whose minde is much troubled and vexed, as not knowing what to do, at his wits end, Psal. 107. 27. Eccl. 7. 7. Jer. 25. 16.

5. One who is immoderate in desire after vain things, Jer. 50. 38. & 51. 7.

6. A foolish false Teacher, Hos. 9. 7.

7. One that speaketh in the Congregation in an unedifying manner, 1 Cor. 14. 23.

Mad]

1 Sam. 21. 14. Is mad, or playeth the mad man, marg.

Mad against me, Psal. 102. 8. or rage, or vaunt against me, or would make a fool of me. The Greek saith, that praise me, meaning faignedly. The word signifieth to lift up with praise and glory; and also ingloriously to vaunt, rage, and be mad. See Psal. 5. 6. & 75. 5. An example of such raging madness. See Against Christ, Luk. 6. 11. Aynsw.

Madai]

A measure-judging; or, a garment. The Son of Japhet, Gen. 10. 2.

Made]

;;A causing something to be, which was not before. Act. 4. 24. Thou art God which made the heavens, Gen. 1. 26. God made man, &c. Here it respects the work of Creation.

;;2. A causing a thing to be something, which it was not before. Psal. 101. 3. God hath made us, not we our selves. Rev. 1. 6. Here it respects the work of regeneration, whereby we become new creatures, being sinners before, and ungodly.

;;3. A manifesting or making known to be, Joh. 14. 8, 4. To exalt and lift up by blessings, Deut. 32. 6. 1 Sam. 12. 16.

4. Incarnate. Joh. 1. 14. And the word was made flesh. Gal. 4. 4. Made of a woman.

5. Ordained and given. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Who of God is made unto us wisdom, &c.

By the words haste, manifest, peace, ready, speed, void, &c. annexed hereunto, the various acceptations of this word may be discerned. See To make.

Made]

Gen. 2. 22. & Ezek. 27. 5. Heb. builded, marg. 2 Chron. 1. 15. Heb. gave, marg. Job 10. 8. Heb. took pains about me, marg. Psal. 104. 26. Heb. …, marg. lsa. 5. 2. Heb. hewed, marg. Ezek. 16. 7. Caused. Comp. the text with the marg. Were made up, Neh. 4. 7. Heb. ascended, marg.

There are severall words annexed hereunto, as a covenant, an end, by …, haste, known, manifest, peace, ready, speed, void, which in their several places are to be found.

Madiah]

One that went up with …, Neh. 12. 5.

Madian]

Judgement, chiding, or striving. A Countrey, Act. 7. 29.

Mad-man]

One that is either so indeed, Prov. 26. 18. or, one that faineth himself so to be, 1 Sam. 21. 15.

p. 395Madmannah]

A measure of a gift; the preparation of a garment; or a dunghill. A City, Josh. 15. 31. The Son of Shaaph, 1 Chr. 2. 49.

Madmen]

The same. A City, Jer. 48. 2.

Madmenah]

The same. A City, Isa. 10. 31.

Madness]

A judgement threatned, Deut. 28. 28. Spititual madness is in the heart, Eccl. 9. 3. It's accompanyed with foolishnesse, and in both there's wickedness, Eccl. 7. 25. The end of a fools talk being mischievous madness, Eccl. 10. 13. The word foreign, translated madness, Luk. 6. 11. cometh of a privat. & foreign the minde; implying, that they in whom it is are without wit, …, 2 Tim. 3. 9. It's used for that fury and rage wherewith the wicked are carryed against Gods children. See 2 Pet. 2. 16.

Madon]

A chiding; or, a garment; or, his measure. A Citv, Josh. 11. 1. & 12. 19.

Magvish]

Excelling other; or, height. There returned of his Children from Captivity, Ezr. 2. 30.

Magdala]

A tower, or greatness. A City, Matth. 15. 39.

Magdalen]

Magnified, or exalted; or, a-tower. The … of Martha her sister, Mat. 27. 56.

Magdiel]

Preaching, or declaring God; or, the apple or chosen … of God. A Duke, Gen. 36. 43.

Magician]

;;One skilful in those mischievous and damnable arts, wherein the Chaldeans and Aegyptians did excel, Dan. 2. 2.

;;The art in general called Magick; whose foundation is a Covenant with Satan, either secret or expresse; the several and particular signes are soothsaying, or divination by flying of birds, Deut. 18. 11. or by looking into beasts entrails, Ezek. 21. 21. Or Necromancy, when the devil in form of some dead man is sought unto for counsel, 1 Sam. 28. 11. Or by using immediately the help of an unclean spirit, wherewith they are possessed; Pythonism, Act. 16. 16. Isa. 29. 4. Or enhantment and charming; where men, children, beasts, are by Gods permission hurt, poysoned, &c. Eccl. 10. 11. … Jugling, when by the devils conveyance divers strange things in shew are done, Exod. 17. 10, 11, 12. The teachers and practisers of these hellish sciences, were called Magicians; which also signifies wise men, great and learned Philosophers, in the good sense, Mat. 2. 1, 2. In Gen. 41. 8. such as had skill in the nature of things, are called Magicians; Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, and Belthazar, called for such to shew them their Dreams and Visions, Dan. 2. 2. & 5. 7, 8.

They are called also Wise-men, Exod. 7. 11. Soothsayers, Dan. 5. 7. Sorcerers, Astrologers, Dan. 2. 2. that is, Such as professed a curious art of telling of secrets, and of foretelling future things, which they did by observation of the stars, and other superstitious wayes, wherein concurred the suggestion of Satan, either revealing the secret sought after, or craftily concealing his ignorance, by giving answer in ambiguous and doubtful tearms; yet so often did he discover secret matters by such instruments, that it was believed by the greatest Kings, they could tell almost any thing, Dan. 2. 2, 5. Annot. on Gen. 41. 8.

Magistrate]

;;A person greater then others, being above others in authority and power. Rom. 13. 3. Magistrates are to be feared.

;;Of Magistrates, some be chief, as the King; others be Governors under him; all being sent for the punishment 'of evill doers, and for the … of him that doth well, 1 Pet. 2. 14. Unto the chief Magistrate, who is called the King, all persons without exception or exmption) are to submit themselves in all causes, Rom. 13 1.

;;A … is a publick person elected, and that of God, and that by his authority and power he may defend the Law and Peace, also with the sword and punishment repress vices and evils in Religion, as well as in common manners, and by all manner of means advance piety and honesty.

They are tearmed Rulers, Gen. 41. 43. Exod. 18. 21. Elders, Exod. 17. 5. Such as are in stead of eyes, Numb. 10. 31. Such as have the burthen of the people laid upon them, Numb. 11. 11. Princes of the people, Psal. 47. 9. Gods, and children of the most High, Psal. 82. 6. High mountains and hils, Isa. 2. 14. Antients of the people, Jer. 19. 1. Governors, Captains, Judges, Treasures, Sheriffs, Dan. 3. 2. Higher powers, Rom. 13. 1. Such as are in authority, 1 Tim. 2. 2.

Magistrate]

Judg. 18. 7. Heb. possessour, or heir of rest raint, marg.

Magnifical]

1 Chron. 22. 5. Must be exceeding Magnifical, Heb. to make great, to be above. Such an one, as may appear to be very great indeed, excelling all others. Annot.

Magnificence]

Act. 19. 27. The Original foreign, is rendred in Luk. 9. 43. mighty power, and in 2 Pet. 1. 16. Majesty.

To …]

;;Not to make great what before was litle, but to declare and set forth ones greatnesse, Luk. 1. 46.

;;2. To honour or make glorious. Rom. 11. 13. I magnifie mine office. The ministery of the Word is honoured and glorified diversly:

;;1. By faithfulnesse, when one ministreth well: So Origen.

;;2. By diligence in preaching: So Vatab.

;;3. When it is adorned by a good conversation: So Haymo.

;;4. By the good successe, when many are gained to Christ and saved, the number of the Scholars is the honour of the Teacher: thus Ambrose, Lyranus, Martyr, Paraeus, doe expound the former place of the Romanes; whilest Paul by his preaching did win to God many Jews and Gentiles, by that means his Apostleship was made more honourable amongst men.

3. To exalt, Josh. 3. 7. Encrease ones esteem, reputation, and authority, Josh. 4. 14. 1 Chr. 29. 25. And thus, as God magnifieth himself, Ezek. 38. 23. that is, maketh his greatnesse appear, and be known to men, and magnifieth such whom he is pleased to exalt, so this word is spoken of men, magnifying

1. God, which is to give him praise, and to set forth his greatness, Psal. 34. 3. Luk. 1. 46.

2. Men, greatly esteeming of them, Act. 5. 13.

3. Ones self, boasting, Psal. 35. 26. Speaking proudly, Obad. 1. 12. Ezek. 35. 13. Vaunting or bragging, Psal. 38. 16. Setting against, Jerem. 4. 26, 42. Insulting over, Lam. 1. 9.

4. Ones office, making it shine forth, and getting honour to it, Rom. 11. 13.

Magog]

Covering, or melting. The Son of Japhet, Gen. 10. 2. A people, Rev. 20. 8. A Countrey, Ezek. 39. 6.

Magog]

Rev. 20. 8. See Gog.

Magor-…]

Fear round about. A name which the Lord put upon Pashur, Gen. 20. 3. marg.

Magpiash]

A body thrust hard trgether, or gathered together,; or, the moth of the body, or of the garment. One that sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 20.

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Infirmity or sickness; or, a company of dancers, or a harp; or, after the Syrian, pardon. The Son of Hammoleketh, 1 Chr. 7. 18.

Mahalaleel]

(called Maleleel, Gen. 5. 12. …) Praising God, or Gods illumination. The Son of Cainan, Gen. 5. 12. The Father of Shephatiah, Neh. 11. 4.

Mahalath]

Of the same signification with Mahalah. The Wife of Esau, Gen. 28. 9. of Rehoboam, 2 Chron. 11. 18.

Mahalath, or Machalath]

Psal. 53. the Title. A wind instrument. Annot. Much like Nechiloth, Psal. 5. 1. It may also be interpreted sickness, or infirmity. Aynsworth.

Mahalath Leanoth]

Psal. 88. On a wind instrument, to sing by courses, as Exod. 15. 21. Ezr. 3. 11. Or, of the disease afflicting. Annot.

Mahanaim]

Tents, or a company of Souldiers, or two armies, or camps. The place where Gods Angels met Jacob, Gen. 32. 2. A City, Josh. 21. 38.

Mahaneh-dan]

The tents of judgement. A place, Judg. 18. 12.

Maharai]

Hasting; or, a hill, or, from my hill. A Captain, 2 Sam, 27. 13.

Mahath]

Wiping away, breaking; or, fearing; or after the Syrian, a smiting. The Son of Amisai, 1 Chr. 6. 35.

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Declaring a message, blotting out; shaving; or, the marrow in bones. … thus named, 2 Chr. 11 46.

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An end, or ending; irksomnesse, watching, summer, … waxing hot. A place, 1 King. 4. 9.

Mazioth]

Seeing a signe, or seeing a Letter. The Son of Heman, 1 Chr. 25. 4.

… …-hash-baz]

In making speed to the spoyl, he … the prey, Isa. 8. 1. marg.

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The same with Mahalah. The Daughter of … had, Numb. 26. 33.

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… &c. as Mahalah. The Son of Merari, Exod. 6. 19. 1 Chr. 6. 29. The Son of Mushi, Ib. 47. & 23. 13. Hence the Mahlites, Numb. 3. 33.

Mahion]

As …, The Husband of Ruth, Ruth. 4. 10.

Mahol]

The same. The Father of Darda, 1 King. 4. 31.

Maid, Maiden]

1. A maid-servant, Gen. 16. 2. Isa. 24. 2.

2. A Virgin, …. 22. 14. Judg. 19. 24.

3. A young girle, 2 King. 5. 4.

4. A young woman, Amos. 2. 7. marg.

5. Ones daughter, Mat. 19. 24.

Maide-childe]

Levit. 12. 5. A girle, or female.

Maiden]

Gen. 30. 18. Hand-maid. Aynsw. See ….

Maid-servant]

Exod. 11. 5. The Maid-servant that is behind the mill, or after the mill stones; that is, in prison, grinding at the Mill, as is explained in Exod. 12. 29. Judg. 16. 21. Isa. 47. 1, 2. and she is said to be behinde, or after it, for thrusting it before them as they wrought. Aynsw. Some bought them, Exod. 21. 7. Some had them of gift, Gen. 20. 14. 1 King. 5. 26. God in his Law gave charge concerning them that they should rest on the Sabbath, Exod. 20. 10. Deut. 5. 14. partake with the others of the family of tithe of the Corn, &c. Deut. 12. 18. keep the feast of Weeks, Deut. 16. 10, 11. and rejoyce therein, vers. 14. As also how they were to be righted, when wronged, Exod. 21. 7, 27. threatening that he would avenge the wrong done unto them, Jer. 34. 8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 17. whose cause is not to be despised, Job 31. 13.

Majesty]

;;The greatnesse of the earthly Princes. Est. 1. 4. And the honour of his Majesty.

;;2. The incomprehensible greatnesse of God. Jude. 25. To God onelyonly … … glory and majesty.

Highest Majesty]

;;Supreme and most soveraign greatnesse, such as is proper unto the God-head, Heb. 1. 3. or, of God the Father.

Maimed]

Mat. 15. 30. The originall foreign is properly meant of those who have one of their hands cut off, (Mat. 18. 8. Mat. 9. 43.) but such here are to be understood, whose members were weakened with the Palsie, or other distemperature; and partly because they are opposed to the sound; and partly because we never read that Christ restored any to their Feet, or Hands or any other members (which were cut off) although he was able to have done it. Leigh Cr. …,

Main sail]

Act. 27. 40. The chief or principall fail belonging to a ship.

Maintain,]

1. Prove or argue, Job 13. 15. marg.

2. Make, Psal. 9. 4. marg.

3. Uphold and keep, Psal. 16. 5. plead, Psal. 140. 12.

4. Care for, perform, and doe, Tit. 3. 8.

5. Professe, Tit. 3. 14. marg.

Maintainance]

Salt, Ezr. 4. 14. marg. Life, Prov. 27. 27. marg.

To make]

;;in Joh. 10. 33. signifies to say or affirm.

;;2. The calling of one to a new vocation, or giving of new gifts and graces fit for the same.

;;3. Or the fitting of one thereto. Mat. 4. 19.

;;4. The repairing of a thing decayed, healing of a person sick, or reforming of a thing deformed, John. 7. 23. & 5. 11.

;;5. The miraculous changing of one substance into another, with all his properties, Joh. 2. 9.

;;6. This word Make, whereas it signifieth very often working, or causing something to exist and be: yet once it is used by way of supposition, as Mat. 12. 33. Either make the tree good, &c. Which is as much as to say, Ye must think and suppose the tree first to be good which should bring forth good fruit, and that tree to be evill which should bring forth evill fruit. This to be the sense of the words, appeareth by the next vers. 34. How can you speak good things, when you your selves be evill? And also by Mat. 7. 17, 18. it is most manifest that the tree ought first to be good, before good fruits can follow. Wherefere Origen in vain laboured by the words of Christ in Matt. 12. 23. to prove Free-will, as if some men could make themselves good trees by bringing forth faith, virtuous, and good works, out of the power of their free-will; whereas Faith is meerly the gift of God, and is not the work of our naturall strength, no man being able to make himself a beleever, and so to make him a good tree.

7. To choose, or to bring that to be which was not so before, 1 Sam. 12. 22.

8. To enter into, Neh. 9. 38.

9. To turn, Psal. 41. 3. marg.

10. To build, Ezr. 5. 4. marg.

11. To cause, Isa. 45. 7.

12. To ordain or …, Act. 26. 16.

Make]

2 Tim. 4. 5. Make full, or fulfill, marg. Isa. 1. 15. Make many prayers, Hebr. multiply prayer, marg. Heb. 11. 22 Make mention, or remember, marg. Job 11. 19. Make suit Heb. intreat thy face, marg.

To make the Image of the Beast]

;;To have any Image in honour and great price, giving to it great glory and respect. Revel. 13. 14. That they should make the Image of the Beast. What this Image signifies, see before, Image.

To make a man more precious then gold]

;;To bring the … by the sword of the Medes and Persians (not speaking for any "price) unto a great fewnesse. Isa. 13. 12. I will make a man more precious, &c. See vers. 17. …

To make request]

;;To cause the beleevers to make request, by ingendring prayers and godly desires in them. Rom. 8. 26. The Spirit it self maketh request for us. Gal. 4. 6. comp. with Rom. 8. 15. doth give light to this interpretation; namely, that the Spirit his crying is to cause us to cry, the action of a faithfull person being affirmed of God himself, from whom it cometh.

To make streight steps]

;;To hold a right course, being alwayes carefull to doe that which is just and right, in such sort as others be not onelyonly not offended, or turned out of the way, but may see before them, steps (as it were) of a godly life to follow. Heb. 12. 13. Make streight steps to your feet, &c.

To make the wicked]

;;Not to create malice in his heart, but of corrupt seed to frame him, and to dispose of him, Prov. 16. 4.

Maker]

Job. 32. 22. My maker. He that created me, or he that formed me. Annot. That trimmed me up, set all my parts in order, and compleated me. Annot. on chap. 10. 8. My maker, Job 35. 10. Hebr. my makers, alluding to the Trinity of Persons, or speaking of God in the plurall number, by way of honour. God may be called our Maker, as our Creator, Gen. 1. 26, 27. or as our Raiser to honour, as he is said to make Moses and Aaron, 1 Sam. 12. 6. that is, to advance them, as it is there …. Annot. Isa. 1. 31. The maker of it, or his work, marg.

Makheloth]

Churches companies, as congregations. A mansion, Numb. 33. 15.

Makkedah]

A burning worshiping; or crookednesse. A City, Josh. 15. 41.

Maktesh]

A place, Zeph. 1. 11.

Malachi]

My messenger, or Angell. A Prophet Mal. 1. 1.

Malcham]

Their King, or their Counsellour. The Son of … by Hodesh his Wife, 1 Chr. 8. 8, 9. Also an Idol, called Milcom, or …, the abomination of the Ammonites, 1 King. 11. 7. 2 King. 23. 10. Jer. 49. 3. So called likely, because they reputed him as their King, Melech signifying a King, Large Annot. on Zeph. 1. 5.

Some think Moloch and Baal to be one and the same Idol, Jer. 19. 5. & 32. 35. Some think that the planet Satura was worshipped under the name of Moloch, for the form of their Images were agreeable, and unto both children were sacrified, burnt in the fire, or initiated and consecrated to p. 397Moloch; passing in the midst of two fires in sign of their …. And by that of Amos 5. 26. & Act. 7. 43. it is probably thought that there was a certain star painted in the forehead of Molech. Aynsworth on Lev. 18. 21. … Moses and Aaron lib. 4. c. 2. p. 175. &c. By him his Idolatrous worshipers sware, Zeph. 1. 5. (thought to swear by Idols was expresly forbidden, …. 23. 7. Jer. 5. 7.) but with joyning God and him together, light and darknesse, which was their further sin.

Malchiab]

The Lord my King, or the Lord my Counsellour. Of the Sons of Parosh, Ezr. 10. 25. Of the Sons of Harim, Ibid. 31. The Son of Rechab, Neh. 3. 14. The Goldsmiths Son, Ibid. 31. One that stood on Ezra's left hand, Nehem. 8. 4. that sealed the Covenant, Ibid. 10. 3. The Father of Pashur, Ibid. 11. 12. Jer. 38. 1. The Son of Hammelech, Jer. 38. 6.

Malcbiel]

God is my King, God is my Counseller, or God is my Kimgdome. The Son of Beriah, Gen. 46. 17. Of whom came the Malchielites, Numb. 26. 45.

Malcbijah, or Malchia]

The Father of Pashur, 1 Chr. 9. 12. To him befell the first Lot. 1 Chr. 24. 9. Of the Sons of Parosh, Ezr. 10. 25. The Son of Harim, Neh. 3. 11. A Priest, Neh. 12. 42.

Malchiram]

The Son of Jeconiah, or of Salathiel, 1 Chr. 3. 17, 18.

Malcbishua]

My King the Saviour, or the King of health, or the mighty King. The Son of Saul, 1 Sam. 31. 2.

Malchus]

My King, Kingdome, or my …. The High-priests servant, Joh. 18, 10.

Male]

1 Sam. 17. 5. A coat of male; or after the similitude of fish-skales, one lying upon another. Annot.

Male]

Spoken of man, Gen. …. 27. Of every living thing, of all flesh, Gen. 6. 19. As of fowles, cattel, creeping things, Ib. 20. The Paschal lamb was to be a male, Exod. 12. 5. And firstlings of beasts, being males, were to be set apart for the Lord, Exod. 13. 12. & 34. 19. The burnt-sacrifice of the herd was to be a male, Lev. 1. 3. The number of the people was to be taken by the males, Numb. 1. 2. Every male that opened the wombe, was to be presented unto the Lord, Luk. 2. 22, 23. The males were to be circumcised, Exod. 12. 48. and three times in the year were to appear before the Lord God, Exod. 23. 17. And of the meatoffering, all the males among the Children of Aaron were to eat, Lev. 6. 18. So all the males among the Priests of the sin-offering, Ib. 29.

There is neither male nor female, &c. Gal. 3. 28. that is, Countrey, sex, or Nation makes no difference; but if we are true beleevers, we are in equall esteem with God; or we are all one in Christ; that is, we make all one mysticall body, communicating with Christ as our head, and one with another, as members. God makes no difference now, all are alike, yea all are one to him in Christ; his acceptation doth not single out a male from a female, but his mercy is indifferently extended to them all, without all respect of persons.

Male-children]

The Sons, Josh. 17. 2.

Malefactor]

foreign, Joh. 18. 30. an evill doer. So the word is rendred in 1 Pet. 2. 14. & 3. 16. & 4. 15. It properly signifieth one who hath as it were a certain habit of doing evill, one that harmeth others, as Thieves, and Robbers; but is in especiall applyed unto Witches and Magicians. Leigh Crit. Sac. In Luk. 22. 32, 33, 39. the word foreign is used, which usually is meant of such an one as doth mischief in secret; and is taken also for ungracious, flagitions, naughty and notable Villains, as publick Thieves convicted and condemned to death. Leigh Cr. S. In 2 Tim. 2. 9. it's rendred evill-doer.

Malice]

Col. 3. 8. It is nothing else but anger inveterate. Byfield. It is an evill affection of the heart, which properly desireth the hurt of our neighbour, and re joyceth in his fall. Taylor on Tit. 3. 3.

Malicious]

2 Joh. 10. Naughty, mischievious, evill, wicked.

Maliciousnesse]

;;The whole pravity and naughtynesse of …. Jam. 1. 21. Lay apart all superfluity of maliciousnesse. Rom. 1. 29. 1 Cor. 5. 8.

;;2. A particular vice, called Malice, or Hatred, which makes us wish to work evill to ones person. 1 Pet. 2. 1. Laying aside envy, maliciousnesse.

The Originall foreign is diversly taken. Sometime for evill of punishment, or grief for …, Mat. 6. 34. Sometimes for wickednesse in generall, or the evill habit opposed to virtue, Act. 8. 22. and sometimes for maliciousnesse, or malice, 1 Pet. 2. 1, 16. It is an inward hatred, or grudge harboured in the heart against others, in short, anger …. Bysield on 1 Pet. 2. 1, 23.

It is that kinde of sin which is directly opposite to brotherly love or charity. That heart-devising evill, which anger produceth in spightfull and mischievous ….

Malignity]

foreign, Rom. 1. 29. Such perversnesse of minde, as delighteth in the overthrow and destruction of others; depraving words and deeds, well done and spoken; sowing seeds of discord, stirring up hatred and strife; doing nothing ingenuously and sincerly; interpreting all things in an evill part.

Mallochi]

Fulnesse or circumcision. The Son of …, 1 Chr. 25. 4.

Mallowes]

An hearb well known, and of good use, used for food in the time of famine, Job 30. 4.

Malluch]

Reigning, or counselling. The Son of Hashabiah, 1 Chr. 6. 44, 45. Of the Sons of Bani, Ezr. 10. 29. Of the Sons of Harim, Ibid. 32. One that sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 4, 27. who went up with …, Ibid. 12. 2.

Mammon]

Mat. 6. 24. Riches, Luk. 16. 9. marg. Some derive it of the Hebrew, foreign which signifieth, the abundance of wealth. Some of the Hebrew foreign which signifieth, naughtynesse, disprayse, for that immoderate and unlawfull gain is worthy to be blamed and reproved. Some of foreign he was firm, or stablished, a contraction being made, for foreign for that in riches (noted by this Syriack word) worldly men place the strength of their minde: which derivation the Greek translation favoureth, Psal. 37. 3. in which the Hebrew words foreign, to feed in truth and stablenesse, are translated foreign, and shalt be fed in his riches. Glass. …. sacr. pag. 300.

Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. Mat. 6. 24. that is, If ye be servants and vassals to your wealth, ye cannot be the servants of God.

Make your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteouseness, &c. Luk. 16. 9. that is, Learn this wit of the un just steward, so to order and dispose of these worldly riches (which are seldome other then unduely gotten by their Owners) as that ye may make to your selves many friends by them; that upon this charitable and advantagious improvement of them, ye may reap the comfort and benefit of them, at your departure hence, and may be received into everlasting habitations. Hall ….

Mammon of unrightcousnesse, Luk. 16. 9 So called, not that we should give for alms or holy uses, goods unjustly gotten: (for all such must be restored again to their right owners; nor are such acceptable to God, though alms be a sacrifice wherewith God is pleased, Heb. 13. 16. He hath no need of sacrifice out of other mens goods, but … it, as him that offereth a dog, or buildeth up … with … ) but riches are so called, because commonly either in their getting, using, or keeping, they administer matter of sin, 1 Tim. 6. 9. Annot.

Mamre]

A rebell, bitter, or changing; or, set with trees. A plain, Gen. 18. 1. A City, called Hebron, Gen. 23. 19. A mans name, Gen. 14. 24.

Man]

;;A male-childe grown to ripe age, and … stature; or a name of sex set against …, Act. 8. 3.

;;This word [Man] cometh of the Hebrew Ish, in respect of heat, valour, noblenesse and dignity, whereby man excelleth: also of Adam, which signifieth earth. This latter is given to the baser sort, and the former to the noble sort of people, Psal. 49. 2. & 4. 3. See Isa. 2. 9.

;;Also note, that Man is sometime called …, which is, a dolefull sorowfull man, a wretched one; to put us in minde of our misery, as Adam noteth our mortality, that we are earth, &c. Psal. 8. 4. & 9. 20. where the Original word is Enosh, that is, silly or sorry man.

;;2. Both man and woman; the better sex used for both sexes. Psal. 1. 1. Blessed is the man.

;;3. One compleat and full of true knowledge of God, and of holinesse, without any the least want or defect. Eph. 4 13. To meet together to a perfect …. In 1 Cor. 13. 11. it signifieth one of a constant and perfect age in Christ. Also, p. 396Eph. 4. 13. where the Church is likened unto one man of a … age, to declare the unity thereof, and that every member of the Church feeling it selfe unperfect, must strive to full perfection, which doctrine every one should apply to himself.

;;4. One that is manly, strong, and valorous. 1 Cor. 16. 13. Quit your selves like men.

;;5. A Magistrate. Gen. 9. 16. By man his blood be shed.

;;6. A certain man whosoever, Jew, or Gentile, regenerate or not, Gal. 2. 16. Mat. 16. 26. What shall it profit a man, &c.

;;7. A particular person. Mat. 12. 45. The end of that man.

;;8. The corruptions and errors of humane nature. Mat. 15. 9. Mens precepts. Rom. 3. 4. And very often Men doth signifie perverse and wicked men. Matt. 10. 17, 22. Hated of all men.

;;9. The Church, gathered as it were into one body, out of Jews and Gentiles. Eph. 2. 15. Make of twain one new man in himselfe. Also, every particular Christian, Rom. 10. 10.

;;10. The body which is but one part of a man. 2 Cor. 4. 16. Though our outward man perish.

;;Also man is put for Soul, Exod. 12. 16. marg.

;;11. Christ Jesus, who is called Man, by an excellency. Mar. 15. 39. This man is the Son of God.

;;Also, it signifies an Angel, appearing in from of a man. Gen. 32. 24. A … wrestled with him.

;;12. A Son. Matth. 10. 35. I came to set a man at variance against his Father.

;;13. An husband. 1 Cor. 11. 3. The man is the womans head.

;;14. Our equals, or such as be like ourselves, Matth. 6. 14.

;;15. This word Man, by Synecdochc partis, or Metonymia adjuncti, signifieth the qualities of the man, either good or evill, seeing the manners make the man, and the form denominateth the matter or subject.;;

;;So Chrysostome understandeth the place, Eph. 4. 22, 24. making four sorts of men; two in respect of substance, and two in respect of quality, Homil. 13. in Eph.;;

;;If the Image of a man be called a Man, though the subject or matter be but wood or stone, because of the form and figure: the reason and holinesse of man, in man himself, may well be called Man.;;

;;Vide Old man, and New, and Body.;;

;;16. The Son of God or Christ Jesus before his incarnation appearing like a man, Josh. 5. 13. Dan. 3. 25.;;

;;17. An Angel appearing in the likenesse of a man, Gen. 32. 24. Dan. 10. 5. Act. 1. 10.;;

;;18. God himselfe, Luk. 15. 11. So calling himself,;;

;;1. Because of his mildenesse, courtesie, &c. for (saith Theophylact) when he will shew his mercy he likeneth himselfe to a man; but to a Lion, &c. when he will shew his justice.;;

;;2. Because God became man for mans sake, Phil. 2. 6, 7.;;

;;19. A frail thing, and weak creature, and not such as man thinketh himselfe to be, Psal. 9. 20.;;

;;20. The Image or likenesse of a man, Act. 16. 9.;;

21. A valiant man, or a champion, 1 Sam. 17. 8.

22. A successour, Jer. 33. 17, 18.

23. Of perfect or ripe age, 1 Cor. 14. 10. marg.

24. Mortall man, 2 Chr. 14. 11. marg.

Man may be considered,

1. As common to good and bad, in respect of nature, mortall, naturall, vain, sinfull, &c. in respect of outward candition of bodie, or state, old, young, poor, rich, weak, strong, &c.

2. As one to be praised, such as are the regenerate and religious; or dispraised, as the unregenerate and irreligious.

Man]

Gen. 2. 15. The man, or Adam, marg. Exod 12. 16. Heb. soul, marg. 2 Chr. 14. 11. or mortall man, marg. Men, 1 Cor. 14. 20. Gr. perfect, or of a ripe age, marg, For every man, Exod. 16. 16. Heb. by the poll, or …, marg.

After man]

;;Such a Doctrine as man deviseth, not God, having no grounds in Gods Word, but in mans brain, Gal. 1. 11. Not after man; that is, not by authority, and in the name of any man, from whom it first came: thus it is expounded vers. 12.

After the manner of a man]

;;To use an example or similitude borrowed or taken from things common and familiar amongst men. Gal. 3. 15. I speak after the manner of men, Rom. 3. 5. that is, as men are wont to doe, and not in mine own person.

;;2. That which is not beyond the compasse of a mans power to doe. Rom. 6. 19. I speak after the manner of man; that is, I require you now as stoutly and painfully to follow righteousness, as ye have followed sin before, when ye were servants of sin, which is no more then a man may doe or think reasonable to be done, that ye should serve a good Lord, as carefully as ye served a bad. This exposition Mr. Beza misliketh, because the thing required in this verse is more then the best man can doe, therefore he followeth the first signification,

;;3. According to the counsel and wisdome of a man. 1 Cor. 15. 32. If I after the manner of men fought with beasts, &c. viz. If I sought glory and prayse of men, as vain men doe, then my sufferings had been in vain, without profit to me: but I did cast my eyes on God, and looked forward to the fruit of a blessed resurrection, which made me ready to undergoe, and constant to endure grievous dangers, like to the Saints, mentioned Heb. 11. 35.

Man of Belial]

;;A wicked man. I King. 21. 13. And there came to him wicked men, or men of Belial.

Man of blood]

;;That is, a blood-thirsty man, or murtherer, 2 Sam. 16. 7. Psal. 5.

Man Christ Iesus]

;;The man named or called Christ Jesus, 1 Tim. 2. 5. Yet we may not think that Christ as man onelyonly, or according to his humane nature, is a Mediator, but the humane Divinity, and divine humanity, as Augustine saith.

Man of death]

;;One guilty or worthy of death. 1 King. 2. 26. For thou art a man of death.

A man of the earth]

;;Not a potent man, or one which is a Countrey man, but an Husband-man, which tilleth and manureth the ground, as Noah did. Gen. 9. 20. A man of the earth, may also signifie an unconscionable, vile, griping worldling, Psal. 10. 18.

Man of God]

;;An Interpreter of the will of God, as the Minister of the Word is. 2 Tim. 3. 17. That the man of God may be absolute. 1 Tim. 6. 11. One which serveth God in preaching of the Gospel.

Every man]

Heb. 2. 9. should tast death for every man, or every thing, or creature, who all these be, the context sheweth.

1. Sons that must be led unto glory, vers. 10.

2. Christs bretheren, vers. 11.

3. Such children as are given of God unto Christ, vers. 13. Some Protestant Divines urge this Scripture to shew that Christ dyed for all, though not equally for Judas as for Peter. Some distingnish thus, they say Christ is sufficiens remedium, there is vertue enough in Christ, but not sufficiens medium, because besides the work of Christ, there is required faith to apply it, Mark 16. 16. Leighs Annot. Dr. Hall hereby understandeth Gods faithful ones.

Good man]

;;A man indued with spiritual good, ready to doe good to many. Act. 11. 24. For he was a very good man.

Inner man, and New man]

;;The whole person, body and soul, with all faculties, so far as they be regenerate by the Spirit. Rom. 7. 22. I delight in the Law of God, concerning the Inner man. It is called the New man, Col. 3. 10. 1. because the quality of holynesse, given by grace of regeneration, comes in after our old deformity and corruption; 2. because it makes us new creatures, begeting in us as it were another new nature.

;;3. It is new in time, or is come but lately to every one of … from heaven, in the 3, 6, 9. or eleventh hour of our life; but is not born or brought up with any of us, 1 Pet. 2. 2.;;

;;4. It is new and strange to the world, Joh. 3. 4, 9. 1 Pet. 4. 4.;;

;;5. Because the newest or first estate of men in holinesse (by creation) is repaired in us by grace of regeneration.;;

;;6. Because we pertain to a new master Christ, to the Church a new company, and to heaven a new Kingdom, and are taught by the holy Spirit a new teacher, a new p. 399lesson godlinesse, in a new book Gods Word, 2 Cor. 5. 18.;;

Measure of a man]

;;A description which shall be made by godly Ministers, doing in all things (which corcern the administration of the Church) after the will of God, even as the Angels doe continually respect Gods pleasure. Rev. 21. 17. By the measure of a man, that is, of the Angel.

Or cubit of a man, in that shape the Angel appeared. Annot.

According to the measure of a man, that is, of the Angel. It is the measure of a man which the Angel useth, whence it followeth that the measure of 12000 furlongs here named, must needs be understood of solid furlongs, there being no other manner of measuring solid figures either possible or usual among men, but only by solid measures. According to this interpretation the compasse of this new Hierusalem doth in all probability, and for all that can be shewed to the contrary, exactly agree with the compasse of the ancient and literal Hierusalem; and also with the compasse of that City, which is by the Prophet Ezekiel in his last chapter measured and described. Potters Interpretation of the number 666.

Naturall man]

;;A person endued with no other light of soul then that which is natural. 1 Cor. 2. 14. The natural man perceives not the things of God. Jude 9.

Not of man, nor by man]

;;St. Paul to be called to the function or office of an Apostle, not from any meer man, as author (thus false Apostles were called) or as instrument, and means of his calling: (thus Evangelists, Doctors, and Shepherds are called to their office by the Ministrey of men, according to Gods ordinance) but was made an Apostle immediately from Christ, God and man, the head of his Church, who infused into him an extraordinary gift as he placed him in an extraordinary calling. Gal. 1. 1. Paul an Apostle, neither of men, nor by men, but Jesus Christ.

Number of a man]

;;Not any particular individuall Man, living at such time as John wrote (as Peter, Thomas, James) but a Kingdome, whose name may be sought out by a Man; and being found out of the Letters numerall of that name, there will arise just the number of six hundred sixty six. This name is Lateinos, as shall be shewed in the word [Number] Rev. 13. 18. It is the number of a man.

It is not only known to me by revelation, but also may be found out by humane wisdom, let wise men therefore seek to finde it out. Annot.

It is called the number of a man; either because men do number, or because it is obvious and usual, as concurring more then once in Scripture, or because the name of the Beast containing this number is also the name of a man. Leighs Annot.

The number of the Beast being said to be the number of a man, if we adhere to the words, and consider them, they render unto us these positions:

1. That the beast whereof he hath spoken is not properly a beast, but Metaphorically, and that it figureth a man.

2. The number of the beasts name is not the number of a time, nor the number of writings, nor any other work of a man, but it is the number of a man, to wit, that man, whom St. Paul calleth, The man of sin.

3. It is not the proper name of one … man, but a collective name of a whole state and succession of men, like that name of Jacob or Israel, by which all they of the whole twelve Tribes in all ages since, customably are expressed; for it is impossible that any one particular man in three years and an half (as the Papists dream) should deceive the whole world, and do such other great works as here is said this Beast shall do. Cowper.

Old man]

;;The unregenerate part of our nature, as it is corrupt with sin. Rom. 6. 6. Knowing that your old man is crucified with him. This is called Old because it is ancient, even from and since the time of Adam.

;;2 Because it is in every elect person, before their new birth.

;;And it is called Man, to shew how neer sin and corruption cleaves unto us, being even as the man himselfe. And also, that it is a thing subsisting and forcible, even strong as a man. Old and New doe imply qualities, not substance, as … thought very falsly and corruptly, though he was sound in other things.

A mans pen]

;;Such a pen or style as a man useth, and such as every … and vulgar man may read, Isa. 8. 1 Heb. 2. 2, 8.

Plain man]

;;A man of religious, honest, simple disposition, without guile or wickednesse: Therefore the Hebrew is perfect, which the Greek translateth unsaigned, Gen. 25. 27.

A man of renown]

;;A man that is very famous and renowned, Gen. 6. 4. … were men of ….

Man of sin]

;;Antichrist a man wholly compounded of sin, loving and striving mightily and cunningly how to commit and maintaine sin in himselfe and others. 2 Thess. 2. 3. And that man of … be disclosed.

;;This is not to be understood of one certain man, or particular person, (for this man here spoken of, being conceived and born in the time of the apostle, how could he continue so long till the end of the world?) but it designeth a company of men, even the whole body of Ecclesiasticall tyranny, as Beza writeth; A certain Antichristian Kingdom in the Christian Church; (thus Piscator.) The City prostitute unto Idolatry; (Thus Tertul.) The City of the Devil; (so saith Am rose.) Babylon, Rome, yea, the Church of Rome; (thus Hieron.) The wicked City, the body of the wicked … against the Lamb Christ, after the mind of …, who called this [Man of sin] Rome, a second Babylon, an heretical Church, an unbeleeving people, clothed with the name of a Christian people. Gregory construeth it of the multitude of them which preach and set forth Antichrist; and Thomas Aquinas (their own great Doctor) saith, it is a body, no one man: with whom agreeth their ordinary Glosse, that Antichrist is an whole head with his body entirely. All these testimonies doe bewray the wilfull blindnesse of the …, which teach Antichrist to be some one speciall and singular person that should come and reign a little space (some 3 years and a halfe) afore the latter day. They might have learned (but that their eyes are justly held that they cannot see because they despise the truth of God) that as many Kings are collectively in Daniel's Prophesie understood under the particular names of one Bear, Lyon, &c. So Paul the Apostle agreeably with Daniel, (being both led by one Spirit) hath comprised the whole body under the name of one Man, one Antichrist, one Son of perdition, one Beast, one Woman, one great Whore, &c. See Mr. Philip of Mornay Lord of Duplesse in his History of the Papacy, p. 4.

;;In our common speech we say, the Emperour goes afore the King, though there be many Emperors; and that the King never dyeth, meaning of a continuall … of Kings: and Papists say, the Pope is the head of the Church, the Popes be many.

Like unto the son of man]

Rev. 1. 13. or, a son of man, (as like a son of the gods, Dan. 2. 25.) that is, like a man. Dan 7. 13. whether it were Christ in his humane nature, or the Angel mentioned vers. 1. representing Christ, or some other form it is uncertain. Annot.

Like unto the son of man, Rev. 14. 14. or like unto a Son of man, Chap. 1. 13. Some glorious Angel, vers. 15. like a man, for he is set on work by another Angel, vers. …. and an Angel gathered the grapes, vers. 19. which is all one judgement with this. Annot.

Napier, Cowper, Mede, Bernard, and some others, understand hereby Jesus Christ, whence Cowper hath this note, Great comfort have we of this, that the Son of God, is become the Son of man. Terrible it is to the adversaries, that they whom they once crucified, and dayly persecute in his members, shall be their Judges, and no lesse joyful to us, that all judgement is committed to him, who is our Saviour.

Son of man]

;;One that is a very man, descended of mankinde, being partaker truely of mans nature. Matth. 16. 13. Whom doe they say that I the Son of man am?

Jesus Christ thus nameth himselfe,

1. Because he assumed our nature truly and was perfect man.

2. He had all humane infirmities common to all mankind.

p. 4003. He was equally affected to all sorts of all mankinde, to save them.

4. Because he was not ashamed of his low state of a servant, to do his fathers pleasure, for our good.

It's also taken for one subject to change, Numb. 23. 19. For man, Jer. 49. 18, 33. & 50. 40. & 51. 43. … is thus styled (as some reckon) 80. times, and upwards. So Daniel once, Dan. 8. 17. which might serve to put the Prophet in minde of himselfe, what he was, even man, earth, and ashes; of his originall, and end, basenesse, brittlenesse worthlesnesse in himselfe, Gen. 3. 19. Psal. 9. 20. and so to humble him, that he should not be puft up with this heavenly glorious vision, and so his pride to blossome, 2 Cor. 12. 1, 7. but magnifie Gods mercy in thus honouring him, Job 7. 17. Psal. 8. 3, 4. & 144. 3. Large Annot. on Ezek. 2. 1.

Spiritual man]

;;One who being born a new by the Spirit is led and governed by the same.

1 Cor. 2. 15. He which is spirituall discerneth all things.

The Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day, Matth. 12. 8. That by the phrase the … of man, in this place, is not meant man in common, but peculiarly Christ, is more then probable, not onelyonly by these words, a greater then the Temple is here, but also by the use of this phrase in Daniel, chap. 7. 13. and in every other of the 88 repetitions of it in the New Testament. And although by the words as they are in St. Mark, ch. 2. 27. the contrary seemeth not improbable, yet to that the answer is ready, that the case of which Christ here and there speaks, being for the necessary use and good of man, plucking and eating for necessity and preservation of life, that may be very fitly referred to by Christ, when he saith, the … is made for man, so that the phrase for man, shall signifie for the of good man, could not reasonably be conceiv'd to obliege him to any thing so contrary to that, as is starving or debilitating of nature, so as to render him unable to discharge the duty of their Calling. The onelyonly proper conclusion from this notion, of the Sabbath's being made for man, will be this; That therefore he that gave that positive Law, can dispense with the observance of it; and consequently Christ may do it, as here he doth in such cases as are for the good of man, as works of mercy, which being part of the Morall eternall law, he prefers before the performance of these positive laws, which respect his own service, vers. 7. Nay, that at the very making of it, it was dispenced with in some cases, as those vers. 5. of the necessary services of the Temple; and what was done here, was for the service of Christ, who is greater then the Temple. Dr. Hamm. Annot. a.

A man of tongue]

;;An evill speaker, Psal. 140. 11. A man of words, is one eloquent, Exod. 4. 10. A man of lips, is one talkative, Job 11. 2. A man of arms, is one mighty, Job 22. 8.

Man of war]

;;A great and valiant warrior, subduing his enemies before him. Exod. 15. 3. The Lord is a man of war.

;;2. Persons apt and fit for war. Deut. 2. 14. Till the men of war were wasted.

Manaen]

A comforter; or after the Syriack, Manail, a vessel or instrument of God. Also, their leader; or, the preparation of heat; or, a gift not registred. One which was brought up with Herod, Act. 13. 1.

Manabath]

The Son of Shobal, Gen. 36. 22. The name of a place, 1 Chr. 8. 6.

Manathites]

My lady of rest, or my prince of rest. A people, 1 Chron. 2. 54.

Manasseh]

Forgotten, or forgetfulnesse. The Son of Joseph, Gen. 41. 15. (of whom the Manassites, Deut. 4. 43.) His posterity, Josh. 7. 8, 17. Judg. 1. 27. The Father of Gershom, Judg. 18. 30. The Son of Hezekiah King of Judah, 2 King. 20. 21. Of the Sons of Pahath Moah, Ezr. 10. 30. Of the Sons of Hashum, Ib. 33.

Man-childe]

Gen. 17. 10. Son, or male.

Mandrakes]

;;Lovely, or amiable, so in the Hebrew: the Greek translateth them, apples of Mandragoras, or Mandrake apples; they were such things as gave a pleasant smell, Gen. 30. 14. Cant. 7. 13. In these two places the word is found.

It is a kinde of hearb, whose root hath the likenesse of a man. The fruit hereof hath been anciently conceived to be of an amorous operation, causing love, conducing to coition and conception; it is said to be of pleasant smell and colour, by some Writers; others say it is of a rank and unpleasant savour: howsoever, the Mandrakes mentioned Gen. 30. 14. are not like to be Mandrake apples, because at this time of the year, which was wheatharvest, and that was about the beginning of May, (in this Countrey) the Mandrake apples are not ripe, but rather that Dudaim, here rendred Mandrakes, was some flowers of the field, (such as pleased little children chiefly with their colour, for Ruben that gathered them, was about five or six yeers old) and had withall a delightfull smell, Cant. 7. 12, 13. So that Rachel was taken with a speciall delight in them, and desire of them. Large Annot. on Gen. 30. 14.

See Drusius his learned Treatise on this …, wherein the nature of this herb is set down.

Mandrakes]

;;All amiable flowers, which be fair and lovely, by a Synecdoche, a part for the whole.

;;2. All holy virtues and fruits of faith. Cant. 7. 13. The Mandrakes have given a smell.

It appears by Rachels desire of them, and by the smell that here they are said to give, that they were very lovely and pleasant, differing from the Mandrakes that grow in these parts. Aynsw.

If their nature and virtue be such as it is reported by the learned, and these are that powerful Mandragora, of which the Greek Herbalists and others write so much, whose great effects are love and fruitfulnesse, and sleep; then it is evident that they are most apt symbols and figures of grace, and all other divine and heavenly influences, which not only conciliate love and charity, where there was none before, but likewise make the barren heart fruitful in every good work, and quiet the troubled and perplexed heart with abundance of peace and joy. Annot.

Manek, Mina]

A pound. In gold it weighed one hundred shekels, as appeareth by comparing 1 King. 10. 17. with 2 Chron. 9. 16. Goodwyn, P. 329.

The common pound weighed 15 shekels, that is, 1. l. 17. s. 6. d. The Kings 20, that is, 2. l. 10. s. The Sanctuaries 25, that is, 3. l. 2. s. 6. d. Large Annot. on Ezek. 45. 12.

Manger]

A place prepared for cattle wherein to give them meat, Luk. 2. 7, 12, 16.

Manger]

And laid him in a manger, Luk. 2. 7. foreign signifies a Stable where Cattel stand, and not only the place where their meat is put, the manger; and to this the story best, agrees, which gives the reason of their laying him in the foreign because there was no room (not in the Stable, but) in the Inne. Dr. Ham. Annot. c.

Manifest]

;;Easie to be known, being alwayes open to every mans understanding. Gal. 5. 19. The works of the flesh be ….

;;2. Declared and made known, being kept secret before in the counsell of God. 2 Tim. 1. 9. But now is made manifest.

Manifest]

;;Open, bare, easie to be seen, as a face uncovered, Heb. 4. 13.

Manifestation]

Rom. 8. 19. foreign. The word signifieth the revelation or declaration of things hidden. Leigh Crit. Sac. 1 Cor. 12. 7. & 2 Cor. 4. 2. foreign. It signifieth such a manifestation as is permanent, which lasteth for ever, Idem.

Waiteth for the manifestation of the Sons of God, Rom. 8. 19. The word signifies revelation, explaining or displaying somewhat that was before obscure and covered; and so the manifestation of the Sons of God, will be the discovering who are truely such. This was to be done among the Jews, who all pretended to that title, by the Apostles preaching the Gospel to them, in the power of Christs resurrection; and they that did not now receive him so testified, it's evident they were Bastards and not Sons, though before they might have the excuse of Ignorance to extenuate their fact, Luk. 23. 34. 1 Cor. 2. 8. Now because by the Apostles preaching of Christ to the Jews, this discovery was to be made, and so the Gospel first preached unto them, before they went to the Gentiles; and upon the Jews rejecting Christ, the Apostles were then to depart, and go to the Gentiles; therefore the creature or Gentile world are said earnestly to expect or wait for this discovery, as a thing by which they were to p. 401receive this great advantage, in hope that they also, vers. 20, 21. i. e. the Gentiles that shall receive the Gospel, as well as the beleeving Jews, shall be redeemed from their customes of …, which made them slaves, and become partakers of that glorious title of Sons of God also. Dr. Ham. Annot. f.

Manifestly declared]

2 Cor. 3. 3. plainly and clearly appearing.

Manifold]

Spoken of Gods mercies, as being both many and great, Neh. 9. 19, 27. His works in mercy upon the same ground, Psal. 104. 24. His wisdome, Eph. 3. 10. and grace, 1 Pet. 4. 10. as being divers, and diversty appearing. Mans transgressions, as being both many, great and divers, Amos. 5. 12. So temptations, 1 Pet. 1. 6.

Manifold wisdome]

;;The sundry forms which God used in the vocation of men, that whereas the thing or substance was one and the same, to wit, Christ the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world; yet the Jews before Christ were called to him by many dark ceremonies and shadows, without which God instructed the Gentiles touching his Son, by the cleer testimony of the Gospel, with few, and significant Sacraments, Eph. 3. 10.

Mankinde]

Men, Lev. 18. 22. & 20. 13. 1 Cor. 6. 9. All flesh of man, Job. 12. 10, marg. The nature of Men, Jam. 3. 7.

Manna]

;;Bread given from heaven by the Ministry of Angels. Joh. 6. 32. Our Fathers ate Manna. Psal. 78. 25. Man did eat the bread of Angels. This is corporall and typical Manna.

;;2. Christ Jesus. Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh will I give the hidden Manna. Christ is called Manna, because he is the bread that came down from heaven, the only soul-food. And he is called hidden Manna, because no man can have this bread by nature, and it is revealed to none but to Gods children.

It signifieth, part, portion, gift, meat prepared, or, What is this?

Manner]

put for Rite, 2 King. 17. 34. Custome, fashion, laws, or judgement, 1 Sam. 8. 9, 11. Ezek. 11. 12. Conditions, qualities, and deeds from thence, Act. 13. 18. Behaviour and carriage in word and deed, 1 Cor. 15. 33. Wayes or means, Heb. 1. 1. Kinde, Exod. 12. 16. Order or way, Josh. 6. 15. Sort, 1 Sam. 21. 7. The way of service, or worship, 2 King. 17. 26, 27.

Manner]

Numb. 15. 24. or Ordinance, marg. 1 Sam. 17. 30. Heb. word, marg. 2 Sam. 7. 19. Heb. law, marg.

Manner of your King]

;;The usage, fashion, and custome of their King, not by right and according to Law, but out of his power and authority too much presumed of. 1 Sam. 8. 9, 11. And he said, this shall be the manner of your King. The same word is used to expresse the usurpation and wicked presumption of Ely's two Sons, 1 Sam. 12. 13.

After divecs manners]

;;Not fully and all at once, in perfect clearnesse, but by little and little, till at last the Sun of righteousnesse, Christ, did arise in the preaching of the Gospel, which brought a full Revelation, Heb. 1. 1.

Thereby is meant those several and different kinds or sorts of revelation, whereby the Word of God was revealed, as sometimes by Angels, sometimes by Visions in the day, sometimes by dreams in the night, &c. sometimes more plainly, sometimes more obscurely, Numb. 12. 6. Annot.

Manoah]

Rest; or, a gift. The Father of Samson, Judg. 13. 2, 8, 9.

Man-servant]

Exod. 20. 10. The same charge which the Lord gave touching the Maid-servant, was also given touching the Man servant. Of which see in Maid-servant

Manistons]

Joh. 14, 2. foreign, so called foreign, stable mansions. The whole speech being metaphorical, the meaning is, there is place in the Kingdome of heaven for all the elect, (wich are many) according to their severall degrees of glory assigned them. Large Annot. on Joh. 14. 2.

Man-slayer]

Willingly, 1 Tim. 1. 9. Unwillingly, Numb. 35. 6, 12.

Mantle]

A course or hairy rug, carpet, or covering, Judg. 4. 18. A robe, or cloke, 1 Sam. 15. 27. An upper garment hanging loose, covering or … the body, Isa. 3. 22.

… … …, Job 1. 20. that is, Tore his upper garment, which men used to doe in times of great heavynesse. This Job did, to shew that his heart was … within him with grief. The like men did at sunerals, 2 Sam. 3. 31. or upon any sudden news of evill to themselves, Gen. 37. 34. or sight of great calamity faln on their friends, Job 2. 12. 2 Sam. 1. 11. Josh. 7. 6. or in signe of sorrow for their own sins, or the sins of others, 2 Chr. 34. 19. Ezr. 9. 3, 5. Joel. 2. 13. or in … of blasphemy, as if their hearts were rent within them, by hearing God so dishonored, 2 King. 18. 37. & 19. 1. Isa. 36. 22. or in the sight of any other great dishonour done to God, Jer. 36. 24. Act. 14. 13, 14. Annot. on Job 1. 20.

Or thus: This was used,

1. In case of extreme sorrow, whether in the sorrows of afflictions, Gen. 37. 34. 2 Sam. 1. 11. or in the sorrows of repentance, Josh. 7. 6.

2. In case of extreme indignation, 1 King. 19. 1. Isa. 37. 1. Caryll on Job 1. 20. p. 179, 180, 181.

Many]

;;All men, and every man which comes of Adam. Rom. 5. 19. By the … of one, many are made sinners. Dan. 12. 9. Many, put for all the Jews, both wicked and wise.

;;2. Not a sew, but a great number, or all beleevers onelyonly. Rom. 5. 19. By the obedience of one, many shall be made righteous. Matt. 26. 27. Which is shed for many, These many are all beleevers, which are not a few, but many, being simply cansidered, and uucomparatively. See Rev. 7. 6, 7.

3. A legion, Luk. 8. 30.

4. Great, Psal. 18. 16. marg. & 29. 3. marg.

5. A multitude, 2 Chr. 11. 23. marg.

6. A very great number, all the wicked that perish, Mat. 7. 13.

7. Very often, Psal. 78. 38.

8. Life time, Hos. 3. 3.

9. Long time, Hos. 3. 4.

Many dayes]

;;Three hundred yeers and more, even from the time that the Prefians began to regin in Babylon, untill the death of Antiochus Epiphanes, the last of the Seleucians, who was broken without hand, for he dyed of very grief, Dan. 8. 25, 26.

Many waters]

;;Many people, Nations, Languages, over which the great Whore reigneth. Rev. 17. 1. The great whore sitteth upon many waters. These waters are here expounded Vers. 15. The waters are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues. This proves Rome to be the great Whore, and throne of the Beast; for doth not that City sit upon many waters? Are not now many Countreys and Kingdomes subject to the Bishop of Rome? And many more have been subject to him ….

Maoch]

Holden hard together. King of Gath, 1 Sam. 27. 2.

Maon]

A dweling place, or a place of offence, or of sin. A City, Josh. 15. 55. The Son of Shammai, 1 Chron. 2. 45. Of him or the City, the Maonites took their denomination, Judg. 10. 12.

Mara]

Bitter or bitternesse. The name by which Naomi would be called Ruth. 1. 20.

Marah]

The same, The name of a place, where the Isralites aboad for a time, Exod. 15. 23. Numb. 33. 8, 9.

Maralah]

… drunkennesse, the bitternesse of … of a sacrifice, …, a sacrifice of myrrhe, a leaf of myrrhe, teaching sacrifice or …. A City, Josh, 19. 11.

Maranatha]

1 Cor. 16. 22. This word is by some thought to be one with the … foreign, under which a generall curse is noted. Others think it should be read foreign, Maharem attha, Be thou accursed: but foreign doth not signifie cursed, but cursing. It's more fit to take it as compounded of two Syriack words, foreign, Our Lord cometh; for it's said that this was the form of the greater Excommunication, as is expressed in Jude vers. 14. as if the sense were, The Church despaireth of such a one, therefore leaveth him to the judgement of the Lord Christ, who is quickly to come: Or, Let the Lord come, namely, as a revenger, let his divine vengeance and curse break out upon him, Gloss. Phil. sac. p. 301.

It is a Syriack word, signifying, Our Lord cometh; for Maran is our Lord and atha cometh. It is a word used in the greatest excommunication among the Christians, implying that they … the excommunicated before p. 402… dreadful Tribunall at the last coming of the Son of God, Jude v. 14, 15.

Others expound it thus: Let him be accursed, even till the … of the Lord, to his deaths-day, even for ever. Annot. on 1 Cor. 16. 22.

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A kinde of stone, whereof David prepared in abundance for the building of the Temple, 1 Chr. 29. 2. Whereof also vessels are made, Rev. 18. 12. Useful for pillars, and for pavements, being red, blue, white, black, Est. 1. 6. The strength of Christ in his wayes and government, is resembled by marble pillars, and the uprightnesse and purity thereof, by the colour of White marble, or Alablaster, Cant. 5. 15. … on Cant. 5. 15.

Marble]

His legs are as pillars of Marble set upon sockets of fine gold, Cant. 5. 15. that is, all his passages and … are constant and firm, even as pillars of Marble. He is yesterday, to day and the same for ever. In regard of his enemies he is set out in another manner of similitude, as having … of … to trample them all in peeces, Rev. 1. 15. but in respect of his constant truth and wayes of goodnesse to his Church, his legs are as pillars of marble. Sibs.

All his proceedings are firm and stable; and withall as pillars of marble set in sockets of tryed gold; so as they are neither subject to waveriug, nor to any danger of infirmity and corruption. Hall.

… sheweth his power and Majesty, being able to … all his enemies, and whatsoever setteth it selfe against him in peeces under his feet, and to make the rage of men to turn to his glory. Finch.

To march]

Spoken of God, Psal. 68. 7. Hab. 3. 12. Of the enemies of Egypt, Jer. 46. 22. Of the enemies of Zion, Joel. 2. 7. Of the Caldeans, Hab. 1. 6.

Marcus]

…, or made sine, or wiped from the rustinesse; or so called, as being born in the monethmonth March. Barnabas his Sisters son, Col. 4. 10. One who was profitable to Paul for the Ministery, 2 Tim. 4. 11. His fellowlabourer, Philem. v. 24. whom Peter termeth his Son, 1 Pet. 5. 15. in whose Mothers house the Church was assembled, praying for Peter's deliverance, Act. 12. 12. about whom there was sharp contention between Paul and Barnabas, Act. 15. 39.

Mareshab]

From the head, or beginning an inheritance; or, the bitternesse of the field. A City, Josh. 15. 44. The Father of Hebron, 1 Chron. 2. 42. The Son of Laadah, 1 Chr. 4. 21.

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…, marish ground, Ezek. 47. 11.

Mark]

A visible sign or character, whether the letter foreign the first in foreign Teshubah, which signifieth repentance, See Mr. Gregorie's Notes on Gen. 4. 15. p. 66, 67, &c. A but, end or bound to shoot at, 1 Sam. 20. 20. An object of wrath, Job 7. 20. & 16. 12. A discernible signe, whereby the Mourners of Israel were distinguished from others, Ezek. 9. 4. 6. The scope whereat a Christian aimeth, Phil. 3. 14. A visible note of distintion which antichrist imposeth on his, Rev. 13. 16, 17. & 14. 9, 11.

Mark of the Beast]

;;Some publick signe or token, whereby men were known to others, and did professe themselves to be the servants of the Beast; as the Jews were severed from other people by the mark of Circumcision, and Christians are marked by the signe of Baptisme, where by they are sealed to Christ. So … followers of Antichrist are remarkable and known … external signe and ceremony: but what this mark is, … doe not all agree, Some will have the mark to be, the profession to be a member of the Latine Church, or Romane Church. Some, the Chrisme in their Sacrament of Confirmation. Some say the Mark to be all one with the Name of the Beast. But I like best of them which think that the Beast had sundry marks, wherewith he branded his worshippers, because we see in the Text, the Mark, the Name of the Beast, and the Number of his Name, distinguished by the holy Ghost. And it is known by experience, that some were more neerly marked to the Pope, and with a more speciall brand then other were. For Emperors, Kings, and other great men of the earth were obliged to the Pope, by the mark of a solemn oath promising and binding themselves to be Defenders and protectors of the chief Bishop and holy Church of Rome: as did the Emperor Otho, the first of that name, in the year of our Lord, 1442. swear to Pope John the twelfth, that to his utmost power he would extoll him and the holy Church. Now the Popes Clergy … all sorts, as Cardinals, Fryers, Monks, Nuns, &c. they had their peculiar mark even the ceremony of Popish Orders, called amongst themselves, an Indeleble character. Furthermore, the Laypapists professe themselves to be the Popes vassals, worshippers of him, as of their spirituall Lord, by calling themselves after his name [Catholick Papists] as their high priest, the Bishop of Rome doth intitle himself [the Catholick Bishop.] Finally the Greek Church, which a great while withstood the Power of the Pope, at the length took upon them the number of his Name, when Michael Palealogus the Grecian Emperor, promised for himself and all his Subjects, to submit himself, and yeeld the Primacy to the Latin Bishop, to be subject unto the Mother Church of Rome. Thus of these 3 signes, the Character or Mark of the Beast, belongs to the Princes and Clergy, as unto Sons; his name unto the people and vulgar sort, as unto his Slaves; and the number of his name unto the Grecians, as unto Strangers. Rev. 13. 17. That no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name.

To receive a mark in the right hand, and in the forehead]

;;To witnesse the submission unto Antichrist, the Romish Beast, by reserving unto him and his Sea (the Church of Rome) the Prerogative in all their actions, advancing and … it with their best might and force; which is to receive the mark in the hand (the instrument of strength and action:) also publickly every where, professing their homage and subjection unto the holy Apostolik Catholik Sea of Rome (as they call it) which is to have the mark of the Beast imprinted in the forehead. Rev. 13. 16. and he made all to receive a mark in the right hand, and in the forehead. Some understand this of having their forehead and hand signed with Chrisme in Confirmation, or with their greasie oyntment. Others interpret it of maintaining Papisme, both secretly and openly. But the first interpretation is best.

He alludeth to the old custom by which Servants were wont to be marked with the names of their Masters, Souldiers with the names of their Commanders; the first especially in their forehead, the other in their hands. And therefore by like reason, the followers of the Lambe also, in the Chapter following, that they may be contrary to the followers of the Beast, are written in their forehead with the names of the Lamb and of his Father (with the same meaning of the type in both) to shew who is his Lord, and for whom each company fighteth; those professing themselves servants of the Beast and his Image; these, of Christ and his Father. Mede.

Marke in the hand, is oath of fidelity, and subscribing to his Supremacy; in the forehead, profession of his Decrees. Broughton.

Their hand is put for their actions, and the forehead for their open profession, and in one of them at the least, every man must openly declare that he acknowledgeth the Pope of Rome, to be the Lord over his faith. Giffard. Dext.

The mark and the Beast, is they whereby that of the Romish or Latine Religion (whom we call Papists) are distinguished from others, that is, their subjection unto the Pope as their head, and acknowledgement of the Sec of Rome. This inwardly in the soul is their implicite faith, whereby every Papist is bound hand over head to believe whatsoever the Pope or Church of Rome believeth: and the rather, because they are to be perswaded, that neither of both can erre. That which outwardly is expressed is either by confession of the mouth, or operation of the hands; so that the profession of the … Religion, and certain manner of living, according to the Laws and Customes of the Pope and Church of Rome, may also be said to be the mark of Antichristians; even as the observation of the Heathenish rites, is called, 2 Mac. 4. 10. the Character of the Grecians. Whosoever therefore in heart believeth whatsoever the Pope and Church of Rome, do, or shall believe, and outwardly professe the Roman Religion, and frameth his life according to the laws and customs of the Church of Rome; as for example, to fall down before images, to adore the Eucharist, to frequent the Masse, &c. he may be truly said to have the marke of the Beast, Downham of Antichrist, Chap. 8. lib. 1. Sect. 5.

The marke of the Roman Beast, is that invisible profession of servitude and obedience, that his Subjects hath professed p. 403to his Empire since the first beginning thereof, noted afterward by the Pope, with divers visible marks, namely the absurd Characters of foreign and, Crosses of all kindes, taken out of the number of the first Beasts name. Napier propos. 30 & 31.

(His Souldiers of all sorts, both in their wars against the Turks, and the Albingenses, had the signe of the Crosse for their badge or cognizance) This Character is not the mark of the person of Antichrist, the second Beast; but of his Kingdome and State, the first Beast. Bernard.

The publick profession of the universal papal Headship in the society of men, is the mark of the Beast; saith Mr. Stephens in his forementioned Book, pag. 181.

Mark]

The same with Marcus The Son of Mary, whose name was John, his surname Mark, Act. 12. 12.

To mark]

To take notice of, Ruth 3. 4. Observe, take heed, 2 Sam. 13. 28. Weigh, consider throughly, 1 King. 20. 7. Understand, Job 18. 2. Look, Job 21. 5. marg. Give ear, or attend, Job 33. 31. Know exactly, Job 39. 1. Set the heart, Ezek. 34. 5. marg. Look on with a diligent eye, as unto the mark whereat we shoot, Rom. 6. 17.

The word signifieth such a marking as a Watch-man useth that standeth on a Tower to descry enemies; he marketh diligently all …, and giveth notice accordingly for the saving of the City.

Mark me]

Job 21 5. Heb. look unto me, marg.

Mark well, Ezek. 44. 5. Hebr. set thine heart, marg.

Market]

Ezek. 27. 13. or Merchandise, marg.

And when they come from the Market, Mar. 7. 4. foreign signifies any promiscuous or popular assembly, being (setting aside the sacred assemblies, which are otherwise exprest) of two sorts; either.

1. To buy and sel: or,

2. To resort for iustice, and the word here used commonly signifies both or either of these:

1. A Fair, or Market.

2. A place of Judicature, an Hall or Court of Judgement. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.

Markets]

Places wherein people meet together, and buy wares one of another. The Court, Act. 16. 19. marg. The … foreign Act. 17. 17. sometime is taken for the place into which the people are gathered; sometime it signifieth the people gathered together, and sometime the Oration which is made unto them. Leigh Crit. Sac.

Maroth]

Bitternesse. A City, Mic. 1. 12.

Marre]

Corrupt, Lev. 19. 27. Spoyle, undoe, destroy, Ruth 4. 6. Plague, 1 Sam. 6. 4, 5. Grieve, 2 King. 3. 19. marg. Hinder, overthrow, Job 30. 13. Putrefie, rot, Jer. 13. 7. Spill, Ibid. 9. Make good for nothing, Nah. 2. 2. Mar. 2. 22.

Mariner]

A sea-faring man, one that goeth down to the sea in ships, and doth businesses in great waters, Psal. 107. 23, 26. Isa. 42. 10. Ezek. 26. 17. & 27. 8, 9, 27, 29. These are Calkers, Pilates, Rowers, Governors of the ship, &c.

Marriage]

;;A lawfull knitting or joyning together of one man and one woman in undividable fellowship, for remedy of lust, comfort of life, and bringing forth of children. Heb. 13. 4. … in honourable. Matt. 19. 3, 4, 5. This is civill mariage, and worldly, which by the Word of God is allowed to all orders and sorts of men, without exception.

;;2. The uniting of every elect soule to Christ, by the Spirit and faith, which is done now in part onelyonly, but perfectly shall be done at the last Judgement. Hos. 2. 20. I will even marry thee to my selfe in faithfulnesse. Rev. 19. 7. The mariage of the … is come. This is spirituall mariage.

;;3. The conjunction of God and the visible Church upon earth, by the band of his holy worship. See Ezek. chap. 16. throughout. & Jer. 3. 1, 2. Hence is God called a jealous God: and the Church observing his worship, is called … Spouse, or Wife; but swerving from his worship to Idols, she is tearmed an Harlot, an Whore and charged with fornications and whoredomes; and finally is threatned and plagued with divorce and separation from God her husband; as Israel was first, and Judah after.

;;The lawfull joyning of man and wife, is undividable, according to the institution of God. Yet it hath two exceptions; one of adultery, by Christ, Mat. 19. 5. The other of wilfull desertion, by Paul, 1 Cor. 7. 15.

Marriage of the Lamb]

;;Most neer and straight conjunction between Christ and his Church, to be gathered out of beleeving Jews and Gentiles; not Gentiles alone. Rev. 19. 7. The mariage of the Lamb is come.

Mat. 22. 2. The Church is now called as a Bride, to dwell with her husband, after the whore is burned. Before she was but as it were … to him. Glorious times will follow Romes fall. This cause was not mentioned vers. 1, 4. but these converts as they looked forward to the destruction of Rome, so they look … to the conversion of the Jews and marriage of the Lamb. Annot.

Marriage]

;;Betrothing, the first degree of Mariage, Cant. 3. 11. Behold King Solomon with the Crown wherewith his Mother crowned him in the day of his Mariage. See Espousals.

Marriage]

Which made a marriage for his Son, Mat. 22. 2. foreign & foreign signifie both in this place, and Joh. 2. 1. a Marriage-feast, and that here the foreign signifies the garment that was customary at such feasts, i. e. a better sort of array then those that were used upon ordinary dayes, will be obvious to any man that is conversant in ancient customes. And this it seems so necessary (as repentance and reformation of life, the new garment or array of the soul, which is here parabolically exprest by it) that without it, even they that were invited to come, were not yet permitted to tast of the feast, or remaine among the guests. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.

Marriage supper]

;;See Supper.

Marrie]

Numb. 36. 6. Heb. be Wives, marg. Maried, Numb. 12. 1. Heb. taken, marg. Neh. 13. 23. Heb. made to dwell with, marg.

Forbidden to marry, 1 Tim. 4. 3 Many Hereticks there were in the ancient Church, which prohibited Marriage, and taught Abstinence from Meats as necessary, having much of their doctrine from the Pythagorean Philosophers. Such were the Eucratitae, Montanists, and Marcionites. But these came after the Apostles times, and are not so probably spoken of here, as those which were present then in the Church. And such (saith Ignatius) there were in the Apostles times, and such (saith Ireneus) was Saturninus, who with Simon Magus was the Father of the Gnosticks. He was the first that among Christians affirmed Marriage to be the work of the Devill, and commanded to abstain from the flesh of Beasts. And this was generally the doctrine of the Gnosticks, who under a pretense of Continence, committed all villany against the Creation and the Creator; teaching that men ought not to receive Marriage, nor get children, nor bring into the world such as would be miserable, nor furnish death with food or nourishment, i. e. people, the world with men, whom death will consequently feed on. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.

Marks]

;;Stripes, and thereby scars made in his body for Christs sake. Gal. 6. 17. I bear in my body the marks of the Lord ….

Marrow]

That which moisteneth the bones, Job 21. 24. or watereth them, Prov. 3. 8. marg. being the strength thereof, fatnesse, Psal. 63. 5. marg.

Put for satiety of pleasure, Isa 25. 6. and that which is most secret and hidden, Heb. 4. 12.

Mars-…]

Act, 17. 22. or, Court of the Areopagites, marg. which was the highest Court in Athens; the authority whereof was exceeding great. The Romane Deputies of Asia committed their weightyest causes to be determined by this Court. The King himself when he had any businesse here, was to lay down his Crown. And as the Oracles were famous for the prediction of things to come, so was this Court for the execution of Justice.

Some think is was thus named, for that Mars was there condemned; or for that such as killed any out of a cruell and bloody minde, were there called into question for the murther; or for that this Martial people dedicated the same to Mars, their supposed God of battle.

Marsena]

The bitternesse of a bramble, myrthe of the enemy, or shewing the blamble or enemy. One of the seven Princes of Persia, Est. 1. 14.

Mart]

She is a Mart of Nations, Isa. 23. 3. or, she was a Trader with Nations. The word translated Mart, signifies properly not a Mart or Market, that is a place of trade, p. 404but trade, or traffick, or merchandise it self, vers. 18. Prov. 3. 14. & 31. 18. & 45. 14. Annot.

Martha]

Stirring up, bitter, provoking; or after the …, a Lady. The Sister of Mary and Lazarus, Joh. 11. 1.

Martyr]

;;Any witnesse which by his testimony confirmeth any truth.

;;2. Such a witnesse as giveth his life unto death for the name of Jesus, to testifie the truth of his doctrine by his blood. Rev. 2. 13. My faithfull martyr Antibas.

;;There is a Martyr of 2 sorts: one is mentall, who purposeth and is ready to be bound, and to dye for the Lord Jesus: as Paul speaks in Act. 21. 13. Thus ought all Christians to be Martyrs, for readynesse of minde and affection to suffer for the Doctrine of Christ, according to that which is written, Mat. 10. 37. Luk. 14. 26. 1 Cor. 15. 31. The other Martyr is actuall, who suffereth both in affection and in effect. Here two degrees are to be considered: first, when im prisonment, Act. 4. 3. or stripes, Act. 5. 40. or losse of goods or Countrey, Act. 13. 50. or else death it selfe, with torments too, are suffered for any morall or evangelicall truth to bear witnesse to the same, as Act. 7. 59.

Martyr faithfull]

;;A constant witnesse-bearer to the truth of God, which he is ready to give testimony unto, with losse of his life, and doth it indeed when need is. Rev. 2. 13. Ancipas my faithfull Martyr was slain.

Rev. 17. 6. With the bloud of the Martyrs of Jesus. It was a great transgression to kill men; greater, to kill holy men; greatest of all, to kill them for bearing witness to Christ. Annot.

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To be offended at, Eccl. 5. 8. To be astonyed, amazed, wonder, Gen. 43. 33. Psal. 48. 5.

foreign, signifieth,

1. Very earnestly and intentively, both with outward and inward senses, to marke and observe a thing, Mat. 8. 27.

2. To honour, reverence, and fear the person or thing wherein we discern any strangenesse, and the more strangenesse the more reverence and fear: so the learned Septuagint translate those places of respecting and regarding the mighty and aged, in this word, foreign, Deut. 10. 17. 2 Chr. 19. 7, 28, 50. 2 King. 5. 1. See Jude v. 19.

Marvels]

Exod. 34. 10. are all those things which God did in the way, and in the Promised Land, in favour of his people, to bring them thither, and to settle them therein.

Marvels]

Exod 34. 10. In Gr. Glorious things; and so the Evangelist … the word, Luk. 13. 17. where the Syr. hath marvellous things. Aynsw.

Marvellous]

Job 5. 9. Marvellous things. Such things as we cannot understand the cause of, because it goes above the capacity of our naturall reason. The word signifies not onelyonly things that we admire, as not knowing the causes of them, but also any thing hidden, or above the reach of our understanding, Judg. 13. 18. Psal. 130. 1. It is derived from a word that signifies dividing, or separating, Exod. 33. 16. It imports things divided from our understanding, as miracles are which are above the course of Nature, and many things also in the course of Gods ordinary providence. Annot.

Great and marvellous, Rev. 15. 3. In regard of the great changes and things it would bring to passe; or, in comparison of the former. In these respects the whole Church confesseth it to be so. vers. 3. Annot.

Marvellously helped]

2 Chron. 26. 15. Namely, from God, vers. 7. Annot. Job 37. 5. God thundered marvellously. So as no creature can make such a noyse. Others read it, God thunders out marvellous things with his voyce; and refer it to those strange things which are wrought by the thunders, as melting the money without hurting of the purse, breaking the sword within the scabbard, exhausting the wine within the barrell, breaking the bones within the flesh; which are things above our reach. Annot,

Mary]

Exalted; the sea of bitternesse, a drop of the sea, she that teacheth the people, the myrrhe or mistresse of the sea; or after the Syrian and Hebrew, the Lady of the sea.

1. The Sister of Moses called Miriam, Exod. 15. 20.

2. Another Miriam, 1 Chr. 4. 17.

3. The Mother of Jesus Christ, Mat. 1. 16.

4. The Sister of Martha and Lazarus, Joh. 11. 1, 2.

5. Mary Magdalen, Mat. 16. 9.

6. The Mother of James the lesse, and Joses, Matth. 27. 56.

7. The Wife or Daughter of Cleophas, Joh. 19. 25.

8. The Mother of John surnamed Mark, Act. 12. 12.

9. One who bestowed much labour on Paul, Rom. 16. 6.

Maschil]

Psal. 32, 42, 45, 45, 52, 54, 74, 78, 88, 89, 142. the Title. An Instructing, or, A Psalm that maketh prudent, or, causeth understanding. Aynsw.

Instructer, that giveth understanding, or maketh understanding; i. e. A Psalm of Instruction or Doctrine, or a teaching Psalm: called thus by reason of the necessary and weighty Doctrine therein comprehended. … Annot.

It is the opinion of some others that this word Maschil is the name of some particular harmony, to which this Psalm was fitted, or of some Musical instrument. Annot.

Mash]

called also Meshech. The Son of Aram, Gen. 10. 23.

Mashal]

A parable governing, or ruling. A City, 1 Chr. 6. 74.

Mashmannab]

His fatnesse, oyl, or touching; or taking away a gift, or number. One of Davids helpers, 1 Chr. 12. 10.

Mason]

One employed in hewing stones, and building therewith, 2 Sam. 5. 11. 2 King. 12. 12. 2 Chron. 24. 12.

Masreka]

An hissing, or drawing of vanity; or touching vanity, or a vine. A City, Gen. 36. 36.

Massa]

A burthen, a taking unto, sometimes; or prophesie. The Son of Ishmael, Gen. 25. 14.

Massab]

Tentations. A place Exod. 17. 7.

Masse Popish]

;;Neither this word, nor the subject matter and thing signified by it, is to be found in all the Old or New Testament: and in truth it is a masse of most horrible sins; as invocation of Saints, intercession of Saints, adoration of Creatures, profanation of Scriptures, and of the Lords Supper, deluding and mocking the people with idle and supestitious shews, and innumerable other wickednesses to be abhorred.

;;The Masse is a masse of abuses, or a heap of corruptions, inserted and put into the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, but is not properly the Sacrament it selfe. The corruptions are chiefly these.;;

;;1. Mingling the materials of the Sacrament with other stuffe.;;

;;2. The denyal of one kinde to the Laity.;;

;;3. The adding to, … from and altering of the words of consecration.;;

;;4. The consecrating of it in a tongue unknown to the people.;;

;;5. The privatenesse of it, without company to receive it, which is contrary to a Communion.;;

;;Masse (according to the doctrine of Rome) is a proper, reall Sacrifice of the very natural body and blood of Christ, offered by a Priest (having intention to consecrate) unto God the Father for the expiation of the sin of the quick and dead.

;;The substance of this Sacrifice is Christ; the parts three.

;;1. Consecration.

;;2. Oblation.

;;3. Consumption.

;;The pretended antiquity is from the time of Christ his last Supper, where Christ sacrificed himself, and … this Sacrifice with commandement to his Apostles and their successors for ever to continue it, by saying [Do this, &c.] Whereas in truth Christ ordained a Sacrament, and therefore offered no Sacrifice, (for these are far differing) and it is an hard exposition to interpret [Doing] to be [Sacrificeing] and the Text speaketh of giving bread and breaking it, of eating and drinking, not one word of offering; yea, their owne men (as Jesuite Azorius saith) deny Christ to have offered up himself under the forms of Bread and Wine. Aquinas teacheth, Christ to be no otherwise sacificed in the Masse, but as it representeth the passion of our Lord, and as thereby men are made partakers of the fruit of his passion. Lastly, Cornelius Musso a Popish Bishop, defended, that Christ in his Sacrament offered no Sacrifice at all, because then St. Paul had not written …, that Christ p. 405had sanctified and made beleevers perfect, and that he dyed but once, &c. Heb. 9. 25, 26, 29. & 10. 10. For by the … doctrine he offered a double oblation twice made; once at the last Super, and once upon the …. That shift of bloody and unbloody Sacrifice will not here help them, because it is written, that without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin, Heb. 9. 22. Let them therefore either grant that Christ at his last Supper suffered death, and shed his blood the night afore he shed it: or else let them say that he offered up no Expiatory or Propitiatory Sacrifice.

;;Whereas some of the Fathers call the Lords Supper a Sacrifice, it is not properly and simply, but figuratively, and in some respects. Frst, because all sacred rites may be called Sacrifices, (a faciendo sacra) from doing holy and sacred actions.

;;Secondly, in regard that in the Supper there is a commemoration of that only and true Sacrifice of Christ, and a participation through faith of the benefits of that Sacrifice.

;;Thirdly, in respect of divers prayers and thanksgivings poured out, and gifts offered to the poor, which in Scripture be termed Sacrifices.

;;Lastly, because the spirituall Sacrifices of our souls, as faith, hope and charity, be there exercised and stuirred up by the use of the Supper.

;;But they will never prove that any ancient Writer for six hundred yeers after Christ did ever think or teach it to be a Sacrifice, as our Romish adversaries take it: therefore it may be reckoned among Popish novelties which be of late invention, and were not from the beginning of the Gospel.

Mast]

Isa. 33. 23. made of the Ceders from Libanon, Ezek. 27. 3. without which no ship could sail, as whereunto the sails are fastened. It is divided into three parts. The uppermost is tearmed …; the middle, Trachelus; the lowest, Pterna. Minshew's Guide into the Tongues.

Master]

;;One that hath rule over servants, Eph. 6. 5. Col. 4. 1. Ye Masters doe unto your servants that which is just. A Master after the flesh, is he who ruleth but over the body, and in outward things onelyonly.

;;2. Any Teacher or Minister of the Word, who for reverence sake is called Master. Mat. 8. 19. Master, I will follow thee where ever thou goest.

;;3. Such as ambitiously affect rule and superiority over others, or be busie … in private. Jam. 3. 1. Be not many Masters. Matth. 23. 8, 16. Matth. 7. 1. Luk. 6. 37. Rom. 2. 1.

;;4. One that is the originall and supreme Master, in comparison of whom all other Masters must leave their title, and become Disciples or Scholars. This one is Christ onelyonly, Mat. 23. 8, 10.

5. One that hath Scholars and disciples, Mal. 2. 12. Luk. 6. 40.

Master of the assemblies, Eccl. 12. 1. that is, Ministers, Teachers of the Congregations assembled, over whom they are under Christ the one Shepherd, as Masters to their Scholars; and of Christs counsell, to teach the secrets of his Kingdome to his people.

Master-builder]

1 Cor. 3. 10. The chief workman, or Carpenter, to whose trust and care the building is committed.

Master of dreams]

;;A Captain dreamer, one that hath great skill in dreams, Gen. 38. 19. This they said in mocking of Joseph.

To his owne Master, he standeth or falleth, Rom. 14. 1. that is it apperatineth to God to approve his standing, that is … fact, as lawful for him; or to disallow his falling, that is, his fact, whether he doth not well therein.

Masters]

Be not many Masters, Jam. 3. 1. One great fault of the Judaizing Christians, and Gnosticks, frequently taken notice of, is that of Judging others, the orthodox …, and separating from them. These are in Rom. 2. 18, … 9, 20. farther described, as those that take upon them to … the will of God most perfectly (and are thence called … ) to be guides of the blinde, lights of them that are … …, instructers of fools, foreign, Teachers … Masters of babes, &c. where their assuming those titles of Guides, Lights, instructers, Masters, is joyned with the Judging of others, as blind, …, fools and habes. And as there foreign, Teacher or Master, (the same as here) is one of the titles they assumed, so vers. 21. Thou that teachest another; in this sense again, thou that assumest to know more … all others, and to be able to instruct and teach others, as if no man knew his duty but they. These are again described, Rom. 14. 4. by the he that judgeth another mans servant, that (when Christ hath given Christians liberty in the matter of Circumcision, and other Judaicall performances) require all those performances of their sellow-Christians, as if they, not Christ, were their Lords and Masters of their Faith. So Col. 2. 16. A spice of this homour it was that Christ noted in the Pharisees, Mat. 23. when he tells them, they loved to be called Rabbi, …, vers. 7. i. e. my Master, my Master, my Guide, my Instructer; which Christ forbidding his Disciples to imitate, gives this reason, for one is your Guide, or Master, Christ; and again, vers. 10. Be not ye called Guides, or Masters, for one is your Master, Christ. And this is the notion of foreign, Master here. As for the putting in the word foreign, many, Be ye not many Masters, I suppose it is in opposition to the foreign, or foreign, the one Master, or Guide, Matt. 23. or the foreign, the one Law-giver or Judge, here, Jam. 4. 12. for it being Christs office onelyonly to give laws to the Churh, these Judaizers do clearly intrench upon his office, and so are foreign, many, in stead of the one Master. Dr. Hammon. Annot. a.

Mastery]

That shout for mastery Exod. 32. 18. of strong men which overcome in the War. Aynsw.

Had the mastery of them, Dan. 6. 24. Did exercise their rule or power over them.

That striveth for the mastery, 1 Cor. 9. that runneth, wrestleth, &c. that he may be victor, get the prize.

Mate]

Every one with her mate, Isa. 34. 15. Hebr. a woman and, or with, her friend or familiar. Annot.

Matred]

A wand descending, the wand of government; or, after the Syrian, labour. The Mother of Mehetable, Gen. 36. 39.

Matri]

Rain, heaping, custody, or a prison. A Family of the Tribe of Benjamin, 1 Sam. 10. 21.

Matrix]

The place of conception in any female, Exod. 13. 12. rendred by some the Wombe, Numb. 3. 12. & 18. 15.

Mattan]

His gift, the loyns, the death of them; or after the Syrian, expectation, or hope. The Priest of Baal, 2 King. 11. 18. The Father of Shephatiah, Jer. 38. 1.

Mattanah]

His gist, &c. as the former. A City, Numb. 21. 18.

Mattaniah]

The gift of the Lord, or the Lord of the …; or after the Syrian and Hebrew, the hope of the Lord. The Brother of Jehoiachin's Father, whose name was changed to Zedekiah, 2 King. 24. 17. The Son of Micah, 1 Chr. 19. 15. The Son of Heman, 1 Chr. 25. 4. The Father of Jehiel, 2 Chr. 20. 14. Of the Sons of Asaph, Ibid. 29. 13. Of the Sons of Elam, Ezr. 10. 26. Of the Sons of Zattu, Ibid. 27. Of the Sons of Pahath Moah, Ibid. 30. Of the Sons of …, Ibid. 37. A Levite, Neh. 12. 8, 25. The Son of …, Ibid. 35. The Father of Zaccur, Neh. 13. 13.

Mattatha]

His gift, Of the Sons of Hashum, Ezr. 10. 33. The Son of Nathan. Luk. 3. 31.

Mattathiah]

The gift of the Lord. A Singer, 1 Chr. 15. 21.

Mattenai]

His gist, Of the Sons of …, Ezr. 10. 33. Of the Sons of Bani, Ibid. 37. Of Joarib, Neh. 12. 19.

Matter]

or speech 1 Sam. 16. 18. marg. So Psal. 64. 5. marg. Matters, Dan. 7. 1. or words marg.

Matters]

;;Their hard controversies which could not be determined without counsell from God, Exod. 18. 19. Numb. 15. 33, 34, 35. & 27. 5, 6.

Conceive matter or matters, as generall words, for a thing, word, businesse, act, deed, question, controversie, whereof for the most part the context sheweth the meaning.

Matthan]

As …. The Son of Eleazer, Matth. 1. 15.

Matthat]

A gift, or giving. The Son of Levi, Luk. 3. 24. The Father of Jorim, Ib. 29.

Mattbathias]

The gift of the Lord. The Son of …, Luk. 3. 25.

Matthew]

Given, or a reward. An Apostle and Evangelist, named also Levi, Mat. 9. 9, 10. Mar. 2. 14.

Matthias]

The gist of the Lord. One chosen in the room of Judas, Act. 1. 26.

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A gift of the Lord. A Levite, 1 Chr. 9. 31. Of the second degree, Ib. 15. 8. The Son of Jeduthua, 1 Chron. 25. 3. To whom befell the fourteenth lot, Ibid. 21. Of the Sons of Nebo, Ezr. 10, 43. One that stood on the right hand of Ezra, Neh. 8. 4.

Mattock]

An instrument of iron, wherewith to dig up stones, roots, sand, &c. Which being forced into a wall, is a means of breaking it down, 1 Sam. 13. 20, 21. 2 Chr. 34. 6. Isa. 7. 25.

Mattocks]

or Mawles, 2 Chr. 34. 6. marg.

Maw]

Deut. 18. 3. or the Breast, as Exod. 29. 27. Lev. 7. 31. or the Maw with the Breast. Annot.

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Prov. 25. 18. A Copper-smith's, Brasier's, or Tinker's, hammer.

May]

1 Cor. 2. 16. Gr. shall, marg. Heb. 12. 27. Annot. Comp. the text with the marg.

Mazzaroth]

Job 38. 32. The twelve signes, according to some; the … stars, which are called the Chambers of the South, Ibid. 9. 9. according to others. Others take them for Northern stars, as the word in the Masculine is used, Ibid. 37. 9. Annot. on Job. 38. 32.

One understandeth hereby the morning-star.