A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part OB – Part OD
O B.
Obadiah]
Servant of the Lord. The Governour of Ahab's house, 1 King. 18. 3. See 1 Chr. 3. 21. The Son of Izrahiah, Ibid. 7. 3. The Son of Azel, Ibid. 8. 38. The Son of Shemajah, Ibid. 9. 16. One of the Sons of Gad, Ibid. 12. 9. The Father of …, Ibid. 27. 19. One of Jehosaphat's Princes, 2 Chron. 17. 7. A Levite, Ibid. 34. 12. The Son of Jehiel, Ezr. 8. 9. One that sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 5. A Porter keeping the Ward at the thresholds of the gate, …. 12. 25. A Prophet, Obad. vers. 1.
Obal]
The … of antiquity, or …. The Son of …, Gen. 10. 28.
Obed]
A servant, or a work-…. The Son of Boaz, Ruth 4. 17, 21. The Son of …, 1 …. 2. 37. One of David's worthies, 1 Chr. 11. 47. The Son of …, 1 Chron. 26. 7. The Father of …, 2 …. 23. 1.
Obed-Edom]
The servant of Edom, or a servant Edomite. A Gittite, 2 Sam. 6. 10. A Levite of the … degree, a Porter, 1 Chr. 15. 18. With an harp, …. 21. A dorekeeper sor the …, Ib. 24. The Son of …, Ib. 16. 38. The Father of …, &c. Ib. 26. 4.
Obedience]
;;A readinesse to do the will of God in things commanded or … by him, be they never so troublesome, and never so much against our reason and liking. Rom. 5. 19. As by the obedience of one man. 1 Sam. 15. 22. To obey is better, &c. Exod. 24. 7. We will doe it, and be obedient.
;;2. Submission by the Gospel, when it is beleeved of us, Rom. 1. 5. & 10. 17.
;;3. Rumour and fame of obedience, Rom. 16. 19. So Rom. 1. 8.
Obedience is twofold:
I. That which is due unto God; and that by the creatures.
1. Irrational; as, the Ravens, 1 King. 17. 4, 6. the Clouds, thunder, &c. Psal. 77. 17, 18, 19. the Waters, &c. Psal. 104. 7, 8. Flies, Lice, &c. Psal. 105. 31, 34. Fire, Hail, &c. Psal. 148, 8. the … and Heavens, Isa. 48. 13. a Fish, Jon. 2. 10. the Winds and Sea, Matt. 8. 27.
2. …; and that either unvoluntary, and compelled, as both that of the devils, Mar. 1. 27. Luk. 4. 36. and that of wicked men, Exod. 11. 1. & 12. 31. 1 Sam. 6. 6. or voluntary, and free, as that of the Angels, Psal. 103. 10. and Man. This last is commended, Exod. 23. 21. Deut. 13. 4. & 27. 10. Mat. 17. 5. Joh. 2. 7. as being most profitable, Gen. 26. 4, 5. Exod. 15. 26. & 19. 5. & 20. 6. Deut. 4. 40. & 28. 1, 12. Psal. 81. 14, 15, &c. Prov. 1. 33. Isa. 1. 19. better then sacrifice, 1 Sam. 15. 22. Hos. 6. 6. Mat. 9. 13. and to be perferred … all that we owe unto others, or they can require of us, Act. 4. 19. & 5. 29. This is both Evangelicall whereby we beleeve the Gospel, and subject our selves thereunto; whence it is that obedience is put for saith, or the receiving of the Gospel, Rom. 16. 19. comp. with ch. 1. v. 8. and to obey Christ, for to beleeve in Christ, 2 Cor. 10. 5. and obey the truth, Heb. 5. 9. for to beleeve the doctrine of the Gospel. See 1 Pet. 1. 22. Rom. 6. 17. and legal, and this either particular, having relation unto the execution of some particular and extraordinary command of God, Gen. 6. 22. & 7. 5. Heb. 11. 7. Gen. 12. 1. &c. & 17. 9, 13. & 22. 1, 3, 10. & 26. 5. Act. 7. 4. Heb. 11. 8, 17. Exod. 3. 13. & 4. 3. & 7. 6. & 40. 16. Job. 41. 9. Mat. 1. 24. or …, namely a conformity of our affections and actions unto the will of God manifested in his Word, which is in the regenerate begun in this life, but to be perfected in heaven, Rom. 6. 16. 2 Cor. 10. 6. 1 Pet. 1. 14. This must … from love to God and goodnesse, not for servile ends, must be without distrustfull care, about successe in outward things, or a present reward of well-doing, and that with constancy, humility, and fear, faith or some perswasion of acceptation in all things. Byfield on 1 Pet. 1. 14. p. 113.
II. That which is due, or performed unto Man; either by the unreasonable creatures, Jam. 3. 3. or by Inferiors unto their Superiours; as, by Wives unto their Husbands, Eph. 5. 22, 24. Tit. 2. 5. 1 Pet. 3. 1. Children to their Parents, Eph. 6. 1. Col. 3. 20. Servants to their Masters, Eph. 6. 5. Col. 3. 22. Tit. 2. 9. 1 Pet. 2. 18. Subjects to their Princes or magistrates, Rom. 13. 1. Tit. 3. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 1. People to their Pastors, Heb. 13. 7, 17. Or by any unto another, advising or counselling him aright, Act. 27. 21.
There's also an … or sinful obedience, namely,
1. Unto the unlawfull commands of men, 2 Sam. 11. 15, 16, 17. 1 King. 21. 11. 2 King. 16. 17. 1 Sam. 22. 18. 2 Sam. 13. 29. & 14. 30. Act. 5. 36. where the word signifies also to beleeve, marg.
2. Unto sin, Rom. 6. 12, 16.
To learn Obedience]
;;To prove and try in deed what it was to obey such a Father, as looked for and commanded obedience to the death of the Crosse, Heb. 2. 8.
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Be obedient, Exod. …. 7. … or …, … unto; that is, gladly learn and obey. …. Accordingly he rendreth may be obedient, in Numb. 27. 20. May …, and be obedient unto his voyce, in Deut. 4. 30 … … his voyce, and ye would not be …, in Deut. 8. 20. ye would not hear. Isa. 1. 19. Be willing and … or … … and obey, or consent to …, as Ezek. 3. 7. …, Heb. …, as 1 Sam. 12. 15. & 15. 22. Annot.
Obedient to their Husbands, Tit. 2. 5. Yeelding themselves to the will, discertion and direction of their Husbands, in all lawfull and honest things. So must Servants be obedient to their Masters, Tit. 2. 9. Which standeth,
1 In an inward reverencing in heart the image of God in their superiority.
2 In the outward testimony of this inward reverence; both in speech and gesture, before and behinde their back.
3 In patient enduring without …, … and corrections, although bitter, yea, and un just. Taylor on Tit.
Obey]
To believe, Act. 5. 36. …. Rom. 10. 30, 31. marg.
To obey]
;;To beleeve the Word yeelding unto the truth of the promises, and imbraceing … by Faith, which is the principal … of a Christian, and a root of all other obedience, Heb. 5. 9.
Heb. …. 17. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit your selves. The Apostle useth two words to ser forth the duty of the people to their pastors, obey and submit, there being two sorts of things, which they ought to come under, their Sermons, and their consures, obey them preaching, submit to them punishing. Leighs Annot.
To obey the doctrine]
;;To beleeve it, and live after it, when our reason, minde, conscience, will, affections and members are brought under it, to stoop to it, and be governed by it. Rom. 6. 16. Ye have obeyed from the heart the doctrine, &c.
To obey the lusts of sin]
;;In will to consent unto, and in works to practise the evill and sinfull desires of our hearts. Rom. 6. 12. That ye should obey the lusts of sin.
To obey Ministers]
;;To submit with readinesse to their authority, suffering their words of exhortation and rebukes to take place with us, for our reformation. Heb. 13. 17. Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit your ….
To obey Parents, Magistrates, and Masters]
;;Willingly to performe their just commandements, and patiently to bear even their unjust corrections. Eph. 6. 1. Ye children obey your parents.
Obeysance]
;;Civill reverence, by bowing the body in token of the regard which we owe to some person or dignity, and worship for his years, gifts, or place. Exod. 18. 7. And did obeysance.
Object]
Act. 24. 10. To lay to ones charge, or to accuse, as the Originall word is rendred in vers. 2, 8, 13.
Obil]
Born, brought, led away, carryed, sorrowfull, or waxing old. An Ishmaelite, 1 Chr. 27. 30.
Oblation]
;;Some externall thing, offered and given unto God, to pacifie and appease his anger against sin, or to witnesse thankfulnesse for some benefit. Psal. 51. 19. Burnt offering and oblation.
;;The word in the Heb. signifies generally a gift or present carried to any, Gen. 32. 13. Psal. 54. 12. & 72. 10. and in special, a gift or oblation presented to God, Gen. 4. 3, 4, 5. Psal. 96. 8. most specially the oblation of corn or flower, called the meat-offering, Lev. 2. Numb. 29. There is then a civil offering, called a present or gist to men, for love and honour sake; and a sacred offering to God for gratulation or propitiation.
;;Note further, that it was provided by the Law, that things offered to God, were to be without blenish, neither blinde, broken, or maimed, or which had a wem, or was scurvy, or scabbed; by all which was signified the perfect sacrifice of Christ, holy, harmlesse, &c. Heb. 7. 27. 1 …. 1. 19. Secondly, our obedience, though unperfect, yet as it proceedeth from the holy Spirit, to be pure before God, being without all …, as 1 Tim. 2. 8. 1 …. 3. 3. Malac. 3. 11. Thirdly that in heaven no unclean person, shall come, Cant. 4. 7, 8. and Eph. 5. 5.
;;No … further that the salting of oblations or sacrifices with salt, according to the Law, Lev. 2. 13. which is repeated Mar. 9. 49. signifies that the Covenant of God made with us in Christ, should dwell in us and be rooted in our heart, Mar. 9. 50. Secondly, the mortification of our lusts, as salt taketh and dryeth up fresh and unwholsome humours; to which purpose Christ applyeth it, Mar. 9. 42. Thirdly, that zeal and fervency ought to season all our actions, joyned with care of mutuall peace, Mark 9. 50.
Note also,
1. that they were to be brought in a clean vessel, Isa. 66. 20. and into the House of the Lord, 2 Chr. 31. 10. where praises were to be returned unto God, Jer. 33. 11.
2. They were not to be the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, as being unlawfull and unclean, Deut. 23. 18.
3. That God accounted them robbers of him that kept back their tithes and offerings, whereby his Ministers and the poor were to have been maintained, Mal. 3. 8.
Oboth]
Dragons, wombes, fathers, or desires. A place, Numb. 21. 10, 11.
Obscure]
In obscure darknesse, Prov. 20. 20. Hebr. in the blacknesse of darknesse. Tremel.
Obscurity]
put
1. for grosse ignorance, Isa. 29. 16.
2. Adversity, Ib. 59. 9.
3. Darknesse, Ib. 58. 10.
Observation]
Luk. 17. 20. The Kingdome of God cometh not with observation; that is, outward shew, marg. Meaning, that it should not be as they dreamed, a Kingdome temporall, and glorious, with externall pomp and majesty, but spiritual, and so not to be discovered or observed by the world; for otherwise it appeared to the faithfull, by many … signes and demonstrations, that Jesus was indeed that long expected Messias, and King of Israel. Joh. 1. 49.
Observation]
Luk. 17. 20. or with … shew, marg.
Observe]
To take deligent notice of, or heedfully to mark, Gen, 37. 10. To keep both in remembrance, and in setting apart a day for that end, Exod 12. 24. To attend, and yeeld obedience unto, Ib. 34. 11. To look narrowly unto, Job 13. 27. marg.
To observe dayes]
;;To attribute holynesse and virtue to dayes, which belongs not to them; or to put Religion in difference of dayes. Gal. 4. 10. Ye observe dayes and moneths, &c.
To observe the tradition of men]
;;To keep and hold superstitiously the rules and precepts delivered unto us by men. Mar. 7. 8. Ye observe the traditions of men.
Observer of times]
Deut. 18. 10. that is, superstitiously making difference of dayes and times, good or bad, as lucky and unlucky. A Sooth-sayer, an observer of the clouds, and of the planets, a Planetary, an observer of the flying of fowls, an Augur. Such as were … by outward observations in the creatures. They were of esteem among the …, and other Heathens, Isa. 2. 6. and the sin crept into …, 2 …. 21. 6. though God forbad it, Lev. 19. 26. The … …, they were such as did set times for the doing of things, saying, Such a day is good, and such a day is … such a day is fit for to doe such a work; such a … … monethmonth is evill sor such a thing, &c. … on Deut. 18. 10.
Obstinate]
Such as are stiffe-necked, Deut 9. 6. will no more be admonished, Eccl. 4. 13. whose neck is as an iron sinew, and their brow brasse, Isa. 48. 4. …, Ibid. marg. whose faces are harder then a rock they refusing to return, Jer. 5. 3 who will not …, Jer. 6. 17. will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of their own mouth, Ib. 44. 17. are setled on their lees, Zeph. 1. 1.
Obtain]
To request, Neh. 13. 6. marg. To bring forth, Prov. …. 35. marg. But by the words joyned herewith, as children, joy, gladnesse, kingdome, grace, &c. the meaning hereof is plain.
To obtain mercy]
;;To receive and get the gift of Faith by the mercy of God: A Metonymie of the cause for the effect. Rom. 11. 31. … your mercy they shall obtain mercy. The meaning is more fully thus, that the mercy shewed to the Gentiles, in calling them to Christ after the Jews were cast out, should be an occasion that the Jews by the mercy of God (being now in unbeleef) should hereafter beleeve, and be saved, for so much as the unbeleef of the Jews was occasion of salvation to the Gentiles, v. 30. Methinks the generall calling of the Jews toward the second coming of Christ, is plainly by Paul in this 11. to the Romans proved to be possible and probable in vers. 24. by an argument from the lesse to the more: also, from this power of God, vers. 23. and then that it is infallible and certainly shall be, as agreeable to the will of God revealed to Paul, vers. 25. confirmed by prophetical authority, foretelling it in two places out of Isa. vers. 26, 27. By the dignity of the Jews, being Gods elect people, vers. 28. Also by the nature and condition of Gods calling and gifts, which are immutable, vers. 29. By the comparison of Jews and Gentiles, and the common end of their miseries, vers. 30, 31, 32. Lastly, from the Covenant made to Abraham, and the Fathers of the Jews, vers. 16. To all which may be added the Testimony as of the Lord, in Ezek. 37. 1, 2, 3, 4. and Rev. 7. 4, 5. & 21. 2, 3, 6, 7. Also of his servants, M. Calvin, Beza, Junius, Piscator, Paraeus, Peter Martyr, D. Willet; Fathers and Schoole-men, Hilary, Chrysostome, Thomas Aquinas.
O C.
Occasion]
A season or opportunity of time; a meet, fit, and convenient time. This Joseph's Brethren thought that he would seek against them, Gen. 43. 18. This … advised Abimelech to take against his enemies, Judg. 9. 33. This Samson sought against the Philistines, Judg. 14. 4. This Samuel advised Saul to embrace, 1 Sam. 10. 7. This the Princes sought against Daniel, Dan. 6. 4, 5. In 2 Sam. 12. 14. it may be taken for ground or cause. In Ezr. 7. 20. for need. In Jer. 2. 24. for lust. In 2 Cor. 8. 8. for reason, or because. The original word in Rom. 7. 8. is foreign, which is taken three wayes.
1. It properly signifieth the opportunity of doing a thing.
2. Any circumstance or accident, whereby one is occasioned to do any thing.
3. That which draweth a man from doing that which he intended: both these last wayes sin took an accasion by the Law; for both the pravity of our nature is more inflamed by the prohibition, and we wish it were removed as a rub or block out of our way.
It cometh (as some think) of foreign an ass ault, because if we give our selves but liberty, never so little, more then is fit, the flesh will make an assault upon us. Leigh Crit. Sac.
In Rom. 14. 13. the word is foreign, which signifieth a stone, or impediment in the way, against which a man dasheth or may dash his foot. In 1 Joh. 2. 10. the original word is foreign, which Grammarians say, is the bridge in a trap, which when the Mouse or any other vermin puts down, they are taken. Both are together in Rom. 14. 13. The first signifying a stone, &c. the second to halt, and this seems to follow upon the former; for when a man dasheth his foot against a thing, he halteth or falleth. Leigh Crit. Sac. in the word foreign.
To occasion]
To be the cause of, 1 Sam. 22. 22.
Occupation]
Trade, or kinde of life, Gen. 46. 33. & 47. 3. Jonah 1. 8. Art or science, Act. 18. 3. Part or share, Act. 19. 25.
Occupie]
To use, Judg. 16. 11. To trade, as in buying and selling, Ezek. 27. 9, 16. & 22. 22, 27. To accustome, or exercise, Heb. 13. 9. To supply, 1 Cor. 14. 16.
Occupie]
That never were occupied, Judg. 16. 11. Heb. wherewith work hath not been done, marg. They occupied with thee, Ezek. 27. 27. Heb. they were the Merchants of thy hand, marg.
Occupied]
Heb. 13. 9. exercised themselves. Hall.
Occupiers of thy merchandise]
Ezek. 27. 27. Factors, Merchants, or such as sell or trade in bartering or changing one commodity for another.
Occourrent]
1 King. 5. 4. The original word is translated chance, Eccl. 9. 11. It signifieth any thing that a man meets with, standing in his way, or hindring him in that which he is about.
Ocran]
Troublous, or troubling. The Father of Pagiel, Numb. 1. 13.
O D.
Odde]
The odde number of them is to be redeemed, Numb. 3. 48. or, of the redeemed that are moe.
Oded]
Sustaining, or listing up. The Father of Azariah, 2 Chr. 15. 1. tearmed Oded, the Prophet, vers. 8. See ch. 28. 9.
Odious]
To stink, 1 Chr. 19. 6. marg. One that hateth, or is hated, Prov. 30. 23.
Odour]
;;The efficacy of Christs death, appeasing the wrath of God, for the sins of the elect, causing themselves and their prayers to be acceptable to God. Rev. 3. 8. Much odour was given unto him. Eph. 5. 2. A sacrifice of sweet smelling odour.
;;2. The works of Charity, which being done in faith, are unto God (through Christ) as a pleasant odour. Phil. 4. 18. That which came from you was an odour that smelleth sweet.
3. Incense, (the prayers of the Saints) Revel. 5. 8. marg.
Odours; or Incense]
;;The merits of Christ our Mediator, which (as sweet odours) make the prayers of the Saints pleasing to God, Rev. 8. 3. Much odours (or incense) was given him.
Or, he found that grace and favour with God through Christ, to be a means of that which should manifest, that their prayers had prevailed, and found acceptance with God, as, as Act. 10. 4, 31. Annot.
Full of odours]
Rev. 5. 8. Containing matters of attonement, and gracious acceptance, as Exod. 30. 2, — 10. Numb. 16. 46, 48. not of wrath and indignation, as those chap. 8. 5. & 15. 7. Or, of incense; the prayers of Gods people which are sweet to him, as incense is to us. An allusion to the incense offered to the Golden Altar. Exod. 30. 1, 3. Psal. 141. 2. Mal. 1. 11. Rev. 1. 3. Annot.