A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part PE
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Peace]
;;Atonement with God by Christ, through whom God and the elect are of enemies made friends. Hence is Christ called Prince of peace, Isa. 9. 6. and Our Peacemaker, Eph. 2. 14. and to have made peace by his bloud, Col. 1. 20. Rom. 5. 1. Isa. 27. 5.
;;There is a divers peace in respect of the … or persons with which, the matters in which, and the means by which peace is made and kept.;;
1. There is peace with God,
;;1. By satisfaction for sins done against him; this is done by the suffering and merits of Christ, Eph. 2. 14.;;
;;2. By sanctification, 1 Joh. 3. 19, 20. This is done by his holy Spirit.;;
;;2. Peace with our selves or our consciences. This is wrought by the former means.;;
;;3. Peace with men.;;
;;1. Agreement with the good.;;
;;2. Deliverance or safety from the evill.;;
;;4. That sweet and comfortable quitenesse and tranquillity of Conscience, which is the immediate fruit of our atonement with God. Rom. 14. 17. The Kingdome of God is Peace, Joy, &c. Phil. 4. 7. Peace of God that passeth all understanding.
;;5. The mutuall concord and agreement of Christian brethren. Gal. 5. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is peace. Psal. 34. 14. Seek peace, and pursue it.
;;6. Prosperous and happy successe of things, when they fall out well and blessedly for the best to us. In this sense, Paul in his Apostolicall sallutations, wisheth peace unto the Churches: and the Jews one to another in their ordinary greetings. Mat. 10. 13. And let your peace come upon it. 1 Cor. 1. 3. Grace and peace. Eph. 6. 23. And often elsewhere, it is used in the same signification. ;;Note. When the Hebrews saluted one another, wishing prosperity, or asking of the welfare of others, their manner was to say, is there peace? or, Peace be to you. Gen. 29. 6. & 43. 27, 28. 1 Sam. 25. 5, 6. 2 Sam. 20. 9.
;;7. Perfect rest and joy, which elect souls shall have in heaven, this life being ended. Isa. 57. 2. Peace shall come. Rom. 8. 6.
;;8. The publick tranquillity and quiet state of the Church when it is not troubled within by Schismes and Heresies or without by persecuteing Tyrants, filling all with tumults, slaughters and bloody wars. Rev. 6. 4. Psa. 122. 6. Pray for the peace of Hierusalem. Act. 9. 31. The Churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilce.
;;9. The tranquillity of the publick weal, or politick State, when it is free from forrain and civill wars. 2 King. 20. 19. Is it not good there shall be peace in my dayes? Jer. 29. 7. In the peace thereof, shall you have peace.
;;10. The private agreement with all sorts of men, good and bad; Christians and Infidels. Rom. 12. 18. Have peace with all men, as much as in you is.
;;11. Security, when the heart free from the fear of dangers, doth falsely promise safety to it self 1 Thess. 5. 3. When they shall say, Peace, &c.
;;12. True safety, wealth, prosperity, and earthly felicity. 1 Sam. 25. 6. Be in peace, wealth, and prosperity. 1 Sam. 29. 7. Go in peace, Gen. 26. 29, 31.
;;13. A solemn Covenant and Society between Prince and Prince, Person and Person. Judg. 4. 17. For peace was between Jabin the King of Hazor, and between the house of Heber. Psal. 41. 9. Yea, the man of my peace; that is, my familiar friend which had made a Covenant of society with me.
;;14. Silence, by meanes whereof, many times quietnesse and peace is procured. Prov. 17. 28. A fool when he holds his peace is thought wise. Gen. 34. 5.
;;15. Mutuall agreement of wicked men in evill things. 2 King. 9. 22. Is all peace Jebu? What peace? Peace cometh of a word which betokeneth Pefection, and is opposed unto War and Sword, Psal. 120. 7. Mat. 10. 34. Also unto division, confusion, and tumultuous disorder, Luk. 12. 51. 1 Cor. 14. 33. and it denoteth generally, all prosperity, safety, and welfare of any body: and namely, that spoken of, Eph. 2. 14, 15.
16. All is well, 2 Sam. 18. 28. marg.
17. How one doth, Est. 2. 11. marg.
18. Loving kindenesse, and mercies, Jer. 16. 5.
19. No evill to come upon one, Jer. 23. 17.
20. Prosperity, Dan. 8. 25. marg.
Peace, peace]
;;All manner of good things so far as is for the good of his people, both abundantly and constantly laid up, and surely kept for them, Isa. 26. 3.
To answer peace]
;;To accept the conditions of peace offered, and to promise the keeping of them. Deut. 26. 11. Offer it peace and if it answer thee peace again, &c.
… of peace]
;;The sufferings of Christ, procuring and meriting atonement and friendship with God his Father for elect sinners. Isa. 53. 5. The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
Peace]
;;Tranquillity of mind, and felicity by Christ, Cant. 8. 10. Then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace. See found favour.
Peace]
Heb. 12. 14. follow peace with all men, He doth not say, embrace peace when it comes to you, and offers her self to you: but though she run away, sollow her; lay hold on her; and bring her whether she will or no: and that not with some, but all. But though we may be at a general peace, even with the enemies of God, yet we must not be familiar with them; and though we be at peace with their persons, yet must we not with their vices. Jones.
In Heb. 13. 20. God is called the God of Peace, and that in respect of the Gospel of peace whereby there is proclaimed peace between God and man, and the same also really communicated unto us, Rom. 5. 1. Annot?
To be found in peace]
;;Either to their good, finding God most gentle and pacified towards them; or else with a peaceable and quiet conscience waiting for his appearing, 2 Pet. 3. 14.
God of peace]
;;God to be the authour and giver of peace and the rewarder of such as live in peace, Phil. 4. 7. The God of peace shall be with you. He is called the God of peace, both passively, that they may finde peace with God, and have God at peace with them; and actively, that God would preserve them at peace and unity among themselves. And he simply wisheth not unto them peace, but the peace of God, even true peace. Lastly, were it in mans power to attain unto peace, joy, faith, &c. then were it superfluous to beg them of … daily prayer.
The peace of God, Phil. 4. 7. Not Gods peace or reconciliation towards us, but that peaceablenesse which God hath commanded and bequeathed to us. Dr. Hammond. Annot. b.
To got or return in peace]
;;With good safety to passe to and fro: also, to be quiet and well, 1 Sam. 1. 17. 1 Sam. 29. 7.
Goe in peace]
1. It's a form of speech used, when one giveth leave to another to depart, Exod. 4. 18. Judg. 18. 6. 1 Sam. 1. 17. & 20. 42. A cheerfull farewell, with wellwishing for prosperity, Marke 5. 34. Act. 16. 36.
2. It's for Quietly depart, 1 Sam. 29. 7. Act. 15. 33.
3. It's for, Be thankfull with Joy, Luk. 8. 48.
In 2 King. 5. 19. it doth not imply an approbation of any sinfull intention, but onelyonly a friendly dismission, without any reference to that which Naaman had said; or, if it have relation thereunto what can it imply but an absolution, signifying, that God had pardoned his former idolatry; or a consolation, intimating that God will bear with his frailty; or a direction, advising him not to trouble himselfe about bowing before an idol, but to remember his promise of worshipping the Lord? Annot. Or, Grant thee thy request to pardon thee; Bernard. Or, (if the words in vers. 18. be read in the praeter-tense) when my Master went into the house of Rimmon, the sense appears to be a pardon craved for sins past, not afterward to be committed. The same word foreign, came, is put to expresse the time past, in the Titles of the 51 & 52 Psalms. Good … in his Moses and Aaron, p. 200.
Gospel of peace]
;;The word of reconciliation and attonement Eph. 6. 15. Your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. Thus it is called because it worketh (as an instrument) atonement with God, peace with our brethren and our owne Consciences.
To hold peace]
;;To rest in the will of God. Luk. 10. 3. And he held his peace. It is used for concealing of grief and asswaging it with consideration of Gods chastisement, Gen. 34. 5. Psal. 39. 16.
To be silent, Job. 13. 13. marg. To be as one deaf, 1 Sam. 10. 27. marg. the voyce to be hid, Job 29. 10. marg.
Multitude of peace]
;;Great good successe, and abundance of prosperity. Psal. 37. 11. They shall delight in the multitude of peace.
To ordain peace]
;;To be author of peace, and of all the means whereby it is procured. Isa. 26. 12. Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us.
Peace offerings]
;;Sacrifices of retribution of thanksgiving. 1 Chr. 16. 1, 2. They offered peace-offerings. These resemble that part of our spiritual service under the Gospel, which is called Thanksgiving or praise. See Heb. 13. 15.
Peace to you]
;;Be of good comfort. Gen. 43. 23. Job. 21. 9. In these two places Peace is opposed to fear.
Prince of peace]
;;The worker and author of peace or reconcilement between God and us. Isa. 9. 6. Prince of peace. Thus is Christ alone.
Son of peace]
;;One that favoureth and embraceth the Gospel of peace, and the reconciliation by Christ, loving and living in peace with others. Luk. 10. 6. If the Son of peace be there.
Sown in peace]
;;That such as being godly wise, doe love and live in peace, they shall have fruit, or profit sutable to their just life, which they shall at the last in the end of the world (as it were in harvest) reap, being, ever blessed. Jam. 3. 18. Fruit of righteousnesse is sown in peace of them which make peace.
foreign, peace, signifi s,
1. That virtue of Charity, peace with men, and so it's certainly used in the end of the verse, in opposition to all the uncharitablenesse and emulations in the former part of this, and the beginning of the next chap. and consequently foreign, to doe or make peace (proportionable to the phrases foreign, to do righteousnesse, and foreign to do or commit sin) signifies to use all deligence, of indevour and industry, to attain it; to pursue peace, to be emulous, ambitious of quiet, studiously to contend for it.
2. According to the notion of the Hebr. foreign, all happinesse and prosperity, as when peace be to you, is the form of salutation, and contains all the blessings in the world, spirituall and temporall under it; and so by the ordinary figure of sacred Rhetorick, Antanaclasis, it seems to signifie here in the former place, in peace, i. e. in a most happy, gracious manner, or with a confluence of all felicity attending it. Dr. Ham. Annot. g.
To speak peace]
;;To promise tranquillity, rest and happinesse to soul and body, and to perform it. Psal. 85. 8. He shall speak peace to his people, and to his Saints.
;;2. To speak and talk with one lovingly and kindely. Gen. 37. 4. They could not speak peace unto him.
Peace]
;;Love, concord, and good agreement among men; Whilest they lived without hatred, bloody wars, slaughters, tumults and seditions, which the devill had power to raile and to make; that is, to take away peace and quietnesse. Rev. 6. 4. Power was given him to take peace from the earth.
From the Roman Empire, not from the Church; for it is called heaven in this Book: or, from the whole inhabited and known world. Annot.
Way of peace]
;;The doctrine that leads to eternall salvation, also faith it self, remission of sins and repentance: by the which we are at length brought unto heaven. Luk. 1. 29. And to guid our feet in the way of peace.
;;2. A quiet and peaceable life, free from quarrels and contention, ful of unity and good agreement, Rom. 3. 17. The way of peace they have not known.
Peaceable]
Sure quiet, Isa. 32. 18. Faithful, 2 Sam. 20. 19. A man of rest, 1 Chr. 22. 9.
Peaceably]
Gen. 37. 4. With peace, or unto peace; that is, gently, lovingly. The Gr. translateth, no peaceable thing. Aynsw.
Peace-maker]
Mat. 5. 9. One that every way indevoureth, by himselfe, others, by word, actions, by prayer unto God, entreaty unto men, to procure peace amongst others; who hunteth as it were after occasions, whereby to bring it to passe.
Peace-offering]
See Offering.
Peacock]
Hereof mention is made, 1 King. 10. 22. 2 Chr. 9. 21. & Job. 39. 13. It's a Bird of divers colours, full of feathers and most beautifull. It's not ignorant of the beauty of its feathers, and therefore doth often spread them out in the manner of a wheel, adding thereto a majestick and stately gate. This it doth upon the view of the female, and to be seen and praised; and thus also it preserveth it selfe as under a shadow and covering from the Sunbeams. Herein there's like unto that which shineth in the most excellent pictures gems and stars, yet more colours appear to the view of the beholder (by reason of the reflexion of the Sun-beams, mixt with the colours of the Peacocks feathers, and the shadows thereof) then indeed there are. As children when they … teeth, so it languisheth whilest its combe is breeding. It's dung is profitable, in physick, especially against the Gout, but is seldome found, being (as it's said) made away by it, out of its envy towards man; yet doth it love man, reverence him, and helpeth him when it seeth him hurt by other beasts. That it may still enjoy the company of the female, it seeketh deligently for its eggs, and having found them, destroyes them, which the female indevours to prevent. Others say, that he being more heavy then the female, sitting on the eggs, by his weight breaks them. It's very watchfull, bewraying theeves, or any extraordinary fire. It's said to have the voyce of the Devill, (its voyce is terrible) the head of a Serpent (which being combed and weak, it resembleth) and the pace of a theef, being still and without noyse. As the trees their leaves so it casteth its feathers (whereat it's much sadded) but as in the Spring they recover their leaves so its feathers grow again. As upon the view of its feathers it's much exalted, so upon the view of its black feet, it's cast down. Its flesh can scarcely be boyled, nor in a long time will putrefie. Hereof tryall hath been made for above a year. If their young ones touch nettles, they die. It loveth the young ones and is carefull to preserve them from the Fox. When it ascendeth higher then usuall, it presageth rain. The more females the male hath the more increase ariseth by each, which yet is but small in comparison of other fowls; whereas if there be but one, its fruit seldom cometh to good. Then especially beginneth it to love its young ones, when it seeth them combed as it self.
Pearle]
;;A thing of great value and price, and called a pearle for the orient brightness of it, Job 28. 18.
;;2. The precious Doctrine of salvation, or any godly admonition. Mat. 7. 6. Cast not your pearls before swine.
;;3. The glorious and most happy estate of the Saints in heaven. Revel. 21. 29. The twelve gates were twelve pearls.
;;4. Outward costly things, Rev. 17. 4. & 18. 12. 16.
Pearl]
;;Christ Jesus, conceived in celestial sort by the holy Ghost, in the wombe of a Virgin, as the Pearl (here mentioned) is begotten, not after an ordinary fashion, but by a dew falling from heaven. Rev. 21. 21. Every gate of one pearl.
The very entrance into heaven; or, into the last Church on earth, is of more worth then all worldly riches. Annot.
Pearl and pretious stone]
;;The ornaments and most costly deckings of the Whore or Beast by the parts, as gold, precious stones, pearl, &c. all outwardly glorious, not spiritually, that she may be thereby known not to be the chast Spouse of Christ. Rev. 17. 4. And the woman was arrayed with purple, gold, and pearl.
Peculiar]
;;The choycest of, and most precious part of a … substance, severed from the rest, and laid up for a mans self, Eccl. 2. 8.
;;2. Gods chosen and faithful people, singled from all other Nations, precious in his sight. Tit. 2. 14. And purge us to be a peculiar people.
A purchased people, 1 Pet. 2. 9. marg.
;;It is one thing to be a people, (as Turks, Indians, Persians, and Jews be) another thing to be Gods people, or his people, Mat. 1. 21. A peculiar people, Tit. 2. 14. An holy people, 1 Pet. 2. 9. Some be such by profession only, and in regard of a general vocation, whereby they are sanctified to God, and separate from Heathens which do not so professe. Thus in the Prophets the Israelites are often called Gods people, amongst whom there were many hypocrites; Isa. 1. 3, 4, 5. But others be his people in truth, by his especial calling, according to Gods purpose, giving them to his Son, and giving his Son for them, and to them, Joh. 6. 3. & 17. 12. We are by the judgement of charity to judge all members of the visible Church, which yeeld external obedience to that which they profess, to be truely his children, and people of his love, 2 Thess. 2. 13. leaving the judgement of certainty to God alone, who knoweth his own; to whom it belongs to separate the Goats from the Sheep in the end of the world.
Peculiar]
A peculiar people, 1 Pet. 2. 9. What foreign foreign signifies here, must be discerned from Exod. 19. 6. whence it is taken, (though the words are removed out of their place, and these, which are there before the royal Priesthood, here placed after it.) The Hebr. reads there foreign, which is literally, you shall be to me a treasure, or foreign, any thing that is laid up, and preserved most carefully. The Gr. render it there more according to the sense, foreign, ye shall be unto me a special or peculiar people, as that phrase is used and rendred, Tit. 2. 14. And though the Apostle here doth not use that whole phrase, yet he takes foreign, people, from thence, and for the word foreign, he renders it from Mal. 3. 17. foreign, for an acquisition or possession; for so there, that speech of Gods, which I make a treasure (i. e. lay up tenderly and carefully, and, as it followes, spare as one spareth his Son that serveth him) is rendred in the Gr. foreign, which I make for an acquisition or treasure. And so foreign, are those whom God means to keep most charily, as his dearest children, or most valued treasure. Dr. Hammond Annot. e.
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The redemption of God. The Son of Ammihud, Numb. 34, 28.
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A strong Redeemer, or a stone redeeming. The Father of Gamaliel, Numb. 1. 10.
Pedajah]
The Lords redeeming. The Son of Jeconiah, 1 Chr. 3. 18. The Father of Joel, 1 Chr. 27. 20. The Son of Parosh, Neh. 3. 25. One who stood on Ezra's left hand, Neh. 8. 4. The Son of Kolaiah, Ibid. 11. 7. A Levite, Neh. 13. 13.
Pedegree]
Numb. 1. 18. Genealogie, of what Tribe, Family, Ancestours, they came.
… of money]
Mat. 17. 27. We English foreign, a peece of money at large, but it contained precisely two Didrachma, for the Tribute-money to be paid for each … was Didrachmum, as is evident, Mat. 17. 24 (being in value fifteen pence, marg.) and this Stater was paid for two, namely for Christ and Peter, the value of it therefore was Two shillings six pence.
Peeces of gold, 2 King. 5. 5. Hereby is meant that which is elsewere called a … of gold, 1 Chr. 21. 25. Hence the one thousand seven hundred pieces of gold, mentioned Judg. 8. 26. the Gr. renders one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold. The weight of this coin was two Attick drams, the value 15. …. Goodwyn's Moses and Aaron, p. 326. 328.
Peeled]
Isa. 18. 2. that is, Stripped of all. A Metaphor taken from the pulling of hair, either from head or beard, Ezr. 9. 30. Neh. 13. 25. Isa. 50. 6.
It may be understood of the Aethiopians, being a peeled and beardlesse people; for the word imports a want of hair Lev. 13. 40, 41. little whereof is found on Aethiopian bodies, by reason of the heat of their Countrey.
To peep and …]
;;To speak with a slender voyce in a wispering sort, as they can scarce be heard, not plainly, aloud, and roundly, as the Lords Prophets denounced Gods minde. Isa. 8. 19. Unto Wizzards which peep and mutter. It is a Metaphor or speech borrowed from Chickens, now beginning to come out of the shell, and to chirp weakly; so the Soothsayers, as it were with an hollow voice out of the belly, and from within their jawes, uttered, or muttered rather their Divinations.
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Opening. The Son of Remaliah, 2 King. 15. 25.
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The Lords opening. The Son of Manahem. Ibid. 22.
Pekod]
Noble, or Rulers. A Countrey, Ezek. 23. 23. Also, visitation, …. 50. 21. marg.
Pelajab]
The miracle, or secret of the Lord. The Father of Zebudah, 2 King. 23. 36. The Son of Elioenai, 1 Chr. 3. 24. One that caused the people to understand the Law, Neh. 8. 7. One that sealed the Covenant, Ibid. 10. 10.
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Thinking on the Lord, entreating the Lord, or the judgement of the Lord. The Son of Amzi, Nehem. 11. 12.
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The deliverance, setting free, or banishment of the Lord. The Son of Hananiah, 1 Chr. 3. 21. The Son of Ishi, lb. 4. 42. One that sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 22. The Son of Benajah, Ezek. 11. 1, 13.
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A division. The Son of Eber, Gen. 10. 25. 1 Chr. 1. 19.
Pelet]
Deliverance, or banishment. The Son of …, 1 Chr. 12. 3. The Son of Jahdai, 1 Chr. 2. 47.
Peleth]
Decay, or judging. The Father of On, Numb. 16. 1. The Son of Jonathan, 1 Chr. 2. 33.
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The same. They with the Cherethites, were old, expert, strong and valiant men, which David chose for his guard, 2 Sam. 8. 18. & 15. 18. & 20. 7. 1 King. 1. 28. 44.
Some derive them from the word Palat, which signifieth either to defend, or such as were excellent, because they were excellent men that defended the Kings person. But others think they were thus named, rather from their Countrey, then from their Office, and that they were Garrison soldiers, living among the Japhlethites, in the Lot of the Children of Joseph, Josh. 16. 3. from which (being valiant and expert souldiers) the King chose his guard to attend his person, who thereupon gave their attendance by course, 2 Sam. 15. 18.
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Reckoned amongst the unclean fowles, Lev. 11. 18. Deut. 14. 17. dwelleth in the wilderness, Psal. 102. 6. It is named Kaath, of vomiting; nor doth the name differ from the custom thereof, which is to vomit up the meat, as Shel-fishes, by it before devoured. Some take it to be a Shovelar, which is a bird following Water-sowles that take fishes, holding and … them by the heads, untill they have let go their prey. Some derive it from foreign, which is to …, for that it useth with its beak to strike at and gnaw trees. In greatness it is like unto the …, and hath great wings, but a lean body, for that its intrails are slippery, not retaining the food which it eateth, but quickly casting them forth without concoction. One kind frequenteth the waters, feeding on fishes; another wildernesses, feeding on serpents, &c. both delighting in solitary places: It's said of the former, that it swalloweth Shelfishes, which being sodden as it were in her intrails, she … forth, and the shell opening, she eateth the fish, letteth the shell alone. The latter might be … reputed unclean, for that it fed on venemous things. Between it and the Serpent there's a natural antipathy, and therefore in its absence the Serpent climbeth up into its nest, and by its breath and biting killeth the young Pelicans; for the recovery whereof, their Dam having lamented them three dayes, with its bill pierceth its own breast, and with the … issuing therefrom sprinkleth them, whereby they live again. By this means the Dam becometh so weak, that she can neither provide for her self, nor them, which they finding, are forced to flie abroad, and provide for themselves. Of them some prove unthankful, wholly neglecting their Dam; others thankful, bringing her food, who when strengthened, accordingly dealeth with either sort (as Writers affirm.) If in its absence the Shepherds fire its nest, it … thereon, thinking by its wings to quench it; nor ceaseth to do thus, notwithstanding the heat of the fire, till it self be quite burnt up therewith. One kinde of them will not feed on any thing, till it be first dipped or washed in water, and when it drinketh, doth as it were bite the water.
Pelonite]
Falling, hid, or secret. Helez and Abijah thus named, 1 Chr. 11. 27, 36.
Pen]
Either of quil, cane, or reed, for such also were the pens anciently in use, Isa. 8. 1. Used by such as were skilfull and ready in writing, Judg. 5. 14. Psal. 45. 1. 3 Joh. 13. In Job 19. 24. there's mention of an iron pen, and Jer. 17. 1.
A mans pen, Isa. 8. 1. Some understand this of the letter, that it should not be written in some strange character, that few could read, as that doom passed upon Baltasar, Dan. 5. 8, 15. but in a plain familiar letter, in an ordinary hand, such as any one might easily read and that also so fair and large, that it might be read aloof off, and without any long stay, Hab. 2. …. Some, of the style, to …, that it should be conceived and delivered, not in an obscure and … enigmatical or sybolical …, as … few capacities should reach it.
Penie]
There were two … of … in use amongst them, the common penie. which valued of ours, 7 d. ob. and the … of the …, which valued 1 …. 3 d. for it was answerable to their …, and of this last was the Tribute-money, Matth. 22. 19. This …, or …, was formerly paid by the Israclites every year after they were twenty years old, towards their Temple, Exod 30. 13. … by taking away this money from the Temple, and changing it into a tribute … his one …, did in truth take away … God that which was Gods. Hence is that question proposed unto Christ, Is it … to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? Christ answereth, Render unto Caesar the things are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods, Mar. 12. 16. Goodwyn, p. 326. Of the common penie, that it valued 7 d. ob. See …. 18. 28. marg.
Penie]
See Measure of ….
Peniel]
Seeing God, or the face of God. A place neer the ford, …, Gen. 32. 30.
Penie-worth]
Worth so many pence, Mar. 6. 37.
Pen-knife]
He cut it with the pen-…, Jer. 36. 23. Heb. he tore with the Scribes knife, or rasor, as it is rendred Psal. 52. 2. Isa. 7. 20. Such as the Scribes used to make and mend their pens with, and to rase out ought in any roll or writing, when occasion was so to do. Annot.
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A precious stone, or our face. One of the Wives of Elkanah, 1 Sam. 1. 1, 2.
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The …, viz. day from the Passeover. A feast of the Jews, Act. 2. 1. & 20. 16. 1 Cor. 16. 8. called the feast of weeks, Deut. 16. 10. See Lev. 23. 15.
Penuel]
Seeing God, or the face of God. A place, Judg. 8. 8. 1 King. 12. 25. The Father of Gedor, 1 Chr. 4. 4. The Son of Shashak, 1 Chr. 8. 25.
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Property, need, scarcity, want, Prov. 14. 23. Luk. 21. 4.
People]
;;The Elect given to Christ. Mat. 1. 21. He shall save their people from their sins.
;;2. Pillars, which resembled the people, Metonymie of the signe. Lev. 24. 8. Sprinkled on the people.
;;3. Holy Fathers, Gen. 49. 29.
4. A multitude or company of men and women, of one City, Common-wealth, Monarchy, joyned together by law, right, and communion, of benefits each to other, and good turns one from another, and governed by a certain Magistrate. Hence not to be a people, signifieth, to have no Republick, Isa. 7. 8. and Subjects are called, The people of the King who ruleth them, Gen. 41. 40. Exod. 5. 16. 1 Sam. 15. 30. The inhabitants of a City are called the people thereof, Gen. 17. 14. & 23. 11. Exod. 22. 28. Ruth 1. 10, 15, 16. A people which we knew not before; that is, a strange people, Ruth 2. 11. Every people, that is, of what ever people, Rev. 5. 9.
5. Men and women, Numb. 21. 6. 2 Sam. 22. 28. tearmed, All people, Psal. 49. 1. and People upon the earth, Isa. 42. 5.
6. Such as are of one family, Gen. 32. 7. & 35. 6. Hence, To be gathered unto his people, is, To be buried in the same Sepulcher with them of the family already dead, Genes. 25. 8.
7. Souldiers, Numb. 20. 20. Judg. 8. 5. & 9. 32, 33.
8. A multitude, Isa. 13. 4. & 17. 12. Hence, To become a people, is, To have a numerous off-spring. Gen. 48. 19. He shall also become a people.
9. The Elders of the people, 1 Sam. 8. 10. compared with vers. 4. Also, inferiours, Isa. 24. 2.
10. The Isralites or Jews, Psal. 62. 8. Act. 7. 17.
11. The Nation of the Jews, Joh. 11. 50. & 18. 14.
12. All nations and people saving the Jews, or the Gentiles, Psal. 18. 23. Ezek, 3. 6. Rom. 15. 11.
13. The people of God, Isa. 19. 25. & 51. 16. Ezek. 36. 9. Zech. 13. 9. Heb. 4. 9. & 11. 25. which are either absolutely tearmed, people, Luk. 2. 10. or, Gods people, Exod. 3. 7, 10. The Lords people, 2 King. 11. 17. The people of the Lord of hosts, Zeph. 2. 10. The people of his …, Isa. 63. 18. A people whose God is the Lord, Psal. 144. 15. A willing people, Psal. 110. 3. A peculiar people, 1 Pet. 2. v. 9.
14. The dead or they that are departed this life, Gen. 25. 8, 17. & 35. 29. & 49. 33.
15. Kindred, neighbours, friends, 2 King. 4. 13.
16. The Romans, Dan. 9. 26.
17. The children of one parent, Deut. 9. v. 2.
18. They that one hath a speciall care of, Est. 3. 6.
19. Dumb creatures, Prov. 30. 25.
People]
Gen. 29. 1. Heb. children, marg. Prov. 14. 34. …. Nations, marg.
People]
Heb. 8. 10. And they shall be to me a people, that is, … me, depend on me by a lively faith, live in obedience to me, serve me, and no other. Jones.
Heb. 9. 7. And for the errors of the people, that is, all sorts of sins, (committed by the people) because all sorts of sins arise from some error in judgement, chap. 5. 3. & 7. 23. Luk. 16. 16. Annot.
Ye are the people, Job 12. 1. that is, ye conceive that ye are a wise people, and more excellent then others for knowledge, Deut. 4. 6. and others are but beasts in comparison of you, ye think ye are a select people; or, ye imagine that you three are as an whole Nation, and all the wit in the Nation is in your heads. Annot.
Gathering of the people]
;;Obedience of both Jews and Gentiles, which should be gathered to Christ, Gen. 49. 10.
People of …]
;;signifies a people laden with sin, which they heaped up by multiplying faults of all sorts, till as an horse under the burden, so they sunk under the weight of sin, and Gods anger procured thereby. Isa. 1. 4. People of heaviness. Psal. 38. 4. Sin is like an heavy burthen, which presseth sore, and such as be covered with sins, be a people of heaviness.
His people]
;;A people which shall willingly submit to be governed of God, who shall for ever protect them according to his Covenant. Rev. 21. 3. And they shall be his people.
Mighty people]
;;The Jews a valiant Nation destroyed, by … Epiphanes, Dan. 2. 24.
No people]
;;Either to be stangers from God, without, a calling by the Gospel; or to want a Kingdom and policy of their own, being led captive, Isa. 7. 8.
People or Nations out of four quarters]
;;A company of men gathered out of many sundry Nations and Regions. Rev. 20. 8. He shall deceive the people (or Nations) of all quarters, &c.
He shall draw, in all parts, some, to fight against the Church to their destruction. Annot.
People, or Nations saved]
;;Elect people of all Nations, preserved from the curse and tyranny of sin, by Christ: all these should be helpfull and favourable to the restored Church of the …. Rev. 21. 24. And the people (or …) that are saved.
… people]
;;The servants and officers of Saul, men void of humanity, mercy and kindness, yea filled with cruelty against David, as Saul the King and their Master was, (like Master like men) seeking maliciously, unjustly, and violently to oppose … and innocent David. Psal. 43. 1. Defend my cause against the unmerciful people.
Peor]
;;A gaping, or opening. A hill, Numb. 23. 28.
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If so be, or, It may be. It is a word that intimateth difficulty, and yet with some hope of possibility, Gen. 18. 24. Exod. 32. 30. 2 Tim. 2. 25.
Perazim]
Breaches, or divisions. A Mount, Isa. 28. 21.
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Spiritually to apprehend, Deut. 29. 4. Experimentally to finde, 2 King. 4. 7. To discern, understand, Job 9. 11. & 23. 8. To have knowledge, or take notice of, Gen. 19. 33. To taste, Prov. 13 18. marg. To know, Josh. 22. 31. To see, Joh. 4. 19. & 12. 19. Act. 8. 23. To have sure knowledge of, Act. 10. 34. Upon due observation and consideration, to take notice of, Act. 17. 22.
Perdition]
;;Destruction or eternal punishment in hell fire. Joh. 17. 12. Childe of perdition. Here Perdition is used passively, for one destroyed, suffering Perdition to which he was appointed of God from everlasting, to declare his Justice.
;;2. Destruction or downfal of other men, both in body and soul. 2 Thess. 2. 3. Even the Son of perdition. Here the word is used actively, for a destroyer, who worketh perdition to his followers, being also himself ordained to destruction.
Perdition]
Heb. 10. 39. The destruction both of body and soul.
… of …, man of sin]
;;A man that is a notorious sinner, and such an one as is markt out to perdition; as a bloudy man is in Scripture named, A man of bloud; and they which be markt out for hell, are called, the children of hell.
Peres]
Divided, Dan. 5. 28.
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A horse-man, casting out to be …, or …. claring. The Son of Machir by Maacah his wife, 1 Chr. 7. 16.
Perez]
A division. The same with Pharez the Son of Judah, Gen. 38. 21. See 1 Chr. 27. 3. & Nehem. 11. 4, 6.
Perez-uzzah]
The division or breach of Uzzah, or the division of strength, or of a goat. A place so named upon the death of Uzzah, 2 Sam. 6. 8.
Perfect]
;;One that hath an absolute fulness of grace, when there is not the least want. Phil. 3. 12. I am not already perfect. 1 Cor. 13. 20. when that which is perfect is come. Mat. 19. 21. If thou wilt be perfect. Such as have taught an absolute perfection of an inherent grace in this life, as if men could be without sins, as Familists, or keep the whole Law, as Papists avow, they rise up against the light both of Scriptures, and their own Conscience, which doth witness the contrary to every man.
;;2. One that hath a good degree of perfection in grace, and a striving towards the absolute fulness of it, though still there be many wants. Phil. 3. 15. Let us therefore as many as be perfect. 1 Cor. 2. 6. We speak wisdom amongst those which be perfect. Heb. 5. 5, 14. In these places perfection is set against weakness and rudeness; and signifies no more but a good measure of present profiting in the knowledge of God, in Faith, Wisdom, Repentance and Obedience, and a tending or striving to further perfection, in these graces of regeneration. Some men are perfect comparatively in respect of others, but not absolutely. There is a degree of humane perfection to be attained unto in this life, and there is an high point of celestial perfection, which none can reach, Phil. 3. 12, 15.
;;3. One that hath uprightness and sincerity, (as when perfection is set against hypocrisie) 2 King. 20. 3. Hezekiah served God with a perfect heart. 1 Chr. 28. 9. My son serve God with a perfect heart; that is, sincerely, and in truth, Gen. 6. 9. marg. Deut. 18. 13. marg.
;;4. One well furnished with knowledge of the Word, how to perform all parts of his function in the Ministery. 2 Tim. 3. 17. That the man of God (that is, the Minister) may be absolute, being made perfect, &c.
;;5. One which so govetneth his words, as no fault may be found with his speech. Jam. 3. 2. If any man sin not in word, he is a perfect man.
6. Of full age, Heb. 5. 14. marg.
7. Consecrated, Heb. 7. 28. marg.
It's spoken of, and applyed,
I. Unto God, Mat. 5. 48. His way, Psal. 18. 30. Law, Psal. 19. 7. Will, Rom. 12. 2. Gift, Jam. 1. 17. Work, Deut. 32. 4.
II. Unto things, as Weights, Deut. 25. 15. Lot, 1 Sam. 14. 41. Way, Psal. 101. 2. Day, Prov. 4. 18. Peace, Isa. 26. 3. Beauty, Ezek. 16. 14. and unto divers other things.
III. Unto Man, a Believer, who is understood to be so:
1. By Christ imputatively, Col. 2. 28.
2. Comparatively with wicked men, as who endevoureth to fear God, and eschew evill, Job 1. 8. & 8. 20. & 9. 22.
3. As wanting nothing that is absolutely necessary for salvation.
4. As being perfectly justified.
5. As whose sanctification is accepted with God for perfection, by the benefit of the Covenant of Grace, and the intercession of Christ, 1 Cor. 2. 6. Phil. 3. 15.
6. As being upright, sincere, simple and plain-hearted in his life and conversation, Gen. 6. 9. & 17. 1. Deut. 18. 13. Psal. 37. 37.
7. As carrying himself harmlesly towards his enemies, Psal. 64. 4.
8. As imitating God in doing good, Mat. 5. 48.
9. As indevouring to fulfill what is wanting, and to be going forward, 2 Cor. 13. 11. Col. 4. 20.
10. As who understandeth the excellency of the doctrine of salvation in Christ by the Gospel, 1 Cor. 2. 6.
Perfect]
;;… to God, and sanctified with the Fathers, who lived before Christ, were not by the Levitical rites severed from Christ, the substance of them, Heb. 11. vers. last. Also Heb. 7. 11, 19.
Perfect]
Either we are already persect, Phil. 3. 12. crowned, or received the reward, as foreign, an agonistical word, signifieth: of their prizes there were some more … then others; the more illustrious were called foreign, the persect rewards or prizes. Dr. Ham. Annot. d.
Perfect charity]
;;That love which is unfaigned, accomplished in the effects and fruits of love, being [not equal] but like to that love wherewith God loveth us; which he shewed indeed, by giving his Son forus. 1 Joh. 4. 18. Perfect charity casteth out fear.
Faith perfect by works]
;;Not that any mans faith is so absolute and full, as hath no want, no not Abraham's, 1 Cor. 13. 9. Or that the vigour and perfection of faith did hang upon works, which fetcheth all their sorce and praise from faith: but it noteth that the declaration of faith dependeth upon works, which the more and the better they be, do shew faith to be more perfect and effectual, as a Tree is witnessed to be the more perfect and good, when it beareth most excellent and store of fruit. Jam. 2. 22. By works was saith made perfect.
Perfect Law]
;;Such a doctrine as teacheth not some things only which may leave men without excuse, as the works of God do, Rom. 1. 20. but all things necessary to be known of God or our selves, for faith or obedience to salvation, Psal. 19. 7.
Made perfect in one, Joh. 17. 23. that is, United sincerely and truly, by our union with Christ, and he with his Father, as Mediator.
Man of God made perfect, 2 Tim. 3. 17. that is, be furnished so with knowledge of the Word, as he becometh able to perform all the parts of the Ministery.
Might perfect that which is lacking, 1 Thess. 3. 10. that is, Supply, help to make up.
Unto a perfect man, Eph. 4. 13. that is, To ripe judgement (as of a full and complete man) in the knowledge of Christ.
I have not sound thy works perfect before God, Rev. 3. 2. The words are foreign, thy wayes filled up, thou hast not filled up thy course in following me, not followed me fully; that is, when the inwards of the man are filled up with acts of graces, and every grace with acts proper for its object. Leighs Annot.
To perfect]
Psal. 138. 8. that is, Bring to passe.
To be perfected]
Luk. 13. 32. that is, Offered for a sacrifice. So Heb. 2. 10.
Perfection]
;;1. That good order which by the Word of God is setled in any Church, when all the members thereof keep their due place and standing, and perform their function duely. 2 Cor. 13. 9. This we wish, even your perfection.
;;2. The things of this world, which be most glorious and excellent. Psal. 119. 96. I have seen an end of all ….
;;3. Multitude, or full ripeness, Isa. 47. 9. They shall come upon thee in their persection.
;;4. More knowledge of doctrine tending to perfection. Heb. 6. 1. Let us go on unto perfection.
;;5. Free from blame, or that all things might be in good order amongst them, and the members of the Church restored, which had been shaken and put out of their places. 2 Cor. 13. 9. And this also we wish, even your perfection.
;;6. The height or greatest accomplishment of a thing. Job 11. 7. Canst thou finde out the Almighty unto persection? Canst thou know him and his counsels perfectly? Canst thou tell the utmost he aims at in afflicting thee?
;;7. The most excellent and perfect metals. Job 28. 3. And searcheth out all persection.
;;8. Full growth, maturity, ripeness. Luk. 8. 14. And bring no fruit to perfection.
;;9. Justification, sanctification, and consequently salvation. Heb. 7. 11. If therefore perfection were by the Levitical Priest-hood, &c.
There is perfection in Doctrine, Heb. 6. 1. in Faith, Jam. 2. 22. in Hope, 1 Pet. 1. 13. in Love, 1 Joh. 4. 18. in Understanding, 1 Cor. 14. 20. marg.
All perfection]
;;All things or creatures, visible, which were perfected and consummated of God at the Creation; and which seem to men to have chiefest excellency and use, yet they are of shortest continuance. Psal. 119. 96. I have seen an end of all persection.
;;The perfection which Scripture … unto the Saints, is to be understood three wayes.
;;1. Either of the perfection of the parts of holiness, the Saints being sanctified, as in every part and power of soul and body, so to every duty concerning them in a measure.
;;2. Or else of sincerity and uprightness, as a perfect heart noteth a single and upright heart.
;;3. Or comparative, with reference to such as be weak.
Perfection]
Heb. 6. 1. Let us go on unto …. We must be as Travellers that are ever walking and going on and on, never resting till we come to our journeys end, which will not be till death it self shall come. Jones.
Heb. 7. 11. If persection were by the Levitical Priesthood; that is, if the Levitical Priesthood could have justified, …, and so consequently brought unto salvation. Annot.
Perfectly]
Ye shall consider it perfectly, Jer. 23. 20. with understanding or consideration. Annot. Throughly, Mat. 14. 36. Perspicuously, plainly, exactly, Act. 18. 26. Well, throughly, 1 Thess. 5. 2.
That ye … perfectly joyned together, 1 Cor. 1. 10. The original foreign, signifieth as to restore and set things fala into their proper place again (as Gal. 6. 1. foreign, restore and set him in joynt again (the phrase being borrowed from Chirurgeons, who being to deal with a broken joynt, will handle the same very tenderly, setting the bone that is broken, so as it may become as strong and sound as ever it was) so to be more and more perfected and established in that same estate unto which they were restored, which is the notion in this place. Leigh Crit. Sac.
Perfectness]
Which is the bond of persectness, Col. 3. 14. This may be an hypallage, the most perfect bond; may be also in that notion that perfect, Mat. 5. 48. which is all one with merciful, Luk. 6. 36. For so the Christian charity, that is a transcript of Christs love to us, is a conspiration or meeting together (so foreign may signifie) of all mercifulness, or else an obligation to it. Dr. Hammond Annot. b.
Perform]
1. To make good, Deut. 9. 5.
2. To separate, Numb. 15. 3. marg.
3. To do, Deut. 25. 5. Psal. 119. 112. marg.
4. To bring to passe, 1 Sam. 3. 12. Job 5. 12.
5. To grant and yield to, Est. 5. 8.
6. To finish, Phil. 1. 6. marg.
Performance]
An accomplishment, fulfilling, Luk. 1. 45.
Perfume]
Incense, Exod. 30. 35. This signified our prayers, as it is written, They had golden cups full of incense (or persumes) which are the prayers of the Saints, Rev. 5. 8. … rejoyceth the heart, Prov. 27. 9.
It was made of myrrhe, frankincense, and powders of the Merchant, Cant. 3: 6. or myrrhe, aloes, and cinnamon (though to an unlawful end) Prov. 7. 17.
Didst increase thy perfumes, Isa. 7. 59. or, Hast multiplyed thy confections, that is, Either thou hast used abundance of them to prepare and fit thy self for them, or sent abundance thereof to them, to wooe and win them to thee.
To perfume]
Spoken of a Bed, Prov. 7. 17. of Christ, Cant. 3. 6.
To perfume with …]
;;To make sweer, by pouring into the heart the heavenly graces of the Spirit, like incense and myrrhe, Cant. 3. 6. Persumed with Myrrhe and Incense. See Myrrhe.
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Very earthly, or near the earth. A City of Pamphylia, Act. 13. 13.
Pergamus]
Height. A famous City of Asia, to the Church whereof John wrote, Rev. 1. 11. & 2. 12.
Perhaps]
Act. 8. 22. 2 Cor. 2. 7. Philem. 15. See Peradventure.
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A separation, or division, Neh. 7. 57.
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Danger or hazard, Rom. 8. 35. 2 Cor. 11. 26. as Paul was thus, so was the Church long before, Lam. 5. 9. foreign, for that it moveth grief.
… times]
;;Such times wherein it shall be very hard to perceive what counsels to take, and how to behave our selves among such monstrous men as shall arise out of the visible Church. 2 Tim. 3. 1. Shall be … times.
Perish]
1. To be consumed, 1 Sam. 27. 1. marg.
2. To be rooted out, 2 King. 9. 6. Psal. 10. 16.
3. To be cut off, Gen. 41. 36. marg.
4. To be ended, Est. 9. 28. marg.
5. To passe, Job 33. 18. marg. Passe away, Job 36. 12. marg.
6. To be made naked, Prov. 29. 18. marg.
7. To be destroyed, Isa. 41. 11. Utterly wasted, Isa. 60. 12.
8. To lose ones life, Jonah 1. 6. Mark 4. 38.
9. To be taken away by death, Isa. 57. 1. Mich. 7. 2.
10. To …. Luk. 15. 7. I perish with hunger.
11. To be damned, Rom. 2. 12. 1 Cor. 1. 18.
12. To be without being, 1 Cor. 15. 18.
Note, that this word is diversly applyed, and so diversly taken, the meaning whereof unto the considerate Reader will plainly appear.
Perjury]
;;Forswearing, or a false oath, when the party that sweareth, either knoweth the matter to … false, or thinketh it so to be. 1 Tim. 1. 10. To the perjured. Mat. 5. 33. Though the matter be true, yet if he that sweareth do think it be false, or not know it certainly to be true: Perjury is committed in the Court of Conscience. He that sweareth by the name of God falsly, or …, he forsweareth.
Perizzites]
Rural, or dwelling in unwalled villages. A people, Gen. 13. 7. which God commanded to be destroyed, Deut. 20. 12.
Permenas]
Continuing. One of the seaven Deacons, Act. 6. 5.
Permission]
Sufferance, leave, grant, 1 Cor. 7. 6.
To permit]
;;To suffer, and not to let a thing when one might hinder it. Heb. 6. 3. If God permit. Permission in in God, hath two things:
;;1. Patience or fuffering.
;;2. Might or efficacy.
;;God willeth whatsoever he permitteth, because nothing can be, unlesse he will have it to be. The … of an unwilling permission is to be avoyded.
;;That the wicked acts of ungodly men and others are done rather by the power, then by the permission of God, Augustine proveth both by Testimony of Scripture, Rom. 9. 22. Also, by innumerable examples, as by delivering up Achab to beleeve a lie, 1 King. 22. By driving … to hearken to bad counsell, it came of the Lord, 1 King. 12. 15. By stirring up David the King to number the people, 1 Chron. 24. 2 Sam. 24. By spoyling Job, &c. Job 1. v. last. To which may be added the example of Amaziah, 2 Chr. 25. Also, Isa 63. & Ezek. 14. All which do teach, that in evill and sinfull works, there is to be seen not onelyonly Gods sufferance in withdrawing grace, but his power, in working, directing, and … mens wills and actions: especially beholding this in the death and passion of our Lord, who is said to be delivered to the death by his Father, according to his decree and determinate counsell, Act. 2. & 4. Therefore he did more then … and leave the Jews to their own free-will and Satans malice, for himself was a soveraigne and principal cause: that thereby mans redemption might be wrought. Judas deliverd Jesus to the Jews, the Jews delivered him to Pilate, and God delied him unto death; yet in this action, God onelyonly without sin, because he had a good end.
To permit, or to have power]
;;To give power and liberty to work stange things, as saith Paul, 2 Thess. 2. 9. Rev. 13. 15. And it was permitted to him to give a spirit, &c. or he hath power to give life, &c.
Pernitious wayes]
2 Pet. 2. 2. or lascivious, marg. Gr. their destruction, that is, their doctrines that bring destruction, as vers. 1.
Perpetual]
1. The duration of time to the worlds end. Gen. 9. 12. For … generations.
2. Continuation of a thing so long as it is to be done. Exod. 30. 8. A perpetual incense before the Lord, throughout your generations.
3. For ever and ever. Psal. 9. 6. Destructions are come to a perpetual end.
4. A set space of time. … …, namely, for 70 years, Jer. 25. 9. 11.
5. Durable, without intermission, or old, Ezek. 35. 5. Thou hast had a perpetuall hatred, marg.
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Alwayes, 1 King. 9. 3. Amos 1. 11.
Perplexed]
Doubtful what to doe, at a stand, (standing in doubt, Gal. 4. 20. marg.) One brought into such straits, out of which he knoweth not how to rid himselfe, wondering, admireing, doubting, being in distresse of minde, and astonished at his condition, Est. 3. 15. Luk. 9. 7.
It's spoken also metaphorically, of the herds of cattel having no pasture, Joel 1. 18.
Perplexity]
Grievous judgement, wherewith men through the just judgement of God are intangled; great afflictions and calamities, Isa. 22. 5. Mic. 7. 4. It is a Metaphor … man or beast intangled in a thicket. See Exod. 14. 3.
Persecute]
It's spoken,
I. of God, with relation,
1. Unto the wicked, and so put for pursue and overtake. Psal. 83. 15. So persecute them with thy tempest. And for to proceed against. Lam. 3. 66. Persecute and destroy them in anger.
2. Unto the Church, and so put for to afflict them. Lam. 3. 43. Thou hast persecuted us.
II. Of the Angel of the Lord. Psal. 35. 6. Let the Angel of the Lord persecute them; that is, chase, drive, pursue them.
III. Of Man, signifying,
1. Eagerly to pursue and follow, not resting, leaving or giving over till he obtain his prey. Psal. 7. 1. Save me from all them that persecute me. Mat. 5. 11. Blessed are ye when men shall persecute you.
2. To chase out, 1 Thess. 2. 15. marg.
The objects of the ungodlies persecution, are,
1. Jesus Christ, both in his person, Joh. 5. 16. and in his members, Act. 9. 4, 5.
2. The Church of God, 1 Cor. 15. 9. Gal. 1. 13. The godly, 2 Tim. 3. 12. Whether Prophets, Matth. 5. 12. Act. 7. 52. Apostles, 1 Cor. 4. …. or other Saints, Act. 26. 11.
3. The way of salvation, and profession of Christ. Act. 22. 4. I persecuted this way to the death.
4. The Word of the Lord, Jer. 20. 8.
To persecute]
;;To offer violence and injury to such as cannot repell it. Rev. 12. 13. He persecuted the woman which had brought forth the Man-childe.
He pesecuted, by the Popes, when he could do it no longer by the Heathen Emperours. Or, it may be understood of the Arrian persecution, under Constantius and Valens, which came within this time, and was seconded by Popish …, till the time prefixed was finished. Annot.
Persecuter]
One that with all his cunning and might molesteth and troubleth Gods people, chasing them from one place to another, 1 Tim. 1. 13.
Persecution]
;;An obstinate pursuing others, to hurt or destroy them, without giving rest or quietnesse. Mat. 5. 10. Blessed are they which suffer persecution. Gal. 4. 19. It is either by word or sword, by deceit or violence; open or disguised; for Religion or for righteousnesse; from false Brethren, or professed enemies.
;;The first persecution of the Christian Church, was violent, by the Princes of the world, under divers Emperours of Rome; the second was fraudulent, by Hereticks, as Arius, Nestorius, &c. The third both by force and fraud, to wit, when both temporall and spirituall power (as in the Pope) did meet together, against the Lord and his Christ: Augustine. Such is the nature of the Church, as it increaseth by adversities, and decreaseth by prosperity: and (as Luther writes) it multiplies by being minished, overcometh when it is overcome; being like to Christ the head, who being …, yet was Conquerour. Add this as a second comfort to the faithful under persecution, that Christ is persecuted in his members; who toucheth them, doth touch the apple of his eye. Christ makes the afflictions of the Church to be his owne, as the head is sensible of the pains felt by the foot.
Perseverance]
;;The continuing in grace to the end. Perseverance may stand with many deep fals, but it keeps from falling away. Mat. 10. 22. He that persevereth (or endureth) to the end, he shall be saved. See Confirmation.
;;It is an errour, to hold that true beleevers may fall from saveing grace, either wholly for a time, or for ever.
Persia]
Breaking, dividing, a horse-hoos, or a crooked nose. A Countrey, 2 Chr. 36. 20, 22. Hence Persian, Neh. 12. 22. Persians, Est. 1. 19. The natives or inhabitants thereof.
Persis]
The same. A saithfull woman, Rom. 16. 12.
Person]
;;Some particular man or woman. Gen. 14. 21. Give me the persous &c. Dan. 11. 2. Aatiochus Epiphanes is called a vile person, for his base and furious behaviour, Epimanes rather then Epiphanes. In Gen. 36. 6. and Exod. 16. 16. For the Persons the marg. hath souls.
;;2. The divine essence, subsisting by it self. Heb. 1. 3. The ingraved form of his Person.
;;3. Outward qualities, of country, riches, friends, poverty, and such like externall circumstances. Rom. 2. 11. God is no respecter of persons, Act. 10. 34. Luk. 20. 21. God doth not measure and accept men by their riches, worship, poverty, nation, or such things: inward or outward, of body or goods.
;;Note. These qualities are no further blamed, then they do darken the truth, and hinder right.
4. Sight, 2 Cor. 2. 10. In the person of Christ, or in the sight of Christ, marg.
Persons]
According to the number of your persons, Exod. 19. 16. Hebr. souls, marg.
Ye shall not respect persons, Deu. 1. 17. Heb. acknowledg faces, marg.
Perswade]
1. To deceive, 1 King. 22. 20. marg. Who shall perswade (or deceive) Ahab?
2. To assure. Rom. 14. 5. Let every man be fully perswaded, or fully assured, marg.
3. To seduce, or incite, 2 Chr. 32. 11. & 18. 2.
4. To …. Prov. 25. 15. By long forbearing a Prince is perswaded.
5. To provoke move, or stir up, Act. 14. 19.
6. To trust or hope for. Heb. 6. 9. We are perswaded better things of you.
7. To be fully assured, sure of, Luk. 20. 6. Rom. 8. 37.
To perswade men]
;;To advise the hearers in Sermons, by authority of men, to believe men, and things which come from men, as false Apostles did, abusing the names of the true Apostles to discredit Paul, as if he had taught contrary unto them. Gal. 1. 10. Doe I perswade men?
To be perswaded]
;;To be infallibly assured of a thing by demonstrative certainty, Rom. 8. 37. I am perswaded. This is the perswasion and certainty of faith.
;;2. To be probably assured of a thing, by conjectural certainty. Heb. 6. 9. We have perswaded our selves better things of you. This is perswasion of charity, Rom. 14. 14. There is an infallible perswasion which the faithfull have of themselves, and probable perswasion which they have of others.
;;Note. The Greek word, which is englished, I am perswaded, or I am sure is used of things which lie in conjectural and no certain knowledge, as well as of things whereof there is infallible and undoubted knowledge. See Rom. 15. 14. 2 Tim. 1. 5, &c. It is the argument wherewith the word is joyned, and which is added to declare the signification thereof which restraineth the meaning to an assured knowledg, as Rom. 8. 30. For it is most true, that the faithful being justified of God, cannot be condemned.
Perswaded]
Heb. 6. 9. We are perswaded better things of you. He doth not say, we expect better things from you, we are in good hope you will prove better then thus, and the like: but we are perswaded, and nothing can remove us from this perswasion: we take you to be other manner of men, far different from the former. The things that be in them are stark naught, but we perswade our selves most excellent things of you. They are Reprobates, but we are perswaded that you are the elect children of God. We must have a good and charitable opinion of them that sit in the lap of the Church, that subject themselves to the Ministery of the Word, though there be some defects and … in them. Jones.
To be fully perswaded]
;;To do nothing with a doubtfull conscience and staggering minde, but to be certainly within his own minde assured that his person doth please God, and that the thing which he doth, doth not displease God, being not contrary to his Word. Rom. 14 5. Let every one be fully perswded in his own minde. This full perswasion of the minde, must be had even in actions indifferent and of a middle nature; of these one is surely to know, that whether he doth them, or omitteth them, yet his deed or omission doth not offend God. Much more ought there to be this … in necessary actions commanded or forbidden, most of all it is required in the Doctrines of Faith. What then shall we think of that Implicit faith of the Church of Rome, where it is held sor good Christian beleef, to assent onelyonly to that which the Church teacheth, though one be utterly ignorant what it is which is taught of the Church? It this to be fully perswaded in our own minde? Also how do they sin, which for desire of victory will defend matters, whereof they are not resolved in their heart?
Perswasion]
This perswasion cometh not of him that calleth you, Gal. 5. 8. This new doctrine of the necessity of Judaicall observances, (whereunto some would perswade you, or whereof ye are perswaded) is not taught you by God, or by him (whether my self, or any other) who brought you to the faith. Dr. Ham. Paraph.
Pertain]
To belong unto one, or be ones right. Thus Ziglag pertained to the Kings of Judah, 1 Sam. 27. 6. The adoption unto the Isralites, Rom. 9. 4. The Peace offerings to the Lord, Lev. 7. 20. Thus some matters partained to God (were accounted Ecclesiasticall and appertaining to the House of the Lord) Some things to the King, 1 Chr. 26. 30. Thus some things pertain to the Kingdome of God, Act. 1. 3. unto life and godlinesse, 2 Pet. 1. 3. to this life, 1 Cor. 6. 4.
Pertaining]
Heb. 2. 17. in things pertaining to God. In divine not in humane matters. Jones.
Peruda]
A separation, or division, Ezr. 2. 55.
Perverse]
;;One … heart is turned from the wisdome of the Word, to follow crooked and evill counsels and wayes.
Spoken of Way, Numb. 22. 32. Generation, Deut. 32. 5. Rebelious woman, 1 Sam. 20. 30. Things, Job 6. 30. The person of a man, Job 9. 20. Lips, Prov. 4. 24. Heart, Prov. 12. 8. Tongue, Ib. 17. 20. Spirit, Isa. 19. 14. Nation, Phil. 2. 15. Disputings, 1 Tim. 6. 5.
Perverse spirit]
;;A perverse and a froward minde, Isa. 19. 14.
A spirit of error, or seducement, as the Chaldee and Greek render it; or of giddinesse, as the Latine. The word is plurall, and of a duplicate form, as if he had said, A spirit of extreme perversities. Annot.
Perversly]
Unjustly, wickedly, miscieviously, 2 Sam. 19. 16. 1 King. 8. 47. They dealt perversly with me. Psal. 119. 78. Depraved, perverted, wronged me, or would pervert me from the right way. Aynsw.
Perversnesse]
Numb. 23. 21. or molestation. A word which signifieth both sin and affliction, Psal. 25. 18. & 73. 5. & 94. 20. The Chald. taketh it in the first sense, for them that do falshood; and this is most fit; but the Gr. translateth it pain. Idem. Isa. 30. 12. Hebr. a perverted or crosse way or course rendred froward, Prov. 2. 15. & 3. 32. & 14. 2. A defect of the subject, as vile for vile grapes, ch. 5. 24. Burning, for burning fire, Jer. 36. 22. Untempered, for untempered mortar, Ezek. 13. 11. Such crosse courses by which they departed from God (as the word importeth from whence itcometh, used Prov. 3. 21.) leaving him, and his advice, to cleave to courses of their owne, vers. 11. Annot.
To pervert]
;;To put out of order, to turn upside-down, to bring in that which should be kept out. Prov. 10. 9. He that perverteth his … shall be known. To alter, Prov. 31. 5. marg. To wrest, Ezek. 9. 9. marg.
Pestell]
foreign, from lifting up, is properly that wherewith to pound or bray in a morter, but thereby figuratively the harshest course which can be taken with one may be understood. Prov. 27. 22. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestell, yet will not his foollishnesse depart from him. A fool will be beaten to death before he will leave his folly, Jer. 6. 29.
Pestilence]
;;an infection and deadly disease, sent of God upon men, for their sins. Lev. 26. 25. I will send the Pestilence … you. Deut. 28. 21.
A deadly instrument whereby God executeth his fearfull judgements or signe of his most heavy wrath and indignation, Hab. 3. 5. li's metaphorically put for Destruction. Hos. 13. 14. Or, a deadly evil, Psal. 91. 6. Also for a most pernicious and wicked man, Act. 24. 5. Obstinacy, Exod. 9. 15. Unbelief and rebellion, Numb. 14. 2, 4, 12. Apostasie; Deut. 28. 21. Contempt of the Word, Jer. 29. …. Idolatry, Ezek. 5. 11, 12. (with such other sins) are the … hereof.
Pestilent]
A pestilent fellow, Act. 24. 5. foreign, a plague. As the Latines but scelus in the abstract, proscelerato; wickednesse, for a wicked fellow. Annot.
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A stone or rock. The surname of one of the Apostles, 1 Pet. 1. 1. 2 Pet. 1. 1.
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The Lord opening, the Lord openeth, or the gate of the Lord. To him befell the nineteenth …, 1 Chr. 24. 16. A Levite, Ezr. 10. 23. Neh. 9. 5. The Son of M shezavel, Neh. 11. 24.
Pethor]
A table, after the Syriack. A City of Mesopotamia or Aram, Numb. 22. 5. & 23. 7. Deut. 23. 4.
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A morsell of God, a perswasion of God, or the enlarging of God. The Father of Joel, Joel 1. 1.
Petition]
An humble suit or request put up, whether unto Man (as Bathshebas on the behalfe of Adonijah, 1 King. 2. 20. and Esters in the behalf of her self and people, Est. 7. 3. or unto God by prayer, as by Hannah, 1 Sam. 1. 17, 27. and Daniel, Dan. 6. 13. See Psal. 20. 5. 1 Joh. 5. 15.
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My work or works. The Son of Obed-Edom, 1 Chr. 26. 5.