A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part SI
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Sia]
Moving, or after the Syr. help. Neh. 7. 47.
Siaha]
Moving. Ezr. 2. 44. Neh. 7. 47.
Sibbecai]
A bough, or off-spring; or, a cottage. 1 Chr. 11. 29. & 27. 11.
Sibboleth]
A stream, foord, or Watercourse, Judg, 12. 6.
Sibmah]
Overmuch captivity, or hoarsenesse, or sitting. A City, Josh. 13. 19. Isa. 16. 9.
Sibraim]
A place, Ezek. 27. 16.
Sichem]
See Shechem.
Sick]
;;One that lacks bodily health, either in whole, or in, part. Luk. 9. 1, 2. His sick servants. Phil. 2. 27. He was sick neer to death.
;;2. Sinners which do feel their sins with grief, and desire of a remedy from Christ. Mat. 9. 12. The whole need not the Physitian, but the sick. vers. 13. For I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.
Sick of love]
;;One taken and held with a vehement and immoderate passion of love, being ready to swoun through strong desire after the thing loved; such is the affection of the Church after Christ, Cant. 2. 5. For I am sick of love.
This speech implyeth a want of feeling, and enjoying the presence and comforts of Christ, as by her after speech is manifest, Cant. 5. 8. and that such is the Churches estate sometimes appeareth, Cant. 3. 1, 2. &c. & 5. 6. and as love is one of the strongest affections, Cant. 8. 6, 7. so the sicknesse that cometh of it doth sore afflict and weaken the person, (as may be seen in that evill example of Amnon, 2 Sam. 13. 1, 2, 4.) This sicknesse ariseth in the heart, by feeling the wrath of God due to us for sin, and curse of his law, Psal. 90. 8. & 38. 3, 5, 7. Dan. 9. 11. Rom. 7. 24. (whereupon it is said, the Inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwell therein, shall be forgiven their iniquity, Isa. 33. 24.) and afflictions laid upon us for our humiliation, Mic. 6. 13. Job 7. 18. & 30. 15, 1. & 10. 6. Lam. 3. 17s 18. Amos 6. 6. in which Christ sometimes hideth himself from us, Job 13. 24. Psal. 77. 6, 7, 8. & 80. 3, 7, 19. The Church feeling and acknowledging her self sick, and seeking for the Physitian, is in the way to health: for they that are whole need not a Physitian, but they that are sick, Mat. 9. 12. And such as feel not their death in sin, will not come unto Christ that they may have life, Joh. 5. 40. who healeth all our …, Psal. 103. 3. as he himself was a man of sorrows and … with sicknesse, Isa. 53. 3. Aynsw.
This is amor vulnerans and ligans and …, by the sweet vehemency and insatiability of it, makes the heart to burn and weep, and groan and sigh; to forget all, and drive all away but him on whom she alone fixeth, and would rest, but cannot rest until she enjoy him in glory. Till then she is sick, and weary, and lives not in her self, but in him, in whom her life is hid. Annot.
The Church is here faint and sick, and ready to swoon for desire of further fellowship with Christ. Cotton.
Sickly]
Weak, infirm, 1 Cor. 11. 30.
Sicknesse]
is
1. Bodily, of man …, Gen. 48. 1. 2 Sam. 12. 15. Dan. 8. 27. 1 Cor. 11. 33. Or of Women in particular, Lev. 20. 18.
2. Mentall, Prov. 13. 12.
3. Sinfull, 2 Sam. 13. 2.
4. Spirituall; which is twofold:
1. The earnest and longing desire the Church hath to the enjoying of Christ, Cant. 2. 5. & 5. 8.
2. The infirmities of the soul, which Christ came to heal, Mat. 8. v. 17.
The efficient cause of sicknesse is God, Psal. 38. 6. Lev. 26. 16. Deut. 28. 27, 35, 59, 60. 61.
The … cause is sin, Ib.
The … … cause is,
1. Satan, who sometimes is permitted by God, Job 1. 2.
2. Intemperance, as dunkennesse, incontinency.
The end is,
1. To punish the wicked, 1 Sam. 5. 6, 9.
2. To try the patience and constancy of the godly, as in Job, ….
3. To manifest the glory of God, Joh. 6. 2, 3. & 11. 4.
Sicknesse]
;;Ill disposition of the body. Joh. 11. 4. This sicknesse is not to death.
;;2. The infirmities of the soul. Mat. 8. 27. He bare our sicknesses.
;;3. Pains and punishments of Christ equivalent and answerable to the sin which we had committed, and to the sicknesse or miseries which we deserved, and without his sufferings our selves had suftered. For it must be held, that Christ having no inherent sin of his own, but the imputed of others, he had no manner of bodily disease or hurt, as naturall, but onelyonly that which was forced on him, as wounds, stripes and death, Mat. 8. 17. See this interpretation …, Isa. 53. 4, 5, 6. See Infirmity. Or we may say, it … Christs care of curing our sicknesse and sin, by his suffering and satisfying for us.;;
Sickle]
An instrument used to cut down corn, Deut. 16. 9. & 23. 25. Mar. 4. 29.
It is put for the judgements of God, whereby the wicked are cut down, Joel 3. 13. Rev. 14. 16.
Sharp sickle]
;;Either the severe sentence of the Judge, cutting down the wicked, in the end of the world, (as Corn is cut down with a Sickle) or power and ability to gather the elect unto God out of the Kingdome of Antichrist, by the preaching of the Word, according to that of Christ, Matth. 9. 3, 7. Revel. 14. 14. He had in his … a sharp sickle. Also in v. 18. it signifies power to cut down the wicked.
Siddim]
The laboured field. A vale. Gen. 14. 3.
Side]
Part of a thing, Josh. 8. 33. Gen. 6. 16.
2. It is put for a party, Exod. 32. 26. 2 King. 9. 32. Psal. 124. 1.
3. The bank, Dan. 10. 4.
4. The shoar, Act. 16. 13.
Side]
Numb. 34. 11. Heb. shoulder, marg. Neh. 3. 18. Heb. loyns, marg. Dan. 7. 5. or dominion, marg.
Sides]
Exod. 30. 3. Heb. walls, marg. By the words joyned unto side, as right, sea, south, way, west, &c. the meaning is plain and easie.
Sidon]
See Zidon.
Sidonians]
The inhabitants of Sidon or Zidon, Josh. 13. 4, 6.
Siege]
A compassing about, and shutting in of an enemy in time of war, 1 King. 15. 27. Deut. 20. 19.
It is taken for oppression and straights, Deut. 28. 55, 57. For the bulwark and defensive place, 2 Chr. 32. 10. and for the judgements of God against the wicked, Isa. 29. 3. Mic. 5. 1.
…]
To cover the inside of the roof of a house with boards or plaister, 2 Chr. 3. 5. Ezek. 41. 16. It is taken for stately, and magnificent, Hag. 1. 4. and for a pretence to cover sin, Jer. 22. 14.
The wals of the Sieling]
1 King. 6. 15. Heb. to the wals of the roof; i. e. to the uppermost part of the wall, on which the roof resteth. D. Annot.
Sieve]
To sift the Nations with a sieve of vanity, Isa. 30. 28. The use of a sieve ordinarily is to shake out the drosse or lesser and lighter seed, and retain the full and weighty grain, Amos 9. 9. But this here is such as did shake to and … (so sift is in the Hebr.) what was sifted in it, till it came even to nothing; to drive them to nothing, by that whereby he onelyonly purgeth his own people, chap. 27. 8, 9. Or, to fift them in such a sieve as retaineth nothing, but letteth it run thorow, to make an utter riddance of them. The word rendred a sieve, is no where else found in Scripture. The word is oft found thus used in the Jewish Doctors, as in that of one of them concerning four sorts of scholars or hearers; some like to a spunge, that sucketh all in alike; some like an hour-glasse or water-glasse (such as anciently they were) that taketh in at the one end, and putteth out at the other (alluded to Heb. 2. 1.) Some like a wine-bag, that letteth go the wine, and keepeth onelyonly the dregs, (he might as well have … a bolter, that … out the flour, and keeps in the bran.) Some to a sieve, that letteth go the trash, and keepeth in the corn. Annot.
Sift]
is spoken of God, in his anger, and it signifieth,
1. To scatter. Amos 9. 9.
2. To consume, Isa. 30. 28.
To sift as Wheat]
;;By temptations to assault and exagitate, endeavouring by malicious diligence and subtilty to shake faith out of the heart (as wheat out of a sieve) that nothing may remain but the bran of unbeleef and wickednesse. Luk. 22. 31. … hath desired to sift (or winnow) you. God doth sift and winnow, to purge and cleanse the heart (as a good Husband-man the Corn,) but Satan doth it to destroy and to tread the Corn under foot like ravening fowles and vultures. Thus in one act Satan is unjust, and God most just, because they had not one end.
Sigh]
A testification of grief by groaning.
It is spoken
1. of Christ, who sighed,
1. For the miseries of men, Mar. 7. 34. and 2. for the sins of men, Mar. 8. 2.
2. It is spoken of men; who sigh,
1. For themselves, and
2. Others in respect of sin, Ezek. 9. 4. and of misery, Lam. 1. 4, 11, 21, 22. Job. 3. 24. Psal. 12. 5. & 31. 10. & 79. 11.
Sigh]
A pitifull groan, or sob, Lam. 1. 22.
Sight]
is taken
1. for the sense of seeing, Mar. 10. 51, 52.
2. For saving knowledge, Luk. 4. 18.
3. A spectacle, Luk. 23. 48.
4. A wonderful vision, Exod. 3. 3.
5. The glorious sight of God in heaven, 1 Joh. 3. 2. 2 Chr. 5. 7.
6. In the presence, 2 Chr. 7. 12. & 8. 21.
7. The knowledge of God, Heb. 4. 13.
8. For God himself, Mat. 11. 26.
9. For ones self, Gen. 21. 11, 12.
10. With, or from, Gen. 39. 21.
Sight]
Neh. 8. 5. Heb. eyes, marg.
In thy sight, Psal. 5. 5. Heb. before thine eyes, marg.
Out of thy sight, 2 Sam. 7. 9. Heb. from thy face, marg.
Out of his sight]
;;From before his eyes, Gen. 23. 4. Death so defaceth all earthly things, as the most lovely things become loathsome.
Sigionoth]
Hab. 3. 1. Upon Sigionoth; or, according to variable songs, or …; or, musicall instruments, called in Hebrew …. It signifieth wandering, or ignorance.
(Shigaion]
in Psal. 7. 1. The title is of the same signification.)
Signe]
;;Some outward sensible thing, whereby some other thing is brought to minde. Matth. 16. 1, 2, 3, 4. Desiring him to shew them a signe from Heaven. Can ye not discern the signes of the time? Gen. 9. 13. It shall be for a signe. These be either natural or civil signes.
;;2. Some strange miraclous work, which (as a signe) sheweth forth Christs divine power. Mar. 16. 20. He confirmed the word with miracles and signes. These be miraculous signes, Isa. 7. 11. 2 Thess. 2. 9.
;;3. A Sacramentall token, to witnesse the Covenant of free Salvation by Christ. Rom. 4. 11. The signe of circumcision. Gen. 17. 11. This is a mystical signe.
;;4. Some outward declaration of Gods mercy or judgment. 1 Cor. 14. 32. Strange tongues are for a signe.
It's
1. Naturall, having a natural force in it to signifie a thing, Mat. 16. 2, 3. Gen. 1. 14.
2. Positive, by institution of God, Gen. 9. 12, 13, 17. & 17. 11. Isa. 7. 14. or of Men, …. 2. 12, 13. 2 Thess. 3. 17.
3. Testifying, and notifying, 1 Sam. 2. 34. Isa. 19. 20. Ezek. 4. 3. Luk. 2. 12.
4. Predicting, Exod. 12. 13. Ezek. 20. 12, 20. Mat. 24. 30. Isa. 20. 3.
5. Proving and confirming, 2 Cor. 12. 12.
6. Remembring, Exod. 13. 9. 16. Numb. …. 38, 40.
7. Certifying, Gen. 9. 12, 13. 1 Sam. 9. 7, 9. Isa. 37. 30. Exod. 4. 8, 9.
8. Sealing and confirming, Gen. 17. 11. Rom. 4. 11.
Signe]
Judg. 20. 38. or time, marg.
To binde as a signe]
;;To have a thing alwayes in sight, or … in our remembrance. Exod. 13. 9. Deut. 6. 8. Bind them as a signe to thy hand.
Gave him a signe, 2 Chr. 32. 24. or wrought a miracle for him, marg.
To give a signe]
;;To foretell a signe which should afterward come to passe, Deut. 13. 1, 2.
Signe in heaven]
;;Some token or wondrous testimony, afforded the holy and purer Church (meant by Heaven) out of which should come the Word (as before out of Sion and Jerusalem, Amos 1. 2.) which should denounce and threaten vengeance, that should vex and destroy the members of Antichrist. Rev. 15. 1. I saw another signe in heaven.
The signe of the Son of man, Mat. 24. 30. This may signifie here such a manifestations of Christs presence in this punishment on the Jews, as should convince them that it was for crucifying of him, that it was to come upon them, and a ccordingly m our n. Dr. Ham. Annot. o.
To sign]
To confirm a writing by hand, or seal, or both. Dan. 6. 8, 9.
Signet]
Any precious thing used for ornament, Gen. 41. 42. & 38. 18. Jer. 22. 24. Cant. 8. 6. It was graven, Exod. 28. 21. & 39 6. The use was to seal with, either for the keeping of a thing close, Rev. 5. 1. 2, 5, 9. or to confirm, Dan. 6. 17.
Signet upon his Arm]
;;A Jewel always in sight; so is the Church to Christ, most dear and neer unto him, as a Jewel on his heart and hand, Cant. 8. 6. And as a signet upon thine arm.
To make one a signet]
;;To have one alwayes before him on his hand, and in his eye, (as a signet) to care for him, and delightfully to rest in him, as God doth in Christ and all his people. Hag. 2. 24. I will make thee for a signet.
Signification]
1 Cor. 14. 10. Significant, easie to be understood, 1 Cor. 14. 9. marg.
Signification.]
1 Cor. 14. 10. or dumb, or mute, marg.
Signifie]
To declare, Act. 21. 26. To give notice of, Act. 23. 15. To foretel, 1 Pet. 1. 11. Act. 11. 28. Rev. 1. 1. To mean, Joh. 12. 33. & 18. 32, & 21. 19. To give to understand, Heb. 9. 8.
Signes, Psal. 105. 27. Hebr. words of his signes, marg.
There are,
1. Naturall, Gen. 1. 14. Jer. 10. 2.
2. Prodigious; Luk. 21. 11, 25. Act. 2. 9.
3. Supernaturall, wrought by Gods marvellous hand, Deut. 6. 22. Josh. 24. 17. Dan. 4. 2, 3.
4. Casuall, by a providence of God, 1 Sam. 10. 7, 9.
5. …, which the Prophets gave to confirm their Ministers, Psal. 74. 9. and which the Apostle wrought, Mar. 16. 17, 20. 2 Cor. 12. 12.
6. Military, Psal. 74. 4.
7. Satanicall, Deut. 13. 2, 3. 2 Thess. 2. 9. Revel. 13. 13.
Signes]
Heb. 2. 4. God … them … both with signes and wonders. …, … … signifie the Divine power and Majesty of God. They are any miracles in general: as the fleece to …. … signs, &c. Jones. Wonders, things that happen … to the course of nature; and strike into men. …. Crit. …. in the word foreign. Some call them …, because they doe praedicere aliquid mali; are terrible miracles of Gods wrath and judgement; as the striking of … and … with sudden death, the killing of Herod by the Angel, the blindnesse of Elymas the Sorcerer; but they are sometimes … also for Miracles of mercy. Jones.
Sihon]
A plucking up by the roots; or, a …. A King of the Amorites, Deut. 2. 2. Numb. 11. 21, … 29.
Sibor]
Isa. 23. 3. It's no other then …. The Hebr. name Shichor hath a notion of … in it, as appear by the common use of the fountain, whence it …, and other the issues of it, Lev. 13. 31, 37. Job 30. 30. Cant. 1. 5. & 5. 11. Lam. 4. 8. Zech. 6. …, 6. And it was … by the … called Melas, which signifies black, and … by the Latines in old time, …. ….
Silas]
Considering, or making. He that was … with Paul to Antioch, Act. 15. 22.
Silence]
;;Quietnesse, submission, or subjection, rebellious …, being tamed and …. Psal. 62. 1. My soul keeps silence. See Psal. 4. 4. By … … … is often meant in …, a … … of the minde, troublous … being allayed, as Psal. 13 12. & Lam. 3. 26. 1 Tim. 2. 11.
;;2. A cutting off, or destruction, Psal. 31. 17. & 49. 12. Man is like to beasts which are silenced; so it is read in the Originall, by judgement of the …; for the Hebrew word signifies silence or stilnesse, … onelyonly in voyce, but in motion, as the Sun was still and silent when it moved not, Josh. 10. 12, 13. And people destroyed are said to be silenced, Isa. 15. 1. Also the Grave or Death is called silence, Psal. 115. 17. And things without life are in the Hebrew phrase, Dumb, or Silent, Hab. 2. 19.
Silence]
Job 4. 16. or, a still voyce, marg.
Silence in …]
;;Rest and peace granted to the Church in earth for a short time, after that the open enemies of Gods truth were bridled by Constantine the Great. Rev. 8. 1. There was silence in heaven about halfe an hour. Others say this silence signifies consolation or astonishment. Others refer it not to Gods consulting, or celestial creatures astonished, but to John preparing himself in this great quietnesse to more attention. The first agreeth best with the place.
Keep silence]
is
1. Spoken of God, who is said to keep silence when he regards not the sins of the wicked, Psal. 35. 22. Psal. 50. 21. or the prayers of the godly, Psal. 28. 1.
2. Of men; and then it is put,
1. For to acquiesce & rest in, Job 29. 21.
2. Not to regard, Job 31. 34.
3. To hide, and conceal, Psal. 32. 3.
4. Not to reprove, Amos 5. 13.
5. To be subject unto, and obedient, 1 Tim. 2. 11, 12.
6. To leave off insulting and pride, Isa. 47. 5.
Put to silence]
is put for being dead, Psal. 115. 17.
2. To convince and stop the mouth by force of argument, Mat. 22. 34. and holynesse of life, 1 Pet. 2. 15.
Silent]
Not to speak a word, 2 Sam. 19. 10. Comp. the text with the marg. To be quiet, Jer. 8. 14. To be cut off, Psal. 31. 17. marg.
Silk]
The property of it is, that it is most precious and beautifull.
It is used by men in dignity and honor.
It is put for the abundance of the blessings of God, Prov. 31. 22. Ezek. 16. 10. 13.
Silla]
An exalting, or treading under foot. A place, 2 King. 12. 20.
Silly]
Voyd of understanding, Hos. 7. 11. 2 Tim. 3. 6. Job 5. 2.
Siloah, or Siloam]
Sent, sending, a bough, or weapon, or armours. A pool, Josh. 9. 7. Also a tower, Luk. 13. 4.
Siloe]
The same. A fish-pool on the West side of the City of David, called …, 2 Chr. 32. 30. and Shelah, Neh. 3. 15.
Silvanus]
Of the Wood. A companion of Paul's, 2 Cor. 1. 19. 1 Thess. 1. 1 Pet. 5. ….
Silver]
;;A precious metal, whereof money useth to be made.
;;2. The … and choycest persons in … Kingdome, as Princes, Rulers, and priests. …. 1. 22, 23. Thy silver is turned to …, thy Princes are rebellious.
Silver. A metall well known; it is the measure whereby the worth of any thing is esteemed, and the price wherewith it is bought, Gen. 23. 15, 16. Deut. 22. 29. 2 Sam. 24. 24. 2 King. 6. 25. It is put for gain, Judg. 5. 19.
2. For riches, Hos. 9. 6. Isa. 2. 7. Job 27. 16. It was used for the …, Exod. 35. 5, 24. and the Temple, 1 Chr. …. 4. It is found in the veins of the earth, Job. 28. 1. The best was brought from Tharsis, Jer. 10. 9. It is purged … the drosse by fire, Psal. 12. 6. & 66. 10. In which respect the Word of God is compared to it, as being free from all imper fection, Ib. and the tongue, i. e. the doctrine of godly men, Prov. 10. 20. & 8. 19. Contrary to this is reprobate silver, whereunto the wicked Jews … compared, by reason of their sins, Jer. 6. 30. Isa. 1. 22. …. 22. 18, 19.
Silver]
Pieces of silver, Josh. 14. 32. or …, marg.
Thousand pieces of silver]
;;The hire and wages paid unto the faithful keepers of the Vine, to wit sound Teachers, for their painfull labour in well husbanding the Vine of the Church, Cant. 8. 11. Every one bringing for the … thereof a thousand pieces of silver. Or, a thousand …, meaning silver Shekels; signifying hereby the fertility of this Vineyard, that afforded so much to the owner, besides the labourers reward; so in Isa. 7. 23. threatning to make the most fruitful place desolate, he saith, … there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, (or silver shekels) it shall be for … and thorns. Aynsw.
By a thousand we may understand any large measure or number indefinitely, 2 Sam. 18. 2. Rev. 20. 4. And it teacheth that the first and chief care should be to please our great Prince, which bringeth forth much fruit, Mat. 21. 33, 34. we should abound in works of faith and holinesse, and as he blesseth our flocks and substance, so that they bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets, Psal. 144. 13. so should our fruitful hearts increase with the increases of God, bringing forth Grapes, in his Vineyard, not wilde Grapes, … he lay us …, and cut us down, Isa. 5. 5, 6, 7. Mat. 21. 42. &c. Annot. on vers. 12. Though Christ hath let out his vineyard unto keepers (Pastors and Teachers) who painfully work therein, faithfully take care thereof, yet, in comparison of Christ, what himself doth for it, it's but as two hundred to a thousand, nothing in comparison; as the women, of Saul and David; Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands, 1 Sam. 18. 7. so the chief praise is to be ascribed unto Christ, Tittleman. It is not onelyonly the rule of charity, but true Christianity to consider in reasonable sort of those that travail for us, that they labour not, nor sweat for nothing: but taking part of that gain, that cometh by their service, it may give them cause … blesse us. Finch. How unthankful soever some (who would be thought to belong to this Vineyard) prove to the keepers thereof, (the faithful Ministers of Christ) yet … in the works of the Lord, they know that their labour is not vain in the Lord, 1 Cor. 15. 58.
Not … regard silver]
;;Neither to crave it of the Babylonians, nor to receive it, being offered by them as a ransome for their life, but to kill all they meet with. Isa. 13. 17. They shall not regard silver, &c.
Siver cord]
By the silver cord, Eccl. 12. 6. some understand the marrow or pith of the back, continued from the brain, as it were in a cord or string unto the bottome of the back bones, and for the white colour of it compared to silver. It may also be applyed unto all the other … and … of the body, which from the head as the fountain, convey sense and motion upon the other parts. Hereby also may not … be understood, the chain and sweet harmony of the elements and humours in the body, which being preserved in its due proportion, the body doth receive life from the foul, which is the spring thereof, but being once dissolved, life presently faileth. Annot.
Silver]
Joyned with chains, Isa. 40. 19. Cord, Eccl. 12. 6. Cup, Gen. 24. 2. …, Prov. 26. 23. Pieces, Mar. 27. 6. Shrines, Act. 19. 24.
Silverlings]
Isa. 7. 23. A thousand Silverlings. Heb. A thousand … …; that is, so many shekels, for that is usually understood where the coyn or weight is not expressed, as 2 Sam. 18. 11, 12. Mat. 26. 15. The Shekel then being in weight and value-about one Half-crown; the summe that such vineyards (being of the best sort) were yearly let for, came to about One hundred twenty and five pounds. Annot.
Silver-smith]
Demetrius being of this trade, out of meer … did band himselfe with his fellow …-men, against Paul, Act. 19. 24.
Simeon]
Hearing or obedient. Jacob's second Son by Leah, Gen. 29. 33. He and Levi kill the Shechemites, Gen. 34. 25. and are reproved for it by Jacob, Gen. 49. 5, 6, 7. He is left for a pledge in Aegypt, Gen. 42. 24. and delivered, Gen. 43. 23. His children, Gen. 46. 10. portion, Josh. 19. 1. to 10. Also, a just man, who was assured by the holy Ghost he should not die untill he saw Christ, Luk. 2. 25, to 36. Also, a Prophet called Niger. Act. 13. 1.
Simeonites]
Such as were of the Tribe of Simeon, Numb. 26. 14.
Similitude]
;;Likenesse, when one thing is declared by another like it; as Mat. 20. 1.
;;2. Form together with truth of the thing. Rom. 8. 2. Made in the similitude of sinfull flesh. Here is meant a true humane nature, made unto the form of our nature.
;;3. Type or figure. Heb. 9. 23.
Similitude]
Put for the glory of God manifested to Moses, Numb. 12. 8. called Gods back-parts, Exod. 33. 23. A visible representing of God, utterly forbidden to …, Deut. 4. 15, 16. Psal. 106. 20. The artificiall forming of one thing like another, 2 Chr. 4. 3. either actuall or verball expressions. Hos. 12. 10.
Similitude]
Heb. 7. 15. After the … of Melchisedec there … another Priest. Wherein consisteth this similitude? It must needs be in this, and nothing but this, (say the Jesuites) that, as Melchisedec offered … & Wine, as a sacrifice of praise to God after Abrahams victory: So our Saviour Christ offered his body and blood under the shape of Bread and Wine in the Supper. But cannot Christ be a … after the similitude of …, unlesse it be in this? Surely then he is not a Priest at all after the similitude of Melchisedec, for Melchisedec offered no Bread and Wine. The Hebrew is Hotziah, …, non …, (Gen. 14. 18.) as their own Vulgar Interpreter doth translate it, and the … expounds it foreign, that is a confirmation of Melchisedecs Kingdome, not of his Priesthood: as a King, of his Prince-like liberality be brought forth out of his store-house plenty of Bread and Wine to refresh Abraham and his … after the battel. But in sundry other …, he is a Priest after the similitude of Melchisedec.
1. As Melchisedec, being a Priest of the most high God, blessed Abraham, and prayed to God for him: so Christ blesseth and prayeth for his Church, vers. 25.
2. As Melchisedeo is said to live for ever, because there is no mention of his death in the Scripture; so Christ liveth for ever, and of his Priesthood there is no end.
3. As Melchisedec was a Priest, yet not made after the manner of other Priests, but had an extraordinary calling from God: so Christ is made a Priest, not after the manner of the Levitical Priesthood, but after a more excellent sort, as Meichisedec was.
4. As Melchisedec was a King and a Priest too, so was our Saviour Christ. Jones.
Simon]
Hearing, or obeying. An Apostle, Mat. 4. 18. Also a Leper who received Christ into his house, Mat. 26. 6. Luk. 7. 40. Another whom the Jews compelled to bear the Crosse of Christ, Mat. 27. 32. Also a Conjurer, …. 8. 9, to 25. A Tanner, Act. …. 43. & 10. 6. A Canaanite, Mat. 10. 4.
Simple]
;;One endowed with a very mean and slender wit and capacity. Prov. 9. 1. Who is simple, let him come hither, and he that is destitute of wisdome, &c. Psal 19. 7. … widome to the simple.
;;It signifies not onelyonly such as be foolish and unwise, as all men naturally be, but such as see and acknowledge the same, and be ready to submit unto the Word, as the elect … at there conversion, 1 Cor. 3. 18.
;;Also, Simple signifies foolish ignorant …, being without any mixture of grace or heavenly … in them, Prov. 1. 22.
;;One that hath a plain heart, voyd of wiles and wrinkles, having not the wit and skill to … any mischief or harm to others. Rom. 16. 19. As concerning evill, be simple.
;;This word (simple) in the Hebrew meaneth one that is easily perswaded and inticed, one credulous, and light of belief, Prov. 14. 15. Consequently it is used for unskilfull; and applyed sometime to evil persons, Prov. 9. 6. & 13. 3. Sometime to the good, as Psal. 116. 6. The Greek often doth translate it a babe, and so Christ calleth such, Mat. 11. 25.
Simple]
;;Rom. 16. 19. or harmlesse, marg. Such a one as is destitute of humane help, and doth commit himself to God simplici corde, Psal. 116. 9.
Simplicity]
;;Signifies these 4. things.
;;1. Faithfulnesse without deceit, not cousening the needy.
;;2. Humility without pride, not seeking our owne praise.
;;3. Gentlenesse without fiercenesse, not giving the poor ill language.
;;4. Uprightnesse without respect of persons, not preferring one before another, where necessity is equal. Rom. 12. 8. Let him give with simplicity. This word is here set against fraud, covetousnesse, morosity, vain glory, malignity, partiality, and curiosity, by fishing and examining the poor too narrowly, seeking pretences and excuses as if they had no need.
Simplicity]
Rom. 12. 8. or liberally, marg.
Sin]
A dart, or armour, or coldnesse. A Wildernesse, Exod. 16. 1. Numb. 33. 11.
Sin]
;;Sinners; to wit, persecutors, Heb. 12. 4.
;;2. Trangression of the law, Heb. 9. also 10. 14.
;;3. Blasphemy against the Spirit, Heb. 10. 26.
4. Guilt and punishment of sin, Heb. 10. 2.
;;5. Sacrifice for sin, Heb. 9. 28.
;;6. Naughtinesse, and Corruption of nature, Heb. 12. 1. See Sinne.
Sina]
(as Sin) A mountain, Gal. 4. 25. where the Angel of the Lord appeared to Moses, Act. 7. 30. where God gave the Law, Exod, 19. 20. & 20. 1. Whereunto the Apostle alludes, Gal. 4. 24. and Heb. 12. 18. it is called a holy Mountain, Psal. 68. 16. and the mountain of God, Exod. 3. 1. & 4. 27. & 24. 13.
Sinai]
A bramble; Syr. enmity. A Wildernesse, Exod. 16, 1. Deut. 32. 2.
Since]
hath relation from the time present unto that going before, about which any thing is then spoken, Gen. 44. 28.
It signifieth allso as much as seeing, or because, Gen. 46. 30.
Since]
Since my coming, Gen. 30. 30. Heb. at my foot, marg. that is, by my natural service. So the foot is used to signifie laborious service, Deut. 11. 10. and the coming or presence of any, Hab. 3, 5. The Chald. translateth it, for my sake. Aynsw.
This word referreth unto a former time, longer or shorter, continued until that very time, and is in effect as much as from the time, or during the time, all the while, 1 Sam. 29. 3. Ezr. 5. 16. Sometimes it's all one with, seeing, for that, inasmuch as, Gen. 46. 30.
Sincere]
;;That which is pure, and without mixture. See Pure.
Sincere]
That ye may be sincere, Phil. 1. 10.
It signifieth properly something tryed by the light of the Sun, and it is a Metaphor (as some suppose) taken from the custom of the Eagle, whose manner is (say Aristotle and Pliny) to … their young ones out of the nest before they be full fledged, and to hold them forth against the full sight of the Sun; the light whereof those of them that can with open eye endure, she retaineth and bringeth up as her own, the rest that wink at it, she rejecteth as a bastardly brood. Others think it rather taken from the usuall practise of Chapmen, in the view and choyce of their wares, that bring them forth into the light, and hold up the cloth against the Sun, to see if the can espy any default in it. Pure as the Sun. As the Sun discovers motes and atomes, so let your hearts be genuine, that the inwardest light may not discover motes that appear in others. Or, pure, viz. from any leaven of corruption in doctrine, life or manners; for so the word signifies, such as are clear, and free from all mixture of corruption, as while wool never died, fine flour never leavened. Leigh's Crit. Sac.
… …]
;;Unfained faith, which is without mixture of hypocrisie. 1 Tim. 1. 4, 5. Pure heart, good conscience sincere faith, unfaigned.
Sincere …]
;;The doctrine of the Word, as … is unmixed with errors, traditions, and heresies. 1 Pet. 2. 1. … the sincere milk of the Word; that is, such as there is no deceit in it.
Sincerely]
Truly, justly, uprightly, gracefully, Judg. 9. 16, 19.
Not sincerely]
;;Without a sincere and pure minde, though the matter of their doctrine were, Phil. 1. 16.
Sincerity]
;;Truth or uprightnesse, without counterfeiting. 1 Cor. 5. 8. Keep the … of unleavened bread with sincerity. 1 Cor. 16. v. last.
A Sinew]
Is a simple or single member, giving feeling and moving to all the members of mans body, and proceedeth from the brain.
Sinew]
Is put improperly for obstinacy and hardnesse of heart, Isa. 48. 4.
Sinfull]
An increase of sinfull men, Numb. 32. 14. or a crew (a multitude) of men sinners, that is, bred and brought up of men most sinfull, of men given unto sin, notorious wicked ones, Gen. 13. 13. 1 Sam. 15. 18. Aynsw. … and given wholly to sin, and to loosnesse of life. Annot. on Isa. 1. 4. That sin might become exceeding sinfull, Rom. 7. 13. That sin might thew it selfe-to be sin, and spit forth (as it were) all its venome. Annot.
It's spoken of Flesh, Rom. 8. 3. Generation, Mar. 8. 38. Kingdome, Amos 9. 8. Nation, Isa. 1. 4 Man, Luk. 5. 8. Men, Luk. 24. 7. Sin, Rom. 7. 13.
Sing]
is spoken of Birds, Cant. 2. 12.
2. Of Men who by it testifie the inward joy of the heart, Jer. 31. 7. Psal. 5. 11. & 33. 1. & 93. 8.
Hence it is taken,
1. For great gladnesse, Prov. 25. 20. Gen. 31. 27. Exod. 15. 1. and was used in Feasts, Isa. 24. 8, 9. in …. Of this sort is the 45. Psalm, and Solomon's Song after Victory, Exod. 25. 1, 2, 3, 21. Judg. 5. 1 Sam. 18. 6, 7. 2 Sam, 22. 1.
2. For joy and pleasure, Psal. 119. 54.
3. To praise, Judg. 5. 3. 1 Chr. 16. 9, 23. Hence God is said to be our Song, because our praises ought to be of him, Exod. 15. 2. Psal. 118. 14. Isa. 12. 2.
3. To deride and mock, Psal. 69. 13. Job 30. 9.
The effect is, it puts away sadnesse, Prov. 25. 20. 1 Sam. 16. 24.
There are severall sorts recorded in Scripture: as,
1. The Song of Songs; i. e. the most excellent Song, as containing the marriage between Christ and his Church.
2. A new song; i. e. Singular and exquisite, deserving to be renewed, because of the benefits of God daily renewed to us, Psal. 33. 3. & 40. 4. & 96. 1. Rev. 5. 9.
3. Dolefull, 2 Sam. 1. 19. & 3. 35, 36. 2 Chron. 35. 25.
4. A holy Song, such are all the Songs of Praise and Thanksgiving throughout the Word. These holy Songs were to be sung unto God, Exod. 15. 21. Judg. 5. 3. Psal. 81. 1. The matter was to be the praises of God, Psal. 47. 6. 2 Chr. 20. 22. The manner was with a Ioud voyce, Psal. 81. 1. with gladnesse, Jer. 31. 7. making melody in our hearts, Eph. 5. 19. with the spirit and understanding, 2 Chr. 14. 15. with grace in the heart, Col. 3. 16. The place was the House of God, Isa. 38. 20. and elswhere, Exod. 15. 1. 2 Chr. 20. 22. The time was at the receiving blessing from God, and at the overthrow of the enemies of the Church, Jer. 51. 48. 1 Sam. 14. 6.
Sing]
Psal. 104. 12. Heb. give a voyce, marg.
Singed]
Spoken of the hair of the heads of the three children, whereon (though there's nothing more apt to take fire) the fire had no power, Dan. 3. 27. So that the least hurt cannot come to those whom God will preserve, 1 Sam. 14. 45. Isa. 43. 2. Matth. 10. 30. Act. 27. 34. Annot.
To sing as an Harlot]
;;That the Merchants of … should with fair speaches and praises of their merchandise and ware draw another to bargain with, and buy of them, as Harlots for their lucre do entice with their pleasant Songs, young men to come in to them, Isa. 23. 15.
Singers]
were,
1. Holy, who were distinguished in certain ranks:
The first called the chief, Hab. 2. 9. Neh. 12. 46. 1 Chr. 15. 17. & 16, 41. and the master of the Songs, 1 Chr. 15. 22.
The second rank is mentioned, 1 Chr. 16. 5, 12. & 35. 15. Ezr. 2. 41.
2. Common, 2 Sam. 19. 25.
Singers]
Of them there were Singing-men, also Singing-women, Ezr. 2. 65. Neh. 7. 67.
Single]
;;True, or without guile: it is the same with sincere.
Single]
If thine eye be single, Mat. 6. 22. As by the evill eye is meant the covetous, envious, injurious, malitious, illiberal and niggardly eye, so by single eye is meant the good liberal eye. Dr. Ham. Paraph. & Annot. l.
Single life]
An unmaryed life, or life of such as live out of marriage; which none stand bound to doe, unlesse they can forbear by special gist, 1 Cor. 7.
Singlenesse of heart]
Col. 3. 22. This may be considered.
1. As it is opposed to hypocrisie; and so a single-hearted man is no hypocrite.
2. As it is opposed to fleshly wisdome, 1 Cor. 1. 12. and so a single-hearted men is open and plain in all his dealing.
3. As it is opposed to a double heart, or a wavering heart, a divided heart; and that as well in matter of worship, 2 King. 17. 33. as in matters of the world, Mat. 6. 21, 22, 23, 24.
4. As it is opposed to spirituall pride; a single heart is an humble heart, Job 9. 15, 16.
5. As it is opposed to perturbation and disquietnesse of the heart, Phil. 1. 10. 2 Cor. 1. 12. Cor. 1. 12. Act. 2. 46.
6. As it is opposed to offensiveness; and so the single-hearted men is neither offensive by wrongs, nor by scandals, &c. Byfield p. 131, 132, 133.
Singular]
;;That which is not common and ordinary, but peculiar and proper to a godly person. Mat. 5. 47. what singular thing do yee? Here it is taken in good part: but in the evil part it is put for one conceited and peevish, bent to his own way and will, without reason.
;;2. That which is excellent and precious. 1 Thess. 5. 13. That ye have them in singular love for their work sake.
Singular]
Shall make a singular vow, Lev. 27. 2. or shall separate a vow, in Gr. vow a vow. The word separate signifieth to exempt after a singular manner from common use. Aynsw.
Sinim]
The South Countrey. Isa. 49. 12.
Sinite]
A people descended from Canaan, 1 Chron. 1. 15.
Sink]
Improperly, it is taken for, To be in great affliction, Psal. 69. 2, 14.
2. To perish and be destroyed, Jer. 51. 64.
4. To keep well in remembrance, Luk. 9. 44.
Sin]
;;The transgression of Gods Law. 1 Joh. 3. 4. Sin is the trangression of the Law. The word in Hebrew which is translated sin, signifieth properly misdoing, or missing of the mark or way: as in Judg. 20. 16. Men could sling stones at an hairs breadth, and not sin; that is, not misse. Also Prov. 19. 2. He that is hasty with his foot, sinneth; that is, misseth or swerveth. In Religion Gods Law is our mark or way: from which when we swerve, we sin: therefore Sin is defined to be transgression of the Law, or unlawfulnesse, 1 Joh. 3. 4.
;;2. The guilt of sin, making us subject unto, and worthy of punishment. Rom. 5. 12. By one man sin entred into the world, in whom all have sinned.
;;3. The punishment due to sin. Gen. 4. 7, 13. Sin lyeth at the dore: and My sin is greater then I can bear, vers. 13. Isa. 24. 20. 1 Pet. 2. 24.
;;4. Both guilt and punishment. Gen. 26. 10. Thou shouldst have brought sin upon us. Psal. 32. 1. Blessed is the man whose sin is covered. Mat. 9. 2.
;;5. Originall corruption, or the pravity and naughtinesse of our corrupt nature, being prone to all evil. Rom. 6. 11, 12. Let not sin reign. Rom. 7. 8. And so throughout that ch. Psal. 51. 5. Rom. 3. 9, 23.
;;6. Actuall fin, when evill thoughts are consented unto, and performed in outward deeds. Jam. 1. 15. Lust when it hath conceived, bringeth forth sin.
;;7. Any sinful act or deed. Rom. 5. 12. By sin death eatred. Also, false doctrine, or error in doctrine. Joh. 8. 46. By a Syneed.
;;8. A continual course of sinning, or a constant service of sin. Rom. 5. 15. & 6. 15. Shall we sin that grace may abound? Also, Rom. 6. 1. Shall we continue in sin?
;;A sacrifice offered to make atonement for sin. 2 Cor. 5. 21. He hath made him to be sin for us. Exod. 29. 14. & 30. 10. Psal. 40. 6. and often elsewhere, it signifieth unbelief as the Mother sin, Joh. 16. 19.
;;10. It signifieth false doctrine, Joh. 8. 46.
;;11. Infidelity, the root of sin; and therefore sin, Joh. 16. 9.;;
;;12. Error, untruth, falsity, Joh. 8. 46.;;
;;13. A sin extraordinarily great, or made greater by circumstance, Joh. 15. 22. 24. or a greater measure of sin, Jam. 4. 17.;;
;;14. The remission of sin, Rom. 5. 16.;;
;;15. A … or given by a wicked people to buy out the punishment of sin, Hos. 4. 3.;;
The causes of …]
;;God is no way to be reckoned among the causes of fin, he is … defectiva, or rather negativa, non effectiva peccati; or rather, defectus Dei in nobis, est causa effectus mali in nobis.;;
;;The causes of sin
;;1 Without us, are reduced to three: The devil, the world, and the flesh.;;
;;2, Within us, (which is … to the flesh) there are three in general:;; ;;1. Ignorance, 2 Infirmity, 3 Evill will; or as Aristotle hath it: 1 …, 2 Passio vel infirmitas, 3 Electio seu deliberatio. Vel, 1 Non nosse, 2 Non posse, 3 Non velle bonum: … 3 … sunt. … vero sunt causae externi peccati haec 3 …, 1 Cogitare malum, 2 Velle, 3 Posse.;;
To babe cloak for sin]
;;To have something to plead for excuse, Joh. 15. 22.
To commit sin]
;;Willingly, with the whole will, to fulfill the desire of lust and sin. 1 Joh. 3. 8. He that committeth sin … of the Devill.
;;To continue … …, to live in sin, to commit sin, and to sin, (sometime) to serve sin, to obey sin, be …, or of one signification and force, being spoken of unregenerate and impenitent sinners, who in all things be ruled by their own sinful motions, though not without the check of conscience and reason; yet without any godly sorrow, or harred of their sins.
Sin to death]
;;The blasphemy of the holy Spirit, which is capital, without all recovery. 1 Joh. 5. 16. There is a sin to death, for which ye shall not pray. See Blasphemy.
;;Note. Sin to death, is not a sin which is committed in the hour of death, but which undoubtedly bringeth death: like to the phrase, Numb. 18. 22. but that which Moses speaketh of, is a bodily death; in S. John it is carryed to the death of the soul, and that which is eternall.
To destroy sin]
;;To beat and keep down the power of sin, that it reign not. Rom. 6. 6. That the body of sin might be destroyed.
;;2. To teach, that elect persons justified by faith, are sanctified by the Spirit to be able to kill the rage of sin, as they are freed from guilt and punishment of it Gal. 2. 18. If I build again the things (that is, Sins) which I have destroyed. To build Sin, … to teach that grace hath abounded, that men may live in sin: To destroy sin, is quite contrary, to teach that such as are justified by grace, may nor serve sin.
Sin to lie at the …]
;;Three things:
;;1. That his sin, how closely soever done, yet should be made manifest, as things which lie before the dore, where all men go in and out.
;;2. That howsoever his conscience might sleep and be quiet after his bloody sin, yet as a sleeping dog lying at the dore, being awaked by such as tread on him, doth bite and vex, so should horrour and biting of conscience continually molest him.
;;3. That the punishment of his murthering sin should be ready at hand to take hold of him, so as he should not escape, though his pain for a time were preferred. The pain due to Hypocrites, is like a Ban-dog at the dore, which is easily irritated and provoked to fly in a mans face, and to tear his flesh; so the destruction of sinners shall quickly and certainly arrest and seise on them. Gen. 4. 7. Sin lyeth at the dore.
There is a sin unto death, 1 Joh. 5. 16. As he that set at nought Moses's Law dyed without mercy, upon a sufficient proof of it, Heb. 10. 28. So he that … the Son of God now under the Gospel, after that manner, treading or rampling upon the Son of God, vers. 29. setting his commands and … at naught, as there he is thought worthy of sorer punishment, so here his sin may fitly be said to be unto death. Now this contempt, this sin unto death, is to continue unreformed, and incorrigible after all the admonitions and censures of the Church; of which as there were several degrees, so he that did, not reform upon the first, was within some time to be put under the second, or higher, and not reforming then was to fall under the third; which was wont to be called by the Jews, Schammatha, which signifies, there is death a punishment proportioned to this sin, and from the title …, this seems to be called here, a sin unto death. Not that every deliberate or wilfull sin is here so styled (though that also be mortiserous without … ) but the phrase peculiarly belongs to a wilfull sin to which without repentance or reformation, eternall perdition is denounced, … and aggravated farther, with the addition of … against all perswasions and means of melting, which renders him hopelesse, and owned to ruine, and there is nothing left for him, but a fearfull looking for of judgement, and … indignation, which shall … the adversaries; those that walk thus contrary to God, resist his admonitions, his grace, all his Methods of redu cing them. Dr. Ham. Annot.
Not to bave sin]
;;Not to have so great sin, as contempt of Christ and his doctrine. Joh. 15. 22. Not to have had ….
Sin against the … Ghost, is a general denyal and oppugning of the truth, and all Religion, of which the understanding and conscience by the illumination of the Spirit are perswaded and convicted, proceeding from an obstinate will, and purposed malice against God and his truth.
It is committed of two sorts of men.
1. Of those who have made profession of the truth, and afterwards become Apostates from all Religion, condemning, blaspheming and persecuting as hereticall and impious, that truth which before they professed, and of which they were perswaded. Thus did Hymeneus and Alexander sin, 1 Tim. 1. 20.
2. Those who never were professors of the truth, yet whose Consciences are convicted of that truth which they do oppugn, as the Scribes and Pharisees, Matth. 12. 24, 31.
Sin-offering]
was a Sacrifice offered for the expiation of sin, and it was of Bullocks, Lev. 4. 8. & 8. 2. Goats, Lev. 4. 24. & 10. 16. Young calf, Lev. 9. 2, 8. Kid, Lev. 9. 3. Numb. 29. 5. Lamb, Lev. 4. 33. Turtle-dove, Lev. 12. 6. Fine flower, Ibid 5. 21.
There were two sorts of Sin-offering.
1. Those whose blood was not carryed into the holy place, and sprinkled seven times before the veil, upon the golden Altar, but onelyonly upon the brasen Altar; and of these the High priests might eat, therefore they are said to eat the sins of the people, Hos. 4. 8. i. e. the Sacrifice for sin. Thus Moses was angry with … and Ithamar for not eating the Sin-offering; which what it was he explaineth, Levit. 10. 18.
But the Sin-offering whose blood was carryed within the Holy place, the flesh of it was carryed without the Camp, and burnt, and the Priests might not eat of that, Levit. 6. 30.
The carrying of it without the Camp, had an Allegorical, Tropological, and Anagogical application.
The Allegorical was, that Christ should suffer without the Gate of ….
The Tropological, the Apostle maketh, Heb. 13. 11. where he proves, that the Jews standing to the Ceremonial law, cannot receive any benefit by Christ, because the people got nothing of that which was burnt without the Gate, and Christ the Sin-offering was burnt without the Gate.
The Anagogical application was, that here we have no premanent City, Heb. 13. 14.
They were commanded to lay their hand upon the head of the Sin-offering, Lev. 4. to signifie, that they laid over their sins upon the beast, which was a type of Christ, who was made (shame) an offering for sin, Isa. 53. 10. and sin for us, 1 Cor. 5. 21. … Cer. law, p. 66. 67.
Sin]
He hath made him to be sin for us, 2 Cor. 5. 21. The word foreign is taken for a sacrifice for sin, Lev. 4. 3, 29. & 5. 6. & Psal. 40. 7. and so piaculum in … is both a …, and a sacrifice os …, or the person that is so sanctified, and so the Hebr. foreign, signifies … sin, and legall uncleannesse, and secondarily a sacrifice of … for sin, and of purification for …. So in Rom. 8. 3. foreign, for …, is the … of … (by a sacrifice for sin, saith the marg.) And so Heb. 10. 6. & 13. 11. and so here, though without foreign. The opposition … of foreign sin, to foreign righteousnesse in the end of the vers. doth also cleer this: for as our being …, signifie our being sanctified first, and then accepted by God, justified; so his being sin signifies his being …, …. consecrated, as a sacrifice is wont to be … for the … of the people. Dr. Hamm. Annot. c.
To sin]
;;To break or transgresse some … of God, 1 Joh. 1. 8, 9, 10. Also, to offend-…, 1 Tim. 5. 20.
;;Thirdly, to follow sin with pleasure, not studying to live holily. 1 …. 2. 1. That ye sin not.
That man of sin, 2 Thess. 2. 3. This is here the … of a very wicked sort of people, and though it be in the … number, must not yet in any …, be confined to a … …, but to some one or more …, and their followers. Thus we know foreign, Christ, signifies him, as he is the head of his Church, and is used sometimes to signifie the whole society of Christians: And so'foreign, …, is sure no single person considered alone, but in … with his followers; and so here the foreign, the man of sin, signifieth more then one single person viz. Simon and the Gnosticks. 1b. Annot. c.
Sin]
Job 5. 24. or erre, marg. He that commiteth sin, &c. 1 Joh. 3. 8. foreign to sin and foreign to do or commit sin which appear to be directly the same, by comparing v. 6 & 8. & so foreign, c. 1. 8. to have sin, is all one with having sinned, v. 10. have a special energie in the writings of this Apostle, to denote a deliberate … commission of sin, not every sin of ignorance, incogitancy, frailly, but after deliberation, an advised commission of it. And though he that lives impenitently in any habit of known sin be most … said to sin, and commit sin, yet he that is guilty … any one deliberate act, is here primarily meant by these phrases. Dr. Ham. Annot. ….
To sin aginst one]
To give him occasion of sin by …
;;evil example, in word or deed. Mat 18. 15, If thy Brother sin, or trespasse against thee.
Not to sin]
;;To endeavour the cleansing our … from sin, following holinesse of life. 1 Joh. 3. 6. Sinneth not.
To sin no more]
;;To increase our care and indevour against our sins, that that the force of them may be weakened, and their number lessened, and occasions avoided. Joh. 5. 14. Go, and sin no more; that is, resist and strive against thy sins, that they be not such, nor so many as have been. It is a comparative speech.
To walk in sin]
;;To live securely in a sinfull course, Eph. 2. 2.
Sinner]
;;Every man being subject to sin, and to the transgression of the Law. Luk. 18. 13. God be mercifull to me a sinner. Thus all men be sinners. Rom. 5. 8. When we were sinners.
;;2. The Gentiles which be strangers from the Covenant of God. Gal. 2. 15. And not sinners of the Gentiles. Thus Heathens only be Sinners. In this respect, they which be born of God, be said not to sin, 1 Joh. 3. 9.
;;3. One that liveth in sin, and maketh a trade of sinning, having sin reigning and raging in him. Joh. 9. 31. God heareth not sinners, Mat. 11. 19. Psal. 51. 13. Psal. 1. 1. That standeth not in the way of sinners. Rom. 5. 7, 8. Thus wicked men onelyonly are sinners. Which name is usually given to such as be given to sin, and have the course of their life sinfull; therefore Solomon opposeth good men and sinners, Eccl. 9. 2.
;;4. One wounded with a sense and feeling of sin, hungring after Gods mercies in Christ. Mat. 9. 13. I came to call sinners to …. Thus the godly be sinners.
Sinner]
A woman in the City which was a sinner, Luk. 7. 37. This may be taken in the notion wherein we finde, foreign, Cal. 2. 15. Sinners of the Gentiles, and so signifies no more then a Gentile woman. Thus the word seemeth to signifie, ch, 6. 32, 34. comp. with Mat. 5. 46. or, seeing Publicans and Harlots are put together, Mat. 21. 32. which seems to refer to the … and unworthinesse of … two infamous callings, foreign sinner, as it is of … of signification, with these, may perhaps signifie one that had been a whore, that vice or trade of prostitute whores, being among the Gentiles so ordinary. And so this woman if she were a whore, was either a Gentile also; or because guilty of that Gentile sin, called by this common name of Gentiles, foreign a sinner. But whosoever she was, it was not Mary Magdalen (which our Author proveth at large.) Dr. Ham. Annot. b.
To be a sinner to one]
;;To be guilty as a violator of his faith and promise, and to be punished accordingly, Gen. 43. 9.
Sinners of the Gentiles]
;;Such as from their progenitors and birth were strangers from God his Covenant, being not born of Gods people, but of Aliens from the Common-wealth (or Church) of Israel: as all the Gentiles were before the Resurrection of our Lord: Otherwise, even the Jews were born in sin, and by nature the children of Gods wrath, as well as others. Gal. 2. 15. Not sinners of the Gentiles.
Sinners in the sight of the Lord]
;;Such as sin openly, declaring their sins impudently, without any reverence of divine Majesty, or of men in earth. Gen. 23. 13. They were great sinners in the sight of the Lord. Thus Tremelius reads it. See Gen. 6. 11. Corrupt in the sight of God; that is, impudent offenders.
Sins]
And my sins, Psalm. 69. 5. Heb. guiltinesse, marg.
To loose sins]
;;To assure a repentant sinner for forgivenesse by applying the promises of mercy in the publick Ministery. Mat. 16. 19. What soever thou shalt loose, &c. The Papists doe build their Indulgences upon this Loosing, and their Tyranny on Binding.
Sion, or mount Sion]
;;An hill in the City of Jerusalem, whereupon the Temple was built. Earthly Sion, as a type and figure of another Sion, Psal. 125. 1. Sion was the name of an high mountain in Jerusalem, on the top whereof was a strong Fort, which the Heathen … kept by force from Israel untill David's dayes, Josh. 15. 63. … …. 5. 6, 7. but he took it from them, fortified, and called it David's City, 1 Chr. 11. 4, 5, 7. Neer unto this was Mount Moriah, whereon Solom a did build the Temple, 2 Chr. 3. 1. whereupon Jerusalem was called the Holy City, Neh. 1. 18. Isa. 51. 1. & 48. 2. Mat. 4. 5. and Sion is named the Lords holy mountain, which he loved, and where he would dwell, and from which the Law should come forth; therefore was it a figure of Christ his Church, Joel 3. 17. Psal. 78. 60. Isa. 2. 3. Psal. 132. 13, 14.
;;2. The visible Church of God here on earth. Psal. 51. 20. Be favourable to Sion, & 129. 5. As many as bear ill will to Sion. Before the coming of Christ, the visible Church was onelyonly among the Jews, and was signified by Sion as the most excellent place: where the Isralitish Church did use to assemble to worship God, Isa. 39. 28.
;;3. The Celestial City, heavenly Sion, most excellent for glory, and permanent for stablenesse, like to a Mountain which is high and firm, Rev. 14. 1.
;;4. The company of believers here on earth, of what Countrey soever, Joel 2. 22.
Daughter of Sion]
;;The Church which was wont to be assembled in the Temple built upon Mount Sion, Job 12. 15.
;;2. The woman which dwelt in Jerusalem, where Mount Sion was seated, whether single or marryed, Isa. chap. 3. vers. 16.
Siphmoth]
A place, 1 Sam. 30. 28.
Sippai]
A threshold, a water-pot, a silver cup; or, an end. 2 Sam. 21. 18. 1 Chr. 20. 4.
Sir]
;;A term of reverence given to teachers, and men of authority and wealth. Joh. 12. 21. Sir, we would fain see Jesus. Thus Sarah called Abraham, Sir, or Lord, 1 Pet. 3. 5.
Siriah]
2 Sam. 3. 26. This Well of Siriah, was situate on the North of Hebron. Annot.
Sirtes]
;;Perillous places in the Sea, like unto whirlpools. Act. 27. 17. Fearing lest they should have saln into Syrtes.
Sisamai]
A house; or, swallow of waters, or a moat of waters. 1 Chr. 2. 40.
Sisara]
Seeing a swallow, or moth, or horse. Ezr. 2. 53. Neh. 7. 55.
Sisera]
The same. Judg. 4. 2.
Sister]
;;A Daughter of the same Father; so was Mary to Martha and …. Joh. 11. 1. And her Sister Martha. A Sister by nature.
;;Note. See Gen. 26. 7. A Sister signifies a …, as a Nephew is meant by a Brother. See Gen. 13. 8. & 20. 2, 12. She was not Abraham's naturall Sister, nor of halfe blood, as some do think, but his Brother Haran's Daughter, Sister unto Lot, called also …, Sister unto Milcah, Gen. 11. 29.
;;2. A Kinswoman, so was Sarah to Abraham. Gen. 12. 10. Say thou art my Sister. Also, Mat. 13. 59. His Sisters are they not with us? A Sister by affinity and consanguinity.
;;3. Every true Christian that doth the will of God. Mat. 12. 50. He that doth the will of my Father is my Brother and Sister. A Sister by profession, 1 Cor. 9. 5. One of the same Religion.
;;4. Any thing that is dear unto us, and to which we are neerly joyned in love and affection. Prov. …. 4. Say unto wisdome, Thou art my Sister. A Sister by affection of love.
;;5. The Church, to be gathered out of the Gentiles. Cant. 8. 8. We have a little Sister. A Sister by spiritual union with Christ.
Sister is taken in an evill sense for those that are alike wickedly given, Ezek. 16. 45, 48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61.
Sister]
;;The Church of Christ, being by grace of new birth, born of God, and thereby become flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone; in which regard she is called his Sister, Cant. 4. vers. 10 My Sister my Spouse. The Church of Christ, is … way royal: the Daughter of a King, the Sister of a …. Therefore we are all spiritual Kings, because we are Christians. Sibs. So he calleth her out of his love … of her adoption and regeneration (being born of … and of her sanctification; as it is written, Heb. 2. 12. Mat. 12. 50. Aynsw.
The Church is Christs Sister by reason of his Incarnation. Annot.
A Sister a woman]
;;A Sister a wife, 1 Cor. 9. 5. The word Woman being placed after a Sister (as it is in all Greek Copies and the Syrian Paraphrase) must signifie a Wife, or else there were in the Apostles speech an absurdity.
Not to take a Wife to her Sister]
;;Not to take one Wife to another, or nor to have at once two Wives. This sentence condemneth Bigamie, and Polygamie, having two or more Wives together. Lev. 18. 18. Neither shalt thou take a Wife to her Sister to vex her.
;;That it is the true meaning of these words, (as I have rendred it) may appear by these following reasons.
;;1. Because marriage with our Wives Sister is by proportion forbid in v. 16. of this chap.
;;2. To wrest the reasons added here unto any purpose save Monogamy, or having one woman for Wife at once, were violence to the Text.
;;3. Because elsewhere in some other place the second Wife (when the first was living) is tearmed a Vexer or Provoker, (angens seu … ) 1 Sam. 1. 6.
;;4. If having of more Wives then one at once, be not prohibited in this Text, it should be no where in Scripture forbid, save to the King, Deut. 17. 16.
;;Lastly, Christ, Mat. 19. 5. Paul, Cor. 6. 16. & 7. 1. Also Mal. 2. 15. & Chalde Paraph. on Ruth 4. 6. be most faithfull Interpreters of this Law.
To sit]
;;To rest after labour. Joh. 4. 6. Jesus being weary sate thus upon the Well.
;;2. To have dominion and rule (whereof Sitting is a token) Mat. 19. 28. And sit upon seats, and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel. Rev. 20. 4.
Sit]
Is a gesture Common, and Sacred, or Religious.
Common, as in rest, Gen. 18. 11. & 19. 1. Exod. 2. 15. Joh. 4. 6. At table, Gen. 37. 25. 1 Sam. 20. 24. Mat. 9. 10. In judgement, Ruth 4. 1, 2. Exod. 18. 13. Act. 6. 15. & 25. 17. On the throne, 1 King. 2. 12, 19. & 16. 11. Est. 1. 2. In sadnesse and grief, Ezr. 9. 1, 4. Job 2. 8, 13. In teaching, Mat. 23. 2. & 26. 55. Luk. 4. 20. and hearing, Luk. 10. 39. Act. 13. 14.
Religious, as at prayer, 2 Sam. 7. 18. 1 Chr. 17. 16. In humiliation, Judg. 20. 26. Neh. 1. 4. Jonah 3. 6. In receiving of the Sacrament, Mat. 26. 20. Mat. 14. 18. Luk. 22. 14. John 13. 12.
Sit]
To company with, Psal. 26. 5. To abide, remain, or stay, 2 King. 5. 3. To ride, Act. 8. 28.
Sit in darknesse, Luk. 1. 79. To be in an uncomfortable condition bodily. Bernard.
Sit down, 1 Sam. 16. 11. Heb. round, marg.
To sit in the dust]
;;To fall from high estate and degree, to the lowest and poorest condition. Isa. 47. 1. Come down and sit in the dust.
Sit among the Elders, Prov. 31. 23. Be a Magistrate, Bernard.
Sit in the gate, Psalm. 69. 12. Be a Magistrate, Idem.
To sit in … places]
;;To possesse heaven in Christ our head, and by hope to look to possesse it in their own persons. Eph. 2. 9. And hath made us sit in heavenly places.
;;2. To be a co-partner and fellow of Gods soveraignty and power, Eph. 1. v. 20.
To sit at the right hand of God]
;;To … with God, in the fulnesse of his Glory, Majesty and Rule, over all Creatures, as Christ onelyonly doth, Psal. 110. 1. Eph. 1. 20. And set him at his right hand in heavenly places.
;;Christ as touching his divine essence and majesty is in Heaven, but not locally shut up and enclosed there, onelyonly because it is there most eminent and apparent: whereas his humanity is in heaven, as in the proper place, so as he is not here in earth; else were his body an imaginary, and no true body, which still holdeth natural properties (though it have cast off natural infirmities) and then his ascension were a fiction, and no true and reall action.
;;2. To have part in the blessednesse and glory of heaven, with God, by his free mercy. Mat. 20. 23. To sit on my right hand shall be given, &c. Mat. 25. 32. To them on the right hand.
;;3. To continue, dwell, and abide, Psal. …. 4. & 132. 14. 101. 6, 7.
;;4. To company, and have familiarity with one, Psal. 26. 4, 5.
Sit in heavenly places, Eph. 2. 6. To be possessed of heaven, where many places be for the Elect, where they be now in their head, Christ, and shall be hereafter in their own persons. Bernard.
To sit still, Ruth 3. 18. To be at rest and quiet. Idem.
To sit in the Temple of God]
;;To rule and command in the Conscience or the Church, where God alone ought to sit as chief Ruler. 2 Thess. 2. 4. He sits as God in the Temple of God.
To sit upon the throne]
;;To be endowed with spirituall majesty, such as belongs to him, who is King and Judge of the world. Rev. 4. 2. A throne was set in heaven, and one sate upon it. This is spoken for our understanding after the custome of worldly Kings, who by sitting in thrones, declare their majesty to the people.
To sit with me]
Rev. 3. 21. To reign with me in grace here, in glory hereafter. Rom. 5. 21. & 8. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Mat. 19. 24. Chap. 4. 4. & 5. 10. & 20. 4, 6. & 22. 5. Annot.
Sitting]
Rev. 4. 4. As reigning, and judging together with Christ, Mat. 19. 28. 1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. Chap. 2. 21. Annot.
Sitting place, 2 Chron. 9. 18. Heb. on the place of the seat Annot.
Sith]
Seeing, for that because, Jer. 23. 38.
Sitnab]
…, spitefulnesse, as Ezek in the former verse signifies contention or strife, Gen. 26. 20. Of this word the Devil hath his name Satan.
Situate]
Stood, 1 Sam. 14. 5. Placed, built, Ezek. 27. 3. Nah. 3. 8.
Situation]
Coast, or climate, Psal. 48. 2. Aynsw.
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The name of the third monethmonth which in part answers to our May, Est. 8. 9.
Sit]
Spoken of,
1. In Units and applyed unto, Boards, Exod. 26. 22. Branches, Ib. 25. 32. Brethen, Act. 11. 12. Cakes, Lev. 26. 4. Cities, Josh. 15. 59. Cubits, 1 Sam. 17. 4. Curtains, Exod. 26. 9. Daughters, 1 Chr. 4. 27. Dayes, Exod, 20. 9. Fingers, 2 Sam. 21. 20. Lambs, Ezek. 46 6. Levites, 1 Chr. 26. 17. Measures, Ruth 3. 15. Names, Exod. 28. 10. Paces, 2 Sam. 6. 33. Sheep, Neh. 5. 18. Sons, Gen. 30. 20. Steps, 1 King. 10. 19. Things, Prov. 6. 16. Times, 2 King. 13. 19. Toes, 1 Chr. 20. 6. …, Job 5. 19. …, Numb. 7. 3. Water-…, Joh. 2. 6. Wings, Isa. 6. 2. …, Gen. 16. 16. Exod. 21. 2.
2. In Hundreds, and applyed unto Chariots, Exod. 14. 2. Children of Bani, Bebai, Binnui, &c. Ezr. 20. 10. Neh. 7. 15, 16. Danites, 1 Chr. 12. 35. Furlongs, Rev. 14. 20. Males, Numb. 3. 28. Men, Judg. 3. 31. Oxen, 2 Chr. 29. 33. Sheep, Numb. 31. 37. Shekels of Iron, 1. Sam. 17. 7. of Gold, 1 King. 10. 16. Sons. 1 Chr. 7. 2. Strangers, 2 Chr. 2. 17. Talents, 2 Chr. 3. 8. Tribes of Gad, Numb. 1. 27. of Judah, Ib. 27. Yeers, Gen. 7. 6, 11.
3. In Thousands, and applyed unto, Asses, Ezr. 2. 67, Camels, Job 42. 12. Camp of Judah, Numb. 2. 9. Children of Judah, 1 Chr. 12. 24. Horsmen, 1 Sam. 13. 5. Males of the family of Merari, Numb. 3. 34. Officers, and Judges, 1 Chr. 23. 4. Pieces of gold, 2 King. 5. 5.
4. In Hundred thousands, and applyed unto men, Exod. 12. 37. Foot-men, Num. 11. 21. Sheep, Ib 31. 32.
Six hundred threescore and six]
;;That number which shall arise from the letters of the name of the Beast being numbred. Rev. 13. 18. And his number is six hundred threescore and six. The reason why the name of the Beast is set down mystically, and not plainly (yet so plainly as the wisdom of man may count it) was because it had been dangerous at that time (when the Romane Empire, which was this Beast, flourished) to have published it, and openly laid it forth. Therefore to avoyd unnecessary offence, as also, that worldlings which must fulfill this prophesie, might not see it; for these causes the name is obscurely put down. See the word Number.
Six troubles]
;;Sundry and many afflictions, from all which God will deliver the upright man. Job 5. 19. He shall deliver thee in six troubles.
Six wings]
Rev. 4. 8. These Beasts are described full of eyes, having also six wings about, and those full of eyes within. So many eyes to set forth the multitude of sharpe sighted men, and full of knowledge of the mysteries of God, such as are in the Beasts, that is, the Church, which the beasts do represent. The wings do signifie agility and alacrity, to put in execution the commandements of God. The wings full of eyes, zeal joyned with knowledge and faith. Leighs Annor.
To shew how ready Gods Ministers ought to be to help every man committed to their charge, for the wings are just so many as the Elders. See Isa. 6. 2. Annot.
Sixscore]
Spoken of in Units, and applyed unto Talents of gold, 1 King. 9. 14. In thousands, and applyed unto Children, Jonah 4. 11.
Sixt, or Sixth]
Spoken of, and applyed unto Ammiel, 1 Chron. 26. 5. Angel, Rev. 9. 13. Atthai, 1 Chron. 12. 11. Curtain, Exod. 29. 9. Day, Gen. 1. 31. …, Neh. 3. 30. Hour. Mar. 15. 33. Jehohanan, 1 Chr. 26. 3. Ira, Ibid. 27. 9. Ithream, 2 Sam. 3. 5. Lot, Josh. 19. 32. MonethMonth, Ezek. 8. 1. Ozem, 1 Chron. 2. 15. Part of an Ephah, Ezek. 45. 13. of an Hin, Ib. 4. 11. Sardius, Rev. 21. 20. Seal, Ib. 6. 12. Son. Gen. 30. 19. Yeer, Lev. 25. 21.
Sixteen]
Spoken of in Units, and applyed to, Chief men, 1 Chr. 24. 4. Cities, Josh. 15. 41. Daughters, 2 Chr. 13. 21. Sockers, Exod. 26. 25. Sons, 1 Chr. 4. 27. Souls. Gen. 46. 18. Yeers, 2 King. 13. 10. In thousands, of persons, Numb. 31. 40. Shekels, Ib. 52.
Sixteenth day]
2 Chron. 29. 17. …, 1 Chron. 24. 14.
Sixty]
Spoken of He-goats, Lambs, Rams, Numb, 7. 88. Souls, Gen. 46. 26. Yeers, Lev. 27. 3.
Size]
Measure, Exod. 36. 9, 15.