A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part UN
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Vnable]
Weak, without strength of body or minde, Exod. 18. 18. 2 Cor. 3. 5.
There are 7 degrees to be considered for the effecting of any thing for the which we are by nature unable, the highest degree is the accomplishing of it: our inability to this is exprest, Rom. 7. 8. Phil. 2. 13. This we finde true by experience in evill things; as in Joseph's Brethren, who purposed to hurt him, but were not able to accomplish their purpose, for God turned their wicked purposes to good, Gen. 50. 20. So in Paul going to Damascus to persecute the Church, Act. 9. 9. Thus the wise man sheweth, Eccl. 9. 13.
2. We are no more able to do then we are to effect, Joh. 15. 4, 5. Jer. 10. 23. If man be not able to order his steps, he will be much lesse able to hold out to the end; therefore God must order and direct them, Prov. 16. 9. Thus Paul professeth, Rom. 7. 17. God must work our works in us. Isa. 26. 12.
3. We are unable to begin to practise that which is good, though we have purposed the same in our hearts, Isa. 37. 3. The children are come to the birth, and there is no strength to deliver. So Phil. 1. 6.
4. We are unable to speak that which is good, Prov. 16. 1. And … tels, that often, though we be prepared by study and meditation to pray or preach, yet we are not able to deliver the same words so prepared.
5. We are unable to will, Phil. 2. 14.
6. To understand, 1 Cor. 2. 13. Rom. 8. 7.
7. We are unable to think well, 2 Cor. 5. 3. sor our thoughts are evil continually, Gen. 6. 8. and vain, Psal. 94. 1 Cor. 3. 19, 20.
Vnaccustomed]
Not used, or tryed, 1 Sam. 17. 39. Not tamed, Jer. 31. 18.
Vnadvisedly]
Rashly, foolishly, Psal. 106. 33. It is dangerous, Eccl. 10. 8, 9, 10, 11. Example in Uzzah, 2 Sam. 6. 7. Rehoboam, 1 King. 12. 8.
Vnawares]
Privately, Gen. 31. 20. Ignorantly, Numb. 35. 11. Deut. 4. 42. Josh. 20. 3. Suddenly, unexpectedly, Luk. 21. 34. Not perceived, Gal. 2. 4. Jude v. 4.
Vnawares]
Numb. 35. 11. Heb. by error, marg.
At unawares, Psal. 35. 8. Heb. which he knoweth not of, marg.
Vnbeliever, or Infidel]
;;An unconverted idolatrous …. 2 Cor. 6. 14. Be not unequally yoaked with the Infidels.
;;2. A Christian whose heart is hardened by unbelief. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Blinded the mindes of Infidels.
Vnbelievers]
Luk. 12. 46. foreign, …, void of faith.
Vnbelieving]
;;Such persons as will not embrace the doctrine of Christ, but openly refuse it. Rev. 21. 8. Fearfull, unbelieving.
Such that for all this, did not expect the promised felicity of the Church, when they faw Gods Army, but despaired of victory. Annot.
Such as give not credit to the word of God. Leighs Annot.
Vnbelief]
;;A privation and utter want of faith, when Cods promises are wholly distrusted. Heb. 3. 12. An heart of unbelief. This is totall unbelief, the next is partial, or but in part.
;;2. Infirmity and weakness of faith. Mark 9. 24. Lord help my unbelief.
;;3. Perfidiousness and rebellion against God. Rom. 3. 3. Shall their unbelies make the faith of God of none …? Also estate of …, 1 Tim. 1. 13.
Unbelief is,
1. Negative, when one hath not heard the Gospel, and therefore believeth not: Thus one may want the saving habit of faith, and yet be free from the deadly habit of incredulity. It is both a sin, and a punishment of sin, and excludes from the Kingdom of heaven; for not to have heard of Christ is not sufficient to excuse unbelief, seeing often it is through mens own fault, God justly punishing their sin, by denying them the preaching of the Gospel: ignorance therefore excuses not them who are capable of faith, seeing ignorance in Adam (in whom all have sinned) was voluntary, and all ought to know and believe.
2. Positive, is when one having the Word of God, and Gospel of Christ preached, yet believes not, at least with considence, and therefore he is guilty both of the want of faith, and habit of unbelief.
It is either universal or particular.
Universal, is when one rejects the whole Word of God, as Epicures, who account it a fable.
Particular, is when one believes not certain heads of faith, as that Christ is now bodily in the heavens, &c.
The fruits of unbelief are,
1. It makes men obstinate and hard-hearted, so that they will not easily leave their opinions, and thinks every thing impossible and absurd that is repugnant to them, Mat. 28. 17. Some even when they see Christ after his resurrection, yet doubt of the same, and will not believe, as Thomas, Joh. 20.
2. It so excludes Christ, that his benefits can take no place, as Christ could not do miracles in his own Countrey, because of their unbelief, Mat. 13. 58. Mar. 6. 6.
3. Often it breeds confusion, and disableth men to do that which otherwise they would have been able, if they had believed, Mat. 17. 16. Mar. 9. 18.
4. It hath often corporal punishment attending it, Luk. 1. 20. & 19. 44.
5. It deprives of the promises of God, making them of none effect. Psal. 45. 11. as, The Israelites perished in the wilderness, and did not enter into the Land of promise, because of their unbelief. Heb. 3. 19.
6. It brings on and aggravates the judgements of God, Job 16. 8, 9.
7. It cut off the Jews from the Covenant of God, and from being the people of God, Rom. 11. 20.
8. Because of …, the wrath of God is daily declared against, and cometh upon the children of disobedience, Col. 3. 6.
9. They have their part in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone, Rev. 21. 8.
Unbelief is said, not to make the promise of God of none effect, Rom. 3. 3, 4. Not that such shall enjoy the promises of God, notwithstanding of their wickedness; but the Apostles drift is to keep the Gentiles humble, shewing that the Gentiles may with better reason be cast off, then the Jews were, for the Jews had the Promises, and the Testament, and the Fathers, and Christ according to the flesh; yet when they believed not, he cast them off, and gathered a Church to himself out of the Gentiles, whom he graffed into the true Olive, having cut off the natural branches; and therefore he may much more cut off the …, and resume the Jews, if the Gentiles continue in unbelief.
Vnbelief]
;;An utter absence and want of lively faith, Heb. 3. 19. Take heed lest there be in any … you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Heb. 3. 12. He shews five degrees of Apostasie.
The 1. is consenting unto sin, being deceived with the temptation of it.
The 2. hardness of heart upon many practises of sin.
The 3. the heart being hardened becomes unbelieving, and cals the truth of the Gospel into question.
The 4. by unbelief it becomes evill, having a base conceit of the Gospel.
The 5. this evill heart brings a man to apostasie, and falling from God, which is the extinguishing of the light of the Gospel.
This evill heart is a great evill.
1. From the Nature of it. It is an inward evill, … on the principal part of man, the soul; is an inveterate evill, which we brought with us into the world; and an insensible evill.
2. In the effects. It indisposeth us to all good: is the root of other evils, Mat. 15. 19. and maketh a man unfit to live or die. Leighs Annot.
Infidelity is the original and fountain of all disobedience. Annot.
Our other backslidings and variations from God, … wide and distant so ever, yet may be thought to be but like those of the Compasse, more or lesse according to a lesse … greater interposition of earthly mindedness, but this is like to that of the Magnet it self, which while it lyeth couched in the Mineral, and united to the Rock, it conformeth to the nature and verticity of the earth, but separate it from thence, and give it free scope to move in the air, and it will despe rately forsake its former and more publick instinct, and turn to a quite contrary point. So as long as a man is fastened to the rock Christ, and keepeth but any hold there, he will still be looking lesse or more towards the Author and finisher of his faith, but broken off once from thence, and beginning to be in the open air, and under the Prince of that, he presently turneth aside from the living God, and pointeth to a pole of his own Gregories Notes, p. 163.
Vnbelief]
Heb. 4. 11. or disobedience, marg.
Vnblameable, or without blame and reproof, or unrebukable]
;;An upright person, whose life cannot be noted and charged with any reigning sin, after his calling. Luk 1. 6. Both were just before God and unblamable, or without reproof. Such are the Saints in this life, by inherent righteousness, Eph. 1. 4.
;;2. A person that cannot be charged with ought that is amisse in him, being void of all faults. Eph. 5. 27. A glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle: but that it should be holy and unblameable. Such the Saints are now, by imputed righteousness, and such they shall be in heaven, by proper and personal holiness.
Vnblameably]
Without complaint, (foreign) having so ordered our lives, that no man may justly complain on us, blameless, 1 Thess. 2. 10.
Vncertain]
is,
1. Doubtful, Joh. 13. 22.
2. It signifieth indistinct, which cannot be known, 1 Cor. 14. 8.
3. Unstable, changeable; thus riches are uncertain, 1 Tim. 6. 17.
Vntertain riches]
1 Tim. 6. 17. Gr. uncertainty of riches, marg.
Vncertainly]
Doubtfully, waveringly, unknowingly, 1 Cor. 9. 26.
Vnchangeable]
1. God is of himself, and essentially unchangeable, Psal. 92. 9. & 102. 13, 25, 27, 28. Lam. 5. 19. In respect of his counsell, Heb. 6. 17. Psal. 33. 11. Isa. 46. 9. In … of his Word, Numb. 23. 19. and that both in regard of his promises, Psal. 89. 35. his oath, Heb. 16. 8. and his threatnings.
The new heaven and new earth shall be unchangeable, so also our bodies after the resurrection, being made conformable to the body of Christ, Phil. 3. 21. But this is by the free gift of God.
Vnchangeable]
Heb. 7. 24. or, which passeth not … one to another, ….
Vnchangeable …]
Heb. 7. 24. Or, which passeth not from another. Annot.
Such a Priesthood which cannot passe from him to any other, as the Priesthood of Aaron did. Leighs Annot.
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;;Persons in whom the whole corruption of mans nature is unreformed, but powerfully breaketh out in thoughts, words, looks, deeds, and senses. Act. 7. 51. Ye stiff-necked, and of uncircumcised hearts and ears. These Jews were circumcised outwardly, yet because their hearts were not renewed, they were inwardly uncircumcised.
;;2. Gentiles which had not the forskin of their flesh cut off. Eph. 2. 11. Ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, called uncircumcision. 1 Sam. 17. 26. Who is this uncircumcised Philistin? This is the proper signification of the word ….
Vncircumcised]
1. Corporally, as whose foreskin of their flesh was not cut away; being either within the Church, so by Gods dispensation, as Joh. 5. 2, 4, 7. or so of careless neglect and contempt, whereby the Lord was provoked to wrath, Exod. 4. 24. and such were not to eat the Passeover, Exod. 12. 48. or without the Church, as the Philistims, 1 Sam. 14. 6. and all other Nations, except Abraham's posterity, Jerem. 9. 26. called unclean, Isa. 52. 1. and strangers, Ezek. 44. 7. Of whom some were uncircumcised in … and flesh, Ibid. of whom, Eph. 2. 12. & 4. 17, 18. Others uncircumcised in the flesh, but not in the heart, Rom. 4. 11, 12. specially after Christs coming, being … from Circumcision, 1 Cor. 7. 18.
2. Spiritually, in Heart, Act. 7. 51. in Ear, Jer. 6. 10. in …, Exod. 6. 12, 30. Though they were circumcised in the flesh. Bernard.
Vncircumcised lips]
signifieth, Polluted lips, as he that was not circumcised was accounted unclean, Isa. 6. 5.
Some expound it stuttering, that is, not eloquent or ready … speech; they that are thus, pronounce many … syllables, which like a foreskin ought to be cut off, that the speech may be pure and neat.
It is referred to the fruit of the earth, which was to be accounted unclean the first three years, and not to be eaten, Lev. 19. 23.
Vncircumcision]
;;The Gentiles, even all people which were not Jews, Rom. 3. 30. And circumcision through faith. Eph. 2. 11. That is, a profane people without God, stangers from the Covenant of salvation.
;;2. The skin of the secret parts, with the estate and condition of uncircumcised men. Rom. 2. 25. Thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Vncle]
Ones Fathers or Mothers Brother, Lev. 10. 4. 1 Sam. 10. 14. 1 Chr. 27. 32.
Vnclean]
;;Such persons or things as are ceremoniously polluted by touching a dead carkasse of man or beasts, &c. Hag. 2. 14. If he that is polluted touch any of these things, shall it be unclean? Lev. 13. 46. He shall be polluted, for … is unclean. Act. 10. 14. Any thing which is polluted, or unclean; that is, which may not be eaten, being forbidden by the Law.
;;Of this prohibition of some meats as unclean, in respect of use, there were sundry causes:
;;1. Was Civil, to invite the Jews by this means to obedience.
;;2. Moral, to teach them temperance.
;;3. Physical, to maintain health, and escape diseases, by a promiscuous use of meats, which would breed sicknesses.
;;4. Ceremonioal, to distinguish the Jews from all the Gentiles, which observe no such difference.
;;5. Mystical, to put them in minde of spiritual uncleanness, to avoid it, and to follow holiness in body and soul, and to instruct them concerning Christ: who being come, and crucified, hath abolished this Mosaical Law, which yet after Christ his ascension was of force for a time, till the weak believing Jews might be taught what liberty the Gospel had brought them.
;;Of uncleannesse about Meats, there be sundry sorts:
;;1. Physical or natural in meats, which are enemies to natural health, as venemous Serpents, &c.
;;2. That which sin brought upon all creatures, being accursed to man for disobedience of our first parents, Gen. 3.
;;3. Morall, when meats become polluted to us by the vice of intemperancy, or by disobedience to Civill laws, appointing restraints of meats to civill ends. For to the unclean all things are unclean. Tir. 1. v. last.
;;The 4 is scrupulous uncleannesse, as when the weak Christians at … made scruple if they might eat of things offered to Idols, 1 Cor. 8.
;;5 Superstitious uncleannesse, when there is choyce of meats made at certain times for Religion sake, as in Popery.
;;The 6 and last is Ceremonious uncleannesse, such as was under Moses Law, which forbad the use of many meats, for such causes as before is laid down.
;;2. Such as are spiritually defiled with sin, either totally, as the wicked, which still (like hogs in the mire) wallow in the filthiness of sin: ot in part onelyonly, not having the corruption of their sin wholly purged out, as the godly. Isa. 64. 6. We have all been as an unclean thing.
Vnclean Spirits]
;;The Devill, who is himself most unclean and foul; also he inspireth uncleannesse into others. Matth. 10. 1. And gave them power against unclean spirits.
;;2. The vices of convetousnesse drunkennesse, infidelity, whoredome, hypocrisie, &c. by which the devill holds possession of mens hearts. Mat. 12. 43. … … unclean spirit is gone out of a man. Metonymie of the cause for the effect.
Three unclean spirits]
;;A strong number of the Ambassadors of Satan. Rev. 16. 13. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs, come out of the mouth of the Dragon.
Vnclean thing]
Exod. 23. 14. Hebr. … of any thing, marg. Job 36. 14. or Sodomites, marg. Lam. 4. 15. or polluted, marg. Rom. 14. 14. Gr. common, marg. There are unclean,
1. Corporally, Lev. 13. 45.
2. Ceremonially, Lev. 5. 2. & 11. 4. Deut. 14. 7.
3. Morally, Job 36. 14.
4. Scrupulously, Rom. 14. 14. Bernard.
Vnclean thing]
;;Such as being themselves unpure and filthy, are apt by contagion to infect and pollute others whom they touch. Rev. 21. 27. No unclean thing.
As an Vnclean thing]
;;That even the holiest men on earth are (through remaining sins) like a leprous person, who for his uncleannesse deserved to be separated from the company of other men; so are they become worthy for sin to be shut out from the company of God and his Angels, Isa. 64. 7.
Vncleannesse]
;;Generally all sins whatsoever, which make unclean both our selves and every thing we touch; but particulary, such sins as tend unto our wicked pleasure and commodity. Rom. 6. 16. Zach. 13. 1. For sin, and … uncleannesse; that is, for sin which is it self unclean, and maketh us unclean.
;;Whereas such as were defiled with any Legall uncleannesse, (as by touching a dead carkasse, &c.) must be thrown out of the Camp, till they had cleansed themselves, Numb. 5. 23. Lev. 15. 31. this figured two things.
;;1. That our sins give just cause unto God to cast us out from his presence and glory, Rev. 21. 27.
;;2. That evill doers are to be separated from the publick assemblies and company of the faithfull, for a time, till repentance, by suspension and excommunication. Compare 1 Cor. 5. 13. with Numb. 5. 2.
Vncleannesse]
Zec. 23. 1. Hebr. separation for uncleannesse, marg.
Vnclothed]
is spoken of Death, whereby the soul is stript of the body, 2 Cor. 5. 4.
Vncomely]
Not decent, unfitting, 1 Cor. 7. 36. Unhonest, unseemly, 1 Cor. 12. 23.
Vncondemned]
Not found guilty, not examined, not convinced, Act. 16. 37. comp. with vers. 22. & 22. 25.
Vncorruptnesse]
Free from errour, Tit. 2. 7.
Vncover]
To make bare, Isa. 32. 11. To leave naked, Exod. 31. 5. 2 Chr. 29. 19. To lay open, Prov. 13. 16. To have carnall copulation, Lev. 2. 18, 19. & 18. 8. To expose to shame and disgrace, Jer. 13. 26. Hos. 2. 3.
Vncover his feet]
Ruth 3. 4. or list up the clothes that are on his feet, marg.
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Isa. 22. 6. Hebr. made naked, marg.
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The holy Ghost, 1 Joh. 2. 20.
Vndefiled]
Clean, without spot, free from sin, Heb. 7. 26. Sincere, Psal. 119. 1. Perfect, 1 Pet. 1. 4. Where our heavenly inheritance is laid to be …:
1. Because we shall live separate from all polluted things, as the devill, hell, and sin.
2. We shall be joyned to God, that undefiled essence, the fountain of all holinesse.
3. We shall enjoy the fellowship of unspotted Angels, and blessed souls after an undefiled manner, with all purity, concord, and quietnesse.
4. We shall be cloathed with persection of nature, being made like unto Christ both in soul and body; in soul Gods image in undefiled graces, being perfected without mixture either of defects or corruptions; and our body shall be made like the glorious body of Christ, Phil. 3. 22. without death, shame, weaknesse, or any imperfection.
5. Our service shall be pure and undefiled, for we shall praise God day and night, without either weaknesse or wearinesse, Rev, 7. 15.
Vndefiled]
;;One which is free from filthinesse and spot of sin, being washed in the bloud, and sanctified by the Spirit of Christ, Cant. 5. 2. My undefiled.
The Church is … (especially) in that it is the Spouse of Christ, and cloathed with the robes of his righteousnesse, Christ and his Church are not to be considered as two, but as one, when we speak of this undefilednesse. The Church in Christ is …, yea even then when it feels its one defilements. She may be called … also in respect to her … in … of disposition, tending to perfection; and God respects her according to her better part, and according to that he will bring her in due time. Sibs.
Vndefiled]
Heb. 7. 26. Christ was undefiled, actively, of all things; passively, of any person. The Priests might keep their bodies from being outwardly defiled, yet they were stained with sin in soul and body too; Christ had no … any kinde of way. Jones.
Vndefiled in the way]
Psal. 119. 1. Perfect, intire, or …, in their slate or conversation. Aynsw.
VnderUnder]
is taken,
1. In respect of place, Deut. 4. 11. 2 Sam. 22. 37. Rev. 5. 13. Hence these phrases, under heaven, under the sun, under the earth, &c. Judg. 1. 7. …. 7. ….
2. In respect of condition and state, power and dominion. Hence these and the like speeches, to have servants under one, to tread under foot, to be under …, Rom. 3. 9. To be concluded under sin; i. e. to be …, Gal. 3. 22. To be sold under sin, Rom. 7. 14. To be under the elements of the world; i. e. to be kept in bondage under the Ceremonies of the Law, Gal. 4. 3. To be under a curse; i. e. guilty of it, Gal. 3. 10, 11.
3. In respect of protection and defence, Psal. 17. 8. …. 2. 3. Mat. 23. 37. Gal. 3. 23.
4. It is put for, In. Hence under the lips, tongue, is, in the lips and tongue. Psal. 140. 4. Rom. 3 13.
VnderUnder grace]
;;One to whom sin is … pardoned by the merit of Christ, and who … also freed from the dominion aud strength of sin, by the aid of Gods grace and Spirit. Rom. 6. 14. Ye are under grace.
VnderUnder the hand]
2 Chr. 31. 13. Hebr. at the hand, marg.
VnderUnder the hand of God]
;;One chastened and judged for sin, to his humbling, Judg. 2. 15.
;;2. One that is defended by the great power and providence of God. 1 Pet. 5 6. Humble your selves under the … of God.
VnderUnder hope]
;;One not without hope; or one who hopeth well in respect of Gods power and …. Rom. 4. 18. … … above …, believed under hope. Under hope, in respect of God; above hope, in respect of man.
VnderUnder the Law]
;;One subject to the doctrine, instruction and government of the Law, Rom. 3. 6, 9. Gal. 3. 23. We were kept under the Law. Also one subject to the burthen of … all Rites and Ceremonies, Gal. 4. 5.
;;2. One subject to the curse, …, and compulsion of the Law, and as it is the strength of sin, and not to be under the Law, is to be freed from all these by faith in Christ and his sanctifying Spirit, Rom. 6. 14. For ye are not under the Law, but under grace.
VnderUnder his …]
;;By this signe either subjection; or for a further mystery of the Covenant of Circumcision; or rather of Christ, the promised seed, who was to come out of Abraham's loyns or thigh, Gen. 24. 2. & 47. 29.
VnderUnder Tuturs]
;;A childe in his nonage, being under the tuition of a Governour or Guardina. Gal. 4. 2. But is under Tutors and Governors.
;;2. One subject to the Regiment of the Ceremonial Law (as to a Tutor) Gal. 4. 2.
VnderUnder the unjust]
;;Before the un just, in their Courts, and at their Judgement-seat. 1 Cor. 6. 1. Dare any of you having businesse against another, be judged under the unjust?
VnderUnder-girding the ship]
Act. 27. 17. This under-girding is by trusses, which are ropes made fast to the yards; used either to bind fast the yard to the mast, when the ship rowls a hull, or at an anchor, or to hale down the yards in a gust or storm. Annot.
Vnderneath]
Exod. 28. 27. & 39. 20. Beneath. D. Transl.
VnderUnder-setters]
1 King. 7. 30. Heb. shoulders. These were as shoulders to uphold the vessel, and to keep it from shaking or moving out of its place when it should be removed. Annot.
To understand]
;;To perceive with the eyes of the …, something unknown afore, Dan. 10. 1.
;;2. To observe and consider in his minde, the afflictions of the Church under the King of Persia. Dan. 12. 10. Thou settest thy heart to understand.
Vnderstand]
Deut. 28. 49. Heb. heart, marg. …. 8. 13. or that they might instruct in marg. This is either naturally, 2 Sam. 3. 27. 1 Cor. 1. 19. or supernaturally, as Gen. 41. 15. 1 Chr. 18. 19. Dan. 4. 9. Heb. 11. 3. or spiritually, Psal. 119. 100. 1 Cor. 2. 9, 14. Bernard.
Vnderstand]
Heb. 11. 3. Through faith we understand, &c. that is, according to the particular circumstances of the creation, though something thereof may be known by the light of reason, 2 Pet. 3. 5. Rom. 1. 20. Annot.
Vnderstanding]
;;That naturall faculty of the soul, whereby it knoweth things, and is able to discern them, and discourse of them. …, 24. 45. Naturall understanding.
;;2. The gift of heavenly knowledge enabling us to see the truth of Gods words, or more cleerly and fully to see it. Psal. 119. 34. Give me understanding, &c. Prov. 3. 13. & 4. 5. &c. This is active spirituall understanding, whereby we do understand others when they speak of heavenly things.
;;3. Interpretation to make others understand what is prayed for or uttered in a strange tongue. 1 Cor. 14. 15. I will … with understanding. This is passive spiritual understanding, whereby some are made fit to understand our speeches.
;;4. Meaning, sense, matter of that which is prayed for in a strange tongue. 1 Cor. 14. 14. My understanding is without fruit; that is, when … a prayer in an unknown tongue, the hearer hath no benefit, because he knoweth not the meaning. Popish Latine prayers before an English unlearned people, be unfruitfull, contrary to the canons and rules of the Apostle, also to the practise of the primitive Church, yea against common reason: (for how shall any men say Amen, to that which they know not? or ask of God, what they understand not?) Lastly, repugnant they be to nature, for how shall one prepare to battail upon an … sound? When men understand not one another, then they be Barbarians, or rather Babylonians one to another, according to that of the Poet; Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli.
Vnderstanding]
Job 12. 3. Hebr. an heart, marg. Psal. 111. 10. or successe, marg. 1 King. 3. 9. Hebr. hearing, marg.
A people of no understanding]
;;Obstinate people and blockish, void of wisdome and such as will not learn, no not by rods and punishments. Isa. 27. 11. For it is a people of no understanding.
;;Note. As by a fool, the Scripture for the most part meaneth the wicked; so by a man of understanding, every one that is godly, is meant, Prov. 8. 9.
Vnderstood]
Easie to be understood, 1 Cor. 14. 9. Gr. significant, marg.
Vndertake]
To promise faithfully, or become bound, Est. 9. 23. To protect and uphold, Isa. 38. 4.
Vndertake for me]
Isa. 38. 14. or ease me, marg.
Vndoe]
To perish, Numb. 21. 29. To relieve, Isa. 58. 6. To afflict and destroy, Zeph. 3. 19. Not to accomplish or perform, Josh. 11. 15. Mat. 23. 25.
Vndone]
Isa. 6. 5. Hebr. cut off, marg.
Vndressed]
Of the vine undressed, Lev. 25. 5. Hebr. of thy separations, marg. Which were separated and exempted from the owners, from sale and merchandize, and by the Word of God made free and common for all. The Gr. translateth, of thy sanctification; the Chald. of thy leaving; that is, which thou art to leave in common. Or, they may be so called, because the land and trees were to be left unmanured, and undressed, & so after a sort separated from the owners care and husbandry. Aynsw.
Or, which thou hast separated from thyself principally, and left free from common use, vers. 16. Or, what thou hadst wont in the six yeers to appropriate or separate to thine own use; or (as some conceive, according to the Hebr. word Nezirecha) because the fruits ungathered make a shew or resemblance of the Nazarites, whose locks were worn long without any cutting. Annot.
Vnequall]
Unmeet, 2 Cor. 4. 16. Unrighteous.
Vnequally yoked]
2 Cor. 6. 14. Gr. diversly yoked, or drawing the other part of the yoke. Annot.
Vnfaigned]
Upright, sincere, without dissimulation and hypocrisie, 1 Tim. 1. 5. 2 Tim. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 6. 6. 1 Pet. 1. 22.
Vnfained]
Applyed unto Faith, 1 Tim. 1. 5. and Love, 1 Pet. 1. 22. both which must be without dissimulation.
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Deceitfull, Psal. 78. 57. Prov. 25. 19.
Vnfaithfully]
Psal. 78. 57. Nothing more displeaseth God in Children, then when they continue in that wickednesse which their Fathers had begun. Annot.
Vnfruitfull]
Unprofitable. Tit. 3. 14. Barren, Mat. 13. 22. Evill, Eph. 5. 11.
Vngird]
Gen. 24. 32. He ungirded his camels. Did loose, or unloosen their girths. He, to wit, Laban, whereby we see the gentle entertainment of strangers, used by the better sort of people in those times; which example may serve either for imitation or conviction of future ages, Annot.
Vngodly]
;;Every sinner that is unregenerate, whether he be elect or reprobate. Rom. 4. 5. & 5. 6. Christ dyed for the ungodly. Such we are all from our birth, even the Infant new born.
;;2. A person of yeers, who is a wicked liver, in whom birth-sin still reigneth. Psal. 1. v. last. The way of the ungodly shall perish. Jude v. 15. To … all the ungodly men of all their wicked deeds.
Vngodly]
2 Sam. 22. 5. Hebr. Belial, marg. Psal. 43. 1. or unmercifull, marg. This is spoken of Idolaters, 2 Chr. 19. 2. of Rebels, Psal. 3. 7. of enemies of the godly, Psal. 18. 4. of such as in worldly prosperity contemne God, Psal. 73. 12. of a mischievous man, Prov. 16. 17. of such as dig up evill, Prov. 17. 27. of a false witnesse, Prov. 19. 28. of all men before conversion and justification, Rom. 4. 5. & 5. 6. of sinners, 1 Tim. 1. 9. 1 Pet. 4. 18. of them that turn the grace of God into wantonnesse, and false Teachers, Jude v. of notorious wicked livers and blasphemers, Jude v. 15. of lusts, Jude v. 18.
Vngodlinesse]
;;Wickednesse or sin, immediately done against God, in the breach of the first Table. Tit. 2. 11. Teach us to deny … and worldly lusts. Rom. 1. 18.
All ungodlinesse]
;;All kind of ungodlinesse, or ungodlinesse of all sorts: for ungodlinesse hath sundry parts and branches: as Ignorance, Insidelity, Superstition, Idolatry, Hypocrisie, Contempt of God, Profanation of his name and Sabbaths, &c. Rom. 1. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse.
;;As unrighteousness noteth all manner of sins committed against the second, so ungodlinesse signifies all sorts of sins committed against the first Table.
Vnholy]
Profane, Lev. 10. 10. 1 Tim. 1. 9. Without sanctification, 2 Tim. 3. 2. Common, Heb. 10. 29.
Vnholy]
Heb. 10. 29. hath counted the bloud of the Covenant — an unholy thing. Gr. Common. Mar. 7. 2. Act. 10. 15. They make no more account of the bloud of Christ, then of the bloud of some Malefactor, or of a brute beast. Annot.
Vnicorn]
A beast, fierce, wilde, and untameable, Job 39. 12, 13, 14, 15. It is very strong, Ibid. Hence powerfull men are compared to them, Isa. 34, 7. and God …, in respect of his powerful protection, Numb. 23. 22. & 24. 8. And because his strength is in the …; therefore by the … of the …, is signified, the power both of the godly, Deut. 33. 17. Psal. 62. 10. and also of wicked …, and cruel persecutors of the godly, Psal. 22. 21
Naturalists write of the Unicorn's horn, that of all other it is most firm and solid.
2. Most pleasant: And,
3. Most profitable, as being a soveraign preservative against all poyson: The beasts of the field (as they record) attend till the unicorn dip his horn in the water, then they come and drink.
Thus the Kingdome of Christ may be fitly compared unto it, for of all other it is the most firm and durable, the most beautifull and most profitable; for he hath changed the bitter waters, and made them sweet; neither is there any thing so deadly which his horn healeth not, and makes it to serve for the salvation of his own.
The Unicorns horn groweth out of its forehead between the eye-lids, and is neither light, nor hollow, nor smooth, like other horns, but hard as iron, rough as any file, resolved in many plights, sharper then any dart, straight and not crooked, every where black, except at the point. It casteth the horn as the Hart. This horn being set upon the Table of Kings amongst their junkets, and banquets, doth bewray if therein there be any poyson, by a certain sweat which cometh over it. It's a beast which cannot be tamed, fighting both with its mouth by biting, and heels by kicking. It's gentle to strange beasts, but fighteth especially with his own kinde, yea with the female, unlesse in time of copulation. Running against the Lyon (who in the mean time runneth behinde a tree) he runneth his horn into the tree, whereunto being therewith fastened, he is killed. It reverenceth Virgins and Maidens. Having tharpened its horn by rubbing it against a rock, and so prepared it selfe for fight, it endevoureh especially to pierce its adversaries belly, as knowing it to be soft and weak.
Vnicorns]
Isa. 34. 7. or Rhinocerots, marg.
Vnicorns horns]
;;The Devils Angels, Principalities, Powers, worldly Governors, Princes of the darknesse of this world, as Eph. 6. 12. They be called, Psal. 22. 21. And from the horas of the Unicorn. The Unicorn is so … and wilde, that he will not be tamed, Job 39. 12, 13. His strength and pride is in his horn. See Psal. 92. 11. Numb. …. 22. Deut. 33. 17. Isa. 34. 7.
Vnion]
of the Elect with Christ, is expressed by his dwelling and abiding in us, and … in him, by being partakers of the divine nature, 2 Pet. 1. 5. putting on of Christ, Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 13 v. last.
The Subject of this union are the faithfull onelyonly, Eph. 3. 17. who are noted by the love of Christ, Joh. 14. 23. and their perseverance unto the end, Heb. 3 14.
The … cause is the holy …, Rom. 8. 9. 1 Cor. 12. 13. 1 Joh. 4. 13.
The … instrumentall cause is the word of the Gospel, Joh. 15. 7. 1 …. 1. 2, 3, 4. and the Sacraments of Baptisme, Gal. 3. 23. and the Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 10. 16.
The … is faith, Joh. 6. 35, 40, 47, … Eph. 3. 15.
The Property of it is, that it is indissoluble, Rom. 8. 34, 35, 36, 37.
The effect is eternall life, Joh. 6. 54, 57.
By virtue of this union, the faithfull, are partakers,
1 Of the divine nature, 2 Pet. 1. 5.
2 Of the offices of Christ, 1 Pet. 2. 5, 9. Rev. 1. 6. & 5. 10.
3 Of the benefits of Christ; as, his righteousnesse, sanctification, redemption, and glory, Joh. 15. 1. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 8. 17.
Vnion of two Natures]
;;An action of God the … ther, by the secret and mighty work of the Spirit, joyning the manhood unto the Person of the Son, unseparably, at the instant of his conception. Luk. 1. 31. …, thou shalt conceive in thy wombe, and bear a Son, and shalt call his came Jesus. Rom. 1. 4. Concerning his Son Jesus, which was born of the seed of David.
Vnite]
To joyn together things that are divided. Thus the heart is said to be united to God, when it is free from divers thoughts, cares, and affections that distract it from him and his service, so that we cleave to him and worship him onelyonly. Psal. 86. 10. Not to be united unto the … of the …, is not to communicate with, nor approve of their wicked counsels and actions, …. 49. 6.
Vnity of faith]
is not onelyonly one faith common to all the faithfull, who agree in one and the same faith, looking for the same salvation, by the same Mediator and means: but also that perfect … of Saints, which was at the first begotten by faith, and in which at the last shall end that unity … faith; for … perfect communion in the life to come, deserveth best the name of unity of faith (although faith shall be changed in to sight) because is had its beginning from saith, and … leadeth unto it. …. Eph. 4. 13.
This unity ought to be sought … by all Christians. 1 …. 1. 10. 2 Cor. 13. 11. …. 2 2. Rom. 15 5. It was the glory of the first Christian Church, Act. 4 32. because,
1. It is a … bond of our union with Christ, and to break it, is to … … the veins and sinews of the mystical body, 1 Cor. 1. 10.
2. it is just and …. We have but one Father, one …, one Spirit, one …, and … … have but … Faith, …. 4. 3, 4, 5.
3. Because of the good effects of it: As,
1 it will make us … to praise God, Rom. 15. 5.
2 It will make us eat our meat with more gladnesse and singlenesse of heart, Act. 2. 46.
3 It is a great advantage for the conversion of others, Act. 2. 47. And it will be a signe to us that we are true Christians, and that we have found true comfort in Christ, that we have fellowship by the Spirit in the body of Christ, and that we have right … and mercy to others, Phil. 2 1, 2.
4 Because of evil … of …; as,
1 It breed; confusion in the Churches, 1 Cor. 14, 32, 33.
2 Division, and …, 1 Cor. 1. 10.
3 It disquieteth the hearts of weak Christians: in which respect Paul wisheth they were cut off that trouble the Galatians, chap. 5.
4 It subvers often the soul, Act. 15. 24. Eph. 4. 14. 2 Tim. 2. 14, 16, 17.
5 It drivets men often into divers acts of …, or passion, or pride, or such vices as are contrary to singlenesse of heart, Act. 2. 46.
6. It breeds new censuring, the authors of new opinions censuring others, as if in rejecting their opinions, they were not spirituall enough, … carnally minded, and that they were far … them in knowledge and other graces, as may be gathered out of 1 Cor. 14. 36, 37. Thus the false Teachers … … and the ….
Helps to it, are,
1. Prayer, Rom. 15. 5.
2. Avoyd doubtfull disputations, Rom. 14. 1.
3. To have respect to the peace of the Church; for if we would keep the unity of the …, we must respect the bond of peace, Eph. 4 3. Rom. 14. 19. 1 Cor. 14. 33.
4. Labour to know the …, and to be fully perswaded of truths necessary to salvation. 2 Tim. 1. 13.
5. People should respect … ministers as have begotten them in Christ, 1 Cor. 4. 15, 26. & 11. 1, 2, 4, 5. Phil. 3. 15, 17
6. The weak in … should be helped forward, the … minded should … comforted, lest they become a prey to deceivers, 1 Thess. 5. 14.
7. They that cause division … be …, and avoided, Rom. 16. 17, 18.
Vnity]
Psal. 133. 1. or concord.
Together in …, Heb. even together, marg.
Vnity of spirit]
;;Godly agreem nt, both in Religion and affection, whereof the holy Spirit is the bond and authour. Eph. 4. 3. Endevouring to keep the unity of the Spirit.
Vnjust or unrighteous]
;;An Insidel or Pagan. 1 Cor. 6. 1, 6. Before the unjust.
;;2. A sinner voyd of all righteousnesse, even from … birth. 1 Pet. 3. 18. He dyed, the just for the unjust. Unjust by nature.
;;3. One who being of years doth lead his life unrighteously, doing wrong to others in their dignity, person, wife, substance, or name. 1 Cor. 6. 9. The unjust (or unrighteous) shall not inherit the Kingdome of heaven. Unjust both by nature and action.
Vnjust]
;;One which is injurious, offering wrong and violence to the Saints, whom they shall exercise for a time with their wicked dealing, and afterward be recompensed at Christs coming. Rev. 22. 11. Let him that is …, be unjust still.
By … gain, Prov. …. 8. by increase, marg.
Vnjust man]
Psal. 43. 1. Hebr. … of …, marg. or man of injurious evill. ….
Vnjustly]
Isa. 26. 10. or unequally and perversly, as Psal. 72. 4. ….
Vnknown]
;;One which is hid from us, or of whom we are …. Act. … 13. To the unknown God. Gal. 1. 21.
;;2. One obscure and renowned, or that careth not to be renowned and famous. 1 Cor. 6. 6. As …, yet known.
Unknown] Whereof there is no knowledge, Act. 17. 23. That is not understood, 1 Cor. 14. 4, 13, 14, 19, 27. A stranger, 2 Cor. 6. 9. Gal. 1. 22.
Vnlade]
Act. 21. 3. To disburthen, take out the …, or burden.
Vnlawfull]
is taken, 1. Ceremonially, Act 10. 28. Morally, 2 Pet. 2. 8.
Vnlearned]
;;One that is voyd of learning; a vulgar or unlettered person. Act. 4. 13. 1 Cor. 14. 23. There come in they that are ….
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Properly, bread without leaven, …. 16. 3. It was either …, Gen. 19. 3. …. 5. 11. 1 Sam. 28. 24, 25. or …, Exod. 29. 2, 23. 2 Lev. 2. 4. or …, 1 Cor. 5. 7. Now it is ….
Vnlesse]
is in effect the same with ….
Vnloose]
Mar. 1. 7. To loose, ….
Vnmarried]
1 Cor. 7. 8. A single person, one not married.
Vnmerciful]
One without pity, compassion, or that … up the … of compassion, and denyeth all outward help in time of distresse. It is accompanyed with many other sins, Rom 1. 31.
The Properties of such are,
1. To oppresse, 2 Sam. 12. 6.
2. To … of the love of God, 1 Joh. 3. 17.
3. He is without the fear of God, … 6. 14.
4. …, Amos 1. 11.
5. He … evil in the hurt of his neighbour, Prov. 21. 10.
God will punish such, Amos 1. 11, 13. in this life, Judg. 8. 15, 16. comp. with v. 5. and in the life to come, Luk. 16. 23, 24, 25. Mat. 25. 41.
Vnmindfull]
…, Jam. 1. 24, 25. Unthankfull, Deut. 22. 18.
There is a twofold …; one in the …, another in the affection. Of this, Psal. 106. 12. As a … will have God in his mouth often, and swears by him at every word, yet he … God; for if he remembred that the name of God were a good name, he would love it; if a great name, he would fear it; if a … name, he would … it: but of all this he is unmindful, even when he remembers him, and speaks of him.
Vnmoveable]
That cannot be removed out of the place, Act. 27. 41. Stedfast, constant. 1 Cor. 15 58.
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An answer, song, afflicted, or poor. 1 Chr. 15. 18, 20. Neh. 12. 9.
Vnoccupied]
Judg 5. 6. Nor frequented, there being no commerce, not intercourse of …, men not daring to travel to and fro about their businesse, for fear of enemies and …. See Lev. 26. 22. 2 Chr. 15. 5. Isa. 33. 1. Lam. 1. 4. ….
Vnperfect]
Not fully formed, but wanting both in parts and degrees, Psal. 139. 16.
Vnpossible]
That cannot be done, Mat. 17. 20. Heb. 6. 4, 18. Without strength, Rom. 8. 3.
In respect of Man it is twofold:
1 As it flows from the … of nature: As it unpossible for an infant to speak as well, or be as strong as a man; things this way unpossible God doth not exact of us, as not … his goodnesse and …. This is in man without ….
2. That which … from the … of nature: As it is … to make a drunkard sober; a whore, chaste; … to … man from …: to exact of us the … … … things, is … to the … of God, who … gave us a nature perfect. This is a … unpossibility, and such as man hath imposed upon himself.
Vnpossible]
;;Not that which absolutely can never be, but something which cannot be, because it is against Gods decree and counsel, Heb. 6. 5. & 11. 6.
Vnprepared]
Unready, 2 Cor. 6. 4.
Vnprofitable]
is referred,
I. To things.
… … Barren, bringing no fruit, Luk. 13. 7.
2. Without …, Tit. 3. 9.
3. Insufficient to produce any effect, as the Ceremoniall Law to expiate sin, Heb. 7. 13.
4. …, …. Thus Idols are to Idolaters, Jer. 2. 8. & 16. 19. So that is unprofitable to us which bringeth great dammage, Heb. 13. 17.
II. It is refered to persons; thus an unprofitable man is one of no worth, wicked thus are all men by nature, Rom. 3. 12. Psal. 14. 3. The Hebrew signifieth …, …, … such things are rejected as unprofitable and hurtfull.
It is one that is sloathfull and lasie, Mat. 25. 26, 30. or false, Philem. v. 11. One is unprofitable in regard of God, because he cannot merit any thing at his hands, Luk. 17. 10.
Vnprofitablenesse]
Heb. 7. 18. Namely to be purified thereby according to the Spirit, as the Jews sought their holinesse and perfection in the use thereof. D. Annot.
Vnpunished]
Escape, Prov. 19. 5. Innocent, Prov. 11. 21. Jer. 25. 29. Absolute, Jer. 49. 12.
Vnprofitable]
Heb. 13. 17. and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you.
I. In this life; And that two kinde of wayes.
1. Being grieved they cannot discharge their Ministery so well to your edification: they cannot study so well, … so well, as otherwise they might do; and that makes against your profit.
2. The Preacher and Pastour being grieved, must needs … out his grief into the bosome of God Almighty, whose workman he is; he cannot but complain unto God of it; and doe ye not think that God will take his cause into his hand, look upon the grief of his Steward, and plague the people for it, that are the Authours thereof?
II. In the life to come. Will not Christ then say unto such as have opposed his Ministers; vexed his servants; Depart from me, &c? By grieving them, ye grieve the Spirit, grieve Christ. Jones.
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Mat. 3. 12. Luk. 3. 17. that can never be quenched, as the place is inaccessible, whither there is no coming.
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Unjust, against reason, Act. 25. 27. …, perverse, 2 …. 3. 2.
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1 Tim. 6. 14. Against whom there is no just exception, who cannot deservedly be found fault with for any crime, who is free even of the smallest ofsences.
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Col. 1. 22. Without fault. This word notes … … uprightnesse, or Christian perfection of life. See … on …. 1. 22.
It … signifieth one who hath done nothing for which he may be called in question; to whom no crime can justly be objected.
The word signifieth not one who is without fault, infirmity, or sin; but such a one as no man can justly call into question to taint with any infamy.
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;;All sins done to the hurt or wrong of God and men, Joh. 3. 10. Also the sins of the second Table, Tit. 2. 11. Rom. 1. 25. Lastly, it signifies falshood, deceit, lyes in doctrine, Joh. 7. 18.
Vnrighteous]
Heb. 6. 10. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and … … love, that is, unfaithful or inconstant, so as to forget his promises of rewarding. See 2 Thess. 1. 6. 1 Joh. 1. 9. It is but foolish … Popish writers here conclude for the merit of good workes: It is just with God so to doe, not in regard of mans merits, but of his own promise. ….
Vnrighteons man]
Isa. 55. 7. Hebr. the man of …, marg. Unjust by nature, 1 Pet. 3. 18. Living unrighteously, 1 Cor. 6. 9. It's the same with ….
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Deut. 25. 16. wrong. D. Transl. …, or … …, which generall word is here added, to … all other wrongs and deceits, which abound among …, whereby they … and defraud one another. See 1 Thess. 4. 6. Amos 8. 5, 7. Aynsworth.
Vnrighteousnesse]
;;The violation and breach of the second Table of the Law. Rom. 1. 18. And unrighteousnesse.
;;2. Persidiousnesse of …. Rom. 3. 5. If … … righteousnesse commend, &c.
;;3. Falshood, …, lyes, which be called … nesse, because lyes in … rob God of his due, … 7. 18.
Vnripe]
Job 15. 33. He shall shake off his … …. The wicked mans wealth, which like an unripe grape is not yet come to perfection. Annot.
Vnruly]
Without government, Titus 1. 6. Offensive and scandalous, that will not be kept within bounds, 1 Thess. 5. 14. False Teachers and …, Tit. 1. 10. that cannot be tamed, Jam. 3. 8.
Vnruly]
1 Thess. 5. 14. or disorderly, marg. foreign, Tit. 1 6. Who cannot be brought into …, intractable, refractary, not subordinate, as when … will not keep their ranks. A Metaphor taken from … headstrong beasts, that will not be brought under the yoke. And it is somewhat answerable to an … phrase given to disobedient children, viz. … … …, Deut. 13. 13. which is according to the notation, Sons without profit, or as some will have it, Sons without yoke. Leigh Cr. Sac. In 1 Tim. 1. 6. The word is rendred …, and in Heb. 2. 8. not put under.
Vnsatiable]
Ezek. 16. 28. That cannot be filled, contented, or ever have enough. It … the horrible idolatry of the Jews, and how exceedingly they were addicted thereunto.
Vnsavory]
Without taste, Job 6. 6. Foolish, without wisdome or reason, Job 1. 22.
Vnsavory]
See Annot. on Job 1. 22.
Vnsearchable]
Job 5. 6. Hebr. and there is no search. They may be searched into, but not with any expectation to finde out the causes of them, or the maner of doing of them by the wit of man, though he search never so strictly; That labour is in vain. Therefore unsearchable, is expounded by past finding out, Rom. 11. 33. It signifies also high, deep things, and secret things which men cannot come at, as the height of heaven, the bottome of the Sea, … of the earth, the heart of Kings, Prov. 25. 3. Job 38. 16. …. It's … of Gods greatnesse, Psal. 145. 3. Of his judgements, Rom. 11. 33. and the riches of Christ, &c. Eph. 3. 8.
Vnsearchable, and past finding]
;;That which is not to be known, being … (the … of an … in the air, or a Ship in the Sea) not to be inquired into; but rather to be adored and … admired. Rom. 11. 33. How … … his …? &c.
;;This place makes not against the sober searching of Gods revealed Word, which belongs to us, and to our children, Deut. 29. v. last; but checks the bold presumption of such as … search that part of Gods minde, which he hath reserved in his owne knowledge and power; as who be elect, and how many; and who be …, and why he would rather elect Peter, Jacob, &c. … …, or …; and advance Joseph and David, … then any of their brethren; and why the world was made no sooner, … continue longer, with such like … questions; touching which, that counsel of … would be followed; What you understand not (saith he) mervail at with me, but … inquire not after them: there is a learned ignorance, and there is an … presumptuous ….
… able tiches of Christ]
The treasure of wisdome and knowledge hid in Christ, Col. 2. 13. or the … of the glorious inheritance of the Saints, Eph. 1. 19.
These riches are … in three respects:
1. In respect of us.
2. Of the things themselves.
3. In respect of their cause and principle.
As to us, so far is the knowledge of these things from … understanding and thoughts, that except God had revealed them unto us by his Son, they had never come into our minde; seeing as the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 2. 9. The eye hath not seen, nor the car …, nor the heart … those things that God hath prepared for them that love him.
2. If we respect the things themselves, they are incomprehensible, …, and eternal, transcending all finite capacity and knowledge; for these riches are not earthly, … visible with the eye of the body, but altogether heavenly, invisible, and to be seen onelyonly with the eye of the minde, and of ….
3. If … respect the cause and … from whence these riches flow unto us, and … … eternity they lay hid, they come from the secret counsell and decree of God, according to the good pleasure of his will, Eph. 1. 4. So also … … and mercy of God, … is the … cause of … … eternall … in … either of the … of …, … …, or …, or …, or deepnesse, … humane capacity and understanding.
Justly therefore are these … said to be unsearchable, … they be in some … revealed to us in the Gospel by the Spirit of God, who is given to the faithfull, that they may know the … … God … … …, 2 Cor. 2. 12 and who hath revealed them so for to us, as is sufficient for … condition in this life, … in the mean time the full vision and … of them for the life to come. …, Eph. 3. 8.
Vnseemly]
Filthy, Rom. 1. 27. Unmannerly, 1 Cor. 13. 5.
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Jer. 2. 25. To go bare-foot, and bare-leg'd, … … or ….
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Rude, without knowledge, Heb. 5. 13.
It is spoken of them that have made but small progress in the doctrine of the Gospel, and knowledge of the … of salvation.
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Heb. 5. 13. Unskiiful in the Word of righteousnesse, Gr. hath no experience in that righteous Word, or which teacheth the righteousnesse both of justification and sanctification, Psal. 19. 7. Prov. 8. 6. &c. Annot.
Vnspeakable]
That which cannot be expressed.
Things in Scripture may be said to be unspeakable, 3. wayes.
1. In respect of the smalness of the thing, Rom. 8. 26. The … and … that the faithful have in their hearts in the time of great affliction, are so weak and small that they cannot … them, yea hardly discern them. Perkins grain of … …. Conclus. 3.
2. In respect of the worth and excellency, man is not able to speak of things, 1 Cor. 2. 9. 2 Cor. 9. 15.
3. For want of either power or authority to reveal, 2 Cor. 12. 4. where the things seen by Paul in the third heaven, … said to be …; either because he was not able to express them in … words, (as most Interpreters;) or because it was not … for him to reveal them, as not tending … the use and … of the Church in this life: as … My …. 2 Cor. 12. 4.
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Without …, unblameable, Jam. 1. 27.
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;;Light, soon moved, Gen. 49. 4. It implyeth both the … light affection of minde, which carryed him to evil, and his sudden … from his dignity; the … alwayes used in ill part, Judg. 9. 4. Jer. 23. 32. …. 3. 4.
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foreign, inconstant, Jam. 1. 8. Like a man that stands upon one leg, wavereth, and is unsteady, and is easily overturned, Leigh Cr. Sac. foreign, 2 Pet. 2. 14, 16. Not setled, confirmed.
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Isa. 35. 5. The ears of the deaf shall be …. They shall now listen to the Word of God, speaking in his Book, and by his Messengers, that had no list to hearken unto either before, fulfilled in Christs time, both corporally, Mat. 11. 5. …. 7. 32. and spiritually, Act. 2. 37, 41. & 8. 6, 14. & 13. 42, 48. & 16. 14. Annot.
Vntaken away]
2 Cor. 3. 14. and not removed, not done away. There is a … … … (not the Gospel, but) the hearts of the …, by a malicious and wilful obduration, ….
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Unmixed.
It is … of false Teachers, who without any ground or warrant from God and his Word, preach pleasant things to impenitent sinners, which is like a wall built with sand, having no lime, which cannot stand, Ezek. 13. 10, 11, 14, 15.
Vnthankful]
Luk. 6. 35. 2 Tim. 3. 2. Some are in part only so; some are altogether so; faigned, restrained, and forced thankfulness, is a kind of unthankfulness; some do faign to be thankful, who have no such thing in the heart; some are ashamed to publish their thankfulness, blushing that any should know that they are obliged …; some are forced by shame, fear, …, or imitation to be thankful; some are meerly unthankfull; as,
1. He who acknowledgeth not within himself the benefit and greatnesse of it.
2. He that professeth it not before others, or dissembleth it, or denyeth it.
3. He that … not to requite it as he may.
4. He that altogether forgetteth it: But,
5. Most of all he that … good with evill.
The causes of it are,
I. The benefit either unworthy; or if worthy, yet un worthily given: as,
1. When it is wrung from the giver by importunity; he thinketh he hath bought it at a dear rate, as with the price of his prayers.
2. If the receiver have gotten it with vexation, long delayes, and wearisome hopes.
3. If the giver give it with anger, ill will, or ambition, ….
4. With upbraiding, reproaching, or by occasion.
5. Or if he know the benefit to be hurtfull.
6. If the giver corrupt his benefit with subsequent injuries, so that often the injury overcometh the gift. Or,
7. If the giver repent the giving of his gift. Or,
8. If he boast of it, casting it in the receivers teeth.
II. The forgetfulnesse of the giver or his benefit, maketh the receiver …, … benefit living in their hands, but dying in the memory, 2 Chr. 24. 22. Gen. 40. 23. Psal. 106. 21. Hos. 8. 14. 1 Sam. 12. 9. Isa. 1. 3. & 5. 4. Jer. 2. 5, 6, 8. Psal. 79. 42. There are many sorts of unthankful men: some deny the benefit, some dissemble it, some requite it not, but most unthankful are they that … it; shame, honesty, and occasion may remedy the former, but nothing can amend the last, when men willingly forget.
III. Ignorance of himself and duty, thinking himself worthier then he is, prizing himself at a high rate, and the benefit at a small rate; or when he is ignorant of the giver, not knowing his kindenesse, wisdome, and power, and collecteth them not out of the benefit. The Gentiles when they knew God, glorified him not as God, neither were they thankfull, because they became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were full of darknesse.
IV. Misconstruction and suspicion of the givers affection, when the benefit is beheld wherein it may seem deficient, but not wherein in it may profit the receiver, or wherein he deserveth it not.
V. Hardheartednesse, so that no benefit can mollifie and win, who are so inflexible, that no benefit can make them kinde, Isa. 5. 4. Rom. 2. 4, 5.
VI. An evill conscience; for as there is nothing more forcible to make a man thankfull, then a good conscience, … nothing is of greater force to make him unmindfull of his duty then an ill conscience, that is either blinded, asleep, dead, or cauterized.
VII. Self-love, when men are too much admirers of themselves and their merit, thinking they have deserved more; such as they love none so much as themselves, no not their benefactors as they should, 2 Tim. 3. 2.
VIII. Avarice, which never can be satisfied, thinking all that is received nothing if it get not more, accounting it an injury if any thing be withheld that it desireth; greedinesse of things desired, makes us forgetfull for benefits received, and avarice is ever unthankfull.
IX. Envy, which is full of comparisons, disdaining that others should be preferred or equalized to the receiver in receiving gifts; he alwayes sorroweth, and none can both envy a man, and give him thanks.
X. Ambition, and pride; such men remember not their owne basenesse, not considereth his present estate under the benefit, which once he most desired; he beholdeth not where he was, whence he came, where he is, but where and what he would be. Hezekiah's pride suffered him not to be thankfull to God for his health restored, 2 Chr. 32. 24, 25, 36. Thus God complaineth of …, Hos. 13. 6.
XI. The corruption of nature, whereby we are more sensible of evill then good, the pain of one finger is … felt then the health of the whole body, injuries make a deeper impression in the minde then benefits, they that are of a perverse disposition, are neither overcome nor changed with benefits.
Vntil]
;;A certain and appointed time, Gen. 49. 10. Until Shiloh come, Rom. 11. 15. Untill the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Here and elsewhere it doth note a determinate time, with an exclusion and shutting out of succeeding time.
;;2. Infinite, without end or ceasing, where there is no time following. 2 Sam. 6. 23. Michol had no childe untill her death, that is, she never had any. Matt. 28. 20. I am with you alwayes, … the end of the world; that is, for ever, Psal. 101. 1. & 123. 2. In which of these two significations, we should understand that in Mat. 1. v. last, Untill she had … forth her first begotten Son; as it is doubtfull among Divines, so it is not needfull for us to know, being no Article of our faith, nor any branch of the Moral Law; yet it is commonly received (as I take it) that Mary was a Virgin before the birth, in the birth, and ever after the birth; but not by the vow of perpetuall Virginity, whereof there is no ground in all Scripture.
Vntimely]
Which cometh before the time, and is imperfect.
It is spoken of the birth, Job 3. 16. Psal. 58. 8. Eccl. 6. 3. Of fruit, Rev. 6. 13.
Untimely figs. Rev. 6. 13. Or, green figs; which fall, before the others succeeding them shoot out. Annot.
VntoUnto]
Exod. 29. 17. or Upon, marg. Heb. 2. 1. or In, marg. Mar. 6. 45. or Over against, marg. Deut. 21. 8. Heb. in the midst, marg.
Unto thee, Deut. 7. vers. 23. Hebr. before thy face, marg.
Vntoward]
Perverse, wicked, Act. 2. 40.
Vnwalled]
Spoken of Towns, Deut. 3. 5. Est. 9. 19. Of villages, Ezek. 38. 11. By which last Judea is meant, which was destroyed, and not yet built again, Annot.
Vnwashen]
Mat. 15. 20. Defiled, or common, Mar. 7. 2. marg. So the Pharisees held unwashen hands to be, nor would eat with such, supposing themselves defiled, by touching of that which was not sacred, or common. Annot.
Vnweighed]
1 King. 7, 47. Without weight, 1 Chr. 22. 3, 14. For it would have been too great a task to have weighed all, and too great a charge to have been accountable for all by weight; and there was so much of those metals prepared as they exceeded all weight. Annot.
Vnwise]
;;Such as either wholly want the knowledge of the Word, or having it, do not submit themselves to be ruled by it. Eph. 5. 17. Be not unwise.
;;2. An unlettered and ignorant man. Rom. 1. 14. A debtor to the wise and unwise.
Vnwise]
He is … unwise Son, Hos. 13. 13. If this people were not foolish and stupified they would imitate little infants, who coming into the world do keep themselves, and strive to free] themselves out of the straits and dangers of the birth; so they should have endevoured to free themselves out of their mortall dangers and travels by true repentance. To stay long in the birth is mortall both to the infant and mother, but this people astonyed in their miseries and obdurate in their sins, and desperate, sought not to come out of them by the pangs of true repentance, and so be born anew to God; but foolishly they perish in them. Annot.
Vnwittingly]
Lev. 22. 14. In ignorance, or through unadvised error. Aynsw.
Vnworthy]
is taken,
1. As it is opposed to merit, Gen. 32. 10. 2 Sam. 7. 8, 21. & 23. 25. Matth. 3. 11. & 8. 8. Luk. 15. 19, 20, 21.
2. Unto decency, Heb. 11. 38. and conveniency, Act. 13. 46.
Vnworthily]
;;Unmeetly, or otherwise then is beseeming, without due reverence and regard. 2 Cor. 11. 27. He that eateth the bread of the Lord unworthily.
;;There be two degrees of such as eat and drink unworthily.
;;1. Of such as be full and whole unworthy: when men receive the Sacramentall bread and wine, having no faith, no conversion or repentance, but lye altogether in corruption of nature: these by eating and drinking, encrease their condemnation.
;;2. Of such as having true faith and repentance, but not then actuall, when they came to receive, being negligent to consider themselves and that whole action unto due preparation in sincerity of faith, applying the remission of sins promised in Christ, of repentance; and renewed purpose in all things to live to God; of desire after the grace of … Christ, for strengthening their hearts, and encrease of holiness. These endanger themselves to present plagues, 1 Cor. 11. 19, 30.