A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part WR – Part YC
W R.
Wrap]
To cover, 1 King. 19. 13. To fasten, and take sure hold, Job 8. 17. To hide sin. Mic. 7. 3.
Wrath]
;;Just vengeance taken upon sinners in this world. Psal. 90. 12. … knows the the power of his wrath? Eph. 5. 6. Rom. 3. 5. Which punisheth. Isa. 26. 21.
;;2. Eternall death in hell fire. 1 Thess 5. 9. God hath not appointed us to wrath. 1 Thess. 1. 10. Which delivereth us from that wrath to come. Rom. 2. 5. This floweth from the just wrath of God.
;;3. The perturbation of minde', which moveth man to revenge their owne wrongs. Gal. 5. 30. Hatred, debate, wrath.
Wrath when it is attributed to God signifieth three things.
1. His just decree to punish sin. Joh. 3. 36. Rom. 1. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven; that is, the wrath of God is made manifest by the effects of the same.
2. His threatnings against sin, Psal. 6. 1. Correct me not in thy wrath; that is, according to thy threatnings against sin, Hos. 11. 9. Joh. 3. 9.
3. The punishment it self, inflicted upon sinners. Rom. 2. 5. To treasure up wrath; is, To heap up punishment. Thus it is taken, Mat. 3. 7. Eph. 5. 6.
Wrath]
is applyed both unto God, and unto Man.
Unto God; whereof the cause is sin, Numb. 16. 46. 2 Chr. 28. 11. Ezr. 8. 22. Psal. 78. 31. Joh. 3. 36. Rom. 1. 18. Eph. 5. 6. for the execution whereof there's a day of wrath, Rev. 6. 17. This is tearmed sometimes little, Isa. 54. 8. See Psal. 2. 12. & 78. 38. whereof yet the Psalmist could say, Thy wrath lyeth hard upon me, Psal. 88. 7. but usually fierce, 2 Chr. 29. 10. great, 2 Chr. 28. 13. said to be kindled, 2 King. 22. 17. wax hot, Exod. 32. 10. burn like fire, Psal. 89. 46. The objects hereof are the generation of his wrath, Jer. 7. 2 9. the people of his wrath, Isa. 10. 6. and the vessels of wrath, Rom. 9. 22. They shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, Rev. 14. 10. and on them shall be poured out the vials of his wrath, Rev. 16. 1.
Unto man; whether a King, Prov. 16. 14. & 19. 12. or others. This is said to be cruell, Prov. 27. 4. heavy, Ib. 3. Proud, Prov. 21. 24. This is in some excessive, who are therefore said to be full of wrath, Est. 3. 5. Act. 19. 28. This is a work of the …, Gal. 5. 20. upon which we must nor let the Sun go down, Eph. 4. 26. but put it off, Col. 3. 8. being slow thereunto, Jam. 1. 19. In Rev. 6. 16. wrath is also ascribed unto the Lamb. Psal. 90. 11. Even according to thy fear so is thy wrath. The Psalmists meaning is in opposition to them that maintained, that God need not be feared, quia nec potest irasci, nec nocere; that is, in the Prophet Zephaniah his expression, That the Lord will do no good, neither will he do any evill, Zeph. 1. 12. His meaning I say is, That the fear of God is no vain thing; that he hath dreadfull judgements in store against them that fear him not, nor dread his judgements. Annot. Or, who knoweth (or acknowledgeth) thy wrath; so as thy fear, teacherh men to do? meaning … fear either. Gods Law, as Psal. 19. 10. or his fearfull judgements upon sinners, which should strike a fear into mens hearts, Deut. 13. 11. Psal. 119. 120. Jonah 1. 16. Or, as thy fear, is, so as to fear thee for thy wrath, and by it to depart from evil, as Prov. 16. 6. 2 Cor. 5. 10, 11. or even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. The Chaldee paraphraseth, who knoweth to turn away the strength of thy anger, but the just which fear thee … thy wrath? Aynsw. Or according as men do more or lesse tremble at thy judgements, so doest thou more or lesse execute them. B. Hall Paraph.
Children of wrath]
;;Those that are guilty of eternal death through the just anger of God against sin, as all men be by nature and birth. Eph. 2. 3. And were by nature the children of wrath as well as others
Thy wrath is come, Rev. 11. 18. The time to execute thy wrath on such as repented not in time of thy forbearance. Annot.
The wrath of the Lamb, and the … day of his wrath. Rev. 6. 16, 17. Though a lamb sacrificed for his, and in regard of mildnesse to them, chap. 5. 6. yet as dreadfull as a lion to those that had wronged him in them, whose hearts began now to smite them for their wrongs done to them; and as powerful and wrathful, to take vengeance upon them for the same, Ch. 5. 5. & 1. 7. Amos 1. 2. & 3. 8. and that on the day of vengeance, which the blood of Martyres called upon, and cryed so loud for, vers. 10. So Isa. 34. 6, 8. Joel 2. 1, 2, 31. Annot.
To give place to wrath]
;;To suffer God to execute wrath and punishment upon our enemies that wrong us, committing our cause to him who in due time will revenge it. Rom. 12. 19. Avenge not your …, but give place to wrath. Deut. 32. 35. This phrase by some is understood of our owne wrath, that we should keep it in, and not … it to break forth, but digest and allay it in our selves, by meeknesse of spirit.
;;Other Interpteters reserre it to the wrath of our adversary, which will be much appeased (if not wholly …) by our silence and patience, giving way to his anger without resistance; even as the force of a gun or of lightning, is greatly broken, if they light and fall upon soft and yeelding things, as the ground, or wool, or such like; whereas hitting upon hard things, as oakes, walls, &c. which doe resist, they violently overthrow all.
;;These things are true, but the first sense is fittest, as appeareth by the Text, Rom. 12. 19. by the words cited out of Moses; for Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
Wrath]
Heb. 3. 11. So I sware in my wrath. Though it be here said, he sware in his wrath, yet it was a just and adviséd anger; not cholerick fury as ours is, Jones.
Wrathfull]
Angry, Prov. 15. 18. Thy wrathfull anger, Psal. 69. 24. The burning wrath of thine anger. Aynsw.
Wreathed]
Lam. 1. 14. They are wreathed, They, that is, the penalties whereunto by them I have made my self liable, and which God hath justly inflicted upon me for them, are made up together as in a wrath. The word here used is very pregnant, and made vigorous. It is derived (as some think) from the boughs or twigs of trees, or shrubs, that growing thick together, are intangled one with another. So tearmed, Gen. 40. 10. As others, from threads that are twined and twisted together to make up a line, cord, or cable, Eccl. 4. 12. Or, as others again, from withs and twigs that are wreathed together for the making of baskets. Or, as others, lastly, from nets and snares made of lines so twisted, wherein birds, beasts, and fish are wont to be intangled; or weels made of such withs and twigs, for the catching of fish, because in the Chaldee and Syriack the word is commonly used for such nets, Job 19. 6. Ezek. 12. 13. & 19. 8. and such baskets, 2 Cor. 11. 33. Annot.
Wreathen]
Applyed to the two chains of pure gold which were to be fastened to the Ouches, which were to be placed on …'s Ephod, Ex. 28. 14. and to the work about the Chapiters of the two brasen Pillars in Solomon's Temple, 2 King. 25. 17.
And the two wreaths, &c. 2 Chr. 4. 12. These are called net-works, or wreaths of chain-work, 1 King. 1. 17. being a very artificiall kinde of work, whereby sundry …, leaves, flowers and fruits, were curiously interlaced and wreathed together. Annot.
Wrest]
To pervert and turn to another end. Thus to pervert judgement, Exod. 23. 2. is, To oppresse under colour of justice, Deut. 16. 19.
To wrest ones words; is, To turn them into another sense then he meant that spake them, or then the words will bear, Psal. 56. 4. … Hereticks pervert the Scripture, to confirm their false doctrine, 2 Pet. 3. 16.
To wrestle]
;;To … together one man with another, which should overcome the other by strength. Gen. 32. 24. There wrestled a man with him, till the breaking of the day.
;;2. To fight and strive against the spiritual enemies of our salvation. Eph. 6. 12. We wrestle against principalities and powers.
Wrestlings of God]
;;Divine and vehement wrestlings, very great and earnest endevours, both with God in prayer, and by all other means that he could, Gen. 30. 8.
;;Note that wrestling in …, …. 32. 24. which was a combating, by taking hold one of another, sigured the spiritual strife and conflict which the children of God have, Rom. 15. 30. Heb. 10. 32. Phil. 1. 27.
Wretched]
… miserable, poor, afflicted.
It is outward, by reason of outward …, or unsupportable burdens, Numb. 11. 15.
2. Spiritual, twofold.
1 …, in the want of spiritual grace, as saving knowledge, righteousnesse, and lanctification, Rev. 3. 17.
2. Positive, by reason of originall corruption, Rom. 7. 24.
Thou art wretched, Rev. 3. 17. In a very lamentable plight, whatsoever thou deemest or … of thy happy condition, Jer. 4. 10. & 6. 14. Annot.
Wretchednesse]
And let me not see my wretchednesse, Numb. 11. 15. or … evill; that is, my misery and …. By seeing evill, is meant the feeling or … of misery; as, to see death, is to dye, Luk. 2. 26. Psal. 89. 49. and as one to the contrary, to see the salvation of God, meaneth the fruition or enjoyning thereof, Psal. 50. 23. & 91. 16. Aynsw.
Wring]
To strain or presse out dew, Judg. 6. 38. Juyce of the grape, Gen. 40. 11.
It is put for, To afflict with grievous calamities, Psal. 75. 8, To kill, Lev. 1. 15.
To wring the blood]
;;The clots of blood that the dolors of Christs sufferings wrung from him in the garden before his oblation upon the Crosse. Lev. 1. 15. And the blood thereof shall be … out at the side of the …: comp. it with Luk. 22. 44.
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A blemish in the face or body, caused through age or …, Job 16. 8.
2. The deformity of the … by reason of sin, Eph. 5. 25. Cant. 4. 7. From this wrinkle the Church is … in this … in justification by the blood of Christ, 1 Joh. 1. 7. and shall be in the life to come, in respect of sanctification, Eph. 5. 27.
Write]
is put for Reckon, Isa. 10. 19. To touch and instruct, 1 Joh. 2. 6, 7. Prov. 22. 20. To purpose and decree, Job 13. 26. To declare, Jer. 22. 30.
Write]
Isa. 10. 19. …. number, marg.
To write]
;;To register or record a thing in a Book, that posterity may know it. Rev. 14. 13. Saying unto me, Write.
Not to write]
;;To keep and hold a thing for a while, secret and private to himself, reserving it to a fit place. Rev. 10. 4. Saying, Write them not.
To write into the heart]
is, to work into the heart by the Spirit of God, a gracious disposition aud aptnesse to keep the Law evangelically, and to give some power and strength thereunto, Jer. 31. 32. This is done in our effectuall calling, which is this writing. Cameron on Heb. 8. 10. or spirituall knowledge and regeneration. … on Heb. 8. 10.
To write with a mans pen]
;;To write such a style as men doe use in their writing, and in such letters as the most rude may read and know what is written. Isa. 8. 1. Write in it with a mans …. Hab. 2. 1.
Writer]
Judg. 5. 14. Even Scribes and Scholars addicted to their studies, with unanimous consent joyned with the rest in taking up arms to fight Gods battles and help their brethren. Annot.
Of a ready Writer, or of a swiss (a ready) Scribe. So Ezra was called, not onelyonly for Writing, but also for Interpreting the Law, Ezr. 7. 6. Scribes were both … or Notaries, 2 King. 12. 10. & 22. 3. and Expositors of the Law, or Counsellers, 1 Chron. 27. 32. Matth. 23. 2. Aynsw.
Writing]
;;signifieth, something which Elias had written by way of prophesie whiles he lived, 2 Chr. 21. 12.
It is either, 1. Immediately, of God himselfe, Exod. 32. 16. or mediately, by his servants, Deut. 31. 24. Joh. 5. 47. Thus the Lord would have his Word written for the generation to come, Psal. 102. 17. Isa. 30. 8.
1 For our learning, Rom. 15. 4. & 4. 23. 1 Cor. 9. 10.
2 For our admonition, 1 Cor. 10. 11.
3 For our instruction, Exod. 24. 12.
4 For our belief, that our faith might be strengthened, Joh. 20. 31.
5 For the greater assurance of those things delivered by the word of mouth, Luk. 1. 4.
Writing-table]
foreign, a little table to write in, Luk. 1. 63.
Written]
Heb. 12. 23. or enrolled, marg.
Written in the Book of life]
;;The Elect, whom God out of his everlasting decree hath chosen to everlasting life by Christ, being every one in their time washed, justified, and sanctified. Rev. 21. 27. But they which are written in the Lambs Book of life.
To be written in earth]
;;To be forgotten before God and his Church. Jer. 17. 13. All that … thee shall be written … the ….
To be written in heaven]
;;To be predestinated and elected eternally by the firm counsel of God, to obtain salvation by Christ. Luk. 10. 20. Rejoyce that your names … written in heaven.
Written in heaven]
;;Chosen of God to eternal life, by Christ …, Heb. 12. 23.
To be written in the book of Remembrance]
;;To be loved, respected, cared for, rewarded and remembred of God. Mal. 3. 16. A book of remembrance was written before him, for such as fear the Lord. See Remembrance.
Written … and without]
;;A large writing, and copious, fully foreshewing the things that should befal the Church, even unto the least matters. Rev. 5. 1. I saw a … written within and without.
Gr. On the … side. The matter was so copious, that the inside of the book could not hold it. Ezek. 2. 10. A phrase taken from the manner of writing in rols of … or paper; which, when the matter was so large, as it could not be all written on the one side, they were fain sometime to … on the backside the residue. Some think the things present were written on the one side, and the things to come on the other. Or, written within, and on the back side sealed, &c. So that the matter was written within, and the seals wherewith it was sealed up, affixed on the outside; to shew that none could look into it, or by humane wisdom come to know what was contained in it. 1 Cor. 2. 9, 11. See Isa. 29. 11. Jer. 22. 11. Dan. 12. 2. Annot.
Wrong]
put for Hurt, or dammage, Act. 27. 10, 21. Psal. 105. 13. Jer. …. 3. Oppression, Ibid. 13. Affliction, Lam. 3. 59. Referred to the soul, Prov. 8. 36.
… is either,
1. In respect of him that doth wrong, Phil. 18. Which is condemned, Mat. 5. 39. Exod. 2. 13, 14. Act. 7. 27. Shall be punished, Col. 3. 25. Psal. 7. 17. Judg. 9 24. Luk. 18. 7, 8. Example in …, Gen. 12. 12, 14. and Abimelech, Gen. 20. 3, 18. …, 1 King. 21. 10, 19. It ought not to be done, Act. 7. 26. Lev. 19. 13. & 25. 17. Ought to be …, 2 Cor. 13. Gen. 41. 9. & 50. 15. 1 Sam. 24. 8.
2. In respect of him that suffereth wrong. 2 Cor. 7. 12. Ought to be suffered … then go to Law with scandal to the Gospel, 1 Cor. 6. 7. We ought not to revenge it, but commit it to God, Deut. 32. 33. Prov. 20. 22. Mat. 5. 39. but forget it, Gen. 27. 47. and forgive it from the heart, Mat. 6. 12, 14, 15. & 18. 35. Eph. 4. 26.
Wrong]
1 Chr. 12. 17. or violence, marg. Hab. 1. 4. or wrested, marg.
To suffer wrong]
;;To bear and put up quietly and patiently, any harm done unto us, without … revenge. 1 Cor. 6. 7. … rather suffer ye not wrong?
Wrong]
… have wronged … man, 2 Cor. 7. 2. have not dealt unjustly, have not hurt or harmed others.
Wrongfully]
…, … 21. 27. Psal. 35. 19. Heb. falsly, marg. Without cause, Psal. 38. 19. & 119. 86. Without right, Ezek. 22. 29. marg.
Wrath]
Gen. 4. 5. Cain was very wroth, or was vehemently grieved, or displeased. The Heb. word signifieth to burn, or to be …, either with anger or grief. The … here … he was grieved, and in sundry other places, as Joh. 4. 1, 9. where both the Greek …, and all the circumstances, shew it to mean …. So in 1 Sam. 15. 11. 1 Chr. 13. 11. Neh. 5. 6. Aynsw. To be angry, Gen. 31. 36. Jacob was …, and thereupon chode. Anger is a passion soon raised, but hardly ruled. The easiest precept in all the Scripture, is that of Paul to the Ephesians, Be angry, and the hardest prohibirion (that which is joyned with it) … not, Eph. 4. 26. and never more hard for a man to … sin, then when he doth not forbear anger. Annot.
And the … was wroth with the woman, &c. Rev. 13. 17. The … with the … ariseth not from any hurt they had done the Dragon; but out of an old quarrel against their mother. Gen. 3. 15. Annot.
When the Dragon had perceived (he who even now was deprived of the Romane Empire) that he nothing prevailed by the flood of …, to overwhelm the woman flying into the Wilderness, but that nevertheless she was come safe thither: and furthermore that the … Empire, would no more suffer, that he, in his proper name should manage the affairs there, as in times past: he setteth upon her by another way; to wit, by substituting covertly for himself, a deputed Kingdom, and to that end he stood upon the Sand or Sea, that he might raise to himself a new deputed form of the Roman Kingdom, there to have its beginning. Mede.
The motive and cause of the battel, The Dragon was wroth with the Woman. No cause hath he to persecute the Church, only his own malice and anger stirred him up unto it, and the more he findeth himself disappointed, the more his anger encreaseth. There are four things which increase continually in the Devil, and in all that are his, Evil doing: an evil conscience: sense of Gods … upon them: and wrath in them, against God and his Saints. Cowper.
Wrought]
is
1. applyed to any … work, Exod. 36. 36. Ruth 2. 19.
2. To God, Numb. 23. 23.
3. To Man, and then it is,
1. To commit sin, Deut. 17. 2. Josh. 7. 15. 2 Sam. 18. 13.
2. To prevail with God, 1 Sam. 14. 45. 4. To the Sea, and then it signifieth to be Tempestuous, Jon. 1. 11, 13.
It is put for, To stir up, and provoke, Rom. 7. 8. for, … obey, 1 Pet. 4. 3.
Wrought]
2 Chr. 3. 14. Heb. caused to ascend, marg. Psal. 78. 43. Heb. …, marg. Mat. 20. 12. or continued, …. (where note that the word foreign in the New Testament, when it's joyned with words that denote time, is to be rendred to stay, or to …, as Act. 5. 34. & 15. 33. & 18. 21, 23. & 20. 3. So … it notes the space of their being and … in the Vineyard, though it is not improbable that the right reading might be foreign, laboured, which is very little distant from it. Dr. Ham. on Mat. 20. Annot. a.) 2 Joh. 8. or gained, marg.
Wrought stones]
1 Chr. 22. 2. Heb. stones of cutting. Of such as these, see 1 King. 5. 15, 17, 18. Annot.
Y A.
YAme]
Thread that is spun of flaxe or wool, or other like stuffe. The end is to make cloth, whereunto there is allusion, Mat. 6. 28. Luk. 12. 27. or other work, Exod. 35. 25, 26.
It is put for Merchandise, 1 King. 10. 28. 2 Chron. 1. 16.
Y C.
Yce]
A growing together and thickening of the waters through cold, Job 37. 10. & 38. 29, 30. Psal. 147. 16.
It resembleth the state and condition of this world, in the slipperyness and brittleness of it, Job 6. 16.