A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part IF – Part IL
I F.
If]
;;is a word noting, 1. A condition, or cause, 1 Cor. 11. 31. Luk. 9. 23.;;
;;2 A reason of a matter, Eph. 4. Phil. 2. 4, 8. 2 Thess. 1. 6.;;
;;3. A flat deniall of the matter; as much as to say, Not at all. Or, a protestation with imprecation against sin, Heb. 13. 15.;;
;;4. Rarity of the doers.;;
;;5. Necessity of the same use thereof, to the effecting of another named with it.;;
;;6. An objection or supposition of some great thing, and is as much as Though, Although, Gal. 1. 8. 1 Cor. 13. 12. Eccl. 5. 7.;;
;;7. Doubtfullnesse or uncertainty of the matter. For, ex suppositione sequitur quidlibet.;;
8. It signifieth as much as, … that, Gen. 31. 52. Act. 26. 2.
9. Is put for a note of a mans qualification, … 28. 1.
10. for Surely, Numb. 14. 23. marg.
11. for Whether or no, Gen. 8. 8.
12. for When, Judg. 21. 21.
It's used in …, Gen. 14. 23. & 21. 23. Praying, Gen. 24. 42. Vowing, Gen. 28. 20.
If]
Deut. 7. 12. Heb. because, marg. 2 King. 6. 27. Is the Lord do not help thee; or, Let not the … save thee, marg. Gal. 6. 1. or Although, marg. …. 3. 11. Is they shall enter, according to the marg. is … … the text, They shall not enter.
If]
Heb. 4. 5. If … shall enter into my rest, as the particle if, in …. 3. is to be understood … …, Is they shall enter into my rest, they shall not … into my rest; so in this it's to be understood …, as if he had said, if they shall enter my rest, it shall be well with them. ….
The true faithfull ones shall enter thereinto. Those did not enter into the land of promise; These did into heaven.
And what will I, if it be already … Luk. 12. 49. The particle foreign, which is ordinarily rendred is, is oft an Optative, or expression of wish or …. So chap. 19. 42. If thou knewest, sor O that thou …. So …. 22. 42. If thou wilt, for O that thou wouldest; and … … may be here, O that it were already kindled, and then the … … … will be an answer to the question proposed in the former, thus, foreign, what do I desire? Beyond all things, that it were already kindled? Or, … do I desire if … were … kindled? i. e. I desire no more but this. Or …, by rendring the foreign as if it were foreign, How do I desire that it were already kindled? Dr. Ham. Ann. c.
If need be]
At that time whensoever need shall be, 1 Pet. 1. 6.
If it were]
signifieth, O that it were! Psal. 139. 19 Gen. 24. 43. Luk. 12. 49. This word, as it is used in Prayer and Execrations, so it signifieth, When, 1 Sam. 15. 7. comp. Matt. 2. 21. with Luk. 11. 24.
I G.
Igal]
Redeemed; or, defiled. The Son of …, Numb. 13. 7. The Son of Nathan, 2 Sam. 23. 36.
Igdalsah]
The greatnesse of the Lord. A man of God. The Father of Hanan, Jer. 35. 4.
Igeal]
A Redeemer redeemed; or, defiled. The Son of Semaiah, 1 Chr. 3. 22.
Ignominy]
It's all one with reproach, discredit, infamy, slander, evil report, shame, dishonour, &c. Prov. 18. 3.
Ignorance]
;;Want of the true knowledge of God, and of heavenly things. Eph. 4. 18. Through the ignorance that is in them. This ignorance is either simple, when means of knowledge be …; or wilfull and affected, when one may know and will not. Ignorance being in itself a sin against the first Commandement, cannot excuse sin, that it should be no fault at all.
;;2. Unbelief, which follows Ignorance, as a companion or fruit. 1 Pet. 1. 14. Fashion not your selves to the former lusts of your ignorance; that is, of your blinde unbelief. A Metonymie of the cause.
;;3. Error, through want of judgement, and right difcerning of things. Lev. 4. 2. If any man shall … through ignorance. A Metonymie of the cause.
;;4. Any sin whatsoever, which cometh from such ignorance and error; according to the use of the Hebrew tongue, which under Ignorance meaneth every sin, even that which is witting and willing. Heb. 9. 7. And for the ignorance of the people. A Synechdoche of the part for the whole.
;;ignorance may excuse a sin, that it be not so great a fault, but it cannot so excuse, as it shall be no fault at all. Excusat a …, non a toto.
It's both a sin, 1 Pet. 2. 1. and the cause of sin, Eph. 4. 17, 18. 1 Pet. 1. 14.
;;5. Innocency or freedome from sin. So Christ is said to know no sin, 2 Cor. 5. 21.;;
;; … facti (non …) excusat.;;
;;This ignorance of evill as done is good.;;
;;Ignorantia malefacti … ut facti mala est; … malefacti ut … a nobis facti bona est.;;
;;6. Innocency from the will or wicked device of doing ill, Matth. 10. 16. & 18. 3. 1 Cor. 3. 18. Rev. 3. 24.;;
;;7. To deny, to disallow; or, not to confesse, acknowledge, and approve a man or matter, or our acquaintance with him, Matt. 7. 23. & 25. 12. & 26. 70, 72, 74.;;
8. Idolat. y, Act. 17. 30. The time of this ignorance God winked at.
… of ignorance]
;;Blinde motions and evil desires of unbelieving persons who lack the true knowledge of Christ. 1 Pet. 1. 14. … not your selves to the former lusts of your ignorance.
Not to regard the time of ignorance]
;;To permit and passe over, for … … to …, the ignorance of many thousand years. Act. 17. 30. And the time of this ignorance God regardeth not.
Ignorant]
;;One which sinneth unwittingly. 1 Tim. 1. 13. For I … it ignorantly; that is, not knowing that the Christian Religion was the true Rel gion.
;;2. One which doth a voluntary sin, knowing it to be so. Heb. 5. 2. To have compassion of the ignorant. See Bible Note.
;;3. One that careth not for other mens affairs and matters. Isa. 63. 16. Though Abraham be ignorant of us. Men are carelesse of that whereof they be ignorant.
;;4. One that wanteth … knowledge of the true God, and his Worship. Act. 17. 23. Whom ye then ignorantly worship.
;;5. One to whom something is unknown, because it is not revealed. Thus Christ as man, and the holy Angels, are ignorant of the last day, Mat. 24. 36. …. 13. 32.
;;6. One that hath not been brought up in the arts, nor attained his knowledge by ordinary means of learning it from men, though else he may be very wise and learned, Act. 4. 13.;;
;;7. One that is innocent and free from an evill act, and from the thought or purpose thereof, 2 Cor. 5. 21.;;
;;8. One that of fraud or hypocrisie will not confess his sin which he knoweth, as having done it.;;
;;9. One that will not, or doth not afterwards acknowledge the truth, Mat. 26. 79.;;
;;10. One that dislikes another, Mat. 7. 23.;;
11. One not knowing nor taking notice of, Isa. 63. 16.
12. One wanting understanding, Psal. 73. 22.
13. One not rightly conceiving or apprehending, Rom. 10. 3.
Ignorant]
;;Such as have sinned, of what sort or in what kinde soever, Heb. 5. 2.
Ignorantly]
Deut. 19. 4. Unwittingly, unawares, Heb. without knowledge. The Greek saith, unwillingly. Aynsw.
J I.
Iibsam]
Their drough; or, their confusion; or, bashfullnesse. The Son of Tola, 1 Chr. 7. 2.
Iidiaph]
A distilling from the head; or, the dropping of an house; or, after the Hebrew and …, a hand joyned together. The Sonne of Nahor by Milcah, Gen. 22. 22.
Iieabarim]
Heaps of Hebrews; or, passers over; or, heaps of angry …; or, toward men; or, after the … and Syrian, … of wheat. A place, Numb. 33. 44
Iim]
The same. The name of a City, Numb. 33. 45. …. 15. 29.
It's also taken for wilde beasts, Isa. 13. 22. marg.
Iimla]
A …, or circumcision. The Father of …, 2 Chr. 18. 7, 8.
Iimnah]
The right hand, numbring; or, preparing; or, after the Syrian, appointing. The Son of Asher, Gen. 46. 17. Of whom the Jimnites, Numb. 26. 44.
Iion]
A beholding, a fountain, or eye. A City, 1 King. 15. 20.
Iiphta]
Opening. A City, Josh. 15. 43.
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God opening. A Valley, Josh. 19. 14, 27.
I K.
Ikkesh]
Froward, or wicked. The Father of …, 2 Sam. 23. 26. 1 Chr. 11. 28.
I L.
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One of Davids Worthies, 1 Chro. 11. 29
Ile]
Isa. 20. 6. or Countrey, marg.
Ill]
Applyed to favoured, Gen. 41. 3, 4, 21. Blemish, Deut. 15. 21. Wicked, Isa. 3. 11. Savour, Joel 2. 20. …, Mic. 3. 4. See Evill.
Ill favourednesse]
Deut. 17. 1. Evil thing, Heb. evill word, which the Chald. explaineth, any evill whatsoever; for though there were no visible blemish, yet … corruptions might disable it, as if it were sick. Mal. 1. 8. or the hire of an whore, or price of a Dog, Deut. 23. 18. or any such …. Ay sw.
Illuminated]
Heb. 10. 32. that is, Converted to the faith of Christ, Act. 26. 18. Eph. 3. 9. inlightened with the … of Christ, having your eyes opened, and your mindes illustrated with the beams of divine light. Some here understand Baptisme, as also in Hebr. 6. vers. 4.
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A making merry. A Countrey bordering upon …, and … unto …. It was thus named from Illyricus the Son of Cadmus, who was so called foreign, of the harp. Hence Lyricen, Lyricus, an Harper. One that playeth on or singeth to the Harp, Rom. 15. 19.