A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part RE · Entry 84 – Entry 162
Reformation]
;;Direction, leading aright, (not by windings and turnings, as under the Law) and directly to Christ the mark and scope of our faith, Heb. 9. 10. Untill the time of Reformation.
That is, of Christs coming, who should and did resorm the carnal Rites or Ceremonies, and services of the Law by fulfilling them; exhibiting the truth and those spiritual blessings typified and signified by them; … by instituting a more simple and spiritual worship. This is that which is meant when God promises to create new heavens, and a new earth, Isa. 65. 17. and when St. Paul saith, all things are made new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. Annot.
Greek, the time of correction; that is, the time of Christs …, who was the body of all those shadows. Leighs Annot.
Of correction, not as if any thing were amisse, simply evill in the Ceremonial Law. A reformation, properly to speak, is of abuses: there was no fault, no abuses in the Law it self, it was a good and holy thing for the time: but it is said to be reformed by Christ, because he did perfect … which was wanting in the Ceremonial Law: he actually introduced the Justification and Sanctification of the faithful, which the Ceremonial Law could not effect, of and by itself. And it may be termed the time of Reformation, because Christ abolished those old Ceremonies and Sacrifices, and brought better in their room, namely the sacrifice of his own body once offered, which was a thousand … more effectual for the redemption of mankinde then all the Sacrifices of the Law. The Gospel is a time of Reformation; and shall we our selves remain …? Jones.
Reformed]
Lev. 26. 23. that is, chastised, nurtured, restrained.
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1. To withhold, Gen. 45. 1.
2. To bridle, Est. 5. 10. Prov. 10. 19.
3. To keep back, Psal. 119. 101.
4. To forbear, or be far from, Eccl. 3. 5. ….
To …]
;;To give rest, or make fresh again, after some bodily or spiritual decay and weariness. Psal. 60. 9. Thou didst refresh thy land when it was weary.
2. To breath, Job 32. 20. marg.
3. To take rest, Exod. 23. 12.
4. To take care of ones self, Act. 27. 3.
5. (By meat and drink) to strengthen ones self, 1 King. 13. 7.
Refreshing]
;;That most comfortable rest and repose which the elect shall have at their resurrection for ever, after all their labour and miseries of this life. Act. 3. 19. … the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
Refreshing]
Times of refreshing shall come, Act. 3. 19. It is a figurative manner of speaking, taken from … … themselves in the cool shades; to represent eternal rest after the labours and travels of this life. See Luk. 16. 25. Rev. 7. 15, 16. & 14. 13. Or he … here at that which Paul writeth, Rom. 11. 23, 26. the final calling of the Jews by the Gospel preached; to which those words which before were preached unto you, vers. 20. many also relate. Annot.
Refuge]
;;A place to fly unto for succour and defence in dangers; or an high Tower, or fort to resist the enemy, Jcr. 48. 1. wherein men be protected, and escape the enemy, Deut. 2. 36.
;;2. The defence and protection of God, who is our best refuge. Psal. 59. 16. Thou art my refuge in the time of trouble. Psal. 32. 7.
3. An high place. Psal. 9. 9. marg.
There were Cities of refuge which God allowed, whither they were to fly, which casually or by chance killed any, Deut. 4. 41, 43. Josh. 20. 7. where being guiltlesse, in respect of their intention, they were in safety. The wayes leading hereunto were made fit and prepared, all stumbling blocks and obstacles being removed out of them that nothing might hinder him that fled thither. At the partitions of them they set up in writing, Resuge, Refuge, that the manslayer might know and turn thitherward. See Goodwin's Moses and Aaron, p. 95. 96.
Refuge]
Heb. 6. 18. Who have fled for resuge to lay hold of the hope set before us, that is, who have in all our doubts and distresses, fled to him as … sure stay and refuge; laying hold upon that glory and happiness which is set before us, by the hand of a lively and stedfast hope, and confident expectation thereof. Hall.
The Greek word rendred to lay hold, doth not signifie to hold … away, but so to … and embrace a thing, that thou suffer it not to be taken from thee. Leighs Annor.
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Corrupt, lean, in a languishing pining condition, 1 Sam. 15. 9. Such base drossie stuff as cometh away from metal and oar, in the melting and trying of it, Lam. 3. 45. Sweepings, trash, of no value or reputation, Amos 8. 6.
To refuse]
Ii's in effect the same with disallow, …, cast-away, reject, set at nought, Exod. 4. 23. Prov. 8. 33. Jer. 8. 5. Hos. 11. 5. Zech. 7. 11. The word foreign, is translated in Act. 7. 35. & Heb. 11. 24. refuse, but in …. 10. 33. deny. The word foreign in Act. 25. 11. & 1 Tim. 4. 7. & Heb. 12. 25. translated refuse, rendred in Luk. 14. 18, 19. to have excused, in 2 Tim. 2. 23. to avoyd, in Tit. 3. 10. to reject, The word foreign, rendred refused, in 1 Tim. …. 4. imports a casting or hurling away with dislike.
Refuse]
Heb. 12. 25. See that ye resuse not him that speaketh. See that ye refuse not Christ, which speaketh unto you in his heavenly Gospel. Hall.
See that ye shift not him off that speaketh. Leighs Annot.
Look to it, that ye despise him not; the danger is great if ye do. Christ is despised by some openly, by refusing to hear him at all, or hearing contemptuously; by others secretly, by carelesse and negligent hearers. Jones.
Regard]
1. To set ones heart unto, Exod. 9. 21 marg.
3. To lay to heart, 1 Sam. 25. 25. marg.
3. To attend, or attention, 1 King. 18. 29. marg.
4. To delight in, Isa. 13. 17.
5. To consider, Isa. 18. 4. marg.
6. To observe, Rom. 14. 6. marg.
To regard no God]
;;To be impious, without … of any God, true or false: and inhumane also, without equity or honesty, Dan. 11. 36, 37. These two verses contain a plain and full description (not of Antichrist, except in a fingure and type, but) of … Epiphanes, King of Syria, a monster among men, and most … godlesse person, the great and grand enemy of Gods worship, and the Jews his people: a type of the man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, that singular Antichrist, who magnifieth himself above all that is called God, 2 Thess. 2.
Regard]
In regard of the oath of God, Eccl. 8. 2. Because of, in respect of.
And to him they had regard, Act. 8. 11. Attended, applyed their minde or heart unto, were wholly addicted, gave ear unto, obeyed, did so observe that they placed their hope and confidence in him, became his followers. See Leigh Crit. Sac. in foreign.
Regarded]
Heb. 8. 9. And I regarded them not saith the Lord, or, loathed (Greek, I did not care for them. Leighs Annot.) In the Prophet (Jer. 31. 32.) it is, should I have continued a husband unto them? Annot.
They have played the harlot, and broken the Covenant on their part, and shall I stand to the Covenant, shall I be as an husband to them, when as they are no wife to me? Nay, I will set them as light as they do me. I regard them not, … off the care of them. He was even with them; they cast off him, and he cast off them. Jones.
Regem]
Stoning, stoned, or purple. The Son of …, 1 Chr. 2. 47.
Regem-…]
… the King, a Counsellour of the King; or, the purple of the Counsellour. One sent unto the House of God to pray before the Lord, Zech. 7. 2.
Regeneration]
;;New-birth, after we be once born naturally, to be born again spiritually. Tit. 3. 5. By the laver of regeneration, or by the washing of new-birth.
;;2. The day and time of the last judgement, when our whole Nature, being perfectly restored, both body and soul, shall enjoy the heavenly inheritance. Mat. 19. 28. You which have followed me, shall in the regeneration sit upon thrones, &c.
;;Regeneration is commonly put and used by Divines, for Sanctification and Renovation; and then it imports and signifies as much as the reformation of a Man, which consists in the mortification of sin, and newness of life. Whereas if we speak exactly, and as the thing is, this renewing of our nature is but an effect and fruit of our regeneration, which properly is our incorporation and ingraffing into Jesus Christ by faith, whereby we have our spiritual being of Children in the Kingdom of grace, as by … generation we have natural being in the Kingdom of this world. See Joh. 1. 12, 13, 14. Regeneration may therefore thus be defined.
;;It is a work or act of Gods wonderful power, begetting the elect again to himself, by the Ministery of the Word, through the Spirit, that of the children of wrath (by the desert of sin) they might be made by grace, (through faith in Christ) the Sons and Daughters of God. Jam. 1. 18. Of his own will begat he us by the Word of truth. Tit. 3. 4, 5, 6. Therefore, the confounding of Regeneration with Sanctification, I take to be an oversight: but I judge it a grosse errour to think our selves to have any stroke in our new birth, so much as to assent to it; till of unwilling we be made willing.
Regeneration]
Mat. 19. 28. The word foreign signifies properly a new or second state. In sacred Writers it's used agreeably for the resurrection, whether that of the future being of body and soul, or that which Christ is pleased to make preparative to it, the spiritual …, exprest by that phrase, Tit. 3. 5. The change and renovation of the soul and affections in this life, and as a token, and signe of that work of Christs, it is used for baptism, that being … of water, and the holy Ghost, Joh. 3. Farther yet, and by the same analogie it may signifie that second or new state, that foreign, in Isaiah, that age to come, i. e. the state of the Church under Christ, or his spiritual Kingdom, beginning at the resurrection of Christ; and this either in respect of the beginning of it, Christs resurrection, which is fitly styled foreign, the new birth of Christ; or else in regard that all other things (i. e. the general disposal of all things in the Church) are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. The Gentiles received into the Church, the Jewish Priesthood and ceremonies abolished, &c. Dr. Ham. Annot. d.
To be …]
;;To be born again by the Spirit, that we may be the children of God. Joh. 3. 3. Unlesse a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
One whom the Lord hath washed, Isa. 4. 4. whom he hath formed for himself, Isa. 43. 21. in whom he hath put a new Spirit, Ezr. 11. 19. bestowed on him a pure language, Zeph. 3. 9. purified and purged him as gold and silver, Mal. 3. 3. who is pure in heart, Mat. 5. 8. born of God, Joh. 1. 13. clean through the Word, Joh. 15. 3. led by the Spirit, Rom. 8. 14. transformed by the renewing of his minde, Rom. 12. 2. A new …, 1 Cor. 5. 7. A new creature, 2 Cor. 5. 17. One that is Christs, Gal. 5. 24. light la the Lord, Eph. 5. 8. risen with Christ, Col. 2. 12. a new born babe, 1 Pet. 2. 2.
Region]
A Countrey or Province, Act. 13. 49. & 16. 6. The state of dark ignorance, called, The Region and shadow of death, Mat. 4. 16.
Regions]
;;Fields, or Corn in the field properly: but by a Metaphor, the people which being docible and ready to learn the Gospel of Christ, are therefore said to be white unto the harvest, Joh. 4. 35.
Register]
A publick record, wherein the genealogie of the Priests was set down, Ezr. 2. 62. Nehem. 7. 5, 64.
Rehabiah]
The breadth, or street of the Lord. The Son Eliezer, 1 Chr. 23. 17.
Rehearse]
To declare, publish, tell, make known, Judg. 5. 11. foreign, in Act. 11. 4. translated rehearse, signifieth, to conduct, and direct, and lead a man as it were by the hand to the finding out of something that was hid before. In 1 Joh. 1. 18. it's rendred, declare. So in Act. 10. 8. & 15. 12, 14. & 21. 19.
Rehob]
…, a dilating, or a street. A City, Josh. 21. 31. A King of Zobah, 2 Sam. 8. 3. A Levite that sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 11.
Rehoboam]
Dilating the people, the breadth of the people; a savour, or savouring with the people. The Son of …, 1 King. 11. 43.
Rehoboth]
Breadth, roomth, largeness, or streets. A City, Gen. 10 11. A Well, Gen. 26. 22.
Rehum]
Pitiful, pityed, godly …, or after the Syrian, a friend. One that returned with Zerubbabel, Ezr. 2. 2. Artaxerxes his Chancellour, Ezr. 4. 8. The Son of …, Nehem. 3. 17. One that sealed the Covenant, Nehem. 10. 25.
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A companion, a shepherd, evill; or, my breaking asunder. One that did not conspire with Adonijah, 1 King. 1. 8.
Reject]
To forsake, Jer. 7. 29. To loath, …. 14. 19. To frustrate, Mar. 7. 9. marg. To disallow, despise, disobey, cast from, put away, &c.
Rejected]
Heb. 6. 8. But that which beareth thorns and bryers is rejected. As the earth painfully tilled, and plentifully watered with rain from heaven, is good for nothing but to be burnt, if in stead of good fruit, it bringeth forth thorns and thistles: so these who have been plentifully watered with many sweet showers of the Word of God, and inriched with divers excellent graces, are good for nothing but to burn in hell fire for evermore. See Isa. 55. 10, 11. Annot.
Heb. 12. 17. He was rejected, viz. by his Father, Gen. 27. 35, 37, 40. he obtained … that which he would. Leighs Annot.
Reign]
Dominion, Rule, Government, 1 King. 6. v. 1.
And shall reign with him a thousand years, Rev. 20. 6. Whether those thousand years are begun, or to begin, as when they did, or when they are to begin, is controverted, as also, whether Christ shall reign personally, &c. About which see Archer, Alstede, Mede, with many others.
To reign]
;;To command with power, as King; and with readiness to be obeyed. Thus David reigned in Israel, Josiah in Juda, 1 King. 11. 42.
;;2. To command and rule in the soul, without opposition or resistance. Rom. 6. 12. Let not sin reign in your mortall bodies. Sin is said to reign, when the lusts and motions of sin be readily obeyed, as one would obey the Law and command of a King. Thus sin reigneth.
;;Death is said to reign, because it exerciseth over all mankind, that power which through sin it hath gotten. Rom. 5. 14. Death reigned from Adam to Moses. Thus Death reigned.
;;Grace is said to reign, when the righteousness of Christ, being freely imputed, his Spirit reigns in our hearts, and we be governed by the motions and impulsions thereof; so as now sin cannot condemn us to death; not rule over us, as it did before grace, which hath quit the believers from the reign of sin and death. Rom. 5. 21. So might grace reign by righteousness, to eternal life. Thus Grace reigneth.
;;3. To govern and dispose all things in heaven and earth, according to his royal decrees. Thus God reigns over the world. Psal. 93. 1. The Lord reigns, and is cloathed in Majesty. The whole Psalm throughout.
;;4. To govern and rule the faithful by the Word and holy Spirit. Thus Christ reigneth over his Church. Psal. 97. 1. The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoyce.
5. To begin to reign, 1 King. 15. 25. marg. 2 King. 8. 16. marg.
6. To restrain in, 1 Sam. 9. 17. marg.
This is also spoken of Christs members, sound Christians, Rom. 5. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Rom. 5. 10. & 20. 4, 6. & 22. 5.
To reign upon earth]
;;To be made Lords and Kings over earth and heaven (as all the faithful are by Christ) through whom they shall reign in heavenly glory at last, and in mean while they are in earth, though they be in warfare, yet they are Kings, having Hell, Sin, Satan, and Death subdued to them; and all things in this world subject and put under. See Col. 2. 8. Psal. 8. Rev. 5. 10. And we shall reign on the earth.
To reign for ever]
;;To … not for a small time, but for ever, in those Kingdoms which in these latter dayes, afore Christs coming, shall receive the sincere profession of his truth. Rev. 11. 15. Who shall reign for evermore. And Rev. 22. 5. These words teach, that the Kingdom of Saints begun in the earth, shall never be broken off, but continue still in heaven.
To reign over the Kings of the earth]
;;To rule and exercise Dominion and Empire, above and over the chiefest of mortal men, over earthly Kings and Monarchs. Now because Rome only at that time when John wrote, had power over the great Kings of the earth, and the great Antichrist must sit and reign in that City where the Heathen persecuting Emperors were: Hence it clearly …, that Rome is the gorgious and filthy Whore spoken of in Rev. 17. 17. The woman which thou sawest, is that great City, which reigneth over the Kings of the earth. Papists are deceived, which interpret this City of the universality of the wicked in the world.
To reign a thousand years]
;;To rule by the Scepter of the word among the Gentiles, for a great continuance of time, according as we have seen it come to passe in these our Regions and Countreys. Rev. 20. 6. And shall reign with him a thousand years. These words must not be understood of the eternall blisse wherein the Saints shall reign in heaven, but of the reign of the faithful here in earth, for the space of those thousand years in which Satan should be bound, that the Gospell might flourish. Some Interpreters will have this thousand years of Satans binding, to begin when Christ first preached the Gospel. Others at the death of Christ: others at the time when the Apostles were dispersed, and gathered Churches to Christ in all parts of the world. But all these conjectures are crossed by chap. 4. 1. which teacheth, that the whole prophesie (from the fourth chap. forward) doth respect the years which followed the age and time of John the Evangelist, which wrote this prophesie: But hereof more in the word [A thousand years.
Reins]
1. Those in mans body which are so called; or the Kidneys.
2. The whole man, Job 19. 27.
3. The affections of the heart, Psal. 7. 9. & 26. 2. Prov. 23. 16. Jer. 11. 20.
4. The thoughts and desires, Psal. 73. 21. Jerem. 12. 2. and most secret parts within, Psal. 139. 13. Lam. 3. 13.
5. Loyns, Isa. 11. 5.
6. Secret inspiration of God, Psal. 16. 7.
Rejoyce]
;;To take comfort and be made glad, by the opinion, presence, or hope of some good thing; earthly or heavenly. 1 Thess. 5. 16. Rejoyce evermore. Luk. 1. 58. They rejoyced with her. It signifieth open and manifest joy, outward gladness as well as inward, Psal. 3. 10.
2. To sing, Psal. 65. 8. marg.
3. To praise or sing, Deut. 32. 43. marg.
4. To shout for joy, Joh. 8. 21. marg.
5. To glory, 1 Thess. 2. 19.
It's in effect the same with, To delight, be glad, joy, clap hands, go forth with tabrets, take pleasure in, lift up ones self, be joyful, &c.
It's
1. Unlawful, as, to rejoyce in evill.
2. Good and lawful. Spoken of God, of Jesus …, of the godly and righteous Saints.
To rejoyce and be glad]
;;To conceive sweet comfort and gladness for the access of the Jews (so long divorced) unto the body of the Church, an for the near approach of Christ to judgement, when he will take his Spouse (consisting of believing Gentiles and Jews) into a most ear society in heaven. Rev. 19. 7. Let us rejoyce.
Let us prepare for feasts and triumphs against the marriage of the Lamb. Annot.
To rejoyce in Christ]
;;To rest wholly in him and his sufferings, with full comfort and contentment of minde, Gal. 6. 14. Phil. 4. 4. Rejoyce in the Lord. Whereas not godly alone, but hypocrites and ungodly rejoyce in Christ preached, as Mat. 13. 20. Mar. 6. 20. Herod heard John gladly. There is a fivefold difference.
;;1. In the antecedent: the godly they mourn for sin before they finde joy in Christ, Isa. 61. 2. Mat. 3. 4. & 11. 28.
;;2. In the matter, which is the Lord Christ, and peace with God through him, Rom. 5. 1, 11. Phil. 4. 4. Thus the Samaritans, thus the Eunuch rejoyced, Act. 8.
;;3. In the measure, which is greater then ever they or other worldlings took in worldly things. For it is unspeakable and glorious, 1 Pet. 18. Such as passeth understanding, Eph. 3. 9. Fulness of joy, Joh. 15. Full joy, 1 Joh. 3. 4, 5.
;;4. In the concomitants, righteousness, peace, love, and a good conscience, Rom. 14. 17. 2 Cor. 1. 12.
;;5. In the continuance, for it abideth ever; the world cannot take it away from the godly, who keep their joy in persecution, poverty, &c. Rom. 5. 3. Act. 5. 41. 1 Pet. 4. 13. Heb. 10. 34.
To rejoyce the heart]
;;To make the soul merry and cheerful in prosperity and adversity, Psal. 19. 8.
To rejoyce in himself]
;;To finde matter (not espying other mens faults, but) in his own graces and holiness, of being glad and glorying; not before God (as if he had goodness of his own without God) but before men, to the praise of God the author of his graces, and to the example of others. Gal. 6. 4. He shall have rejoycing in himself alone. This is far from the fleshly and corrupt brags of proud Justiciaries, Pharisees, Pelagians, and Papists, which ascribe their faith and conversion to God, in whole or in part, to the natural power of Free-will, or justification to the merit of works. All such glorying and boasting is carnall and devillish: also too highly to think of our selves, and to despise others.
To rejoyce]
;;To be made spiritually glad by the sight of heavenly treasures, Cant. 1. 3. We will rejoyce and … glad in thee. See Glad.
To rejoyce over them]
;;To make common mirth and joy among themselves, … the true Prophets of God being … (which were wont to vex and trouble the members of the false Church, with their wholesome interpretations of Scriptures, and sound reproof of errors and vices) the wicked Antichristian crew might now make merry, being eased of that yoke, and depending only upon the Popes pleasure for sense of Scripture. Rev. 11. 10. And they that dwell on the earth shall rejoyce over them, and … glad.
Rejoycing]
Heb. 3. 6. And the rejoycing of the hope … unto the end; that is, gloryin in those things for which we hope, Col. 1. 5. 1 Thess. 5. 8. Tit. 1. 2. or, our hope, which makes us to rejoyce, Rom. 5. 2. Annot.
The doctrine of the Gospel whereby these are dispensed and confirmed. Leighs Annot.
Rekem]
Void, vain, or divers pictures. A king of Midian, Numb. 31. 8. A City, Josh. 18. 27. The Son of Hebron, 1 Chr. 2. 43.
Release]
A remission, or intermission, called in Hebrew Shemittah, in Greek Aphesis, that is, forgiveness, or remission; the word which the New Testament useth for forgiveness of sins, Mar. 1. 4. Mat. 26. 28. Whereof this release of debts was a shadow. Aynsworth on Deut. 15. 1.
In Est. 2. 18. it signifieth rest, marg.
To release]
To forgive, remit, acquit, Deut. 15. 2. To forgive, pardon, discharge, absolve, dismisse, let loose, Mat. 27. 15. Mar. 15. 9, 11.
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To repose or place … in one, 2 Chr. 13. 18. & 16. 7, 8.
Belief]
Act. 11. 29. that is, Service, Rom. 15. 31. Ministery, 1 Cor. 16. 15. Ministring, 2 Cor. 9. 1. Ministration, Ib. 13. (in all those places is the word foreign) namely a Collection for the help of the poor Saints.
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1. To strengthen, Lev. 25. 35. marg. or, To take hold on him, and so confirm his weak hands; that is, the Greek translateth, help him. Aynsworth.
2. To set upright, or make to continue sure, Psalm. 146. 9.
3. To righten, or do right, Isa. 1. 17. marg.
4. To make come (or fetch it) again, namely the soul when it is fainting, Lam. 1. 11. marg.
5. To aid, help, or succour fully and plentifully (for so foreign signifieth, 1 Tim. 5. 10, 16.
Religion]
;;Godlinesse even that inward piety of the heart, whereby God is truely acknowledged and feared, witnessed by the fruits of charity to men-ward. Jam. 1. 27. Pure Religion, and undefiled is this.
;;2. The outward lawfull worship and service of God, prescribed in his Word, and professed by men. Jam. 1. 26. That mans religion is vain.
;;3. The doctrine which teacheth Religion, Act. 25. 19.
;;4. The whole Jewish externall worship of God, as it was corrupted by the tradition of the Pharisees. Act. 26. 5. I lived a Pharisee, after the perfect Sect of Religion.
;;5. Superstition. Col. 2. 18. By worshiping of Angels. Vers. 23. In voluntary Religion.
Religious]
;;A worshiper of God outwardly. Jam. 1. 26. If any man among you seem religious.
;;2. A true worshiper of God, or a godly person. Act. 10. 5. A religious or devout man, one that feareth God.
;;3. A person devoted to Religion, and studious to know better the way of Gods worship. Act. 2. 5. There were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, Religious men.
;;4. Superstitious and hypocritical persons, which would seem to be lovers of Religion, and be not. Act. 13. 50. They stirred up certain religious or devout women against Paul.
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To stand, 2 King. 13. 6. marg. To watch, Job 21. 32. marg. It's in effect the same with, To stay, tarry, abide, continue, rest, &c.
Things which remain]
;;That little portion of graces which was left in the Pastor of Sardis, and in his stock. Rev. 3. 2. Strengthen the things which remain.
Those graces which are not yet quite dead in thee. Or, the rest; to wit, of thy flock, which are in a languishing condition. Annot.
Remainder]
That which remaineth, or the surplusage, Exod. 21. 34. Lev. 6. 16. One alive, 2 Sam. 14. 7.
Remaining]
;;A portion of time which is behinde, how little soever. 1 Pet. 4. 2. That time which remaineth.
;;2. Constant, continuing and abiding for ever. Joh. 16. 15. And that your fruit remain.
Remaliah]
The exaltation or greatness of the Lord; or east away from the Lord. The Father of Pekah, 2 King. 15. 25, 27.
Remedy]
Healing, 2 Chr. 36. 16. marg. Recovery, Prov. 6. 15.
To remember, as it is referred to God]
;;To care for one, to deliver, succour, and save him: God remembred Abraham, or thought upon him, Gen. 19. 29. Also in Luk. 23. 41. Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdome. Heb. 13. 4. And in all places of the Psalms, where the Prophet prayeth to be remembred, it hath this meaning, to be blessed, cared for, helped and comforted. If we speak properly, there fals into God no forgetfulness, but as men use to help such as they remember and think upon; so the helps, blessings, and comforts, which God doth afford to his people, shews and makes it known that he remembers them. 1 Sam. 1. 19, 20. And the Lord remembred Hannah.
;;Note. God is said to remember Noah, Gen. 8. 1. not that God can forget, but that he declared his divine goodness and power; whereby Noah might know that he was not forgot.
;;2. To punish or correct sin. Psal. 25. 7. Remember not the sins of my youth; that is, remember them not to punish me for them. Jer. 31. 34. I will not remember your iniquities.
;;3. To call to minde and think upon with purpose to punish. Heb. 10. 17.
;;3. Graciously to accept; and favourably to fulfil. Psal. 20. 3. Let him … all thy burnt offerings.
To remember]
;;Either to call to minde something past, or to keep in minde something for the time to come. Exod. 20. 8. Remember thou keep holy the Sahbath. Matth. 26. 75. Then Peter remembred the words of the Lord.
;;2. To make mention with liking, to praise, commend, and celebrate a thing. Psal. 105. 5. Remember the wondrous things that he hath done. Ps. 6. 5. In death there is none remembers thee. Isa. 26. 8. Eccl. 12. 1. Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth; that is, worship and praise him, Eccl. 9. 15.
;;3. To trust or put confidence in another. Psal. 20. 7. Some trust in horses, but we remember thee, O Lord. In this sense we are commanded to eat the Lords Supper, in remembrance of his death and passion: For we are warned thereby, and stirred up, both to call to minde his sufferings, and trust in them for salvation, 1 Cor. 11. 25.
4. To think or muse upon, Psal. 63. 9. or consider, Mat. 16. 9. Act. 20. 3. 1 …. 2. 9.
5. To keep in minde, Luk. 17. 32. Joh. 15. 20. or, be mindful of, Gal. 2. 10.
6. To call to an account, 3 Joh. v. 10.
7. To esteem, or make an account of, Eccl. 9. 15.
Remember from whence thou art fallen, &c. Rev. 2. 5. Three things required of a penitent sinner: A serious consideration of the hainousness of his sin; hearty remorse for it; and a renewed course of life. Annot.
;;To call to minde something done and past, to profit by it, by patience and thankfulness, Heb. 10. 32.
Remembrance]
;;A calling to minde, or keeping in minde. This is the proper signification.
;;2. Memory, good name, and report. Eccl. 9. 5. Their remembrance is forgotten. Exod. 17. 14.
;;3. Having in minde, with faith and love. 1 Cor. 11. 25. Do this in remembrance of me: Remembring the mercy and benefit which by my death is given to you: this is spoken of a thankful remembrance.
4. The memorial, Psal. 97. 12. marg.
5. Mention, Phil. 1. 3. marg.
Your remembrances]
Job 13. 12. What glorious or excellent things soever may be recorded, or reported of you; as your state, wealth, might, name, life. D. Annot.
To come in remembrance before God]
;;To either execute some promised mercy, or some decreed and threatned judgement, as here. For as God seemeth forgetfull whilest he defers the punishment of wicked men, so his taking revenge (as here he threatned to do upon Constantinople the Turkish Babylon) is called his remembrance. Rev. 16. 19. And that great Babylon came in remambrance afore God. Also ch. 18. 5. And God hath remembred her iniquities.
He shewed by destroying her utterly, that he remembred, all her wickedness. So good workes are remembred, when rewarded, Act. 10. 4, 31. Annot.
Remeth]
Highly, or cast away. A City, Josh. 19. 21.
Remission]
Rom. 3. 25. or passing over, marg.
Remission]
Heb. 9. 22. And without shedding of bloud is no remission. If Christs bloud had not been shed for us we could never have had remission of sins. Then how are we beholding to the Lord Jesus; And as by Christ alone we have the forgivnesse of our sins, which all the Sacrifices in the Law could not purchase, nor any thing that we can doe under the Gospel: So let the love of Christ in dying for our sins, cause us to dye to sin dayly more and more: and as he in wonderful love offered up himself as a sacrifice for the putting away of our sins; so let us offer up our selves, our souls and bodies, as a holy, living, and acceptable Sacrifice to him all the dayes of our lives; that the power of Christs passion appearing in us in this world, we may reign with him in the Word to come. Jones.
Remission of sins]
;;Forgivnesse of sins, when both the guilt and punishment are freely pardoned, for Christ alone, to such as beleeve in him. Act. 10. 43. All that beleeve in him, shall receive remission of their sins. These are our spiritual debts, which being wholly pardoned by Christ onelyonly, what place is there for Popish satisfaction?
;;2. All the … and benefits of Christ, by a Syneedoche of a part for the whole. Mat. 26. 28. Which is shed for many for the remission of …. Under this one benefit is comprehended the whole masse of his merits.
;;Remission of sins is … in Scripture placed after repentance, as Luk. 24. 47. Act. 3. 19. & 26. 18. because it followeth not in nature but in our sense. For we first feel in us a contrite heart, afflicted with grief for the offence of God and then are erected and comforted with the sence of Gods … pardon by Christ. Secondly because repentance must be taught before remission of sins, which men … not for, nor eagerly desire it till their hearts be penitent and wounded with sense of sin, Act. 2. 37. And this is the reason also why repentance is sometime mentioned before faith (the root and fountain of repentance) namely, for that the preaching of the Law goeth before to humble sinners; and prepare them to the desire of grace and to repentance, Mar. 1. 15.
To remit, or forgive]
;;To forgive, or not to require the payment or debt of sin, at our hand. Joh. 20. 23. They are remitted. Thus God alone remitteth authoritatively, by his own right: and thus no creature remitteth.
;;2. To declare and pronounce sin to be forgiven to such as shew their faith by true repentance. Joh. 20. 23. Whose sins ye remit. Thus Ministers are said to remit declaratively as witnesses onelyonly.
;;3. To put wrong done us out of our remembrance. Mat. 18. 21. And I shall forgive or remit him. Thus one man forgives another.
;;4. To receive an excommunicate person into the Church upon repentance. 2 Cor. 2. 7. Ye ought rather to forgive him. & vers. 10. Thus the Church forgives scandalous livers. See Forgivnesse.
Remmon]
A Pomegranate apple, or high. A City, Josh. 19. 7.
Remmon-methoar]
A Pomgranate apple, or high, which is drawn. A place, Josh. 19. 13. marg.
Remnant]
;;Certain persons reserved out of a great number or masse of people. Rom. 9. 17. Though Israel were as the sand of the Sea, yet but a remnant shall be saved. Isa. 10. 20, 21. As a remnant of cholth left of an whole web or ….
The escaping that remaineth, 2 King. 19. 30. marg.
2. Excellency, Job. 22. 20. marg.
Remnant]
The remainder is ordinarily (in a Stewards account) a very contemptible low summe; and so is it that the Prophets call foreign, a remnant, foreign, that which remains of a far greater sum, and so is fit to denote that small number of the Jews which received the faith of Christ (at the preaching of the Gospel then unto them) in proportion to, and comparison with the far greater number that stood out against it. Dr. Ham. on Rom. 9. 24. Annot. k.
Remnant]
;;So many men as were left alive, and not … by the former calamities mentioned in vers. 16, 17, 18, 19. Rev. 9. 20. And the remnant of men. Also Rev. 19. 21. The remnant was slain with the sword.
Remnant of herseed]
;;The … of the faithfull which being scattered abroad by the iniquity of the time, cannot publickly assemble to worship God, but privately (as they can) do exercise piety. Rev. 12. 17. And made war with the remnant of her seed.
To remove]
;;To put a thing out of his due place. Prov. 23. 10. Remove not the ancient bounds.
;;2. To destroy and to confound. Psal. 15. 5. He that doth these things shall never be removed.
Cloth to be removed]
;;That mans own best righteousnesse deserveth to be removed out of the sight of God, as a contagious or filthy cloth deserveth to be removed from the sight of men. Isa. 64. 6. As a cloth of removing. So Tremelius readeth.