A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part TE
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To teach]
;;To cause to learn; which God doth effectually, by inlightening the heart unto knowledge and faith of the Word; and men instrumentally, by interpreting the Word, and by lively voice familiarly propounding instructions to the outward ear. Jer. 31. 34. They shall be all taught of God. Psal. 119. 26. Teach me thy statutes. Act. 20. 21. Mat. 28. 9. Go Teach all Nations.
Teaching is by publick and private persons; by words, works, signes, and creatures, &c. Gal. 6. 6. Even by afflictions also.
Note. Teaching hath in it Interpretation, Doctrine and Application. See Luk. 4. 18. Act. 8. 32, 33. Psal. 94. 12. Gods Law teacheth both chearfully to bear the Crosse; and how to profit by them to amendment, as also from whom they come, to what end, and for what cause.
To teach is performed … wayes.
I. By precept, Psal. 119. 31.
II. By example, Prov. 24. 32.
III. By experience, Gen. 37. 27.
IV. By suffering, Heb. 5. 8. Judg. 8. 16.
In respect of all these, Christ is the most perfect Teacher.
1. Concerning Precept, Mar. 4. 34. He expounds every Parable privately.
2. By Example, Joh. 13. 15.
3. By Experience, he taught them practise.
1 In increasing in knowledge, Matth. 17. 13.
2 In casting out spirits, Mat. 10. 1.
4. By his suffering; and,
1 As he suffered by reproof, so he taught by reproof, Mat. 15. 16. & 16. 12. in their ignorance of the Leaven: and vers. 23. he reproved Peter for his counsel: & Mar. 10. 14. for keeping Children from him: and thus they learned by reprehension. So Prov. 17. 16. Sharp words to the wise are better then whips to the fool. He taught also by Stripes, when it was needfull, Joh. 2. 15, 16. when they made the House of God dens for thieves. It signifieth sometimes, Really to effect that which is taught. In which respect it is proper only to God. Thus he is said to teach us the good wayes wherein we ought to walk. 1 King. 8. 36. 2 Chr. 6. 27. Psal. 25. 45. Isa. 2. 3. Mic. 4. 2. Thus it is to be understood, 2 Sam. 22. 35. Psal. 18. 35. & 144. 1. This is the teaching of the holy Ghost, Joh. 14. 26. 1 Joh. 2. 27. Hence the faithfull are said to be taught of God, Isa. 54. 13. Jer. 31. 34. Joh. 6. 45. 1 Thess. 4. 9. i. e. are really made such as they are taught to be.
2. It signifieth, To accustome unto, Jer. 9. 5, 14, 20.
3. To admonish, Jerem. 32. 33. … 8. 31. & 9. 31.
4. To counsell and advise, Rev. 2. 14. Job 8. 10.
5. To suggest, and inspire, Luk. 12. 12. Matt. 10. 10, 20.
6. To give notice, and signifie. Thus the wicked are said to teach with their fingers, Prov. 6. 13.
7. To prove and demonstrate, Hab. 2. 19.
8. To whet, or sharpen, Deut. 6. 7. marg.
Teach]
Prov. 16. 23. Hebr. make wise, marg.
Teacher]
;;A publick Minister, which by wholesome doctrine instructeth the Church, beating down errors. Eph. 4. 11. He gave some to be Teachers.
;;Such as by private instruction help others to know the things of God. Tit. 2. 3. Teachers of honest things. Thus Parents, and Masters, and common Christians are Teachers: the former by publick, the latter by private authority.
Teachers]
Isa. 43. 27. Hebr. Interpreters, marg.
Teaching in thy Synagogues, Mat. 9. 35. It was the manner among the Jews for divers men to contribute their Talents, to the exposition of the Lesson that was read. This ordinarily belonged to the Sons of the Prophets, who were brought up in learning the Law, and at thirty yeers old might be made Doctors (at which time, being then of Doctors standing (saith Irenaeus) Christ began to preach, and not before; and proportionably Presbyters were not made in the Ancient Church till that age) and continued in that notion, or the other of Scribes, till they obtained the Spirit of Prophesie at Gods hands, till which time they did ordinarily expound Scriptures, though not by revelation. Answerable to which, was that custome or practise among Christians mentioned 1 Cor. 14. 29. And thus might Christ, without pretension to any extraordinary power or authority, expound in their …, which being the Doctors work, is here called teaching, and differs (in the Christian use of the word in the New Testament) from foreign, preaching (which follows) and foreign, publishing or preaching the Gospel, and foreign, parallel with it (as appears by comparing Mat. 28. 19. with Mar. 16. 15.) gathering of disciples, in other places. All these being the publishing somewhat to those to whom 'twas news (as here the Gospel of of the Kingdome, i. e. the doctrine of Christianity) the other foreign, instructing Congregations that already profess'd that doctrine, which is therefore only by the Doctor farther explained to them. Dr. Ham. Annot. l.
Tear]
To rent asunder, or pull in pieces, Hos. 13. 8. Deut. 33. 20.
It is put for, To punish, Judg. 8. 7.
2. To destroy, Psal. 7. 2. & 50. 22. Jer. 15. 3. Amos 1. 11.
3. To vex and afflict, Psal. 35. 15. To thresh, Judg. 8. 7 marg.
Tear]
;;A water issuing out of the eye, from the moystnesse of the brain, as witnesse of some inward grief. Psal. 6. 6. I water my couch with tears. And 42. 3. My tears are, &c.
;;2. Sorrow and afflictions, the cause of tears, Rev. 21. 4. All tears shall be wiped from their eyes. Psal. 126. 5. If ye sow in tears, &c.
Tears]
See Weep.
He teareth him, Mar. 9. 18. foreign, which signifies to break, or rend, Mat. 7. 6. & 9. 17. Mar. 2. 22. Luk. 5. 37. (and to break out, Gal. 4. 27. i. e. to speak) signifies also to beat or throw down, upon or against the ground, which Tertullian rendreth by evertere, to throw down, Matt. 7. 6. (though the context in that place seems not to own it, the treading under foot, going before, not following it.) Thus is foreign, the river being swelled into a torrent, beats upon the house, Luk. 6. 49. and upon it follows in the next words, presently it …. In stead of it in the parallel place, St. … reads foreign, & foreign, fell upon, Matth. 7. 25, 27. Thus doth Hesychius render the word foreign, not only foreign to divide or break in pieces, but foreign also, to throw down. Thus in this place the Syr. and the Old Latine took it; and so the Heb. foreign, that is by the … rendred foreign, is foreign also, Job 12. 14. Ezek. 26. 4, 12. and foreign and foreign, to subvert and … down; and so foreign, Ezek. 29. 5. & 31. 12. and foreign, to lay on the ground, or dash against the ground, Ezek. 31. 12. and foreign, to throw on the ground, Amos 5. 6. is foreign, Isa. 33. 2, 3. and foreign, Jer. 23. 33, & 39. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.
Tears]
;;Calamity and sorrow, the cause of tears. As Isa. 25. 8. Rev. 21. 4. And God will wipe away all tears.
To wipe off all tears of all faces]
;;To remove all inward heaviness, and outward calamities which causeth tears, Isa. 25. 8. This to be fulfilled in the restitution of the … to the Kingdome of Christ, when Turks and Popish rout being rooted out and subdued, there should be no power and tyrant to oppress the truth of the Gospel, and the professors of it, as it was wont to be under Antichrist and the Turk. See Rev. 21. 4.
Their former persecution which lay so heavy upon them before, and caused them to shed so many tears, shall cease. Isa. 54. 14, 15. The like phrase is in Chap. 7. 17. whereof the meaning is, That God shall give them so much joy, that they shall forget all their troubles, and shall have no cause to grieve ever after. Joh. 16. 20. 22. Annot.
Tears]
Heb. 12. 17. Though he sought it carefully with tears. All tears are not acceptable to God. There be lachrymae compunctionis, such as Mary … were, lachrymae compassionis, such as Christs were when he wept over Jerusalem, lachrymae devotionis, such as the Jews tears were, that wept because the second Temple was not so glorious as the first, Ezr. 3. 12. lachrymae desperationis, such are tears of the damned in hell, lachrymae simulationis, as Jer. 41. 6. lachrymae rancoris & indignationis, such were the tears of Esau, he wept more upon stomach, being vexed in his minde, that he should be thus defrauded by his brother, then for any grief for sin, more for the loss, then the fault. It seems he never wept because he had displeased God in selling away his birth-right, but because he saw into what misery he had plunged himself. Jones.
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To lament the …, Isa. 32. 12. is, To be grieved for the loss of plenty and prosperity, formerly enjoyed.
To bruise the teats of Virginity, Ezek. 23. 3, 21. is, To commit spiritual whoredome in the worshipping of Idols. See Breasts, Paps.
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A Cook. Gen. 22. 24. The Son of Nahor.
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The baptisme of the Lord; or, goodnesse to the Lord himself. 1 Chr. 36. 11.
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Good, or goodnesse. A monethmonth, Est. 2. 16. It began the eleventh of our …, and it was the beginning of Winter. It is supposed to have his notation from foreign, Tebah, a Fallow-deer, or a Doe; because in this monethmonth Does (especially if they be barren) are … … for meat. Annot.
Tedious]
To be wearisom to the hearer by unnecessary talk, not concerning the matter, Act. 24. 4.
Teeth]
are those white bones within the gumm, Prov. 10 26.
It is put,
1. For the mouth, Num. 11. 23.
2. The power, wrath, and fury of the wicked, Psal. 3. 7. & 58. 6. Joel 3. 6.
3. The … and false accusations of the wicked, Psal. 57. 4. Prov. 30. 14.
To bite with the teeth, is, To devour, Mic. 3. v. 5.
To break the teeth, is, To take away the power and means of hurt, Psal. 3. 5. & 58. 62. To afflict, Lam. 3. 16.
Broken tooth. Vain confidence, Prov. 25. 19.
Cleannesse of teeth, is understood of great famine, Amos 4. 6.
Teeth]
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing, Cant. 4. 2. & 6. 6. Those that chew and prepare the heavenly food for thy soul, are both of gracious simplicity, and of sweet accordance one with another; having all one heart and one tongue, being sanctified and purged from their uncleannesse. Hall.
The teeth of the Church are cut of equal height, not one longer then another, which would both be unseemly, and an hinderance to the well eating and chewing of … spiritual food, and they are white and clean as washed sheep, which seemeth to respect (besides comeliness) the purity of the spiritual meat wherewith she is fed, see Gen. 49. 12. These teeth of the Church which chiefly serve to eat with, may here mean her courage and strength against her enemies, as Numb. 24. 8. or rather her judging, discerning, esteeming and applying of the Word of God, and seals of his Covenant, for the comfort and nourishing of her soul, so chewing the cud, and feeding by faith upon the promises of God, which are often made under the similitude of eating and drinking, as in Psal. 22. 26. Prov. 9. 5. Isa. 65. 13. Joh. 6. 41, 50. Some referring this to persons, understand by the teeth the Ministers of the Word, that break and as it were chew the bread of life unto and for the people. So the Chaldee expoundeth these teeth, to be the Priests and Levites, that did offer and eat the sacrifices in Israel. Aynsw.
These teeth are deciphered of the Pastors and Teachers of the Church, which should be qualified with all the excellent properties both of good teeth and of good flocks of sheep, as they are here described; They must prepare and divide the Word aright, as teeth do the food for the stomach, that so the deep and harder things of Religion may be received the better, and more easily swallowed, and digested. They must be as Nurses to feed and cherish the weak ones, Isa. 28. 9. 1 Thess. 2. 7. so must they protect and save them who are not able to save themselves. Their teeth must be like flocks of sheep, not the teeth of Lyons and mad-Dogs, to devour and infect one another, Gal. 5. 15. They must be even shorn, there should be an order in them, and they should be unloaded and divested of all temporal cares and incumbrances. They should do the work of the Lord with one heart, and with one shoulder, not shouldring or justling one another for places and preferments, but honouring one another; And a good and faithfull Minister should be as white and innocent in his reproofs, as those that newly. come up from washing, and are purged not only from all filthiness and pollution, but from all bloud-thirstiness and ferocity. Annot.
To … with the teeth. By this phrase is understood:
1. The rage and fury of the wicked, Act. 7. 54.
2. The pain that men are in in this life, Mar. 9. 18.
3. The eternall torment in hell, Matth. 8. 12. & 13. 42, 50. & 22. 13. & 24. 51. & 25. 30.
Teeth set on edge, signifieth, Punishment, Jer. 31. 29, 30.
Teeth white with milk, signifieth, Abundance and prosperity, Gen. 49. 12.
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A motion, or moved. A City, Ezek. 30. 18.
Tehinnah]
A beseeching, mercifull prayer, or very thankfull, or savour. 1 Chron. 4. 12. The Son of Eshton.
As a … …, or an …]
;;That as these trees which lose their leaf and beauty in …, yet keeping their substance in the root, do … again in the Spring, when the Sun … out the sap into the branches: so should that people of Judah be, though spoyled of their honour and glory, being carried Captive into Babylon, … in the holy seed, a substance should remain, the elect reserved, when the reprobates were faln like leaves from a tree in the Autumn. Isa. 6. 3. As a …, and as … Oak, shall the holy seed be.
Tekel]
Dan. 5. 25. Thou art weighed in the ballances, Ib. 27.
Tekoa]
A pipe, a noyse, fastening. The name of a man, 1 Chr. 2. 24. & 4. 5. Of a Town six miles from Jerusalem, 2 Sam. 14. 2. Amos 1. 1. the inhabitant is called a Tekoite, 1 Chr. 11. 28.
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A heap of new grain. A place where the Jews were kept Prisoners, Ezek. 3. 15.
Telab]
A moystening, or greennesse. 1 Chr. 7. 25. The Father of Tahan.
Telaim]
1 Sam. 15. 4. The fields of Telaim, or the Countrey adjoyning to the City Telaim, situate in the Tribe of Judah, called also Telem, Josh. 15. 24. Annot.
Telassar]
Isa. 37. 12. A place (as it's thought) of great strength, situate on an Island in the midst of the River Euphrates, which some would have to be called, as if it were Tell-Ashur, that is, a bank, set to keep out the Assyrian. Some suppose it to be the same with Elassar, Gen. 14 1. Annot.
Telem]
A lamb, or the dew of them. A City, Josh. 15. 24. A …, Ezr. 10. 24.
…, or Tel=harsa]
A heaping up of deafnesse; or, a hanging up of the plough. A place, Ezra 2. 59. Neh. 7. 61.
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To give notice, Gen. 12. 18. & 21. 26. To shew, Gen. 22. 2. To reveal, Gen. 24. 23. Teach, Exod. 10. 2. Deut. 17. 11. To confess, Josh. 7. 19. To bring tydings, 1 Sam. 27. 11. To publish, 2 Sam. 1. 20. To complain to, Psal. 50. 12. To set forth, Psal. 26. 7. Expound, Ezek. 24. 19. Dan. 2. 36. To know, Jon. 3. 9. To preach, Gal. 4. 16.
Tell] To number, Gen. 15. 5. Psal. 22. 17. & 48. 12. To take notice of, Psal. 56. 8.
Tell]
Tell me where thou feedest, Cant. 1. 7. or, shew, declare unto me; a request which the Church maketh unto Christ for instruction in the administration of his Kingdome here on earth; that as he had formerly made her partaker of his heavenly calling, so he would direct her further into the place where, and manner how he feedeth his flock in his publick Assembly the Church, (whereunto the Lord addeth daily such as shall be saved, Act. 2. 47.) that there she may be under his government, enjoy his Ordinances, increase in knowledge, faith and all other graces; may be strengthned against tentations and afflictions. See Psal. 105. 4. Deut. 12. 5. Aynsw.
The Church finding her own weakness, gets her self to Christ for strength and direction. Sense of our own insufficiency should not deter us from Christ, but rather incite us to seek him more diligently, who is able to teach and make …. Annot.
A prayer of the faithfull dispersed throughout the ten Tribes, and commanded by Jeroboam, to go no more to worship at Jerusalem, but to go to Dan and Bethel, desiring to know whither to resort to finde Christ feeding his sheep that hear his voyce. Cotton.
Tell him that I am sick of love, Cant. 5. 8. Be sure ye tell him: be sure ye present my languishing condition to him, and the cause of it, which is my excessive love to him, that so I may be reconciled to him. Annot.
Telmelab]
A heap of …, or the doubtfulnesse of salt. A place, Ezr. 2. 59.
Tema]
A marvelling at perfection; or, the South winde. …'s Son, Gen. 25. 15. A Countrey, Job 6. 19.
Teman]
South, perfect. The Son of Eliphaz, Gen. 36. 11, 42. Also a City in Edom, Gen. 49. 7.
Temani]
Moyst, perfect, or the South. A Countrey, Gen. 36. 34. The inhabitants called Temanites, Job 12. 11.
Temeni]
South, perfect. The Son of Ashur by Naarah, 1 Chr. 4. 6.
Temper]
To mix together, Exod. 29. 2. & 30. 35. Ezck. 46. 14.
It is put for, To order and proportion, 1 Cor. 12. ….
It signifieth, To salt, Exod. 30. 35. marg.
Temperance]
is a vertue, teaching us to moderate our appetite in the use of pleasures, gifts, and creatures of God, that we may be the better fitted for Christian duties, and our particular calling. It ought to be carefully followed after by all, 2 … 1. 6. 1 Cor. 9. 25. especially by Magistrates, Act. 24. 25. and Ministers, … 1. 8. It is a fruit of the Spirit, Gal. 5. 23.
For the better practising of this vertue; we must,
1. Use moderation in meat and drink; i. e. to eat and drink with abstinence; which is to take less (and not more) then nature desires, for thereby we are the more fitted for Gods service, and such a measure only God doth allow.
2. We must moderate the appetite, in apparel, which is done when it is according to our sex, fashion of our Countrey, and our ability.
3. We must use moderation in getting goods; which is to be contented with food and rayment for our selves and families, 1 Tim. 6. 8. The King himself must not multiply his gold, though he hath more need of it then any private man, Deut. 17. 17.
4. We must use moderation in spending our goods, not in prodigality, and wasting, especially when the family lacketh at home. Perkins 2 vol. p. 340. 1 col. 6.
Temperate]
foreign, Tit. 1. 8. The Papists to maintain their error of a single life, translate this word continentem, but the word is more general then so; it properly signifieth one that hath any thing in his power, is Lord over himself, and his lusts, affections, appetite, who enjoyeth these, and is not theirs; who keepeth the command of these, and they have not him at command; requiring that the Minister should be a man that can curb and bridle himself in his Will to overmaster it; in his affections of desire, revenge, mirth, sorrow, &c. to moderate them, that they exceed not the mean and due measure; in his appetite, of meat, drink, sleep, recreation, that it be not inordinate; yea in all his parts, his hands, his eyes, his tongue, &c. so order himself, as that no unseemly kinde of gesture, fashion, word, or dealing proceed from him which may disgrace his calling; but to carry himself in such a temper as becometh holiness. For even the word hath affinity with that which we call a right temperament or constitution, whether of humours in the body, or affections in the soul; which is, when none is predominant, but one of them is equally mixed and qualified by another, as strong wine is tempered and allayed with water; and implyeth that the Minister by reason, wisdome, and religion especially, must either allay, or break off the headiness and violence of those troublesome lusts and affections which may otherwise molest him, and exceedingly prejudice him in the works of his Calling. Taylor.
Temperate]
Tit. 2. 2. or discreet, moderate. This word principally intendeth a moderation of all fleshly concupiscences, and desires, and also extendeth it self to all the parts of the life; requiring that all the affections, speeches, and actions be carryed levell, not according to the strength of will or passion, but according to the rule of prudence, both in forbearing that which is evil and unseemly, and in choosing and practising that which is good and decent. Idem.
Tempest]
A … winde, or storm of rain or hail, Isa. 28. 2. Jonah 1. 4, 12. Mat. 8. 24. Act. 27. 18, 20.
It is put for the heavy judgements of God, both upon the godly for their tryall, Job 9. 17. and upon the wicked for their destruction, Psal. 11. 6. & 55. 8. & 83. 15.
Tempestuous]
Came out as a whirlewinde. Hab. 3. 14. Comp. the text with the marg.
It shall be very tempestuous, Psal. 50. 3. or a storm shall be moved vehemently, a tempest raised, which maketh fire the more … and forcible. And these things signifie Christs judgements against hypocritical carnal Worshippers. See Mal. 3. 1, 2, 3. Matth. 3. 12. Aynsw.
It's applyed unto the Sea, Jonah 1. 11, 13. Winde, Act. 27. 14.
Temple]
A house built for divine worship, such was the Temple of Jerusalem. It was divided in three parts. The Court of Israel: The Court of the Priests, and Gods …. In respect of these three Courts … thrice repeats the words, The Temple of the Lord, Jer. 7. 4. Within the Holyest of all stood the Ark, 1 King. 8. 9. In it the Lord did shew himself in his glory to the Priest, once in the year. It was called foreign, because it was necessary for him to go in there to consult with the Lord for the people.
When the Priest entred into the Holyest, he carryed with him blood, incense, and smoak; he darkened the Holyest of all with the smoak, for no man shall see the Lord and live, Exod. 33. 20.
It differed from our Temples, which are but … ut loci, but it was locus ut sic; i. e. in such a respect: it was a place, for it was a mean of Gods worship, a part of their Ceremonial worship, and a type of the body of Christ, Joh. 2. 19. Therefore they were bound to set their faces towards it when they prayed; our Temples are only loci ut loci, only a place, they are not a part of the Worship of God, nor types of the body of Christ, … are we bound in prayer to set our faces towards them; they are called places of prayer, only because the Saints meet there, and if the meeting of the Saints were not in them, they were but like other common places; the Temple of Jerusalem sanctified the meeting of the Saints, but the meeting of the Saints sanctifies our Temples; they might not buy or sell in the Temple of Jerusalem, because it was the House of prayer; the moral reason obliges us now, no man may buy nor sell in our Temples, because they are the Houses of prayer. Weems Christ. Syn. p. 103. & 110.
It is put for the body of Christ, Joh. 2. 19. because in it, as in a Temple, the Godhead dwells bodily, Col. 2. 9. and because it was signified by the Temple of Jerusalem.
2. It is put for Heaven, the place of happiness, Rev. 7. 15.
3. For the Tabernacle, 1 Sam. 1. 9. & 3. 3. 2 Sam. 22. 7. Psal. 18. 7.
4. For the Church both distributively considered in the particular members thereof, 1 Cor. 6. 19. and collectively, in respect of the whole, Eph. 2. 21. 1 Cor. 3. 16. Rev. 11. 1.
Temple]
Captains of the Temple, Luk. 22. 52. The Captains of a band or bands of Roman Souldiers, set at the porches of the Temple, to guard and keep peace, that there might be no sedition raised in the City at the assembling of the Jews at the Temple. See Act. 4. 1. & 5. 24. Dr. Hamm. Annot. f. The house, 1 Chr. 6. 10. marg.
Temple]
;;The worship of God, freed from Legal or Mosaical rites, and all humane inventions. Rev. 21. 22. No Temple there.
Fair Temples are commendations of Cities; but in heaven there shall need none: for there shall be no ritual Worship there, but purely spiritual. Joh. 4. 23. Temples are to lift up mens mindes to God; there needeth none where they see God. The earthly Jerusalem had a Temple, and visible signs of Gods presence in it; the heavenly needeth not; God will shew himself there for ever. If it be understood of the last Church on Earth, then it signifieth, that the worship of God shall be more pure and spiritual, and like to the heavenly, then ever before. Annot.
;;2. The Holy of Holyes, or most holy place, where the Mercy-Seat and Cherubims and the Ark kept in the time of the Law, as a figure and sign of Gods presence. Rev. 15. 5. And I saw the Temple open, &c. And afterward in vers. 8. the Temple is said to be filled with smoak, to signifie a manifest token of Gods presence, such as was in the Tabernacle, Exod. 40: 34, 35.
;;3. Heavenly Kingdome of glory. Rev. 11. 19. And the Temple of God was open in heaven.
Temple of Idols]
;;An house erected for the service of Idols. 1 Cor. 8. 10. Sit at Table in the Idols Temple.
Temples]
;;That part of the head, called the Temples, Cant. 4. 3. & 6. 6. Temples of the head are they by which the whole body watcheth or resteth. They are such therefore as watch over the body and for it. Cotton. See like a piece of a Pomegranate.
That part of thy countenance which thou wilt have seen (though dimly and sparingly) is full of holy modesty and bashfulness. Hall.
Temporal]
2 Cor. 4 18. that which dureth but a while, as the Original foreign is rendred, Mat. 13. 21. endureth but a time, Mar. 5. 17.
To tempt]
;;To make proof of a thing by question, or otherwise, for knowledge sake; for that is the end of temptation, to gain knowledge thereby.
;;2. To make tryal and proof of our faith, patience, and love towards God. Gen. 22. 1. God tempted Abraham. This temptation is commonly by prosperity or affliction: and the end of it is to make it known to our selves what is in us, either good or bad. Deut. 8. 2. Tempting thee, that he might know what is in thy heart; that is, make it known to thy self, for the all-seeing God cannot be ignorant what is in us. Thus God is said to tempt.
;;3. To sift us by subtile suggestions, that all grace may be shaken out of our hearts, and nothing left but the Bran or Chaffe of corruption. 1 Thess. 3. 5. Lest the Tempter had tempted you in any sort. Thus Satan tempteth, not to try, but to destroy.
;;4. To intice and move one to sin, Jam. 1. 14. And every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own concupiscence. Thus Lust tempteth; but God tempteth not thus, Gal. 6. 1.
;;5. To make tryal of Gods power and justice, whether he can and will help or hurt. Exod. 17. 2. Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? Thus men tempt God through distrust.
;;6. To forsake the ordinary means of our good, presuming too much upon Gods help. Mat. 4. 7. Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. Thus men tempt God by curiosity and presumption, to try whether God will use any way to succour them, other then is appointed: When men will not believe that God can help them without a miracle, Isa. 7. 12. Deut. 6. 16. Luk. 11. 16.
;;7. To seek matter and occasion against other men, for which to reprehend and accuse them. Mat. 16. 1. Then came the … to tempt him. Thus man tempteth man, by captious and by subtle questions.
;;Note: Tempting by the Original word in the Hebrew signifies lifting up as for a sign, or assaying of something, as God tempteth men, when he requireth some great or high experiment of their faith, love, obedience, as Gen. 22. 1. Exod. 15. 26. Deut. 8. 2. & 13. 3. And the end of Gods temptation is alwayes to do us good in the end, Deut. 18. 16. 1 Cor. 10. 13. Whereas the temptation of Satan, Mat. 4. 1, 4. and of our own corruption, Jam. 1. 13. alwayes tendeth to evill, being a soliciting of us to sin.
It's spoken,
1. Of God tempting Man, Gen. 22. 1.
2. Of Man tempting God, Exod. 17. 2. Mal. 3. 15. Christ, Mat. 22. 18. Mar. 12, 15. the holy Ghost, Act. 5. 9.
3. Of Satans tempting Man, 1 Cor. 7. 5. and Jesus Christ, Mat. 4. 1, 3.
4. Of our own flesh, Jam. 1. 13.
Tempt]
Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God, Mat. 4. 7. The phrase of tempting God, signifies not too much, but too little confidence, a diffidence, and incredulity. Thus the Israelites tempting of God in Exodus and Deuter. is generally doubting of Gods care, and providence, and power, and wisdom, of which they had had so many arguments, assurances, and promises from him. See Numb. 14. 9, 11, 12. Psal. 78 18, 19, 20, 21, 42, 43, 44, 57. So Isa. 7. when Ahaz saith, he will not tempt the Lord, the words signifie, that he needed no farther arguments to ascertain him of the truth of what was there promised. Where yet Ahaz seems to have spoken ironically, he will ask no more signes, believing the thing impossible, and is therefore reprehended by the … for … and wea ying of God, and making it necessary for him to give a signe, vers. 13. 14. And thus clearly the phrase is used in this place, where the Devil perswading Christ by casting himself down from the battlement, to make tryal whether God would deal with him as a Son, i. e. preserve him, or no; Christ that needed no such evidences of his being the Son of God, Mat. 3. 17. replyes, that this is that tempting of God, which is forbidden, …. 6. 16. See …. 16. 1, 4, 5. Luk. 11. 16. Sometime this phrase is used in a notion a little different from this, not in relation to any promises of God, but of any other part of his Will revealed, and notes any act of infidelity, any … to the revealed Will of God, whether in point of doctrine, as Act. 15. 10. or practice, 1 Cor. 10. 9. Mal. 3. 15. compared with 2. 17. So Act. 5. 9. … Hammond Annot. c.
Temptation]
;;…, tryal, or … of any thing or person, to get the true knowledge of it, for knowledge … the end of Temptation.
;;2. Afflictions and crosses, by which men are tryed. Jam. 1. 2, 14. Count it exceeding joy when ye fall into sundry temptations. This is Temptation of probation, serving to manifest what is in us, unto our selves and others.
;;3. Inward suggestions of Satan, or outward prosperity of life, as bates and snares to catch us. Mat. 6. 3. Lead us not into temptation. Mat. 26. 41. Pray lest ye sall into temptation. Luk. 4. 13. when he had ended his temptation; that is, temptation to perdition.
4. … upon the taking of Christ, Mat. 26. 41.
5. Persecution and trouble for Religion, Luk. 8. 13.
Temptation]
Heb. 13. 15. In the day of temptation in the wilderness. Hereby understand, not only that special time mentioned, Exod. 17. 2, &c. Numb. 14. & 20. 1, &c. & Deut. 6. 16. But the whole space wherein they tempted God in the Wilderness, see Psal. 78. 1, &c. Annot.
It were fittest to expound it generally of the stubborn and contumelious behaviour of the Israelites in the Wilderness, then of any particular temptation.
1. Because he names no particular place, but the wilderness in general.
2. Because the tempting he speaks of here, lasted the whole forty years.
3, The word day is often taken in Scripture, not for any set and prescript time, but for an indefinite time, a continuance of time, Joh. 8. 56. Psal. 25. 5. all the time that the temptation lasteth, Psal. 50. 15.
4. Numb. 14. 22. It is apparent that they tempted him many times. Jones.
To fall into temptation]
;;To be overcome, when through weakness we yeeld unto wicked motions and affections, and unto occasions of evill. Mat. 26. 41, Left ye … into temptation, for the … is weak.
Humane temptation]
;;Some tryal, wherein doth appear great weakness, such as accompanies the nature of man. 1 Cor. 10. 13. No temptation hath taken you, but such as is humane, or which pertaineth unto men. The meaning is, that the Christians of Corinth, which for fear of giving offence to their idolatrous neighbours, went into their Temples of Idols, there to eat meat sacrificed to Idols, had herein shewed themselves men, yeelding to humane frailty; and therefore it behoved them to be more constant afterwards, that God might be with them in all temptations that should befall them, for the time to come.
To lead into temptation]
;;To put or bring one in the power of Satan the Tempter, delivering him as a just Judge, to the will and pleasure of the Devil, to be carryed captive of him. Mat. 6. 13. Lead us not into temptation, God puts one in the power of Satan, as a Judge doth put a Malefactor over unto the Hang-man.
Temptation]
And lead us not into temptation, Mat. 6. 13, To enter into temptation signifies to be so involved in straits or difficulties, as that one cannot extricate himself, chap. 26. 41. And proportionably here foreign, is to bring men, or suffer them to be brought into such an estate, contrary to which is Gods promise, 1 Cor. 10. 13. of giving away of escaping, or getting out together with the temptation; and that it is which we here pray for, in assurance of Gods … in performance. Dr. Hammond Annot. g.
Tempted]
Heb. 2. 18. Being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted. He was tempted both in body and soul, vet without sin: tempted of God in his agony: Luk. 22. 44. Of the Devil, Mat. 4. 1. and by his instruments through his whole life. Annot.
As Christ was like to us in nature, so he was tempted as we are. Being cloathed with our nature, he knows what belongs to pain, and will succour us in all our distresses. Being rich he would become poor: he would be a man, that he might the better pitty us that be men; that he might be a merciful High Priest to us all. And shall we be unmerciful one to another? Jones.
Heb. 11. 37. Were tempted: when their enemies saw they could do no good with violence, they made them great promises, and tryed whether they could prevail that way, as appears in the Martyrologie … Annot.
Have tempted you, 1 Thess. 3. 5. It is ordinary in the … … for verbs to … beside the action or passion noted by them, the effect which is consequent thereunto. Of actives we have an example in this word foreign, for to tempt doth ordinarily signifie no more then to offer temptations, to propose or suggest those objects, which if the man resist and reject, are matter of virtue in him, but having tempted here, signifies evidently having brought them into sin, i. e. wrought upon them, corrupted them by temptations, for otherwise his labour in preaching the Gospel to them would not become vain by that means. So when God is said to give men to Christ, Joh. 6. 37. the meaning is, that by Gods preventing and preparing grace, they do effectually come to Christ, receive and embrace the Gospel. Dr. Hammond Annot. a.
The Tempter]
;;The Devil by his wicked suggestions proving and seeking whom he may destroy. 1 Thess. 3. 5. Left the Tempter had tempted you in any sort. 1 Pet. 5. 8. Mat. 4. 3. Then the Tempter came to him.
Ten]
Spoken of, 1. in Unites, and applyed to Acres, Isa. 5. 10. Asses, Gen. 45. 23. Bases, 1 King. 7. 27. Baths, Ezek. 45. 14. Brethren, Gen. 42. 3. Bullocks, Numb. 29. 23. Camels, Gen. 44. 10. Candlesticks, 2 Chr. 4. 7. Changes of rayment, 2 King. 5. 5. Chariots, 2 King. 13. 7. Cheeses, 1 Sam. 17. 18. Cities, Josh. 15. 57. Commandements, Deut. 4. 13. Cubits, Exod. 26. 16. Curtains, Exod. 26. 1. Dayes, Gen. 24. 55. Degrees, Isa. 38. 8. Disciples, Mat. 10. 24. Fat. oxen, 1 King. 4. 23. Foals, Gen. 32. 15. Heap of corn, Hag. 2. 16. Homers, Numb. 11. 32. Horns, Dan. 7. 7. Kings, Rev. 17. 12. Knops, 1 King. 7. 24. Lavers, 1 King. 7. 38. Lepers, Luk. 17. 12. Loaves, 1 Sam. 17. 17. Men. Jer. 41. 1, 2. Mighty men, Eccl. 7. 19. Palm-trees, Exod. 15. 27. Parts, 2 Sam. 19. 43. Pieces of a garment, 1 King. 11. 31. Pieces of silver, Luk. 15. 8. Pillars, Exod. 27. 12. Portions, Josh. 17. 5. Pounds, Luk. 19. 13. Princes, Josh. 22. 14. Righteous, Gen. 19. 32. Shekels, Gen. 24. 22. Sockets, Exod. 27. 12. Sons, 1 Sam. 1. 8. Souls, Gen. 46. 27. Strings, Psal. 33. 2. Tables, 2 Chron. 4. 8. Talents, Mat. 25. 28. Tribes, 1 King. 11. 35. Virgins, Mat. 25. 1. Women, Lev. 26. 26. Yeers, Gen. 50. 22. Young men, 2 Sam. 18. 15.
2. In thousands, and applyed unto Captives, 2 King. 24. 14. The Children of Naphtali, &c. Judg. 5. 6. Chosen men out of all Israel, Judg. 20. 34. Drams of gold, 1 Chr. 29. 7. Foot men, 2 King. 13. 7. Instructers, 1 Cor. 4. 15. Measures of Barley and Wheat, 2 Chr. 27. 5. Men of Judah, 1 Sam. 15. 4. and several others, mentioned in other places. Oblation unto the Lord, Ezek. 48. 9. Portion of the Lord to be offered, Ezek. 45. 1. Such as were slain of the Canaanites, Judg. 1. 4. Edom, 2 King. 14. 7. Moab, Judg. 3. 29. Seir, 2 Chr. 25. 11. Saints, Jude v. 14. Sheep, 2 Chr. 30. 24. Talents, 1 Chr. 29. 7.
Ten]
;;signifies many, a distinct number, used for an indefinite, Joh. 19. 3. Lev. 26. 26. Numb. 14. 22. Gen. 30. 7.
Ten Crowns]
;;Great and many victories got by mighty force and power. Rev. 13. 1. And upon his … ten crowns.
Ten dayes]
;;A certain space of time (very short) wherein God would afflict his Church. Rev. 2. 10. And ye shall have tribulation ten dayes. Gen. 31. 7. Numb. 14. 22. Job 13. 3. Ten times put for oftentimes. A finite number for an indefinite number.
Ten horns]
;;Great strength, power and might, to do much hurt. Rev. 12. 3. He hath ten horns.
;;2. The first ten Christian Emperors, in whose dayes and reign, the beast increased in dignity and power greatly. Rev. 13. 1. I saw a beast rise out of the Sea, having ten horns.
;;3. Ten Kings, which had not begun to reign, when John wrote the Book of the Revelation. Rev. 17. 3, 12. Seven heads and ten horns, the ten horns are ten Kings.
Ten horns]
;;Many Kings and Provinces, which did give their authority, power, and force (meant by the Horns, wherein lyeth the strength of Beasts) to erect, enlarge, and establish the tyranny of Ecclesiastical Rome. Rev. 17. 12, 13. And the ten horns which thou sawest are … ….
Ten thousand thousand]
;;A innumerable company, or … multitude of Angels. Rev. 5. 11. There were ten thousand times ten thousand, &c.
Ten Uirgins]
;;The visible Church, consisting of wise and foolish; that is, godly, and wicked. Mat. 25. 1. … the Kingdom of Heaven shall be likened unto ten Virgins.
Tend]
To lead and direct, Prov, 10. 16. & 11. 19. & 19. 23.
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is put,
1. for weak, Gen. 33. 19.
2. For delicately brought up; spoken of them who were never used to a hard kind of life, and cannot endure the least hurt, Deut. 28. 56.
3. Dearly beloved, Prov. 4. 3. Dan. 1. 9.
4. Pitiful hearted, Eph. 4. 32.
5. It is referred to the heart, which is said to be tender, when it cannot endure the least sin against God, but is grieved for it, 2 Chr. 34. 27.
Tender]
Spoken of a Branch, Mat. 24. 32. Calf. Gen. 18. 7. Children, Gen. 33. 13. Grape, Cant. 2. 13. Grass, Prov. 27. 25. Heart, 2 King. 22. 19. Herb, Job 38. 27. Love, Dan. 1. 9. Mercy, Luk. 1. 78, (or bowels of the mercy, marg.) Mercies, Psal. 25. 6. (Heb. bowels, marg.) Plant, Isa. 53. 2. Solomon, 1 Chr. 22. 5.
Tender]
Whether the tender grape appear, Cant. 7. 12. the young small grape, called in Heb. Smadar, a word used only here and in Cant. 2. 13, 15. it meaneth the first appearance of fruit before the grapes be any thing near ripe; a token that the Spring is come, and the Summer is nigh. The love and care of God towards his Churches and people that are fruitful, Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit, Joh. 15. 1, 2. and when the fruit is young and tender, he hath care to preserve and cherish the same. Aynsw.
Especial care is to be had of weak Christians, who are but newly entred into the profession of Christ, and are aptest to be seduced, whilest the Foxes (who are observed to love young grapes) plot chiefly to practise upon them, and such Novices as weak silly women, 2 Tim. 3. 6. Annot. on Cant. 2. 15.
Tender-hearted]
2 Chr. 13. 7. that is, soon daunted. This is opposed to courage and magnanimity. He wanted … of spirit. Annot.
The original foreign, in Eph. 4. 32. in rendred tender-hearted, but being derived of foreign well, and foreign bowels, it's as much as well of bowels, or rightly bowelled. One that is affected with the miseries of others, and pityeth them from his very heart; who is prone to mercy, whose heart moveth to compassion. See Leigh Crit. Sac.
Tender mercies]
;;Most inward feeling and affectionate compassions, like unto motherly pitifulness and kindeness, which is hard to tell how tender and great it is. Luk. 1. 78. The tender mercies of our God.
Tenderness]
;;Delicateness, niceness, Deut. 28. 56.
Tenons]
Exod. 26. 17. called in Heb. hands, for that they held fast in the … of the sockets. Aynsw.
Tenour]
Rule, order, Gen. 43. 7.
2. Prescript, sum, form, Exod. 34. 27.
It signifieth the mouth, …. 43. 7. marg.
Tent]
;;A place to dwell in, so made, as it might be removed and carryed to and fro. Numb. 5. 3. Gen. 4. 20. Jubal was the Father of such as dwelt in tents. Exod. 18. 17. See Tabernacle.
;;God caused an habitation to be made in the wilderness, wherein he dwelt among men, Exod. 26. Psal. 78. 60. That mansion made of ten Curtains he called a Tabernacle, Exod. 26. 2. Psal. 26. 8. Over this other Curtains were made, and cast as a covering, called a tent or covering, Exod. 6. 2, 7. Hereupon the whole place is sometime called a Tent, and sometime a Tabernacle, Psal. 15. 1. To this Tent (till the Temple was built by Solomon) all Gods people were wont to come to worship, Lev. 17. 4, 5. Deut. 12. 5, 6. It was a moveable place, and so differed from an house of setled habitation, 2 Sam. 7. 6. 1 Chr. 17. 5. yet for the use was sometime called an House.
Tent] Moveable, as those in the Wilderness, Numb. 9. 20, 22. & 16. 26. and in time of War, 2 Sam. 11. 11. 2 King. 7. 16. and in travelling, Ezr. 8. 15.
Unmoveable, setled places to dwell in, 2 Sam. 20. 1. 1 King. 12. 16. 2 King. 13. 5. & 14. 12.
It's also put for the Covering of the Tabernable, Exod. 26. 7, 11.
Tenth]
;;signifies a remnant left of a far greater number; or a very few of many. Isa. 6. 17. In it shall be a tenth. Amos 5. 3.
Tenth]
Spoken of Captain, 1 Chr. 27. 13. …, Rev. 21. 20. Day, Exod. 12. 3. Deal of flour, Lev. 14. 10. Generation, Deut. 23. 2. Hour, Joh. 1. 39. (that was two hours before night, marg.) Jeremiah, 1 Chr. 12. 13. Lot, 1 Chr. 24. 11. MonethMonth, 2 King. 25. 1. Part of all, Heb. 7. 2. of a Bath, Ezek. 45. 14. of the City, Rev. 11. 13. of an Ephah, Lev. 5. 11. of an Homer, Ezek. 45. 11. of the Spoils, Heb. 7. 4. Seed, 1 Sam. 8. 15. Sheep, Ib. 17. Tithe, Numb. 18. 26.
I will surely give the … to thee, Gen. 28. 22. I will tithing give the tenth to thee. A signe of homage and subjection to God, which therefore was given to the Priests of the Lord. Aynsw.
Tenth part]
;;A very great portion of the Popish Kingdom, and superstition also, diminished by the falling away of sundry Nations, especially of the Germans. Rev. 11. 13. The tenth part of the City fell.
By the City is here meant, either
1. The whole Papacy, and thus one of the ten streets hath its fall, namely, the … Empire, which is the street where the dead bodies of the two Witnesses had lien, who are now standing upon their feet. Or
2. The City of Rome it self, which in regard of the old City of Rome, when she was in her flourishing condition, is counted but this day the tenth part, as the same is proved by Lipsius. lib. 3. Admirand. Clav. Apocal. pag. 87. 88. Accordingly Mede, I do conceive (saith he) that by the tenth part of the City, is understood (truly) a part of the City, but not any part of the City as it is at this day, but the whole; I say, the whole pontificial Rome, which is the tenth part of that ancient Rome.
A tenth]
;;The small number of the Jews, which shall be saved from spiritual and bodily calamity, which are called the Tenth, because of their paucity and fewness; also because they are sacred and holy to God, as the Tenths were, Lev. 27. Isa. 6. 13. Yet in it shall be a tenth.
Tenth]
Heb. 7. 2. To whom Abraham gave a tenth part of all. Seeing our Lord remaineth for ever a Priest after the order of Melchisedec, why should not Tithes belong unto him, and in him unto those who in his stead exhort us to be reconciled unto his Father? 2 Cor. 5. 20. Annot.
Tent-makers]
Act. 18. 3. Their trade was to make tents of skins, then much in use in those hot Countreys. Herein Paul wrought, in respect of his present necessity, and that he might not disadvantage the Gospel by being burthensome to any, chap. 20. 34. 2 Thess. 3. 8. Annot.
Tents of Kedar]
;;The Aethiopians which dwelt in Tents or Booths, to defend them from the parching heat of the Sun, Cant. 1. 5. As the tents of Kedar. See Kedar.
To live in Tents]
;;To exercise the trade of a Shepheard. Gen. 25. 27. Jacob dwelt in tents.
;;2. To look unto houshold affairs, that they be well governed. Gen. 4. 20. Jubal was the Father of those which dwell (or live) in Tents.
Tents of Shem]
;;The visible and publick meeting of the Church of God, (which was in families untill the birth … Enoch, Gen. 4. 26. and aster in great assemblies) Gen. 9. 26, 27. To dwell in the Tents of Shem. He speaks after the custom of those times, which was to dwell in Tents like Pilgrims, which had no permanent City, but looked for one in Heaven.
Tents of …]
;;A place without the Church of God, wherein dwels no goodness nor holiness. Psal. 84. 10. Then to dwell in the tents of wickedness; that is, among Infidels and wicked men.
Terah]
Smelling, breathing; or … away. The Father of Abraham, Gen 11. 26. 1 Chr. 1. 26. Josh. 24. 2.
Teraphim]
Images, or forms, Judg. 17. 5. Hos. 3. 4. It signifieth,
1. In general, the compleat image of a man, 1 Sam. 19. 13.
2. An Idol made sor mens private use, in their own house, which were (as it were) their houshold gods, Gen. 31. 30. Judg. 17. 5. They are called gods, because of the worship exhibited to them. Hence cometh foreign, to worship.
The manner of their making (as … in … tels) was, they took a childe uncircumcised, whose head they pinched off with their nails, which they seasoned with salt and spices, and put a little plate of gold under the tongue, and writ upon it the name of an unclean spirit, which the worshipped.
The use of these Images, was to consult with them as Oracles, concerning things for the present unknown, or future, to come. To this purpose they were made by Astrologers, under certain Constellations, capable of heavenly influences, whereby they were enabled to speak, Zech. 10. 2. And one reason why Rachel stole her Fathers Images was, that he should not consult with them, to know what way Jacob took in his flight. Goodwins Moses and Aaron. lib. 4. c. 9.
Concerning the Teraphim that Michol kept in her house; Note, that it is taken three wayes in Scripture.
1. Univocè, for the Teraphims which the Magicians used, Gen. 31. 19.
2. Analogicè, for the Idols which the Idolaters worshipped, Judg. 18. 14. & 17. 5. These were not like Laban's Teraphim, but were so called by way of Analogie; for the worshipping of Idols is the worshipping of devils, 1 Cor. 10. 21.
3. Aequivecè, such was that of Michol, 1 Sam. 19. 13. made only to the form of a man, for it is not likely that David who had a care to purge his house of all abominations, Psal. 101. would have suffered his house to be polluted with Teraphim, either in the first or second sense. Weems Degen. Sons. p. 88.
Teraphim]
;;Gen. 31. 19. were Images in the shape of men, as may be gathered, 1 Sam. 19. 13, 16. And that they were images and representations used in divine worship; See for that Judg. 17. 5. & 18. 14, 17, 20. Hos. 3. 4. And by Ezek. 31. 21. Zach. 10. 2. it seemeth that Idolaters consulted with their gods by them, and had Oracles.
Teresh]
as Terah. Est. 2. 21. One of Ahasucrus his Chamberlains.
Termed]
Isa. 62. 4. called, named. Heb. It shall not be said any more to thee, For saken.
Terrestrial]
1 Cor. 15. 40. Earthly, as the Original foreign, is rendred, Joh. 3. 12. 2 Cor. 5. 1. Phil. 3. 19. James 3. 15.
Terrible]
is spoken of things or persons causing fear and terrour: As,
1. Of such things as are of a horrible aspect; either in sleep, Dan. 2. 31. or awake, as Satyres, which in part are like a Man, partly like a Goat, and partly like an Ape; they love waste and desolate places, Isa. 34. 14 Jer. 50. 39. Isa. 13. 22.
2. As are of a great power, strength, and cruelty; as the fourth beast in Daniel's vision, Dan. 7. 17. Thus the Chaldeans are said to be a terrible Nation, because of their strength and cruelty, Hab. 1. 7.
3. As are of great courage, and admirable fortitude, Cant. 6. 4, 10. Job 15. 24. Joel 2. 5.
It is spoken of Gods Name, Psal. 111. 9. Exod. 15. 11. Neh. 1. 5. Psal. 96. 4. because he is to be reverenced and had in great admiration; and of the Works of God, because of the greatness and wonderfulness of them, which he works either for the salvation of his people, or destruction of his enemies, Psal. 65. 6. Deut. 34. 12. but above all at the Red Sea, Psal. 106. 22.
It is also applyed to the Works of Christ, for the greatness and wonderfulness of them in the work of our Redemption, Psal. 45. 5.
It signifieth scornful, watchful for …, Isa. 29. 20. marg. and hasty, Hab. 1. 7.
Terrible as an Army]
;;One dreadful and to be feared, because of great valour and courage in the spiritual battail, against infernal and hellish enemies, Cant. 6. 9. Terrible as an Army with Banners.
Terrible to the enemies with whom she is to fight, under the banner of … Gospel and love, Cant. 2. 4. having the weapons of her warfare not carnal, but mighty through God, &c. 2 Cor. 10. 4 See Deut. 33. 29. & 2. 25. Exod. 15. 14, 15, 16. Psal. 48. 5, 6. Aynsw. Or, admirable, or an admiration (the substantive by little change of the points being put for the … ) or a terror as an Army with Banners, or set in order. The allusion is applied to the Church either in regard of her troublesome state and condition, whereof war is an elegant embleme: or else in regard of her order and decent disposition, as to her outward Government which is not expressible by any thing better then this of Armies, wherein nothing more requisite then Discipline and Order; or lastly, in respect of her authority and power, whereby she is dreadful to the devil and all her enemies. Annot.
Terribleness]
Deut. 26. 8. or terror. This the Greek and Chaldee translate visions. Aynsw.
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, Isa. 49. 16. Some render it thine Idoll, because a word from the same root, differing only in a … letter, is used for an idoll, so termed, because the worshippers of such dread them, 1 King. 15. 13. 2 Chr. 15. 16. Others, pride or arrogancy, so some of the Jewish Masters, whom the old Latine followeth, and they say pride is so termed, either by a contrariety of speech, because proud persons are farthest from fear, or because they affect to be frightful to others, Job 40. 10 - 12. The Chaldee rendreth it fatness, or fatuity, fully; for the word he useth may signifie either, and they go frequently together, as the Gr. Proverb informeth us. A learned Interpreter, … or rougbness, as having reference to the roughness of those mountains, on which having expelled the Horites, Edom seated himself, called from their roughness (saith he) the mountains of Seir, Deut. 2. 12. But the best and plainest is to take the word in a notion of terror, thereby understanding … the terror wherewith Edom was affected himself, but … … that he struck into, and wherewith he was … to affright others; as the like is said of other great …, Isa. 14. 16. Ezek. 32. 23 — 27. Annot.
Terribly]
To shake terribly the carth, Isa. 2. 19. When he comes to make a terrible earthquake in the State, Pial. 75. 3. Great commotions and concussions in a State, are compared to great earthquakes that overturn houses and buildings, and swallow up sometimes whole Cities. Annot.
Terrifie]
Neither be ye terrified, Deut. 20. 3. or broken, discouraged, daunted with terror. The Gr. translateth, decline not from their faces. Aynsw. Things that …, terrifie, or make afraid, are Adversaries, Phil. 1. 28. The blackness of the day, Job 3. 5. (let the … of the day terrifie it, or let them terrifie it as those who have a bitter day, marg.) Fear, Job 9. 34. Letters, 2 Cor. 10. 9. A multitude, Job 31. 34. Spirits, Luk. 24. 39. Visions, Job 7. 14. Wars and commotions, Luk. 21. 9.
Terrises]
2 Chr. 9. 11. or Stairs, Heb. his wayes, marg.
Terror]
A great fear, and astonishment, Gen. 35. 5. Lev. 26. 16.
It is put for the cause striking terror: as,
1. Afflictions and …, Psal. 73. 19. & 78. 33. Deut. 4. 34. Psal. 55. 6. & 86. 16.
2. The last judgement, 2 Cor. 5. 10.
3. Wrath and indignation, Prov. 20. 2.
Secondly, for the effect it self, Phil. 1. 28. 2 Thess. 2. 2.
In which respect it is put for horror and quaking, Psal. 55. 4.
2. For amazement and astonishment, Josh. 2. 9. Psal. 91. 5. Jer. 20. 4.
The causes of it are,
1. God, 2 Chr. 14. 14. who puts it into all creatures, Gen. 9. 2. In Abraham, Gen. 15. 12. Canaanites, Exod. 23. 17. Deut. 2. 25. and into the wicked for their sins, Exod. 15. 15, 16, 17. Lev. 26. 16. Deut. 32. 25.
2. Great dangers, Psal. 55. 5. 1 Sam. 25. 37. 2 King. 19. 26.
3. Things unusual, and unheard of; as the wonderful Works God worketh in favour of his Church, Exod. 15. 14, 15, 16. Extraordinary testimonies of the anger and wrath of God, Dan. 5. 5, 6, 9.
4. The horrible judgements of God upon sinners, Job 31. 34. & 9. 34.
5. Death, called the King of terrors, Job 18. 14. Psal. 55. 4.
The effects are,
1. Torment of minde, Lev. 26. 16.
2. Fleeing away, Deut. 28. 65. Psal. 48. 6, 7. 2 King. 7. 5.
3. Change of the countenance, Ezek. 27. 35. Isa. 13. 8.
4. Weakening of the strength of the body, 1 Sam. 28. 20. Dan. 10. 8.
5. Horror, and trembling, Dan. 5. 5, 6, 9.
6. Destruction, and death, Psal. 88. 16. & 73. 19.
Terror]
Ezek. 32. 23. or Dismaying, marg.
Tertius]
The third. The name of a man, Rom. 16. 22.
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Declaring … things, a lyer; or, wondrous. An Orator against Paul, Act. 24. 1, 2, 10.
Testament]
;;That which we commonly call a mans Will, and appointed for the bestowing of his goods amongst his children, or kindred and friends. Gal. 3. 15. Though it be but a mans Testament. Heb. 9. 15, 17.
;;2. An appointment or agreement between God and Man, touching free salvation by faith in Christ. …. 26. 28. For this is my bloud of … New Testament. ;;This is called a Testament, because it was ratified and confirmed by the death and bloud-shed of him, who made the Covenant or agreement with us; to wit, of Christ, and containeth (as it were) his last Will written ….
;;3. The Book or Tables wherein the Testament is …, 2 Cor. 3. 14.
Testament]
The word foreign in the New Testament doth every where … a Covenant, as Mar. 26. 28. …. 14. 24. Luk. 22. 20. (and so the Heb. foreign, which is rendred by foreign signifies a Covenant, but never a Testament) 2 Cor. 3. 6. Gal. 4. 24. excepting only in Heb. 9. 16, 17. where it infallibly signifies a Will or Testament, which yet is taken in by way of accommodation, as a second sense of the word superadded to the former of a Covenant, in which it is used, v. 15, 18, 19, 20. for there the foreign which was said to be consecrated with bloud, was the Tables of the Law, the Commandements, v. 19. and will be fitly rendred there Covenant not Testament, v. 20. It being the constant custom and practise of the Eastern Nations to use bloud in the striking of any pact or covenant, but not in making every Will and Testament, and to that the expresse testimony of Exod. 24. 6. which is there cited, doth belong, the sprinkling of bloud being the ceremony following Moses's rehearsing the commandements to the people, Exod. 20. & 21. & 22. & 23. as the sanction of a Covenant. Dr. Ham. Annot. p. 1, 2.
New Testament]
;;The Covenant of God, in regard of the dispensation of it under the Gospel, by Christ, … Christian people, without such Types and Prophesies. Also with few Ceremonies, and with much more clearness, and fuller revelation of the truth, and more plentiful graces of the Spirit, to endure alwayes new, and the same to the end of the world, Jer. 31. 33, 34. Act. 2. 17, 18. This divers manner of administration, and delivery of the Covenant or Testament, causeth it, that being but one in substance, (to wit, salvation by faith in Christ) yet it is called Old and New Testament, as if it were two, Heb. 8. 9, 10. See Covenant.
Did Testament]
;;The agreement or covenant of God, which is called [Old] in regard of the first dispensation of it by Moses, toward the Jews, in many figures and shadows of Rites and Sacrifices, and with other obscure and dark revelations by Prophesies; which dispensation is now ended. Heb. 8. 13. In that he saith, a New Testament, he hath abrogated the Old.
Two Testaments]
;;Two types, and figures to shadow forth in some sort, and to represent the two Covenants of Grace and Works. Gal. 4. 22. For these are the two Testaments, the one, &c. Agar which with her Son Ismael was abiding in Arabia, doth represent the Legal Covenant, (or of the Law) which was published in Sinai a Mountain of Arabia; and striketh the hearts of sinners with servile fear, because none can keep it, and it threatneth eternal death to all that break it. Therefore, such as trusted in the Ceremonies and works of the Law, done by their own strength, are lyable to the curse, and cast out of the family or Church of God, (as Agar and Ismael out of Abraham's house) that they never enjoy the inheritance of the life which is eternal. But Sarah, who not by natural strength that she lacked, but by virtue of Gods promise, bore Isaac of Abraham; she represents the Evangelical Covenant, or promise of grace, wherein such as freely be begotten of the Spirit, do put their trust, and are thereby justified and become inheritours of heaven, as Isaac the Son of the promise, enjoyed his Fathers inheritance. These two Covenants being weighed in the ballance of false Apostles, who ascribed part of salvation to the works of the Law; or of the Pharisees, who imbraced the Law in stead of Christ; then these Covenants are not only two, but flat contrary to themselves: whence ariseth the conclusion set down by the Apostle, Gal. 5. 2, 4. Christ profiteth you nothing; ye are faln from grace, if you be justified by the Law, &c.
;;New Testament hath commonly one of these three acceptions.
;;1. Reconciliation of all elect sinners with God, through the bloud of Christ.
;;2. The doctrine which teacheth agreement, either by voice or writing.
3. The Cup in the Lords Supper, which sealeth this reconcilement, Mat. 26. 26, 27. 2 Cor. 3. 6.
;;In Testaments divine and humane, there be examples of unproper and figurative speeches. See Gen. 17. 11, 12. Matth. 26, 26. 27. Gen. 49. Deut. 33. 2 Sam. 23. 1 Ki. 2. 1. Mat. 2. Tob. 4.
Testator]
Heb. 9. 16, 17. He that maketh a Testament.
To testifie]
;;To bear witnesse of any person or thing by word or work, 1 Joh. 5. 9. Which he testyfied of his Son.
Testifie]
is put for, To condemn, Deut. 31. 21. Job. 15. 6. Psal. 50. 7.
2. To declare, 1 Thess. 4. 6. Luk. 16. 28.
3. To avouch, and affirm, Joh. 3. 11. & 4. 44. & 13. 21.
4. To ad jure, Eph. 4. 17.
5. To desire earnestly in teaching the truth, Act. 2. 40.
Testified]
1 Tim. 2. 6. or a Testimony, marg.
To testifie]
;;To bear witnesse as Christ did, both in respect of the whole Gospel generally, and of this Prophecie particularly. Rev. 22. 20. He which testifieth these things.
It is therefore of divine Authority, Annot.
Testifying]
Heb. 11. 4. God testifying of his (Abels) gifts, that is, of the acceptance of his gifts, either by fire from heaven, Levit. 9. 24. 1 King. 18. 38. 1 Chron. 21. 26. or by some like token. See Gen. 4. 4. Annot.
Testimony]
;;The whole Scripture or Word of God. Psal. 19. 7. The testimony of the Lord is sure, and giveth wisdome unto the simple. The word of God is called a testimony, because it containeth Articles of the Testament, or Covenant, both on Gods part, and ours, witnessing his good will to us, and our duty to him; what good he means us, and what duty we should do to him. Sometime this word [Testimony] signyfies doctrine, agreeable to the Word, 2 Thess. 1. 10. Gods Law hath this name, not for the former reason only, but also for the contestation and earnest charge concerning it: And also, because it testifieth the wisdome, power, and goodnesse of God more plentifully then the book of Gods works doe, Psal. 19. 7.
;;2 The word of precepts and commandements, which are witnesses of Gods will, what he would have us do, Psal. 119. 2. Blessed are they who keep his testimonies. Psal 25. 9.
;;3. The ark, because the Testimonies were kept in … Exod. 16. 34. Aaron laid it before the Testimony. Numb. 7. 89. Exod. 25. 21. Also it signifieth the Tabernacle wherein the Ark was.
4. A good report from others, witnessing well, 2 Tim. 2. 8. Act. 16. 2. ;;Either Christ or his Gospell, which testifieth of him. 1. Tim. 2. 6.
5. The two Tables of Stone, wherein the Law was written. ;;Exod. 40. 20. And he took, and put the Testimony in the Ark. Exod 25. 16, 31. & 31. 18.
Testimony]
Heb. 11. 5. He had this Testimony, either in that it is said, that he … with God, whence it may be inserred that he pleased God: or else because God did by some more then ordinary means testifie so much of him, as he did of Abels sacrifice, verse 4. Annot.
Ark of Testimony]
;;A Chest, wherein were put the two Tables of Stone, conatining the Law, which is the Testimony of his will. Exod. 30. 6. Aster thou shalt set it before the vail, that is near the Ark of the Testimony. Also God did there use to give his people visible testimonies of his presence. The putting of the Testimonies or two Tables of the Covenant into the Ark, Exod. 25. 21. this signified that Christ was the end of the Law, Rom. 10. 4. And had testimony from it, Rom. 3. 21, 22, 23. And that God will not accept of any our obedience of the Law unless the blemishes of our sins, and the wants of our obedience be hid and purged by Christ, whereupon he is called the … of our sins, 1 Joh. 2. 2. Whereas without the Ark (yet before it) were put and set a golden pot, Heb. 9. 4. which had the hidden Manna, Exod. 16. 33, 34. and Aaron's Rod which had budded, Numb. 17. 8, 10. The former signifieth the glory of … life hidden in Christ, as Rev. 2. 18. The latter, that they were daily to be destroyed for their rebellions, unlesse they were forgiven and covered by Christ.
To bind the Testimony]
;;To wrap and fold up the volume and roul, wherein was written, as vers. 2. 3. the Testimony of God touching his defence of Judah, against the two Kings of Syria and Israel, lest it should be any more in the sight of the people which made but a mock and scorn at it, Isa. 8. 16.
Testimony of Jesus Christ]
is the Gospell of Christ Rev. 1. 9. & 12. 17. It is so called,
1. Because it is revealed by Christ, in regard whereof he is called the faithfull witnesse, Rev. 1. 5. and none could open the book but he, Rev. 4. 9.
2. The subject of it is Christ, or the doctrine of faith and salvation wrought by Christ alone, Rom. 1. 2.
3. It was testified unto by Christ; not only revealing it by his divine doctrine, but also by his holy life, mighty miracles, faithfull profession before the Jews, Pharises, Pontius Pilate, the whole Councell, and by his innocent death.
4, Because the end of it is only Christ, it aims at his glory, Act. 2. 36.
Testimony of Jesus]
;;The faith and doctrine concerning salvation by Jesus Christ. Revel. 12. 17. And have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
It is called the Testimony of Jesus (See cha. 19. 10.) because he was the Object of their confession, and in chap. 12. 11. their Testimony, because they are the persons who confessed him. Annot.
;;2. The preaching of Christ and salvation by him. Rev. 19. 10. The Testimony of Jesus, is the spirit of prophecie; that is, they which have the function to teach Christ, are equal to such as have the gift to reveal things to come. By which reason the Angel disswades John from worshipping him.
The office of testifying Jesus to men, is of the same rank with that of revealing him by way of prophecy unto the teachers. Hall.
To have the Testimony of Jesus Christ]
is,
1. To preach the Gospell. So John bare record of the Testimony of Christ, Rev. 1. 2. & 14. 10.
2. To professe the Gospel, to uphold and maintain it to give witnesse unto it, and to hold it in life and death as in Rev. 20. 4. it is said of the Martyrs.
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A governour of the fourth part of a Realm, Luk. 3. 1. Mat. 14. 1.
Teyle-tree]
Isa. 6. 13. or a line-tree. A tree of goodly leaves, and spreading branches, fit to make Bowers of. And this and the Oak (as some suppose) are here made choyce of; because the one in regard of its fairnesse, the other in regard of its firmnesse, might be unlikely to loose their goodly verdure in Winter. Annot. See Teil-tree.