A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part BL
B L.
Black]
Spoken of Hair, Lev. 13. 13. the Heaven, 1 King. 18. 45. Marble, Est. 1. 6. Skin, Job 30. 30. Night, Prov. 7. 9. the Church, Cant. 1. 5. a Raven, Cant. 5. 11. Gates, Jer. 14. 2. Oven, Lam. 5. 10. Horses, Zech. 6. 2. Sackcloth, Rev. 6. 12.
;;Black: Afflictions and crosses, diminish the outward beauty of the Church, and cause her (in a worldlings eye) to seem black and ill-favoured: also sins the causes of afflictions, somewhat stain her inward beauty, Cant. 1. 4. I am black O Daughters of Jerusalem.
Black: In my original, black by reason of foulness and spots; black by reason of my great afflictions, Lam. 4. 8. black because of the hurt of my people, Jer. 8. 21. Annol.
This is spoken by the Church to prevent the scandals and offences that might arise for her afflictions and infirmities which appear in this life. Aynsw.
Black]
By the fall of Solomon, by the folly of Rehoboam, by prophaneness, Schism, Apostasie, the rebellion of ten Tribes. ….
The word black, in the sixth verse differing from this, seemeth to diminish the signification. It may be rendered blackish, or somewhat black (in Greek made black; the old Latine version translateth it brown) as in Lev. 13. 19. a word in the like form meaneth somewhat reddish. By these she would teach not to judge of her estate by her skin, by the outward appearance; where afflictions and infirmities only are to be seen. Aynsw.
There have been alwayes some, of which there are now many, which neglecting the care of chemselves, pry into the faults and failings of others. They that accuse, condemn themselves, are not to be censured, condemned of others, Oftentimes exceptions are taken at the Saints, who either deserve not at all, or not so much to be excepted against. They commonly are readiest to finde fault with others, who are most guilty themselves.
Black as a …]
;;The spiritual inward beauty of Christ, shadowed and represented by blackness of hair, which in some Countries was accounted a comely beautiful thing in a young man, Cant. 5. 11. His locks curled and black as a Raven.
In Rev. 1. 14. Christ appeared as an Ancient, with his hairs white as wool; here he is described as a goodly young man, with curled locks, black as a Raven. That white colour shewed him to be the Ancient of dayes, Dan. 7. 9. full of gravity, wisdom, Justice, &c. But black and curled locks, as they are signes of heat and strength in nature, so here they seem to denote strength and vigour spiritual, as also the hidden mystery of his counsels, thoughts and purposes unsearchable. According to the variety of times, causes, and administrations, so things are spoken diversly of God and of Christ, as in 1 Tim. 6. 16. He dwelleth in the light which none can approch unto; in 2 Chr. 6. 1. He dwelleth in the … darkness. His administration of mercy by the preaching of the Gospel is signified by a white Horse, his judgements by a black Horse, Rev. 6. 2, 5. And if we refer this here to Christs administration, it may denote both his counsels unsearchable of any, and in special his judgements decreed for his enemies. Aynsw.
Curled black hair (saith Mr. Cotton) is a sign of heat and courage, and wit in him that it groweth upon; Such was the Emperour himself (Frederick the second) and such were the common Christians of that age, that did depend upon their Emperour; they stuck close to him: learned men with wit, more then former ages had yeelded, and souldiers with courage … his person and cause. Cotton.
That fulness of grace which is communicated to his humane nature is wonderously beautiful, and so sets it forth as the black curled locks do a fresh and well favoured countenance, Hall.
His hair, first black as a Raven, then coloured and crisped; so far as he is, in the very least ornaments of nature, more then the sons of men. Finch.
Black horse]
;;Famine, dearth, which is full of sorrow, therefore resembled by a black colour, which is a sad and doleful colour, and well agreeth unto persons famished, whose bodies lacking juyce and bloud, are discoloured, and become blackish, Lam. 4. 7. Rev. 6. 5. Loe, a black horse.
This notes the estate of the Church now black, and in an afflicted condition by Hereticks, which had mingled the truth of pure white doctrine with black darkness of heresies and errours. Leighs Annot.
The colour black neither in its own nature, nor in the old Prophets use, is restrained only to famine, but serveth as well to express sadness, mourning, and terrour. Let therefore the matter of this Seal be, not famine or dearth of victuals, but the administration and severity of justice through the Roman Empire, more notable and glorious then in any past or following times. For as touching the figure, the … of the … doth agree to the severity of justice. That the … are a symbole of justice is ordinary; and at this day no man is ignorant, that justice is painted with a pair of …. Now it is wonderful to see, how the event favoureth the interpretation, while Severus, and Alexander ruled, being the most renowned riders of the black Horse, both which were makers of just laws, and careful to put them in execution. Mede.
Blacker then a coal]
Lam. 4. 8. Heb. darker then blackness. marg.
Blackish]
Job 6. 16. Somewhat black.
Blackness]
;;Afflictions, or Persecutions, which diminish the outward beauty and glory of the Church, Cant. 1. 4. I am black, O Daughters of Jerusalem.
It's also put for a dejected, mournful, and heavy countenance, Joel 1. 6. Nah. 2. 10. Job complaineth, that his skin was … upon him, Job 30. 30. And the Church, our skin was black like an oven, Lam. 5. 10. Whereby is noted, their poor and afflicted state, the grievous calamities which they sustained.
Blackness]
Joel 3. 6. Heb. Pot. Through horrour and hunger. ….
Blade]
Of a Dagger Judg. 3. 22. Of Seed, as Wheat, or Tares, Mat. 13. 26. Mar. 4. 28. Of the Shoulder. Job 31. 22.
…]
Exod. 9. 9. or boiling blisters, which the holy Ghost expresseth by an evil or malignant bile, (a noysom and grievous sore) Rev. 16. 2. Aynsw.
Now the sin of their souls brake out in the sores of their bodies, and on the Beasts for their sakes, where the … is not more miraculous, then the means used to produce it, which was by casting ashes of the fornace up towards heaven, which (though they produced such scalding or boyling blains, or blisters) were not hot, but such as Moses and … might hold in their hands. Annot.
Blame]
Gen. 43. 9. Let me bear the blame, or be a sinner, or sin; that is, be guilty as a violator of my faith, and subject to punishment according. See 1 King. 1. 21. Aynsw.
Without blame: Eph. 1. 4. Without blemish, or blameless, unreproveable; such in whom Momus himself (the word is foreign) could finde nothing whereat to carp. It's rendred in Col. 1. 22. unblameable. In Heb. 9. 14. without spot, (or fault, marg.) In Jude v. 24. faultless. In Rev. 14. 5. without fault.
To blame]
To reprove, 2 Cor. 6. 3. & …. 20.
Blameless]
Gen. 44. 10. Clear, innocent, and so without punishment. The Greek saith pure. Aynsw. Mat. 12. 5. foreign, guiltless, innocent, wtihout fault. Luk. 1. 6. foreign, one that is without complaint, on whom others do not complain, as he complaineth not of others, 1 Cor. 1. 8. foreign, such a one as no man can justly call into question, or taint with any infamy.
Blase abroad]
Mar. 1. 45. To divulge, publish, set, or spread abroad.
Blaspheme]
The word foreign thus rendred in Mat. 9. 3. & Mar. 3. 28, 29. In Mat. 27. 39. is translated revile; In Mar. 15. 29. …; In Rom. 3. 8. standerously to report; In Rom. 14. 6. speak evil of; In 1 Cor. 4. 13. defame.
It's commonly taken in the Scriptures for words, or speeches, with relation to God and holy things; as to utter any derogatory unholy speech against God, his Name, his Word, his Christ, his People, his Ministers, his ….
The Heb. foreign …, properly signifieth to strike, or pierce thorow, Isa. 36. 6. Hab. 3. 14. Figuratively it is used for blaspheming, Num. 23. 13, 25. which is a striking through with evill words. Leigh. Crit. Sac.
;;To …: To utter reproachful and railing words against God, as the Papists do sundry wayes:
;;1. They ascribe the plagues wherewith God plagueth them, to his unjustice, not to their own iniquities.
;;2. They rail upon the holy Gospel, and charge it to be the cause of all evils in the world.
;;3. It is an usual thing with Italians and Spaniards (the Popes creatures) in their rage and fury to utter blasphemous speeches against God, Rev. 16. 9. They boyled in great heat, and basphemed the Name of God. Again, Vers. 11.
Either he sheweth the cause why they blasphemed God, to wit, because he did inflict these plagues on them; or did not keep them off; or else, he sheweth their madness, that made their plagues greater, by resisting him that could have removed them, if they had submitted to him, and intreated his help. Isa. 8. 21. Blasphemed the God of Heaven, ver. 11. Spake ill of him, because they conceived their plagues came from thence; for they thought no humane power could have destroyed Rome. ….
Blasphemet]
1 Tim. 1. 13. A railer, or evil-speaker.
Blasphemy]
Provocation, 2 King. 19. 3. marg.
Blasphemous words]
Act. 6. 11. Such as deserved death.
Blasphemously]
Luk. 22. 65. After a scoffing manner.
Blasphemy]
;;An hurtful word, or any evill speech.
;;Albeit the word (Blaspheme) in the usual acception of the word with approved Greek Authors, do signifie any evill speech or calumniation, (as Beza notes) yet by a phrase peculiar unto sacred Writers, the penmen of the holy Ghost, it importeth alwayes an ungodly speech, which though it be uttered against men, yet reacheth and is carryed to the contumely of God himself, Rom. 14. 16. Matth. 9. 3. Tit. 3. 2. And it is twice used by Plato in his Ecclesiastical sense; first, in Alcibiade posteriore: secondly, … lib. de repub. secundo.
;;Every reproachful word tending to the hurt and disgrace of any other mans name and credit. Tit. 3. 2. Speak evil of no man. In the Original it is, Blaspheme no man. Likewise, in 1 Pet. 4. 4. Therefore speak they evill of you. This is blaspheming of men. Mar. 3. 2. And blasphemies wherewith they blaspheme.
It's also put for such injurious, slanderous, and opporbrious words as are uttered unto the reproach of God, Religion, Gods Word, Ordinances, Creatures, Works, Ministers, &c. As against God, Rev. 13. 6. his Name, Rom. 2. 24. his Word, Tit. 2. 5. Christ, Act. 26. 11. Us as Christians, Jam. 2. 7. Doctrine, 1 Tim. 6. 1. Rom. 3. 8. Christian liberty, Rom. 14. 16. … 1 Cor. 4. 13. Christians for abstaining from evil, 1 Pet. 4. 4. The holy Ghost, or his work, Mat. 12. 31.
A more ample description of the sin against the holy Ghost, for help of weak tempted Christians.
;;Blasphemy against the Spirit, it is sin not in deeds and actions, but in a reproachful word (Mat. 3. 30.) uttered not out of fear, nor other infirmity, as Peter did, and sick and frantick persons may do; but out of a malicious hateful heart, 1 Cor. 16. 22. & Heb. 10. 16, 36. Not by one that is ignorant of Christ, as Paul was being a blinde Pharisee; but by one enlightened through the holy Ghost with the knowledge of the Gospel, (Heb. 6. 4.) Not of rashness, but of set purpose, to despite Christ his known Doctrine and works, Heb. 10. 29. Being accompanyed with an universal defection or falling away from the … whole truth of God, Heb. 6. 6. Also with a general pollution and filthiness of life, Mat. 12. 45. 2 Pet. 2. 20. Finally, being unremissible, because such as commit this sin, cannot repent, Mat. 12. 32. Heb. 6. 6. How are the Papists out of the way touching this …, in that they will have this blaspemy to have six parts or signes? whereof the chief is final impenitency, which doth accompany every sin in the wicked. See their Note on Mat. 12. 45. yea, and teach that it may be forgiven.
;;Note: when the Scripture speaketh of this sin, that it is never sorgiven, and that it is impossible they should repent that commit it: the Papists write that it is hardly forgiven and repented of. A most absurd interpretation.
Names of Blasphemy]
;;Infinite blasphemies, and most plentiful reproaches, which in progress of time the Antichristian Kingdom did abound in, being full of all kind of impieties and injustices in the Pope their head, and in the whole body: in their Orders, Decrees, Doctrines, Worship, and Manners, nothing amongst them free from blasphemy. Rome (now especially since the Councel of Trent) being an heap of most execrable blasphemies, having many names, whereas at the first it had but a name of blaspemy born in the head only. Rev. 17. 3. Full of names of blasphemy. Who so considereth with how many horrible … (saith one) the three great Volumes of Bellarmine be stuffed, will say, There is not one leaf but is spotted with blasphemy.
… names that belong to God and Christ only, 2 Thess. 2. 4. and taking Gods power, or a greater, unto themselves: as the Pope and his adherents do at Rome, by dispensing with sins and Oaths. Now their blasphemies are legible, to be seen with the eye, as spots of a beast, and they are all over bespotted with them. ….
The City of Rome hath usurped proud, glorious, and blasphemous Antichristian titles, calling her self of old, Roma aeterna, foelix, …, &c. and her Empire Sacrosanctum, and …; and of new, St. Peters chair; the Apostolick … and head of the Church. Napier.
Blast]
put for fearfulness of heart, 2 King. 19. 7. The violent and sudden force of the wicked mighty ones, Isa. 25. 4. Gods power, storm or whirl-winde, Job 4. 9.
Blast: A sudden and secret judgement, Isa. 40. 7. Psal. 103. 16. Such is Gods great power, that by breathing on men he can doe more then many Armies, and needs no Armies to effect their destruction. Annot. on Joh. 4. 9.
To blast]
Gen. 21. 6. 2 King. 16. 26. burn, parch, make dry.
Blasting]
is a punishment for sin, threatned, Deut. 28. 22. happening upon the fruits of the earth, 2 King. 19. 26. and that by the east-wind, Gen. 41. 6. 23, 27.
Blasius]
A branch of a tree, or hearb, of foreign, for which is used foreign to branch out. Herod's Chamberlain, Acts 12. 20.
Bleating]
Judg. 5. 16. 1 Sam. 15. 14. The crying of the Sheep.
Blemish]
Spoken of an hurt, Lev. 24. 19, 20. by which cometh a blemish, a lameness, blindness, Deut. 15. 21. A spot, Numb. 19. 2. Ill-favouredness, Deut. 17. 1. Blor, Prov. 9. 7. are blemishes,
To bless]
;;To give thanks, or to praise God in a solemn manner, Mat. 26. 26. And when he had blessed, that is, when he had given thanks, as it is in Luk. 22. 19. 1 Cor. 11. 24. And in all places where the Saints are said to bless God, there it is meant of their thanksgiving, and speaking well of God.
;;We bless God when we praise him; God blesseth us, either when he sendeth good things unto us, or removeth evill things from us, or turneth all to our good: we bless one another by our mutual prayers, Ephes. 1. 3. Rom. 12. 14.
;;The Papists by blessing understand not a solemn blessing, by giving thanks to God, to the consecrating or preparing the creatures to an holy action; but an operative blessing of the bread, making it to be the body of Christ substantially and corporally. See the Annot. on Mat. 26. 26.
;;This word (bless or blessing) when it is spoken of God toward men, it signifies a plentiful bestowing of good things, earthly or heavenly, Gen. 24. 35. Deut. 28. 2, 3, 4. Psal. 31. 9. Ephes. 1. 3. Gal. 3. 8. But when it is spoken of men towards God, it betokeneth praise or thanksgiving by word or deed, Deut. 8. 10. Psal. 103. 1, 2. Luk. 1. 64. & 2. 28. And when it is spoken of men towards men, it signifieth sometime salvation, as Gen. 47. 7. 1 Sam. 13. 10. Sometime a gift or benevolence, as 1 Sam. 25. 27. 2 Cor. 9. 5. 2 King. 5. 15. Sometime a pronouncing (by way of prayer or prophesie) of good things in the name of God, as Gen. 14. 19, 20. Numb. 6. 23. In this signification the less is blessed of the greater, Heb. 7. 7. Heb. 11. 21. And note further, that the solemn blessing in Numb. 6. 23, 24, &c. did figure that blessing of Christ, and laying on of hands, whereof we read, Luk. 24. 50.
;;Gen. 12. 2. Gen. 22. 17. Heb. 6. 14. Where the promise of eternal life is meant, Psal. 54. 1. Gen. 24. 60.
;;2. To wish and pray for good things to others, Gen. 48. 20. Jacob blessed the Sons of Joseph. Such was the Priests blessing the people in the Law, and parents blessing their children, even their good prayers to God for their welfare: In Ministers with shewing forth Gods promises, …. 6. 22. Blessing put for saluting, Gen. 37. 7. Num. 6. 23, 24. for praying and for thanksgiving, Mat. 26. 26. Luk. 22. 19.
;;3. To increase that which is little, and to make it much, as when God is said to have blessed the widow of Sarepta, her oyl and meal in her cruse, 2 King. 17. 16. And when Christ blessed the five loaves and two fishes in the Gospel, this blessing was operative indeed, and wrought a sensible multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes; so was not there a sensible mutation of the Bread and Wine into the body and bloud of Christ, by that blessing, Mat. 26.
;;4. To give good things unto us, and to do us good in prospering our affairs and labors, Psal. 67. 1. God be merciful unto us, and bless us: & ver. 6. Prov. 10. 22. The blessing of the Lord maketh rich. Thus the word bless is taken in good part.
;;5. To flatter and please ones self, and to boast of his doings to others, Psal. 10. 2. The covetous blesseth himself. Here it is taken in evill part.
;;6. The contrary; namely, cursing: an Euphemismos, when unseemingly things are spoken in seemly words; Job 1. 5. Lest my … have blessed God, (so it is in the Original) that is, blasphemed. 1 King. 21. 10. He hath blest God and the King (so it is in the Original) for he hath blasphemed. Here also it is taken in ill part.
;;This is usual in other tongues, as in Greek, Euonima and Eumenides, good names for worse, as Furies, &c. old Latines for Nothing would say Well; Italians call loathsome diseases Gods disease.
;;7. To salute or wish health unto, Gen. 47. 7. 1 Sam. 13. 10. & 25. 19. In all which places the Original hath bless.
;;8. To endow and furnish one with an heroical and valiant spirit; also with extraordinary bodily strength, Judg. 13. 24. The childe (Samson) grew, and the Lord blessed him.
;;9. To do one good by filling them with earthly and spiritual gifts, as Abraham was, Gen. 12. 2. See Rom. 4. 11, 12. & Gen. 13. 2. & 14. 14. & 24. 35.
;;10. The work of God in regenerating or converting men from their natural and habitual corruptions, Act. 3. 26.;;
Or thus: To bless may be referred,
First, to God, with relation unto Man; and so it signifieth,
1. To make him blessed, happy, prosperous and fortunate, Gen. 12. 2.
2. To encrease, multiply, or make fruitful, Gen. 9. 1.
3. To reward or honour, Gen. 12. 3.
4. To prosper our affairs and labours, Psal. 67. 1.
5. To endue and furnish one with an heroical and valiant spirit, Judg. 13. 24.
6. To bestow the gifts and graces of his Spirit, Eph. 1. 3. So unto that solemn time of his worship, namely, the Seventh day, noting his sanctifying and ordaining the same to an holy use, Gen. 2. 3. So with relation unto the creatures, pointing out his care and providence for their preservation, Gen. 1. 22. & 8. 17.
Secondly, to Christ, as it respecteth God, noting,
1. His giving thanks, or praising God after a special manner, Mar. 6. 41.
2. His calling upon God his Father for his mercies … the behalf of others, Mar. 10. 16. As it respecteth man; his effectual and powerful working on men for their conversion, Act. 3. 26.
Thirdly, To Man, with relation first unto God, signifying,
1. To praise or give him thanks, 2 Cor. 1. …. 3.
2. To curse, 1 King. 21. 10, 13.
Secondly, to himself, signifying,
To flatter and please ones self, and to boast of his … to others, Psal. 10. 3. Deut. 29. 19. Also in good part, when he holdeth himself happy in the God of truth, Isa. 65. 16.
To others, signifying,
1. To … and pray for good things to others, Gen. 48. 20.
2. To salute, Gen. 47. 7.
3. By way of prayer or prophesie to pronounce good things in the name of the Lord, Numb. 6. 23, 24.
4. To consecrate, or prepare, 1 Cor. 10. 16.
5. To congratulate or praise, Gen. 14. 19.
Fourthly, to other Creatures, noting that thankfulness which they are to render unto God in their several kindes, Ps. 103. 20, 21, 22.
To bless abundantly]
;;To heap benefits upon one; or plentifully and effectually to give good things, Heb. 6. 14. I … … bless thee.
;;2. To with and pray (as a Priest of the high God) for good things to be given others, Heb. 7. 6. And blessed him who had the promises.
… and curse not]
;;Well wishing and speaking, Rom. 12. 14. … and curse not. The repetition of this precept, by the …, shews that this duty cannot be done … …; namely, to an enemy which shall curse us: and also that it ought to be done with constancy, not once o. …, or by fits, but alwayes as occasion is offered.
To … the … or Bread]
;;Thanksgiving to God for the gift of his Son, with a request to bless the creatures to such end as God ordained them.
To blesse the seventh day]
;;To sanctifie and ordain it to an holy use, even for divine worship, by mediation of his works and words, and by other godly exercises; also by … from servile and sinful works, Gen. 2. 3. God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it. The sacred rest of a seventh day, both in Old and New Testament, is of divine institution, Act. 1. 3. & 20. 7. 1 Cor, 16. 2. Rev. 1. 10. Else there were not ten but nine Commandements, if it were but a bare policy, or humane constitution, or Ecclesiastical tradition, as Rhemists say.
;;Because to Bless and sanctifie are several acts of God, as Gen. 2. 3. & Exod. 20. 11. and to sanctifie is in God to ordain and dedicate to an holy use, in man to use a thing according to Gods Ordinance; we may take Gods blessing of the seventh day to be a bestowing of honour or priviledge upon that day above other dayes as freed from ordinary works, and dedicated to his service, as also the promise of happiness to it, and all that shall rightly use it.;;
To bless …]
;;By faith to apply to themselves the blessedness promised by Christ to Isaac's seed, Gen. 22. 18. Gal. 3. 8, 16.
Blessed]
;;All them which be in the estate of an happy life, which consists in Gods love and favour. Some be such by nature, as Adam in Paradise had natural happiness: Some are blessed by grace, as all the godly, even here in this present life, Mat. 5. 2, 3, 4. Some are blessed by glory, as the glorified Saints in heaven, Rev. 14. 13.
;;2. It signifieth God; Mar. 14. 61. Mat. 26. 63.
They that are said to be blessed are,
1. God, 1 Tim. 1. 11.
2. Jesus Christ, 1 Tim. 6. 15. both as he is God, Rom. 9. 5. and as he is Man, Luk. 1. 42.
3. The godly, Gal. 3. 9. Even they, which put their trust in God, Psal. 2. 12. which make the Lord their trust, Psal. 40. 4. Fear the Lord, and walk in his wayes, Ps. 128. 1. Are chosen and called, Psal. 65. 4. Know Jesus Christ, …. 16. 17. Believe, Gal. 3. 9. Sorrow for sin, Luk. 6. 2. … the poverty of Spirit, Mat. …. 3. Hope in God, Psal. 146. 5. Delight in his Commandements, Psal. 112. 1. Are merciful, &c. Mat. 5. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8. Keep Gods Commandements, Psal. 119. 1, 2. Are charitable, Psal. 41. 1, 2. Are Peacemakers, Mat. 5. 9. Dwell in the Church, Psal. 84. 4. Are undefiled, Psal. 119. 1. Avoid the wicked, Psal. 1. …. Hear wisdom, Prov. 8. 34. Endure sufferings for Christ, Matth. 5. 10. and …, Jam. 1. 12. Have thir part in the first resurrection, Rev. 20. 6. Have the pardon of sins, Psal. 32. 1. Have the Lord for their God, Psal. 144. 15. Such are happy in their death, Rev. 14. 13. In their memory, Prov. 10. 7. At the last judgement, Mat. 25. 34.
4. The children of the just, Prov. 10. 7.
5. Such as have outward blessings, if they use them well, Psal. 144. 12, 15.
;;Blessed: Praise worthy and happy, Cant. 6. 9. The daughters … seen her, and counted her blessed.
… Deut. 4. 6. Ezek. 16. 14. Act. 5. 13. In outward and temporal respects, the Church is inferiour to others, but in … above them all, and to be esteemed and magnified for such for ever, that the hath the Lord for her God, Psal. 144. …. which should encourage all to seck her communion; and … those that do not seek and praise her, but rather out of envy or faction reproach the Church of God. ….
…: …. 7. 1. and blessed him. Numb. 6. 23. 1 Chr. 23. 13. not only by way of request, but with a solemn and Priestly blessing: and herein he was a type of Christ, in whom it was promised that all the Nations of the earth should be blessed, Gen. 22. 18. and who now sitting at the right hand of God, blesseth us with the blessings of this life, and the life to come. Annot.
To be blessed]
;;To be endowed in this life with spiritual and heavenly blessings, and after a short life led in the favour of God, stored with graces and comforts of the Spirit, to be at last lifted up into blisse and glory in the Kingdom of God, first in soul, afterward in body. This is the fruit which is promised them, who in all ages since Christ, read and keep, know and do, the words of this Revelation. See Rev. 1. 3. Blessed is … that readeth, and they which hear the words of this Prophesie. (Also chap. 19. 9. & 22. 19.) Away then with that dotage of the Jesuites, who strain this Prophesie, and the fruits of it, unto the three years next before the coming of Christ to judgement.
To be blessed fully, or to be henceforth blessed]
;;To be perfectly happy, when the souls of the faithful after Martyrdom constantly suffered, shall enter into that celestial glory, which they had long looked for, and greatly longed after. Rev. 14. 13. The dead which die in the Lord, are fully blessed. If it be translated [are blessed from henceforth] that is, presently, or forthwith; the Gr. … [foreign] will bear it well, and the truth also. What then becomes of Popish Purgatory, wherein souls departed are sore tormented with infernal pains (if we believe them) and do not rest from their labours.
Blessedness or …]
;;The happy condition of such as are in the favour of God, having their sins forgiven them by faith in Christ. Rom. 4. 6. Blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven.
;;2. The happy estate in which the Galatians once took and said themselves to be, by the coming and preaching of Paul the Apostle, Gal. 4. 15.
;;Blessed of the Lord, was a title of honour in those times used of many, Gen. 24. 31. & 26. 39. It noteth the fountain of blessings and eternal life in heaven, because it is the free benefit of God, it is therefore called blessing in the Psal. 24. 5.
In thy blessedness, Gen. 30. 13. marg. A blessed and happy one as I; meaning that her childe was born with her …, others counted her blessed. Herein Mr. Wilson followed the Genevah Translation.
Blessing]
;;Gods prospering of us, and of our affairs and labours, when all have good successe, and turn to our good. Psal. 3. 8. His blessing is upon … people.
;;2. All good things, be they spiritual or bodily, earthly or heavenly: they are in Scripture phrase called Gods blessings, even every good from God to Man. Ephes. 1. 4. Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Deut. 28. 2. All these blessings shall come upon thee, blessed shalt thou be in thy cattle, &c.
;;3. A gift from man to man. Gen. 33. 11. I pray thee take my blessing.
It is also taken for almes or benevolence, 2 Cor. 9. 5. Gods favour, Psal. 3. 8. Such particular blessings wherewith the Priests were blessed, Mar. 2. 2. Subjection, Isa. 36. 16. Prayers for our enemies, or good words, 1 Pet. 1. 9. A prophetical speech, Gen. 49. 28. That which from God maketh prosperous and fruitful, Deut. 33. 23. Well wishing, Psal. 109. 17. Good successe, Prov. 11. 26. Praise, Neh. 9. 5. Praying for a blessing, Job 29. 13. The thing promised of God, Psal. 24. 5.
Blessing: 2 Sam. 25. 27. Present, marg.
Blessing]
;;The inheritance or possession of such blessings and promises as were made to Abraham and Isaac, Heb. 12. 17. Though he sought it (the blessing) carefully with tears.
Blessing: Rev. 5. 12, 13. or, Praise, as in the Genevah Translation.
A blessing]
;;Also a gift, or a bounteous liberality, Gen. 33. 1. 1 Sam. 25. & 27. & 30. 26.
Blessing of Abraham]
;;The redemption from the curse of the Law by forgiveness of sins, and receiving the promise of the Spirit (or the adoption of children and sanctification) through faith in Christ, Gen. 28. 4. Gal. 3. 13, 14. 9. 29. Rom. 4. 7, 8, 13. And as Jacob is made heir of this …, so all true Christians be, 1 Pet. 3. 9.
To be a blessing]
;;The certainty of Gods blessing of …, that he should surely be blessed and prosper.
;;2. The excellency and … of the blessing in that it is said (not) thou shalt be blessed, (but) a ….
;;3. A publick form and example of blessing, as to say, God blesse thee as … was blessed.
;;4. To be the means and instuument of blessing to …, to whom Gods gifts should come by him, Gen. 12. 2.
Cup of blessing]
;;Cup of Thanksgiving, which we take with giving of thanks to God for the gift of his Son, 1 Cor. 10. 19.
;; … on Mat. 15. Sect. 3.
Spiritual blessings]
;;Such gifts as come from the Spirit of God, and do belong not to this earthly, but to our … celestial life, Eph. 1. 3.
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;;Such as by birth or … lack their natural sight.
;;2. Such as be ignorant, and lack knowledge, which is the eye of the minde. Rom. 2. 20. A guide to the …. Mat 15. 14, The blinde shall lead the blinde. 2 Pet. 1. 9. One which … earthly thing, which be near him, but not heavenly, which are out of this world, and far off.
There are blinde,
1. Corporally, in visible things. By Birth, Joh. 9. 1, 2, 32. Age, Gen. 48. 10. Gods hand, Gen. 19. 11. Man, 2 King. 25. 7.
2. …, in matters of things here below: Willingly, by a gift, Deut. 16. 19. Unwillingly, by anothers misleading, Deut. 27. 18.
3. …, in heavenly matters tending to salvation, Psal. 146. 8. and that, by corruption of nature, Act. 26. 18. The devil, 2 Cor. 4. 4. Spiritual darkness, 1 Joh. 2. 11. Selfconceit, Rev. 3. 17. Lack of spiritual gifts and graces, 2 Pet. 1. 9. Ignorance and wilful carelesness, as wicked Ministers, Isa. 42. 19. & 50. 10. A spiritual plague from God, Joh. 12. 40. A veil not taken away, 2 Cor. 3. 14, 15. This last is applyed to ignorant Ministers, Isa. 50. 10. Deceitful Teachers, Mat. 23. 16. ignorant people, Rom. 2. 19. All that know not the Gospel, 2 Cor. 4. 4. All that live in hatred, 1 Joh. 2. 11. The self conceited, Rev. 3. 17. Idols, 2 Sam. 5. 6, 8. This spiritual blindness consists in the want of knowledge, or ignorance in the matters of salvation, either in whole, as in the unregenerate, Eph. 4. 18. or in part, as in the regenerate, 1 Cor. 13. 12.
Blinde: Jer. 52. 11. To put … the eyes, marg. To hide, 1 Sam. 12. marg. To harden, Rom. 11. 7. marg.
To make blinds]
;;To keep men from seeing the truth, when the light of it is set before them. Psal. 69. 23. Let their eyes be blinded.
;;2. To increase ignorance for the abuse of former knowledge, as happened to them spoken of, 2 Thess. 2. 11. & Isa. 6. 10.
To blind fold]
Luk. 22. 64. The word foreign, is rendred in Mar. 14. 65. to cover, and in Heb. 9. 4. to overlay.
Blindness]
;;Want of knowledge or ignorance in matters of salvation, either in whole, as in all natural men; Ephes. 4. 18. Through … that is in them: or in part, as in men regenerate, who do see and know but in part. 1 Cor. 13. 12. … know in part, we see in a glasse.
Blindeness: Hardness, Rom. 11. 25. Ephes. 4. 18. marg.
Blood]
;;Death or slaughter, Psal. 51. 14. Deliver me from blood. Mat. 27. 24. I am … of the blood of this …. Gen. 4. 10. Will I require his blood.
;;2. Revenge or punishment due for the shedding of blood. Mat. 27. 25. His bloud be upon us and upon our children.
;;Bloods in the plural …, sig. slaughter with cruelties, as Gen. 4. 10. Psal. 5. 7. & 52. 6. Isa. 26. 54. Blood and fierce slaughter.
;;3. Cruelty. Hab. 2. 12. Wo unto him that buildeth a City with bloud. Isa. 1. 15. Your hands are full of bloud. It signifies oppression of poor, Isa. 4. 4. & 1. 15.
;;4. The … man. Jos. 20. 5. If the avenger of blood pursue after him.
;;5. The price of bloud. Act. 1. 13. The field of bloud, that is, … with the price of bloud.
;;6. Cause of their own destruction. Act. 18, 6. Your bloud be upon your … heads, Act. 20. 26.
;;7. The … beginnings of our birth and conception. Joh. 1. 23. Not of blood, Ezek. 16. 6. In the place of Joh. 1. 13. it is (bloods) in the plural number; and besides the beginning of our conception, which is unclean, it reacheth further, and importeth the order of nature, or natural generation, together with the force of stock and kindred, wherein the Jewes gloried much: especially, in their long continued succession, that they could fetch their pedegree from the Patriarchs, Mat. 3. Unto which John had respect, when he saith, We are not born Gods children of bloods: as by the will of flesh and of man, he understandeth whatsoever in nature is most strong and excellent, most desired or desireable, it no whit confers or helps to new birth; be it …, beauty, riches, prudence, moral virtures, good inclinations or good nature (as we speak) or power of will, our regeneration is not from them in whole or in part, but from God alone, causing it (by his Spirit) according to his good pleasure.
;;Note further, that when blood is used in the plural number, it usually noteth murther or slaughter with the guilt following, Gen. 4. 11. 1 Chr. 22. 8. Psal. 9. 13. & 106. 38. & 61. 16. Sometime it signifieth natural uncleanness, as we are born in sin deserving death, Ezek. 16. 6, 9. as …. 1. 13.
;;8. The first man, of whom all men came as of the first stock. Act. 17. 26. God hath made of … blood all mankinde.
;;9. The juice of the Grape. Gen. 49. 11. And his cloak in the bloud of grapes.
;;10. The blood of Christ shed for the salvation of man, and for a satisfaction to God for man, Ephes. 1. 7. 1 Joh. 5. 6.
;;11. Also that precious humour which maintains mans life.
;;12. The life of man which is preserved by blood.
It's also put for the whole man, Gal. 1. 16. Man in his natural or unregenerate condition, 1 Cor. 15. 50. Natural blood in the body, Gen. 94. or out of the body. 2 Sam 10. 12. whether by violence, Exod. 22. 3. or infirmity, Mat. 9. 20. Miraculous blood, Exod. 7. 17. The wine in the Cup, Mat. 26. 28. The true spiritual drink, whereby the soul of the true Believer is really nourished to eternal life, Joh. 6. 55.
Blood: Bloods, Gen. 4. 10. marg. Quietness, or likeness, Ezek. 19. 10. marg.
Blood]
;;Cruel slaughter and death, which should happen by the plague of war upon the Antichristian Armies or Souldiers which fight for the Pope, as a just and meet recompence of that cruel slaughtering and shedding the blood of Gods children. Rev. 16. 4. The Rivers and … of water became bloud. These Rivers und Fountains some expound of the Jesuites; whence other Papists draw instructions (as the Sea is nourished by fountains and rivers:) the turning of these into blood, is the putting of those to death, which were chief Masters in Popery; which was done in this our Kingdom and Dominion, 1581. when an act was made to make their coming into the Realm (to disswade Subjects from their Allegiance) to be Treason.
Blood: Not only in regard that their waters themselves are blood, the doctrine and worship which they do hold forth to the people are corrupt as their Sea is, (like the plagues in Egypt, … their waters and rivers were turned to blood) but chiefly in regard of the punishment which they inflict on them for so doing, which is a bloody death. Leigh. Annot.
From this Phyal the state of the Beast was to come to that passe, that the Ministers and defenders thereof, now changing course, should be compelled to undergo the same slaughterr wherewith they had been accustomed to … the Saints and Prophets of God, while their Government flourished, as it is plainly set forth, vers. 5, 6. Mede.
Napier understandeth hereby Mahomets bloody heresies, whereby the Easterly Countries became altogether corrupt; Gods justice and just judgement appearing herein, for that men had then contemned the true doctrin, and shed the blood of Gods servants.
This doctrine is justl y called bloody, for that Mahomet preached and proclaimed war against all them that did receive it, and promised the Kingdom of heaven to them that fight valiantly for it.
Blood of Abel]
;;The death and slaughter of Abel, Heb. 12. 2, 4. Then that blood of Abel.
See Ahel.
Blood of …]
;;Buls and Goats, offered in … … the feast of expiation, Heb. 10. 4. That the blood of Buls and … shall put away ….
Blood of …]
;;The death and whole sufferings of Christ, one part of his sufferings being put for all. Eph. 1. 7. By whom we have … through his bloud. And often in the Epistle to the Romans and the Hebrews, and throughout Paul's Epistles, is the bloud of Christ (one part of his sufferings) put Synechdochically for the whole sufferings visible and invisible. Therefore it is absurd to stick to the Letter, concluding from thence that Christs … visible sufferings were sufficient. For from the Letter … Scripture, it will follow, that if this bloudshedding was enough, therefore his flesh might be spared, and all the pains felt therein; also his soul, with the heavine s and sorrow thereof, whereof there was as great need as of the rest. For Christ suffered nothing in vain, and our soul having sinned, yea, and that principally, it was therefore to be redeemed with no less then our bodies, even by the proper soul-sufferings of Christ, else the accessary had been more hardly handled then the principal.
;;Because the bloody sacrifice of the Jews figured Christ his death; hence so much mention of blood in the New Testament.
Blood of the Covenant]
;;The blood of Beasts sacrificed under the Law as a signe and pledge of the old Covenant, which was administred in figures, prefiguring or being a type of the blood of Christ, wherewith the new Covenant is ratified. Exod. 24. 8. Then Moses said, … the blood of the Covenant.
;;2. The blood of Christ, by which God the Father had agreed and promised to save us; and for which we promise ever to serve him, Heb. 10. 29. as Heb. 8. 10. & 10. 16.
Blood of a dead man]
;;The cruel wars which God would send upon the Popish Kingdoms, which should be as a Sea of blood, wherein men should dye by the sword, as the fishes dyed in Egypt, when the waters were turned into bloud. Rev. 16. 3. The Sea became as the blood of a dead man.
The Sea in the Antichristian world is the whole compass of the Papal Society, wherewith not only several Christians, but whole Nations, Peoples, Kingdoms, Provinces, Diocesses, otherwise among themselves disjoyned and severed, are gathered together in one: Or thus, The Antichristian Sea is the compass of the Popes jurisdiction or Dominion compassing and involving (as the Sea doth the Land) men and Nations worshiping Christ. The second Phyal being poured out upon this Sea, pesently it became as the bloud of a dead body, or cold congealed blood. Such as the blood is wont to be of those that are dead and slain, or of a member cut off, while it is destitute of the influence of spirit and heat, all commerce with the fountain of life being dissolved. The sense is, The Pontificial Sea was destroyed, as it were, with death, beheading, or slaughter. This was fulfilled, when by the labour of Luther and other famous Reformers of the Church of that Age, God wonderfully blessing their undertakings, not now some single persons only of the common people of Christendom, but even whole Provinces, Diocesses, Kingdoms, Nations, and Cities, … communion with those of the Beast, and there being made a great dismembering of the …, which was so large in time past, they departed from the body of the Beast. By which event, the Sea of the Popes Dominion became dead, for a great part of it like the blood of a dead body; in which the Popes creatures could no longer breathe and live. Mede.
The Sea became as the blood of a dead man, that is, this Religion of theirs is convinced and discovered to be such as holds … a dead Christ, and dead Ordinances to any spiritual life. Leighs Annot.
As the putrified blood of a dead carcass, which is so loathsome, that no man can drink it, or as if it were made all over red with the blood of many men slain. Annot.
To drink blood]
;;To take in blood as men take in other drink, as Cyrus did by the compulsion of Tomyris.
;;2. To have their own blood abundantly shed, till they swim in it, and to drink (as it were) their own blood. A fit punishment for Popish and all other cruel persecutors, that they should one … another, till they be bathed in their own bloods: as it happened to the … in the Judges; and to Papists also as stories witness. Rev. 16. 6. Thou hast given them blood to drink. This phrase seemeth to be … from Ezek. 16. 38. I will give thee the blood of wrath; that is, I will cause thee to be cruelly slain, as they which are killed in fury and wrath.
They were adjudged to death as they had judged others. So the laws are against Priests in England; and they have for their ill lives been put to death by the Secular power, in some Popish Countries. Annot.
Blood of Jesus]
;;His blood shed and poured out to death, and his whole sufferings by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole. Heb. 10. 19. … the blood of Jesus we may be bold to enter.
Heb. 12. 4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, that is, Though ye have suffered much, chap. 10. 32. &c. yet ye have not resisted unto death, as your Captain did. Or, it may be the Apostle herein alludes to those Heathenish conflicts and combates which seldom were determined without blood, or wherein it was a shame to yeeld until bloud was drawn. Annot.
Blood of the Lamb]
;;The Sacrifice of Christ his death, together with his perfect justice and holiness imputed: Rev. 7. 14. They washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, Rev. 12. 11. The Saints overcame the Dragon and his Army, not by their constancy to death, but by their faith in the blood and death of the Lamb Christ Jesus, 1 Joh. 5. 1, 5.
To betray innocent blood]
;;To deliver by Treason an innocent person unto death, Mat. 27. 4. Betraying the innocent blood.
A man of blood]
;;One defiled with much blood and many slaughters, or given thereto, as 2 Sam. 16. 7. Ps. 26. 9. & 55. 24. & 59. 3. & 139. 19.
To … unto blood]
;;Unto the suffering of death and Martyrdom, to strive against the sinners and persecutors, as Christ himself did. Heb. 12. 4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
To shed the blood of the Saints]
;;To exercise cruelty upon the Saints and Prophets of God, even to death; yea, and to torment also, many times by the Antichristian, …, or other Tyrants, to satisfie their own fierce and bloody disposition, and malice, conceived against them for Christ and his Gospels sake. Rev. 16. 6. For they shed the blood of the Saints and the Prophets, Rev. 6. 10.
To sprinkle blood]
;;To give force and power to the blood of Christ from his Godhead, for purging of sins, Levit. 1. 5, 11, 15. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Acts 20. 28. 2 Cor. 5. 19.
Blood of Sprinkling]
;;That bloud of Jesus shed in his cruel death, wherewith the hearts of the faithful being spinkled and … through faith, their sins are washed away, that they may be accepted of God, Heb. 12. 24. And to the blood of sprinkling.
Blood of the …]
;;(It is a Covenant in the last Translation) The death and blood-shed of Christ joyned with his Fathers curse, whereby the Testament or Covenant of Salvation was ratified, Heb. 10. 29. And count the blood of the Testament. Heb. 9. 10.
Bloud and water]
Joh. 19. 34. There were Hereticks of the first ages, which affirmed Christ to have Suffered death only in appearance; but the coming out of this blood and water, upon the piercing of his side, confuteth them; for there being a capsula on the left side of the heart, called the pericardium, which hath water in it of continual use, for the cooling of the heart, the coming out of the water with the blood here, was a testimony of the wounding his very heart, the entring of that iron, the Spear, into his soul, and so an evidence and demonstration of his being truly dead. The water also was the embleme of all spotless purity, and the blood was the evidence of his fortitude and constant patience, laying down his life for the truth of God; both serving against those two baits or temptations, whereof the Gnosticks made use to seduce the orthodox Christians, namely the allurements of carnal pleasures, and terrors from apprehension of persecutions; Christs purity represented by the water, serving against the former; as his patience, represented by the blood, against the other. Dr. Ham. Annot. e.
Without blood]
;;Without shedding of blood, Heb. 9. 18, 22. Without bloud.
Blood-…]
Psal. 51. 14. Heb. bloods, that is, from the guilt of my murther in shedding the blood of …; as the Chaldee saith, for the judgement of murder, or from any native corruption. Aynsw.
Blood-thirsty]
Proverb. 29. 10. Heb. men of blood. marg.
Bloody]
Spoken by Zipporah to Moses out of indignation, Exod. 4. 25. A Husband, or Bridegroom of bloods, that is, a bloody Bridegroom or Husband. As a man of bloods, 2 Sam. 16. 7. is a cruel bloody man. Some think the childe is thus called, because in the day of the Circumcision, it is as espoused to God by the seal of the Covenants The Chaldee Translateth it, for the blood of my circumcisionlet my Husband be given me. Aynsw.
Some say that in the use of Circumcision these words were solemnly …, Thou art a spouse of bloods unto me. Annot.
Thus Shimei called David unjustly and maliciously, 2 Sam. 16. 7, 8. Thus is the House of Saul termed, because of the blood of the … which he shed. 2 Sam. 21. 1.
Bloody crimes: Ezek, 7. 23. that is, sins that deserve death. Annot.
Bloody City, Ezek. 22. 2. Heb. City of bloods. So the bloody man, Psal. 5. 6. the man of bloods, marg.
In Act. 28. 8. there's mention of a disease, termed the Bloody flix.
Bloom]
To bud forth, sprout, or spread out, Numb. 17. 8.
Blossome]
As properly it's put for budding forth, spronting, or branching out, Hab. 3. 17. So is it figuratively for the encrease and prospering of Gods people, Isa. 27. 6.
To blossom]
To branch out, bud, bear flowers, flourish, Numb. 17. 5. Which is applyed to the increase and prospering of Gods people, Isa. 27. 6. & 35. 1, 2.
The rod hath blossomed, Ezek. 7. 10. A proverbial kinde of speech, to signifie that the peoples sins were sprung up to ripeness, and maturity, to the filling up of the measure heapful, which draweth Gods judgements upon them, Gen. 15. 16. Annot.
Blossome]
Glory, pomp, prosperity, Isa. 5. 24.
Blot]
If any blot hath cleaved to my hands, Joh 31. 7. Any thing belonging to another man, taken unjustly from him. Any thing which is none of mine, but unlawfully gotten. Annot.
Getteth himself a blot, Prov. 9. 7. For the wicked will condemn the Reprover, and labour to defame him, Mar. 7. 6. Annot.
Blot out]
put for, Not to be counted in the number of those in Gods decree to be saved, Exod. 32. 32. Make to be forgotten, Deut. 9. 14. Utterly to destroy, Deut. 25. 19. To pardon fully and wholly, Psal. 51. 9. Jer. 18. 23.
To blow out]
Spoken of that which is written, Numb. 5. 23. a name, Deut. 9. 14. the memory, or remembrance of a thing, Deut. 25. 19. Iniquity, Psal. 51. 9.
Blow]
Psal. 39. 10. Conflict, marg. The striking or buffeting. Aynsw.
Stroke or wonnd, Jer. 10. 19. & 14. 7. Annot.
To blow]
Spoken of the Wind, Exod. 15. 10. Trumpeters, Josh. 6. 4. Bellowes, Ezek. 22. 20. Spirit, Joh. 3. 8.
To blow]
;;To breath or inspire the heart with graces, as the holy Spirit useth to do by the Ministery of the Word, which is here threarned to be for a time removed and hindred, Rev. 7. 1. That the windes should not blow.
To restrain the winds, that is, the tempests of wars and calamities, out of what quarter of the world soever they should proceed. Mede.
The four Angels holding the four winds, that they should not blow, are taken by some to be bad Angels, which restrained the gentle winds of Gods Word and Spirit from refreshing his Servants, an allusion to Cant. 4. 16. Joh. 3. 8. Act. 2. 2, 3. Others understand them of good Angels, appointed by God, either to hold back, or let loose the winds of wars and troubles, that from all parts of the world might fall in upon the Roman Empire. Annot.
To blow upon]
;;To scatter and drive away by a violent winde. Hag. 1. 9. I did blow upon it: or, hereby is understood Gods destroying power, as in Cant. 4. 16. Divine inspiration.
Blow upon my Garden, Cant. 4. 16. Hereby is signified the ministration of Christs Word and Spirit, bestowed on his people for their further good. They have not only the waters of holy Scripture, but the lively graces also of Gods Spirit to quicken them, see Ezek. 37. 6. And the efficacy of the Spirit of God is resembled by the winde, Joh. 3. 8. and doctrines are windes, Ephes. 4. 14. and the restraint of Gods graces by wholesome doctrine is signified by four Angels holding the four windes of the earth, that the winde should not blow on the earth, nor on the Sea, … on any tree, Rev. 7. 1. Aynsw.
O all ye soveraign winds of the Spirit of God, breath upon this Garden of my soul, that the sweet odours of these my plants, may both be encreased, and may also be dispersed afar, and carryed into the nostrils of my well-beloved. Hall.
There be dangerous winds which we ought to pray against, Ephes. 4. 14. but every breath that cometh from heaven is salubrious, and our souls are bound up as with frost and barrenness, till those powerful incomes, and breathings open them, and make them spread and dilate themselves: like chased flowers or oyntments, which if you rub them, afford stronger fragrancies and profusions. ….
Christ never denyeth his Spirit to those that ask it with a true faith, but is ready to grant the desire of his servants to make them fruitful and abundant in every good grace. Finch.
Blue]
Est. 1. 6. or Violet, marg.
Blueness]
Prov. 20. 30. Some be of that nature that without perpetual basting and stripes, they will not be good, or do their duty. Annot.
Blunt]
Spoken of an iron tool, Eccl. 10. 10.
Blush]
To be ashamed, Ezra 9. 6. But the obstinate and wicked are impudent and shameless, Jer. 6. 15. & 8. 12.