A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part CO · Entry 113 – Entry 155
Compassion]
;;Suffering together, when two or three feel the same grief; and properly, it is that motherly compassion, pittisulness, feeling, and grieving for the misery of her childe, Isa. 49. 15. This is natural compassion.
;;2. (Being reserred to God) The merciful nature of God, infinitely inclined to pity and succour the miseries of his creature, namely, of his elect. Psal. 103. 13. The Lord hath … on them that fear him. 2 Cor. 1. 4. God of all compassions. This is divine compassion.
;;3. (Being referred to Men) The natural pity or fellowfeeling which Christians have of each others misery, as if they suffered together. Luk. 10. 33. … he … him he had compassion on him. Heb. 13. 2. Remember them that are in bonds, as if your selves were in bonds. This is Christian compassion.
As the Lord is full of compassion, Psal. 86. 15. and it's according to the multitude of his mercies, Lam. 3, 22. absolute and free, Rom. 9. 15. So it's diversly made known; as by multiplying a Nation, Deut. 13. 17. By reducing a people from banishment, Deut. 30. 3. By giving them favour in the eyes of them that led rhem away captive, 1 King. 8. 50. By delivering them from their enemies, 2 King. 13. 23. By sending his Messengers or Ministers unto them, 2 Chr. 36. 15. By forgiving their iniquities, Psal. 78. 38. So Christ did sympathize with others in their misery, Mat. 9. 36. & 14. 14. Mark 1. 41. & 5. 19. & 9. 22, 25. Heb. 5. 2. So the primitive Christians did, Heb. 10. 34. All should, 1 Pet. 3. 8.
Compassion]
Heb. 5. 2. Have compassion, or reasonably bear with, marg.
Compassion]
;;A disposition or affection prone to pity others, so much as need is, Heb. 5. 2. which is able sufficiently to have compassion.
To compel]
;;To enforce or offer bodily violence. Luk. 14. 23. Compel them to come in. 2 Chr. 21. 11.
;;2. With vehement and earnest perswasions to overcome one. Luk. 24. 29. They compelled him, saying. 1 Sam. 28. 23.
;;3. By ones example, credit, and … to draw others to do as he doth. Gal. 2. 14. Why … thou the Gentiles?
;;4. By pretext of publick authority and power to drive and constrain some to do somewhat which is not equall and reasonable. Mat. 5. 41. If any compel thee to go a …, &c. Of the original word Angereuo came the Latine word Angari, who among the Persians (as Erasmus and … …) were such as Posts be here in England, saving that the Persian Angari were not limited to stages and stations as ours be; also they might take either men, or ships, or horses for dispatch of publick businesse, to bear burdens or to run in hast about errands and …. These under colour of their office, and in the name of the Prince, would wrong and vex men; …, by a Synecdoche, any unjust vexation by shew of authority, is here meant.
5. Through necessity to thrust one upon a business, Lev. 25. 39. 2 Cor. 12. 11.
6. To strive by all means to draw one unto God, Luk. 14. 23.
To complain]
Taken for,
1. To murmur or grudge, Numb. 11. 1. Jude 16.
2. To make known ones grief; Judg. 21. 22.
3. To lament or make moan because of sin, Lam. 3. 39. This is at some time very great, Job 23. 1. Psal. 55. 2. Psal. 102. 1. & 142. 2. at some time forged, Act. 25. 7.
Complain: Job 31. 38. Heb. weep, marg.
Complained]
Numb. 11. 1. or were as it were complaining, marg.
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Jude v. 16. Out of discontent and envy, not content with their own condition, and finding fault with other mens, Mat. 20. 12. 1 Cor. 10. 10. Jam. 5. 9. Annot.
Complaint]
1 Sam. 1. 16. or Meditation, marg. The declaration of ones miseries, Job 21. 4. & 23. 2. marg. A crimination or inditement, Act. 25. 7. Annot.
Compleat]
;;Full, whole, or perfect. Ephes. 6. 11. Put on the compleat or whole armor, &c.
Composition]
Exod. 30. 32, 37. Making, doing, or mingling, according to the due weight, measure, form, disposition. See foreign in ….
Compound]
Exod. 30. 33. To make, temper, or mix, after the manner of Apothecaries, foreign.
To comprehend]
;;To reach unto a thing, to lay hold on it, to perceive or acknowledge. Joh. 1. 5, 10. They comprehended it not. Phil: 3. 12. That I may comprehend that, &c.
2. To contain or hold all, Isa. 40. 8. This is the primary signification.
3. To be concluded, fulfilled, contained, Rom. 13. 9.
To be conprehended of Christ]
;;To be laid hold on by Christ, shewing us the way to heaven, and giving strength to walk in it. Phil. 3. 12. I am comprehended of Christ.
Conaniah]
;;A Levite. See Cononiah.
Conceal]
To keep hid, not to utter, divulge, or make known, Deut. 13. 8. Spoken of God. Prov. 25. 2. Of a prudent man, Prov. 12. 23.
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To be … in a mans own conceit, is to think too high of himself, to exalt and prefer himself above others, prohibited, Rom. 12. 16. Dangerous, Prov. 26. 5, 12, 16. & 28. 11.
Prov. 26. 5. In his own conceit, Heb. in his own eyes, marg.
Conceive]
Be capable to have, or have children, Numb. 5. 28. Devise or resolve, Jer. 49. 30. Applyed to mischief, Job 15. 35. Isa. 59. 4. To chaffe, Isa. 33. 11. Spoken of women, Gen. 4. 1. & 25. 21. 1 Sam. 1. 20. Cattel, Gen. 31. 10. A virgin, Isa. 7. 14. Lust, Jam. 1. 15. So, there's both a natural, a supernatural, and a sinful conception.
Conceive: Psal. 51. 5. Heb. warm, marg. Contrive, Isa. 59. 13. Annot.
;;To conceive: To beget or become mother of children, as the Church is spiritually, Cant. 3. 4.
Conceived in sin]
;;That his sin (to wit, original sin) was conceived and born with him, Psal. 52. 7. Eph. 2. 3.
Conception]
Gen. 3. 16. This word is used for the whole space that the childe is in the Mothers body untill the birth, and so here implyeth all the gifts and cumberances which women do indure that time. The Greek translateth it …. Aynsw.
Concern]
To belong to, Ezek. 12. 10. Act. 28. 31. 2 Cor. 11. 30.
Concerning]
For, of, as for, touching, &c. Gen. 19. 21. and 24. 9. and 42. 21. or Against, Jer. 49. 1. marg.
Concision]
;;Those false Teachers (whom he called Dogs for barking against the truth of the Gospel) to be of the circumcised Jews, boasting of circumcision and the law, made a concision, or a rent and schism, cutting themselves and others from the Church, whilest they ascribed salvation unto circumcision and works of Moses law. Phil. 3. 2. Be ware of Dogs, beware of concision. Paul writeth thus by an elegant allusion unto circumcision.
Conciude]
Taken for,
1. To determine and resolve, Act. 21. 25.
2. To infer, hold for certain, or be undoubtedly perswaded of, Rom. 3. 28.
3. To finish or end, Eccl. 12. 13.
4. To enclose or shut up together, Gal. 3. 22.
Conclusion]
The end, summe, and substance, …. 12. 18.
Concord]
;;Agreement of heart and affections, when being many we have one heart and the same love. 2 Cor. 6. 17. … concord, &c. 1 Cor. 1. 10.
It's to be in an house, Prov. 17. 1. Among Brethren, Psal. 133. 1. In politick affaires, 2 Sam. 19. 14. Isa. 11. 13. Act. 12. 20. In ecclesiastical, Josh. 22. 12. Ezra 3. 1. Act. 15. 25. In religious duties, Deut. 31. 12. Neh. 8. 1. Act. 1. 14. In charitablenesse, Act. 4. …. In a spiritual condition, Isa. 11. 6, 7, 8. & 65. 25. Jer. 32. 39. Yea, there is concord even in evil, Act. 18. 12. & 19. 29. Rev. 17. 13.
Concourse]
A multitude, assembly, or throng of people, Prov. 1. 21. A seditious or factious assembling of people. Act. 19. 40.
Concubines]
;;Women which were as it were Halfwives, as the Hebrew word signifies, 1 King. 11. 3. And three hundred Concubines.
;;Note: The Hebrew Pilegesh, in Greek Pellakis, Pellex in Latine, signifieth a Concubine, which is an Half-wife; she was a Wife for the bed, and therein differing from a whore; but not for honour and govemment of the family, as Solomons Wives were Princesses, but his Concubines not so, 1 King. 11. 3. Also, children of Concubines had ordinarily no inheritance, but gifts of their father, as Gen. 25. 5, 6. Such were Agar, Keturab, Bilhath, Zilphah, and others. And were employed to servile works, 2 Sam. 15. 16.
Concubines]
;;Women, which Princes and great per sons were wont of old to keep, together with their Wives, which were Queens, Cant. 6. 9. Even the Queens and the ….
Under the names of Daughters, and Queens and Concubines, the conversion, adoption and benediction of all the reduced Nations is comprehended, who are foretold to admire and confess the glories of the Church, Deut. 4. 6. to account her happy and renowned, Ezek. 16. 14. and so indeed they did, Act. 5. 13. as Moses did Israel, Deut. 33. 29. Annot.
Concupiscence]
;;The pravity and naughtiness of our nature, lusting after things forbidden of God. Jam. 1. 14. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence. This is our original Concupiscence, which is the fountain and root of all wicked lusts and desires, and of all sins whatsoever, being it felf also a sin properly even after Baptism, in the regenerate; contrary to the Papists, who deny this. See Rom. 7. 7. Also, Rom. 7. 14, 15, 16, 17, &c.
;;2. Evill desires and motions, springing from the root of this natural concupiscence, whether they be consented to or not. Rom. 7. 8. Wrought in all manner of concupiscence. This is Actual concupiscence, which is either unvoluntary, as the first motions before consent of will; or voluntary, when consent of will cometh to the motion. Both the one and the other, be properly sin, because they be the transgression of the Law, hindering that perfect love of God and of our Neighbor, commanded in the Law, and drawing us to things contrary to the Law, Rom. 7. 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, &c.
To condemn the world]
;;By his deed and example, in building the Ark at Gods commandement, to convict other wicked men which swarm in the world, of infidelity, Heb. 11. By which he condemned the world.
Condemnation, or condemning]
;;The pronouncing of the sentence of punishment upon any malefactor by some Judge. Joh. 8. 10. Hath no man condemned thee? This may be done either justly or unjustly, Prov. 17. 15.
;;Note: Christ being no civil judge would not condemn the woman (taken in adultery) to civill punishment. But if she had been for her adultery condemned, he would not have acquitted her, because therein he should have been contrary to his Father, and others by impunity of the offendour might have been drawn to like lewdness.
;;2. A pronouncing of sinners guilty, and adjudging them to punishment upon the conviction of a fault. Rom. 8. 34. God justifieth, who shall condemn? Rom. 8. 1. There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ; that is, they are freed from the damnatory sentence of the Law, pronouncing a curse to every sin: Also the cause and matter of damnation, Joh. 3. 19.
;;3. The punishment it self, whereunto one is adjudged and condemned. 1 Cor. 11. 32. Because we should not be condemned with the world.
;;4. The abolishing a thing, and utterly taking it away, as if it were not. Rom. 8. 3. Condemned sin in the flesh. 1 Pet. 4. 6.
;;5. Pronouncing of a sentence or censure, uncharitably, or rashly, of other mens persons and doings. Luk. 6. 37. Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, Rom. 14. 4.
;;6. The convicting or reproof of ones wickedness and fault, by the good example of another, or by words. Thus the Ninevites shall condemn the obstinate Jews, Mat. 12. 41, 42. Rom. 2. 27. Shall condemn thee, &c. Thus Paul condemned not Peters person eternally, but his sinfull fact in dissembling, Gal. 2. 11.
Referred to God, it … his abhorring, disliking and punishing the wicked, 1 King. 8. 32. Prov. 12. 2.
To Christ, his taking away and abolishing of sin by his death, Rom. 8. 3.
To Men signifying also, To testifie or bear witness against, Mat. 12. 41. Convince, Job 9. 20. Judge, Luke 6. 37.
To a mans self, by judging another, Rom. 2. 1.
To our own hearts, 1 Joh. 3. 21.
Note: That in all civill Courts, there were alwayes present,
1. The supreme Judge, whose leave was craved for the tryall of actions.
2. The witnesses who were at least two, Deut. 19. 15, 19.
3. The Notaries, whereof the one stood on the right hand, to write the sentence of absolution, and what was spoken in defence of the party; the other on the left hand, to the contrary end.
4. The Officers, who carryed up and down their staves and whips, to execute what the Judges determined.
5. The Pleader stood on the right hand, whether he pleaded for or against the party, Psal. 119. 31. Zech. 3. 1. Hereunto allusion is made, 1 Joh. 2. 1.
The mannner of sentencing persons varyed in most Countreys.
The Jews by a simple pronunciation of Sentence, (as, Thou N. art just, Thou N. art guilty) both absolved and condemned them.
The Romans gave sentence by casting in tables into a certain box or urn prepared for the purpose: If they absolved any, they wrote the letter A. in the table, it being the first letter of Absolvo; if they condemned any, the letter C. the first of Condemno.
Among the Grecians, Condemnation was signified by giving a black stone; Absolution, by giving a white stone. To this last, there seemeth to be an allusion, Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh I will give a white stone; that is, I will absolve and acquit him in the day of Judgement. See Goodwyn's Moses and Aaron, lib. 5. p. 231.
Condemnation: 1 Cor. 11. 34. Jam. 3. 1. or Judgement, marg.
Great condemnation]
;;More severe punishment to belong to severe arrogant censurers of others mens faults, neglecting their own. Jam. 3. 1. We shall receive greater condemnation. Mark here, that there is difference of punishments, as there is an inequality of faults.
;;2. Whereas he takes himself into the number of proud reprehenders, (Wee) It is first to shew, that he would not set a Law to others, to which he would not binde himself: And secondly, because no man is wholly free from this disease of judging others: unto whose arrogancy the Apostle in verse 13. opposeth meekness of wisdome.
Condemned]
2 Chr. 36. 3. Heb. mulcted, marg. Amos 2. 8. or, such as have fined, or mulcted, marg.
Condescend]
Rom. 12. 16. To be contented with, or being carried with. Annot.
Submitting your selves, foreign, consenting, applying your selves, cleaving unto, making your selves equal. The word properly signifieth to be carryed away together. Leigh Crit. Sac.
Condition]
Ground, tearms, 1 Sam. 11. 2. Luk. 14. 32.
Conduct]
To lead or convey, 2 Sam 19. 15, 40. To place one who hath escaped danger in safety, Act. 17. 15. To accompany one, bring him on his way or journey, 1 Cor. 16. 11.
Conduit]
Isa. 7. 3. The word in the Hebrew signifies a going up, or ascent; and it is used sometime for a Trench made to receive water, 1 King. 18. 32, 35. Sometime for a Watercourse, Ezek. 31. 4. And it is here taken not for a Conduit (such as ours are) to receive water derived from the Pool, (though some so expound it) but for that Passage by which the water was from the Spring-head conveyed unto the Pool. As the word of ascending is used oft for to passe, Numb. 19. 26, 27. 1 Sam. 6. 20. Annot.
Confection]
Exod. 30. 35. See Composition.
Confectionaries]
1 Sam. 8. 13. Such as make sweet oyles.
Confederacy]
;;A league or agreement between persons or people at peace together, Obad. 7. Taken in good part, Gen. 14. 13. Isa. 7. 2. In ill, Psal. 83. 5. Act. 23. 21.
;;It is either of peace for traffique sake, or of amity; also, for mutual offence and defence: the former may be made even with Infidels, and those of a contrary Religion, as between … and Abimelech, between Israelites and …: the latter may not be contracted, but with Christian Princes. Obad. 7. The men of thy Confederacy, Isa. 8. 18.
Confederate]
With, Isa. 7. 2. Heb. resteth on, marg. Entred into a league and confederacy, relyeth upon for assistance, or is set down with, hath joyned his camp with. Annot.
Conference]
Gal. 2. 6. In conference added nothing to me; that is, he had so full a measure of divine revelation, that when they came to talk together of the points of Christian Religion, they could tell him nothing which he knew not before. Leighs Annot.
Conferre]
To consult, Gal. 1. 16. To commune, talk, or speak one with another, Act. 4. 15.
Conferred with Joab, 1 King. 1. 7. Heb. his words were with …, marg.