A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part DY
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To dye]
;;To give up the ghost, Gen. 5. 20. And he dyed.
;;2. To be continually in the danger of death. 1 Cor. 15. 31. I dye daily.
;;3. To become guilty or worthy of death. Also to be in fear and danger continually of dying, when the Judge shall call for him. Also to begin to dye and become subject to mortality or death. So Adam dyed as soon as he had tasted the forbidden fruit, Gen. 2. 17. the messengers of death beginning then to seise on him.;;
To dye the death]
;;Certainty of dying. Gen. 2. 17. Thou shalt die the death. Doubling of the verb noteth certainty, speediness, and fearfulness of death. See the like, Gen. 2. 16. & 3. 16. and often elsewhere; an …, Gen. 11. 3.
To dye the death of the righteous]
;;To have a death like to the death of the righteous; or to have an end like unto his. Numb. 23. 10. That I might dye the death of the righteous, and my end be like his.
To dye for the Lord]
;;To give our lives for the testimony of Jesus, as Martyrs do, Act. 21. 13. I am ready to dye for the name of the Lord Jesus. Thus dyed James, Act. 12. 2. and Antipas, Rev. 2. 13.
To dye in Adam]
;;To be subject to death, by the guilt of Adams disobedience. 1 Cor. 15. 22. In Adam all dye.
To dye in the Lord]
;;To yeeld up our spirits in the faith of Christ, under hope of Salvation by him, with repentance for all our sins. Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are they which dye in the Lord. This is to fall asleep in Christ, 1 Thess. 4. 13.
To dye in the Lord]
;;Either to suffer death, as the Martyrs do, for the Lords cause in defence of his truth, against Antichrist; or to fall asleep in Christ, dying in his faith, as all the Saints do. Rev. 14. 13. The dead which dye in the Lord, are blessed ….
To dye to the Lord]
;;signifieth these four things;
;;1. To acknowledge, that as we have life by his giving, so death cometh by his sending.
;;2. With cheerful patience to submit our selves to all diseases, and to death it self.
;;3. As in our life, so in our death, to desire that God may be glorified of us, being very careful that nothing be spoken or done to dishonour him.
;;4. To give up our ghost in good confidence that Christ will save our souls presently at their dissolution, and raise up our bodies to life at the last day.
;;Note: That living to the Lord and dying to the Lord, are joyned together; such life, such death.
To dye to our selves]
;;In our death to be forsaken, without any to care for us, or to respect us. Rom. 14. 7. None of us die to our selves. Thus ungodly men die, who as they acknowledged not, nor trusted in any God whiles they lived, so they have no God to look to them to save them in their death, when they perish as forsaken bond-men. But thus the godly do not die: for the Lord whose they are, and whom they faithfully served in their life, doth preserve them safe both in their life and death, also will raise them from death to life.
To dye in sin]
;;To perish by impenitency, or to go into everlasting death through continuance in sin. Joh. 8. 24. Ye shall die in your sins. Thus shall all they dye, which believe not in the only begotten Son of God.
To dye to sin]
;;To break the force of sin, and every day to weaken it something. Rom. 6. 2. How can they which are dead to sin live therein? Thus the … die even while they live.
Dying]
;;The miserable estate and condition in which the faithful, but especially the Ministers of the Word be in this life. 2 Cor. 4. 10. We … about in our bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus
See Death. To die.
Dying]
Numb. 17. 13. Giving up the ghost. Aynsworth.
As dying]
2 Cor. 6. 9. Namely, according to the judgement of men accounted for dead. D. Annot.
The dying of the Lord Iesus]
Or, …; that is, in our sufferings we represent the death and passion of Jesus Christ. Annot.
Or, Killing; that is, danger of death for Christs sake; or persecutions and distresses even unto death for Christs sake, and after the example of Christ, and which Christ also accounts to befall himself. Act. 9. 4. D. Trans. and Annot.