A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part AG
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Agabus]
A locust, grasse-hopper, or lobster. Also, the pleasantness or ioyfulness of the Father; or, from the Syriack, foreign A Commissary, or one who is in office. A Prophet, Act. 11. 28.
Agag]
A garret, or upper room. The King of Amalek, 1 …. 15. 8.
Agagite]
Est. 3. 1, 10. One that came of Agag.
Again]
;;1. As before; to wit, when by the preaching of the Law the Spirit wrought servile fear in your hearts, Rom. 8. 15. To fear again, Heb. 6. 6. that is, the second time, or any more.
;;2. Backward; whereas ye ought to have held on forward unto the mark of perfection, ye have stept back from … to Judaism, Gal. 4. 9. How turn ye again to impotent …? This cannot be meant in the former signification (but by an hard … ) because the Galatians had been converted from Paganism, not from Jewish Pharisaism.
Again: Double, 2 Sam. 20. 10. marg. About, 1 Chron. 13. 3. marg. From above, Joh. 3. 3, 7. marg. Now, 2 Cor. 3. 1. Often, 1 Thess. 2. 18.
Against]
It's put for, Toward, Act. 8. 26. Before, Numb. 25. 4. With, Gen. 14. 2. Contrarily, Gal. 2. 7. Over against, Act. 20. 15. Adversary, Mat. 12. 30.
Against: Before, Deut. 31. 21. marg. Concerning, Isa. 23. 11. marg. Over, Matth. 10. 1. marg. Within, Luke 7. 30. marg. Upon, 1 Pet. 3. 12. marg. With, 1 Chr. 12. 21. marg.
Against Christ]
;;Haters of Christ, and open blasphemers. Mat. 12. 30. He that is not with me, is against me.
;;This place and that in St. Luk. 9. 50. He that is not against us is with us, seem to be contradictory, but yet considered in the same matters, they are propositions convertible. The Pharisees were not with Christ in affection, but yet in company they were; the other spoken of Luk. 9. 49, 50. was not with Christ in fellowship or company, but yet he was in affection.
;;Or in the first place, and in Luk. 11. 23. we must understand,
;;1. A positiveness of power in the person to do good.
;;2. A privation or negation in doing of it.
;;(i). He that …, and will not, or doth not do me good, is against me.
;;In the other place, Luk. 9. 50. we must understand,
;;2. A position or affirmation of power in the person to be against Christ.
;;2. A negation or privation of abusing that power.
;;(i.) He that can be, and yet is not against me, he is with me.
;;They were not against Christ, which did think reverendly of him, and make open profession of him; but such as reproached him, his doctrine and works, are here said to be against him. As appeareth by comparing together the 30, 31, & 32. verses of the 12. Chap. of St. Matthew.
Against thee]
;;Thee only being privy and conscious; or offended and scandalized. Mat. 18. 15. If thy Brother trespass against thee.
Agat]
Mount Sinai, in Arabia, Gal. 4. 25.
Agat]
A precious stone, whereby the wearer shunneth dangers, hath his strength encreased, and becometh eloquent. Exod. 28. 19.
Age]
It's put for time, Job 8. 8. Time apt for conception, Heb. 11. 11. Time of life or dayes, Psal. 39. 5. Years, Josh. 22. Oldness, Gen. 48. 10.
Age: Hoariness, 1 King. 14. 4. marg. Multitude of dayes, Zech. 8. 4. marg. Stricken in age, Heb. come into dayes, Josh. 13. 1. marg.
… age]
;;One capable of more perfect Doctrine; or a man whose senses are exercised in the Word, Heb. 5. 14. Strong meat belongs to them who are of age. When she was past age, Heb. 11. 11. Gr. beyond the fit time of age, she being ninety years old before she conceived, Gen. 17. 17. Annot. She was now by the course of nature past conceiving of seed; for a Woman as Pliny observeth, for the most part, is past child-bearing at fifty. Jones.
Aged]
Such as are full of dayes, Jer. 6. 11. Their duty, Tit. 2. 2, 3.
Agee]
A valley, or deepness. The Father of Shammah, 2 Sam. 23. 11.
Ages]
;;signifie,
;;1. Times which are, or have been, or be to come, succeeding times, Eph. 3. 5. & 2. 7.
;;2. Men which live in those times, Luk. 1. 48. All ages shall call me blessed.
Agoe]
1 Sam. 9. 20. Mat. 11. 21. Ere this.
Agone]
1 Sam. 30. 13. Since.
A gony]
;;1. Any fight, conflict, wrestling, or strife.
;;2. The deep soul-sorrow, and extream anguish of Christ, wrestling, and striving not only with the terrour of death, but with the infinite justice and wrath of God, highly displeased with our sins. Luk. 22. 44. And he was in an agony, &c. If any think this agony did arise meerly from a fear of natural death in Christ, they think too unworthily of Christ his excellent fortitude, of his Fathers infinite justice, of mans most horrible and execrable sins.
Agree]
Rev. 17. 17. And to agree, &c. or, to do with one consent; or, to act that one sentence, vers. 13. that is, to submit themselves to the Popes tyranny no longer then sor a time set by God. Annot.
Agree with thine Adversary, Mat. 5. 25. Consent, or think the same things, bear him good will, compound, see thou come to an agreement, be desirous of his friendship, accord, make a full agreement, atonement, be friends. Leigh Crit. Sac.
To be of one minde, harmoniously consenting together, as voices or instruments in musick, Mat. 18. 19. To bargain with, Mat. 20. 2, 13. To be like, Mar. 14. 70. To conspire, resolve, determine, Joh. 9. 22. To approve, or give consent unto, Act. 5. 40.
Agreement]
;;See Communion, One, Unity, Indifferent, Consent, Like-minded.
Agreement, in punishing sin, Judg. 20. 1. Exalting and setting up a good King, 2 Sam. 5. 1. Helping the distressed, 1 Sam. 11. 7. Setting up the place of Gods worship, Ezr. 3. 1. The exercises of Religion, Neh. 8. 1. The open profession and performance of the duties of Christianity, Act. 2. 46. & 4. 32.
Agreement: Rights, Dan. 11. 6. marg.
Agrippa]
The surname of Herod, who beheaded James, and imprisoned Peter, Act. 12. 1.
So called from the painful travail of his Mother in childe-birth, for that not his head, but his feet came first out; as if he should have been named Aegrippa.
Aground]
Act. 27. 41. On the ground.
Ague]
I'l appoint the burning Ague, Lev. 26. 16. or Feaver. The Greek here translateth it the Jaundise, but better in Deut. 28. 22. the feaver, or ague, which hath the name originally of burning. This disease Christ cured on such as were ready to die therewith, Luk. 4. 38, 39. Joh. 4. 47, 52. Aynsworth.
The Original word signifieth the disease (which Latine Authours call the Kingsevil) that is called the Jaundise, which ariseth from a distempered head, and turneth the colour of the eyes. Annot.
Agur]
A stranger; or gathering, or gathered together. The Son of Jakeh, Prov. 30. 1.