A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part FR
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Fragments]
Mat. 14. 20. or broken meat, as the word is rendred, Mat. 15. 37.
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Psal. 39. 4. or soon-ceasing, temporary, brittle, and short-lived. The Chald. expoundeth it, When I shall cease out of the world, or how defective I am. So the Greek saith, What I lack, to wit, of the end of my dayes, which is the term and period of my life. Aynsw.
To frame]
To be able, Judg. 12. 6. To make, Isa. 29. 16. To devise, invent, Jer. 18. 11. To give, Hos. 5. 4. mar. To forge, Psal. 50. 19. & 94. 20. To joyn together, Eph. 2. 21.
Frame is also spoken of mans work which he formeth, Rom. 9. 20. and of the matter and form of our nature and condition, Psal. 103. 14.
Frame of the beart]
;;The inward secret thoughts, inclinations, and purposes of the soul; as it is expounded by Moses himself, Gen. 6. 5. The whole srame; that is, the thoughts of mans heart are evill continually. According to the translation of Tremelius it should thus be read: Not passively, for that frame of the heart framed of God; but actively, for that which the heart of man frameth to it …, and imagineth.
Frankincense]
A precious and odorifereus gum, issuing from a tree in Arabia (Isa 60. 6. Jer. 6. 20.) of a tender bark, like unto the laurel in leaves and bark, growing on high hils, Cant. 4. 6. and delighting in a fertile soyl. The gum which of it owne accord issueth therefrom in the begining of the Summer is white and good, but that which issueth therefrom in the Harvest, by cuting the bark, is red and …. That is best, which being chewed, melteth not, nor sticketh to the teeth, but being put in the fire, straightway burneth and smoaketh; whieh the rozen which is like unto it, doth not, but melteth upon the fire, nor giveth a good smell. The gum issuing from a young tree is white, but from an old more efficacious and odoriferous. The Arabians place Religion about it, none being permitted to make an incision in the tree, but their Priests, and they kept from women. And it being brought in at one gate into the City, must at the same be caried out, and not sold to Marchants til tythed by their Priests, and that not by weight, but measure. It was used for the … of garments, 3. 6, and appointed for the worship of God, Lev. 5. 11. Numb. 5. 15. which was laid up in a cartaine chamber, Neh. 13. 5. Overseers being … to look to it, 1 Cor. 9. 29. It was offered in gift unto Christ, Matt. 2. 11. It was abused by Idolaters, and is used in mysticall …, Rev. 18. 13.
Frankincense]
Persumed with … and …, Cant. 3. 6. Hereby are figured the spiritual Sacrifices, and incense of our souls, which kindled and moved, and ratified by the fire of Gods Spirit, and laid upon Christ our Altar, ascends and sumes up (like the rowlings, and agglomerations of smoak) to the Court of the Lord, and are more sweet and welcome, then those costly evaporations of myrrhe and incense and all powders of the Merchant. Annot.
Frankly]
Freely, Luk. 7. 42.
Fraud]
Psal. 10. 7. Deceit and sraud, or impostures and inward guile; that is, outward deceitful shews and promiles, and privy guile, lurking in the heart. …. Jam. 5. 4. Kept back by fraud, or being by you … away. The Original foreign is rendred by defraud, Mar. 10. 19. & 1 Cor. 6. 8. & 7. 5. and destitute, 1 Tim. 6. 5.
Fray]
To fright, put in fear, distrub, chase away, Deut. 28. 26. Jer. 7. 33. Zech. 1. 21.
Freckled spot]
Lev. 13. 39. or …-morphew; in Heb. …, a word not used but in this one place, and it hath the signification of clearness or whiteness; and is, not a Leprosie, but a foregoer of it, and neer thereunto Aynsw.
Free]
;;Such as be bond-men but are exempt from the yoak of slavery, 1 Cor. 7. 22.
;;2. Believers, whom Christ hath set free, and delivered from the curse and rigour of the Law, and not onelyonly from the yoak of Legall Ceremonies; but also from the tyranny of sin by his death and Spirit, so as they are no more under the bondage of sin (though sin be still in them) nor need fear the condemnation due to it: also they serve God with a free ingenuous spirit, as children their father Rom. 7. 6. He that is dead is free from …. Rom. 7. 6. Free from sin; that is, from the dominion of sin. vers. 14. Rom. 8. 2. Free from sin and death; that is, from the condemntion due to it, as vers. 1. Ps. 51. 11. Joh. 8. 38. This freedome is wholly of grace, not at all of nature; See Will. And it is wrought by Christ as author: and by the Gospel as instrument, Jer. 8. 36. & 32.
;;Beleevers are free, and not free; therefore they cry both … shall free me from sin, Rom. 7. 24. and also they triumphantly say, Christ hath freed me from the Law of sin, Rom. 8. 2. They are freed wholly from the guilt and punishment of sin, but from corruption of sin they are freed in part only, so far as that it do not reign over them.
Taken also for,
1. A free man, Exod. 21, 2.
2. To be freed or preserved from, Numb. 5. 19.
3. Exempted from paying taxes or tribute, 1 Sam. 17. 25. Mat. 17. 26.
4. Liberal, 2 Chr. 29. 31.
5. Exempt from the yoak of slavery, or subjection, Job 3. 19.
6. Making free, freeing, or freely given, Psalm 51. 12.
Free]
Applyed to, and spoken of, Born, Act. 22. 28. The called in the Lord, 1 Cor. 7. 22. The Ceremonial Law, Gal. 5. 1. Children, Mat. 17. 26. Gift, Rom. 5. 15, 16, 18. Heart, 2 Chr. 29. 31. Jerusalem, which is above, Gal. 4. 26. The Law of sin and death, Rom. 8. 2. A new man married, Deut. 24. 5. The oppressed, Isa. 58. 6. Righteousness, Rom. 6. 20. Servants, Exod. 21. 2. Deut. 15. 13. Sin, Rom. 6 22. Singers, 1 Chr. 9. 33. Spirit, Psal. 51. 12. A widow, Rom. 7. 3. A woman having a jealous Husband, Num. 5. 19, 28. The Word, 2 Thess. 3. 1. Hereunto are annexed the words Man, (whereby may be understood, both one in respect of his outward condition at liberty; Rev. 6. 15. and one redeemed from the thraldom of Satan, and servitude of sin, Gr. made free, 1 Cor. 7. 22. marg.) Offering, which Aynsworth rendreth by willing, Exod. 36. 3. Will, (Ezr. 7. 13.) Of their own free will, voluntarily, free-will offering, and free-will offerings, (Lev. 22. 18. 21. or voluntary,) Aynsw. Woman, Gal. 4. 22. By which Sarah is meant.
Free among the dead]
;;One separate from the living, left for dead. Psal. 88. 5. Free among the dead, like to the slain which lay in the grave.
To have free course and be glorified]
;;signifieth the free preaching of the Gospel without any interruption, and effectually to work in the hearts of men true godliness, whereby the Word is made glorious, and the believers of it also, partly in this life, and perfectly in the world to come, 2 Thess. 3. 1.
Free from all men]
;;One that is not beholden unto other men to live at their cost, 1 Cor. 9. 19. Though I be free from all men.
Freed]
Josh. 9. 23. There shall none of you be freed, Heb. not to be cut off from you, marg. Rom. 6. 7. Gr. justified, marg.
Freedom]
Levit. 19. 20. By a Bill of Dismission. Aynsw. Act. 22. 28. The freedome of the City of Rome. Annot.
Freely]
Gen. 2. 16. Thou mayest freely eat, Heb. eating thou mayest eat. The doubling of words is often used in Scripture for more earnestness and assurance; and in things to come, to signifie speedy performance, Gen 41. 32. Aynsw. Numb. 11. 5. For nought. Idem. 1 Sam. 14. 30. Of their own accord, without restraint, Ezra 2. 68. & 7. 15. Liberally, of a willing minde, Psal. 54. 6. With voluntariness, or in freeness. Aynsw.
Hos. 14. 4. I will love them freely. Singularly, with an abundant and constant love, freely without finding any cause in them for it. Annot. Act. 2. 29. Boldly, confidently.
Freely]
;;By the meer mercy of God, without any of our merit, and desert of our endevour, and working at all. Rev. 21. 6. It shall be given him of the well of life freely.
Freely give]
;;That is, absolutely, without respect of reward in the giver to receive it, or of merit in the receiver to give or shew it. Matt. 10. 8. This is to be understood of dona in susa onelyonly, or gifts of God that are miraculous, as to Heal, &c. But it is not to be extended to dona acquisita, or works of our owne labour in getting them, or using them; as the knowledge of Preaching is not had, nor the act of it used, without great study, labour, and cost. This as it is not given freely, so without recompence it may not be justly used, and therefore doth Christ well adde vers. 10. Dignus est operarius mercede sua.;;
Freely justified]
;;signifieth, not without our Saviours suffering and satisfying to God for our sins, but without our owne, Rom. 3. 24. Which place doth not exclude preparatory and instrumentall causes of Justification or Salvation, as repentance, regeneration, hearing, beleeving, &c. Nor the other duties of thankfulnesse, Luk. 13. 35. Matt. 5. 20. Mar. 1. 15. Rom. 5. 1. But onelyonly the meritorious cause thereof, which is onelyonly Christs death, or passion for us.;;
;;2. The Godly … freely and willingly their duties.;;
;;3. God doth freely bestow those graces on us, by which we are enabled to do that which is our duty.;;
Freeman]
1 Cor. 7. 22. Gr. made free. Annot. See …. …. 4. 22.
The Lords freeman]
;;A true Christian, who though he be bound and servant unto man, is yet set free by the Lord Jesus, from the servitude of Satan and Sin, 1 Cor. 7. 22.
Frequent]
2 Cor. 11. 23. foreign, oftentimes, many times.
Of their own freewill]
Ezr. 7. 13. is willing. D. Transl.
Fresh]
Job 29. 20. Heb. new, Jam. 3. 12. Sweet, as the word foreign is rendred, Rev. 10. 9. It's spoken of glory, Job 29. 20. oyl, Numb. 11. 8. & Psal. 92. 10. Water, Jam. 3. 12. His … shall be fresher … a childes, Job 33. 25. Full, solt and tender, full of moysture, like a childe. ….
Fret]
is all one with grieve, chafe, vex, make angry, sad, 1 Sam. 3. 6. Psal. 37. 1. Isa. 8. 21.
Fret]
Lev. 13. 51. Fretting or rankling. This word is not used, but in this case of …, and in Ezek. 28. 24. where it is applyed to a prickling or ranckling briar. The …. translateth it, a … leprosie; the Chald. a diminishing, because that which fretteth, both continueth long, and wasteth the thing wherein it is. Aynsw.
Friend]
;;One whom we do entirely love above others, and use more familiarly and privately then we do others, as David did Jonathan. Prov. 18. 24. A friend is nearer then a brother.
;;2. One to whom God imparteth his minde and secrets, so familiarly and fully as one friend doth to another. Gen. 17. Shall I hide this thing from Abraham? Hence it is that James 2. 29. called … the Friend of God: also the Apostles are called Christs friends, Joh. 15. 15. You I have called Friends, because what I heard of my Father, I have made known to you. Whereas Jesus, Mat. 22. 12. called him Friend who had not on a wedding garment: also in Matt. 26. 50. doth so tearm Judas the Traitor; we are to take it for a word of ordinary salutation, howsoever it may and is of some judged to be spoken by an Ironie or Antiphrasis, meaning the contrary to that which the word soundeth; or that he is called so, because he appeareth to others (to be Christs Friend) or was so taken and accounted of himselfe (though falsly, being an Hypocrite:) Howbeit being spoken in the … of … who made the feast, the best way is to take it for an usuall compellation, and that Christ following the like courteous fashion of appellation, and friendly greeting, did so salute Judas, which yet left a sting behind it in his Conscience, who knew himself to be nothing lesse then that which he was called.
Put also for a most holy man, 2 Cor. 10. 7. Countrey men, Act. 27. 3. A loving neighbour, Luk. 11. 5. Such as in common account are so, Mar. 5. 19. A term of ordinary and usuall compellation, whether a friend or foe, Mat. 20. 13. & 22. 12. & 26. 50. The Hebrew foreign a friend, cometh of foreign to feed, and implyeth familiarity, society, and fidelity, Exod. 33. 11. 2 Sam. 16. 17. Prov. 17. 17. Joh. 19. 12. Thou art not … friend; not faithfull, not a wellwisher to him, not one that endevoureth for his quiet and sasety.
Of friends there be divers kindes.
1. God hath friends, those are the faithfull, Jam. 2. 23.
2. Christ, Joh. 15. 14.
3. The world, Jam 4. 4.
4. The wicked, Est. 5. 10.
5. The Children of God, 3 Joh. 14. But often their friends become their soes, Job 6. 27. Psal. 41. 9. Lam. 1. 2.
Friendly]
Judg. 19. 3. Heb. to her heart, marg. So Ruth 2. 13. marg.
Friends]
;;All that bear good will to Christ, and to the prosperity of his people, whether they be Angels or men, Cant. 5. 1. Eat, O friends, &c.
Friendship is the sweetness, intimateness, and strength of love. All the degrees and kindes of friendship meet in Christ towards his Spouse, it is the friendship of a husband, of a brother, and if there be any relation in the world wherein friendship is, all is too little to expresse the love of Christ. In friendship there is mutual consent, an union of judgement and affections, a mutual sympathy in the good and ill one of another, as if there were one soul in two bodies. There is liberty which is the life of friendship, a free intercourse between friends, a free opening of secrets. There is mutual solace and comfort one in another. There is also a mutual honour and respect one of another, all which may be found in the mutual friendship between Christ and his Church, only in this last there is some difference; for though Christ cals us friends, and therein in some sort brings himself down to us, yet we must remember that it is a friendship of unequals. Christs honouring of us, is his putting honour upon us, our honoring of him, is the giving him the honour due to his Name. He that inspireth friendship into others, will undoubtedly keep the laws of friendship himself, will count our enemies, his enemies; And as his friendship is sweet, so is it constant in all conditions. If we be not ashamed of him, he will never be ashamed of us. ….
Friends]
Job 19. 19. My inward friends, Heb. the men of my secret, marg. Prov. 14. 20. The rich hath many friends, Heb. many are the lovers of the rich, marg. Mark. 3. 31. His friends or kinsmen, marg.
Friendship]
Prov. 22. 24. Make no friendship with an angry man. Chuse not him for thy friend that is not able to rule his affections. Annot.
Friendship of the world]
;;The love and unmeasurable … of carnal and worldly things. Jam. 4. 4. The friendship or the amity of the world is enmity with God.
Fringe]
Numb. 15. 38. The fringe and ribbond on the border of the garment, were helps to memory; so that when men looked on them, they might be admonished of their duty towards God, which being upon the borders of their garment, or upon the four quarters, they could not which way soever they went in company, but be in the view of those that met or followed one another. It is thought our … wore such, which was touched by the Woman, who by a touch was cured of her disease, Luk. 8. 44. Annot.
A fringe is in Heb. call Tsitsith, or Zizith, which in Ezek. 8. 3. is used for a lock of hair of the head, and is here appyed to a fringe, the threads whereof hang down as locks of hair. And the Hebrew Doctors call it also Gnanaph, that is, a …, because it hangeth as branches or twigs of a tree. The word … used for fringes, in Deut. 22. 12. were the thrums of the … which was …; and Tsitsith the fringe here spoken of, … threads tyed to the thrums with knots. Aynsw.
Fro]
Gen. 8. 7. To and …, Heb. going forth and returning, not into the Ark, but fluttering about it, and resting on the top of it. Annot. 2 King. 4. 35. Heb. Once …, and once thither. Annot. Job 7. 4. From one side of the bed to the other. Annot. This is joyned with Driven, Job 13. 25. Going, Job 1. 7. Ezek. 27. 19. Reel, Psal. 107. 27. Removing, Isa. 49. 21. Run, 2 Chr. 16. 9. Isa. 33. 4. Jer. 5. 1. & 49. 3. Dan. 12. 4. Amos 8. 12. Zech. 4. 10. Toffed, Prov. 21. 6. Eph. 4. 14. Walk, …. 1. 10, 11. & 6. 7.
Frog]
It's bred of putrid clayie water, liveth for the most part in the waters, abound more in moist yeers then in dry; do alwayes make a croaking noyse but especially when they couple together; are forerunners of the Spring. At the sight of a burning light they are said to be silent. By their croaking they foreshew rain or change of weather. Some people feed of them. The young ones kill and devour the old ones. Their sound … not from their breast, is conceived onelyonly in their mouth. By them God plagued the Aegyptians, Exod. 8. 6. They delight in pools, ponds, and slashes of water, and feed on mud. It liveth both in water and on the land. They are enemies to Bees, whose stings they feel not. They have shining eyes, especially by night, and fly away by leaping. They nourish not their young ones, as other creatures doe, whilest they perceive no body, they make a great noyse, but upon the view of any leave off. By the three frogs which came out of the mouth of the Dragon, the Popes Emissaries may be understood whom he sendeth forth to seduce the world, Rev. 16. 13.
Three unclean spirits like frogs, Rev. 16. 13. unclean persons and making a great noise to draw men to fight for Antichrist, though Rome be down. They should be either … Jesuites, or some stirring Sect worse then the Jesuites, arising after Romes, and before Antichrists fall. Annot.
Jesuites are Frogs;
1. Unclean.
2. Make a noise in the dark.
3. They arise out of putrefaction, and live of it.
4. Are animalia amphibia, one while in the earth, another while in the water; so they seem Lay-men and Priests.
5. As Pharoahs frogs they go into the Kings bedchamber.
These Frogs by the common consent of Catholick Expositors are the rabble of Popith …, Priests, and Jesuites, or, Card nals, Bishops and Jesuites. Leighs Annot.
From]
Est. 1. 19. Heb. from before, marg. Rom. 6. 20. Gr. to, marg.
From good to bad]
;;signifies either good or bad, Gen. 32. 24. … is to be understood respectively to this end for which Labaa pursued him, as to carry Jacob back again into his …: so in Psal. 29.
Front]
The setting in order of the Army, standing in the front of the battel, and being ready to fight, 2 Sam. 10. 9. The front of the house, 2 Chron. 3. 4. Heb. the face. Tremel.
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The outmost bounds of a Countrey, Ezek. 25. 9.
Frontlets]
Exod. 13. 16. Little plates or pieces of parchment worn upon the forehead, called Phylacteries, according to the Greek, Mat. 23. 56. from a word … to keep or preserve, that is, in memory. For though they could not see between their own eyes, they might see in each others foreheads, that which should remember them of Gods deliverance of them; their right use was memorative, which afterwards was turned into superstitious preservatives against the power of sin. Annot.
Frost]
Job 37. 10. By the breath of God frost is given, &c. When God pleaseth a cold blast comes forth, which bringeth frost, whereby the waters that ran at large before, are as it were shut up into a narrow prison by the ice, which like the prison wals incloseth them. That … is here translated frost, is divers times in this book translated ice. It comes from a word that signifies to make bald, for it covers the grass, which is as it were the hair of the ground, and makes it smooth like a bald head. Annot.
Froward]
Psal. 18. 26. compared with 2 Sam 22. 27. Wreathed, Prov. 8. 8. marg. Churlish, hasty, soon angry, naughty, wicked. It is applyed to generation, Deut. 32. 20. heart, Psal. 101. 4. Things, Prov. 2. 12. Paths, …. 15. Mouth, Prov. 4. 24. Tongue, Prov. 10. 31. Way, Prov. 21. 8. Such are an abomination to the Lord, Prov. 3. 32. Their counsell is carried headlong, Job 5. 13. Snares are in their way, Prov. 22. 5. and they sow strife, Prov. 16. 28.
Froward]
The counsell of the froward is carried headlong. Job 5. 13. Deceitful persons, who have one crafty device twisted within another like a rope. The word signifies to wrest or turn a thing, and then to wrestle. Such as can turn themselves every way, as Wrestlers do, to get advantage of others, and winde themselves within them, to overthrow them by policy, when strength faileth, Gen. 30. 8. Deut. 32. 5. Psal. 18. 26. Prov. 8. 8. Annot.
Froward masters in 1 Pet. 2. 18. are such as are bitter to their servants, hard to please, that are apt to finde fault, that use their servants hardly in words or deeds, but chiefly such as are cholerick and passionate and pevish in their carriage towards their servants. Byfield on 1 Pet 2. 18. pag. 494.
Frowardly]
Isa. 57. 17. or perversly, (Heb. turning away, as Jer. 3. 14, 22.) They walked on crosly in their own crooked courses, and would not be reclaimed, Jer. 5. 3. & 8. 5, 6. Annot.
Frowardness]
Prov. 2. 14. In the … of the wicked. Perversly, wicked, walking crosse to God and good men, Lev. 26. 21. Psal. 18. 27. Annot. Prov. 10. 32. Speaketh frowardness. Things justly displeasing to others. Annot.
Frozen]
Job 38. 30. Heb. Taken. The water is as it were taken captive, and put into a prison. Annot.
Frozen in their dregs]
;;Stubborn sinners, which obstinately stick in their sins, mocking both God and Man. Zeph. 1. 12. I will visit them that be frozen in their …. Jer. 48. 11.
Fruit]
;;The encrease which cometh of the Land; of Trees, of Cattel and of other Creatures, Deut. 28. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy ground and of thy …. Any profit which cometh of a thing, Isa. 27. 9.
;;2. The Conversion of men to God by the ministery of his servants. Joh. 15. 16. have … that ye go and bring fruit; & vers. 2. 3. Hee that a … in mee … forth fruit. In this sense, the … was fruitfull in all the world, Col. 1. 9. Conversion of sinners to the …, is as delightfull to God, as sweet fruit is to man. A Metaphor.
;;3. All and every one of Gods graces and works in his Children, because they come from his Spirit, (as fruit from a tree) and do so please him, as good fruit is pleasing to us. Gal. 5. 22. The fruits of the Spirit, … …, peace, joy, &c. Phil. 1. 11. Filled with the … of …. A Metaphor.
;;All the spirituall fruits of the sanctifying Spirit, are summarily comprehended by Paul Eph. 5. 9. in these three things.
;;1. Goodness, which is that quality contrary unto malice, or naughtyness, whereby a Sinner is evill in himself.
;;2. Righteousness, which is … against that vice of injustice, whereby one proveth hurtful to others, through deceit, covetousness, oppression, and violence.
;;3. Truth which is opposed unto errors, lies, heresies, hypocrisie, both in common affairs, and in matter of Religion, to the beguiling of our selves, other men, and God also as lyers do suppose.
;;4. The due recompense and merit of our evill works. Mic. 7. 13. For the fruits of their inventions. Prov. 1. 31. They shall eat the fruit of their works. Also, blasphemous boasting. Isa. 10. 12, 13.
;;5. False doctrine, the proper fruit of a false Prophet. Mat. 7. 16. By their fruits ye shall know them.
;;6. The profit and commodity that comes of well doing. Prov. 31. 31. Give her of the fruit of her hands. Rom. 6. 22. Ye have your fruit in holiness.
;;7. Any godly deed tending to the spiritual profit of others. Phil. 4. 17. I desire the fruit, &c.
Put also,
1. For Children, Psal. 21. 10. which are tearmed, the fruit of the womb, Gen. 30. 2.
2. A prosperous and flourishing condition, 2 King. 19. 30. Jer. 12. 2.
3. The rain, Psal. 104. 13.
4. The works of men, whether good, Luk. 3. 8. or evill, Mat. 7. 16.
5. Whatsoever is most excellent and singular in man, Amos 2. 9.
6. Increase and continuance in grace, Joh. 15. 5.
7. Charitable almes, Rom. 15. 28.
8. The evidence of grace in true Christians, Phil. 4. 17.
9. The profit by afflictions, Heb. 12. 11.
10. The effects of wisdom from above, Jam. 3. 17. and benefit of …, vers. 18.
11. Consolation, Isa. 57. 19.
12. The words of the mouth, good, wise, and profitable, Prov. 12. 14.
13. Thanksgiving, Heb. 13. 15.
14. Believers through the Gospel preached, Isa. 27. 6. Joh. 4. 36.
15. Bread, Jer. 11. 19. marg.
16. Strength, Job 31. 39.
Fruit of their deeds]
;;Such reward as the merciful God should freely for his promise sake render to the just, for their godly works. Isa. 3. 10. Eat the fruit of their doings. A Metaphor.
To fill with fruit]
;;To encrease the Church with multitude of …, when the preaching the Gospel shall come to them, Isa. 27. 6. Joh. 15.
To gather fruit]
;;To convert elect sinners to Christ by preaching the Gospel, who are dear to God, as fruit to our mouth, Joh. 4. 36.
To keep the fruit]
;;To do the office of a Pastor in the Church, (which is as a Vineyard, Cant. 8. 12. Two hundred to them that keep the … thereof.
Fruit of the lips]
;;The consolations which flow from the words of God spoken by the Ministers, and believed on by the people. Isa. 57. 19. I create the fruits of the lips.
Fruit every monethmonth]
;;Such fruit as shall be continually new and …. This tree here spoken of, being laden with fruit all the year long. Revel. 22. 2. Bring fruit every monethmonth.
It is … here alwayes. There is no need to lay up food against the Winter. And there are twelve divers kinds of fruits, so that they need not be cloied with one kinde. It serveth in stead of all Ezechiels trees, if it be but one. Or, … fruits of one kind, brought forth twelve times in a year. The … argueth variety of …; the latter …. The former is an help against loathing; the latter against lacking. Annot.
Fruit of the …]
;;Either speech it self, or the reward which comes of good or evill …. Prov. 12. 14. A man shall … filled with good things by the fruit of his mouth.
Eat his pleasant Fruit]
Cant. 4. 16. None so fit to receive the fruits of grace, as Christ, who giveth grace; The lagal sacrifices are called his bread, Numb. 28. 2. and so is the spiritual. We should have nothing to lay on his Altar, did not the Lord provide a Sacrifice himself, Gen. 22. 8. wilde grapes are our …, but all that is good and pleasant fruit is … him. Annot. The Church gives all to Christ, the garden is his: the fruit, his; the pleasantnesse and preciousnesse of the fruits is his. It is enough for us to have the comfort, let … have the glory. ….
Fruit]
And the fruit of righteousness, …. 3. 18. foreign, fruit, noteth that which is any way (whether naturally or morally) produced, and signifies either an effect or reward. As an effect it is used, vers. 17. immediately precedent, where of the … wisdom, it is said, that it is, foreign, full of good fruits, those fruits being the effects or productions of that wisdom. But elsewhere it seems to be taken in that other notion, Heb. 12. 11. and so here. Dr. H. Annot. g.
Fruit of righteousness]
;;Life eternal, which is a fruit of a righteous life. Heb. 12. 11.
Fruit]
His fruit was sweet to my taste Cant. 2. 3. This pleasant fruit is the pardon of sin, justification, joy, peace, and other divine graces and consolations, which grow like golden apples on Christ their Tree, and increase by the very gathering. The more we pluck and taste of them, the more we may. Annot.
Fruits signifie graces and good works, which are to the benefit of our selves and …, Matth. 3. 8. 10. Gal. 5. 22, &c. and is also applyed to the doctrine of the Gospel, Joh 15. 16. and signifieth a comfortable reward, Psal. 58. 12. Prov, 27. 18.
Dr. Hall understandeth hereby the Soveraign fruit of Gods holy Word, which feedeth and satisfieth the soul unto eternal life. Clapham. Christs Words, (whereof Psa. 119. 113. Joh. 6. 68. & 7. 46.) & works; what one action (saith he) can be remembred that is not delectable; Not one that is not pleasant, and pleasure it self. Taste ye and see how good the Lord is, Psal. 34. 8. Every action an apple of life, and not a leaf of this tree but it serveth to heal the Nations with, Rev. 22. 2.
To count the fruit uncircumcised]
;;That all meats through our sins are unclean, to us; but through faith in Christ they are blest and sanctified by prayer and thanksgiving. Lev. 19. 23. The fruit of the landshall be uncircumcised. 1 Tim. 4. 4. Tit. 1. 15.
… of the wombe]
;;Children. Deut. 28. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy wombe, Psal. 127. 3. & 132. 11. Gen. 30. 2. and in Deut. 28. 4. Children be called the fruit of the body, being derived from the body of their Parents, as fruit springs from a tree. Also delightful unto them, as fruit is to our mouth.
Fruitful]
;;Profitable: as unfaithful signifies unprofitable. Tit 3. 14. Col. 1. 6. And is fruitful.
;;2. Abundant. Col. 1. 10. Fruitful in good works.
To be or make fruitfull, is all one with, to breed, bear, bring forth, bud, blossome, flourish, multiply, flow with, spread forth, &c.
Fruitful field]
Ezek. 17. 5. Heb. a field of seed, marg.
Fruitfull fields]
;;Rich Princes and Rulers in the Kingdome of Assyria, which in one night with their mighty Army, like a forrest, were destroyed, Isa. 19. 18.
Fruitfulnesse of Canaan]
;;Figured, the bountifull reward which the Godly shall finde of their labours in the heavenly Country which we seek, Heb. 11. 14, 16. Also it signified the graces of the Gospell, Ezek. 34. 37. Zach. 8. 12. Psal. 67. 7.
Fruits]
Job 31. 39. Heb. the strength, marg.
Fruits of righteousnesse]
;;Good works done by justified and righteous persons. Phil 1. 11. … with the fruits of righteousnesse.
Fruits of the Ualley]
;;Mystically, the good works and worthy graces, which (as fruits) delight Christ Jesus, Cant. 6. 11. I went down to the Garden of …, to see the fruits of the Velley.
After the Winter of tribulation and wrath cometh the chearful spring of grace in the Garden of the Church, situate low and base as in a valley or bourn, where it is watered with Gods Word and Spirit, and made fruitful. ….
Fruits worthy of repentance]
;;A good and just life, meet for such as have repentance. Mat. 3. 8. Bring … fruits worthy of repentance.
Frustrate]
is all one with, To be in vain, make void, disappoint, make of no effect, to no purpose, bring to nought, not stand, purpose altered, broken in ones purpose, &c.
Fryed]
Lev. 7. 12. Hastily fryed, or baken with …; that is, So fryed, that it may be hoven as with bubbles. …. on Lev. 6. 21. where … renders these words in … translation (when it is baken) after this manner, hastily fryed.
Frying-pan]
Lev. 2. 7. A vessel of ministration, and of the holy things. Herein the … and Frying-… differed. The Frying-pan had a lip (or edge) and the paste that was baked thereon was soft, and for that it had a lip (though it was soft) it did not run out. But the Pan being flat and smooth) had no lip, and the paste that was baked thereon, was hard, so that it did not run off. Aynsw. on Lev. 2. 5.