A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part HY – Part I
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Hymeneus]
A wedding Song. An enemy unto Paul, 1 Tim. 1. 20.
Hymne]
;;A Song made in the praise of God, Col. 3. 16. Psalms, hymns, and spiritual Songs.
Psalms contain exhortations to manners or holy life.
Hymnes contain prayses to God in the commemoration of his benefits:
Songs contain doctrine of the chief good, or mans eternal …. … on Col. 3. 16. p. 101.
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Mat. 26. 30. or Psalm, marg. In Eph. 5. 19. & Col. 3. 16. as the Apostle exhorteth us to singing, so he instructeth what the matter of our song should be, viz. Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. Those three are the title of the Songs of David, as they are delivered unto us by the holy Ghost himself: Some of them are called Mizmarim, Psalms; some Tebillim, Hymns; some Shirim, Songs, Spirituall songs. Psalms were sung on the voice and instrument …, Ps. 108. 1. Dan. 3. 7. Hymns were Songs of Thanksgiving for a particular benefit received, Mat. 26. 30. Songs, wherein we give thanks for general blessings, as … David praised the Lord for the works of Creation, Psal. 104. 3. Leigh's Annot. on Col. 3. 16. Bodius on this place (having related the opinions of others) delivereth, that the Apostle under these three words, Psalms, Hymns, Songs, comprehendeth all kindes of … songs, whereby a faithful and regenerate soul should … and … …, to the glory of God, the edification of the brethren, and his own …, and growth in grace. Bod. in Eph. 5. 19. P. 720.
And when they … sung an …, Mat. 26. 30. It was the custome of the Jews after Supper to say Grace, and then to say or … Verses or Songs, … … the … Lamb; at which time they were … … … from the 112. to the 119. … … matter of thos Psalms agreeing … with the … …. This may have been the Hymn, or rather Hymns or … … Christ sang here with his Disciples. But it's also not improbable … it was some other Hymn accommodated to this particular … of Christs, and this sung by them all … the same manner as we read of the Christians Hymne, Act. 4. 24. Dr. Hamm. Annot. g.
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;;The cloaking of … and sin, with appearance and shew of … and repentance. Mat. 23. 28. But … … … … of …, 2 Tim. 3. 5. Having a shew … …, … the power of it.
;;2. False doctrine, … is called hypocrisie, because it hath the shew and … of truth. Luk. 12. 1. Beware of the leaven of the …, which is hypocrisie.
3. The leaven; that is, the doctrine of the …, Luk. 12. 1. as also of … Teachers, who are said to … … … hypocrisie, 1 Tim. 4. 2.
Hypocrisie]
Isa. 32. 6 or …, or … wickedness, as the word …, yea … …. See ch. 9 17. 33. 14. ….
To speak … in …]
;;In the … of falshood and …, to cover … … … and holy pr tences. 1 Tim. 4. 2. Speaking … ….
;;This cannot … unto … old …, the Manichees, Enchratites, and …, … … the institution of Marriage, and … … and Procreation of mankinde to …, and affirmed of … …, that they were of the Devil: as the …, … said that flesh, Egs, Milk, and Wine … the gall of the Prince of … …, and that the Devill made flesh of the stinking matter of evill. Likewise Marcian the Heretick held, that they … did eat flesh, did as if they eat and devoured souls, August. …. 42.
;;These speak … in open blasphemy. But the Papists that do not in express downright tearms, absolutely condemn Meats and Marriage, to be unclean, but affirming all Creatures in their own nature to be pure and good, yet under pretence of holiness, religion, chastity, …, fasting, prayer, by Laws and Decrees sorbid Marriage and … to some men at all times; are they of whom the Spirit speaketh evidently, that they utter … false doctrine in hypocrisie; and … had need to be described by these notes, and the Church to be forewarned of them, by this prophesie of St. Paul.
Hypocrite]
;;One who assumeth to take upon him the person of another, as players upon a stage use to do, where a … … the person of a King.
;;Note: Of hypocrites, some be more grosse, Mat. 22. 5. Some more …, such as know not themselves, through their self love.
;;2. He that maketh semblance and shew, to be that … he is not … deed, and in truth; outwardly appearing righteous, and being inwardly full of iniquity, like graves or painted tombes, Mat. 23. 27. … to you Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites; sor ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within … of … mens …, and of all …, Mat. 6. 2. …, when thou doest thine almes, do not sound a trumpet … thee, as the hypocrites do, in the Synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men; verily, I say unto you, they have their reward, Mat. 6. 5.
;;Hypocrites be close dissemblers, which outwardly cover and cloak their wickedness, wherewith inwardly they be defiled. The Greek … (from whence our English word is borrowed) signifieth, an under-judgement, that is dissimulation.
Such may be discovered by these notes.
1. They say and do not, Mat. 23. 3.
2. They require much of others, and plead for great things to be done by others, which they do not themselves, Ibid. 4.
3. What they do, is to be seen of men, Ibid. 5. & Mat. 6. 1, &c.
4. They affect greatness in the respects and entertainments of others, Ibid. 6. -12.
5. They do duties of Religion of purpose to hide some foul sin, Ibid. 14.
6. They are curious and strict in small matters, and neglect the greater duties, Ibid. 23. 24.
7. They are careful to avoid outward faults, but make no conscience of the inward soulness of the heart, Ibid. 25. 27.
8. They commend and magnifie the godly absent, or of former ages; but hate and abuse the godly present, and of their own times, Ibid. 29 — 36.
9. They serve God outwardly, but their hearts are carried away with vile distractions, Isa. 28. 13.
10. They pray only in the time of sickness and danger, when they are forced to it, but shew no love of prayer, or delight in God in time of prosperity, or deliverance, Job 27. 8, 9.
11. They judge others severely for smaller faults, being in the mean time themselves guilty of greater crimes, Mat. 7. 5.
12. They are over-much just, making sins where God makes none, Luk. 13. 15.
13. Being convinced in their own conscience, yet do not they confess it, not yeeld, though they know the truth, Luke 12. 56, 57, &c. Byfield on 1 Pet. 2. 1. page 210.
14. The seeming good they do is out of ostentation, and ambition, Mat. 6. 1, 2, 5, 16.
15. They are cruel, Psal. 35. 16. Prov. 11. 9. Matth. 23. 34.
16. They are for the most part covetous, Mat. 23. 14. Job 12. 6. Act. 8. 18.
17. They are more for outward cermonies, and humane traditions, then for the true and spiritual worship of God, Mat. 12. 1, 2, 7 & 15. 2, 7, 8, 9. Mar. 3. 4. & 7. 3, 4, 5.
18. In worldly affaires they are quicksighted, not so in spiritual, heavenly, Mar. 3. 4. Luk. 12. 16.
19. In publick calamities they are fearful, Isa. 33. 14.
20. They stir up against themselves Gods wrath, Job 36. 13. & 34. 30. Isa. 9. 17.
Hypocritical]
Psal. 35. 16. Hypocritical mockers. Aynsw. rendreth the words Hypocrites, scoffers. Hypocrites or close dissemblers, which outwardly cover and cloak the wickedness wherewith inwardly they are defiled. Mat. 23. 27, 28. or, which have their hearts covered, Job 36. 13. The Greek also (from whence our English word hypocrisie is borrowed) signifieth an under judgement, that is, dissimulation. Aynsw.
Isa. 10, 6. An hypocritical Nation. Or rather, a prosane Nation, or a polluted people. See ch. 9. 17. Annot.
Hysop]
;;An hearb, whose natural property is to open and cleanse the body, Exod 12. 22.
;;2. The bloud of the eternal sacrifice of Christ, cleansing from all sin such as by faith lay hold on it. Psal. 51. 7. Purge me with hysop and I shall be clean. 1 Joh. 1. 7. The bloud of Christ purgeth us from all our sins. A Metaphor.
Hereof mention is made, Exod. 12. 22. Heb. 9. 19. It, grew out of wals, 1 King. 4. 33.
The Jews write that there were four sorts of Hysop, and that this spoken of in the Law, was such as men used to eat of, and season pottage with; and the bunch spoken of was three stalks of hysop bound together.
This herb was used to sprinkle with, in other services and purifications. See Exod. 24. 6, 8. Lev. 14. 4. Numb. 19. 6, 18. and signified the instrument whereby the bloud of Christ is sprinkled upon, and applyed unto our hearts; which is, the preaching of faith, Act. 15. 9. Rom. 10. 14 — 17. Gal. 3. 2. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Psal. 51. 7. Heb. 9. 14. Aynsw. on Exod. 12. 22.
Hyacinth, or Iacinth]
;;Smoak, which is of colour like to an Hyacinth, to wit, blew and red; one of the instruments of Turkish tyranny and cruelty in killing men, which they shall do by fire, smoak and brimstone. Rev. 9. 17. Having fiery Habergions of Hyacinth (or Jacinth) and brimstone.
Jacinct is a stone of a skie-colour (of which chap. 21. 20.) and may import, that these were invincible armies sent from above, from God, to punish the wicked Romans. Annot.
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This Pronoune being of the Nominative case, Singular number, and First person, doth alwayes point out the person of him that speaketh, and may be referred,
I. Unto God; and that,
1. To point out the dignity of his Person. Psal. 81. 10. I am the Lord thy God. Isa. 45. 5. 6. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
2. His great power and might. Gen. 17. 1. I am the Almighty God.
3. His eternal and unchangeable being in himself, Exod. 3. 14. I am that I am.
4. The certainty of his promises and threatnings, and that from the dignity and authority of him, the speaker, Exod. 6. 2. I am the Lord. Numb. 14. 35. I the Lord have said.
II. Unto the Son of God, both before his manifestation in the flesh, Cant. 2. 1, 7. Mal. 3. 1. and when manifested, Mar. 14. 62. Luk. 24. 39. …. 18. 5, 8.
III. Unto the … Ghost, Act. 10. 19, 20.
IV. The Church, Cant. 2. 16 & 6. 3.
V. Unto the good Angels, Dan. 9. 22. Luk. 1. 19. & 2. 10. Rev. 22. 9.
VI. Unto the evill, 1 King. 22. 21, 22.
VII. Unto men and women; noting,
1. Their pride, Isa. 47. 8, 10. Zeph. 2. 15.
2. The certainty of what's spoken, Gal. 5. 2. Philem. 19. which is at some times false and pretended, Mar. 13. 6. Mat. 24. 5. Luk. 21. 8.
3. The readiness of the Speaker to perform his duty, or what shall be enjoyned him, Mic. 3. 8. Matth. 21. 30.
VIII. The Creatures, Numb. 22. 28. Judg. 9. 10, 14.