The Explication of Certain Words
A
- Abstracted, Drawn away. 642.
- Acquisition, Getting, purchasing. 514.
- Advent, The coming. 69.
- Adulterating, Corrupting. See pag. 475. 478.
- Agnition, knowledge or acknowledging. 600.
- Allegory, a Mystical speech, more than the bare letter. 505. See the Annot. 508.
- Amen, expounded. 244.
- Anathema, expounded. 405.
- Archisynagogue, expounded. 99.
- Assist. 135. signifieth the Angels standing and attending, always ready to do their ministry.
- Assumption, 165. Christ's departure out of this world by his death and Ascension.
- Azymes, Unleavened bread. 75.
C
- Calumniate, By this word is signified violent oppression by word or deed. 143.
- Catechizeth, and, Catechized. 510. He catechizeth that teacheth the principles of the Christian faith: and they that hear and learn, are catechized, and are therefore called often in the Annotations, Catechumens.
- Character, a mark or stamp. 723.
- Commessations, Immoderate banquets, and belly-cheer, with wanton riotousness. 509.
- Condigne, comparable. 400.
- Contristate, This word signifieth to make heavy and sad. 519.
- Cooperate, signifieth working with others. 401. Likewise Cooperation, Cooperators.
- Corbana, expounded. 80.
D
- Depositum. 582. See the Annot. pag. 584. It may signify also, God's graces given us to keep, pa. 587. v. 14. Also v. 12. ibid. See the Annot.
- Didrachme, expounded. 49.
- Dominical day, Sunday. See Annot. 701. 702.
- Donaries, gifts offered to God for his Temple, &c. 199.
E
- Evacuated from Christ, that is, Made void and having no part with him. 508. The scandal of the cross evacuated, that is, made void, clean taken away. ibidem.
- Evangelize, signifieth such preaching of good tidings, as concerneth the Gospel. See the Preface.
- Eunuchs, gelded men.
- Euro-aquilo, A north-east wind. 368.
- Exinanited, abased exceedingly. 528.
G
- Gratis, an usual word to signify, for nothing, freely, for Godamercy, without desert.
H
- Holocaust, a kind of sacrifice where all was burnt in the honour of God. 625.
- Hosts, sacrifices. 445.
I
- Invocated, called upon, prayed unto. 316. Hereof we say, Invocation of Saints, and to invocate.
- Issue, good event. 445.
- Justice, taken in the new Testament, not as it is contrary to wrong or injury, but for that quality whereof a man is just and justified. 391.
N
- Neophyte, expounded. 569.
P
- Paraclete, expounded. 260.
- Parasceve, the Jews' Sabboth-eve, Good Friday. 130. v. 43. See the Preface.
- Pasch, Easter, and, the Paschal lamb. 201.
- Pentecost, Whitsuntide, &, the space of fifty days.
- Prefinition, A determination before. 517.
- Prepuce, expounded. 387.
- Prescience, foreknowledge. 294.
- Prevaricator, transgressor: and prevarication, transgression. 336. 337.
- Loaves of Proposition, so called, because they were proposed and set upon the table in the Temple, before God. 31.
R
- Repropitiate the sins. 605. that is, make a reconciliation for them.
- Resolution, the separation of the body and the soul, the departing out of this life. 592.
- Resuscitate the grace, that is, Raise, quicken, renew and revive the grace which otherwise languisheth and decayeth. 586.
S
- Sabbatism, A time of resting and ceasing from labours. 607.
- Sacrament, for mystery. 513.
- Sancta Sanctorum, The holies of holies, that is, the inmost and holiest place of the Jews' Temple, as it were the Chancel. 621.
- Super-edified, Builded upon Christ the principal stone. 657.
T
- Tetrarch, Governor or Prince of the 4. part of a country. 38.
- Thrones, an higher Order of Angels. 537.
V
- Victims, Sacrifices. 303.
