Robert South

Abrogate

Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.

Accord

All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning.

Acrimony

John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs.

Admittance

To gain admittance into the house.

Advisable

Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day.

Affrontive

How affrontive it is to despise mercy.

Allegeable

The most authentic examples allegeable in the case.

Ambiguity

The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity.

Amplify

He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles.

Antidote

Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins.

Apprehension

To false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension.

Archetype

Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world.

Argument

Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion?

Ascendant

An ascendant spirit over him.

Attractive

Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation.

Autocracy

The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy.

Avocation

Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin.

Back

Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments.

Baffle

A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all.

Balk

A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker.

Bare

Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words.

Bate

To whom he bates nothing of what he stood upon with the parliament.

Bathe

Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus.

Benign

Kind influences and benign aspects.

Bewitchery

There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words.

Bias

Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts.

Blind

A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater.

Bondage

He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths.

Bottom

Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state].

Brand

There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity.

Bustle

A strange bustle and disturbance in the world.

Calamitous

Ten thousands of calamitous persons.

Calm

A calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's own making.

Cark

Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer.

Carve

Who could easily have carved themselves their own food.

Cast

How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!

Casuist

The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence.

Ceremonious

The ceremonious part of His worship.

Clack

Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack.

Clarify

To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.

Clearing

The better clearing of this point.

Cloak

No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

Cohabit

The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing.

Coincidence

Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness.

Coincident

Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well-inclined man.

Collect

Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.

Combustible

Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.

Comely

He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young.

Commensuration

All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another.

Commission

Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.

Communion

Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man.

Commutation

So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves.

Compassionate

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Completion

Predictions receiving their completion in Christ.

Complex

This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.

Concatenation

The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will.

Conceit

The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so.

Concerning

So great and so concerning truth.

Conclave

It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.

Concomitant

The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness.

Concupiscible

The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite.

Confederate

By words men . . . covenant and confederate.

Confidence

Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity.

Conjecture

Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.

Conjunction

Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others.

connote

Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing.

Consecration

Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemnly declares it so.

Consistence

His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency.

Consistent

With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent.

Contemperature

The different contemperature of the elements.

Contingency

Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions.

Contingent

His understanding could almost pierce into future contingents.

Contradistinction

That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned.

Contrariety

There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses.

Controllable

Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason.

Conventicling

Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics.

Corypheus

That noted corypheus [Dr. John Owen] of the Independent faction.

Countervail

Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review.

Covetous

The covetous person lives as if the world were madealtogether for him, and not he for the world.

Crawl

Absurd opinions crawl about the world.

Credendum

The great articles and credenda of Christianity.

Credit

You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.

Creepingly

How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents.

Critical

The small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends.

Cross

The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind.

Cunning

They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.

Customary

A formal customary attendance upon the offices.

Daub

His conscience . . . will not daub nor flatter.

Deal

They buy and sell, they deal and traffic.

Debauch

A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.

Deception

There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception.

Declination

Every declination and violation of the rules.

Decretory

The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence.

Degradation

Deplorable is the degradation of our nature.

Deputation

The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.

Derivable

All honor derivable upon me.

Desertion

The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion.

deserve

One man may merit or deserve of another.

Despisal

A despisal of religion.

Determinable

Not wholly determinable from the grammatical use of the words.

Determine

He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together.

Dialect

This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world.

disabuse

To undeceive and disabuse the people.

Discourse

Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason.

Discovery

In the clear discoveries of the next [world].

Disenslave

He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.

Disentitle

Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father.

Disinherit

Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!

Disoblige

Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them.

Disparagement

It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not the sun.

Disposal

The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns.

Dissolution

The dissolution of the compound.

Disunite

The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite.

Diversity

They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety.

Divine

Church history and other divine learning.

Dog

Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests.

Doleful

With screwed face and doleful whine.

Donation

After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.

Dose

I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down.

A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, “secundum artem.”

Dote

He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.

Downright

The downright impossibilities charged upon it.

Doxology

David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies.

Doze

They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.

Draught

No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.

Drift

A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.

Drive

Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at.

Drunkenness

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Easiness

Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness.

Elixir

The . . . elixir of worldly delights.

Embark

It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.

Embase

Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.

Embody

The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.

Enchantment

Such an enchantment as there is in words.

Encroach

No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another.

Enormity

These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame.

Enslavement

A fresh enslavement to their enemies.

Equivalent

For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.

Estrangement

A long estrangement from better things.

Eternally

That which is morally good or evil at any time or in any case, must be also eternally and unchangeably so.

Eucharist

Led through the vale of tears to the region of eucharist and hallelujahs.

Evade

The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways.

Eviction

Full eviction of this fatal truth.

Evince

Common sense and experience must and will evince the truth of this.

Exasperation

Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits.

Exceptious

At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious.

Exemplar

Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit.

Exert

When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body.

Exist

To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.

Expectant

An expectant of future glory.

External

Adam was then no less glorious in his externals

Facility

Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.

Falsify

It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.

Falsity

Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things.

Fascination

There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words.

Fatality

The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events.

Fester

Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.

Fetch

The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

He fetches his blow quick and sure.

Every little fetch of wit and criticism.

Flam

A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.

God is not to be flammed off with lies.

Flaw

Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?

Fleer

A sly, treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.

Flush

Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition.

Fluster

The flstering, vainglorious Greeks.

Flux

He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world.

Foist

When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in.

Fraternity

With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity!

Fraught

A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech.

Funeral

Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals.

Futurity

All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye.

Garish

It makes the mind loose and garish.

Glaver

Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.

Gloze

A false, glozing parasite.

Go

By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject.

Good

Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else.

Grate

This grated harder upon the hearts of men.

Gratulation

I shall turn my wishes into gratulations.

ground

There is no way for duty to prevail, and get ground of them, but by bidding higher.

Grudge

Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and enmity against his brother Jacob.

Habitual

An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.

Hardly

Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.

Hardy

[A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.

Help

Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.

High

If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper.

Historian

Great captains should be good historians.

Hitch

Atoms . . . which at length hitched together.

Hoist

Hoisting him into his father's throne.

Home

How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.

Homely

None so homely but loves a looking-glass.

Huff

This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.

Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit.

Humor

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?

Hurry

Impetuous lust hurries him on.

Ignoramus

An ignoramus in place and power.

Imbitter

Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame?

Immediately

God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.

Impartiality

Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion.

Impossibility

They confound difficulty with impossibility.

Impregnable

The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable.

Improvement

I look upon your city as the best place of improvement.

Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.

Incentive

The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it.

Inclinable

Whatsoever other sins he may be inclinable to.

Inclination

A mere inclination to a thing is not properly a willing of that thing.

Incoherence

Crude incoherencies . . . and nauseous tautologies.

Incommunicable

Those incommunicable relations of the divine love.

Incomprehensibility

The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith.

Inconclusive

Arguments . . . inconclusive and impertinent.

Inconsistency

There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift.

Incur

Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye.

Incursion

Sins of daily incursion.

Indent

To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty.

Indigency

New indigencies founded upon new desires.

Indigested

This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.

Indite

Could a common grief have indited such expressions?

Individuate

The soul, as the prime individuating principle, and the said reserved portion of matter as an essential and radical part of the individuation, shall . . . make up and restore the same individual person.

Indwelling

The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers.

Inevitably

How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh!

Inferior

A great person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him.

Infirm

He who fixes on false principles treads or infirm ground.

Inflicter

God is the sole and immediate inflicter of such strokes.

Information

The active informations of the intellect.

Ingenuity

The stings and remorses of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them.

Inhesion

Constant inhesion and habitual abode.

Injunction

Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority.

Innate

There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.

Innovate

From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.

Inquest

The laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science.

Insipid

Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him.

Instigation

The baseness and villainy that . . . the instigation of the devil could bring the sons of men to.

Integral

Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty.

Integrate

Two distinct substances, the soul and body, go to compound and integrate the man.

Intentness

Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business.

Intimate

He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission.

Intrinsically

A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil.

Irreligious

Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious.

Irrespectively

Prosperity, considered absolutely and irrespectively, is better and more desirable than adversity.

Jade

They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution.

Junket

Job's children junketed and feasted together often.

Junketing

The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.

Justly

Nothing can justly be despised that can not justly be blamed: where there is no choice there can be no blame.

Keeping

His happiness is in his own keeping.

Ken

Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension.

King

Those traitorous captains of Israel who kinged themselves by slaying their masters and reigning in their stead.

Knot

A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.

Knowing

The knowing and intelligent part of the world.

Lead

Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places.

Legerdemain

The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls.

Light

Frequent consideration of a thing . . . shows it in its several lights and various ways of appearance.

They shall light into atheistical company.

Like

But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.

Litter

Reflect upon that numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world.

Livelihood

It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives.

Lively

His faith must be not only living, but lively too.

Long-winded

A tedious, long-winded harangue.

Looking-glass

There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass.

Lordly

Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.

Lurch

Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.

Maintain

It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.

Maintenance

Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his service, is granted to God.

Malign

To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.

Manager

A skillful manager of the rabble.

Martyr

To be a martyr, signifies only to witness the truth of Christ; but the witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with persecution, that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness by death.

Mast

Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast.

Masterpiece

The top and masterpiece of art.

Match

No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct.

Materially

An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself materially good.

Maul

It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented.

Mediation

The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions.

Mettle

A certain critical hour which shall . . . try what mettle his heart is made of.

Mischievous

This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society.

Miserably

The fifth was miserably stabbed to death.

Model

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model.

Molehill

Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill.

Moral

Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them.

Morality

The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it.

Morally

By good, good morally so called, “bonum honestum” ought chiefly to be understood.

Morsel

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion.

Motion

Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.

Muster

Such excuses will not pass muster with God.

Mutable

Things of the most accidental and mutable nature.

Necessitate

Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court.

Negative

There in another way of denying Christ, . . . which is negative, when we do not acknowledge and confess him.

This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty.

Negatively

I shall show what this image of God in man is, negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by showing wherein it does consist.

Neighbor

The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor.

Nest

From him who nested himself into the chief power.

Neuter

In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands neuter.

Never

Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse.

Nonplus

Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.

Notation

“Conscience” is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge.

Novelty

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Now

The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander.

Nutriment

The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body.

Obduracy

The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy.

Oblige

The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it.

Obliquity

To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.

Ocular

Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death.

offal

The offals of other professions.

Ominous

In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous.

Operative

It holds in all operative principles.

Opinion

Friendship . . . gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

Out

Wicked men are strangely out in the calculating of their own interest.

Outcourt

The skirts and outcourts of heaven.

Outface

Having outfaced all the world.

Outside

There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within.

Paroxysm

The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair.

Pass

Matters have been brought to this pass.

Passage

The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.

The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.

Passionately

Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately.

Payable

Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest.

Peculiar

Revenge is . . . the peculiar of Heaven.

Person

How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!

Pertinacious

Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study.

Petit

By what small, petit hints does the mind catch hold of and recover a vanishing notion.

Pliant

The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason.

Plunder

Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God.

Poise

He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.

Politician

The politician . . . ready to do anything that he apprehends for his advantage.

Port

The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world.

Practice

There are two functions of the soul, -- contemplation and practice.

Predominance

The predominance of conscience over interest.

Preparative

Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work.

Preternatural

This vile and preternatural temper of mind.

Prevaricate

He prevaricates with his own understanding.

Pride

Pluming and priding himself in all his services.

Privation

Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good.

Præmunire

Wolsey incurred a præmunire, and forfeited his honor, estate, and life.

Probable

That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it.

Puff

It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.

Pusillanimity

It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility.

Quicken

Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.

Quit

Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?

Range

He may take a range all the world over.

Ransack

To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts.

Rase

Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?

Rashness

We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves.

Rate

Heretofore the rate and standard of wit was different from what it is nowadays.

To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.

Ratify

It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle.

Recess

Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality.

Reckoning

Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.

Reflection

This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection.

Regardful

Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart.

Rejolt

These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind.

Relative

Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole.

Relict

Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli.

Remand

Remand it to its former place.

Remind

When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality.

Reminiscence

The other part of memory, called reminiscence, which is the retrieving of a thing at present forgot, or but confusedly remembered.

Rendition

This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse.

Reprieve

Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience.

Reprint

The whole business of our redemption is . . . to reprint God's image upon the soul.

Revoke

A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience.

Roar

He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger.

Romantic

Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion?

Rub

The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.

Rugged

Neither melt nor endear him, but leave him as hard, rugged, and unconcerned as ever.

Rule

A judicious artist will use his eye, but he will trust only to his rule.

Run

To run the world back to its first original.

Sacrilege

Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the spoils of sacrilege.

Sarcastic

What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world!

Scheme

To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.

Score

Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?

Scripture

There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.

Scruple

Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship.

Scrupulosity

Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath.

Scullion

The meanest scullion that followed his camp.

Second

Sin is seconded with sin.

Self-sufficient

Neglect of friends can never be proved rational till we prove the person using it omnipotent and self-sufficient, and such as can never need any mortal assistance.

Sequester

It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

Servitude

A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goes to bed late, only to receive addresses, is really as much abridged in his freedom as he that waits to present one.

Shackle

His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles.

Shame

Were there but one righteous in the world, he would . . . shame the world, and not the world him.

Signification

All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another.

Similary

Rhyming cadences of similarly words.

Sinister

He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.

Slack

In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace.

Smell-feast

The epicure and the smell-feast.

Snap

He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.

Sociable

What can be more uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry, pensive retirements of solitude?

Soil

Men . . . soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop.

Solve

True piety would effectually solve such scruples.

Sovereign

Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.

Spell

To spell out a God in the works of creation.

Spend

He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning.

Spirit

God has . . . made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.

Spirituality

A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality.

Spirituous

The mind of man is of that spirituous, stirring nature, that it is perpetually at work.

Sportula

To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula.

Statism

The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism.

Stave

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

Stiffness

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too.

Stint

God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.

Strait

Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.

Stupefaction

Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it.

Stupefy

The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.

Sublimation

Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality.

Sublunar

All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under.

Subordinate

It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.

Succinct

The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind.

Suffrage

Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine.

Sullage

It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below.

Superinduce

Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the soul new and absurd desires.

Supporter

The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries.

Supposal

Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom.

Surely

He that created something out of nothing, surely can raise great things out of small.

Suscitation

A mere suscitation or production of a thing.

Suspicious

Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects.

Sycophantic

To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite.

Take

[He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise.

Teach

If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice them.

Tender

A free, unlimited tender of the gospel.

Terminate

The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on zhis side heaven.

Thievery

Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest.

Thwart

The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.

Timeserving

Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion.

Tittle

Every tittle of this prophecy is most exactly verified.

Topping

The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world.

Touchstone

The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits.

Transcript

The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript.

Transitory

It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing.

Transport

We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.

Traverse

My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude.

Trencher

It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their “summum bonum” upon their trenchers.

Trepan

Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

Trick

He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick.

Trip

A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.

It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

Tropical

The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.

Trucker

No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls.

Trumpery

Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.

Tub

All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

Tumble

He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.

Type

A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited.

Umpire

Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.

Unappealable

The infallible, unappealable Judge [God].

Uncomprehensive

Narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots.

Unconscionable

Ungenerous as well as unconscionable practices.

Undertaker

In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders.

Unhinge

Why should I then unhinge my brains, ruin my mind?

Unking

Shall his condescension, therefore, unking him?

Unreason

To unreason the equity of God's proceedings.

Use

Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room.

Usurper

A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it.

Vail

Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.

Variety

Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty.

Verdict

These were enormities condemned by the most natural verdict of common humanity.

Verity

It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised.

Visitant

When the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger.

Vitiate

A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion.

Vitiosity

The perverseness and vitiosity of man's will.

vivid

Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in.

Vouchsafe

It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathens the means of salvation.

Wallow

God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.

Wane

An age in which the church is in its wane.

Warrantable

His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing.

Welcome

Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too.

Wheel

According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.

Being able to advance no further, they are in a fair way to wheel about to the other extreme.

Whetstone

Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor.

Whirl

The rapid . . . whirl of things here below interrupt not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble beings above.

Wily

This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind.

Windy

Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored.

Witness

This, I confess, is haste with a witness.

The witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with this event [martyrdom] that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness to death.

Woe

Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

Worst

The . . . Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark.

Worthily

Some may very worthily deserve to be hated.

Wrest

Their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text.