part I. MET A PH 0 R S FROM HuMAN ADJUNCTs. Reward of a Garland or Crown, or fame fuch Thing, yet were fometimes unjufl:, and defrauded, by fame corrupt Dealing, thofe that really won the Prize.. The Senfe is, that they lbould not trufl: the Judgment of Divine Matters, and the Myfteries of God's Law with RefpeEt toWorjhip to the Folly of human Reafon, and the Comments of Will-Worjhippers, !ell: they lbould lofe Truth, and confequently the Prize of eternal Salvation, Col. iii. IS· The WHI'fE S'fONE, Rev. ii. I7· is a Symbol of heavenly Glory. 'to him that over– cometh will I give a white Stone, and in the Stone, a new Name written, &c. The Metaphor (as fame conjeCture) is taken from an an,ient Cuftom, that a white Stone was given to an acquitted Perfon that was accufed and tried; and a black one, to guilty and condemned, according to that of Ovid. I5· Metam. Mos erat Antiquis, 11iveis, atrifqui! lapillis His damnare reos, il!is abfolvere culpa, &c. 'the Ctif/om was, by white and black fmalt Stones, '{'acquit the Guiltlefs; and damnguilty ones, 'ihe writing of a new Name in the white Stone, is faid by Interpreters to denote, not ·only a Freedom from Condemnation, but alfo an adorning with heavenly Glory, I John iii. 2. Others fay that it is a Symbol of Vitlory, &c. A CUP t:l1::1 becaufe the Guefts drink out of it, Jer. xvi. 7. Luke xxii. I 7. and becaufe it holds fometimes bitter Liquor, fometimes fweet, metaphorically denotes fame– times a projjmous and happy Condition, as Pfal. xvi. 5· xxiii. 5· and cxvi. I3. Some– times Punijhment and Affiitl:ion, Pfal. xi. 6. and lxxv. 8. !fa. li. I7, 22. Lam. iv. 21. Jer. xxv. I5· and li. 7· Ezek. xxiii. 33, 34· Matt. xx. 22, 23. and xx.vi. 39, 42, &c. A HAND WRI'f!NG, commonly called a Bond, Cot. ii. I4. is put for an Obliga– tion, or that Guilt that Sinners incurred by !inning; the cancelling of which and fixing it upon the Crofs, is the full or plenary Satisfaction for Sin made by Chrifl, and applied to the Soul by true Faith, upon which fee Erafmus in his Paraphrafe, who does excel. lently expound it. A CROWN, that peculiar and principal Ornament of the Head in general, denotes any beautiful or very pleafing Ornament or profitable Thing, Prov. iv. 9· and xvii. 6. Jer. xiii. I8. Phi!. iv. I. 1 'fhejf. ii. I9· Hence to crown is put for to adorn, b!tfs with good Things, and fo to ma,ke joyful, Pfal. viii. 5· and ciii. 4· See Pfal. lxv. I 1. Ifa. xxiii. 8. 'tyre is called the crowning (City) that is, a Place that made its Inhabi– tants great and wealthy; for it is added, whofe Merchants are Princes, whofe Traf– fickers are the honorable of the Earth. 2. A Crown js the Symbol of an Empire or a Kingdom, hence the Kingdom of Ifrael is called a Crown of Pride, !fa. xxviii. I. (See Hof v. 5· and vii. Io.) viz. a moft proud Kingdom. More Examples are to be read, Pfal. xxi. 3· and lxxxix. 39· L am. v. I6. Ezek. xxi. 26. But this rather belongs to a Metonymy of the Sign. But jt is metaphorically, when Crowning is attributed to Chri!l: the heavenly King, Zech. vi. II, I2, I3, I4. Pfal. viii. 5· Heb. ii. 7, 9, &c. 3· It den.otes heavenly Reward or eternal Life, I Cor. ix. 25. 2 'fim. ii. 5· and iv. 8. Jam. j. 12. 1 Pet. v. 4· Re·v. ii. IO. and iii. 11, &c. _RICHES, """Ttii>', are put for Plenty of qeavenly Things, and the fpiritual Gifts re– Ce>Ived through Chrifl:, Luke xii. 21. I Cor. i. 5· 2 Cor. vi. IO. and viii. 9· Heb. x. 34• and xi. '26. Col. ii. 2. Janzes ii. 5· Re·v. iii. J 8. See !fa. liii. 9· Serious Piety, 2 Cor. viii. 2. and ix. I 1. I 'fim. vi. r8. The Converfion of the Gentiles, Rom. xi. I;>. "l'REASURE denotes Plenty of heavenly Good, !fa. xxxii. 6. Matt. vi: 20, &c. wh1ch. IS called """e'"P·'" the Inheritance of Believers, Atts xx. 32. Eph. 1. 14, I8. Col. 111. 24. Heb. ix. I5, I Pet. i. 4· And Believers themfelves are called Heirs and Co-hei,·s with Chrifl, Rom. viii. '7· Gal. .iv. 7• 'fiJ. iii. 7· Heb. vi. 17. James ii. 5· I Pfl·
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