Part I. OF A METON.YMY OF THE ADJUNCT. 27 we depart or are abfent from one another. Deut. xxii. r. 'l'hou/halt not fee thy Brother's Ox, or his Sheep go Pjlray, and hide thyfe!f from them, that ts, thee~ 01alt not go awoy and let them alone but bring them back. So Ifa. lviii. 7· 'J'o SLEEP is put for to be fecure, becaufe found and pleaf:1nt Sleep is an evident Sian of Security, Pfal. iii. 5· and iv. 8. PUFFING is put for Contempt, for a flight puff 0 (the Mouth denotes when a Matter is defpifed as an inconfiderable Thing, Pfal. x. 5· and xii. 5· ']'0 KISS fignifies Love, Obedience, Obfequioufnefs and fubmiffive Refpect, of which in antient Times a Kifs was a Sign, as Gm. xli. 40. I Kings xix. I8. Pfal. ii. I 2 . To this fame refer that Phrafe, Matth. v. 47· Heb. xi. 1 5· """"S'~3-"'• ofculo falutare; for u""S'f-"' fignifies to Jalute with KiJling, and embra~ing, and to is put for a receiv· ing or embracing in Love, or Faith and Hope*. 'l'o LAUGH is put for to be joyful, which is the Sign of Laughter, Job viii. 21. Pfal. cxxvi. I, 2. Gm. xxi. 6. Luke vi. 2 I, 25. And to befecure, Job v. 22 . 'l'o S'l' AND is put for to minifter, Ezek. viii. 1 I. Zech. iii. I. For it is the Sign of a S'Cvant to ftand. SeeDeut. x. 8. 'J'o ANOINT fignifies to make a King, or chief Lord, 'Judg. ix. 8. For UnCtion was in Times pafi the Rite and Symbol of the folemn Inaugurations of Kings as in many Places of the Old Tefl:ament appears. In conjunCI Phrafes, to jhut and open, none rejzjli11g, fignifies a full and free Power of Adminiftration, Ifa. xxii. 22. To fpeak with afti.f/Neck, Iignifies proudly to refill: and blafpheme God, Pfal. lxxv. 5· For an erected Neck is the lndicationllf a proud Mind. 'J'o give Cleamzefs of Teeth, fignifies Famine, Amos iv. 6. becaufe in eating, fomething of the Meat ll:icks in the Teeth; for where that Uncleann~fs of Teeth is not found, it Iignifies that there was no Meat eaten, or a Defect of Aliment. 'l'o lift up the Eyes, fig. nifies Worthip and Adocarion, Pfal. cxxi. r. and cxxiii. r. Ezek. xviii. 6. for whom we reverence and worthip, we attentively behold. To lift up the Head, lignifies an EreCtion of Mind, Animofity and Joy, as'Judg. viii.. 28. Pfai. Ixxxiii. I, 2. Lukexxi. 28, &c. 'The Face waxing pale denotes Fear, for Shame caufes one to blufh, and then for Fear the Blood retires from the outward Parts to the Heart, as Ifa. xxix. 22. 'Jacob jhallnot now be ajhamed, mitherjhall his Face now wax pale. See Job ix. 24. To have a Whore's Forehead notes Impudence, for the Indications of that appear in the Face as well as Modefl:y and Bafhfulnefs, Jer. iii. 3· 'l'o bow the Knee, fignifies Subjection and Obedience, or divine Wor01ip, Ifa. xlv. 23. Phi!. ii. IO. Eph. 1ii. I4· Of which Genuflexion is a Sign. To give the Hand fame– rim., notes voluntary Subjection, as I Chron. xxix. 24. 2 Chron. xxx. 8. where the Hebrew fignifies to give the Hand, as in the Margin of our Bibles. Sometimes it notes Begging and Imploring, as Lam. v. 6. Sometimes Confederacy, as 'Jer.l. 15. She (that is, Baby/on) bath given her Hand-that is, fhe hath confederated with Crxfus King of the Lydians, as 1-Jerodotus, Lib. r. fays. See Eze!c. xvii. I8. Levit. vi. 2. with' Gal. ii. 9· 'Job xvii. 2. 'l'o put the Hand upon the Head, fignifies Grief, Calamity, and Sadnefs, Jer. ii. 37· that being a Sign of it, as 2 Sam. xiii. I9· 'l'o put a lland upon the Mouth, Iignifies Silence, or that one cannot anfwer, Job xL 33· Micahvii. I 6, &c. See other Examples, 2 Kings iii. I r. Exod. xxviii. 41. and xxix. 9· and xxxii. 29. Num. iii. 3· 'Jud. xvii. I 2. . 'fo lift up the Hand, is put for Swearino-, Exod. vi. S. fo the Hebrew. Pfal. cvi. 25, 26 and elfewhere, becaufe fuch as fwore lifted up their Hands towards H eaven, as l'irgil fays, I 2 .£neid. · ---Deinde Latinus, Sufpiciens c.elum, tenditque ad fydera dextram: H.:ec eadem, JEnea, terram, mare, J3'dera, juro. • Ltigh. Crit. Saffa. Sometimes
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