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The Jews are likened to dwelt in the tabernacle, temple, and dust for their multitude, Gen. xiii. 16. city, of Jerusalem; there the symNumb. xxiii. 10. and for their great bols of his presence were continued, distress, 2 Kings xiii. 7. and the Psa. cxxxii. 14. and Ixviii. 16. He quails for their vast number, Psal. dwells in his church, and in and with Ixxviii. 27. " Affliction cometh not his people, in his gracious, supportforth of the dust, neither doth trou- ing, and comforting influences, Psal. ble spring out of the ground;" it ix. 11. 1 John iv. 12. Isa. Ivii. 15. comes not by mere chance, but The fulness of the Godhead dwells from a sinful cause, and by means of bodily in Christ; the divine nature the providence of God. Or the personally, perpetually, and truly, words might be rendered," Men nota- resides in his human nature, by the ble in iniquity, shall not grow pros- closest union with it, Col. ii. 9.perously out of the dust; nor shall Christ dwelt among men in his state those remarkable in wickedness of humiliation on earth, John i. 14. flourish out of the ground;" and the He dwells in our heart by faith ; he is following verse thus, " But if man, as united to us as our head and husone born to it, be obstinate in gross band; and furnishes our whole soul impiety, the flaming thunderbolts of with his fulness, Eph. iii. 17. The divine vengeance fly aloft to destroy Holy Spirit dwells in us by his gracihim." ous influences, Rom. viii. and ix. 2 The word

DUTY, what one is obliged to by Tim. i. 14. 1 Cor. iii. 16. equity, law, or engagement, Ez. xviii. of God dwells in us richly, when it is 11. The duty of marriage, is the carefully studied, firmly believed, same with what Paul calls due bene- closely applied, and diligently prac volence, together with a proper autho- tised, Col. iii. 16. Psal. cxix. 11. rity in the family, Exod. xxi. 10. 1 Satan dwells in men, when he reigns Cor. vii. 3. The duty of a husband's over them, and fills them with ignobrother, if unmarried, was to marry rance, error, malice, blasphemy, &c. the widow of his deceased brother, Matt. xii. 45. The saints dwell in and raise up children to him, Deut. God; they are supported and comXXV. 5-7. forted by him, and have sweet intiDWARFS, or persons far below macy and fellowship with him, 1 John the ordinary size of men, were not iii. 24. They dwell in love, when allowed to minister in the ceremo- they live in the faith of God's renial service of the tabernacle or tem-deeming love to them, and in the ple, Lev. xxi. 20. exercise of love to him and his peo

DWELL, to have a fixed resi-ple, 1 John iv. 16. Their dwelling dence in a place. God dwells in light, in the house of God or in his courts, in independent possession of his own imports their frequent fellowshipglorious excellencies, and amidst rays with him in his ordinances, Psalm of inexpressible glory in heaven, 1 xxvii. 4. and lxxxiv. 4. WickedTim. vi. 16. 1 John i. 7. He dwells ness, vengeance, or judgment, dwell in heaven, in respect to the continu- on a person and land, when they ed and delightful residence of his long continue there, Job xi. 14. and presence there, Psa. cxxiii. 1. He xviii. 15. Isa. xxxii. 16.

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and tail spotted with a deep blue; and its noise squalling. Some take the RACHAMA for the woodpecker, the tenderness of which to its aged parents is very remarkable.

of prey. It has a beak strong and hooked. Its feet have three toes before, and one behind. It is a very ravenous fowl. It sees or smells dead carcasses at a prodigious distance. It breaks the bones The HHOZNIYAH is generally reckof its prey to come at the marrow. [oned to be the OSPRAY, or sea-eagle. Every year it moults, and becomes It has a large and thick neck, crookalmost naked and bald, and then re-ed wings, a broad tail, and haunts news its youth, by producing a set sea-shores and islands. When it perof new feathers. Eagles are ex-ceives a fish in the water, it rushes tremely tender of their young; and downward, and fetches it out. Betake them on their wings when weak fore its young are fledged with feaand fearful. They fly high and thers, it is said to make them gaze quick, have their nests in rocks, and on the sun, and to kill, or cast out are generally long-lived. There are of the nest, such as wink or have a great many kinds of eagles: as their eyes watery. Bochart will brown eagles, chesnut-coloured ea- have it to be the black eagle, which, gles, white-tailed eagles, &c. The though of a small size, is the strongcommon eagle is about the size of est of the eagle kind. a turkey, and of an iron colour; the tongue like a man's; the mouth large; the eyes sunk into the head, but large, bright, and piercing; the wings are large; the legs are feathered; the feet yellowish; and the claws bluish black, long, and fit to take a fast hold of any thing, Job xxxix. 27-30. Psa. ciii. 5. Deut. xxxii. 11.

The PHERES, or ossifrage, is also thought to be of the eagle kind.— It is said to dig up dead bodies, and break their bones, that it may feed on the marrow; and to take up the young eagles that are rejected by their own parents. Some will have this fowl to be the bald buzzard, one of the hawk kind.

All birds of the eagle kind were unThe GIER-EAGLE, or vulture-eagle, clean, and might represent wicked is perhaps the same with the moun-men, full of carnal wisdom, pride, tain-stork. The storks that feed on and malice, Lev. xi. 13, 13. Deut. the carrion and filth about Grand xiv. 12, 13, 17. Cairo, in Egypt, are called by the Moses says, that God delivered his Arabs RACHAMA, which is the very people out of Egypt, and bare them on name of this fowl with the Hebrews; eagles' wings; and in another place, and imports it to be full of pity and that he bore them as an eagle beareth compassion to its young, as both ea- her young; that he led them out of gles and vultures are; and, it is said, Egypt, and set them at liberty, as an will sometimes feed them with its eagle takes its young out of the nest, own blood, rather than suffer them to teach them how to fly, by gently to perish for want. Were we sure fluttering about them. Accordingly that the Targum of Jonathan, the it is said, that when an eagle sees its Syriac version, and the Talmudists, young ones so well grown as to venrightly call this fowl Serakrak, we [ture upon flying, it hovers over the should be led, with Dr. Shaw, to take nest, flutters with its wings, and exit for the Shagarag of the Arabs; cites them to imitate it, and take their which is a kind of jay, whose back flight; and when it sees them fearis brownish; its head, neck, and ful or weary, it takes them upon its

back, and carries them so, that the note his knowledge of his people's fowlers cannot hurt the young with-condition, his readiness to regard out piercing through the body of their requests, and deliver them from the old one, Exod. xxix. 4. Deut. their afflictions and enemies, Psa. xxxii. 11. Saints are like cagles; xxxiv. 15. and cxvi. 2. James v. 4. they recover their vigour and come- To hear in the car, is to have a thing liness; and, being divinely directed privately told us, Matt. x. 27. To and drawn, they mount high in the bow down the ear, incline the ear, give exercise of faith, love, heavenly af- car, is carefully to attend to what is fections, and meditations, Psa. ciii. commanded or requested, and readi5. Isa. xl. 31. The conquering kings ly to do it, Psa. xxxi. 2. and exvi. of Assyria, Egypt, and Babylon, are 2. and exxx. 2. and xlix. 1. To unlikened to cagles, for their power and cover the ear, is to whisper or tell a dominion, and for their ravenous op-secret to one, 1 Sam. xx. 2. To stop pression, ravage, and murder of the the ears, imports the highest disrenations, Hos. viii. 1. Ezek. xvii. 3,] gard and abhorrence, Isa. xxxiii. 15. 7. The Chaldean armies are said to Open and obedient ears, import reahave had eagles' wings, and to be diness to hear, to receive and obey swift as eagles: with speed they over-instructions, Isa. 1. 5. and xlviii. 8. ran and destroyed the nations, Dan. Prov. xxv. 12. Heavy and dull ears, vii. 4. Hab. i. 8. Jer. iv. 13. and import an incapacity to perceive, or xlviii. 40. Lam. iv. 19. The Ro- unwillingness to embrace and obey, man armies are likened to cagles; divine truths, Isa. lix. 1. and vi. 10. they had their standards marked with Uncircumcised cars, and ears turned the image of an eagle; they ravaged away from hearing the law, or ears and murdered the nations; and com- stopped to good, import stupidity, obing from afar, terribly ruined the stinacy, and impenitency, which rencorrupt nation of the Jews, Deut. der men incapable of receiving good xxviii. 49. Matt. xxiv. 28. Luke counsel or instruction, Jer. vi. 10. xvii. 37. The Edomites exalted them- Acts vii. 51. Prov. xxi. 18. and selves, and made their nest high as the xxviii. 9. Itching cars denote an eagles; they thought to have secured excessive fondness to hear novelties, themselves by the almost inaccessi- quaint speeches, &c. 2 Tim. iv. 3. ble rocks of their country, Jer. xlix. Such as have cars and hear not, are 16. Obad. 4. To enlarge baldness as those that have opportunities of learnthe eagle, is to be bereaved of all ing God's truth, and have natural comfort, protection, and happiness, faculties to consider it, and yet never and to be oppressed with sorrow and apply them properly for that purpose, grief on that account, Mic. i. 16. Isa. xlii. 20. and xliii. S. Mark viii. Life and wealth pass away as flying 18.- -EAR, is also a head of corn, eagles; they go off quickly, cannot Exod. ix. 31. By seven fruitful ears, be stopped in their course; riches seven years of plenty, and by seven fly towards heaven, to accuse their blasted ears, seven years of famine, late abusers before God, and to re- were represented to Pharaoh, Gen. ceive fresh orders to whom they xli. 5, 22. To ear the ground, is to should go, Job ix. 26. Prov. xxiii. 5. plough it, Isa. xxx. 24. Exod. xxxiv. EAR, the instrument of hearing, 21.

and of knowledge received by that EARLY, (1.) Soon in the mornmeans. The servant who declined ing, Gen. xix. 2. (2.) Speedily, seato receive his freedom in the 7th sonably, earnestly, Psa. xc. 14. Prov. year, had his ear bored with an awl, viii. 17. Hos. v. 15. Jer. xliv. 4. to the post of his master's door, as EAR-RINGS, ornaments of gold, a token that he was to continue his silver, &c. hung in the ears. It was servant for ever, Exod. xxi. 6. common for both men and women, Deut. xv. 16, 17. God's cars, de-in the eastern countries, to wear

them, Gen. xxxv. 4.

Twice over quite round, the equatorial line of they were given to make idols of, longitude, or circumference from Exod. xxxii. 2. Judg. viii. 24. and east to west, being but about 107 twice they were made an offering to miles longer than the meridian line the Lord, Exod. xxxv. 22. Numb. of latitude, from north to south; nor xxxi. 50. do the mountains mar its roundish EARNEST, diligent, eager, vehe- form, a whit more than pin-heads ment, 2 Cor. vii. 7. and viii. 16. An would do that of a lemon. Its cirEARNEST, is something imparted on cumference, allowing almost 694 purpose to give assurance, that what miles to each of the 360 degrees, more is promised shall be given in is above 25,000 English miles; its due time. It differs from a pledge, diameter 7,957 miles; its surface as it is not taken back when full about 1994 millions of square miles; payment is made. The Holy Ghost its contents about 264 thousand miland his influences, are the earnest lions of solid miles. About threeof our inheritance; are of the same fourth parts of our globe, if not nature, though not degree, of our much more, are, for what is yet eternal happiness; and they give us known, covered with water; and assurance that if faithful until death, besides, there is a great depth of in due time it shall be bestowed water in the bowels of it, to which upon us, 2 Cor. i. 22. and v. 5. our earthly surface is instead of a Eph. i. 14.

To EARN, to gain by labour, Hag. i. 6.

shell, which seems to have been broken to pieces at the flood, that the waters of the great deep might gush forth and overflow the earth. Though probably there is a large continent in the South Seas, and of which New Holland is the north part; yet hither to we have only discovered the OLD continent, which comprehends Asia, Africa, and Europe: and the NEW, containing South and North America. Both continents together, according to some, contain about 50 or 54 mil

EARTH, (1.) That huge and gross body of dust, stones, &c. which supports our feet, and affords us nourishment, Gen. i. 10. (2.) The whole globe of earth and sea joined together, Gen. i. 1. (3.) The inhabitants of the earth, Gen. vi. 13. and xi. 1. Psa. xcvi. 1. or the wicked part of them, Isa. xi. 4. Rev. xiv. 3. (4.) A part of the earth, such as the land of Judea, the empire of Assy-lions of square miles. It is said, if ria, Babylon, or Persia; and in some the whole be divided into 300 parts, of these cases it had been more dis- Asia will have 101, America 90, tinct, if the word ERETZ had been Africa 82, and Europe 27. But on a translated land, Rom. ix. 28. Psa. more accurate inspection, the habitxlviii. 2. Isa. x. 14. Jer. li. 7, 25, able part of our globe amounts to 49. Zech. i. 14. Ezra i. 11. (5.) A 39 millions of square miles, and the low and debased condition, Rev. vi. seas and unknown countries to 160 13. and xii. 13. (6.) Carnal schemes, millions of square miles. It is obprojects, tempers, and enjoyments, servable,that for the better balancRev. xii. 4. and xiii. 11. John iii. 31. ing of the earth, if, on the old conEARTHEN, made of earth or dust, tinent, a line be drawn from the 2 Cor. iv. 7. EARTHY, OF EARTH-north-east point of Tartary to the LY, belonging to the earth; carnal, Cape of Good Hope, there will be John iii. 12. James iii. 15. Adam an almost equal quantity of land on and his seed, and the bodies of saints, either side. And the same thing are called earthy, or earthly, because will happen in America, if, in a conformed from the dust, and are mor- trary direction, a line be drawn from tal and corruptible, 1 Cor. xv. 47, the south-east point at Rio de la Pla48. 2 Cor. v. 1. ta, to far beyond the lakes northThe globe of our EARTH is almost west of Canada. It may also be ob

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served, that if the diurnal rotation of Asia was peopled by the posterity the earth were increased, the sea of Japheth, and the south by those would rise at the equator, and over- of Shem. Besides the terrible raflow the dry land there: or, if it vage and murder here committed were lessened, the sea would fall at in the erection of the Assyrian, the equator, and overflow the dry Chaldean, Persian, Arabian, Tarland near the poles. Nay, if the tarian, Turkish, and Chinese, emwhirling motion of the earth were pires, the western parts of Asia were exceedingly increased, the sea might reduced, and long held in subjecaltogether fly from off the earth, tion, by the Egyptians, Greeks, and as water does from a grind-stone Romans, in their turns. At present when it is fast whirled; but God, chiefly Heathenism reigns in the eastby a proper balance of gravity and ern part of it, and Mahometanism in centrifugence, hath shut it up with the west, Christianity has scarcely doors, even with doors and bars, Job any proper establishment: and, exXxxviii. 8, 10. cept in China and Mogulistan, nay,

Asia lies on the east side of the old even there, the inhabitants are gene continent, between the third and 72d rally in a most wretched condition, degree of north latitude, and between as to the outward enjoyments of life. the 26th and 180th degree of east Africa lies to the south-west of Asia, longitude, and is about 6,000 miles and south of Europe; it is almost wholfrom east to west, and almost 5,000 ly separated from the former on the from north to south, and contains east, by the Indian ocean and Red about 10,257,487 square miles, and Sea, and wholly from the latter on 500 millions of inhabitants. Tartary the north, by the Mediterranean Sea. stretches itself along the north side. It lies between the 35th or 37th deOn the east, southward of Tartary, gree of north, and 35th of south laare the rich and populous empires of titude, and the 51st of east, and 18th Japan and China; and south of the of west longitude from London; so latter, Cochin-china, Tonquin, Pegu, that it forms a kind of triangle, and is Malacca, and other kingdoms of In-about 4,320 miles in length from dia beyond the Ganges. On the north to south, and 4,200 in breadth west of this is the large empire of from east to west, and contains the Moguls, the public revenue of 3,506,208 square miles, and 150 which amounts yearly to about 40 millions of inhabitants. It was prinmillions sterling. Northward of it, cipally peopled by the descendants is another large empire of Iran or of Ham. It has generally been a Persia. To the west of Persia is scene of slavery, ignorance, and Arabia. The rest of the western wretchedness. Nor, except Egypt parts, including Canaan, Syria, Me- and Ethiopia on the east, and Carsopotamia, Chaldea, Assyria, Arme- thage on the north, has any state nia, and Lesser Asia, belong mostly formed therein made any remarkato the Turks. Asia is not only the ble figure in history. To relate the largest part of the world, but has ravage and murder committed in the been the most honoured. Here man north parts of it, now distinguished was created; paradise planted; the into Egypt, Barbary, and Morocco, Jewish church for thousands of years by the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Rosubsisted; our Saviour tabernacled mans, Vandals, Arabs, or Moors; or with men; and his apostles chiefly those committed in the midst of the preached: here Noah and his sons country by the Imbii, Galles, and were saved by the ark; and from Giagas; or the horrid manner of hence the rest of the world was carrying on the slave-trade with the twice peopled. Laws, arts, sciences, Europeans on the west coasts; or and religion, almost all had their ori- the stupid brutality of the inhabitants gin in Asia. The north part of in the south part, nay, through almost