A Christian dictionarie Opening the signification of the chiefe words dispersed generally through Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, tending to increase Christian knowledge. Whereunto is annexed, a perticular dictionary for the Reuelation of S. Iohn. For the Canticles or Song of Salomon. For the Epistle to the Hebrues. By Tho: Wilson minister of the Word, at Saint Georges in Canterbury.
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- A Christian dictionarie Opening the signification of the chiefe words dispersed generally through Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, tending to increase Christian knowledge. Whereunto is annexed, a perticular dictionary for the Reuelation of S. Iohn. For the Canticles or Song of Salomon. For the Epistle to the Hebrues. By Tho: Wilson minister of the Word, at Saint Georges in Canterbury.
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- Wilson, Thomas, 1563-1622.
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"A Christian dictionarie Opening the signification of the chiefe words dispersed generally through Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, tending to increase Christian knowledge. Whereunto is annexed, a perticular dictionary for the Reuelation of S. Iohn. For the Canticles or Song of Salomon. For the Epistle to the Hebrues. By Tho: Wilson minister of the Word, at Saint Georges in Canterbury." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15520.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.
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Q. V.
Quarrell. sig:
STrife, or controuersie, betweene man and man. Col. 3, 13. If any man haue a Quarrell to another.
2 An action or Controuersie between God and vs. Micah 6, 2 The Lord hath a Quarrell against his people.
Queene. sig: pro
A woman maried to a King, as Bethsheba to Da∣uid: Iezabel to Achab.
2 The true Church, espoused vnto Christ the King of his people, as to an Husband. Psalme 45, 9. Upon thy right hand doth stand the Queen. Cant. 6, 8
3 The false Anti-christian Church, boasting of her might, riches, and pompe. Reuel. 18, 7. I sit be∣ing a Queene: I am no widdow.
the Queen of heauen. sig:
The worke of Heauen (so Tremellius translates it out of the Haebrew) or heauenly and Caelestiall things; as the Sun, Moone, Starres, and other hea∣uenly bodies. Ier. 7, 18. To make Cakes to the Queen of heauen.
to Quench. sig: pro
Either somewhat to slake the heate of the fire, or else wholy to put it out.
2 To loose some fruits and effects of the spirite, and to abate the working of grace; as if one should somewhat slake the heate, and lessen the light of the fire, 1 Thess 5, 19. Quench not the Spirit. Thus the Godly by their security, Quench the Spirit.
3 To loose wholy the grace of the spirit which once he had; as if one should put out fire with wa∣ter.
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Thus the wicked, by their obstinacy in sinne, Quench the spirit, as Saule and Iudas did. 1 Thess. 5, 19. Quench not the Spirit. And thus a godly per∣son neuer can quench the spirit; for the Spirit abi∣deth in them for euer. Iohn 14. And 1 Iohn 3. The seede of God remaineth in them. Of this seede, Peter saith, it is immortall. 1 Pet. 1, verse last. Also Christ maketh request for beleeuers.
Question. sig:
A demaund, or asking; which when it is of things necessary to be knowne, out of a desire to learne, it is good; otherwise, it is either vaine or foolish. Tim. 3, 23. Foolish Questions of vanitie es∣chew.
to quicken. sig: pro
To giue life to the dead, or to reuiue that which is dying.
2 To put the life of grace into a soule dead in trespasses and sinnes, when one spiritually dead, is made to liue to God by the life of faith. Ephe. 2, 1, 5. You hath he quickned, which were dead in tres∣passes and sinnes.
3 To put heart and comfort by deliuerance, into such as haue greefe and feare thorough great dangers. Psal. 119, 149, 154. Quicken mee accor∣ding to thy word.