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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London :: Printed by W[illiam] Iaggard,
1612.
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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 27, 2025.

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Wildernes sig▪ pro

A wast and desart place, not inhabited. Psalme 95, 8. As in the Wildernesse. Psalme 107, 33, And 35. Mat. 15, 33. Whence shall we haue so much bread in the Wildernesse?

2 A Countrey full of Hils, Mountaines, and Forrests, like to a Wildernesse. Math. 3, 1. He prea∣ched in the Wildernesse of Iudea. This Wildernesse had some Inhabitants. Zachary dwelt there. Luke

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1, 40. Also, Ioab had his house there. 1 Kinges 2, 34. And there are sixe Townes being in this Wil∣dernesse, rehearsed in Iosh. 15, 61. Therefore, from hence there is no ground for Popish Heremites, that liue in solitary places.

3 The Countrey of Heathen and Pagan peo∣ple, which were void of grace, and barren in good workes (as a Wildernesse.) Esay 35, 1. The Wilder∣nesse shall reioyce. And 41, 18. I will make the Wilder∣nesse (as a poole of water.) A Metaphor.

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