in Dothan. Therefore sent he thither horses and 235 As Raphael An arch-angel, to whom Milton gives the title of the sociable and friendly. 242 Livelier than Maliboean, 242 A city of Thessaly, on the sea coast, famous for the art of dying the finest purple, by means of a shell fish called Perpuna and Osheem, which they caught in the sea near. This beautiful colour was found by accident at Tyre: an hungry dog, it is said, broke a shell by the sea side and eat the fish, which left the colour on his mouth. Hence they became masters of that art, and the colour became valuable as gold, and it was the distinguishing mark of emperors, &c. or the grain Of Sarra, A town of Phænicia, the same as Tyre, famous for their dying purple. Hence, came the name of sarranus, often applied to Tyrian colours. 243 Iris had dipt the woof; Iris, the rainbow, a natural meteor in the clouds, caused by the reflection of the rays of 337 359 the sun upon them; therefore it appears only in rainy weather. The Almighty made it a sign of his covenant with Noah, that the earth should never again be drowned. and ev'ry kind that lives, Fomented by his virtual pow'r and warm'd : In him we live, and move, and have our being. His power created all, and by his goodness all are supported. Acts, xvii. 28. Let us consider ourselves as his offspring, honouring him and loving him as the great Father of our spirits; and since we have so necessary and uninterrupted a dependance upon him; since in him we live, move and exist continually, let all the affections of our hearts, and all the actions of our lives, be consecrated to his service. supernal grace contending With sinfulness of men ; 361 The Lord hath said, by his prophet, and ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. and to temper joy with fear And pious sorrow, Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their Psalms, ii. 11, 12. trust in him. So both ascend In the visions of God: And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head, and the spirit lift me between the earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem. Ezek. viii. 3. 383 Our second Adam in the wilderness, The first man Adam, when God had breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, was made a living soul, so that even in the original state of rectitude and felicity in which man was created, he was made capable of, and fitted to, an animal life here upon earth,; whereas the Lord Jesus by virtue of the influence he has upon all his seed, as their spiritual Head and great federal Representative, may well be called the second or latter Adam, he came originally from the heavenly world, to which he is returned; and whatever of earth there was in the composition of the body he condescended to wear, it is now completely purified and refined into the most glorious form. 388 Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian Can The principal city of Cathay, a province of Tartary, the ancient seat of the Chams. 389 And Samarch and A river that rises in Tartary, and falls into the Caspian sea. Temir's throne, The birth place and royal residence of Tamerlane. Like Alexander the Great, he subdued more kingdoms in thirty-five years than the Romans did in eight hundred, and boasted he had three parts of the world under his power, he died in 1405. 390 To Paquin, of Sinean kings, Paquin, or Pekin, the royal city of China, 391 To Agra, 391 The capital city of the province of Agra, or Hindostan, in India, where the Mogul frequently resides. and Lahor of great Mogul The capital of the province of Lahor; it was once the seat of the Mogul empire, but since its removal, has gradually fallen to decay. Mogul or white, because they are descended from Moghul Tartars, or some white men who invaded India, and erected a kingdom in Bengal, about A. D. 1187. The present Mogul is of the race of Tamerlane. 392 Down to the golden Chersonese The Chersonese, so called by the ancients, is the Peninsula of Malacca. 393 The Persian in Ectaban sat, The emperor of Persia whose royal seat was at In Moscow, or where the Russian Ksar Ksar, Czar, or Tzar, the Czar of Muscovy, in 395 Or the Sultan in Bizance The grand signior in Constantinople, so called from Constantine the Great, who rebuilt, enlarged, and beautified it, and made it the royal seat of the Roman empire, A. D. 300. Its former name Byzantium. 396 Turchestan born From the country of the Turks, a province of Zagathaian Tartary, lying between Great Tartary and the empire of the great Mogul, on the east of Catha, having Tartaria propria on the north, and Indostan on the south. 397 Th' empire of Negus The Upper Ethiopia, or the land of the Abyssinians, subject to one sovran, stiled in their language, Negus, or king. 398 Ercoco, A sea port town of Ethiopia on the Red Sea, with a fine harbour, the north east boundary of the Abyssinian empire. 399 Mombaza A large city, the capital of a small kingdom of the same name, in a small island near the line in the eastern ocean, now subject to the king of Mombassa, who calls himself the emperor of the world. and Quiloa, A capital city upon a river of the same name, between Mosambique and Melind, the east shore of Africa, near Zanguebar, in Ethiopia Inferior. The kings of Quiola were masters of Mombaza, Melind, and some adjacent islands; the Arabs first traded amongst them, then the Mahometans, at present the Portuguese. 400 And Sofala thought Ophir, Sofala, a petty kingdom in Lower Ethiopia, |
