to his brother; or Demetrius, to whom the kingdom of Syria belonged; or rather Ptolemy king of Egypt, with whom he had just before made a league, Dan. xi. 22. A PRINCESS is the wife or daughter of a king. Jerusalem is so called, because the capital city of Judea, and a principal city in that part of the world, Lam.i.1. PRINCIPAL; chiefest, best, Exod. xxx. 25. The principal of the flock, are the chief men of a nation, their rulers and rich people, Jer. xxv. 34. The principal to be restored, is the thing stolen, or the value thereof, Lev. vi. 5. Numb. v. 7. PRINCIPALITY, (1.) Royal state, or the attire of the head marking the same, Jer. xiii. 18. (2.) Chief rulers, Tit. iii. 1. (3.) Good angels, Eph. i. 21. and iii. 10 (4.) Bad angels, Eph. vi. 12. Col. ii. 15. dies, prohibited in the laws were made by cutting the flesh, and filling the incision with stibium, ink, or other colours, Lev. xix. 28. God sets a print on men's heels, when he angrily observes their fault, and takes care to prevent their escape from trouble, Job xiii. 27. PRISON; a place for confining mad people or evil-doers, Luke xxiii. 19. To it are compared whatever tends to restrict liberty, and render one disgraced and wretched; as (1.) A low, obscure, and afflicted condition, Eccl. iv. 14.; (2.) The state of restraint wherein God keeps Satan from seducing mankind, Rev. xx. 7. j. (3.) The state of spiritual thraldom in which sinners are kept by the curse of the law, and by Satan and their own lusts, Isa. xlii. 7.; (4.) The grave out of which men cannot move, and in which they are shut up. as evil-doers, Isa. liii. 8. Perhaps, in allusion to this, David calls the cave in which he was, as if one buried alive, a prison, Psal. cxlii. 7.; (5.) Hell, where damned sinners are shamefully and miserably, but firmly confined, I Pet. iii. 19. Such as are shut up in any of these, or are in a captive condition, are called PRISONERS, Isa. xlix. 9. Psal. Ixix. 33. Job iii. 18. Paul was a prisoner of Christ, in bonds and imprisonment for his adherence to Christ's truths, Eph, iii, PRINCIPLE; a point of belief. The first principles of the oracles of Christ, are such truths as must be understood and believed, in order to introduce us into a further acquaintance with divine truth: Such as, that in every thing, we ought to make the glory of God, and the enjoyment of him, as our chief end, and make his word the standard of all we believe and do in religion; that there is one God in three persons, who hath purposed, created, and does preserve and govern all things; that man having fallen from his happy state of holi-1. The Jews in Babylon, and these ness and covenant friendship with God, is absolutely incapable to recover himself, but his salvation must be purchased with Jesus' blood, and graciously applied by his holy Spirit ; that being united to Christ, and justified, adopted, and sanctified, we must perfect holiness in the fear of God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless, Heb. V. 12. PRINT; a deep and observable mark, Job xx. 25. According to the Jews, the marks upon men's bo sinners invited to Jesus Christ, are prisoners of hope; the promise secured deliverance to the former; it offers deliverance to the latter, Zech. ix. 12. PRIVATE; secret, apart from others, Matth. xxiv. 3. No scripture is of private interpretation; it is not to be explained according to men's own particular fancy, but according to the analogy of faith, or common declaration of other scriptures, and by the direction of the Holy Ghost, and those meet-helps he has openly granted to the church, 2 Pet. i. 20. * PRIVY; (1.) Secret, hidden, | Deut. xxiii. 1. (2.) Conscious and consenting, Acts v. 2. To bring in 2. To bring in damnable heresies privily, is to introduce them by little aud little, or under a shew of knowledge, holiness, or gospel-liberty, hiding the real meaning and tendency thereof, 2 Pet. ii. 1. The PRIZE in races, &c. is the reward given to him who outruns or does more than the rest, 1 Cor. ix. | 24. The prize of the high-calling of God in Christ Jesus, is everlasting happiness in heaven. It is the reward that God in Christ promises graciously to give to his people, to encourage them in their spiritual race and warfare; and which he for Jesus' sake gives them, after they have finished their course, Phil. iii. 14. CLAMATION, is the giving of public notice of the will of a superior, by an herald or crier, Dan. v. 29. PROCURE; to get, bring on, Jer. ii. 17. Prov. xi. 27. PRODUCE; to bring forth. To produce our cause, and bring forth our strong reasons before God, is to say all we justly can in defence of our selves and our conduct, Isa. xli. 21. PROFANE; not holy, but allowed for common use, Ezek. xlii. 20. and xlviii. 15. Profane fables or babblings, are notions or speeches, obscene, Heathenish, and tending to bring reproach on the true religion, 1 Tim. iv. 9. and vi. 20. Profane persons, are such as defile themselves by shameful actions, particularly a contempt of things sacred, Lev. xxi 7. Ezek. xxi. 25. Esau rendered himself profane, by despising his birth right, and the promise of the Messiah thereto annexed, Heb. xii. 16. To POLLUTE things, is to defile them; and to PROFANE, is to use them as base or common, Lev. xxii. 15. Ezek. xxiv. 21. God and his name are pro PROCEED; (1.) To go out from, Isa. vi. 10. (2.) To go forward in a journey, a speech, or course of actions, 2 Tim. iii. 9. Job xl. 5. Acts xii. 3. Christ proceeded from the Father; he was begotten by him as his Son, received from him his mediatorial commission, and camefaned or polluted, when any thing into the world by his appointment, John viii. 42. The proceeding of the Holy Ghost from the Father and Son, denotes his inconceivable relation to these persons as prior to himself in order of subsistence, and his acting by commission from them in the application of redemption, John xvi. 26. Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good; he commands and effects no evil of sin, but only good, Lam. iii. 38. In PROCESS of time; after many days, Gen. xxxviii. 12.; perhaps on the Sabbath, the end of the week, Gen. iv. 3. PROCLAIM; to give public notice of a matter, that all may know it. The name of the Lord is proclaimed, when his excellencies and nighty works are openly and loudly declared, Exod. xxxiii. 19. A PRO whereby he makes himself known, as his authority, ordinances, &c. are used in an irreverent manner, and to promote some sinful end of error or wickedness, Lev. xviii. 21. Ezek. xiii. 9. God's Sabbaths, sanctuary, ordinances and statutes, are profaned, when not used in the manner he requires, but improven to promote carnal or idolatrous purposes, Lev. xxì. 12. and xxii. 7. Neh. xii. 17. Psal. ixxxix. 31. Ezek. xx. 13. Zeph. iii. 4. Jer. vii. 30. God profaned the princes of his sanctuary, and polluted his people, when he gave up the Jewish priests and the people to the power of their enemies, and punished them with the most debasing distress, Isa. xliii. 28. and xlvii. 6. The Jews profaned the holiness of the Lord, when they prostituted themselves, who were his people, to sinful courses; when and x. 23. Timothy professed a good profession; in his baptism and ordination, and in his preaching of the gospel, he solemnly avowed his belief of, and resolved adherence to, the precious and useful truths of God, PROFIT; (1.) To grow better, to become more intelligent and strict, to improve in gifts and grace, Gal. i, 14. 1 Tim. iv. 15. (2.) To make better, Heb. ix. 2. Our good works profit men, as they promote their conviction, conversion, holiness, or comfort; but they cannot profit God by rendering him better or happier, Tit iii. 8. Job xxii. 2. and xxxv. 8. Luke xvii. 10. they used his temple and altar in irreverent and idolatrous worship, and so poured contempt on the holiness of his nature; And they profaned his covenant when they haughtily boasted of it, and, contrary to the obligations thereof, gave up them-1 Tim. vi. 12. selves to wicked practices, Mal. ii. 10. The Chaldeans polluted God's secret place, when they entered into and burnt the temple, the Holy of holies not excepted, Ezek. vii. 21. Antiochus Epiphanes polluted the sanctuary of strength, when he set up in the Jewish temple the image of Jupiter, and offered swines flesh, made it a garrison for his soldiers, and so a place of revelling and whoredom, Dan. xi. 31.; and so Antichrist pol- PROFOUND; deep. To be prolutes the church with idolatry, super-found to make slaughter, is to be firmstition, and every other wicked-ly resolved, deeply engaged, thoness. The Jewish priests profaned roughly skilled, and earnestly industhe Sabbath, and were blameless; they trious, to commit murder in the most killed their sacrifices on it as if it subtle and secret manner, Hos. v. 2. had been a common day, Matth. xii. PROGENITORS; forefathers, 6. The Jews profaned their fruit. Gen. xlix. 26. trees, when on the fifth year they eat their fruit as a common food, Deut. xx. + 6. Jer. xxxi. † 5. The high priest profaned himself, when, by defiling himself for his deceased relations, he disgraced his character, and made himself appear as a common person, Lev. xxi. 4. A woman profaned herself, when, by turning whore, she rendered herself common, base, and contemptible, Lev. xix. 7. A priest's daughter profaned her father, when, by her whoredom, she brought a stain on his character, Lev. xxi. 9. The pollutions of this world, are the more gross and scandalous sins which wicked men use to live in, PROGNOSTICATORS; such as pretend to foretel the various events of the months of the year, Isa. xlvii. 13. PROLONG; (1.) To make long, Deut. iv. 26. (2.) To stay long in a place, Numb. ix. † 19. God's words are prolonged, when it is a long time before they be fulfilled, Ezek. xii. 25, 28. The fear of the Lord prolongeth life: an holy conversation prevents intemperance and rash and sinful conduct, which tend to shorten men's life; and God, if it is for his honour, leathens out the days of such as fear him, Prov. x. 27. Wicked men prolong not the perfection of riches; God cuts them off ere they PROFESS; to declare openly and get their wealth brought to any consolemnly, Deut. xxvi. 3. Matth. vii.siderable or intended pitch, Job xv. 20. 23. PROFESSION is either, (1.) The truths of God which we openly avow our belief of and adherence to: or, (2.) Our act of boldly avowing these truths, Heb. iii. 1. and iv. 14. 2 Pet. ii. 20. PROMISE; (1.) An engagement to bestow some benefit, 2 Pet. ii. 19.; so God's promise is his declaration of his readiness to bestow his favours on men, 1 Kings viii. 56. (2) The good thing promised; so the Holy Ghost, in his saving and miraculous operations, is the promise of the Father, Acts i. 4. Eternal life in heaven is called the promises; it is the thing promised in many of them, Heb. vi. 12. The promise to the Jews and their seed, and every one called by the gospel, is God's offer and engagement to be their God, and to render them his people, Acts ii, 39. Isaac was, by promise, procreated by God's fulfilment of his promise to his parents, not by their natural strength for generation, Gal. iv. 23. Promises are given, when set before us in the scripture, that we may believe them, and plead the fulfilment thereof; and their being given, denotes their being granted to us freely, sovereignly, and irrevocably, 2 Pet. ii. 4. To obtain or receive promises, is to enjoy the fulfilment thereof in receiving the good things promised, Heb. vi. 15. and xi. 39. The fifth commandment is the first with promise; it is the first of the second table, and is the first that has a promise of long life and prosperity to such as are obedient to itself, Eph. vi. 2. The promises of God are either absolute, whose fulfilment depends on no condition to be performed by us; and, to manifest the exceeding riches of God's grace, these are generally directed to men, as sinful, guilty, polluted, hard-hearted, poor, godless, &c. 1 Tim. i. 15. Isa. i. 18. and xliii. 25. and lv. 6, 7. Zech. xiii. 1, 8, 9. Ezek. xxxvi. 25, to 29. Isa. xlvi. 12, 13. Psal. lxxii. 12, 13, 14. Jer. xxx. 22, and xxxi. 33.; and some of them, as the promises of Christ's incarnation and death, have properly no condition at all: or conditional, when the fulfilment thereof depends on some act or quality in us, as if we believe, repent, pray, &c. Every one of these conditions required of us is promised in some absolute pro mise, and thus at once free grace reigns in the whole of the gospelscheme; and yet, by making such duties conditions of connection with some further privileges, holiness is mightily encouraged. Some promises relate to outward things, as of health, strength, food, raiment, peace, comfort, success to men and to their seed, Prov. iii. 7, 8. Psal. ciii. 5. and xxxvii. 3, 11. Deut. x. 18. Job v. 24. Psal. xci. 10. and cxxi. 8. Job xi. 18, 19. Prov. iii. 24. Ps. cxxviii. 2, 3. Deut. xxviii. 4, 5, 12. Psal. i. 3. and ciii. 17. and cii. 28. and xlv. 16. and xxxiv. 12, 13. Isa. lvii. 1. Prov. x. 7, 22. Psal. xxiii. 5, 6. Job xxii. 24, 25, 26. Deut. viii. 10. Joel ii. 26. Gen. xii. 2. Deut. xxvi. 11. Some promises relate to God's preventing, moderating, and shortening men's affliction, supporting them under, and delivering them from afflictions, and bringing good out of them, Psal. cxxi. 7. Job v. 19. Isa. xxvii. 8. Jer. xlvi. 28. Ps. xxv. 3. Mark xiii. 19, 20. Gen. xv. 1. Ezek. xi. 16. Ps. xxxvii. 24. 1 Cor. xii. 9. Isa. xliii. 2. Ps. xli. 3. Deut. vii. 15. Exod. xxiii. 25. Mat. xix. 29. and x. 39. and v. 11, 12, 1 Pet. iv. 19. Psal. xii. 5. and lxviii. 5. Jer. xxxiii. 3. Isa. xxvii. 9. Psal. xcvii. 11. Zech. xiii. 9. But the principal promises relate to the spiritual good things; as, of union to Christ, Hos. ii. 19, 20. Isa. liv. 5. ; of the Spirit, Ezek. xxxvii. 27. Prov. i. 24. ; justification, Isa. i. 18. and xlii. 25. and xliv. 22. and xlv. 24, 25.; adoption, Jer. iii. 19. 2 Cor. vi. 18; sanctification, change of nature and life, Ezek. xi. 19, 20, and xxxvi. 26, 27.; of spiritual knowledge, Prov. ii. 3,-6. James i. 5.; of faith, John vi. 37. Eph. ii. 8.; of repentance, Rom. xi. 26. Ezek. xvi. 62, 63. and xx. 43.; of love to God, 2 Thess. iii, 5. Deut. xxx. 6.; or filial fear of God, Hos. iii. 5. Jer. xxxii. 39, 40.; of new obedience, Deut. xxx. S.; of hope, PRONOUNCE; (1.) To declare plainly, as a judge doth a sentence, Lev. v. 4. (2.) To express the sound of a word, Judg. xii. 6. PROOF; a clear token of the truth or excellency of things, 2 Cor. viii. 24. and ii. 9. One makes full proof of his ministry, when by various essays his hearers have sufficient evidence given them that he is gifted and sent of God, 2 Tim. iv. 5. PROPER; (1.) Belonging to one's self, 1 Chron. xxix. 3. (2.) Handsome, agreeable, Heb. xi. 23.; and hence the qualities of a thing are called its properties. praises and worship of God, 1 Cor. xi. 5. The prophesying of Christ's two witnesses, denotes both the preaching and the open profession of his truths, in opposition to the delusions of Antichrist, Rev. xi. 3. A PROPHET is, (1.) One who foretels future events, Amos iii. 6. (2.) One who explains obscure mysteries or passages of scripture, under a peculiar direction of the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. xiv. 26. (3.) One who is under special influence of the Spirit, 1 Sam. xix. 24. (4.) A false pretender to speak under inspiration, Jer. xxix. 15.; and so the Heathen poets are called prophets, because they were supposed to speak under divine influence, Tit. i. 12. (5.) One who declares the mind of another to the people; so Aaron was the prophet of Moses, Exod. vii. 1. (6.) The inspired books of the Old Tes tament are called the prophets, besides the books of Moses, or besides these and the Psalms, Luke xvi. 31. and xxiv. 27, 44. Anciently, prophets were called seers, because they had more knowledge than others, 1 Sam. ix. 9. Sometimes God revealed his mind to the prophets by dreams, voices, visions; or some. times he did it by an efficacious impression of his will on their under standing, and an excitement of their will to declare it to others. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Samuel, Gad, Nathan, David, Solomon, Iddo, Ahijah, Shemaiah, the Man of God from Judah, Azariah, Hanani, Jehu, Elijah, Micaiah, Eleazar, Elisha, Joaah, Amos, Hosea, Joel, Isaiah, Mi PROPHECY; (1.) A declaration of future things, Neh. vi. 12. (2.) A declaration of hidden, ob-cah, Oded, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zescure, and important things, Prov. phaniah, Jeremiah, Urijah, Ezekiel, xxx. 1. (3.) The preaching of the Obadiah, Daniel, Haggai, Zechagospel, 1 Tim. iv. 14. Rom. xii. 6. riah, Malachi, Zacharias, Simeon, (4.) The gift of explaining obscure John Baptist, and Agabus, are mark. passages of scripture, or of foretelling ed as true and pious prophets.A things to come, 1 Cor. xii. 10. and PROPHETESS signified not only the xiii. 8. (5.) To join in the public wife of a prophet, as Isa. viii. 3. |