bers are instruments to execute it. should, live unto God, Luke xx. 37, When the renewed soul loves and 38. Amidst all his trouble, Job cleaves to Jesus Christ, the tongue firmly believed, not that he would utters his praise, and the other have a return to prosperity in this bodily members labour, or endure life, for this he did not, Job vi. 8, 9. suffering for his sake. If these dif- and vii. 7, 8. and x. 21, 22. and xvi. ferent parts of human nature share 22. and xvii. 1, 15. and xix. 10. thus in actions good or bad, it is rea- and his words are too grand to exsonable they should share together of press such an event; but that at the the everlasting reward or punish- last day his Redeemer should raise ment; and hence the body must be him from the dead, and make him, restored to life, and re-united to the in his flesh, in the very same body he soul never more to be separated. The then had, to see God as his friend and dying of seeds that they may re- portion, Job xix. 25, 26, 27. With vive and grow up, the revival of wi- the view of this God comforts his thered trees and roots in the spring, church, Isa. xxvi. 19. and Dan. xii. 2, are a natural presage of this resur- 3. In the New Testament, this truth rection, John xii. 24. 1 Cor. xv. is evidently asserted in a multitude 36. The translation of Enoch and of texts, Luke xiv. 13. John vi. 39, Elias to heaven, both soul and body; 40, 44, 54. and xi. 24-26. and xiv. the restoration of many to life by the 19. Acts iv. 2. and xvii. 18. and hands of Elijah, Elisha, and of Christ xxvi. 8. Rom. viii. 11. 1 Cor. vi. and his apostles; but chiefly the re- 14. and xv. 2 Cor. i. 9. and iv. 14. surrection of Jesus Christ from the 1 Thess. iv. 14. 2 Tim. iv. 1. Heb. dead, are incontestable proofs here- vi. 2. and Rev. xx. 12, 13. That the of. Jesus rose as the first fruits of same body will be raised, is evithem that slept; to mark which, dent from the reasons above-mennumbers of dead bodies of saints tioned, as well as from the very naarose about the same time, who it is ture of a resurrection; for, if the scarcely probable ever returned to same body were not raised, it could corruption, 1 Cor. xv. 20. Matt. be no resurrection, but a new creaxxvii. 52, 53. In his resurrection tion. It is their body that was once he exerted his own divine power, and vile, mortal, diseased, and dead, and was solemnly owned by his Father that bore the image of the earthly as his only begotten Son, Rom. i. 4. Adam, that shall be raised, changed, Acts xiii. 25. He rose for our justi- and glorified, Phil. iii. 21. Rom. viii. fication, as therein he was discharged 11. Job xix. 26, 27. John v. 28. of all debt which he had taken on 1 Cor. xv. 42, 43, 51, 53, 54. That himself, and exalted to be a Prince the saints' bodies shall rise first, and and Saviour to give repentance and be rendered glorious like unto Christ's forgiveness of sins, Rom. iv. 25. glorified body, and spiritual, so as to and he is the resurrection and the life; be no clog to the soul, is also plain. the spring and cause of our spiritual The vain questions concerning the resurrection from a state of sin; of time of the resurrection, the apparent our revivals after sinful languishing difficulties of raising the same body, and distress, and will be of our hap- and the difference of sex in them py resurrection at the last day, John that are raised, I dismiss as frivolous xi. 25. That there shall be a future and impertinent. Nothing that is resurrection of the dead in general, proper is impossible for the power is also evident from many passages of and wisdom of God to effect. But scripture. God showed the truth here- let us know and earnestly rememof to Moses at the bush, in calling ber, that by the resurrection of life, himself the God of the patriarchs af- the godly shall, first in order, and in ter they were dead; which imported a glorious manner, be raised to enthat their souls did, and their bodies joy everlasting happiness; and by

the resurrection of damnation, the when it began anew in the season, wicked shall rise to everlasting shame and in the sacred reckonings of the and torment; for while hell shall Jews, 1 Kings xx. 22. In returngive up their departed souls, the sea ing and rest, ye shall be saved; by and earth shall produce their dead means of returning to God in Christ bodies, John v. 28, 29. Rev. xx. 12, by faith and repentance, and by rest13, 14. ing quietly on him as your support and deliverer, without going to Egypt for help, shall ye have deliverance, Isa. xxx. 15. Let them return to thee, but return thou not to them; let them hearken to thy words, and follow thy pattern; but comply not thou with them in their courses, nor flatter them in their sins, Jer. xv. 19.

REU, or RAGAU, his shepherd, companion, friend, the son of Peleg, and father of Serug, was born, A. M. 1787, and died A. M. 2026, Gen. xi. 18.

RETAIN, to hold fast in one's power or possession, Judg. vii. 8. and xix. 14. God retaineth not his anger for ever; he will not always continue to punish and afflict, Mic. vii. 18. Wicked men like not to retain God in their knowledge; they are not inclined to cherish and increase proper notions of God, and the impressions of his greatness, goodness, and justice, on their conscience, Rom. i. 28. Sins are retained when the sinner is continued under censure or condemnation, John xx. 23. REUBEN, the vision of his son, the Bernice did not retain the power of the eldest son of Jacob by Leah, born arms did not by her marriage esta- A. M. 2246. When he was very blish a firm union between the two young, he found dudaim, which we kingdoms of Egypt and Syria: nor render mandrakes, in the field, about did she long maintain her interest in the time of wheat harvest. These the favour of her husband Antiochus his mother sold to Rachel who covetTheos; for he, after the death of her ed them, for her night with Jacob. father Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of When he was about 40 years of age, Egypt, divorced her, and retook Lao- he, to the great grief of his father, dice, by whom he himself, Bernice, committed incest with his concubine, and her child and friends, were soon but seems to have deeply repented after murdered, Dan. xi. 6. of it. Though Joseph stood fair to RETIRE, to march backward, to come between him and his father's go aside, Judg. xx. 39. inheritance, he did all that in him lay RETURN, (1.) To go back to the to preserve Joseph in safety. He place from whence one came, Exod. entreated the rest of his brethren not xiii. 17. (2.) To come again, 2 to murder him. With a view to Chron. xviii. 26. (3.) To requite, protect him, he persuaded them to 1 Kings ii. 32, 44. (4.) To rehearse, throw him into a dry pit, and leave tell over, Exod. xix. 8. God returns him there to die of his own accord. to men, when, after sore judgments While he took a round-about turn and afflictions, he bestows fresh fa- to draw him out and send him home, vours upon them, Psal. vi. 4. Joel ii. his brethren had taken him thence, 14. He returns on high, when he, and sold him to the Midianites. as a judge, gives sentence for his When he found he was removed, he people, and against their enemies, rent his clothes, and was deeply disand displays his authority and power tressed on his account. When afterin the execution of it, Psal. vii. 7.wards Joseph's rough usage of them Meu return to God, when they re- brought them to a sense of their guilt pent of their sinful wandering out of concerning his blood, Reuben rethe way of his commandments, and minded them how obstinately deaf begin anew to obey and serve him, they were to all entreaties for the preIsa. x. 21. Ezek. xviii. 21. The reservation of his life. When his faturn of the year, is the spring-tide, ther refused to let Benjamin go with

them into Egypt, he offered to forfeit this was at first mistaken by the the life of his two sons if he did not other tribes: and Phinehas, and a bring him safely back. In his last variety of princes, were sent to benediction, Jacob told him, that for expostulate with them about this his incest he should lose his birth-matter, as they took it to be a step right, and should never excel, Gen. towards apostacy from the worship xxix. 32. and xxx. 14. and xxxv. of God; but when they heard the 22. and xlii. 22. and xxxvii. 29, 30. true design of erecting the altar, and xlii. 21, 22, 37. and xlix. 3, 4. they were satisfied. According to 1 Chron. v. 1. the predictions of Jacob and Moses, His sons were Hanoch, Pallu, Hez- this tribe never excelled, there neron, and Carmi, all of whom were ver being any noted person in it; parents of considerable families, and they lay much exposed to eneNumb. xxvi. 5, 6. When the Reu- mies, the Moabites on the south, benites came out of Egypt, their the Ammonites on the east, and the number, fit for war, amounted to Syrians from the north, Numb. xxvi. 46,500, under the command of Eli-5, 6. and i. 5, 21. and x. 18, 21. and zur the son of Shedeur. They, with xvi. and xxxii. Josh. xxii. Deut. their brethren of Simeon and Gad, xxxiii. 6. In the days of Deborah, formed the second division in the the Reubenites were so embarrassed march of the Hebrews, and went with intestine broils or foreign invajust before the ark. Their spy for sions, that they could send no assearching the promised land, was sistance to Barak. During the reign Shammua the son of Zacchur. Da- of Saul, they, probably under the than, Abiram, and On, who rebelled command of Bela the son of Azaz, against Moses and Aaron, along with conquered a tribe of the Hagarites Korah, were of this tribe. In the on the east of Gilead, and seized on plains of Moab, their warriors their country. Of them and their amounted to 43,730. When Moses brethren, the Gadites and Manasseized the kingdoms of Sihon and sites, to the number of 120,000, atOg, the Reubenites and Gadites, tended at David's coronation. In observing how proper the country that period, Eliezer the son of Zichri was for their vast numbers of flocks was their governor, and Adina the and herds, begged to have it as their son of Shiza was one of David's portion. At first Moses refused; but worthies. Hazael king of Syria teron their proposing to assist their bre-ribly ravaged their country; but it thren with all their force in the con- seems that afterward, in the reign of quest of western Canaan, he granted Jeroboam II. they and their brethren the country to them and the half of Gilead smote the Hagarites, and tribe of Manasseh. There they re- took from them their country, and paired the cities, and settled their a prodigious booty of flocks. Not wives and children. Their warriors long after, when Beerah was their went over Jordan; and though pro-prince, Tiglath-pileser carried them bably they visited their families at captive into the north-east parts of times, yet they continued with their his empire, Judg. v.15, 16. 1 Chron. brethren for the most part of seven xii. 37. and xxvii. 16. and xi. 42. years, till all the tribes had got their 2 Kings x. 37. 1 Chron. v. settlements; after which they were REVEAL, to make manifest what honourably dismissed. In their re- was before concealed or unknown, turn home, they erected the altar of Rom. ii. 5. Christ is revealed, when Ed on the bank of Jordan, not for God by his word and Spirit enlightoffering sacrifices or incense, but for ens the mind of men, and sheds his a testimony that they were of the love abroad in the heart, Gal. i. 16. and same Hebrew stock and religion was also revealed, when by fearful with their brethren. The design of judgments on the Jewish nation, he

manifested his power and Messiah-Jesus Christ in the isle of Patmos, ship, Luke xvii. 30. and will likewise, it contains seven epistles to the when he shall at the last day, come Asiatic churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, openly to judge the world, 2 Thess. i. Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Phila7. The arm of the Lord is revealed, delphia, and Laodicea, in which Jewhen Christ is savingly discovered, sus commends their good things, reand when the power of God in its proves their defects, calls them to mighty effects is sweetly felt, sins be- repent, and encourages them under ing forgiven, the conscience purified, their trials, chap. i. ii. iii. In chap. and the heart changed, Isa. liii. 1. iv. and v. we have an introduction His righteousness is revealed, when to the prophetic part, consisting of the obedience and suffering of Christ, a vision of God upon a throne, and in which the justice and mercy of celebrated by ministers and saints; God shine forth, are declared, and and of Christ's opening the sevenhis grace is offered to sinful men, Isa. sealed book of his purposes, to the Ivi. 1. Rom. i. 17. The heavens re-great joy of angels and redeemed veal men's iniquity, when God brings men. In chap. vi. is the opening of it to light, and punisheth them observ-six seals, exhibiting the state of the ably for it, Job xx. 27. The wrath church, and of the Roman empire, of God is revealed from heaven against from Christ's ascension, to the fall all unrighteousness, and by the stings of the heathenish form of the emof sinners' conscience, and by his pire about A. D. 323. In chap. vii. judgments on them, his displeasure is an emblematic representation of with their conduct is clearly_mani- the security of the saints under the fested, Rom. i. 18. The Popish trumpets, and their happy escape man of sin was revealed, when he from their troubles. In chap. viii. appeared as head of the church, and ix. is the opening of the seor as a civil prince, 2 Thess. ii. 8. venth seal, and the sounding of six Men reveal their cause to God, when trumpets, where is exhibited the they lay it before him in prayer, fate of the church, by the Arians, Jer. xi. 20. By Christ's coming into Donatists, Pelagians, Papists, and the world, and being preached in Saracens; and the fate of the Rothe gospel, the thoughts of many man empire, by the Goths, Vandals, hearts are revealed: some have their Huns, Heruli, Saracens, and Turks, consciences fully searched by his from A. D. 323 to 1866, or 2016, word; and many, by their evidence in chap. x. is another introductory of regard to, or hatred of him, de-vision of Jesus Christ with a little clare what is in their hearts, Luke open book, the seals being now loos ii. 35. Every man's work shall be ed in his hand, importing a further tried and revealed by fire; by the fire discovery of the events of proviof God's word trying it, by fiery dence. In chap. xi. is a view of trials and persecutions, and especial- the rise, power, duration of, and oply by a thorough trial in the last position to, Antichrist, and of his fall, judgment, its nature and quality shall and the glorious millennium; and be plainly discovered, 1 Cor. iii. 13. so reaches from A. D. 606, to the Any immediate discovery of God's end of the 1,000 years' reign of the mind, is called a REVELATION, Gal. saints; and of it from the xiii. to xxii. i. 12. 1 Cor. xiv. 6, 26. but the last are but an explication. In chap. xii. book of the scripture, in which God is a repeated view of the state of the discovered to John the apostle a church under Heathenism and Anmultitude of things relative to his tichrist. In chap. xiii. and xiv. we will and purpose towards his church, have a view of the rise of Antichrist is particularly so called, Rev. i. 1. in his civil and ecclesiastic power, toAfter an introduction and descrip-gether with preludes, warnings, and tion of a vision which John had of emblematic representations, of his

ruin. In chap. xv. and xvi. we hounds to private revenge, Exod. xxi. have the preparation for, and the 4. When magistrates punished injupouring out of the destructive vials ries, or when the kinsman-redeemer of God's wrath on Antichrist. In killed him who had accidently slain chap. xvii. xviii. and xix. are exhibit- his friend, they acted as the deputies ed the marks of Antichrist, and the of God the supreme Ruler, Rom. xiii. causes and terrible nature of his over-4. Numb. xxxv. 19, 24. The puthrow, and the grief of his friends, nishment taken by God on the Chaland joy of the saints thereat. In chap. deans, for destroying his people and xx. is represented the glorious mil-temple, is called the vengeance of his lennium, and the last judgment. In temple, Jer. 1. 28.

chap. xxi. and xxii. is represented REVENUE, profit, income, Ezra the happiness of the millennial and of iv. 13. Isa. xxiii. 3. Christ's reve the eternal state, and a terrible de- nuc is the blessings he gives to men, nunciation of wrath to such as take which are more precious, enriching, from, or add to, the words of God. and useful, than choice silver, Prov. How far this analysis of the Reve-viii. 19. In the revenue of the wicked lation is just, the reader is requested is trouble; in acquiring, preserving, to judge for himself. It is suffered and parting with their wealth, they to appear in this work, as taken have trouble, and a curse and trouble from Mr. Brown, because the Editor often punish their wicked manner of hopes it may excite some persons to procuring it, Prov. xv. 6. The Jews. avail themselves of the benefit to be were ashamed of their revenue; ashamderived from a careful perusal of mo-ed of what they had sinfully procurdern publications on this subject, and to an earnest application to God in prayer, that he may set up his kingdom, and explain his own word. REVELLINGS, luxurious feasting, attended with wanton songs and behaviour, Gal. v. 21.

ed to themselves, and of the issue of their giving presents to, and trusting in, the Egyptians, Jer. xii. 13.

REVERENCE, veneration, respect, awful regard. To do reverence to God, is to have an humble and filial awe of his greatness, fear of his dis- REVENGE, or VENGEANCE, (1.) pleasure, and a self-abased temper A return of an injury that has been, of spirit in worshipping him or bearor is supposed to have been done us, ing his chastisements, Heb. xii. 28. Jer. xx. 10. (2.) A just censure of To reverence his sanctuary, is to pay a scandal, 2 Cor. x. 6. (3.) A ha- an awful and self-debasing regard to tred of sin, manifested in using all his ordinances, Lev. xix. 30. God's proper methods to destroy it, 2 Cor. name is reverend ; all things whereby vii. 11. When revenge or vengeance he made himself known are to be is attributed to God, it includes no awfully regarded, as connected with passion, but merely a righteous dis-him who is infinitely great, and to position to punish evil-doers, Acts be feared by all his creatures, Psalm xxviii. 4. and the just punishment cxi. 9. To do reverence to men, is inflicted on them, Psalm lviii. 10. or humbly to show our respect to them, chastisement of his people, Psalm by bowing before them, or the like, xcix. 8. Vengeance belongeth only 2 Sam. ix. 0.

unto God: he alone can fully resent REVERSE, to make null, overinjuries; he alone has a right fully to turn, Numb. xxiii. 20. requite the dishonours done to him- REVILE, RAIL, to speak evil or self, as the God and supreme Gover-contemptuously of persons or things, nor of the world; and he prohibited Matt. xxvii. 39. 1 Sam. xxv. 14.to private persons all revenge of in- As their words are like spears and juries done to them, Lev. xix. 17, 13. swords, destructive to men's persons, Rom. xii. 17, 19. and by the law of characters, and interest, revilers or requital, he did not allow, but setrailers ought to be expelled from VOL. II.

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