ALLEDGE; to affirm; prove, Acts xvii. 3.

ALLEGORY, a continual run of

ALL. (1.) Every creature, Prov. xvi. 4. Psal. cxix. 91; or every part, Song iv. 7. (2.) Every man, 2 Cor. v. 10. (3.) Plentiful, perfect, Rom.metapnors; as in the song of Soloxv. 13. 1 Cor. xiii. 2. (4.) Some of all nations, ranks, and degrees, 1 Tim. ii. 4. Tit. ii. 11. (5.) Many; or the greatest part, Matth. iii. 5. Phil. ii. 21. Thus it is said, ALL the cattle of the land of Egypt died: the hail brake EVERY tree of the field, Exod. ix. 6, 9. ALL the people brake off the gold ear-rings which were in their ears, Exod. xxxii. 3. ALL the beasts of the nations lodged in the lintels of Nineveh, Zeph. ii. 14. The fame of David went forth into ALL lands, 1 Chron. xiv. 17. ALL Judea, and ALL the region round about Jordan, went out to John, and were

mon; or representation of some doctrinal point by an history: thus the two wives of Abraham were emblems of the two covenants of works and grace; and of the two dispensations of the covenant by ceremonies, and by plain gospel. Hagar is an emblem of the former; Sarah of the latter. Ishmael an emblem of those attached to the law as a covenant, and the ceremonies; and Isaac of those attached to the covenant of grace, and the gospel-dispensation, Galatians iv. 24

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* The word all is sometimes to be un

baptized of him. ALL men held Johnderstood as restricted to all of some sorts,

as a prophet. The apostles were haalthough the restricting qualification be ted of ALL men, Matth. iii. 5, 6. and not expressed: So it must be understood xxi. 26. and x. 22. ALL men came of all believers, in 1 Corinth. xv. 22. Ephes. to Jesus, John iii. 26. There were iv. 6. Rom. v. 18. The free gift came upon at Jerusalem Jews of EVERY nationall men unto justification of life; which all under heaven, Acts ii. 5. See men, that are so actually justified, are no other than those that are Christ's, that is, WORLD. How evident then the fol-believers; for justification is not without ly of such as found their universal re- faith. It is also sometimes used for some demption on this word that must be of all sorts, as in Jerem. xxxi. 34. Heb. so often restricted! and which is fre- viii. 11. John xii. 32. 1 Tim. ii. 1, 2, 3. quently limited by the context; by Acts x. 12. In the text last quoted, panta the nature of the thing spoken of; creatures, is justly rendered by our transta tetrapoda, literally all beasts or four footed or by the objects of it! Thus ser-lators, all manner or sorts of beasts. But vants are required to please their the word men in our translation after this masters well in ALL things, Tit. ii. term, might sometimes be better omitted, 9; and the Lord is said to uphold as in John xii. 32. ALL that fall, and raise up ALL that are bowed down, Psal. cxlv. 14. The "In order to the right understanding ALL men of Asia that turned away are, in the first place, carefully to ascer an allegorical passage of scripture, we from Paul, denote a great many pro-tain the literal sense from the words themfessed Christians there, 2 Tim. i. 15.selves under consideration and the conThe elect part of mankind may be text. The humour of finding an allegory called ALL; or EVERY MAN; ALL THE ENDS of the earth; ALL THE WORLD; because they spring of all nations, Jews and Gentiles; dwell in all places; are of every rank and condition; and are the substance of the earth, for whose behoof it is chiefly preserved and favoured, Ro-meaning, provided we proceed cautiously mans xi. 32. Heb. ii. 9. Psal. xxii. 27. 1 John ii. 2.*

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in a passage, where there is no necessity of departing from the literal sense, has been a principal cause of error and absurdity in the interpretation of scripture. In the ceremonial institutions of the Old Testament, which were a shadow of good things to come, and in some historical passages, we may study to find the allegorical

and without prejudice to the truth of the sacred history. Thus the various rites used in the cleansing of the Leper, as

ALLELUIA, or HALLELUJAH.- || sufficiency in himself; all communiThis Hebrew word signifying, praise || cative fulness in his breasts of bounye the Lord, is met with at the be-ty; and all power to destroy his opginning and end of divers Psalms, posers. In the early ages of the chiefly towards the close of the book, world God chiefly manifested himPsal. cxi. cxii. cxiii. cxvii. cxxxv. self by this character, to encourage cxlvi. cl. It is the burden of the men's dependence on him alone; and saints' song at the fall of Antichrist, their expectation of the full accomRev. xix. And this Hebrew expres- plishment of whatever he had promision seems to be there introduced to sed, Gen. xvii. 1. Exod. vi. 3. signify, that the body of the Jews will be converted about the time of the final downfal of Antichrist, and that they will join in the celebration of that glorious event.

ALMOND-TREE, whose flower is of the rose kind, composed of several petals, arranged in a circular form: the pistil arises from the cup, and becomes an oblong, stony fruit, covered with a callous hard coat, and containing an oblong kernel. They ALMIGHTY, able to do all things; are of five kinds; but more ordinarian attribute of God. The Hebrewly distinguished, from their sweet and word for it signifies one who has all

ALLURE, to engage by fair means, Hos. ii. 14. 2. Pet. ii. 18.

bitter fruit, into two. They thrive either in dry or wet fields: and are often propagated by the innoculation of described in Levit. xiv. may be allegorian almond-bud into the stock of a The cally applied to our spiritual healing in pear, peach, or almond-tree. our justification and sanctification. So, we Hebrew name of the almond-tree is may trace some analogy between David's derived from Shakad, which signifies conflict with Goliah, and the conflict of to watch; and imports, that it keeps the believer with indwelling sin, Satan and its station, being the first that blosthis evil world; and yet the truth of David's engagement with Goliah and victory soms in the spring, and the last that over him, as a historical fact, is no way fades in harvest. Its fruit is precious prejudiced. Conciseness, ease and deli- and nourishing. Jacob sent a precacy should be studied in the explanation sent of it to Joseph, Gen. xliii. The of an allegory; after the example of Paul, bowels of the golden candlestick being 1 Corinth. ix. 9, 10. 2 Corinth. iii. 13, 15. formed like almonds, imported the Ephes. v. 32. Among the various allego- flourishing and soul-nutritive virtue rical interpretations of any particular passage, that is to be preferred, which is most of gospel-light, Exod. xxv. 33. The perspicuous and most agreeable to the almonds that grew on Aaron's rod, connection, and to the analogy of faith.- when laid up over-night before the And whilst such an interpretation is other-Lord, imported the flourish and du wise reasonable, its serving much to set forth precious Christ, his offices and bene-ration of the typical priesthood in fits, will highly recommend it to the people of God. In short we are to adopt no allegorical interpretation of any part of scripture, but what is warranted and pointed out by the scripture itself. A single word often affords a key to the allegorical sense of a passage. Thus what Paul says in 1 Corinth. v. 7. leads us to an easy application of most of the particulars respect-Christ's strength, and the speedy deing the Paschal Lamb, to Christ or believers. When the Holy Spirit himself speaking in the scriptures, interprets any Passage allegorically, such an allegory is not o.1 delightful to the spiritual taste, but useful for the establishment of truth."

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his family; the duty of the Hebrew priests, and other ministers, to be early and useful in their work; the speedy approach of vengeance on their opposers; but especially the flourishing success, and nourishing virtue of the gospel, the rod of

struction of every opposer, Numb. xvii. 8. The almond-tree shown to Jeremiah in his vision, imported, that the judgments of God would quickly be ripe, or ready to be execu

ted on the wicked Jews of his time, the stigma obtuse and trifid; the Jer. i. 11. The head of an old man | fruit is a three furrowed case, formed is said to flourish as the almond-tree, of three valves, and containing three as his houry hairs resemble the white cells: the seeds are numerous and blossoms thereof, Eccl. xii. 5. angular. Aloes are now produced in all the four quarters of the world. One in Europe rose 23 feet high, and at once bare 12,000 flowers. Even

ALMOST; in a great measure; next to wholly, Exod. xvii. 14. One is but ALMOST persuaded to be a Christian, whatever knowledge or experi-in Sweden, an aloe flourished in Ocence of the truth of the gospel, or conversation becoming it, he hath, if his state and nature are not changed by union to, and receiving of Jesus Christ, as the Lord his righteousness and strength, into his heart, Acts xxvi. 28.

tober 1708, and held in flower through the following winter, though excessively severe. Tournefort reckons up fourteen different kinds of the aloe tree. The American aloe is famous for its fine flowers of the lilly-kind; the Asian for the useful drug prepared from it. The drug aloe is formed of the juice of the leaves, fresh pluckt and squeezed, set to harden in the sun. The succotrine aloe is made of the thinnest at the top: the hypatic of the next; and the horse aloe of the coarse sediment. This drug is fam

ALMS, what is given in charity to the poor, Matth. vi. 14. In the Hebrew it is called righteousness. It is to be given of things lawfully gotten, and as a debt due to the poor not for their own but for the Lord's sake, Luke ii. 41. and xii. 33. In the Greek, the word signifies mercyed for it purgative virtue. Both the it is to be given from a principle of true love and compassion to the needy objects, Acts x. 2, 4. and xxiv. 17.

wood and drug have an odoriferous and preservative influence. Aloes were anciently used for embalming, of dead bodies, and for perfuming of beds and clothes, John xix. 39. Prov. vii. 17. The graces of the Holy Ghost in Christ, and his people, are likened to aloes, because of their agreeable savour; their tendency to prevent, or purge away, sinful corruption, and to keep their subjects for ever fresh and sound, Psal. xlv. 8. Song iv. 14. The Hebrews are com

ALMUG, or ALGUM-TREE; not coral, which cannot be formed into stair-cases or musical instruments: but either ebony, plenty of which grows in India; or Brazil-wood; or citron tree; or some gummy sort of wood, perhaps that which produces the gum-ammoniac, or Arabic; and so is thought by some to be the same with the Shittah-tree,|| 1 Kings x. 11. 2 Chron. ii. 8. and pared to LIGN-ALOES, to import

ix. 10.

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ALOES. The LIGN-ALOES, aloe-tree, according to Linnæus, is of the hexandria-monogynia class of plants, having no calyx. The corolla is oblong, and formed of a single petal, divided into six segments at the extremity. The tube is bunchbacked, and the limb straight. The stamina are six subulated filaments, fully of the length of corolla, and inserted into the receptacle: the anthæræ are oblong and bending; the bud irregular in shape; the stile simple, and of the length of the stamina;

their wonderful increase; flourishing estate; and eminent usefulness, Numb. xxiv. 6.

ALOFT, on high, Psal. xviii. 10. ALONE. (1.) Solitary; by one's self; without friends to help or comfort, Gen. ii. 18. Exod. xviii. 14. (2.) Safe without hurt; none seeking to rob them of any part of what they enjoy; separated to be the peculiar people of God: enjoying his special favour and protection, and behaving. in a manner different from other nations, Deut. xxxiii. 28.. Numb. xxiii. 9. To let one alone, is to forbear