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into the invisible world; and of Christ as the way of entrance into the Church, John, x. 9.

GHOST, sub. A Saxon word, meaning same as SPIRIT, (which see).

GLORY, sub. When applied to worldly things this word means splendour and magnificence, such as springs from the possession of power, riches, and dominion. Applied to God, it denotes that supereminent majesty, brightness, power, and light which ever attend Him, and surround His Throne, and fill His Temple. Applied to the saints," it means that unspeakable happiness they are one day to realize with God in Heaven.

GLORIOUS, adj. Full of glory.

GLORIFY, v. To ascribe glory to; to praise; to make glorious, either by our actions, or in our songs, Ps. 1. 23; Luke, ii. 20; Acts, iii. 8; 1 Pet. ii. 12.

GODHEAD, sub. The Divine nature; the whole power and essence of the Deity. Spoken of the Three Persons in the Trinity together. The word only occurs in Scripture in the following texts, Acts, xvii. 29; Rom. ii. 20; Col. ii. 9.

GODLINESS, sub. Devotedness to God; a state of life agreeable to the Divine law; a diligent discharge of all acts of religious worship, 1 Tim. iv. 8.

GODLY, adj. Religious; attentive to religion; one who practises godliness.

GOODNESS, sub. Kindness; love; disposition for doing good to others.

GOSPEL, sub. This word signifies "good news" generally; but is used exclusively of the good news contained in the Scriptures, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners," Luke, ii. 10, 11; 1 Tim. i. 15. The narratives of our Saviour's life, written by the four Evangelists, are respectively called the Gospels of the several writers. GOVERN, v. To rule; direct; order; influence. As masters their households; kings their countries; God the universe.

GOVERNANCE, sub. The act of governing; direction; rule; control.

GOVERNOR, sub. One who governs, whose office it is to rule and govern others.

GOVERNMENT, sub. A method of governing; a governing

body; the form of administering authority, or directing affairs.

GRACE, sub. Favour, kindness. In theology, it has several peculiar senses; At times it means God's unmerited favour bestowed on sinners when He pardons their sins, Eph. ii. 8; At times it means the revelation of that favour, i. e. the Gospel itself, 1 Pet. v. 12; At times the results of that favour; i.e. all the fruits of faith and love in the heart, 2 Pet. iii. 18; At times, and in the Collects more particularly, it means help, assistance, strength, Heb. iv. 16.

GRACIOUS, adj. Full of grace; abounding in favour towards one.

GRAFT, v. To propagate a tree by inserting a shoot or sprig of it into the bark of another; to put into a place to which one did not originally belong, Rom. xi. 17–24.

GRAVE, sub. A place where bodies are interred; and wherein they see corruption prior to being raised again in a glorified form.

GUIDE, v. To lead along a way; to direct on a journey; to superintend.

GUIDE, sub. One who accompanies travellers to shew them the road.

GUIDANCE, sub. Directions how to proceed; teaching what to do; and shewing the way to do it. Superintendence generally.

The right

HAND, sub. A part of the body so called. hand being chiefly used in the performance of our labours, is regarded as the emblem of power and strength, and in this sense is frequently used in Scripture with reference to God; "the right hand of God" being equivalent to the ( power, and omnipotence, and greatness of God. See Ex. xv. 6, 12; Ps. lxxxix. 13; cxviii. 16.

HARDEN, v. To make hard; to cause to become hard: when applied to the heart it means to render the heart insensible to good impressions, callous and indifferent to anything good. This state may be produced by long continuance in sinful pursuits; or by the withholding of that grace which alone can make the heart tender and soft; broken and contrite. In this latter method it is, that God may be said to harden men's hearts, and it is by the former they harden themselves.

HARDNESS, sub. The state of being hard and insensible; callousness and indifference to good.

HATE, v. Not to love; to dislike very much; to have a great aversion for; to love less than another. It is in this last-mentioned sense God is said to have hated Esau whilst He loved Jacob (Rom. ix. 13; Mal. i. 2, 3); i. e. He loved him less than his brother Jacob. It is used in the same sense also in Deut. xxi. 15.

HEAL, v. To make well again after sickness or bodily injury; to restore to health.

HEAR, v. To receive sounds through the ear; to hear only, and not understand, Acts, ix. 7; to hear so as to attend to and follow after.

HEART, sub. The vital part of man; the source whence life flows to the rest of the body; the inward affections and inclinations.

HEARTY, adj. Proceeding from the heart; coming from the seat of affections; used for earnest, sincere, unfeigned.

HEAVEN, sub. The region above the earth. The Jews spoke of three heavens. The first consisted of the region of air immediately surrounding the globe; the second, the space beyond that, wherein the heavenly bodies roll along in their orbits or circles; the third, the space beyond that again, wherein they considered was the special habitation of God. By heaven we generally mean the immediate presence of God, wherever it may be; which is now the home of the holy angels, and is to be, finally, the home of all God's redeemed people.

HEAVENLY, adj. Tending toward heaven; relating to heavenly things; supremely excellent and good.

HEIR, sub. One who is to succeed by law to an estate or title; one who inherits a fortune alone or jointly with others. Believers are heirs to an incorruptible inheritance reserved for them in heaven, 1 Pet. i. 4; not sole but "joint heirs with Christ," "the first-born among many brethren," Rom. viii. 29.

HELP, v. To assist, especially when in want or trouble. HERETIC, sub. A maintainer of heresy; i. e. one who mixes some fundamental error with the truth of the Gospel, and persists in asserting it as the truth itself. All such are to be rejected out of the Communion of the Faithful, Tit. iii. 10.

HINDER, v. To keep back; to oppose; obstruct.

HOLINESS, sub. Pre-eminent sanctity; a course of life in conformity to the nature and will of God. Holiness, and righteousness, though in some respects synonymous (or having the same meaning), are, in their origin, distinct terms, and refer to different degrees or standards of action. Righteousness is conformity or agreement with a given rule. Holiness is conformity to the nature of God, who is pre-eminently holy. In striving after the former, the rule given is the guide; having attained that (if it be possible) we may rest. In seeking after the latter, we have no resting-place short of equality in holiness with Him whose nature we are to be conformed to. In theology, however, the rule given and the nature revealed, are alike holy; and hence the terms are usually indiscriminately used.

HOLY, adj. Applied to men, one who leads a life of holiness; applied to things, that which is set apart to holy uses, consecrated to the service of God in the sanctuary.

HONOUR, sub. Respect paid to rank and station; reverence given to exalted personages among men; veneration and adoration paid to God.

HOPE, v. To expect; to look for with desire; to long for. HOPE, sub. Expectation; that which is hoped for. The state of the believer here is a state of hope, Rom. viii. 24, 25. The objects of his hope are the promises of God. The grounds of it are God's nature, as unchanging; God's oath; and God's acts. The nature of it, in consequence, is, that it is a "sure hope," and a "blessed hope;" and the effects of it should be holiness and happiness, Rom. xii. 12; 1 John, iii. 3.

HOUSEHOLD, sub. A number of persons dwelling together in one house, and forming one family. The Church of God is called "the household of God," Eph. ii. 19; and "the household of Faith," Gal. vi. 10.

HUMBLE, adj. Not proud; modest, lowly in manner and deportment (illustrated in the case of the Publican in the Temple).

HUMILITY, Sub. The grace of meekness and lowliness; the opposite to pride and haughtiness.

HURT, v. To do harm to another; to injure the person or property of another.

HURTFUL, adj. Calculated to do harm; injurious to our interests or our persons.

IGNORANCE, sub. Want of knowledge; especially want of knowledge of God and His Gospel.

IMMORTAL, adj. That which is not liable to death, nor subject to decay; that which can never die. This is the case with the souls of men, for being immaterial substances, they have nothing in them that is liable to corruption, as our bodies have, and therefore can never decay or die.

IMMORTALITY, sub. The state of being immortal; the state wherein there is no more decay or death.

INCARNATE, adj. Embodied in flesh; having assumed and become clothed with flesh.

INCARNATION, sub. The act of assuming flesh, or of becoming clothed with flesh. This word and the preceding are used chiefly with reference to the Saviour, and to His taking man's flesh upon Him in the womb of the Virgin; so as to be qualified for His work of redemption, and appear on earth a true Immanuel, i.e. God with us; God in human form, atoning for sin, and reconciling sinners to Himself, 1 Tim. iii. 6; Rom. viii. 3; 1 John, i. 1, 2.

INCREASE, sub. Growth; enlargement; additional quantities added to a thing.

INCREASE, v. To grow; advance; improve; go forward; extend; strengthen.

INESTIMABLE, adj. That which is beyond value; that for which an equivalent price cannot be found.

INFIDEL, sub. One who does not believe the Gospel; used generally by us for one who believes not in the existence of a God at all, or, at least, who so professes. In the Collect (No. 30) it is intended to include all the heathen who are yet strangers to God and his Gospel; being the word by which such persons were usually distinguished at the time when our Prayer-book was compiled.

INFIRMITY, sub. Weakness; frailty; feebleness of body or mind. Man's state on earth is one of infirmities; which are, again, the fruits of his sins; through which he has lost that strength, both of mind and body, which he originally possessed. Sins of infirmity are sometimes

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