BUD. See BLOOM. is built on Christ; his person and BUFFET; to beat; harass, 1 Cor. righteousness, and truth declared by iv. 11. Satan and his agents buffet his prophets and apostles, are her the saints, by strong temptations, a- true foundation; and in connexion theistical suggestions, and other af- with him does her whole form conflictions of soul or body, 2 Cor. xii. 7. sist, Eph. ii. 20. 1 Cor. iii. 11. She BUILD; to erect a house, wall, is built to the Lord, to display his exor any thing else, in a similar man-cellencies, and maintain his honour, ner, Deut. xxviii. 30. God's build- Jer. xxxi. 38. The apostles, as masing of all things, is his wise and pow-ter-builders, and ordinary pastois, as erful creation of them, in proper con- inferior ones, build up the church: nection and order, Heb. iii. 4. and xi.in evangelic preaching, they lay the 10. His building up a person, imports || foundation of gospel doctrine, the sum his giving him children, wealth, or whereof is, Christ and him crucified; prosperity, Job xvii. 23. His build- and they promote attention to her diing up families, cities, and nations, vine rules of worship, discipline and denotes his increasing their number, government, 1 Cor. iii. 10-14. 1 Pet. wealth, honour, power and pleasure, ii. 17. The saints build up themselves 1 Chron. xvii. 10. Psal. Ixix. 35. Jer. in their most holy faith; they more xviii. 9. His building up David's fully consider, more firmly believe, throne, imports his upholding and and more diligently practise divine prospering him and his seed, in the truths; and receiving out of Christ's kingly office over the Israelites; but fulness, increase in faith, love, and chiefly, his enlarging and perpetuat-every other grace, Jude 20. Magising the glory of Christ and his church, trates build up a state; they devise, Psal. lxxxix. 4. His building the walls establish, and execute good laws; of Jerusalem, or Zion, imports not on- and so promote the felicity and holy his giving prosperity to the Jewish nour thereof, Ezek. xxvii. 4. Monation and church, but his giving spi- thers build up families, bringing forth ritual increase and prosperity to the children to enlarge and perpetuate church in every age, Psalm ii. 18. them, Ruth iv. 11. In promoting the Christ's building of his temple, or honour and glory thereof, Prov. xiv. 1. church, implies his giving himself to The building of old wastes, in consedeath as her foundation; his estab-quence of Christ's mission, is the lishing her system of doctrine, wor-conversion of the Heathen world to ship, discipline and government, his him and his church, Isa. Ixi. 4. and abolishing notorious ignorance, ido-xlix. 8. The method of our redemplatry, and impiety, and convincing, tion is called a building of mercy; turning, and uniting men to himself, with infinite wisdom, and according as their support; his connecting them to the exceeding riches of God's by mutual love, profession, and en-grace, it is devised and gradually gagement to one another; and daily carried on, in the humiliation and exenabling them, by his grace convey-altation, of Christ, and in the gathered, to increase in all holy dispositions ing of sinners to him, till it issue in and practices, Matth. xvi. 18. Zech. the perfect and eternal height of glovi. 13. Eph. ii. 22. Acts xx. 32.- ry, Psal. lxxxix. 2. The ceremonial The church is built in Christ; her law, the state of glory, and the church, true members are spiritually united are a building: with great wisdom, to him, as their legal and mystical power, and care, they are gradually head, and cleave to him by faith and set up and completed, Heb. ix. 11, love, and are supported and strength-2 Cor. v. 1. 1 Cor. iii. 9. To build ened by his Spirit and gracious influ-again what we once destroyed, is to ence, Col. ii. 7. Eph. ii. 21, 22. She return to ceremonies and sinful prac BUL tices we had once relinquished, Gal. ii. 18. With the Hebrews, bulls were clean animals. If one stole an ox, and killed BUL, the 8th month of the Jewish || or sold it, he was to return fivefold; sacred year, and 2d of their civil. It answers partly to our October, and has 29 days. On the 6th day of this month, the Jews fast for Zedekiah's loss of his eyes, and the murder of his children, 2 Kings xxv. 7. On the 15th day of it, Jeroboam, fixed his idolatrous festival opposed to the feast of tabernacles in the preceding month, 1 Kings xii. 32. On the 17th On the day of it, the flood began. 27th of it, next year, Noah, and the other living creatures, came out of the ark, after the flood was dried up, Gen. vii. 11. and viii. 14. In this month, the building of Solomon's temple was finished; but on what day we are not informed, 1 Kings vi. 38. The Jews BULL, BULLOCK, OX. never castrated any of their animals, nor do the Mahometans to this day properly do so. Their oxen were therefore bulls, properly so called. Beside the tame kind, whose strength, fierceness, and pushing with their horns in fighting, are known, there is a wild kind of bulls, said to be ex- | ceeding large, swift, and fierce; and to dwell in large woods, as of Livonia and Ethiopia. Another kind of wild bulls, or buffaloes, are often tamed; and by an iron ring in their nose, are made to submit to the plough, though they never entirely lose their natural fierceness. Multitudes of these, or of a like kind, run wild in America; their hair is more shaggy, their body more large, and themselves more But Bofierce than the common. chart and others, will have the THAU or THо to mean not a wild ox or bull,|| but a wild goat, Deuter. xiv. 5. Isa. li. 20.* In these passages, Bochart, Shaw, Lowth, have thought that the Oryx or Egyptian Antelope is meant :-an animal about as large as our he-goat; but, in figure, colour and agility it chiefly resembles the stag. if it was found in his hand, he restor- Bullocks were often sacrificed in 20. And are not these the labouring || mark their gaiety, and expected fruitoxen and asses that eat clean proven-fulness, Judg. xiv. 18. Nations are der, while they patiently labour in likened to heifers: Egypt to a fair God's service, feed on his pure word, one, to mark their glory and prospeand eminent fellowship with him?rity, Isa. xlvi. 20; the Chaldeans to Isa. xxxii. 20. and xxx. 24. Saints, but a fat one, to mark their wealth, wanchiefly ministers, are likened to oxen; tonness, and unconcern, Jer. 1. 11; they are by nature equally perverse as the ten tribes of Israel to a backslidothers, but when converted, how tame, ing one, to signify their stupid and patient, and laborious! and how often perverse revolting from God, Hos. appointed to slaughter by the wicked! iv. 16; and to a taught one, loving to Jer. xi. 19. Is. xi. 7.and lxv. 25. Rev. iv. tread out the corn, over whose fair 7. The glory of Joseph was like that of neck God passed: they were instructthe firstling bullock: how numerous, ed by God's oracles and prophets; powerful, prosperous, and joyful were they were expert and skilful in idolahis seed! how devoted to God, whose try; they loved to riot in such plenty sanctuary was long fixed at Shiloh a- as they possessed under Jeroboam the mong them; Deut. xxxiii. 17. Per-second; but were quickly after redus sons impatient in trouble, are like ced to slavery and distress by the As wild bulls in a net; roar and cry, but syrians, Hos. x. 11. If our version by their struggling entangle them-rightly render HAGLA SHALISHIAH, & selves more and more, Isa. li. 20.Wicked men, chiefly rulers or warriors are called bulls, and bulls of Bashan, and calves, to denote their prosperity, strength, untractableness, and mischievous violence and fierceness, Jer. xxxi. 18. Psal. xxii. 12. and Ixviii. 30. A rash youth is like an ox led to the slaughter; he is thoughtlessly and easily decoyed, and tempted to what ruins him, Prov. vii. 22. As a stalled and fatted or represents the most sumptuous and delicate provision, Prov. xv. 7. Christ in his person, obedience, and death for us, and in all his fulness of grace, is represented as oxen and fatlings, and a fatted calf slain for us, Matth. xxii. 4. Prov. ix. 2. Luke xv. 23. heifer of three years old, Zoar and Horonaim, cities of Moab, are likened thereto, to mark their untameable ob stinacy; or, rather, their terrible out cries, when the inhabitants fled from the Assyrians and Chaldeans. But per haps these words may be the names of cities that should share in the ruin, Isa. xv. 5. Jer. xlviii. 34. Among the Hebrews, when one was found slain in the field, and the murderer could not be found, the magistrates of the city next to the spot, took an heifer, which had never been yoked; and, after striking off her head in a rough uncultivated valley, they washed their hands in water, protesting their innocence of the crime, and ignorance of the murderer; and, together with the Levites present, solemnly begged that God nation, Deut. xxi. I-9. Did this heifer represent Jesus, divinely brought into a state of debasement and suffering, and slain by the elders of Israel, as well as by his eternal Father, for the removal of the guilt of millions of men? The Cow is the female of the ox kind, and very noted for her useful milk. Persons potent, proud, weal-would not lay it to the charge of their thy, perhaps chiefly ladies are called kine of Bashan, to denote their stupidity, luxury, and wantonness, Amos iv. 1, 3. The seven fat kine which Pharaoh saw in his dream, represented seven years of great plenty, and the seven lean ones, seven years of famine, Gen. xli. 2-4. 18-21, 26, 27.Young Cows are called HEIFERS.Young wives were called heifers, to VOL. I. To purify the Hebrews when polluted by the touch of a dead body, or any part thereof, an unblemished red 2 G wholesome, savoury, and nourishing food to immortal souls, his person, righteousness, and fulness are, Luke xv. 23, 27: and in this respect, as well as in his innocence, purity, and patience, did the sacrificed calves represent him, Lev. ix. 2. The dividing a calf in twain, at the making of covenants, and wishing that God might so rend the makers if they brake it, exhibits what is our dreadful desert for covenant breaking, and what our blessed Redeemer endured on our account, Jer. xxxiv. 18. Ministers and saints are like calves in meekness, patience, spiritual strength, readiness to labour, and cheerful running in the way of God's commandments, Rev. iv. 7. Ezek. i. 7. Isa. xi. 6. They grow up as calves in the stall; when feasted on the fulness of Jesus, they abound in grace and in good works, Mal. iv. 3; and they render to him the calves of their lips, the pure offerings of prayer, praise, and thanksgiv heifer, that had never borne yoke, was put into the hand of the sagan, or second high-priest. In his presence she Was slain without the camp or city. With his finger he sprinkled her blood seven times towards the tabernacle or temple; all the rest of her was burnt along with cedar-wood, scarlet, and hyssop a clean person gathered and laid up her ashes in a clean repository without the camp. These ashes mixed with water, were, on the third and seventh day of pollution, sprinkled on the unclean person. He never received the second sprinkling, till on the fourth after the first; and if he was not first sprinkled, till the seventh day of his defilement, he continued in it till he was sprinkled again on the eleventh. The priest who sprinkled the blood, he who burnt the carcase, and he who sprinkled the mixture, were rendered unclean, and behoved to wash their clothes, and continue defiled till the even, Numb. xix. It is said, that no more than nine or tening, Hos. xiv. 2. heifers were burnt for this purpose, As the Hebrews had seen, and perduring the 1560 years of the Jewish haps most of them worshipped, the dispensation; that, after the temple Egyptian idol Apis, which was a was built, the heifer was alway burnt living bull, and sometimes adored in on the mount of Olives, directly over the form of one, or in form of a man against it; and that not the sagan, with a bull's head, they instigated but the high-priest, oversaw the AARON to make them a golden calf in slaughter, and burning, and sprinkling the wilderness, to which they, on the of blood. It is certain, that in no o-day after, observed a solemn festival. ther case the colour of the victim was This calf Moses soon after reduced regarded. Did these heifers repre- to powder, and caused the idolaters sent our unblemished and Almighty drink it. This sin was gradually punRedeemer, the seed of the woman, ished in their after miseries, for many voluntarily surrendering himself to generations, Exod. xxxii. When Jeadversity and death without the gate, roboam the son of Nebat, who had that he, by the virtue of his blood and resided for a time in Egypt, got posSpirit, might, to the surprise of an- session of the kingdom of Israel, he gels and men, purify our conscience made two golden calves: the one he from dead works, to serve the living placed at Bethel on the south, and the God? Heb. ix. 13, 14. other at Dan, on the north frontier of his kingdom. These calves the ten tribes, for about 260 years, continued to worship, till their state was unhinged, the people carried captive, and probably the idols destroyed by the Assyrians, 1 Kings xii. 27, 28. Hos. x. 5. and xiii. 12. 2 Kings xvii. CALF is the young one of the ox kind. To eat calves out of the stall, is to riot in luxury, and live on the most delicate provision, Amos vi. 4. As fatted calves are the most delightful and wholesome provision, Christ is compared to one, to mark, what fear of the Syrians, carrying it off, been transported to Samaria, the capital of the Israelitish kingdom, I know not, Hos. viii. 5, 6.* Whether the calf at Dan had, for || providences of God, which secure her salvation and deliverance, Psalm xlviii. 12. Isa. xxvi. 1. May not the former text also relate to the natural bulwarks of the city of David, not one of which was hurt by the Assyrians? BUNCH; (1.) A handful; small bundie, Exod. xii. 22. (2.) A hairy lump on the back of camels and dromedaries, Isa. xxx. 6. BULRUSH, a shrub growing in fens, and easily bowed by the wind. What our translation calls so, is perhaps no other than the paper reeds of which the Fgyptians and Ethiopians made baskets, and even boats, Exod. ii. 3. To bow the head as a bulrush, is to make an outward ap-knit together. To have one's soul pearance of grief for sin, hanging down the head, while there is no real sorrow in the heart, Isa. lviii. 5. BUNDLE; a variety of things bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord, is to enjoy his kindest protection, and infallible preservation, I BULWARK, a strong fortification Sam. xxv. 29. Christ is represented erected for the defence of a city, or to as a bundle of myrrh, to mark the apromote the taking of one, 2 Chron.bundant fulness, and blessed connexxxvi. 15. Deut. xx. 20. The bulwarksion of his influences and blessings, of the church, are her laws, worships, Song i. 13. The classes of wicked discipline, and government; together men cast into hell, and often connectwith the perfections, promises, and led by their sins on earth, are likened • Bulls, cows, and oxen are fond of lick-tlements approach. The tail is about a ing themselves, especially when laying at foot long; and has a tuft of black hair at rest. But this practice should be prevented its end, the rest naked. They feed in the as much as possible; for as the hair is an || prairies, and low marshy places, and in undigestible substance, it lies on the sto- the tall reeds; they are exceedingly shy, mach or guts, and is gradually coated by and very fearful of man; when wounded, a glutinous substance, which in time har- they are furious and become dangerous to dens into round stones of a considerable the hunter. The hunting these animals is bulk, which sometimes kills them, but al- a favourite amusement among the Indians, ways prevents their fattening, as the sto- who kill great numbers of them. Their mach is rendered incapable of digesting fleece frequently weighs eight pounds, and the food so well as it ought. [In the days can be spun into cloth, gloves or stockings; of superstition this hair ball, was called an their skins are very valuable, and their elf-shot, and was supposed to have been flesh is a considerable article of food, the shot into the animal by a spirit nearly al- hunch being considered a delicacy; the lied to the devil.] bulls sometimes yield 150pounds of tallow each; they have heavy bodies, short legs, short neck, and a fierce eye; and generally weigh from 500 to 800 pounds. About 250 years ago, there was found in Scotland a wild race of cattle, which were of a pure white colour, and had, if we may believe Boethius, manes like lions. The Their mode of defending themselves aAmerican Bison, wild bull, or buffaloe, hasgainst the attack of wolves, is singular: short, black, rounded horns, a vast hunch When they scent the approach of these raon its shoulders, much elevated; foreparts venous creatures,the herd flings itself into of the body are thick and strong, the hin- the form of a circle: the weakest keep in der parts slender and weak; the hunch the middle; the strongest are ranged on and head are covered with a fleece of long the outside, presenting to the enemy an hair, of a bull rusty colour; during winter impenetrable front of horns. the whole dody is thus clothed in sum- The Indicus, or little Indian buffuloe,has mer the hind part is naked. It inhabits horns shorter than its ears, a bunch on its Mexico, and is seen in great herds in Loui-back, and no mane. It is about the size siana feeding with stags and deer. A few of a calf of six months old, and used in the years ago, they were very numerous on East Indies for drawing coaches. the banks of the Ohio; they retire as setEncy. : |