to bundles of tares, Matth. xiii. 30.-|| All creatures, chiefly the church and her chosen members, are called God's BUNDLE; they are many in number, and strictly connected; but the whole weight and care of them are borne by him, Amos ix. † 6. Multiplied oppressions, and superstitious impositions in worship, are called the bundle of the yoke, they are heavy to be borne, Isa. lviii. †6. BURDEN, or LOAD; as much as one can bear, 2 Kings v. 17. Acts xxi. 3. Christ's benefits, and the blessings of the glorified state, are a load or weight: God bestows them abundantly, as men are able to bear them, Psal. lxviii. 19. 2 Cor. iv. 17. His laws are a burden, to which we must yield ourselves, at the expence of labour, and of pain to our lusts: and they are a light burden, far easier than that of the broken law, which he endured for us: far easier now under the gospel, than the ancient ceremonies; and may, with great ease and delight, be obeyed, under the influence of his Spirit, Matt. xi. 30. Rev. ii. 24. God's ceremonial law, and men's superstitious ceremonies, are a burden; deprive men of pleasure and liberty, and are hard to be fulfilled, Acts xv. 28. Matth. xxiii. 4. The charge of government in church or state is a burden; the faithful execution of it is attended with much uneasy care and toil, Exod. xviii. 22. Isa. ix. 6. The dependants of Shebna and other magistrates, nay, of our Redeemer, are their burden, which they have to care for, protect, and support, Isa. xxii. 24, 25. Predictions of heavy judgments are burdens: they render one uneasy to hear them; and how sinking, oppressive, and grievous is their fulfilment ! Isaiah xiii. 1. and xiv. 28. and xv. 1. and xvii. 1. and xix. 1. and xxi. 1, 11, 13. and xxii. 1. and xxiii. 1. Jer. xxiii. 33-38. Nah. i. 1. Zech. ix. 1. and xii. 1. Mal. i. 1. 2 Kings ix. 25. Hab, i. 1. Lam. ii. 14: but the word might be translated the heavy judgment. Labour, servitude, tribute, affliction, fear, and care, are a burden; how hard to be borne! how sinking to the spirits, and restrictive of liberty, Psal. lxxxi. 6. Hos. viii. 10. Matth. xx. 12. Men's imperfections and infirmities are burdens, which hurt and grieve themselves or others; but which others ought to bear with patience and meekness, Gal. vi. 2. Sinful corruptions of nature or practice, are a heavy burden, which greatly provokes God; stupifies, restrains, and vexes men; hinders them to walk in God's way; presses them towards hell; brings on heavy strokes of wrath; and the guilt of which makes a fearful impression upon an awakened conscience, Psalm xxxviii, 4. Zech. v. 7, 8. Heb. xii. 1. In fine, whatever renders body or mind uneasy, is called a burden, Zeph. iii. 18. But we are to cast it on the Lord, by imploring, and patiently waiting for support under, and deliverance from it. Psal. Iv. 22. But the word here rendered burden, significs a gift or supply; and imports the great resig nation and holy confidence wherewith we should ask mercy and deliverance. Every man shall bear his own burden ; shall give an account of his own deeds; and if not in Christ, suffer the due punishment thereof, Gal. vi. 5. BURDENSOME; grievous; troublesome, 2 Cor. xi. 9. BURY. The Hebrews were careful to bury even their enemies, 1 Kings xi. 15. Ezek. xxxix. 14. the troublesome pollution of dead bodies requir ed it. To be deprived of burial, or buried with the burial of an ass, cast into an unclean place, they reckoned a terrible calamity. When one died, if his friends were able, he was embalmed, and after a proper time, car ried out to his grave on a bier, if poor; or on a stately bed, if rich; and laid in a proper manner, as in a bed, in the GRAVE. The dead bodies were arrayed in dead clothes; but from the resurrection of Lazarus and Christ, and a variety of other evidence, it ap pears they were not buried in coffins, BURN; (1.) To be hot, Lev. xiii. as is the manner with us. Friends 28. (2.) To consume with FIRE.and neighbours attended the occasion, (3.) To destroy; waste; purge, Lam. with a great deal of MOURNING and iii. 3. Isai. iv. 4. (4.) To have the apparent grief. Kings scarce ever heart eager in desire, love, sympathy, attended a funeral; hence David's Luke xxiv. 32. 2 Cor. xi. 29. (5.) attendance on the funerals of Abner, To have the mind filled with passion, and joining in the mourning, is ob- disquict, Psal. xxxix. 3. Jer. xx. 9. served as something remarkable. He (6.) To be under the prevailing powno doubt did so, to ward off suspicioner of fleshly lust, 1 Corin. vii. 7.— of the murder, and to conciliate the There shall be burning, i. e. tawniaffections of the people, John xv. andness or burning ulcers, instead of beauxix. and xx. Acts viii. 2. 2 Sam. iii.ty, Isa. xxx. 14. is ready to burst like a new bottle, when his matter and desire to speak grow exceedingly on him, Job xxxii. 19. The bursting of the Jew's vain and wicked confidence, imports the dissolution of their church and state, by the Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Romans, Isa. xxx. 14. 31-36. When the modern Jews BURST; to rend violently. God come to their burying-place, which || bursts men's bands, when he restores they call the house of the living, they them to liberty, Jer. ii. 20. and xxx. 8. address themselves to the persons bu- Men burst God's bands, in furiousiy ried, and bless God for making, pre-breaking his laws, Jer. v. 5. A man serving, and cutting them off by death, and that he will raise them again. At the grave, this blessing is repeated; and the corpse being set down on the ground, they make an oration in praise of the dead person, and walking around the grave, repeat a long prayer. After a prayer for the man's soul they let down the corpse into the grave, BUSH, a low, spreading, and often and desire him to go in peace. prickly shrub. The bush burning, relations begin to cover him with and not consumed, which Moses saw earth and then all present assist.-near mount Horeb, represented our They walk backward, till they are at earthly nature united to the Son of some distance from the grave; and God, inflamed with the fire of divine as they leave the burying-place, they punishment, and yet not consumed, pluck some bits of grass, and throw but supported and refreshed: and the behind their backs, saying, They shall Hebrew nation in the fire of Egyptian flourish like grass of the earth. cruelty, and the church in the fire of The To be buried with Christ in baptism, imports our regeneration, and continued mortification of sin, by virtue of fellowship with him in his death, represented, sealed, and applied to us in our baptism, Romans vi. 4. Col. ii. 13.* Burying alive, was the punishment (a mong the ancient Romans) of a vestal who|| had violated her vow of virginity. The unhappy priestess was let down into a deep pit, with bread, water, milk, oil, a lamp burning, and a bed to lie on. But this was only for shew; for the moment she was let down they began to cast in the earth upon her till the pit was filled up. Lord Bacon gives instances of the resurrection of persons who had been buried number; who, having been seized with a catalepsis, was thought dead, and laid to sleep among his fathers, but raised again by his servants, in whose absence he had been buried. alive. The famous Duns Scotus is of the The ancients did not bury their dead in the cities, but in the suburbs and fields. And the practice of burying in churches was not allowed of for the first 300 years after Christ. In the 6th century the people began to be admitted in the churchyards; and some princes, founders, and bishops, into the church. From that time the matters seem to have been left to the discretion of the bishop. Ency. BUS BUSHEL, a corn measure. Roman bushel or modius, contained 552 solid inches, which is near 8 cubical inches more than an English peck, Matth. v. 15. Ency. || know not. It was long before the Greeks knew any thing of butter.The Dutch were the introducers of it into the East Indies. The ancient Romans, and modern Spaniards, use it as a medicine, not for food. It is far otherwise in the Dutch and British dominions. Butter and honey were so plentiful in Canaan, as to be common provision, Isai. vii. 15, 22. To wash one's steps with butter is to enjoy great and delightful prosperity, Job xxix. 6. Flattering speech is BÚSTUM, in antiquity, denotes a pyramid or pile of wood, whereon were anciently placed the bo-smoother than butter, is apparently dies of the deceased, in order to very soft and agreeable, Psal. Iv. 21, BUTTOCK; to have it uncoverbe burnt. The Romans borrowed the custom of burning their dead from ed, inported the greatest shame and the Greeks. The deceased, crowned disgrace, 2 Sam. x. 4. Isaiah xx. 4. BUY; to buy from men, is to obwith flowers, and dressed in his richcst habits, was laid on the bustum.-tain right to, and possession of, a thing, Bustum was also figuratively applied by giving a price for it, Gen. xlii. 2. to denote any tomb. Whence these To buy from Christ, is [under a sense phrases, facere bustum, violare bus-of our unspeakable need of himself and his blessings, and in the belief of tum, &c. BUSY: diligent in work. Busy their excellency and fitness for us, to bodies are such as, neglecting their receive them freely,] as the eternal proper work, give up themselves to portion of our soul, and to forsake intermeddle with the affairs of others, whatever stands in opposition there2 Thess. iii. 11. BUSINESS is the to, Isaiah Iv. 1. Rev. iii. 18. Matth. To buy the truth, and not work which men do; or which they xiii. 44. ought to do; by virtue of their calling sell it, imports the most diligent conor trust, Deut. xxiv. 5. Rom. xii. 11. ||sideration, and cordial embracement BUT, ordinarily signifies, that the of it, and cleaving to it, whatever exthings between which it is placed, are pence, hazard, or trouble it costs us, contrary or diverse, John vi. 27. and Prov. xxiii. 23. To buy the merchaniii. 17. Matth. vi. 15. and xx. 16.-dise of Rome, is, at the eternal hazard Our English translation has frequent-of our soul, to embrace her abominaly and, where but might have done better. BUTLER, one charged with the care of the wine-cellars, in the house of a great man. Pharaoh's butler, was also his cup-bearer, that filled out his wine to him and his guests, Gen. xl. 1. and xli. 9. His office was called butlership. tions; or, by money, intercession, or the like, to procure Antichristian dignities, offices, reliques, pardons, Rev. xviii. 11. God bought his chosen people, by giving his Son to the death, as an infinite ransom for them, 1 Cor. vi. 19. He bought the Hebrew nation, in exerting his power and goodness on their behalf, bringing them from BUTTER. Calmet will have it to Egypt, and loading them with merbe the same with cream, among thecies unnumbered, that they might be eastern nations; but it is plain from Prov. xxx. 33. that it was brought forth by churning; whether in a skin, as is the custom at present among the Moors and Arabs, or otherwise, we his peculiar people, Deuter. xxxii. 6. He buys professed Christians, in giving them his word; and at much expense of power and goodness, delivering them from heathenism, popc |