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. Mens imperfections and infir

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 op-mities are burdens, which hurt and pressions, and superstitious imposi- grieve themselves or others; but tions in worship, are called the bundle which others ought to bear with paof the yoke, they are heavy to be borne, tience and meekness, Gal. vi. 2. SinIsa. lviii. † 6. ful 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 un easy, 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, signifies 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; trou

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. Ixviii. 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 mens 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 un-blesome, 2 Cor. xi. 9. easy 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

BURY. The Hebrews were careful to bury even their enemies, 1 Kings xi. 15. Ezek. xxxix. 14. the troublesome pollution of dead bodies required 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, carried 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 neigbours 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- disquiet, 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 beau xix. and xx. Acts viii. 2. 2 Sam. iii.ty, Isa. iii. 24. 31-36. When the modern Jews BURST; to rend violently. God come to their burying-place, which bursts mens 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 furiously 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 a-dissolution of their church and state, round the grave, repeat a long prayer. by the Assyrians, Chaldeans, and RoAfter a prayer for the man's soul, they mans, Isa. xxx. 14. let down the corpse into the grave, and desire him to go in peace. The relations begin to cover him with earth, and then all present assist.-near mount Horeb, represented our They walk backward, till they are at some distance from the grave; and as they leave the burying-place, they pluck some bits of grass, and throw behind their backs, saying, They shall flourish like grass of the earth.

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 (among 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.

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 Jews' vain and wicked confidence, imports the

BUSH, a low, spreading, and often prickly shrub. The bush burning, and not consumed, which Moses saw

earthly nature united to the Son of God, inflamed with the fire of divine punishment, and yet not consumed, but supported and refreshed: and the Hebrew nation in the fire of Egyptian cruelty, and the church in the fire of

Lord Bacon gives instances of the realive. The famous Duns Scotus is of the surrection 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.

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 matter seems to have been left to the discretion of the bishop.

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persecution and distress, and yet not in the least destroyed thereby, because of the good will and favour of him that dwelt, i. e. appeared in the bush, Exod. iii. 2, 4. Acts vii. 30, 35. Deut. xxxiii. 16.

The

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.

BUSTUM, in antiquity, denotes a pyramid or pile of wood, whereon were anciently placed the bodies of the deceased, in order to be burnt. The Romans borrowed the custom of burning their dead from the Greeks. The deceased, crowned with flowers, and dressed in his richest habits, was laid on the bustum.Bustum was also figuratively applied to denote any tomb. Whence these phrases, facere bustum, violare bustum, &c. Ency.

BUSY; diligent in work. Busy bodies are such as, neglecting their proper work, give up themselves to intermeddle with the affairs of others, 2 Thess. iii. 11. BUSINESS is the work which men do; or which they ought to do, by virtue of their calling or trust, Deut. xxiv. 5. Rom. xii. 11. BUT, ordinarily signifies, that the things between which it is placed, are contrary or diverse, John vi. 27. and iii. 17. Matth. vi. 15. and xx. 16.Our English translation has frequently and, where but might have done better.

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 smoother than butter, is apparently very soft and agreeable, Psal. Iv. 21.

BUTTOCK; to have it uncovered, imported the greatest shame and disgrace, 2 Sam. x. 4. Isaiah xx. 4.

BUY; to buy from men, is to obtain right to, and possession of, a thing, by giving a price for it, Gen. xlii. 2. To buy from Christ, is, [under a sense of our unspeakable need of himself and his blessings, and in the belief of their excellency and fitness for us, to receive them freely,] as the eternal portion of our soul, and to forsake whatever stands in opposition_thereto, Isaiah lv. 1. Rev. iii. 18. Matth. xiii. 44. To buy the truth, and not sell it, imports the most diligent consideration, and cordial embracement of it, and cleaving to it, whatever ex|| pence, hazard, or trouble it costs us, Prov. xxiii. 23. To buy the merchan dise of Rome, is, at the eternal hazard of our soul, to embrace her abominations; or, by money, intercession, or the like, to procure Antichristian dig. nities, 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 the cies unnumbered, that they might be eastern nations; but it is plain from his peculiar people, Deuter. xxxii. 6. Prov. xxx. 33. that it was brought He buys professed Christians, in givforth by churning; whether in a skin, ing them his word; and at much exas is the custom at present among the Moors and Arabs, or otherwise, we

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.

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