A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Sol. The word in the Text is very pregnant, and greatly significant: Primum imbue; give the first dip, dye, tincture, seasoning. Hence by a Metaphor the word is diversly translated. Initia, so Ar-Mouth. Begin, or give the first instruction; lay the ground-work, foundation, or first stone. Deduc. So Chald. Paraph. Vers. Instrue. Set in order or array, arm, train up, instruct. Thus Abraham armed, or led forth his trained or instructed servants, Gen. 14.14. The word is also translated Dedicavit, Consecravit; i. e. to set a person or thing apart, and to devote it to the true God in a right manner, for holy uses and ends, with solemn prayer and praise. Thus the word [Greek or Hebrew] is used Deut. 20.5. Psal. 30. title. 1 Kings 9.7. 2 Cbron. 7.5. 1 Kings 13.13. 1 Chron. 18.11. The Greeks render the word [Greek or Hebrew]. A word of a peculiar signification, and imports a plain and familiar teaching and instructing of the ignorant by word of mouth, in the first grounds and Fundamental Principles of the true, and, in the strictest sense, the Christian Religion. Thus the word is used Luke 1.4. Acts 18.25. 1 Cor. 14.19. Gal. 6.6. Hence it may be supposed it was that our Translators in the Margin render the word Catechize, as being prompted thereunto by the Jewish Rabbins, who stile their form of Catechism [Greek or Hebrew] a Book of first instruction.

Sol. The word in the Text is very pregnant, and greatly significant: Primum imbue; give the first dip, dy, tincture, seasoning. Hence by a Metaphor the word is diversly translated. Initia, so Ar-Mout. Begin, or give the first instruction; lay the ground-work, foundation, or first stone. Deduc. So Chald. Paraph. Vers. Instrue. Set in order or array, arm, train up, instruct. Thus Abraham armed, or led forth his trained or instructed servants,