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MAKE. To make or do, is taken for fulfilling and observing the Law, labouring at any Work, acquiring any Thing. The Souls that Abraham had gotten [or made] in HaranGen. xii. 5.; were the Slaves that he had acquired in that Place. To make himself a House, to Gen. xxx. 30.think of settling himself and providing for his Family. To make himself Chariots and 1 Kings i. 5. Gen. xviii. 21.Horsemen, is to set up a royal Equipage. To make a Kid, is to sacrifice it to God, to dress it. Faciam te in gentem magnam, I Gen. xii. 2.will make you the Father of a great Nation. Facere salutem magnam, to save his People Exod. xiv. 7.by exerting a great Power. Ye have troubled me, to make me to stink among the Inhabitants of the Land: That is, to make Gen. xxxiv. 30.odious, to bring to Infamy. He hath wrought [or made] with God this Day: To be assisted or favoured of God, to be made Use of as an Instrument of his Power. Facere alone signifies to succeed. Commit thy Way unto the Lord, trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass: Et ipse faciet: He shall give good Success to your Undertakings. Psal. xxxvii. 5.Hæc faciat mihi Deus, & hæc addat: A Form of Swearing, wherein the Penalty is not expressed, which is wished to our selves or others.

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