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 BUR ( <594 ) BUS N. lat. and the latter, thirty miles north of Lincoln, of blafphemy, could affume thefe titles'; and fince neiin 30° W. long, and 53^ 40' N. lat. ther God the Father, nor the Holy Ghod, are ever Burton is alfo the name of a market-town in Weft- called by the name of abgel, i. e. a meffenger, or permoreland, about thirty miles0fouth-weft of Appleby : fon fent, whereas God the Son is galled by the pro0 W. long. 2 35', N. lat. 54 10'. phet Malachi, (chap. iii. 1.), “ The angel of the coBurton, in the fea-language, a fmall tackle confiding venant ;” it hence feems to follow, that this angel of of two (Ingle blocks, and may be made faft any where the Lord was God the Son, who might very properly at pleafure, for holding fmall things in and out ; and! be called an angel, becaufe in the fulnefs of time he will purchafe more than a fingle tackle with two was fent into the world in our flelh, as a meffenger blocks. from God, and might therefore make thefe his temBURY, in geography, a market-town of Lancafhire, a-0 porary apparitions, prefages and forerunners, as it bout 30 miles fouth-ead of Lancader : W. long. 2 were, of his more folemn million. 0 The Mahometans believe, that one of Mofes’s (hoes, 20', N. lat.-53 36'. Bury St Edmunds, or1 St Edmund’s Bury, the put off by him as he drew near the burning bufh, was county-town of Suffolk, about twelve miles ead of placed in the ark of the covenant, in order to preferve Newmarket, and feventy north-ead of London : E. the memory of this miracle. long. 45', N. lat. 520 20'. BUSHEL, a mealure of capacity for dry things, as Bury is alfo a term fometimes ufed for the hole or den grain, fruits, dry pulfe, <bc containing four pecks, of fome animal under ground, more ufualiy called or eight gallons, or one-eighth of a quarter. burrow. A bufhel, by 12 Henry VII. c. 5. is to contain Thus we fay, the bury of a mole, rabbit, fac. eight gallons of wheat; the gallon eight pounds of BUSH, a term ufed for feveral (hrubs of the fame kind troy-weight ; the ounce twenty derlings, and the dergrowing clofe together : thus we fay, a furze-bu(h, ling thirty-two grains, or corns of wheat growing in bramble-bu(h, foe. the midd of the ear. At Paris, the bufhel is divided into two half bu(hBush is fometimes ufed, in a more general fenfe, for any affemblage of thick branches interwoven and mix- els ; the half bufhel into two quarts ; the quart into two half quarts ; the half quart into two litrons ; and ed together. i?«f7j/«v-BusH, that bnfh wherein the Lord appeared to the litron into two half litrons. By a fentence of the Mofes at the foot of mount Horeb, as he was feeding provod of the merchants of Paris, the bnfhel is to be eight inches two lines and a half high, and ten inches his father-in-law’s flocks. As to the perfon that appeared in the bufli, the text in diameter ; the quart four inches nine lines high, fays, “ That the angel of the Lord appeared unto and fix inches nine lines wide ; the half quart four inches three lines high, and five inches diameter ; the him in a flame of fire, out of the middle of the bufh hut whether it was a created angel, fpeaking in the litron three inches and a half high, and three inches perfon of God, or God himfelf, or (as the mod re- ten lines in diameter. Three bufhels make a minot ; ceived opinion is) Chrid the Son of God, has been fixr a mine ; twelve, a feptier ; and an hundred and a muid. In other parts of France the matter of fome controverfy among the learned. Thofe forty-four, who fuppofe it no more than an angel, feem to imply bufhel varies. Oats are meafured in a double proportion to other that it would be a diminution of the majedy of God, grains, bufhds of oats make a to appear upon every occafion, efpecially when he has feptier, foandthat288 twenty-four a muid. The bufhel of oats is diluch a number of celedial mintders, who may do the into four picotins, the picotin into two half bufinefs as well. But cOnfidering that God is prefent vided or four litrons. Forfait, four bufhels make every where, the notification of his prefence by fome quarts, and fix a feptier ; for coals, eight bufhels outward fign in one determinate place, (which is all one minot, one minot, fixteen a mine, and 320 a muid; we mean by his appearance), is in eur conception lefs make lime,, three bufliels make a rainot, and forty-eight laborious (if any thing laborious could be, conceived for minots a muid. of God) than a delegation of angels upon every turn BUSKIN, kind of fhoe, fomewhat in manner of a from heaven, and feems in the main to illudrate ra- boot, andaadapted to either foot, and worn by either ther than debafe the glory of his nature and exidence. But however this be, it is plain that the angel here fex.This part of drefs, covering both the foot and midfpoken of was no created being,, from the whole conwas tied underneath the knee ; it wa% very rich text, and efpecially from his faying, “ I am the Lord leg, and fine, and principally ufed on the Page by afters in God, the. Jehovah,” i&c. fmee this is not the lan- tragedy. It was of a quadrangular form, and the'foie guage of angels, who are always known to expr'efs was fo thick, as that, by means thereof, men of the themfelves in fuch humble terms as thefe, “ I am fent ordinary might be raifed to the pitch and elefrom. God; I am thy fellow-fervant,” ebv. It is a vation offlature the heroes they perfonated. The colourvain pretence to fay, that an angel, as God’s ambafgenerally purple on the flage : herein it was difador, may fpeak in God’s name and perfon ; for what was ambaffador of any. prince ever yet faid, “ I am the ftinguifhed from the fock, worn in comedy, that beking ?” Since therefore no angel, without the guilt ing only a low common fhoe. The bufkin feems to