An introduction to the art of rhetorick composed for the benefit of young schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ...

Example.

If you would congratulate the arrival of some Kings Ambassador, or any great Person: you may make this proposition: We ought to rejoyce in your coming to us: The Reason; Because you are a great person. Place it Logically thus: We ought to rejoyce, at the coming of a great Person. But you are a great person. Therefore, &c. Rhetorically thus, beginning with the Major.

The stars cannot appear without rejoycing the inanimate world; nor great persons without affecting the souls of men, N. N. Nature hath given them this, that they can∣not be, but they must be profitable.

The Reason of the Major.

Vertue hath imposed this most beauti∣full necessitie, That great men can be no where, but where they may shew favour and clemency to those that are un∣der them.

The Conclusion.

Would to God you might this day see thorowly into all our souls, yea even of Mo∣mus, you might there behold Love and Fear, Joy and Sorrow, desire and eloquence, wrestling together in our hearts, with no or∣dinary conflict: for when we salute you as our great Guest we cannot well tell, whe∣ther our fear should love, or our love fear your Excellencie; whether our joy should sorrow its straitness, or our sorrow joy your appearance; whether our desires should speak, or our Eloquence wish: Oh that we were wholly joy, wholly love, wholly desire, wholly Eloquence, that we might here in your presence, ex∣presse our affections towards you as we ought.

The Minor with the Approbation thereof.

The truth is, that not only the Noble∣ness of your birth, singular wisdome, sweet cariage, and behaviour, and your other inestimable vertues, do make you great in our eyes: but we also reverence your great∣nesse, because you are so in the judgment of

the whole Kingdome; which having those beames of honour on your person, hath published to the world, that you are her Starr. Our King hath greatly esteemed you in making you not only of his privy Councell, but Arbitrator of it, when he hath again and again declared you worthy to accompany him, not only in Germany and Britain, but even in all the parts of his own Kingdome, that you might here and every where, be esteemed great. And all our borders will for ever owne your greatness, because you have condescended to shew your illustrious presence and noble soul in our mean confines: all of us be∣ing sensible, that great men do augment their greatness by their condescentions.