The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.

English Examples.

Godlinesse is the exact care of a Christian, to worship God in the spirit according to the di∣ctates of his will, with all sincerity.

He that subverts the Laws, and infringes the peoples liberties, is a Tyrant.

Fear is an apprehension of future harm.

In way of Gradation:

To refuse good counsel is folly; to contemn it, wickednesse: to scorn it, madnesse.

Beauty is nothing but a transitory charm, an illusion of senses, a slave of pleasure: a flower which has but a moment of life; a dyal on which we never look, but whilst the Sun shines on it: it is a dunghil covered with snow: a glass painted with false colours, &c.

This is not fortitude, but temerity; for for∣titude is an heroick contempt of evil through due consideration of the justnesse of the cause, controversie and call: but temerity is a foolish enterprise of perils without due consideration of either.