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.
Smith, John, Gent., Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
Scriptural Examples of Parech•sis.
Matth. 11.17. We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced, &c.
John 10.1. He that entreth not in by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another way, he is a thief and a robber.
1 Cor. 1.23. But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews, even a stumbling block, and un∣to the Graecians foolishnesse: but unto, &c.
See Gen. 48.14▪ &c. John 1.5.
