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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Smith, John, Gent.
Publication: London :: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden ...,; 1665.
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Subject terms: Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.; English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59234.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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The word (to blesse) used in Gen. 12.3.24, 35. 2 Sam. 2.10. Psal. 34.2. doth also by an Antiphrasis signifie (to curse) as appears by 1 King. 21.10. where the same word that is u∣sed in the precedent Scriptures to blesse, is used in a contrary signification; as, Thou didst blas∣pheme or curse God and the King; as also in Job. 1.5. It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts; and likewise concerning what Jobs wife said unto him in Job. 2.9. Curse God and dye. See another in Isa. 64.11. &c. Thus in Rev. 5.5. &c. a Lion signifies Christ, and in 1 Pet. 5.8. the Devill.