Scriptural Examples.
Isa. 51.9. Awake, awake, put on strength. Oh arm of the Lord, &c.
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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- 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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- 1665.
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"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 23, 2024.
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Matth. 23.37. Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the Prophets, &c. here the wo••d is geminated to expresse the ardency of the speakers affections.
Isa. 52.1. Awake, awake, put on thy strength O Zion, &c. See Isa. 51.17, 12, 38, 19, 40, 1. Judg. 5.12.
Ezek. 21.9.27. A sword, a sword, is shar∣pened, &c.
I will overturn, overtu••n, overturn it, &c. (i.e.) I will certainly overturn it.
Thus David bewaileth the death of his son Absalom, in 2 Sam. 18.33. O my son Absalom: my son, my son Absalom; would God I had dyed thee, O Absalom my son, my son.
This you may find sometimes by way of Am∣plification, as Psal. 145.18. The Lord is nigh to all that call upon him, even to all that call upon him in truth, so Psal. 68.12. and Jo∣el 3.14.
And sometimes also by way of Transition; as, Hos. 2.21. I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the corn, &c.