Scriptural Examples.

Rom. 9.19, 20. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? who hath re∣sisted his will? nay but, oh man, who are thou? &c.

Rom. 6.15. What then? shall we sin because we are not under the Law, but under grace? where you have the objection: The answer whereunto is in these words, God forbid.

1 Cor. 15.35. Some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what bodies Page  125 shall they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickned except it dye, &c.

This must be noted, that the objection is many times wanting, which must be wisely supplyed by considering the occasion and the answer of it: as,

1 Tim. 5.11, 12. They will marry, having condemnation; Now, least any might, What, for marrying? The Apostle answers here, No, for denying their first faith.

Prov. 3.9. Honor the Lo•d with thy sub∣stance, &c.

Object. So I may begger my self. But this ob∣jection is prevented in the words of the next verse; so shall thy barns be filled with plen∣ty, &c.

See the like in Matth. 6.33, &c. see Isa. 49.14, 15. Matth. 3.9, &c.

But Prolepsis is also a figure of Construction, and then it is defined a certain summary pro∣nunciation of things; and it is made when the Congregation, or the whole doth aptly agree with the Verb, or Adjective, and then the parts of the whole are reduced to the same Verb or Adjective, wherewith notwithstanding they agree not.