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.
Note that similitudes are rather to make dark things plain, then to prove any doubtful thing; similitudes are not argumentative; as appears by the parable of the unjust Steward, in Luk. 16.6, 7, &c.
Prov. 26.1. As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest; so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Vers. 14. As the door turneth upon his hin∣ges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
Prov. 28.15. As a roaring lyon, and a ran∣ging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
