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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Smith, John, Gent.
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden ...,
1665.
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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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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 June 7, 2024.
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Scriptural Examples of Antonomasia.
Prov. 18.10. The name of the Lord is a strong Tower, &c.
Joel 2.11. He is strong that executes his word.
Gen. 21.33 The everlasting God, where the common attributes, strong and everlasting are put for Jehovah, the more proper name of God.
So in Mat. 21.3. Joh. 11, 3, 12. Christ is called Lo••d: and in Joh. 11.28. Master: and in Mat 8.20. & 9.6. The son of man: in Gen. 48.16: The Angel: in Exod. 3.2 The Angel of the Lord: and in Isai. 63.9. the Angel of the Lords presence: and Euphrates is in Gen. 31.21.
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called the River: and Christ in Dan. 11.22. is called the Prince oft he Covenant. and in Gen. 3.15. the seed of the woman: and in Heb. 12.24. the Mediator of the New Covenant.
Thus Christ also calls his Church, his Sister, his Love, and his Dove; and the Church in like manner, him her Beloved.
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