Part Ii. OF TilE FIGURES oF A SENTENCE IN LoGISM. off, that fame Part is concealed, or not uttered ; yet by that Means to aggravate it; this is ufed in Scripture; I. In Promiong, as 2 Sam. v. 8. Whofoever fmiteth the ]ebujite-We are to under– ftand ( Hejha/1 be Chief and Captain,) as 1 Chron. xi. 6.. fee 1Chron. iv. 10. Luke xiii. 9· And if it bear Fruit ; you mufl: unded'cand (well, or lt 1s welt) wh1ch iS not m the Greek, but fupplied in our Englijh Bible. 2 . In Commination, Gen. iii. 22. And now left he put forth his Hand, and take alfo of the 'J"ree ofLife, and eat, and live for ever. In thefe Words of the Lord, being angry with Man for his Sin and Violation of the Divine Law, we mull: by an Apojiope}is un– derll:and what is omitted, viz. I will drive him out of tbe Garden, and forbid him my Pre– fence, which was done, as the next Words declare. See Ezek. xxxiv. 8. with Verfe IO. Gen. xx. 3· Behold thou art a dead 1Vfan, for the Woman which thou haft taken away l that is, if thou doll: not rell:ore her, as is gathered from Verfe 7· See Gen. xxv. 22. 3· In Complaint, Pfal. vi. 3· My Soul is alfo fore vex! ; but th•u 0 Lord, how long? that is, wilt thou be averfe to me, or delay Help. Luke x1x. 42. If thou hadft known, even thou, at /eaft in this Day, the 'J"hings unto thy Peace, io the Greek, we are to under!tand (which belong) unto tby Peace. 4 • In Swearing, this Figure is frequently ufed, 1 Sam. iii. I4· Pfal.lxxxix, 35· lfd. xiv. 24. and lxii. ~. &c. IV. A,-oroo~ll. Apojlrophe, Averfion, or turning away, is a breaking off the Courfe of Speech, 'and a fudden diverting it to fame new Perfon, or Thing. This is made; 1 • 'J"o God, N eh. iv. 4· in the Middle of his Difcourfe of the re-building of the City, Nehemiah convertS his Speech to God, Hear, 0 our God, for we are de.JPifed, &c. See another Example, Chap. vi. 9· Pfal. xxxiii. the Pfalmijf in the third Perfon fpeaks of God, and his Works and Attributes, concluding Verfe 22. with an /lpoftrophe, di– rected to God, Let thy Mercy 0 Lord be upon 11s, according"as we hoped in thee: [o Pfal. lxxxii. 8. Pfa/. cix. 21. ]er. xi. r8. and elfewhere frequently. 2. To Men, whether living or dead, 2 Sam. i. 24. to the Daughters of Ifrael; and Verfe 26. in that lamenting Epicedium <Jf David, there is a paffionate Apoftrophe, to dead ]onathan : fee 2 Sam. vii. 23. where there is an empbatical /lpoftrophe of God, to the People of Ifracl, Pfal. ii. IO, I 1, 12. !fa. vii. '4· Pfal. vi. 8. and c1ii. 24. lfa. i. 5· ]er. v. ro. Rom. xi. IJ. Sometimes this Apoftrophe is directed to fameJecond Perfon, yet un– certain who it is, which by a Synecdoche of the Species denotes any body, Pfal. xxvii. '4· and xxxiv. 1 r, 13. R om. ii. 17. ix. 1 g, 2d. xii. 20. xiii. 3· and xiv. 4, 10. I Cor. vii. r6. Gal. iv. 7· vi. 1 . Sometimes to whole Cities, by which their Inhabitants are metaphorically to be underfl:ood, as Matt. xi. 2 1, 23. and to a Man's own Soul, Pfal. xlii. 5, J I . Why art thou caft down, 0 my Soul? Pfal. xliii. 5· ciii. 1. &c. civ. 1. and cxlvi. r, &c. Note that an imperative, commanding, or exhortatory Apoftrophe is frequently indica– tive and vaticinatory or prophetical, that is, fucli Things as are to come to pafs, are fore– told by the Prophets in the Form of commanding, lfa. vi. g, iO. (fee Matt. xiii. 14. · Acts xxviii. 26, 27.) !fa. xlvii. r, 5· and xxiii. r6. 'I"ake a Harp, go about the City thou Harlot that haft been forgotten; upon which Mufculus thus comments, ' Per formanc • Apoftrophes, &c. by the Form of an Apoflrophe, he exprelfes the Care of reftorino– ' 'J"yre. He does not exhort her to do this, but under this Figure foretells what {h~ • fhall do after her Rell:itution, feventy Years from that Time, fhe fhall act as an Har– ' lot, who when releafed from any great Affliction, falls afrefh to the PraCtice of her ' meritricious Arts, and lnticements, to allure the unwary Youth to her Snare; fhe • takes her Harp, (for the Whores in thofe,Countries were lkilful in that fenfe-inticing ' Art of Mufic) quavers her Notes, m Confort With her charmmg Vo1ce, aaddinoabout the City to infmuate into the Affections of young Men. So 'tyre, whe~ rell:or':: ' ed, will fall again to merchandizing, in as brifk a Manner as before its Devall:ation, &c. 7er. vi. r, 6, 26. 3· To Brutes, or Things wanting Reafon, ]oclii. 12. Be not afraid, ye Beafts of the Field; for the Paftures of the Wildernefs do fpring, &c. See Pfal. cxlviii. iO. 4· To Things mute and altogether void ofSenfe, where, by a Profopop,eia, a Perfon is attributed to them; 2 Sam. i. 21. Ye Mountaim of Gilboa, let there be no Dnv, neitber let there Rain be up011 you, nor Fields ofOfferings, becaufe the Shield of Saul was c4f" a·way there, upon which Place Brentius f.rys excellemly, ' This is a Profopop,eia, very ' familiar with iuch as are full of Indignation: For as fuch as are in a mad Fit of An<>er 3 G fn~tcl;
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