OF THE FIGURES OF A SENTENCE IN LOGISM. Book I. ' as true Piety. But the Holy Spirit acknowledges not, nor owns, fuch Things as are ' framed and pretended to cloak and excufe Impiety ; but fees (becaufe there is ' nothin~ invifible to. him) into the moft private Receffes of the Mind, and judges ' accordwg to what he finds 111 the very Secrets of the Heart. Deut. xxix. 19 . the ' Wicked bleffes himfelf in his Heart, faying, Ijhali have Peace though I walk ; 11 the ' Stubbornefs of m:y Heart, to add Drunkmnefs to 'fhirjl.- Who would be fo impudent ' as publtcly to fay that hiS Ways are wtcked, and that he would perfevere in them: ' See Pfal. xiv. I. Ija. xxviii. 15. and xliv. '7· Jer. xviii. 12. the Holy Spirit recites the Words of the Wicked, not the Words of th6r Mouths, but the Words of their ' Hearts: For the Ungodly do not call their own Ways evil, but in regard they are ' really fo, the Spirit fo calls them as llis own Senrence.' 3· Yet all 'fhings, which the Devil and wicked Men are faid to JPeak, are not in them– (elves e-vil and falfe, although pronounced with a fallacious and fraudulent !mention– this may be feen in the Words of unclean Spirits; Mark i. 24. I know thee who thou 'art, the hol:y One of God: See L uke iv. 34· Arts xvi. 16, 17. In the Words of Caiaphas the JewiOl High-Prieft, John xi. 49, 50, &c. Whatfoever is related in Scripture, may be reduced to thefe four Ways, viz. When}{;~~:}{ Things are H~::::Hfpoken r. Good Things are well fpoken, when righteous and holy Things are well preached. as Matt. iii. 2. Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. ' 2. Evil Things are ill fpoken, when a perverfe or wicked ACl:ion is perfuaded to; as Job ii. 9· Curfe God, and die. 3 . Good Things are ill fpoken, when fomething is not pronounced with a right Mind and Underftandmg; as John tx. 28. the Phartfees f.1y to the blind Man that had his Sight reftored,- 'fhou art his Difciple ; which was true; but they fpoke it maliciouOy, and by Way of Contempt. Johl! xi. 49, 50. It is expedient for t/S that one Manjbould dh for the People, that the whole Nation f?erifh not : This was good (yea the greateft Good in the World) but he fpoke tt out of Sptte to Chnft, and a Greedmefs to de!hoy him, without any RefpeB: to the Grace of Redemption, of which he was ignorant. + Evil Things arc faid well, when by the Mouth of the Speaker Vice is expreJfed fo, as to condemn and confute it. 3. Speeches prudently feigned and compofed to lignify another Thing, are to be read in Scripture-Parables, efpecially the Writings of the Evangelifls, which fhall be treated of at large in this Work, in' the Chapter of Parables, to which we refer you. To this belongs when a ~peech is attributed to Perfons, to be a Sign of the very State of Things, and is figured as the Thing figni6ed by that Speech; as is intimated, Ija. iii. 6. When a Manjballtakebold ofbis Brother, of theHoufeof his Father, faying, Thou haft clothing, be thou our Ruler, and let this Ruin be under thy Hand: Verfe 7· In that Day jha/l he [·wear, faying, I will not be a Healer; for in my Houfe is neither Bread nor Clothing; make me not a Ruler of the People: The Rarenefs or Fewnefs of Governors capable to exercife that Dignity, is denoted in this Dialogifm, or feigned Speech: IJa. iv. 1. And in that Day fevm Women jhalt take hold of one Man, fayiitg, We will eat our own Bread, and wear our own Apparel, onl:y let us be called by thy Name, to take away our Reproach.- This is a Prophecy of the Want of Men, becaufe of the frequent Slaughters t.hat were to c?me, and the Defolation of Women. See other Examples, Matt. xx1u. 32. wtth xxt. 15, 16. 4 . A Covert Profopopaia, when the Verb of faying is omitted, called 1"'1"""'' or Imitation, it is eitherjimple or connex ; thejimple are fuch as are without Col!ocurion: IJa. xxi. 3· 'fherefore are nz:y Loins filled with Pain, Pangs have taken hold of me, as the Pangs af a Woman tbat travaileth; I was bowed dow>t at the hearing of it, I was difmayed at the Jeeing of it: Verfe 4· My Heart wanderetb, Horror a./frights me, he bath made my amiable Night ternble, (fo the Hebrew.) After that D1vmc Oracle wluch foretells the DelhuB:ion of Baby!otJ by the Medes and Perflans, this Mimefis of the King of Baby/011 is fubjoined, by which he exrreffes his Anxtety and Terror, as if the Thing was then a doin"": You may find the ful6lltng of tlm defcnbed, Dan. v. 6, 9, ro, 30. Other 0 Examples
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