Part II. SCHEMES OF SENTENCES AND AMPLIFICATION$. See Job xvi. 22. So Job xviii. I4. Death. is called, 'I'he King of 'I'errors; that is, which terrifies the Wicked; Verfe '3· lt IS called, 'Ihe Fzr}l-born of Death; that IS, mort cruel and fatal, the Metaphor being taken from the Right of Primocgenirure, ro which belonged a double Portion, and other Prerogari ves ; and therefore from thefe, whatever was excellent and chief in its own Kind was by the Hebrews called the Firjl– born (other Phrafes refpeCling Death fee Gen•.xv. I5· xxv. 8. an.d xlii. 38. 2 Kings xxii. ~o. Pfal. xciv. I7· and cxv. 17. !fa. XIV. I5· and XJ<XVI!I, 10. 2 Cor. v. I. Phi!. i. 23. z Pet. i. I3, I4, &c.) Job xxvi. I3· The Whale is called a Serpent like a Bar, or oblon", bccaufe of his immenfe Length: See other Examples, Eccl. xii. I, 2, &c. Prov. xx~. 3'· 2 Sam. v. 9· with Jojh. xv. 8. 2 Sam. v. 6. Ezek. i. 22. where there is a PeriphrPjis of Cryfial: Ezek. xxiv. 16. and xxi, 15. A Wife is called the Dejire of the Eyes, as Verfe 18. Ezek. xxvi. 9· there is a Pariphrajis of a battering Ram;- a Periphrajis of Gems of a bright Lufire, Ezek. xviii. I4. as a Carbuncle, Ruby, Chryfolite, &c. See more Examples, Ezek. xxxi. 14. Micah vii. 5· Zeph. i. 9· ln the New Teftament Men are called ymnTO• 'Y""'"'"wv, born of Women, Matt, xi. I I. See alfo Luke xxi. 35· Job i. 9· Luke ii. 23. I 'J'hef! v. 3· Matt. i. I8, 23. and xxiv. I g. Mark xiii. 17. Luke i. 3I. and xxi. 23. Rev. xii. 2. There is a Peri– phrajis of Re.ft, Pfal. cxxxii. 3, 4, 5, &c. the Meaning of which is, that he would not reO: till it be done, & c. VIII. Schemes taken from 'l'e.ftimony, rvwfl.n, a Sentence, is a certain general, brief and feafonable Saying, of the Manners or Aff.rirs of rh is Life, without the Allegation or citing of an Author (Prov. i. 2. they are called Words of Prudence or Underjlanding.) But if an Author be quoted, it is called Xe'"" Chria, (that is, a profitable Saying) as Seneca fays, ita vivendum ejJe cum hominibus, tanquam Deus videat, fie loquendum cum Deo, tanquam homines audiant: that is, We mufl Jo live with Men, as if God Jaw us; and we mufl fo jpeak with God, as if Men heard 11s. And as Cr,efus in Xenophon fays, T'X'"' ""Y"' Twv ""'-wv, Arts are the Fomztains ofgood 'J'hings. Demojlhenes fays, "''-'w' <¥uxnv '"~' n< "!'-"'' 'I' he Laws are the Soul of a City, &c. But if an Alluflon only be made to a Sentence or famous Saying, or if it be accom– modated to a certain Perfon, it is called ""~'-"• Noema, that is, Cogitation, or Think– ing: Which is frequent in profane Rhetoricians. But, Concerning the facred Scripture, it abounds with the moll: fweet and ufeful Sentences in the World: John vi. 68. Lord, to whom jhall we go? thou. hajl. the Words of eternal Life. A fair Defcription of which, we have Eccl. xii. I 1. 'J'he Words of the Wift are, as Goads, (by which Men are pricked forward to their Duty,. as Oxen are pricked forward ro go on, or labor) And as Nails (which keep Men within the Bounds of Duty, as Planks are fixed when they are nailed through) fajlened by the Moj/ers of AJ!emblies, (he fpeaks metaphorically ot Divine Preaching, as 1 Cor. iii. 6. James i. 21. For the Mafters of Alfemblies are fuch as founded or inftituted Colleges, or fuch as in the public Alfemblies of the Church taught the Word of God, as the Prophets and Priefis in the Old Teftamcnt did) which are given from one Shepherd, (that is, God, the only Paftor of his People, Pfal. xxiii. 1.) that is, the fupreme Governor and ProteCtor. He alone is the Author of his written Word, fpeaking immediately by his Prophets, &c. More efpecially and by Way of brief Analogy, we will make fame Obfervations of the ~orations of the Old Tefiament quoted in the New, ( 1.) J?<_uoad formam internam, with RefpeCl to the intmtal Form, which is the Senfe of Scripture Oracles. (2.) The extmzal Form, which is the Manner or CharaCter of fpeaking, and the Mode or Way of Allegation . . 1. The internal or inward Form, with RefpeCl: to which, the Allegation is made eaher according to the Senfe intended by the Holy Spirit; or its analogical!lccommoda– tion.. ( r.) The Scnfe intended by the Holy Spirit, is either literal, or typical and myfttcal. In an immediate literal Senfe, there are frequent Qo!otarions which concern Chnrt, of whom the Prophets prophefied, ·~1"' TO e"'"• Word for Word, as !fa. vii. I4. Behold, a Virgin jhall conceive, and bear a Son, and thou jhalt call his Name Immanuel; which in the proper and proximate Senfe is cited with RefpeCl: to Chrijl, Matt. i. 23.– compare alfo Deut. xviii. I5. with Afls iii. 22. Pfal. ii. 7· with Afls xiii. 33· Heb. 1. S· and v. 5· Pfal. viii. 2. with Matt. xxi. 16. Pfal. xxii, 18. with Matt. xxvii. 35· 3 K John
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