that they may n th have invented fuch difpofitio t. And great effets by this me Subjeti Matterwhereof he treats, Perfons with whom he Prafat. in had todo. And herein and drawn many intoa Rma u b' common milhke. TheStyle ane, high and excellent; f but that ofHoféa, and efpecial , favouring of the Cozen- try, and his Profélfion, who nderltand their Style and Language, will not eafily g e report be commonly admitted by the moft. It is n excellent mdse- in his picasé is Exhortations, Expoftulation attended-, with Efficacious tlpa- Dolt. ftropbe's, Profopopsiar, Metaphor efs in his Prophefies and Gent,lib.z.cz. Preditions,afweetEvangelic ofPromifes, withfre-, Biblieeder. de quells Paronomafra's,audEf'eip that Language, whence rationedïfcen- he is ufually infjanced in by e Eloquence of the Di-. ßdì treats. vine Writings, and his d'eowr Manaus de $ > í7esualfbenes, or Cicero. Veritat, Orig. But the Readermuff take he peculiar Excefencies of that vtelig tap.26. Prophet abfolutely in the words e things that it pleated Rivet. Ifagog. the Holy Ghoft toufe him as ad Sae. script. Y of. But the other part cap. 18. ofHieroms cenfure is utterly . The Style of limos. Glaf/Iso jbi- confidering theSubjeíi Matter t an; with whom he had lal: tae. Traf. todo, in tinting ofWords a Eloquence. confiffeth, is ad Rbeor. every way as proper,as, the knowingReader find Ofiken' g m4 him wanting in any of the c e occafion unto them is yoban. adminilhed. Thus force affirm preflions, ( and they in- 'Theron. Eni(t. !Luce in i Cor. y.. 8. Col. z. = icians his Country-men, If,. ad.atgaf. and not fò proper as to the p he wrote ; but asthe Lapide Corn lius of the Ete reliions they t Lapidepræfac. . P Y he latter, purely Greek; li Eptfl.Pmdt fo indeed they will difcover her with the Patavinity in Livy that'Pollio noted in hit zg. Eloquence and Propriety of them , are the gift of God, Exact. q..10, r r. And therefore y be given to the con- trary, it may well be thought of be wanting inBooks. written by hisown Infpiratio a are not able to give a right meafure of what dot, o them. He that fhali look for a flourifh of painted Ornaments of Speech,' Difcourfe tinted to entice, in carnal affetions; or Sophiffical captious wayes ofr da, or ateaaoaoyía, that . fmooth and harmonious ftrut Roman Orator gloried, the lenociniaverborum, the v ") of the Heathens, in the Scripture, will bemifakenin t the Authority, Ma- jefiy, Greatnefs and Holinefs Earthly Monarch that Ihouldmake ufe of them in his would but proftieutehis Authority tocontempt, and i ce by fo doing. How. much more would they unbe and Will given unto poor worms, who is the great P Befides,thefe things belong andPropriety of Speech, but are arbitrarily invented lameneß. and infirmity. Men defpairing toaffet the themfelves which they had to propofe unto them, an are meet to take hold oftheir bruitifh affeïïions, with minds with prejudice,, or calling, a miff before their ot difeern the nature, worth, and excellency of Tru , s of words as might compafs theends they aimed a ans were prodúced ;. as by him, whommen admired, 16 Canonical iluthorityof the o and the Endaimedat, and th mbath lead the.way to others, oflfaiah he Cayes is proper, Zlrb lyof limo:; low, plain, improper wasa Shepherd. But thole that u ive content unto him, though th true, there appeareth in a § and Comminations ; s, andBAufioítr ; a comparedfuir al Spiritualnefs inhis Expreflion terwhichhave a fpecialElegancy in Learned Men, as an example of ei ns preferredunto that of .Æfchiner ed that he look nor for the e r ufed by him, but rather in t his Ialtrhment in the Revelation devoid of any good foundation hat he treatethof, and the perfi nd Speech., wherein all true filid Elegant, as that OfIfaiah. Neither will elebrated Styles of Writing, when that S'. Paul ufed fundryEx S.) that were proper to the Cil urity of that Language wherein nuance in, is an Hebraifm, and t a Ïarfian defer in S'. Paul, roger n. Speech the proper ends of unlefsPregnant In./lances m andexpeted that they Ihould n n : Nor indeed are they ; only w h truly and abfolutely belong unt words, artificial) Meretricious veigle, and workupon weak and ea oning todeceive; or that Sua are ofperiods wherein the great 0, and grandiloquentia of tome his aim. Such things become no of himwho fpeaks therein. An Edil!:, Laws,or Proclamations, nvite his Subjets to"difobedien come theDeclaration of his Mind o1Tellbr of Heaven and Earth: not indeed unto real Eloquence t crutches, for the relief of our minds o£ others, with the things d acquainted with the baits that the wayes ofprtpoffeffing their underfiandings, ---- -pieni moderantem freesia theatri. And therefore the Apoffle tells us, that the tejeting of this kind of Oratory in his Preaching and Writing, was. of indifpenflble necellity, that it might appear that the effei l's of them were not any way influenced thereby, but were the genuine producti- ons of the things themfelves which he delivered, r Cor.z. 5, 6, y. This kindof Elo quence then theScripture maketh no ufe of, but rather condemneth itsApplicationunto the great and holy things whereof it treateth, as unbecoming their Excellencyand Ma- jelly.
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