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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52486	Divine eloquence, or, An essay upon the tropes and figures contained in the Holy Scriptures and reduced under the proper titles & rhetorick also several texts of Scripture which fall in with the figures are briefly interpreted, especially those which seem to favour the papist or the Socinian.	Norwood, Cornelius.	1694 (1694)	Wing N1344; ESTC R30070	55,272	145

how and when God lays in his mighty treasures of storm and tempest to confound his Enemies The falling of snow and rain may seem very accidental and according to the usual course of nature but I am satisfied that the wind and the waters are laid up as in a treasury and when God pleaseth he sends them abroad as well for the preservation of some as for the destruction of other people Thus do I conclude this Figure with these difficult and amazing questions to let you know that although God condescends to speak to us in a familiar way yet sometimes too he thinks it convenient to let us know our distance and our ignorance too when he proposeth such questions to us as declare his infinite power and greatness Such questions as are above our comprehension and so they should make us more sensible of our weakness and infirmity CHARIENTISMUS Charientismus a Figure when we return a very mild and gentle answer although we are not insensible of the provocation John 18. 23. Jesus answered him If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil but if well why smitest thou me How does our Blessed Saviour not render evil for evil How does he patiently suffer the affront and meekly expostulate for the Injury he received and How does the soft Answer turn their wrath away Prov. 15. 1. When St. Paul was interrupted by Festus with a reproachfull language telling him that he was mad Acts 26. 24. How does our Apostle return a soft and submissive Answer to him not without the greatest deference But he said I am not mad most noble Festus v. 25. Matth. 15. 26 27. When the woman of Canaan importuned our Saviour to work a wonderfull Cure upon her daughter who was tormented with an evil spirit our Saviour tells her that It was not convenient to take the childrens bread and cast it to dogs that is It was not proper to work those Miracles among the heathen which were chiefly design'd for God's own peculiar People the Jews observe how they are here called the children and the heathen are termed the dogs And what expression can be more harsh more severe or more likely to provoke the meekest Soul to some undecent and passionate expression But how extreamly civil how courteous how very obliging is her Answer and she said Truth Lord and so still gives him the greatest Title of respect and honour 'T is true my Lord I cannot deny what you please to say Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table as if she had said The dogs do receive the remainders and scatterings which fall from the table so even I my self who am a Gentile or call me if you please by the vilest name so long as you will but suffer me to enjoy the same favour with the Jews I can easily dispense with any such infamous or reproachfull language Such humiliation such an humble disposition of Soul and such importunity can never be unacceptable to Almighty God and Heaven it self cannot but favour such desires And you find our Saviour himself was in no small admiration and mightily surprized with this meek and humble insinuation especially after so great a provocation for the very sound of the word so applied is very ignominious and so Christ presently tells her O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt Thus an importunate Prayer accompanied with such a deep sence of our own unworthiness is still the nearest way to receive and enjoy all the blessed consequences of our Petitions and Heaven it self is overcome with such a pleasing violence Thus you see the woman was not insensible of the provocation and yet how very courtly how genteel is her Answer True my Lord yet the very dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table and let me beg you to be so kind as to suffer me now with them to enjoy such a kind of favour such a superfluity and so Christ himself breaks out in amazement of such a most kind beseeching unexpected reply O woman great is thy faith thy belief is mighty strange and wonderfull to me and so very forcible so prevailing with me that I cannot possibly deny what you desire APODIOXIS Apodioxis This Figure not without scorn and indignation rejects any sort of argument as very absurd in it self and not reducible to practice Matth. 16. 23. How does Christ reprove St. Peter when he importunately desired our Saviour not to suffer persecution Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things of God This is a reflection upon our Apostle of the highest nature and certainly nothing less than the greatest provocation could extort such expressions from Christ himself And now Who would think that St. Peter who was so extreamly displeasing to our Blessed Saviour and so highly condemned by him as to call him Satan a word of the greatest infamy and reproach should of all the Apostles be the only head of the Christian Church as if the rest were not as equally concerned in the foundation of Christianity as St. Peter himself whereas all the Preference that was given to this Apostle was rather with respect to his age than to any authority and power he received as an Apostle Indeed was there any preeminence among the Apostles I should think St. John deserves to be called the very chief of them all because he is remarkably distinguished by Christ himself and styled in the Gospel the disciple whom Jesus loved with more expression of kindness and affection than all the rest and Who can be so well qualified to be supream in the Church as that Person who was dearest to his Saviour And therefore certainly most deserving in himself Whereas St. Peter was guilty of the greatest Apostacy in his obstinate denial of Christ even to abjuration of him Matth. 26. 74. even when he had given his Saviour the highest kind of assurance that though all the Apostles did forsake him yet for his part he was resolved not to doe the like and yet was he the first deserter of him Acts 8. 20. But Peter said Thy money perish with thee because thou thoughtest that the gift of God may be purchased with money This was an imprecation of the highest nature Psalm 50. 21. Thou thoughtest that I was such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee for thy sins and set them before thee Matth. 7. 16. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles How then can you being evil speak good things Matth. 12. 34. and the very absurdity of the question was too manifest to require an answer LITOTES Litotes This Trope we make use of when we say not so much as we think yet such a way of speaking is often much more forcible and makes stronger impressions upon us 'T is in short a sort of Figure extreamly decent and never used without modesty and discretion What shall I praise you in