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A91003 Sacred eloquence: or, the art of rhetorick, as it is layd down in Scripture. By the right Reverend Father John Prideaux late Lord Bishop of VVorcester. Prideaux, John, 1578-1650. 1659 (1659) Wing P3433; Thomason E1790_2; ESTC R209683 60,135 136

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the Paps with a Golden girdle intimating his priest-hood 2. The colour of his Head and haire white like Wool as white as Snow shewing his eternity 3. The flaming of his eyes expressing his omnisciency 4. His feet like fine brasse in a furnace leading to his revenge against his enemies 5. Seven stars in his right hand assuring the protection of his Church against all opposers 6. A sharp two-edged sword from his mouth to cut down all impediments 7. His countenance as the Sun shining in his strength with a voyce of the sound of many waters to the daunting and terrifying of all those that have neglected him X. A good Bishop should have 1. Good education as Moses learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians Act. 7.22 The children of the Prophets under Samuel and Elisha St. Paul at the feet of Gamaliel Act. 22.3 Which society our Saviour graced in sitting in the midst of the Doctours Luk. 2.36 hearing them and asking them questions 2. He is advanced to his chair not ambitiously sought after Be not ye called Rabbi Masters Matth. 23. but humble your selves that ye may be exalted 3. He must be free from busying himselfe in impertinencies and intangling himselfe with many worldly businesses 1 Pet. 4.15 4. He is to Ordain and settle Priests in every Parish Tit. 1.5 and neither suddenly 1 Tim. 5.22.1.3 or without due examination to lay his hands on any 5. He is especially to convince Innovators and wrangling Sophisters Act. 20.28 and to chase away Wolves and Foxes from the Flock of Christ 6. Against an Elder he is not to receive an accusation but under two or three witnesses But those that sin scandalously rebuke them before all that others may also fear 1 Tim. 5.19 1 Tim. 5.17 Honouring them with double honour that labour in the Word and Doctrine 7. He is discreetly to withdraw himselfe from proud and peremptory Fellowes knowing nothing but doting about questions and strife of words whereof cometh strife railings and evill surmises perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of truth supposing that gain is godliness 1 Tim. 6. XI A virtuous woman is of price far above Rubies because 1. The heart of her Hous-band may safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil 2. She will do him good and not evill all the dayes of her life 3. She seeketh Wooll and Flax and worketh willingly with her Hands 4. She is like the Merchant's ship that bringeth food from afar 5. She riseth when it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her Maidens 6. She considereth a Field and buyeth it with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard 7. She girdeth her loines with strength and strengthneth her armes 8. She perceiveth her Merchandise is good Her candle goeth not out by night 9. She layeth her Hands to the Spindle and her Hands hold the Distaffe 10. She stretcheth out her armes to the poor yea she reacheth her hands to the needy 11. She is not afraid of the snow for her household for all her household are clothed with scarlet 12. She maketh her selfe covering of tapestry her clothing is silke and purple 13. Her Housband is known in the gate when he sitteth among the Elders of the land 14. She maketh fine linnen and selleth it and delivereth girdles to the merchant 15. Strength and honour are her cloathing and she shall rejoyce in time to come 16. She openeth her mouth with wisdome and in her tongue is the law of kindness 17. She looketh well to the wayes of her houshold and eateth not the bread of idlenesse 18. Her children rise up and call her blessed her housband also and he praiseth her 19. Many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all 20. Favour is deceitfull and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praysed 21. Give her of the fruits of her hands and let her owne workes prayse her in the gates Pro. 31. XII The picture of old age Eccles 12. to which the sun the light the moon and stars yield little comfort by reason of one weaknes tumbling upon another as clouds returning after raine one storme seconding another 2. For in it 1. the keepers of the house shal tremble that is the arms and hands the readiest defenders of the body weakned by palsies and other infirmities 2 the strong men bow themselves thighs and legs through Sciatica aches defluxions 3. the grinders cease because they are few the teeth most lost they left rotten 4. and those that look out by the windows be darknes which must be meant of the eyes 5. and the doores shall be shut in the streets the lips or chaps little imployed when the sound of the grinding is low when the teeth have little to do 6. and he shall rise up at the voyce of the bird awake early in the morning at cock-crowing or bird's singing in regard old men through infirmity sleep little 7. And the daughters of musick shall be brought low the wind-pipes to utter or ears to hear or delight in songs as old Barzillai acknowledged 2 Sam. 19.35 Also they shall be asraid of that which is high and fear shal be in the way old men dread to climbe and hazzard themselves in dangerous wayes by reason of the imbecillity of their limbs Now though these are sufficient remembrancers yet nearer symptoms come with new memento's 1. the hoariness or baldnesse of the head as white as the blossoms of an almond tree 2. the belly or legs loaden with dropsies or gouts puffing him up and making him lazy and mishapen as a locust where grashopper denotes a grashopper's unweildy devouring to no purpose 3. the thought of his long home approaching and sight of mourners dishearten him from all worldly pleasure and cloud him with sadnesse 4. especially when he stooping in the back shewes that the silver chord of spina medulla is loosed which was wont to trusse him up more upright 5. the golden bowle the pia mater which conteins the brain is crack'd 6. the pitcher the miseraïc cava and portaveines are stopped or broken that they bring not as formerly good blood from the fountaine of the liver to chear up the whole body 7. And last when the wheel of the lungs which compasse and preserve the cistern of the heart from whence the vitall spirits are dispersed by the arteries through the whole body to hold as we say life and soul together then that must of force be thought upon that Dust shall return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return to God that gave it XIII Necessaries for a Preacher Eccles 12.9 1. assiduity in teaching others Because the preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledg 2. choice of matters of moment well studied He gave good heed and sought out and set in order many proverbs 4 Rhetoricall expressions The
that they would neither eate nor drinke till they had slaine Paul Act. 23.12 Haman was sicke of this disease and therefore he thought it scorne to lay hands on Mordecai alone but all the Jewes must be destroyed with him Hest 3.6 All his riches multitude of children advancement above the Peers of the Kingdom affected him little in comparison in his vaunting before his freinds and Zerith his wife yea Hester saith he the Queen lett no man come in with the King to the banquet she had prepared but my selfe and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the King yet all this availeth me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the Kings gate Hest 5.13 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joy in anothers ruines is a zeal which least becometh Christians It was a beseeming thought in furious Jehu that after the tumbling of painted Jezabel down from a window and trampling her under his horses feet from the midst of his cups he could command Go see now this cursed woman and bury her for she is a King's daughter 2 King 9.34 For want of which Edom is sharply taxed For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off for ever in the day that thou stooddest on the other side in the day that the stranger carried away his forces captive and forreiners entred into his gates even the wast one of them Obad. 10. Such was ●he rejoycing of the dwellers on the earth over the two Witnesses slain whom they would not suffer to be put in graves but were merry over them and sent gifts one to another because they tormented them that dwelt on the earth 3. Blind zeal Rev. 11.9.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seizeth on any thing putting no difference betwixt good or bad friends or foes This carrieth most commonly with it a mistake in all the rest of the passions as in the 1 of dotage or lust for love 2 Spite to the person or revenge for hatred to the fault In the 3 praesumption despair or groundles credulity is obtruded for hope In the 4 cowardice and needless trembling for fear In the 5 ridculous merriments for true joy In the 6 causeless dejection and melancholly-dumps for grounded sadness Of all which examples from Scripture may be gathered CHAP. VI. Of Characters Descriptions or Idea's I. See that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the Mount Exod. 25.40 Act. 7.44 Heb. 8.5 Characters as they come to hand and for the easier remembring of them where the text will bear it may be cast into heptades As God will protect them that call upon him from 1 Wicked men ungodly that feare not God 2 evill that are injurious to men 3 foolish in their practises 4 vaine in their projects 5 lying in their discourses 6 blood-thirsty in their persecutions 7 deceitfull in all their contracts and dealings Psal 5.4 5 6. II. The way of Cain Jude v. 11. consisted of 7 crooked-misleading steps 1 Hypocrisy he would sacrifice as well and readily as Abel 1 Joh. 3.12 2 His aemulating hatred to his brother by reason of his preferred devotion 3 This brought him to murder him 4 which he endeavoureth to slubber over with a surly lye Gen. 4.9 I know not where my brother is am I his keeper 5 his desperation upon conviction without the least remorse but rather grumbles at God's just sentence My punishment is greater than I can beare Thou hast fined me too deep dealt too hardly with me 6 his opposition rather to withstand his punishment then submission to mitigate it and marries gets children builds a citty and names it Enoch to eternize his son's name 7 the profaness of himselfe and his who wholly forsook God and prided themselves in their inventions which is intimated by their contrary course taken by the Setheans who applyed themselves to call on God whom the Cainites had forsaken III. These six things doth the Lord hate and seven are an abhomination 1. A proud look 2. A lying tongue 3. Hands that shead innocent blood 4. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations 5. Feet that be swift in running to mischiefe 6. A false witness that speaketh lyes 7. And him that soweth discord among brethren Pro. 6. IV. Gen. 4. Marked men for revived offences in our time 1. Cain for fratricide 2. Gen. 9.28 Cham for insulting irreverently on his father's nakednesse 3. Ishmael for flouting Isaac and playing it should seem on his name Gal. 4.29 given by God terming him some such thing as a ridiculous young Master which is called a kind of persecution 4. Korah for rebellious contradiction Num. 16. 5. Saul for usurping the Priests office in sacrificing sparing Amalek against God's expresse command 1 Sam. 13. butchering innocent Abimelech and all the inhabitants of Nob the city of the Priests 6. Ahaz for Sacriledge and continued Idolatry when Gods hand was upon him with this Character set upon him This that King Ahaz 7. Zedekiah for perjury and neglecting Gods Prophets 2 Chron. 28. 2 Chron. 26. V. Sin 's genealogy 1. Suggestion from Satan 2. Delectation was pleasant 3. Consent she took it 4. Act did eate 5. Contagion gave her houseband 6. Horrour of Conscience saw their nakednesse feared hid themselves 7. Censure of punishment because thou hast done this VI. Practises of the Jewes against their owne in the fury of their ignorant zeal 1. They killed the Lord Jesus 2. And their owne Prophets 3. Persecuted the Apostles 4. Please not God 5. Are contrary to all men 6. Forbidding to the Gentiles deceived that they might be saved 7. Fill up the measure of their sins to the brim that the wrath of God may come upon them at the utmost 1 Thes 2.15 16. VII A representation of the Divine Majesty I saw the Lord sitting upon a 1. Throne high and lifted up which is applyed to Christ Joh. 12. above it stood the 2. Seraphims each one had 3. six wings with twain He covered his face and with twaine he did fly and 4. cryed one to another and said 5. Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory and the posts of the door moved at him that cried and the house was filled with smoak Isa 6. VIII A larger representation to Ezechiel in 1 four living creatures each having the likenesse of a man with 4 faces Of a man a Lion an Ox an Eagle 2. fourwings to shew their swiftnesse 3. Sparkling calves feet like burnishing brasse 4. Hands of a man under their wings on their four sides 5. Four wheels animated one with in another full of eyes 6. A throne of Saphire arched with a Rain-bow 7. Upon the likenesse of the Throne was the likenesse of the appearance of a man upon it IX Rev. 1.13 Our Saviour is set forth by his 1. Attire a garment down to the foot girt about