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A43971 The art of rhetoric, with A discourse of the laws of England by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury.; Art of rhetoric Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. 1681 (1681) Wing H2212; ESTC R7393 151,823 382

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put for the thing made So Moses is put for his Writings so Love is put for Liberality or bestowing Benefits the fruit of Love so Faith the Cause is put for Religious serving of God the thing caused Rom. 1. So the tongue the instrument of speech is put for the Speech it self Rule thy Tongue James 3. Of the Matter Thou art Dust and to Dust shalt thou return that is one made of Dust. Now on the other side when the thing caused or the effect is put for any of these causes So the Gospel of God is called the Power of God to Salvation That is the instrument of the power of God So Love is said to be bountiful because it causeth one to be bountiful S. Paul saith The Bread that we break is it not in the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ That is an instrument of the Communion of the Body of Christ. So the Body is said to be an earthly Tabernacle That is a Tabernacle made of Earth The change of Name or Metonymie where the Subject or that which hath any thing adjoyned is put for the thing adjoyned or adjoynt So the place is put for those or that in the place Set thine House in an order That is thy Houshold matters It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorra that is the People in Sodom and Gomorra So Moses Chair is put for the Doctrine taught in Moses Chair So all Jericho and Jerusalem came out That is all the Men in Jericho and Jerusalem So before Sin was put for the punishment of Sin Let his Blood rest upon us and our Children That is the punishment which shall follow his Death So Christ said This is my Body That is a sign or Sacrament of my Body This Wine is the New Testament in my Blood That is a Sign or Seal of the New Testament in my Blood So John saith He saw the Spirit descending in the likeness of a Dove That is the sign of the Spirit On the other side the Adjunct is put for the thing to which it is adjoyned As Christ is called our hope 1 Tti. That is on whom our hope did depend So we are justified by Faith That is by Christ applyed by Faith So Love is the fulfilling of the Law That is those things to which it is adjoyned Hope for the things hoped for Rom. 8. 28. So in the Epist. to the Eph. The dayes are evil That is the Manner Conversation and Deeds of Men in the dayes Hitherto of the Metonymie or change of name Now followeth the Mocking speech or Ironie CHAP. II. THe mocking Trope is when one contrary is signified by another as God said Man is like to one of us So Christ saith sleep on and yet by and by Arise let us go so Paul saith you are Wise and I am a Fool. This Trope is perceived either by the contrariety of the Matter or the Manner of utterance or both so Elias said to the Prophets of Baal Cry a loud c. So the Jews said unto Christ Hail King of the Jews Hitherto appertaineth the passing by a thing which yet with a certain elegancy noteth it so Philemon 19. That I say not thou owest thy self unto me Hitherto of the fineness of words which respect no division Now followeth that which respecteth division called Synechdoche A Synechdoche is when the name of the whole is given to the part or the name of the part to the whole And it is double 1. When the whole is put for the Member and contrarily 2. When the General or whole kind is put for the Special or contrarily So S. John Not only for our Sins but for the Sins of the whole World So Righteousness a Member of Goodness is put for all goodness so Unrighteousness is put for all manner of Sins Examples of the second sort as these So Israel is put for those of Juda sometimes So Nations for the Heathen A Minister of Christ for an Apostle of Christ Rom. 1. A Minister put for a distributer Rom. 12. On the other side one sort or special is put for the whole sort or general in the Examples following In the Lords Prayer Bread one help of life is put for all helps This day one time for all times so Solomon saith The thing of the day in his day That is the thing of the time in his time So sometimes less is spoken and yet more is understood which is called Diminution or Meiosis As James saith to him that knoweth how to do well and doth not it is Sin That is a great sin So our Saviour Christ saith If they had not known they had had no Sin That is no such great Sin as they have now Likewise the denial by Comparison so Solomon saith Receive my Words and not Silver That is my words rather than Silver so Paul saith I was sent to Preach and not to Baptise That is not so much to Baptise as to Preach Hitherto of the fineness of Words which note out no Comparison Now followeth the fineness of words which noteth out Comparison called a Metaphor CHAP. III. A Metaphor is when the like is signified by the like as 1 Cor. The Apostle saith Doctrine must be tryed by Fire That is the evidence of the Word Spirit trying Doctrine as Fire doth Metals So Christ is said to Baptize with Fire where Fire is put for the power of the Holy Ghost purging as Fire so Christ saith None shall enter into the Kingdom of God but he that is Born of the Holy Ghost and Water so Paul calleth himself the Father of the Corinths who said That he begat them in Christ so he calleth Timothy and Titus his Natural Sons in the Faith Hitherto of a Trope or Garnishing of Speech in one word where the Metaphor is most usual then the change of Name then the Synechdoche and last of all the Ironie Now followeth the fine Frame or shape of speech called a Figure A Figure is a Garnishing of Speech wherein the course of the same is changed from the more simple and plain manner of speaking unto that which is more full of Excellency and Grace For as in the fineness of Words or a Trope Words are considered asunder by themselves so in the fine shape or frame of Speech or a Figure the apt and pleasant joyning together of many Words is noted The Garnishing of the Shape of Speech or a Figure is Garnishing of Speech in Words or in a Sentence The Garnishing of Speech in Words called Figura dictionis is wherein the Speech is Garnished by the pleasant and sweet sound of Words joyned together This is either 1. In the measure of sounds or 2. In the repetition of sounds The measure of sounds is belonging either to 1. Poets with us called Rhymers or 2. Orators with us called Eloquent Pleaders The first is the measure of sounds by certain and continual spaces And it is either 1. Rhyme or 2. Verse Rhyme is the first sort containing