the preaching of Iohn which was like the roaring of a Lion He compares Luke to an Oxe because he beginneth with Zacharie the Priest offering his sacrifice He compareth Iohn to an Eagle because he doth as it were so are vp aloft and begin with the Godhead of Christ. 2 The Acts of the Apostles which is an orderly historie specially relating the deeds of Peter and Paul that there might be an ensample of gouerning the Church extant 2. Tim. 3. 10. 11. 3 The Reuelation which is a propheticall historie concerning the condition of the Church from the age in which Iohn the Apostle liued vnto the ende of the world The Epistles follow 1. thirteene Epistles of Paul 1 To the Romanes of iustification sanctification and the dueties of Christian life 2 The first to the Corinthes concerning the reforming of the abuses of the Church of Corinth 3 The second to the Corinthes containing chieflie the defence of himselfe and of his Apostleship against his aduersaries 4 To the Galatians about iustification by faith without the workes of the Law 5 To the Colossians 6 To the Philippians 7 To the Ephesians 8 The 1. to the Thes. 9 The 2. to the Thes. Which cōfirme the Churches in doctrine and in the dueties of Christian life 10 The 1. to Timothie 11 The 2. to Timothie Which prescribe the forme of ordering the Church aright 12 The Epistle to Titus of ordering the Church of the Cretians 13. To Philemon of receiuing Onesimus The Epistle to the Hebrewes concerning the person and offices of Christ and of faith bringing foorth fruit in good workes The Epistle of Iames concerning works to be ioyned with faith The first and second Epistle of Peter touching sanctification and the works of new obedience The first Epistle of Iohn concerning the signes of fellowship with God The second Epistle of Iohn to the elect Ladie about perseuerance in the truth The third Epistle of Iohn to Gayus concerning hospitalitie and constancie in that which is good The Epistle of Iude of constancie in the faith against false Prophets And thus the Canonicall Scripture is distinguished by her bookes Now there are verie strong proofes which shew that she alone is the word of God and no other besides Of these proofes one doth make a man certainelie to know the same the other doth but declare or testifie it Of the former kind there is onelie one namely the inward testimony of the holy Ghost speaking in the Scriptures and not only telling a man within in his heart but also effectually perswading him that these bookes of the Scripture are the word of God Isai. 59. 21. My Spirit that is vpon thee and my words which I haue put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth from henceforth euen for euer The manner of perswading is on this wise The Eelect hauing the Spirit of God doe first discerne the voyce of Christ speaking in the scriptures Moreouer that voyce which they doe discerne they doe approoue and that which they doe approue they doe beleeue Lastly beleeuing they are as it were sealed with the seale of the Spirit Ephe. 1 13. Wherein also after that ye beleeued yee were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise The Church also may beare witnesse of the Canon perswade she cannot For by this meanes the voyce of the Church should be of greater force then the voyce of God and the whole state of mans saluation should depend vpon men than which what can be said to be more miserable Obiect The Scripture is the word of God by it selfe but it is not so to vs but by the iudgement of the Church Ans. 1. The distinction is vaine For the first part thereof sheweth the manner whereby the Scripture is the word of God the latter part sheweth not the manner how but the person to whom 2. The Scripture doth also testifie the same thing with that kind of testimonie which is surer euen then all the oathes of men For we haue the voyce of the holy Ghost speaking in the Scripture who doth also worke in our hearts a certaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full perswasion of the Scriptures when we are exercised in hearing reading and meditating of thē Neither doe we beleeue a thing because the Church saith it is to beleeued but therefore we doe beleeue a thing because that which the Church speaketh the Scripture did first speake Yea the Church cannot stand nor yet be imagined without faith faith is not without the word which word is the Rule or Obiect of faith and not the iudgement though it be of most holy men 3. He which doubteth of the Scriptures will doubt as well of the testimonie of the Church Obiect 2. The Church hath a iudgement to determine of matters Act. 15. 28. It seemeth good to the holy Ghost and to vs. Ans. 1. The soueraigne or supreame iudgement concerning matters of faith belongeth to the holy Ghost speaking in the Scriptures The ministerie of iudgement or a ministeriall iudgement is only giuen vnto the Church because she must iudge according to the Scriptures and because she doth not this alwaies but sometimes faileth 2. The Apostles were present at that Councell which was held at Ierusalem who were men that had authoritie which was * of it selfe to be beleeued which authoritie the Ecclesiasticall ministery now hath not The proofe of declaration or testification is that which doth not demonstrate or perswade but only testifie and by certaine tokens approue the true Canon This proofe is manifold First the perpetuall consent of the Church of the ancient Church of the Iewes Rom. 3. 2. For chieflie because vnto them were of credit committed the Oracles of God And of the new and latter Church 1. From Christ and the Apostles who cited testimonies foorth of those bookes 2. From the Fathers First Origen as Eusebius testifieth Lib. 6. 18. 23. 2. Melito as the same Eusebius witnesseth Lib. 4. 3. Athanasius 4. Cyril Serm. 4. 5. Cyprian or rather Ruffine in his exposition of the Creed 6. In his preface vpon the first Psalme 7. Hierome in Prologo Gal. and in his preface vpon the bookes of Salomon 8. Epiphanius in his booke of weights and measures 9. Damascene in his fourth booke of faith chap. 18. 10. Gregorie Moral on Iob. lib. 9. chap. 27. 3. In Councels the Nicene and Laodiccan Can. 59. With these agree Hugo de Sancto Victore in his first booke of Sacraments chap. 7. N. Lyra in his prologue vpon the bookes of Aprocrypha Hugo Cardinalis in prologo in Iosuam Secondly the consent in part made by the Gentiles and enemies affirming the same things which are deliuered in holie Scriptures 1. Of the creation spake Homer and Plato in Timaeo 2. Of Christ Iosephus lib. 20. Antiquit. cap. 6. 8. and in his sixt booke of the warre of the Iewes chap. 8. and booke the 6. chap. 25. 27. 28. 47. 3. Of the Redeemer of the world who was to
will intice that Prophet and stretching out mine hand against him I will destroy him out of the middest of my people 5 Things spoken completiuè as if they were alreadie finished if they be not as yet finished they are to be vnderstood inchoatiuè as being begun and in the way to be fulfilled Gen. 5. 32. And when Noah was fiue hundred yeeres old hee begot Shem Ham and Iapheth that is he began to beget them Genes 11. 26. Terah liued seuentie yeeres when he begat Abram Nahor and Haran 1. King 6. 2. 37. Psal. 119. 8. I will obserue thy statutes do not forsake me It is to be vnderstood of his endeuour to doe so as in Phil. 3. Not as though I had alreadie attained to it or were alreadie perfect but I follow on if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Iesus Christ. Vers. 15. Let vs therfore as many as bee perfect be thus minded Luk. 1. 6. And they were both iust in the sight of God walking in all his commandements and ordinances without blame 6 Morall commandements or lawes vnder one sinne by name expressed doe signifie and meane all the sinnes of that kinde their causes occasions and allurements to them and command the contrarie vertues For so Christ expounded morall lawes Matth. 5. 2. to the end of the chapter 1. Ioh. 3. 15. Hee that hateth his brother is a manslayer 7 Threats and promises are to be vnderstood with their conditions Those are to bee conceiued with the condition of faith and repentance and these specially if they bee corporall with the exception of chastisement and the crosse Ezech. 33. 14. When I shall say vnto the wicked Thou shalt die the death if he turne from his sin and do that which is lawfull right 15. he shall surely liue and not die Reuel 21. 8. But the fearfull and vnbeleeuers c. shall haue their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death But in the sixt verse hee annexeth a promise saying I will giue vnto him that is a thirst of the well of the water of life freely Ionah 3. 4. Yet fourtie daies and Nineue shall be subuerted By those things which follow it appeareth that a condition is to be vnderstood Ierem. 18. 19. Like to these there are particular examples Esay 38. 1. of Hezechiah Giue commaundements to thy familie for thou shalt shortly die and shalt not liue The condition of Gods will is to bee vnderstood Gen. 20. 3. The Lord saith to Abimelech because hee had taken Abrahams wife to himselfe Behold thou shalt die for the woman which thou hast taken except vnlesse thou restore her Hence arose y e distinction in the schooles of the Signifying will and the will of Gods Good-pleasure The wil of Good-pleasure is that whereby God doth will something absolutely and simply without any condition as the creation and regiment of the world and the sending of his Sonne The Signifying will is that whereby he willeth somethings for some other thing and with condition and so wee say because that the condition annexed is a signe of the will that God doth so will 8 A superlatiue or exclusiue speech vsed of one person doth not exclude the other persons of the Deity but only creatures and fained gods to which the true God whether in one person or in moe is opposed Ioh. 17. 3. This is life eternall to know thee to be the only true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent He calleth the Father the onely true God that he might oppose him to all false gods Rom. 16. 27. To the onely wise God bee glorie by Iesus Christ. 1. Tim. 1. 17. Ioh. 10. 29. The Father is greater than all not than the rest of the persons but than the creatures Mark 13. 37. The Father alone knoweth the day of iudgement All the outward works of the Trinitie and all attributes are to be vnderstood inclusiuely that is without exception of any of the persons 9 When God is considered absolutely or by himselfe the three persons are comprehended when the word God is conferred or set with a person of the Trinitie it signifieth the Father 2. Cor. 13. 13. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the loue of God and the fellowship of the Holie Ghost be with you all 10 A generall word is taken specially and so on the contraric as All saith August lib. 6. cont Iulian cap. 12. for Many and Many for All are oftentimes vsed in the Scriptures Gen. 33. 11. God hath had mercie on nice therefore I haue all things Iere. 8. 6. All are turned to their owne race that is the greater part Matth. 21. 26. All men counted Iohn as a Prophet that is the most Phil. 2. 21. All seeke their own things and not the things of Christ. Deut. 28. 64. And God shall scatter thee among all people that is many 1. King 12. 18. And all the Israelites stoned him that is all that were present Exod. 9. 6. All the liuing creatures of Aegypt died Ierem. 26. 9. Then was gathered together all the people against Ieremie in the house of the Lord that is all wicked people Matth. 4. 23. Healing euery disease to wit that was offered to him Iohn 14. 13. Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the Father in my name that is whatsoeuer yee shall aske according to his word 1. Cor. 6. 12. All things are lawfull for mee that is all adiaphora things that are indifferent and not simply euill Nothing is put for little or small Ioh. 18. 20. I haue spoken nothing in secret that is little Act. 27. 33. None is vsed for few Ierem. 8. 6. There is none that repenteth of his wickednes that is but a few 1. Cor. 2. 8. Which wisedome none of the Rulers of this world knew that is very few Alwaies is taken for often or long Prou. 13. 10. Amongst the proud there is alwaies contentions that is often Luk. 18. 1. Hee spake vnto them a parable that they ought to pray alway Luk. 24. 53. And they were alwaies in the Temple lauding and praising of God Ioh. 18. 20. I alway taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple Eternall is vsed for a long time agreeing with the matter in hand Gen. 17. 8. All the land of Canaan is giuen vnto Abraham for an euerlasting possession Leuit. 25. 46. Ye shall vse their labours for euer Deut. 15. 17. If thy seruant be thy brother an Hebrew and will not goe from thee then shalt thou take an aule and pierce his care thorough against the doore and he shall be thy seruant for euer in aeternum 1. Chron. 15. 2. God hath chosen the Leuites that they might minister for euer vnto him Esay 34. 6. And beasts shall possesse Idumea and Bozra eternally Dan. 2. 4. O King liue for euer Ierem. 25. 9. I will make Iudea and the regions bordering vpon it an amazement a hissing and a perpetuall
shewing of the spirit Humane wisedome must bee concealed whether it be in the matter of the sermon or in the setting forth of the words because the preaching of the word is the Testimonie of God and the profession of the knowledge of Christ and not of humane skill and againe because the hearers ought not to ascribe their faith to the gifts of men but to the power of Gods word 1. Cor. 2. 1. When I came vnto you brethren I came not with the eminencie of eloquence or of wisdome declaring vnto you the testimonie of God 2. For I did not decree to know any thing among you but Iesus Christ and him crucified 5. That your faith should not consist in the wisedome of men but in the power of God If any man thinke that by this meanes barbarisme should bee brought into pulpits hee must vnderstand that the Minister may yea and must priuatly vse at his libertie the artes philosophie and varietie of reading whilest he is in framing his sermon but he ought in publike to conceale all these from the people and not to make the least oftentation Artis etiam est celare artem it is also a point of Art to conceale Art The Demonstration of the spirit is when as the Minister of the word doth in the time of preaching so behaue himselfe that all euen ignorant persons vnbeleeuers may iudge that it is not so much hee that speaketh as the Spirit of God in him and by him 1. Cor. 2. 4. Neither was my speech and my preaching in the perswasiue words of mans wisedome but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power And 14. 42. If all prophecie and there enter in an vnbeleeuer or one that is ignorant hee is reprooued of all be is iudged of all 25. And so the secrets of his hart are disclosed so falling vpon his face he willworship God returning word that God indeed is amōg you And 4. 19. I wil come vnto you shortly and I wil know not their words that are puffed vp but their power 20. For the kingdome of God is not in words but in power Mich. 3. 8. I am filled with power by the spirit of the Lord and with iudgement and might to shew Iacob his defection and to Israel his sinne This makes the ministerie to bee liuely and powerfull Luk. 11. 27. And it came to passe when he had spoken these things that a certaine woman of the multitude lifting vp her voyce said vnto him Blessed is the wombe that bare thee and the breasts that gaue thee sucke This demonstration is either in speech or in gesture The speech must be spirituall and gracious That speech is spirituall which the holy Spirit doth teach 1. Cor. 2. 13. Which things also we speake not in the words which mans wisedome teacheth but which the holy Ghost teacheth comparing spirituall things with spirituall things And it is a speech both simple and perspicuous fit both for the peoples vnderstanding and to expresse the maiestie of the spirit Act. 17. 2. Paul disputed with them three sabbath dayes out of the Scriptures 3. Opening 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and shewing that Christ must suffer and rise againe Gal. 3. 1. O yee foolish Galatians to whom Iesus Christ before was described in your sight and among you crucified 2. Cor. 4. 2. But wee haue cast from vs the clokes of shame and walke not in craftines neither handle we the word of God deceitfullie but in declaration of the trueth wee approoue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God 3. If our Gospell be then hid it is hid to them that perish 4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes that is of the infidels c. Wherefore neither the words of arts nor Greeke and Latin phrases and quirks must bee intermingled in the sermon 1. They disturbe the mindes of the auditours that they cannot fit those things which went afore with those that follow 2. A strange word hindreth the vnderstanding of those things that are spoken 3. It drawes the mind away from the purpose to some other matter Here also the telling of tales and all profane and ridiculous speeches must be omitted The speech is gracious wherein the grace of the heart is expressed Luk. 4. 22. And all bare witnes of him and wondred at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth Iohn 7. 46. The Officers answered neuer man spake like this man Grace is either of the Person or of the Ministerie Grace of the person is the holines of the heart and an vnblameable life Which howsoeuer it makes not a Minister yet is it very necessarie 1. Because the doctrine of the word is hard both to bee vnderstood and to bee practised therefore the Minister ought to expresse that by his example which he teacheth as it were by a type 1. Pet. 5. 3. Not as though yee were Lords ouer Gods heritage but that yee may be examples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 types to the flocke 1. Tim. 4. 12. Be an example to the faithfull both in word and conuersation Phil. 4. 8. Furthermore brethren whatsoeuer things are true whatsoeuer things are honest thinke on these things 9. Which yee haue both learned and receiued and heard and seene in me those things doe and the God of peace shall be with you 2. He that is not godly howsoeuer he may vnderstand the scriptures yet doth he not perceiue the inward sense and experience of the word in his heart Psalm 25. 8. The Lord is good and right therefore he teacheth sinners his way 9. He maketh the meeke to walke in the Law and teacheth the meeke his way Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord God will doe nothing but he reuealeth his secret to his seruants the Prophets Gen. 18. 17. And the Lord said Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I am about to do 18. Seeing that Abraham shall be indeede the father of a great and mightie nation c. 29. For I know him that he will command his sonnes and his household after him that they keepe the way of the Lord to doe righteousnes and iudgement 3. It is a thing execrable in the sight of God that godly speech should bee conioyned with an vngodly life Psalm 50. 16. 17. Vnto the wicked God saith what hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances and to take my couenant into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed It is a strange sight to see him that is the guide of the way to others to wander out of the way himselfe and to see a Physitian of others to be full of botches himselfe in the meane while as Nazianzene speaketh 4. It is an ecclesiasticall secret That the Minister ought to couer his infirmities that they bee not seene For the simple people behold not the ministerie but the person of y e Minister Herod heard Iohn Baptist willingly not because hee was a good minister but because he
Spirituall Gracious grace is of 1. The person to wit holinesse 1. An inward feeling 2. A good conscience 3. The feare of God 4. A loue of the people 2. Of the Ministerie Authoritie Zeale The gesture and action of The voyce The bodie 2. Conceiuing of publique Prayer in which note 1. The matter 2. The forme 3. The parts Meditation Ordering Vttering THE ARTE OF PROPHECYING CHAP. 1. THe Arte or facultie of Prophecying is a sacred doctrine of exercising Prophecie rightly Prophecie or Prophecying is a publique and solemne speech of the Prophet pertaining to the worship of God and to the saluation of our neighbour 1. Cor. 14. 3. But he that prophecieth speaketh vnto men to edification to exhortation and to consolation Verse 24. But if all prophecie and there come in one that beleeueth not or one vnlearned he is rebuked of all men and is iudged of all men Rom. 1. 9. God is my witnes whom I serue or worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my spirit in the Gospell of his Sonne CHAP. II. Of the Preaching of the Word THere are two parts of Prophecie Preaching of the Word and Conceiuing of Prayers For in speaking there are onely two duties of the Prophet that is of the Minister of the word to wit Preaching of the word and Praying vnto God in the name of the people Rom. 12. Hauing prophecie let vs prophecie according to the proportion of faith Gen. 20. 7. Deliuer the man his wife againe for he is a Prophet and when he shall pray for thee thou shalt liue For this cause the word Prophecie is giuen also to prayers 1. Chron. 25. 1. The sonnes of Asaph and Heman and Ieduthun who were singers prophecied with Harpes with Uials and with cymbals 1. King 18. 26. The Prophets of Baal called vpon the name of Baal from morning to noone 29. And when mid-day was passed and they had prophecied vntill the offering of the euening sacrifice And euery Prophet is partly the voyce of God to wit in preaching and partlie the voyce of the people in the acte of praying Ier. 15. 19. If thou take away the precious frō the vile thou shalt be as it were My Mouth Nehe. 8. 6. And Hezra blessed the Lord the great God and all the people answered Amen Preaching of the word is Prophecying in the name and roome of Christ whereby men are called to the state of Grace and conserued in it 2. Cor. 5. 19. And hath committed to vs the word of reconciliation 20. Therefore wee are Embassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by vs we pray you in the name of Christ that ye be reconciled to God 2. Thes. 2. 13. 14. God hath from the beginning elected you to saluation through sanstification of the Spirit and faith embracing the trueth whereunto he called you by our Gospell Rom. 1. 16. The Gospel is the power of God to saluation to euery one that beleeueth Prou. 29. 18. When there is no vision the people are naked Rom. 10. 14. CHAP. III. Of the Word of God THe perfect and equall obiect of Preaching is the Word of God Lok 16. 29. They haue Moses and the Prophets let them heare them Mat. 23. 2. The Scribes and Pharises sit in Moses chaire that is they teach the doctrine of Moses which they doe professe 3. All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue that obserue and doe The Word of God is the wisedome of God concerning the trueth which is according vnto godlinesse descending from aboue Iam. 3. 17. But the wisedome which is from aboue is first pure c. Tit. 1. 1. Paul a Seruant of God according to the acknowledging of the trueth which is according vnto godlines Admirable is the excellencie of the Word which is euident partly by the nature thereof partly by the operation The excellencie of the nature is either the perfection thereof or the eternitie The perfection is either the sufficiencie or the puritie The sufficiencie is that whereby the word of God is so compleat that nothing may be either put to it or taken from it which appertaineth to the proper end thereof Psal. 19. 7. The Law of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule Deut. 12. 32. Whatsoeuer I commaund you take heede yee doe it thou shalt put nothing thereto nor take ought therefrom Reuel 22. 18. 19. The puritie thereof is whereby it remaineth entire in it selfe voide of deceit and errour Psalm 12. 6. The words of the Lord are pure words as siluer tried in a furnace of earth fined seuen times The eternity of the word is that whereby it abideth inuiolable and cannot passe vntill all that which it commandeth bee fully accomplished Matth. 5. 18. The excellencie of operation is that wherby it is endowed with virtue first to discerne the spirit of man Heb. 4. 12. For the word of God is liuely and mightie in operation and sharper then any two-edged sword and entreth through euen to the deuiding asunder of the soule and spirit and of the ioynts and the marrow aad discerneth the thoughts and intents of the heart Secondly to bind the conscience Iam. 4. 12. There is one Law-giuer who is able to saue and to destroy Esa. 33. 21. The Lord is our Iudge the Lord is our Law-giuer the Lord is our King he will saue vs. To bind the conscience is to constraine it either to accuse vs or to excuse vs of sinne before God The Word is in the holy Scripture The Scripture is the word of God written in a language fit for the Church by men immediately called to be the Clerks or Secretaries of the holy Ghost 2. Pet. 1. 21. For prophecie came not in old time by the will of man but the holy men of God spake as they were carried and mooued by the holy Ghost It is called Canonicall because it is as it were a Canon that is to say a Rule or Line of the Master workman by the helpe whereof the truth is both first to be found out and also afterwards to be examined Gal. 6. 16. And as many as walke according to this Canon or Rule Therefore the supreame and absolute determination and iudgement of the controuersies of the Church ought to be giuen vnto it The Summe of the Scripture is conteined in such a syllogisme or forme of reasoning as this is which followeth The true Messias shall be both God and Man of the seede of Dauid he shall be borne of a Uirgin he shall bring the Gospell forth of his Fathers bosome he shall satisfie the Law he shall offer vp himselfe a sacrifice for the sinnes of the faithfull he shall conquer death by dying and rising againe he shall ascend into heauen and in his due time hee shall returne vnto iudgement But Iesus of Nazaret the Sonne of Mary is such a one He therefore is the true Messias In this syllogisme the Maior is the scope or principall drift in all the writings
desolation Euery where is vsed for Here and there without respect of place Mark 16. 2. And they went out and preached euery where the Lord co-working Act. 17. 30. The Lord admonisheth all men euery where to repent Not is restrained to some speciall matter Psalm 7. 4. Iniquitie is not in mine hands that is in my cause against the complices of Saul Ioh. 17. 13. Neither haue his parents sinned that is that this man should be borne blind for their sinnes I will haue mercie not sacrifice Not is put for seldome scarsely or hardly 1. King 15. 5. Dauid declined not from any of the things which the Lord had commanded vnto him sauing in the matter of Vriah that is seldome Luk. 2. 37. She was a widow and went not out of the Temple Consect 3. Grammaticall and Rhetoricall proprieties of words signifie diuersly with those words As An Ellipsis signifieth either breuitie or the swiftnes of the affectiōs Gen. 11. 4. Let vs build vs a citie and a tower whose top may reach vnto heauen that wee may get vs a name Act. 5. 39. But if it bee of God yee cannot destroy it ac nescio and I know not whether ye shall be found fighters also with God Psalm 6. And thou O Lord how long Exod. 22. 20. He that sacrificeth to strange gods let him bee destroyed as a thing execrable sauing him who sacrificeth to Iehouah Genes 3. 22. Now therefore we must looke lest that stretching out his hand he take of the tree of life 1. Chron. 4. 10. If thou wilt blesse me effectually I will doe this or that If thou vexe the fatherlesse child I will vexe thee The Enallage of the preter perfect tense whereby the time past is put for the time to come signifieth in the oracles of the Prophets the certentie of the thing that is to come Gen. 20. 3. Thou hast died because of the woman that is thou shalt die Isai. 9. 6. Vnto vs a child is borne vnto vs a sonne is giuen Isa. 21. 9. It is fallen it is fallen Babylon c. A Pleonasme which is manifold when it is of the substantiue repeated in the same case it doth signifie 1. A force and emphasis Psalm 133. 2. As the ointment which descended vnto the beard The beard of Aaron Luk. 6. 46. Why call ye me Lord Lord 2. A multitude Gen. 32. 16. Hee gaue into the hands of his seruants droues droues that is many droues Ioel. 3. Troupes troupes in the vally of concision that is many troupes or multitudes 3. Distribution At the gate and gate 1. Chr. 16. that is in euery gate Leuit. 17. 3. A man a man that is euery man 2. Chr. 19. 5. Thou shalt appoint Iudges in a citie and in a citie that is in euery citie 4. Diuersitie and varietie Psalm 12. They speake with an heart and an heart that is with diuers or a double heart Prou. 20. 20. A weight and a weight are abominable vnto the Lord. There is a Pleonasme of the Substantiue when one is gouerned of another 1. In the singular number it is very significant and argues certentie Exod. 31. 15. One the seuenth day is the Sabbath of Sabbath Mich. 2. 4. And they shall lament the lamentation of lamentation 2. In the plurall number it signifieth Excellencie Psal. 136. 2. The God of Gods that is the most high God Dan. 3. The King of Kings Eccles. 1. 2. Vanitie of vanities A Song of Songs A Seruant of Seruants The Pleonasme of the Adiectiue and sometimes also of the Substantiue repeated signifieth exaggeration or increasing Ierem. 24. 3. I see good figges good Esay 6. 3. Holy holy holy the Lord God of hosts Exod. 34. 6. The Lord passing before his face cried Iehouah Iehouah the strong God Ier. 7. 4. Trust not in lying words saying the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord this is the temple of the Lord. Ier. 22. 29. O earth earth earth heare the word of the Lord. Ezek. 21. 28. Say thou the Sword the sword is drawne and furbished for the slaughter Prou. 6. 10. The Pleonasme of the Verbe doth either make the speech more emphaticall and significant or else signifieth and sheweth vehemencie or certentie or speedines Gen. 2. 17. In dying thou shalt die Esay 50. 2. Is mine hand shortned in shortening Esay 56. 3. By separating God hath separated me from his people Psalm 50. 21. Thou thinkest me by being to bee like thee Psalm 109. 10. Let his children in wandering be wanderers or vagabonds and let them beg Iere. 12. 16. And it shall come to passe if in learning they shall learne the waies of my people c. 2. King 8. 10. Prou. 27. 23. Exod. 13. 17. Isai. 6. 9. Isai. 55. 2. 2. King 5. 11. Genes 46. 4. 2. Sam. 15. 30. Ierem. 23. 29. The Pleonasme of the Coniunction sometimes argueth earnestnes Ezek. 13. 10. Therefore therefore because they haue made my people to erre Wherefore a Coniunction doubled otherwise than it is in Latine increaseth the deniall Exodus 14. 11. Hast thou brought vs to die in the wildernes is it because therewere No No graues in Aegypt that is None at all Matth. 13. 14. By seeing ye shall see and shall Not Not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perceiue The Pleonasme of the sentence signifieth first distribution A court was in the corner of the court a court was in the corner of the court a court was in the corner of the court that is in euery corner of the court there was one court Secondlie it makes an emphasis Exod. 12. 50. The Israelites did as Moses and Aron commanded so did they Psalm 145. 18. The Lord is neere vnto all that call vpon him to all that call vpon him in trueth Psalm 124. 1 Vnlesse the Lord had been on our side may Israel now say vnlesse the Lord had been on our side Thirdly the repetition of the sentence which is done in other words is for exposition sake 2. King 20. 3. I beseech thee O Lord remember now how I haue walked before thee in trueth and with a perfect heart and haue done that which is good in thy sight Psalm 6. 9. 10. The Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping the Lord hath heard my prayer the Lord hath receiued my supplication Esay 3. 9. They haue declared their sinne and haue not hidden it Iohn 1. 3. All things were made by him and without him nothing was made All tropes are emphaticall besides delight and ornament they doe also afford matter for the nourishment of faith as when Christ is put for a Christian man or for the Church of God Mat. 25. 35. 1. Cor. 12. As the bodie is one and hath many members and all the members of one bodie though they bee many are yet but one bodie so also Christ that is The Church Act. 9. 4. This trope doth comfort a faithfull soule and nourish saith An