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The Schools Guarded · Thomas Hall

The Schools Guarded, Index 2 – Title page 4

An Alphabeticall Index, for the speedier finding out of the most materiall points in this Treatise.

A.

ABstract oft put for the Concrete.

Rule 36

Amen, doubled, what it signifies.

Rule 41

Analogy of faith, what it is.

Rule 7

And, how used in Scripture.

Rule 37

Anticipation, what it is.

Rule 27.

Anthropopathia, what it is. See in the Figures.

Arguments drawn from silent authority, conclude not.

Rule 28.

Aposiopests, Apostrophe, Asyndeton. See in the Figures.

B.

WHen a thing begins to be done, its said to be done.

Rule 16.

C.

CAtechresis. See the figure.

Circumstances in a Text to be marked.

Rule 4

Coales of fire what.

Rule 14

Comforts spoken to one, must be applyed to all in the like case.

Rule 49

Commandements, 17 Rules to expound them, at the end of the 57 Rule.

Comparing of Scripture, usefull

Rule 5

Scripture consequences, are Scripture.

Rule 39

Coynes in Scripture, what.

Rule 45

D.

DArke places are opened by plain ones.

Rule 5

Doubling a word in Scripture, what it signifieth.

Rule 43

E.

FOR ever, what it signifieth in Scripture.

Rule 21

Euphemismus, what.

Rule 23

Examples when they bind.

Rule 26 50

Exegesis, what it is, and when used. See in the figures.

Expound one place by another.

Epanelepsis, Epanados, Epanorth…sis, Epistrophe, Epizeuxis, &c. See in the Figures.

F.

FIgures in Scripture, expounded. See the Appendix in the end.

Wee must not take figurative for proper speeches.

Rule 6.

Future Tense put in the Imperative Mood.

Rule 15

G.

GEnitive Case put for Adjectives,

Rule 12

God, added to a thing, notes its excellency.

Rule 33

H.

TH…re is an harmony in the Scripture.

Rule 48

Heart, what it implies. See Metonymia subjecti.

Read with humble Hearts.

Rule 8

Humane Learning, its excellency, with many Arguments in defence of it, &c. See the Preface.

Hyperbole, Rule 19. See the Figure.

Hypotheticall speeches conclude not.

Rule 43

Hypallage, and Hysterologia. See in the Figures

I.

IMperative Mood, oft put for the Optative.

Rule. 46

Interrogations, their manifold use in Scripture.

Rule 30

Irony, See that Figure.

K.

WOrds of knowledge, imply the affection.

Rule 11

L.

LAnguages needfull.

Rule 3

Law, seventeen Rules to expound it, at the en… of

Rule 57

The judgement of the godly learned to be prized.

Rule 40.

M.

MEasures and weights in Scripture, what.

Rule 44

M…i…sis, what.

Rule 18. See the Figure.

Modest Termes in Scripture.

Rule 23

Moses put for his writings. See Metonymia efficientis.

Mimesis, Metalepsis, Metaphora, Metonymia, Mycterismus. See in the figures.

N.

NAaman, whether he sinned.

Rule 14

No more, how used.

Rule 21

None, put for few.

Rule 52

Not▪ put comparatively.

Rule 32

Numbers how used.

Rule 25

P.

PArable how used.

Rule 17

Paranomasia, Periphrasis, Prolepsis, Prosopopaeia, Polysyndeton, &c. See in the Figures.

Things put in the present Tense, signifying certainty.

Rule 53

Men partake of other mens sins, seven wa…es. Rule 9 in expo…ding the Law.

Practise, the best way to understand Scripture.

Rule 10

Prayer, needfull to understand Scripture.

Rule 2

One proper name is given to severall persons.

Rule 13

Q.

Questions in Scripture, what they signifie.

Rule 30

R.

RAther, not alwaies comparative.

Rule 32. and 54

Who are righteous overmuch, where that much controverted Text, Eccl. 7.16, is explained.

Rule 14

S.

SAcraments have the names of the things signified. See Metonymia subject….

Expound Scripture in the largest sense.

Rule 24

The Sense kept, not alwaies the words.

Rule 20

Scripture oft affirmes, by denying the contrary.

Rule 31

The Scope of a Text must be observed.

Rule 14.

Bring a spirituall mind to the reading of Scripture.

Rule 1

Synecdoche, Generis, speciei, &c. See the Appendix.

T.

THorn in the flesh, what it is, where that perplexed Text, 2 Cor. 12.7. is fully explained.

Rule 24

Vntill, oft signifies in Scripture eternity.

Rule 51

Uselesse things are oft accounted as no things.

Rule 22.

W.

WOrds of fact oft put for words of speech.

Rule 35

HISTRIO-MASTIX. A whip for WEBSTER (as 'tis conceived) the Quondam PLAYER: OR, An examination of one Iohn Websters delusive Examen of Academies; where the Sophistry, Vanity, and insufficiency of his New-found-light (tending to the subversion of Universities, Philosophers, Physitians, Magistrates, Ministers) is briefly discovered, & the contrary truth asserted.

In the end there is annexed an elaborate defence of Logick, by a very Learned Pen.

Phil. 3.2.

Beware of Dogs, beware of evill workers: who hatch the Cockatrice eggs, and weave the Spiders Web; hee that eateth of their eggs dyeth, and that which is crusht, breaketh out into a Viper, Isaiah 59.5.

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Mortalibus omnibus doctrina est honori.

Qui veritati contradicunt, & in sua vanitate decepti decipiunt, ranae sunt, taedium quixem afferentes auribus, nullos autem praebentes cibos mentibus.

August. de convenient Decalogi.

London, Printed in the Year, 1654.