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Concerning these repetitions, we may not think that he which used them, used them in vain. He was guided by that divine spirit which would not suffer the least title to be in vain. By repetitions good doctrines are fast fixed in ⟨p. 232⟩mens minds. Besides other ends ^*before noted for repeating of one and the same thing, whether in the same, or in ²differing words and phrases, this is a principal one, to testify, and express the more lively, how deeply the soul is affected with such and such a thing. Fit and not affected repetitions are clear expressions of deep affections: yea they are also forcible incitations to incense holy passion in him that useth them, and in them that hear or read them so used. These are the ends why Rhetoricians have invented figures of all manner of repetitions, as,

Concerning these repetitions, we may not thinke that he which used them, used them in vaine. He was guided by that divine spirit which would not suffer the least title to bee in vaine. By repetitions good doctrines are fast fixed in ⟨p. 232⟩mens minds. Besides other ends ^*before noted for repeating of one and the same thing, whether in the same, or in ²differing words and phrases, this is a principall one, to testifie, and expresse the more lively, how deeply the soule is affected with such and such a thing. Fit and not affected repetitions are cleare expressions of deepe affections: yea they are also forcible incitations to incense holy passion in him that useth them, and in them that heare or read them so used. These are the ends why Rhetoricians have invented figures of all manner of repetitions, as,

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