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Aphorisms of Christian religionAphorismes of Christian religion
Aphorisms of Christian religion: or, a very compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.
London: printed by Richard Field and Robert Dexter, 1596
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VIII.
These precepts for the most part have their *Synecdoche: for in the prohibition of sins, he commandeth the contrary virtues, and contrarily in commanding the virtues he doth prohibit the contrary sins: and by one special he understandeth all of that kind, or the general, and ⟨p. 34⟩with the external actions, the internal thoughts and lusts must be understood.
These precepts for the most part haue their *Synecdoche: for in the prohibition of sinnes, he commaundeth the contrarie vertues, and contrarily in commaunding the vertues he doth prohibit the contrary sinnes: and by one speciall he vnderstandeth all of that kinde, or the generall, and ⟨p. 34⟩with the externall actions, the internall thoughtes and lustes must be vnderstood.
- *A trope or figure when part is understood by the whole, or the whole by the part.A trope or figure when part is vnderstood by the whole, or the whole by the part.