The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…

Use 1. Of Information, that for the right understanding of this Law, we look not only to such things, or think that they only are contained under ⟨p. 213⟩the Law, as in express words are there contained; but all such things also, as belongs to such an head of obedience, whether they be outward or inward. For in every command, as is certain by the sum of entire and whole obedience, the words are to be taken not according to the bare letter, but in a modification of diverse tropes, or borrowed sorts of speaking, as agree to the perfection of such a Law of nature. The trope of Synecdoche that puts the special for the general to be understood by it, is here frequent; as when abstinence from some one vice by name, is put for the whole obedience, whereby we not only abstain from all faults of that kind; but also are bound to the performance of the contrary affirmative good; and when some action is put for all of its kind and of affinity of nature with it. The trope also of Metonymy is every where in these commands, whereby all the adjuncts are understood under the name of their objects; the effects in their causes, and contrarily; with which is complicated the trope of Metaphor some way; so as all the decalogue is Metaleptic, or to be understood by Transsumption. And these rules must of necessity be understood in the explication of every precept, as our Saviour's exposition of them, and other Scriptures make clear.

Use 1. Of Information, that for the right understanding of this Law, we look not onely to such things, or think that they onely are contained under ⟨p. 213⟩the Law, as in express words are there contained; but all such things also, as belongs to such an head of obedience, whether they be outward or inward. For in every command, as is certain by the summe of entire and whole obedience, the words are to be taken not according to the bare letter, but in a modification of diverse tropes, or borrowed sorts of speaking, as agree to the perfection of such a Law of nature. The trope of Synecdoche that puts the special for the general to be understood by it, is here frequent; as when abstinence from some one vice by name, is put for the whole obedience, whereby we not onely abstain from all faults of that kind; but also are bound to the performance of the contrary affirmative good; and when some action is put for all of its kind and of affinity of nature with it. The trope also of Meonymie is every where in these commands, whereby all the adjuncts are understood under the name of their objects; the effects in their causes, and contrarily; with which is complicated the trope of Metaphor some way; so as all the decalogue is Metaleptick, or to be understood by Transsumption. And these rules must of necessity be understood in the explication of every precept, as our Saviour's exposition of them, and other Scriptures make clear.