L Numb. 22. I. When Balak the fon of Zippor fam, The one is Appofition, the other Nominative and Verb. Verse 16. So faith Balak the Son of Zippor This laft is ordinary Confecution, the King giving Instruction to his Ambassadors; the former is extraordinary, and proceeds from Sollicitude. This frequently occurs, where the Second is united to the First by () Copulative, as, Gen. 1. 2. But as to the earth, it was without form, and void, there is a kind of Gradation in it. But as to the Earth, it was not only without Inhabitant, but without Form, or due Fitness for an Inhabitant. · Pfal. 8. 5. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, both Phi. mouth, and gholelim, Babes agree with Sucklings, the first as one Subftantive governing another, the fecond by Copulative Vajomkim; yet the Second has a minor, the Third a Minister, the Emphafis is the Extenuation of Preachers, by the Office being laid on Babes, Gen. 24. 63. the Particle imitates this. An Eleventh, or laft Canon, If the Third agree with the Second, and the Second with the First, but not the Third with the First, and the Second ́have a minor, and the Third a Minister, it is Emphatick. See the laft M. of Can. 3. Gen. 8. 7. 11) Any Our English has it,He went too and fro until the Waters were dried. Twenty one Days are too long for a Raven to live without Victuals,and your old Carrion is not Food. The Points make it, He went out quickly, but re turned turned as quickly; when he faw the Immenfe Depth, he returned before the Window was shut. Particles often imitate this Canon, Numb. 32. 23. Ifa.. 36. 5. Pfal. 22. 17. Gen. 28. 15. Fer. 9. 15. & 2. 10. Gen. 38. 24. Ruth 1. 11. Zach. I. 6. Ifa. 30. 18. Gen. 14. 12. Pfal. 96. 12. Jer. 14. 10. 1 Sam. 2. 16. Hof. II. I. Exod. 34. 3. & 7. 25. In Gen. 49. 31. Three Examples are in one place, HOW twice Emphatically, once Rhetorically, Am. 7. 2. Ifa. 48. 18. Gen. 25. 39. & 27. 12. 1 Sam. 14. 9, &c. TH :- and SECTION VII. Of the MAJOR S. and ferve HEY are much the like Number alfo; for in Verfe and Thirdly, 999 P and And ferves all the rest in Profe. In Verfe is only used in that place. Fourthly, and only ferve Silluk. Fifthİy, By Permutation, is Vicar to the Sakephs, and are Vicars to all the majors, in Verfe only is ufed. Sixthly, The minors that come in the fourth place, &c. are the Ministers that comes in that place are Seventhly, The Third vicarious Order in Verfe is fo we find Nine the Number for majors, minors, and ministers, They are called majors, because they govern a great Tract of Words, at least three, fometimes four, five, fix, seven, fometimes ten or twelve, where there are many little Members, their place is then ordinarily the fourth, fifth or fixth from the Abfolute Lord; their Of fice is to indicate, that the following Words,either by themfelves, or by fomething understood, Constitute a Propofition, or fuch a Member of Speech, as as may be comprehended in one Question, or a compleat Anfwer to fome fuppofed Question. ritive Deut. 1. 19. We came even to Kadesh barnea, : Here it ftands in the fourth place exact ly, according to the Werle At the fifth Table, In place with a Minifter after Tipcha. We will go up and fight, according to what the Lord God commandded us, The first contains an answer to How far? The fecond to By what rule? Deut. 6. 17. Keep the commandments of the Lord thy God. Qu. What? — 2 Sam, 1§. 2. Moreover, Abfolom rofe in the morning, and stood in the way by the gate, The one is in the end of a Propofition, the other in the beginning on whofe end is: The one comprehends an Anfwer to a Question, the other a whole. Propofition; the one perfects the Propofition, the other more compleatly; and in fuch a cafe, if it cannot compleat Senfe, or make an Anfwer, fuppofe famething is understood, as often the Verbi [is] Gen. 2. And darkness (was) upon, And fo when a major ends a Propofition. Pfal. r . Bleffed (is) the man, or rather Bleffedneffes are that Man's, or belongs to him, it ends with For Job 153247 Prevail, the fourth before Battle, becaufe as a King ready answers to How? Pfal. 63. 2. Mypsbildefireth thee. Soul before that has Rhebia, Hence, t Can. 1. That ordinarily the fourth or fifth from an Abfolute Lord, has a major, efpecially when what follows contains a diftinct Anfwer to a Queftion, or Propofition. 3 Jou Valllwing Can. 2. If the following cohere, or contain a Word expreffed, or understood, from which all the reft depend, and yet this Word agrees not with the following, then that Word contains the minor of the next refpective major.RIN Gen. 11. ver. 9. Therefore every one shall call it's name Babel, because there the Lord confounded the lip of the whole earth: and from thence the Lord fcattered them upon the face of the whole earth. Obferve, First, That Sakeph is upon Jehovah, according to the First Canon: what follows, containing an Anfwer to How far? Upon the face of the whole earth. But here is another kind of Coherence after the Fifth Umifham, and from thence (which has Sakeph's minor, Pafkta upon it) For first, There is an Anfwer to many Questions which arife out of the Principal Verb Von He scattered, viz, Who? whom? whence? whether? And fecondly, Sham has Tipha's minor on the fame account, and Balel is the principal Verb. And, thirdly, So Ghalquen has Pafhta's minor, and Sarka is the principal Verb. So Ifa. 37. 28. Veskibtecha has the fourth from Fadaghti I know is the common Word, Pfal. I. 5. Ghalchen has Pefik, Fakumi is the principal Word. A Second Member of this Canon is, If that four, five or fix agree with the following, then it hath a minifter not a minor; and fecondly, That following by a minor be diftinguished from what follows it. |