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TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. KTroposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
his anointing and sealing of them, his witnessing with them, and his being an Earnest in them. Wherefore although no internal Work of the Spirit can be the format Reason of of our Faith, or that which it is resolved into; yet it is such, as without it we can never sincerely believe as we ought, nor be established in believing, against the Temptations of the Devil, and Objections of evil Men.
his anointing and sealing of them, his witnessing with them, and his being an Earnest in them. Wherefore altho no internal Work of the Spirit can be the format Reason of of our Faith, or that which it is resolved into; yet it is such, as without it we can never sincerely believe as we ought, nor be established in believing, against the Temptations of the Devil, and Objections of evil Men.
It hath been already declared,1 (saith a Reverend Divine) that it is the Authority and Veracity of God, revealing themselves in the Scripture, and by it, that is the formal Reason of our Faith, or supernatural Assent unto it, as it is the Word of God.
- 1Dr. Owen.
It remains only that we enquire, in the second place, into the Way and Means whereby they evidence themselves unto us, and the Scriptures thereby to be of God, so as that we may undoubtedly and infallibly believe them so to be. Now because Faith, as we have showed, is an Assent upon Testimony; and consequently, Divine Faith is an Assent upon Divine Testimony; There must be some Testimony or Witness in this Case, whereon Faith doth rest; and this, we say, is the Testimony of the Holy-Ghost, the Author of the Scriptures. And this Work and Testimony of the Spirit may be reduced unto two Heads, &c.