B25425:1110
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.
9. Consider, Tho you meet with hard Things, Christ can and will make them easy to you. All your Wounds he can heal, and all your broken Bones he can set. The more you suffer for Christ, the greater your Reward will be.
10. Consider what great and glorious Pay you shall have in the end. Is not a Kingdom, a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away, worth fighting and striving for?
11. Look to Christ, remember what he hath done and suffered for you; and consider what many Saints have endured for his sake before you, that were most precious in God's sight. Is it not better to suffer here, than to suffer in Hell? What is the Pain and Sorrow of the Godly in this Life, to the everlasting Pains and Torments of the Damned in the World to come? Get much Faith, and provide your selves with all your Armour, and the right Use of it, the Nature of which is opened under the Fifth Head. Get your Hearts loose from the World: No Man that warreth,