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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.
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, 1entangleth himself with the Affairs of this Life. Labour for much Love to God. It was a notable Saying of Mr. Bland the Martyr, when he was at the Stake: This Death (saith he) is more dear to me than Thousands of Gold and Silver; such Love, O Lord, hast thou laid up in my Breast, that I hunger for thee. Take heed you consult not with carnal Reason; rely wholly upon Christ, and never consult thy present Strength with thy future Sufferings. Take heed you do not overvalue your Lives. Alas! you cannot live long; what if you die a little sooner than you might do according to the Course of Nature? Also consider, is it not better if God calls you to it, to glorify him by dying, than to die otherwise? Remember, You are not your own; let God therefore make what Improvement of you he pleases.