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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.
Be strong in the Lord, 1and in the Power of his Might. Thou therefore, my Son, be strong in the Grace that is in Christ Jesus. Distempers are as subject to seize upon the Soul, as upon the Body, viz. the Tympany of Pride, the Fever of Passion, the Trembling of the Heart through slavish Fear, the Stone of a hard Heart, the spiritual Consumption, or Decay of Grace; Want of Breath, or Difficulty in breathing out constant and fervent Prayers and Desires to God, or any other Decay of the inward Man, or Disease of the Soul. If any of these seize upon a Christian in his Course to eternal Life, without speedy Cure, they will cause him to faint, and fall short of the blessed Prize. VIII. A Man that runs in a Race, if he falls lame in the Way, is not likely to obtain the Prize. | VIII. So that Christian that falleth lame (in a spiritual Sense) in the Race to Glory, is in danger of miscarrying. Make strait Paths for your Feet, 2lest that which is lame be turned out of the Way, but rather let it be healed. Some by Lameness understand Want of Sincerity, when there is a Work upon one Faculty of the Soul, and not upon another; i. e. When the Conscience is awakened, and the Understanding somewhat enlightened, and yet the Will and Affection is for Sin and the World. This Man is lame, he is no sound Man, he goes limping as it were along; he will not run long, as he runs not well. Others by Lameness understand more directly, a wavering Mind about some main Truths of the Gospel, or about the public and visible owning and professing of Christ and the Gospel, in respect of those Truths that are most opposed by Men, in the Day and Generation in which we live. Some are like those in the Prophet Elijah's Time, they halt between two Opinions,3 stand wavering between God and Baal, and know not which to cleave to, whether to the Protestant, or Popish Religion. Now these are lame Professors; they are corrupt, or not sincere; they will not, unless healed, hold out to the end of the Race, but be turned out of the Way. IX. A Man that meets with bad Way in running a Race, is thereby many times hard put to it, and in danger of losing the Prize: As when he is forced to run up-hill a great while together, or meets with a rough and untrodden Path, or is fain to run through a deep Mire, or a very dirty Lane; this tries his Strength, Courage, and Resolution. | IX.