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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.
Mat. 5.13. Ye are the Salt of the Earth; but if the Salt have lost its Savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden under Foot of Men.
Believers, as well as Ministers, are called by our Saviour the Salt of the Earth; for Christ preached this Sermon not only to his Apostles, but to all the Disciples; it is not appropriated to Ministers alone, but to all Believers.
BElievers, as well as Ministers, are called by our Saviour the Salt of the Earth; for Christ preached this Sermon not only to his Apostles, but to all the Disciples; it is not appropriated to Ministers alone, but to all Believers.
Why the Godly are and may be compared to Salt, is briefly opened in the following Parallel.
Metaphor. | Parallel. Salt is very profitable, it keeps and preserves Meat from putrefying, which would soon stink, corrupt, and perish, was it not for it. Salt (as one saith) is the Blossom of Nature, it is mingled with all mixed Bodies, and preserves them from Corruption. | SO the Godly are most profitable in all the Earth. 1. They keep the World from being totally corrupted by evil and pestilent Errors and Heresy. (2.) From being spoiled by Profaneness and Hellish Debauchery. They by their holy Lives, Doctrine, and gracious Deportment, put a check to the over-spreading Wickedness of those Places where they live. The World would soon grow much worse than it is, were it not for the Saints and People of God; it would stink, and be so abominable in God's sight, that he would not endure it any longer. And besides, God many times spares a People, Family, and Nation, for the sake of the Righteous who dwell among them. The Godly are the Interest of People and Nations, (as is elsewhere showed.) Had there been but a little more of this spiritual Salt in Sodom, viz. but ten righteous Ones, it might have continued to this day. And he said, O let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once,