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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.
Simile. | Parallel. A Pilgrim is one that travelleth from one Place to another, and is far from home. | The Saints of God are spiritual Travellers, they are far from their Father's House, Heaven is their everlasting Home, and thither they are going. All the holy Patriarchs and Prophets confessed they were Pilgrims on the Earth. Jacob said, The Days of the Years of my Pilgrimage, (rather than the Days of my Life,1) because of the Uncertainty of his Abode here, and in respect of his removing from Place to Place. II. A Pilgrim that sets out in a long Journey, takes care to free himself of all manner of Weights, and unnecessary Burdens, and whatsoever else may tend to weary, or unfit him for his Journey. | II. So the spiritual Pilgrim, when he first sets out in the Ways of God, lays aside every Weight,2 and the Sin that doth so easily beset him. It greatly behoves him so to do; for one Sin carried in the Bosom, or the inordinate Love to any Thing or Person of this World, will prove of dreadful consequence to him. The young Man in the Gospel had gone a great way, seemed to be a very zealous Pilgrim; but he had such a cruel Burden upon his Shoulders, that he tired before he came to the end of his Journey. Covetousness, or an unsatisfied Desire after the Things of this World, is compared to a Burden, or Load of thick Clay: Who enlargeth his Desires as Hell, and cannot be satisfied, &c. Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his; how long? 3And to him that ladeth himself with thick Clay. Would not a Man that hath a long Journey to go, be laughed at, should he carry with him a heavy Burden of Dirt and Rubbish? Such Fools are many Professors. See Runner. III. A Pilgrim in his Travels goes up-hill and down-hill; sometimes he meets with good Way, and sometimes with bad Way: Sometimes he passeth over Stiles, and through dirty Lanes; and then again through green Fields and pleasant Pastures, and delightful Paths, till he comes to his desired Place. | III. So the Pilgrim that would travel to the New Jerusalem, meets with various Ways and Passages. 1. He must go out of the horrible Pit of Profaneness; that is Work enough for the first Day's Journey. 2. Through the Brook of sincere Repentance, or true Contrition, (for every one that leaves open Profaneness, is not truly penitent.) 3. Down the Valley of Self-denial, a very difficult Passage. 4.