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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.
Over the Mountains of Opposition; for the Devil and all will straightway make head against him. 5. Over the Stile of carnal Reason: Immediately I consulted not with Flesh and Blood. 6. Into the pleasant Ways of the New Covenant. 7. So upon the Top of the Rock of Ages, and there he may take a Prospect of his own Country. IV. A Pilgrim, that hath a long and difficult Way to travel, is very thoughtful how to find the right Way, being a Stranger in that ⟨p. 171⟩Country through which he must pass. And besides, being told there are many cross Ways and Turnings, and hard difficult Passages to find, he takes care therefore to get a good and skilful Guide, lest he should lose his Way. | IV. So the spiritual Pilgrim spares no Cost, omits no Study, to get the best Information imaginable, of the ready Way to the Land of Promise. He ceaseth not to enquire of such as pretend ⟨p. 171⟩themselves to be Guides, and such as know the Way; but finding them to be short-sighted, and ignorant of the Way themselves, he seeks further. And as he goes along, one cries, This is the Way,1 another, That. Some bid him believe as the Church believes, and he shall never go astray. Others bid him conform to the Laws of Men, and do whatever the Supreme Authority of the Nation doth enjoin in Matters of Faith and Religion. Others call upon him to be led wholly by the Light of his Conscience, and that will bring him unto the Land of Promise, the Place he longs for. And at last he meets with another, that seems yet to differ from them all, and greatly to slight and condemn one grand Fundamental God's Word holds forth, under plausible Pretences. He cries up Holiness, and just Living, which all confess is required; but in the mean time strives to persuade him to cast off the Satisfaction of Jesus Christ, and trust to his own Righteousness, or to refined Morality, rendering Faith in Christ crucified little more than a Fancy; and that the main Design of Christ in coming into the World was, only to be a Pattern of Holiness and Humility.
Over the Mountains of Opposition; for the Devil and all will straitway make head against him. 5. Over the Stile of carnal Reason: Immediatly I consulted not with Flesh and Blood. 6. Into the pleasant Ways of the New Covenant. 7. So upon the Top of the Rock of Ages, and there he may take a Prospect of his own Country. IV. A Pilgrim, that hath a long and difficult Way to travel, is very thoughtful how to find the right Way, being a Stranger in that