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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.
O how disproportionable are their Labours to their Gains! Blush, O my Soul, at thy own Neglects! and be astonished, either at their Diligence, or at thy own Sloth! Do they labour in the Fire for very Vanity? and wilt thou show such a sottish, dead, and unbelieving Frame of Heart, as not to pursue with more Zeal and Diligence after that glorious Country, and endless Felicity before thee? Is not Heaven worth striving for, and travelling to? IX. A Pilgrim is glad when he meets with good Company in the Way, especially other Pilgrims, such as are travelling to the same Place to which he is going himself. What is more desirable to a Traveller, than a faithful Friend and Companion? This makes (saith one) evil things little, and good things great; by this sweet Society our Griefs are divided, and all our Joys are doubled. What Calamity is not intolerable, without a Friend, (a Companion)? And what Society is not ungrateful, if we have none to share with us in it? We suffer not so much, when we have some to condole and suffer with us; and we rejoice the more, when our Felicity gives a pleasure not only to our selves, but to others also. If Solitude, and Want of Company, be so horrid, so dreadful ⟨p. 173⟩a thing, it is not to be understood of the Want of Men, but of the Want of Friends, (meet Company) for it is a good Solitude, not to dwell with those that do not love us; and a Man would choose such a Hermitage, where he might not be troubled with them who bear no benevolous Affection to him. But for my part, I cannot think that Man to be happy, which hath no Friend to participate in his Pleasures. A Man may more easily bear the hardest Calamity with his Friend, than the greatest Felicity alone, &c. | IX. So a Saint, or spiritual Pilgrim, is glad when he meets with good and gracious Companions in his Journey to the Land of Promise. They that fear thee, 1will be glad when they see me, because I have hoped in thy Word. I am a Companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy Precepts. What sweet Fellowship have God's Children one with another! How much doth their heavenly Converse and Communion refresh and cheer each others Hearts, under all their Sufferings and Hardships, which they meet with in their spiritual Pilgrimage? We took sweet Counsel together, 2and walked unto the House of God in Company.