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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.
The Palm-Tree and Date-Tree is one and the same Tree, called in Hebrew Tamar, in Greek Phoenix.
THe Palm-Tree and Date-Tree is one and the same Tree, called in Hebrew Thamar, in Greek Phenix.
Why the Saints and People of God are compared to the Palm-Tree, will appear in the following Parallel.
Metaphor. | Parallel. The Palm-Tree is an excellent Tree, amiable to look upon; it is very tall, and all its Branches shoot upwards; there are none grow out of the Side, as in other Trees. | The Righteous, who are compared to a Palm-Tree, are a choice and excellent People; their Affections, like Branches, ascend, they are set upon Things above; they grow Heavenward.1 They do not shoot out their Branches (as I may say) this way, and that way, to the World; they grow high in Grace, and in Communion with God. II. The Palm-Tree grows in the purest Soil, it will not grow in filthy Places, it loves to spread forth its Roots by a River; it loves not dungy Soil, as other Trees do. | II. The Righteous flourish best in a pure Soil, in a Land where the Gospel is preached in its purity. They are planted in a choice Garden, Christ's blessed Vineyard, in the Courts of the Lord's House, as it follows in the Psalm.2 They are transplanted out of, and love not the polluted and idolatrous World, that lies in Wickedness, which smells like a Dunghill, but in the Garden of God. III. The Palm is an even and very strait Tree, and grows upright. Hence 'tis said of Idols, that they are upright like the Palm-Tree. | III. The Saints of God are a People sincere, of an upright Heart, and of an upright Conversation: for tho naturally they are rough, knotty, and crooked, like others; yet Grace works out, or cuts off that Crookedness, Uncomeliness, or Unevenness that naturally was in them. IV. The Palm-Tree, when young, is a very weak Plant; it is so feeble, that it can hardly stand of it self. And therefore Pliny says, they usually plant three or four of them together, and by that means they strengthen one another, and stand the faster. | IV. The Saints of God, when first converted, are usually weak and feeble, and hardly able to stand of themselves, without the help and support of their Brethren; but when planted together in God's Vineyard, they thrive greatly, confirming and strengthening one another, which shows the Excellency of Christian Communion and Fellowship.