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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.
2. God hereby outwits the Mighty. There is no Counsel against the Lord. The Ungodly hang their Weights upon Christ's Palm-Trees, and what is their Intent and Purpose in so doing, you may read in the Scriptures: Come on, saith Pharaoh, let us deal wisely with them, how was that? To lay Weights and Burdens upon them: To what end? Lest they should multiply. They resolved to keep them down, they strove to hinder their Growth, they designed to spoil their Multiplying, and their Growth in Number, as also in Grace and Virtue; but they were like the Palm-Tree, the more they were oppressed, the more they grew and multiplied. That way Men think to hinder the Truth, to obstruct the Gospel from flourishing; that way God takes to make it spread and flourish the more. Those things that happened to the Apostles, to hinder their Ministry, God made for the furtherance of the Gospel.
2. God hereby outwits the Mighty. There is no Counsel against the Lord. The Ungodly hang their Weights upon Christ's Palm-Trees, and what is their Intent and Purpose in so doing, you may read in the Scriptures: Come on, saith Pharaoh, let us deal wisely with them, how was that? To lay Weights and Burthens upon them: To what end? Lest they should multiply. They resolved to keep them down, they strove to hinder their Growth, they designed to spoil their Multiplying, and their Growth in Number, as also in Grace and Vertue; but they were like the Palm-Tree, the more they were oppressed, the more they grew and multiplied. That way Men think to hinder the Truth, to obstruct the Gospel from flourishing; that way God takes to make it spread and flourish the more. Those things that happened to the Apostles, to hinder their Ministry, God made for the furtherance of the Gospel.
3. This should raise up our Hearts to magnify the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, who over-rules things thus in the World; who turns that for Good, which wicked Men design for the great Hurt of his poor People. This also cometh from the Lord of Hosts, who is wonderful in Counsel, and excellent in Working. He makes the Righteous to flourish like the Palm-Tree, to grow upwards, by those Ways and Means which one would think would bring them quite down, and utterly spoil their growing. Like as when we see the Corn laid at, and threshed with a Flail,