B25425:1216
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.
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,1 one would think there were great Hurt intended to the Corn, but it is only to separate it from the Straw and Chaff, that it may appear in its own Beauty and Usefulness: So the Lord hath his Flail, to separate the Chaff from the Wheat. Those Acts of Providence, which seem to be for their Hurt and Undoing, when they are threshed as it were by the World, are only to make them appear what they are. But thus it fareth not with the Wicked, who flourish not like the Palm-Tree, but as the Grass they pass away.
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 thresh'd with a Flail,1 one would think there were great Hurt intended to the Corn, but it is only to separate it from the Straw and Chaff, that it may appear in its own Beauty and Usefulness: So the Lord hath his Flail, to separate the Chaff from the Wheat. Those Acts of Providence, which seem to be for their Hurt and Undoing, when they are thresh'd as it were by the World, are only to make them appear what they are. But thus it fareth not with the Wicked, who flourish not like the Palm-Tree, but as the Grass they pass away.
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