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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.
Mat. 13.27, 28. Let both grow together till Harvest, &c. Verse 30. But gather the Wheat into my Barn.
The Saints of God are in this Parable compared to Wheat, or good Seed, but the Wicked to Tares, and the End of the World to the Harvest. Why Believers are compared to Wheat, will appear by what follows.
THe Saints of God are in this Parable compared to Wheat, or good Seed, but the Wicked to Tares, and the End of the World to the Harvest. Why Believers are compared to Wheat, will appear by what follows.
Metaphor. | Parallel. Wheat is a precious Sort of Grain, the best of Grain. | The Saints of God are a choice People, the best of Men.1 The Righteous are more excellent than their Neighbours. II. Wheat is a very profitable Sort of Grain, it tends to the enriching the Husband-man; he accounts it his Treasure. | II. The Saints are a People profitable to the World many ways. [See Salt.] Nay,2 and God accounts them his peculiar Treasure. III. Wheat will abide and live in the sharpest Winter, which some other Seed will not. | III. So sincere Souls will endure the sharpest Trials. They will live in the Winter-Time of the Church, when others fall off, wither, die away, and come to nothing. IV. Wheat is a small S•ed, and when it is first sown, it lies hid; in Winter it seems as if it were quite dead; but when the Spring comes, it sweetly revives again, and flourisheth exceedingly. | IV. The Godly are, in comparison of the World, a small People,