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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.
II. Let this teach Believers their Duties; let them remember to have their Conversations honest among the Gentiles. Let your Light shine forth to others, not that you may be praised, but that the Praise may be given to God, &c. In all your holy Walking, propose this as your ultimate End, not that you may be magnified, and lifted up, but that God by you, and through your good Works, may be magnified, and his glorious Name advanced on high.
III. It may be an Use of Caution to them to take heed of Sin. If they comply with Satan, and yield to Temptations, and thereby let their Light go out, no wonder if the World stumble. Sometimes Professors, instead of being Lights, prove dark Stumbling-Blocks. As to instance in two or three things;
1. When Professors fail in their Morals, i. e. are not just in their Dealings between Man and Man, they give just cause of Offence.
2. When they are like the World, and none can discern any great difference between them and others, in respect of their Conversation, how can they then be said to be the Light of the World?