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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. A Heart of Flesh is a soft Heart; the Philosophers Description of a soft thing is, that it easily gives way to a Touch: So a true Christian, a tender-hearted Christian will yield to God's Word, to his Reproofs, to his Commands, &c. Lay your Finger upon a Stone, and that yields not; but lay your Finger upon Flesh, and that will yield:1 So will a Saint. Josiah's Heart melted, when the Law of God was read to him; his Heart gave way and yielded to God's Word, and trembled at the Judgments denounced; he had a Heart of Flesh, a tender and soft Heart.
III. A Heart of Flesh cannot bear a great Weight, a heavy Burden will crush and mar it exceedingly. Lay never so great a Weight upon a Stone, and that will bear it; you cannot crush that, nor make the least Impression in it, what Weight soever you lay upon it: but a Heart of Flesh, or that which is of a soft Substance, is of another Nature; a Weight will bruise, crush, and mar it immediately. So a tender-hearted Christian cannot bear the Weight of Sin; he feels the Burden so heavy, that he is sorely crushed down and oppressed under the Guilt thereof, and grievously bruised. Thus it was with David, 1I am sore broken, I am bowed down greatly, &c.
III. A Heart of Flesh cannot bear a great Weight, a heavy Burden will crush and mar it exceedingly. Lay never so great a Weight upon a Stone, and that will bear it; you cannot crush that, nor make the least Impression in it, what Weight soever you lay upon it: but a Heart of Flesh, or that which is of a soft Substance, is of another Nature; a Weight will bruise, crush, and mar it immediatly. So a tender-hearted Christian cannot bear the Weight of Sin; he feels the Burthen so heavy, that he is sorely crushed down and oppressed under the Guilt thereof, and grievously bruised. Thus it was with David,