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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.
Simile. | Parallel. A Sluggard is a Person that makes Excuses: The slothful Man saith, 1There is a Lion without, I shall be slain in the Street. | SO the Sinner, or spiritual Sluggard, hath many Excuses; If I should arise, saith he, and follow Christ, I shall suffer in my Name, be reproached, suffer in my Estate; nay, it may come to pass, saith he, that such as are religious indeed may be put to Death. There are many Romish Lions without, persecuting and devouring Beasts of Prey, that I fear will fly upon me in the Street; and hence he resolves to keep himself in a whole Skin. II. A Sluggard (Solomon saith) is like a Door that turneth upon its Hinges:2 As a Door turneth upon its Hinges; so doth the slothful Man upon his Bed. | II. So a Sinner, or spiritual Sluggard, seems to move this way, and that way: He reads God's Word, and hears Sermons, and perhaps prays too, but still is where he was; he is not renewed in his inward Man, no Change hath passed upon him; he is one that loveth his Lusts: this and the other Sin, and is not taken off of his old Hinges; he is still in the State of fallen Man, not taken off of the old Root, and transplanted into Christ. III. The Sluggard is a Man of Desires, but not of Endeavours. The Sluggard desireth, 3and hath nothing; but the Soul of the Diligent shall be made fat; compared with Prov. 22.25. The Desire of the Sluggard killeth him, because his Hands refuse to work. | III. So the Wicked Man, or spiritual Sluggard, is full of Desires; he with Balaam desires to die the Death of the Righteous, he desires to be saved,4 and hath many faint Desires to be forgiven; he cries out sometimes (when Conscience flies in his Face, and rebukes him) God forgive me, the Lord help me, &c. but never strives with all his Might against his Sin, and the Temptations of the Devil: hence his Desires are said to slay him. Desires without Endeavours will deceive the Soul, nay, eternally ruin and damn the Soul. What avails it a Man that ⟨p. 208⟩is hungry, to wish for Bread, when he never labours for it?