B25425:1502
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.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Debtor is one that oweth Money, Duty, &c. to his Neighbour; also one that is a Trespasser, an Offender, or guilty Person. A Man may be a Debtor by Office, Gal. 5.3. by Duty, Rom. 8.12. by the Law of Charity, Rom. 15.27. by trespassing or offending, whether God or Man, Mat. 6.12. | Man oweth all that he is, hath, or can do, unto God; he having received his very Being, and all other good Things that he enjoys, from God, as so many Talents lent him, which he must be accountable to God for in the great Day, &c. Man is a Trespasser,1 an Offender, or a guilty Person, having broken the Law, the Penalty of which is eternal Death; so that as a Traitor, or flagitious Person, by his heinous Crimes he is become a Debtor to everlasting Punishment. II. An evil Debtor is unwilling to be called to an Account; nothing is worse to him, than to hear the News, Give an account of thy Stewardship. 2Hence 'tis said, One was brought that owed ten thousand Talents; as if it were by Force; he was haled before his Master to reckon with him. | II. So wicked Men do not love to think upon the Day of Judgment, care not to hear of those large Bills and Handwritings that are against them. How grievous will that Voice from Heaven be to ungodly Men,3 Give an Account of your Stewardship; Arise ye Dead, and come to Judgment! Give an Account of all the Oaths you have sworn, the Lies you have told, the Times you have been drunk, the Days of Grace you have neglected; give an Account of all the hard and reproachful Words you have spoken against your godly Neighbours, and of all the Wrongs and Injuries you have done them; give an Account of all those Talents that were lent you; what Improvement have you made of your Knowledge and Parts, your Seasons and Sabbaths, and of those many Years you have had in the World? This (I say) is grievous to wicked Men to think upon. They shall be brought forth in the Day of Wrath; they will not come willingly,