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
Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed by John Darby, 1682
[12], xvi, 436, 48, 437-444 p. · 337k words · Wing K101A · ESTC R7039
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Numb. 33.55. They shall be Pricks in your Eyes, and Thorns in your Sides, &c.
Josh. 23.13. But they shall be as Snares and Traps unto you, and Scourges in your Sides, and Thorns in your Eyes, &c.
Cant. 2.2. As a Lilly among Thorns.
Nah. 1.10. For whilst they are folden together as Thorns, &c.
Thorns also and Thistles shall it bring forth unto thee, &c. Had not Adam sinned, we should not have been troubled with Thorns. | SO wicked Men came in with the Fall, and as the Fruit of the Curse. Had not Adam sinned, the World had never been troubled with these Briars and Thorns; but ever since the Curse, for Adam's Sin, the World hath been full of these Thorns.
II. A Thorn is no tender Tree, but contrary-wise sturdy, hard, knotty, and full of Knobs and Pricks, dangerous to meddle, or have to do with. | II.
So the Wicked, these Sons of Belial, Belegnol, without Yoke, that is, such as will not come under the Yoke of Obedience; or Beli Gnalah, not ascending, because their Males prospered not. These Thorns, wicked Men,
are hard-hearted, knotty-conditioned, full of pricking and stinging Words and Works. What can he expect that meddles with a Thorn or Briar, but to be scratched, pricked, and wounded in his so doing? So that Man that has to do with some wicked Men, shall be scratched or pricked in his good Name and Estate, one way or other.
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III. Thorns are Trees of little worth, low and base Things, hurtful to Fields, Gardens, and Vineyards, &c. | III. So wicked Men are of little worth and value in God's sight; they are of a base Spirit and Principle, Lovers of Pleasure more than Lovers of God, preferring Earth above Heaven:
The Heart of the Wicked is little worth. And as they are unprofitable, and little worth in themselves; so they are offensive and prejudicial to God's Garden; they hinder the Growth of the Saints as much as in them lies, wounding the Lilly that groweth among them. See Lilly among Thorns.
IV. Thorns nevertheless do serve sometimes to make a Hedge to keep out wild Beasts from breaking into a Field or Vineyard. | IV. So some of these wicked Ones God now and then makes use of to be a Hedge to his People, to keep out a more bloody and cruel Adversary:
The Earth helped the Woman; that is, Wicked Men, Men of the Earth, stood up for, and sided in with the Church and People of God, and so proved as a Wall of Defence or Hedge to them. Besides, God makes use of them sometimes as a Hedge to stop his People in their evil Courses, by suffering these Sons of Belial to afflict them: I will hedge up her Way with Thorns.
Simile. | Parallel.
THorns came in with the Curse, Cursed is the Ground for thy sake, 1Thorns also and Thistles shall it bring forth unto thee, &c. Had not Adam sinned, we should not have been troubled with Thorns. | SO wicked Men came in with the Fall, and as the Fruit of the Curse. Had not Adam sinned, the World had never been troubled with these Briars and Thorns; but ever since the Curse, for Adam's Sin, the World hath been full of these Thorns.
II. A Thorn is no tender Tree, but contrary-wise sturdy, hard, knotty, and full of Knobs and Pricks, dangerous to meddle, or have to do with. | II.2 So the Wicked, these Sons of Belial, Belegnol, without Yoke, that is, such as will not come under the Yoke of Obedience; or Beli Gnalah, not ascending, because their Males prospered not. These Thorns, wicked Men,3 are hard-hearted, knotty-conditioned, full of pricking and stinging Words and Works. What can he expect that meddles with a Thorn or Briar, but to be scratch'd, prick'd, and wounded in his so doing? So that Man that has to do with some wicked Men, shall be scratch'd or prick'd in his good Name and Estate, one way or other.
⟨p. 225⟩III. Thorns are Trees of little worth, low and base Things, hurtful to Fields, Gardens, and Vineyards, &c. | III. So wicked Men are of little worth and value in God's sight; they are of a base Spirit and Principle, Lovers of Pleasure more than Lovers of God, preferring Earth above Heaven:4 The Heart of the Wicked is little worth. And as they are unprofitable, and little worth in themselves; so they are offensive and prejudicial to God's Garden; they hinder the Growth of the Saints as much as in them lies, wounding the Lilly that groweth among them. See Lilly among Thorns.
IV. Thorns nevertheless do serve sometimes to make a Hedg to keep out wild Beasts from breaking into a Field or Vineyard. | IV. So some of these wicked Ones God now and then makes use of to be a Hedg to his People, to keep out a more bloody and cruel Adversary:5 The Earth helped the Woman; that is, Wicked Men, Men of the Earth, stood up for, and sided in with the Church and People of God, and so proved as a Wall of Defence or Hedg to them. Besides, God makes use of them sometimes as a Hedg to stop his People in their evil Courses, by suffering these Sons of Belial to afflict them: I will hedg up her Way with Thorns.6
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Thorns and Briars, when they are grown to any height, are oft-times by the Owner cut down, and cast into the Fire. | V. So the Wicked and Ungodly, when they are grown to a great height of Wickedness, provoking God against themselves, are cut down, and cast into Hell. That which beareth Briars and Thorns is near unto Cursing, whose end is to be burnt.1
VI. Thorns and Briars are not able to stand before a devouring and consuming Fire. | VI. So the Wicked are not able to stand before the dreadful and angry God. For while they be folden together as Thorns, 2and whilst they are drunken as Drunkards, they shall be destroyed as Stubble fully dry. 3Who would (saith God) set the Briars and Thorns against me in Battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Thorns and Briars, when they are grown to any height, are oft-times by the Owner cut down, and cast into the Fire. | V. So the Wicked and Ungodly, when they are grown to a great height of Wickedness, provoking God against themselves, are cut down, and cast into Hell. That which beareth Briars and Thorns is near unto Cursing, whose end is to be burnt.1
VI. Thorns and Briars are not able to stand before a devouring and consuming Fire. | VI. So the Wicked are not able to stand before the dreadful and angry God. For while they be folden together as Thorns, 2and whilst they are drunken as Drunkards, they shall be destroyed as Stubble fully dry. 3Who would (saith God) set the Briars and Thorns against me in Battel? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
IS it not a strange and marvellous thing, that God's People are no more scratched and pricked with these troublesome Thorns, considering what a Multitude of them are amongst us?
IS it not a strange and marvellous thing, that God's People are no more scratch'd and prick'd with these troublesom Thorns, considering what a Multitude of them are amongst us?
3. It shows the Folly of the Wicked, who strive with the Almighty, and set themselves in Battle against Him, who is a consuming Fire, and they but Thorns and Briars, or like Stubble fully dry.
3. It shews the Folly of the Wicked, who strive with the Almighty, and set themselves in Battel against Him, who is a consuming Fire, and they but Thorns and Briars, or like Stubble fully dry.
Isa. 41.15. Thou shalt thresh the Mountains, and beat them small, &c.
Isa. 2.14. Upon all high Mountains that are lifted up, &c.
Zech. 4.7. Who art thou, O great Mountain? &c.
Isa. 41.15. Thou shalt thresh the Mountains, and beat thm small, &c.
Isa. 2.14. Ʋpon all high Mountains that are lifted up, &c.
Zech. 4.7. Who art thou, O great Mountain? &c.
Mountains are high and lifted up, and seem to have the Preeminence: So the wicked Princes and Potentates of the Earth are high in Power, and seem to be lifted up in Pride and Arrogancy, and to have Preeminence over the Righteous.
MOuntains are high and lifted up, and seem to have the Preheminence: So the wicked Princes and Potentates of the Earth are high in Power, and seem to be lifted up in Pride and Arrogancy, and to have Preheminence over the Righteous.
