B25425:1571
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.
Parallels.
A Dead Man, one that is really dead, is under a total Privation of Life; there is no Life in him: So Man by Sin is totally under the Privation of the spiritual Life of God. Now the Life of God consisteth in a Principle of Grace, which is called a Seed; The Seed (speaking of a Man quickened) remains in him. This Seed,1 or divine Principle, is unto the Soul, as the Soul is to the Body: but there is no Soul, or Seed of Grace, no Principle of spiritual Life in an unregenerate Man; and therefore really and truly dead in a spiritual Sense, as the Body is dead when the Soul is separated from it. If there be any true and real spiritual Life in an unconverted Man, how can he be said to be dead? for where there is not a total Privation of natural Life, a Man cannot be said to be dead naturally.
A Dead Man, one that is really dead, is under a total Privation of Life; there is no Life in him: So Man by Sin is totally under the Privation of the spiritual Life of God. Now the Life of God consisteth in a Principle of Grace, which is called a Seed; The Seed (speaking of a Man quickned) remains in him. This Seed,1 or divine Principle, is unto the Soul, as the Soul is to the Body: but there is no Soul, or Seed of Grace, no Principle of spiritual Life in an unregenerate Man; and therefore really and truly dead in a spiritual Sence, as the Body is dead when the Soul is separated from it. If there be any true and real spiritual Life in an unconverted Man, how can he be said to be dead? for where there is not a total Privation of natural Life, a Man cannot be said to be dead naturally.