B25425:1574
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. Dead, the Dead shall hear, &c. This imports, Man was once alive, spiritually alive, considering the Subject of whom our Saviour speaks. Man before his Fall, or the Entrance of Sin, was alive; Death was threatened upon Adam's eating of the forbidden Fruit: In the Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die: The Deprivation of the spiritual Life of the Soul, as well as the Life of the Body, was in the Sanction of that Law, Thou shalt die the Death. What Life soever Adam had before he fell, he lost it by his Transgression; and in that very Day he eat, he suffered a Deprivation of the Light of God's Countenance, and spiritual Life of God in his Soul. He lost that supernatural Power of acting towards God spiritually, or Image of God that was in him; so that it was impossible for him to live any more to God, until quickened by a new Principle of spiritual Life. And hence unregenerate Men are said to be dead, &c.
II. Dead, the Dead shall hear, &c. This imports, Man was once alive, spiritually alive, considering the Subject of whom our Saviour speaks. Man before his Fall, or the Entrance of Sin, was alive; Death was threatned upon Adam's eating of the forbidden Fruit: In the Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die: The Deprivation of the spiritual Life of the Soul, as well as the Life of the Body, was in the Sanction of that Law, Thou shalt die the Death. What Life soever Adam had before he fell, he lost it by his Transgression; and in that very Day he eat, he suffered a Deprivation of the Light of God's Countenance, and spiritual Life of God in his Soul. He lost that supernatural Power of acting towards God spiritually, or Image of God that was in him; so that it was impossible for him to live any more to God, until quickned by a new Principle of spiritual Life. And hence unregenerate Men are said to be dead, &c.
III. A Man that is dead cannot move, act, or speak; all natural Motions utterly cease; that is the Effect of Death: So unconverted Men have lost all spiritual vital Acts, that is, all Acts and Duties of holy Obedience, acceptable unto God. There is in them a total Defect and Want of Power for any such Acts whatsoever, or else they are not dead, cannot be said to be dead; for when the Soul departs, it leaves the Body uncapable of any kind of Activity. All the natural Power the Body had, by means of the Soul's Union with it, is gone, upon the Separation of the one from the other: So Death falling upon the Soul, or suffering a Privation of the Image of God, or spiritual Life it had, all its internal Power to act or live to God is gone, the the carnal Mind being expressly said to be Enmity against God: