B25425:1575
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.
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:1 An evil Tree cannot bring forth good Fruit. In short, there is in all wicked Men, a Disability or Impotency unto all spiritual Things, to be performed in a spiritual manner; and that it is impossible for them to act and do in a way acceptable to God, till quickened by the Holy-Ghost.
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 expresly said to be Enmity against God:1 An evil Tree cannot bring forth good Fruit. In short, there is in all wicked Men, a Disability or Impotency unto all spiritual Things, to be performed in a spiritual manner; and that it is impossible for them to act and do in a way acceptable to God, till quickned by the Holy-Ghost.