B25425:1661
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.
Further, It is here said in the Text, That the old Lion shall perish for want of Prey. It is a strange Expression; Lions have the greatest Power to get Provision to satisfy their Hunger, yea their Appetites and Humour; yet these shall want, these Lions who have all their life time preyed upon the States of other Men, even these shall want; Note hence the Justice of God, Such as have made others want, shall at last come to want themselves, they shall perish for want of Prey; they shall have nothing to eat, When thou ceasest to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled, saith the Prophet; And when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. We must not understand it, as if wicked Men do ever give over sinning; Sin, and their desire of sinning, is in a kind Infinite: they never say, Now we have done, and will sin no more; but the meaning is, when thou canst sin no more, nor deal treacherously no more; when thou hast done thy utmost, and spent thy Strength in spoiling others, or taken all their Spoil, so that thou hast done spoiling, because there is no more to spoil; then others shall spoil thee. And thou Lion, who hast preyed upon others along time, shalt not have a bit thy self, but shalt perish for want of Prey.
It is the Promise of God unto his own People, Psal. 34.10. That the Lions shall lack and suffer Hunger, but they that fear the Lord, shall not want any good Thing: he expresses it by Lions, to note, that certainly they that fear him, shall not want; for if any Creatures in the World can preserve themselves from Hunger, Lions can; if they do but roar, the very Beasts will fall down as a Prey before them: but yet (saith God) these, even these shall rather perish for Hunger, than any one that feareth me shall want. God provides for his Lambs, for innocent Persons, for those that fear him, tho they have no Strength to provide for themselves; but the Wicked who have greatest Power, and have been most active to provide for themselves, shall pine with want; they who have caused so many to be bitten with Hunger, shall at last be Hunger-bitten, and for want of Meat gnaw their Tongues.