B25425:1663
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.
Lastly, Where it is said, that the Lions Whelps are scattered abroad, observe, God will not only destroy the Persons of Wicked Men, but their Families and Posterities, they and their Whelps shall all be scattered, He will not leave them so much as a Man or a Remembrance, Psal. 36.6. I sought his place (saith the Prophet) and he could not be found, there was no print of him, no Man could remember that there was such a Man in the World, unless to curse his Memory.
I shall only give one caution concerning this, and so conclude the Point: That which is here affirmed in the General by Eliphaz, concerning the destruction of Wicked Men, Lions, and fierce Lions, is not to be taken as a Truth in the universal Experience of it; we are not to understand it thus, as if all Persons, all Lion-like Persons, at all times, perish, are destroyed, and scattered abroad; but Eliphaz speaks of what is usually done; or he speaks of what God can easily do at any time, and of what God may justly do at all times. Lions, fierce Lions, Tyrants, Oppressors, he both may, and can scatter when he pleaseth, yet we find, that God hath permitted some Lions, to live long, and die quietly; they spend all their days in roaring and rending, in tearing and devouring, and yet themselves are not devoured: God suspends his Justice, but it is for weighty reasons. For in word,
First, If God should destroy all Lion-like Men, the Joints of the World would be unclosed, and the Bands of human Society broken asunder. God forbade the Children of Israel to destroy all the Canaanites, lest the Beasts of the Field should multiply, &c.
First, If God should destroy all Lion-like Men, the Joints of the World would be unclosed, and the Bands of human Society broken asunder. God forbad the Children of Israel to destroy all the Canaanites, lest the Beasts of the Field should multiply, &c.