TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia

It was said by the Learned Illyricus, In sacris Literis amplissimus & instructissimus Thesaurus paratus est,— ut nos inde omnia nobis necessaria, ac salutoria Remedia hauriamus: In the holy Scriptures a vast and most immense Treasure is provided, from whence we may be furnished with whatsoever is necessary and wholesome. Here is a large Field of spiritual Employment. I adore, saith Tertullian, the Fullness of the Holy Scriptures. What a vast Number of Commentaries, Expositions, and Elucidations are extant! yea, one single Verse affords a most learned and procopious Theme for a whole Volume; yet there's Work enough still left, and the learned and profitable Labours of those eminent Worthies that have gone before us, do not prohibit the Additions of subsequent Ages, nor render them unnecessary. All sorts of Knowledge are improvable, and that which is divine, calls for the most earnest and solicitous pursuit, because all other Sciences are vain and useless without it; and is comprehensive (in as much as it gives a full Discovery of Christ) of what is necessary to Salvation, 1 Cor. 2.2. Phil. 5.8. This renders it universally good; and Good is communicative. It is a Talent that calls for Improvement, to the Profit of Communities. It is called Light, the Nature of which is perfectly diffusive of its Radiance, and bright Illustrations; and 'tis not to be put under a Bushel, but in a Candlestick, to enlighten the whole House. Every Christian is to improve and stir up the Gift that is in him: And tho a Work be not done so well by one Man, as it might by another, who hath greater Accomplishments, (were it set upon his Heart to undertake it) yet may the Profit to some Souls countervail the Labour, and the Whole bless the World more, than not to have it done at all: Besides, what Man, in this nice and censorious Age, can give Content to all?

It was said by the Learned Illyricus, In sacris Literis amplissimus & instructissimus Thesaurus paratus est,— ut nos inde omnia nobis necessaria, ac salutoria Remedia hauriamus: In the holy Scriptures a vast and most immense Treasure is provided, from whence we may be furnished with whatsoever is necessary and wholesom. Here is a large Field of spiritual Employment. I adore, saith Tertullian, the Fulness of the Holy Scriptures. What a vast Number of Commentaries, Expositions, and Elucidations are extant! yea, one single Verse affords a most learned and procopious Theme for a whole Volume; yet there's Work enough still left, and the learned and profitable Labours of those eminent Worthies that have gone before us, do not prohibit the Additions of subsequent Ages, nor render them unnecessary. All sorts of Knowledg are improvable, and that which is divine, calls for the most earnest and sollicitous pursuit, because all other Sciences are vain and useless without it; and is comprehensive (in as much as it gives a full Discovery of Christ) of what is necessary to Salvation,