B25425:1715
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.
Inferences.
Hence we may see, how easily Men may mistake themselves, by condemning others, when they are in as bad or a worse state themselves; who is it but will readily cry out against a Thief, and use their utmost endeavour to apprehend him, but how few are there (of the same kind, viz. Thieves, as hath been shown) will lay Hands upon, or condemn themselves; who are, as you have heard, worse than Thieves?
HEnce we may see, how easily Men may mistake themselves, by condemning others, when they are in as bad or a worse state themselves; who is it but will readily cry out against a Thief, and use their utmost endeavour to apprehend him, but how few are there (of the same kind, viz. Thieves, as hath been shown) will lay Hands upon, or condemn themselves; who are, as you have heard, worse than Thieves?
2. How doth it warn the Godly to look to themselves: for if the good Man of the House had known at what time the Thief would have come, he would have watched.