B25425:1738
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.
Wicked Men pool.
Rev. 3.17. Poor, and blind, and naked.
A Christless Soul is poor: It is true, a godly Man, one that hath much Grace, is poor in his own Eyes: I know thy Poverty, but thou art rich; But a wicked Man is really a poor Man, as will appear by the following Parallel.
Parallels.
HE is a poor Man, that hath nothing that is really or truly good, that hath no Clothes to cover him, but is naked as ever he was born; that hath never a Bit of Bread, nor any thing that is good, to eat, but lives upon Husks, Chaff, and Ashes, &c. Now wicked Men are so poor and miserable, that they have nothing that is truly good: they are naked, as we have showed, their Souls are naked; they have nothing to eat but Husks and Ashes; for such are those empty and perishing Things of the World compared to in the Scripture, on which they feed: He feedeth on Ashes,