B25425:1746
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.
II. He is a poor Man, that as he hath nothing, so he can do nothing, whereby to help or relieve himself in his Necessity: Wicked Men, as they have nothing, so they can do nothing, to relieve their own Souls: They have no Clothes, and none can they, by any ways of their own, obtain, or help themselves unto; they have no Food,1 nor can they procure any: They labour for that which is not Bread, and spend their Strength for that which satisfies not: Therefore poor and miserable.
III. He is a poor Man, that as he hath nothing, and can do nothing, so he hath no Body, neither Friend nor Brother, that can do any thing for him: But thus in a spiritual Sense 'tis with wicked Men, and therefore poor and miserable.
III. He is a poor Man, that as he hath nothing, and can do nothing, so he hath no Body, neither Friend nor Brother, that can do any thing for him: But thus in a spiritual Sence 'tis with wicked Men, and therefore poor and miserable.
IV. He is a poor Man, who as he hath nothing, can do nothing, nor hath any Body to do for him, and yet is many thousand Pounds in debt: Such is the State of wicked Men, they have nothing, can do nothing, have no Friend or Brother to do any thing for them,1