B25425:1749
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.
V. He is a poor Man, that as he hath nothing, can do nothing, hath none to do any thing for him, and is many thousand Pounds in debt; and besides, is a sorry Soul, he has no worth in him, being a vile, base, sordid, and ill-natured Wretch, worthy of no regard or pity, one that no Body will cast an Eye of Compassion upon: But such is the Condition of every ungodly Person,1 they have no Worth nor Excellency at all in them, they are not worth regard nor pity, there is nothing in them that can move God to respect them, nor his Angels to regard them, therefore very poor and miserable.
V. He is a poor Man, that as he hath nothing, can do nothing, hath none to do any thing for him, and is many thousand Pounds in debt; and besides, is a sorry Soul, he has no worth in him, being a vile, base, fordid, and ill-natured Wretch, worthy of no regard or pity, one that no Body will cast an Eye of Compassion upon: But such is the Condition of every ungodly Person,1 they have no Worth nor Excellency at all in them, they are not worth regard nor pity, there is nothing in them that can move God to respect them, nor his Angels to regard them, therefore very poor and miserable.
- 1Ezek. 16.
VI. He is a poor Man that is in the Condition we have mentioned, and that which aggravates his Poverty is this, He is not like ever to be in a Condition to help himself, nor to find a Friend or Brother to help him: a Man may be to day miserable, helpless, and friendless, but in a little time possibly it may be better with him, and he may supply his own Necessities, or get some to relieve him. Now ungodly Men are in the State you have heard, and are never like to be in a better Condition, by any means of their own, or by any Friend of theirs, and therefore poor and miserable.