B25425:1750
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.
Disparity.
Poor Men are full of Complaints, they commonly bewail their Poverty, and would gladly have all their Wants supplied, and be made rich, if they knew but which way it might be done: But wicked Men, tho they are poor, so poor and miserable as hath been shown, yet they are contented, being woefully blinded by the Devil, &c. So that tho they are daily told how they may be made rich, yet they slight all Advice and Counsel, and stubbornly refuse the Riches of Grace and Glory.
POor Men are full of Complaints, they commonly bewail their Poverty, and would gladly have all their Wants supplied, and be made rich, if they knew but which way it might be done: But wicked Men, tho they are poor, so poor and miserable as hath been shewn, yet they are contented, being wofully blinded by the Devil, &c. So that tho they are daily told how they may be made rich, yet they slight all Advice and Counsel, and stubbornly refuse the Riches of Grace and Glory.
The Heart of a wicked Man compared to a Rock.
Jer. 23.29. — And like a Hammer that breaks the Rock in pieces. Ezek. 11.19