B25425:1767
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.
NO marvel Ministers Work is so hard and laborious, they are God's Stone-cutters, or Rock-hewers; nay, and it fares worse with them than with other Work-men, that work in Stone-Pits, or hew Stones, they labour all Day, and go home at Night, and come again in the Morning, and find their Work as they left it: But God's Workmen hew, and take pains, and leave their People, and come again, and find them worse than before, their Hearts many times growing more hard and obdurate, &c.
II. Let not Ministers notwithstanding all this be discouraged, for they know not but at last God may set a Word home that may do the Business, and make the hard-hearted Sinner tremble, and cry out, as they did, Acts 2.36. Men and Brethren, what shall we do?
Quest. But some may say, From whence doth it arise, or what is the Cause of this spiritual Hardness that is in the Hearts of Men.
Answ. 1. Naturally the Sinner's Heart is hard, and like a Rock; we all brought a flinty and churlish Nature into the World with us; such is the Effect of original Sin.