B25425:1771
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.
3. There is a judiciary Hardness of Heart, which is inflicted by God as a Judg. Men harden their own Hearts against God, and God at length resolves they shall be hard indeed; and therefore he withdraws the common Influences of his Grace from them, and deprives them of all gracious means of softening. And when all these three meet together in a Man,1 he is irrecov•rably hard and sinful, His Neck is an Iron Sinew, and his Brow brass.
3. There is a judiciary Hardness of Heart, which is inflicted by God as a Judg. Men harden their own Hearts against God, and God at length resolves they shall be hard indeed; and therefore he withdraws the common Influences of his Grace from them, and deprives them of all gracious means of softning. And when all these three meet together in a Man,1 he is irrecov•rably hard and sinful, His Neck is an Iron Sinew, and his Brow brass.