B25425:1772
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.
4. A Man is hardened in his Sin gradually; and as he grows harder and harder, so nearer and nearer to eternal Ruin. (1.) He takes leave to meditate on Sin, he rolls it up and down in his Thoughts as it were; a hard Heart lets vain Thoughts dwell in it. (2.) He takes some Tastes of the Pleasure and Delight of Sin, it seems to him as a sweet Morsel under his Tongue; and this is a Sign of a further degree of Hardness. (3.) The third Step is, Custom in sinning; it argues great Boldness to venture often. (4.) And then in the next place, he defends and maintains his Sin, he has got some Plea or Argument for it, he is an Advocate for Sin. (5.) He is angry with them, and secretly hates them in his Heart, that reprove him for his Sin, or advise him against such and such wicked Ways. (6.) He grows soon after this Conscience-proof, and Sermon-proof, nay, and Judgment-proof too; he neither fears Rod nor Sword; a Stone will yield as soon as he. (7.) He after this sits down in the Seat of the Scorner, derides and reproaches the Law, and mocks at approaching Judgments, like the Sodomites. (8.) And at last becomes a Persecutor of them that are godly, like cursed Pharaoh, &c.