B25425:1801
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.
VII. The Devil's great design is to encourage Vice and all Profaneness, and by one means or another to suppress real Godliness: So this is the great Design and Endeavour of some wicked Men.
VII. The Devil's great design is to encourage Vice and all Prophaneness, and by one means or another to suppress real Godliness: So this is the great Design and Endeavour of some wicked Men.
VIII. The Devil is so vile, that God seeth it necessary to lay a restraint upon him, and put him into Chains, or else the World would not have a Moment's time of Peace and Quiet: So ungodly Men are so much like the Devil in this, that God also sees the like need to restrain them: for as the Devil is boundless in his Wrath, Rage, and Malice against Mankind; so are his cursed Emissaries against their Fellow-Creatures: Hence God puts a Hook into their Jaws, and sets Bars to these swelling Seas.
IX. The Devil trembles at the thoughts of God's Wrath, and dreads the Day that is coming: So do wicked Men fear him, not because they love him, but because they are his Enemies, and as such, they fear he will one day reckon with them.