B25425:1836
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.
These Words call not only for a Maintenance of Ministers, but for such a plentiful Contribution, as may make them Partakers with you in all good things. If God bless the Congregation with a plentiful Portion of this World's Goods, it is their Duty to make their Minister a Party with them in their flourishing Condition. And, considering the Place and Employment he is in, and the Service he attends, it would be extremely unworthy to think you have done enough, if his pressing Necessities be answered, while you abound in Superfluities. If the Congregation be poor, their Minister must be content to be poor with them, yea, rejoice to approve himself a Minister of Christ, by Hunger and Nakedness, if the Providence of God call him thereto: But whilst it is in the power of your Hand to provide better for him, God expects it from you; and, be not deceived, God is not mocked, neither will he suffer his Commands to be slighted and evaded, without rendering a just Rebuke to the Offender: For whatsoever a Man soweth, that shall he also reap.
These Words call not only for a Maintenance of Ministers, but for such a plentiful Contribution, as may make them Partakers with you in all good things. If God bless the Congregation with a plentiful Portion of this World's Goods, it is their Duty to make their Minister a Party with them in their flourishing Condition. And, considering the Place and Employment he is in, and the Service he attends, it would be extremely unworthy to think you have done enough, if his pressing Necessities be answered, while you abound in Superfluities. If the Congregation be poor, their Minister must be content to be poor with them, yea, rejoyce to approve himself a Minister of Christ, by Hunger and Nakedness, if the Providence of God call him thereto: But whilst it is in the power of your Hand to provide better for him, God expects it from you; and, be not deceived, God is not mocked, neither will he suffer his Commands to be slighted and evaded, without rendring a just Rebuke to the Offender: For whatsoever a Man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Now that you may the better understand how far you are concerned in this Duty, before I proceed to the further pressing of it, let me put you in remembrance: