B25425:1838
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.
1. That a Minister is bound to attend wholly and only upon his Calling in the Ministry, and not to entangle himself in the Affairs of this Life, that he may please him by whom he is called to this spiritual Warfare; and nothing but real Necessity may dispense with the contrary. His whole Time and Strength is little enough to be employed in the Work and Service he is called to. He must give himself to the Ministry of the Word, and Prayer; and continue in Reading, Meditation, &c. as a Man wholly devoted unto Gospel-Service; and is therefore, by his Call to the Ministry, secluded from those ways and means of providing for his own Subsistence, as the Trades and secular Employments of others furnish them with, that his Mind, by the Cares of worldly Business, may not be diverted from that Study of God's Word, and Care of Souls, which the Duty of his Station engageth him to. And if he may not expose himself to the careful Thoughts that accompany worldly Business, tho tending to his Profit; certainly it is no way meet, that he should be left to conflict with the thorny Cares of a necessitous Condition, whilst those he ministers to, have means to prevent it.
2. It is no less the Duty of a Minister, than of other Men, to provide for his Family,1 and (what lies in him) to take care of his Wife and Children, that they may not be exposed to a thousand Miseries and Temptations, when he is gone. I confess, of all Men in the World, a covetous, raking Temper worst becomes a Minister: But we greatly mistake, if we think he must devest himself of the due Affection of an Husband towards his Wife, or of a Father towards his Children; or, that those Fruits thereof, which are justly esteemed commendable in others, should be a Fault in him.