B25425:1840
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. An Elder or Bishop is under a special Charge to use Hospitality, and to set in himself a Pattern of Charity, and compassionate Bounty to poor Souls; and if it be his Duty to be hospitable and charitable in an eminent degree, then without controversy the People are concerned to endeavour that he may be capable of giving proof of this Grace in him, by the Exercise of it as there is occasion.
These things being premised, I shall show you, that you lie under the strongest Obligation imaginable to this Duty: '1. By the Law of Nature. '2. By the express Command and Appointment of Christ. 3. On the account of the great and manifest Evil and Inconvenience, that follows the Neglect thereof.
These things being premised, I shall shew you, that you lie under the strongest Obligation imaginable to this Duty: '1. By the Law of Nature. '2. By the express Command and Appointment of Christ. 3. On the account of the great and manifest Evil and Inconvenience, that follows the Neglect thereof.
First; The Law and Light of Nature obligeth you to it, as to the matter of Equity and Justice. And from hence our Apostle takes his first Plea, in 1 Cor. 9.7, &c. Who goeth a Warfare any time at his own Charges? Who planteth a Vineyard, and eateth not of the Fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a Flock, and eateth not of the Milk of the Flock? The Ministry is a Warfare, undertaken at the Command of Christ, for the Service of your Souls; and it is as reasonable that the Minister should receive a Supply of outward Things from you, as that a faithful Soldier should receive his Pay from his Captain, at the Charge of the Commonwealth, for whose Good he militates. Shall a Man feed a Flock, (as a Pastor does) and be denied to eat of the Milk of that Flock, which it is his Work to keep and feed? Or, is it consistent with common Justice, to deprive a Man of the Fruit of that Vineyard, which is planted and manured by his own Labour? Such is the Case, in respect of Maintenance, between a Minister and the People. It is