B25425:1883
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. They are also used in Comparison: Behold, he shall come as Clouds: that is, his Army will I make a vast Appearance, the Targum says, as a Cloud which comes up and covers the Earth. Ezek. 38.9.
4. For Vanity and Inconstancy, or Emptiness; hence false Teachers are compared to Clouds without Rain.
5. And upon divers accounts true Ministers of the Gospel may be compared to Clouds; for as false Teachers are like Clouds without Rain; so true Ministers are as Clouds full, or filled with Rain, &c.
How fitly Christ's Ministers may be compared to Clouds, will appear by what follows.
Ministers. | Parallel. Clouds are fit Receptacles for the Water, they receive their Water, as it is drawn up out of the Fountain of the great Deep: For God hath made the Clouds as useful as so many Buckets, to draw up Water out of the Sea; and the Wind is made use of as an Hand, to carry these Buckets or Clouds whithersoever the great Creator pleaseth, to distil it down upon the Earth, that the Earth might be replenished, and made fruitful by it. | SO Ministers receive all their spiritual Rain out of the great Fountain of all Fullness: Of his Fullness have we all received, &c. and that by the Spirit; that so their Doctrine might drop as the Rain upon the tender Herbs,