B25425:1913
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.
Jesus Christ, was cut off, that is to say, crucified, no Men, as spiritual Sins, can be grafted into him by a lively Faith: Tho there is in this a great Disparity (as applied to Ministers) for Planters cut off or cleave the Stock themselves, before they graft the Scion; but Christ was cut off by another hand. VI. A Planter knows, a Twig that is to be grafted, or a Bud inoculated, must first be cut off with a Knife that is keen or sharp, or an Instrument, from the Tree on which it naturally grew: And when the Grafts are cut off, in order to this Work, 'tis a critical Season with them (saith worthy Mr. Flavel) if they lie too long before they are engrafted, or take not with the Stock, they die, and are never more recovered; they may stand in the Stock a while, but are no part of the Tree. | VI. So a Minister knows, before a Soul can be grafted into Christ, he must be cut off of the old Stock, viz. old Adam, and taken off of his own Righteousness. The first Work upon a Christian is cutting Work: They were cut or pricked in their Hearts,1 while Peter preached to them. The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged Sword. As no Scion is engrafted without cutting; so no Soul is united to Christ,2 without a true and cutting Sense of Sin, and of its own Misery. And when Souls are under a Work of Conversion, 'tis a critical Time with them; many have miscarried then, and never recovered again: They have indeed for a time remained like dead Grafts in the Stock, by an external, lifeless Profession, but never come to any thing; for such dead Grafts in a little time fall off from the Stock, Christ, and perish. But this I must needs say, it is principally for want of being quite cut off, or because they were never throughly cut ⟨p. 275⟩or wounded at Heart; Convictions upon their Hearts were never deep enough, or not kind Convictions, rather Legal than Evangelical; they were not cut by a fit Instrument, &c. VII. A Planter, when Grafts are cut off, and prepared to be engrafted, makes all convenient speed he can to close them with the new Stock; the sooner (saith one) that is done, the better. The Graft is intimately united, and closely conjoined with the Stock; the Conjunction is so close, that they become one Tree. | VII.
Jesus Christ, was cut off, that is to say, crucified, no Men, as spiritual Syenes, can be grafted into him by a lively Faith: Tho there is in this a great Disparity (as applied to Ministers) for Planters cut off or cleave the Stock themselves, before they graft the Siene; but Christ was cut off by another hand. VI. A Planter knows, a Twig that is to be grafted, or a Bud inoculated, must first be cut off with a Knife that is keen or sharp, or an Instrument, from the Tree on which it naturally grew: And when the Grafts are cut off, in order to this Work, 'tis a critical Season with them (saith worthy Mr. Flavel) if they lie too long before they are engrafted, or take not with the Stock, they die, and are never more recovered; they may stand in the Stock a while, but are no part of the Tree. | VI. So a Minister knows, before a Soul can be grafted into Christ, he must be cut off of the old Stock, viz. old Adam, and taken off of his own Righteousness. The first Work upon a Christian is cutting Work: They were cut or pricked in their Hearts,