B25425:1927
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.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Wise Master-Builder gives direction to others, how the House, &c. must be built; and to this purpose shows the Figure or true Form of it, that so other Under-Builders may know how to go on with their Work. | SO St. Paul, and other great and wise Master-Builders, (the Apostles) have given plain Directions to us, and all inferior Builders, how the House of God must be built, and with what Materials; and they have left in the holy Gospel a plain Scheme or Figure of it, that so all spiritual Builders may know how to proceed in their Work. II. A Master-Builder takes special care rightly to lay the Foundation, upon which the whole Fabric or Structure is to be built, &c. | II. So the Apostles have, as Instruments in God's hand, laid the Foundation of the true Religion, the Foundation of Faith and Salvation, the Foundation of the true Church, &c. 1Another Foundation can no Man lay, than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. III. A Builder hath sometimes much Rubbish to remove, before he can go on with his Work; as the poor Jews had, who built the Temple, &c. | III. So have Ministers much Rubbish to remove out of their own and Sinners Way, before they can proceed in their blessed Work. There is the Rubbish of False-Doctrine about Justification; this was in the Apostle's way, as well as 'tis in ours: The Jews were hardly taken off from their own Righteousness, and legal Ceremonies; they would needs build upon a Legal Foundation: They stumbled at the Stumbling Stone, &c. We have much Popish Rubbish to remove, the Rubbish of Mens Inventions, and superstitious Ceremonies, &c. besides the Rubbish of other Heretics and Deceivers. IV. A Builder oftentimes meets with hard Work, in hewing and squaring his Timber and Stones, some being very rugged and knotty, &c. | IV. So Ministers find some Sinners are very stubborn and obstinate, like knotty Timber, scragged and rugged Stones, which, without much Labour and Pains, are not hewed and fitted for the Building. V. A wise Builder takes care to prepare and make all his Materials ready, before he raises the Structure, or builds his House. | V. So should a Minister of the Gospel see that all the spiritual Stones and Timber be well squared, fitted, and prepared by a through Work of Repentance and Faith, before they are placed or laid into the Building or Church of God.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Wise Master-Builder gives direction to others, how the House, &c. must be built; and to this purpose shews the Figure or true Form of it, that so other Under-Builders may know how to go on with their Work. | SO St. Paul, and other great and wise Master-Builders, (the Apostles) have given plain Directions to us, and all inferior Builders, how the House of God must be built, and with what Materials; and they have left in the holy Gospel a plain Scheme or Figure of it, that so all spiritual Builders may know how to proceed in their Work. II. A Master-Builder takes special care rightly to lay the Foundation, upon which the whole Fabrick or Structure is to be built, &c. | II. So the Apostles have, as Instruments in God's hand, laid the Foundation of the true Religion, the Foundation of Faith and Salvation, the Foundation of the true Church, &c.