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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. It is a supernatural Principle, by which we distinguish it from Adam's Righteousness, which was co-natural to him, as Sin is to us. Holiness was as natural to him, as Health was to his Body; they both resulted ex Principiis rectè constitutis, from Principles pure and rightly disposed.
Why Righteousness is called a Breast-plate, will appear by the following Parallel.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Breast-plate is a main and principal Piece of Armour, that belongs to a Soldier. | Righteousness in like manner is a principal thing belonging to all Christians, who are called Soldiers of Christ:1 Endure Hardness as a good Soldier, &c. II. A Breast-plate is a piece of Armour that every Soldier ought to ⟨p. 10⟩have on, when he engages his Enemy; he must not come into the Field without it. | II. Righteousness is so necessary for every Believer, that he ought not, cannot be without it; there is no engaging any ⟨p. 10⟩Enemy of the Soul, without a Principle of Holiness be wrought in him. ⟨p. 9⟩III. A Breast-plate preserves the principal part of the Body, viz. the Breast, where the very Vitals of a Man are closely couched together, and where a Shot or a Stab is more deadly, than in other parts, that are more remote from the Fountain of Life. A Man may out-live many Wounds received in the Arms or Legs, but a Stab in the Heart is a certain Messenger of Death. | III. Righteousness and Holiness preserves the principal part of a Christian, viz. his Soul. Satan aims to hit him there where he may dispatch him soonest. A Wound in a Man's Credit, Estate, Relations, &c. hazard not the Life of his Soul; but Sin exposes it to imminent Danger. This is that Dart,