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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
Tropes and Figures; OR, A TREATISE of the METAPHORS, ALLEGORIES, TY… › Head 10 › Sin a Debt.
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.
Sin is so great a Debt, that a Man of himself is not able to make satisfaction to the Law, and Justice of God for it; he owes ten thousand Talents,1 and hath nothing to pay; so our Saviour himself plainly intimates. V. A Debt exposeth a Man ofttimes to an Arrest, and fills his Mind full of Trouble; especially, if it be an Action upon Execution, that admits of no Bail. | V. Sin exposeth a Man to an Arrest, by Death, a Serjeant (that will) when he hath received his Warrant, take no Bail, and this fills wicked Men (especially) full of Fears;2 Who through fear of Death, are said, to be all their Life time subject to Bondage. VI. A Debt doth not only expose a Man to the danger of an Arrest, but (in case he cannot pay the Debt, or procure Bail) to a Prison also. | VI. So Sin exposeth a Man, not only to an Arrest, by Death, but also to the Prison of Eternal Darkness, out of which there is no Redemption; Verily, Verily, 3I say unto you, he shall not come out from thence, until he hath paid the utmost Farthing. VII. Some Mens Debts have been paid by the Hands of others, who out of mere Compassion, have undertaken to satisfy for all they have owed, and thereby have kept the poor Debtors from perishing. | VII. So this great Debt, (viz.) Jesus Christ, (the Sinners Friend) out of Infinite Bowels, by one single Payment on the Cross, or by his Active and Passive Obedience, hath satisfied for, or made a full Compensation to the Law, and Justice of God, in the behalf of Sinners; that so he might thereby deliver them from Eternal Ruin. See Surety. Metaphor. | Disparity. A Debt among Men, only exposeth the Body, or Bodies of Men to External Danger, Sufferings, or Sorrow. | BUT Sin, this Spiritual Debt, exposeth not the Body only, but the Soul: it brings not the Soul, by Guilt, to Sorrow and Misery here; but both the Soul and Body to Sufferings Eternally hereafter. II. Debts among Men, are oftentimes forgiven, without Payment, or Satisfaction made for them, either by the Debtor, or his Surety. | II. God doth not forgive Sin (this spiritual Debt) without a fu•l Payment, or plenary Satisfaction made for it by our Surety: it consisteth not with his Justice, Honour, nor with the Nature and Purity of his Law (considering the Nature of Sin it self) so to do: And therefore, what Man is not able to do upon this account, Jesus Christ his blessed Surety hath done for him.