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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.
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These things being premised, I reassume (saith he) the Argument,1 namely, That the Truth of God's Threatenings, would not allow him to pardon Sin, and save Sinners, but upon the consideration of a Satisfaction. First, God having denounced Death, and the Curse against Sin, Gen. 2.17. Deut. 27.26. The Veracity and Faithfulness of his Nature obliged him to see it inflicted: Never any entertained a Notion of God, but they included in it that he spake Truth. Could ever any Threatening of God, be of awe upon the Conscience of a Sinner, should the first and great Threatening be made so easily void? Should it be granted, that notwithstanding God's solemn Denunciation of Wrath, in case of Sin, that yet he hath taken the Offender into Favour, and pardoned the Offence without any Satisfaction, or Consideration at all? what would Creatures imagine, but that God either intended his Threatenings for mere Scare-Crows, or that he were subject to Mutability; which Apprehension being once received, what boldness would Men assume in Sin? believing that the Comminations of the Gospel, would be no more executed than those of the Law: but let God be true, and every Man a Liar. Secondly; To suppose that God hath abrogated his Threatening, is at once to overthrow the whole Scripture; for that expressly tells us, that not one jot of the Law was to perish. Mat. 5.18. That every Disobedience received a just Recompense of Reward, Heb. 2.2. See Heb. 8.28. & 9.22, 23. That without Blood there was to be no Remission. Thirdly; If the Threatening annexed to the Law be released, it is either by virtue of the Law it self, or by virtue of the Gospel. It is not by virtue of the Law; for that was wholly inexorable, requiring either perfect and constant Obedience, or denouncing unmixed and unallayed Wrath. Gal. 3.10. Nor is it released by the Gospel; this the Holy-Ghost clearly informs us,