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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.
Answ. 1. We pray, that God would not require or exact Payment and Satisfaction for our Sins of us; for if he should pass by Millions of Sins, and set down but one hundred, nay, come so low as to charge but ten, nay, forgive us all save only one, that one would sink us down to the lowest Hell. Should God require us to make satisfaction but for one evil Thought, we should be utterly undone.
2. We pray, (saith Mr. Burges) that God would lay our Sins upon Christ, or accept of Satisfaction in and through him; for seeing (saith he) God hath declared his Will, that Man shall die for Sin; if we should pray, that he would absolutely forgive our Sins, it would be to pray that he might be unjust. Therefore in this Prayer thus we may argue, O Lord, we call not upon thee to repeal any Threatening, to nullify thy Word, to become unjust; but thy Wisdom hath so found out a way, that we may be pardoned, and thou satisfied, &c.
2. We pray, (saith Mr. Burges) that God would lay our Sins upon Christ, or accept of Satisfaction in and through him; for seeing (saith he) God hath declared his Will, that Man shall die for Sin; if we should pray, that he would absolutely forgive our Sins, it would be to pray that he might be unjust. Therefore in this Prayer thus we may argue, O Lord, we call not upon thee to repeal any Threatning, to nullify thy Word, to become unjust; but thy Wisdom hath so found out a way, that we may be pardoned, and thou satisfied, &c.
3. We pray, that through Christ's Atonement, or the Propitiation of his Blood, our daily Sins and Infirmities may be forgiven us, and we kept in a State of Justification; for if our former Sins should be forgiven, and not our present and future, our Case would be desperate; for Sin, like Sampson's Hair, tho cut, it will grow again. And as we sin daily, so we ought to pray for Pardon, through Christ's Mediation; for Sin is not actually forgiven, before committed, nor before we have the true Sense and Sorrow of it upon our Hearts. Where God gives Remission, he gives a broken Heart,