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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. 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, Acts 5.31.
4. We pray, that God would account or impute Christ's Righteousness unto us for Pardon.
5. We pray for the sense and feeling of the Grace and Blessing of Pardon in our own Sou•s; for it is one thing to be pardoned, and another thing to know, or have the feeling sense of it our selves. We are in this Case (saith an eminent Person) like some Heir or Prince, that hath many temporal Dignities, but by reason of his infancy doth not understand it. We pray principally, 1. For the real Exhibition of Pardon; and, 2. For the Declaration and Manifestation of it in our Consciences. Some say, That God, from all Eternity, hath pardoned Sins past, present, and to come; and that when we believe or repent, our Sins are pardoned declaratively only to our Consciences; but now, I say, We pray not only for Assurance and Manifestation of Pardon, but for Pardon it self. The Reasons are: