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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.
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:
(1.) We might by the same Rule interpret all the other Petitions, in regard of Declaration only, and not of Exhibition. When we pray for Sanctification and Glorification, in that Petition, Thy Kingdom come, it might be as well said, that we are sanctified and glorified from all Eternity; and therefore when we are saved and glorified in Heaven, this is but to our sense and feeling. And thus Men make the Decrees of God to be from Eternity, with the Execution of them in Time. How ridiculous would it be to expound that Petition, Give us this day our daily Bread, thus! viz. Not that God should give us our daily Bread, but make us to see and feel that he hath given it to us.
(2.) A second is from the Nature of Forgiveness it self: When Sin is pardoned, it is said to be blotted out; now can any think, that blotting out is only in a Man's own Conscience and Feeling? It is more immediately out of God's Book, (it being a Metaphor taken from blotting or crossing Debts out of a Book of Accounts, &c.) and not only the Guilt that lies upon our Hearts; therefore these are very separable the one from the other. A Man may feel no Weight or Burden of Sin upon him, and yet it stand in red Characters in God's Book: and on the contrary, a Sin may be blotted out there, yet be very heavy and terrible in a Man's feeling and apprehension. So Sin pardoned is said to be covered or hid, not in respect of us, as if it were taken from our Sight, but from God's Sight; and he is said to cast our Sins behind his Back.