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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.
I. That Man is a guilty Sinner, (nay, that Believers are not without Sin, as they are in themselves) Man, as considered in his fallen State, is accused and charged by the Law, and must plead, and he cannot plead, Not guilty, being under the Impeachment of his own Conscience, Ille noscens se damnat quo peccat die. This might have been the Plea of Adam before his Fall, but none else. 1 Kings 8.46. There is no Man that sinneth not. Eccles. 7.20. 1 John 1.8. Our Plea then must be, Guilty; and in this Case we must plead Mercy for the sake of Mercy, or Mercy for the sake of Christ, or upon the account of the Satisfaction he hath made.
II. There is ro pleading Mercy for the sake of Mercy, for (as one well observes) that were not to plead, but to beg; nor were it at all to be justified, but merely pardoned; it were to be dealt with alone upon the Score of Grace, and not at all upon the Score of Righteousness, whereas Justification is an Act of Justice rather than Mercy: tho it is true, in the Salvation of Sinners both Grace and Justice (as hath been showed) meet together; we are both pardoned and justified. God is (saith one) as merciful as we can desire, and yet as righteous as himself can desire; there is the freest Grace, and the fullest Justice. As God pardons Sin, he displays his Mercy; as he justifies us from Sin, he manifests his Righteousness.
II. There is ro pleading Mercy for the sake of Mercy, for (as one well observes) that were not to plead, but to beg; nor were it at all to be justified, but meerly pardoned; it were to be dealt with alone upon the Score of Grace, and not at all upon the Score of Righteousness, whereas Justification is an Act of Justice rather than Mercy: tho it is true, in the Salvation of Sinners both Grace and Justice (as hath been shewed) meet together; we are both pardoned and justified. God is (saith one) as merciful as we can desire, and yet as righteous as himself can desire; there is the freest Grace, and the fullest Justice. As God pardons Sin, he displays his Mercy; as he justifies us from Sin, he manifests his Righteousness.