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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. This will leave the World without excuse in the Great Day.
Fourthly; You should labour after Holiness, in regard of the Gospel it self which you profess. That will this way gain much Credit in the World. Nothing brings Religion into greater Contempt, or causeth it to be more slighted by the Ungodly, than the loose, carnal, and unholy Lives of those who profess it.
Fifthly; You ought to labour after a godly Life, in regard of the sincere and holy Ministers of the Gospel, and other faithful Saints and Soldiers of Christ. What can comfort and delight their Souls more than the holy, humble, and fruitful Lives of Believers?1 The Saints, those excellent Ones, were all David's Delight; and Paul accounted them his Joy and Crown. But if they are proud, peevish, covetous, carnal, and walk like other Gentiles, what wounds and grieves them more! This made David weep,2 yea, Rivers of Water to run down his Eyes; and Jeremiah to wish his Head were Water, and his Eyes a Fountain of Tears, that he might weep day and night. Many walk, saith Paul, 3of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping, They are Enemies to the Cross of Christ; whose End is Destruction, whose God is their Belly, whose Glory is in their Shame, who mind earthly things.
Fifthly; You ought to labour after a godly Life, in regard of the sincere and holy Ministers of the Gospel, and other faithful Saints and Souldiers of Christ. What can comfort and delight their Souls more than the holy, humble, and fruitful Lives of Believers?