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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.
III. Some Persons have been full of Wounds, wounded from the Crown of the Head to the Soles of the Feet, they are (as it were) nothing but Wounds: so Sinners are full of Wounds, every Sin is like a Wound, or makes a Wound in the Soul; so many Sins a Man is guilty of, so many Wounds he hath in his inward Man. Every Faculty of their Soul is wounded: (1.) Their Judgment is corrupt. (2.) Their Understanding darkened, full of Vanity, Blindness, Incredulity, Enmity and Unteachableness. (3.) The Will, that noble Faculty, is wounded, and fearfully depraved; the Mind of a Man being corrupt, the Will must needs be corrupt: As to a Man that hath his Palate possest with a vicious Humour, every thing seems bitter according to the Humour; so the Understanding reckoning the ways of God both Enmity and Folly, the Will acts accordingly. The Will of wicked Men acts cross and contrary to God and his Holy Will in all things, they resist and fight against him, and are not subject to his Law, neither indeed can be; there is much Pride, Inconstancy,1 Stubbornness and Disobedience in the Will, Our Tongues are our own, and who is Lord over us? 2(4.) Their Affections are wounded, and very filthy, Men naturally love the Creature, more than God, nay they love their Lusts, horrid Sins and Uncleanness, above the Majesty of Heaven. The Apostle, giving a Character of some Men, saith, they are Lovers of Pleasures more than Lovers of God. (5.) The Memory is wounded,3 being forgetful of that which is good, and like a leaking Vessel: Men are ready to remember, what God bids them forget, but forget that which he commands them to remember, they are too apt to think upon Injuries; nay, may be one Injury will be thought on more than many Kindnesses and Years of good Service: they are subject enough to remember Trifles and vain Stories, whenas a profitable Sermon, or wholesome Counsel, is forgot, &c. (6.) The Conscience of a Sinner is wounded with Sin, tho not for it, or in a deep and real Sense of the evil of it. Unto them that are defiled and unbelieving, is nothing pure, 4but their Minds and Consciences are corrupt; the Conscience, which should like Job's last Messenger, bring us Word that all the rest of the Faculties are dead, i. e. wounded,