B25425:2271
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.
it should act the part of a faithful Register, to set all our Sins down exactly, but it falsifies in this, and, as saith Dr. Preston, when it should set down Hundreds, it sets down Fifties, when it should restrain from Evil, it is almost asleep, and lets the Sinner alone: whom it should condemn, ⟨p. 346⟩for want of Light it acquits: And as a Man is wounded in every Faculty of his Soul or rational part, so likewise he is in his sensitive part; his Eyes are full of Adultery, his Lips are unclean,1 his Throat is like an open Sepulchre, the Poison of Asps is under his Tongue, his Ears are deaf and dull of hearing that which is good.
it should act the part of a faithful Register, to set all our Sins down exactly, but it falsifies in this, and, as saith Dr. Preston, when it should set down Hundreds, it sets down Fifties, when it should restrain from Evil, it is almost asleep, and lets the Sinner alone: whom it should condemn, ⟨p. 346⟩for want of Light it acquits: And as a Man is wounded in every Faculty of his Soul or rational part, so likewise he is in his sensitive part; his Eyes are full of Adultery, his Lips are unclean,1 his Throat is like an open Sepulchre, the Poyson of Asps is under his Tongue, his Ears are deaf and dull of hearing that which is good.
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IV. As some Wounds a Man receives are very deep and reach to the Heart: so Sin makes a deep Wound; Man is not only wounded in every part, but very deeply wounded: