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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.
VI. Some Wounds smart and are very painful, causing the Patient to cry out in great anguish: Sin makes such a Wound in the Soul, that it causeth such who have their Spiritual Feeling to cry out; the pain is so great, that a Christian cannot, without Divine Help,1 bear up under the smart and torture of it; I have roared (saith the Psalmist) by reason of the disquietness of my Heart; Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.
1VII. Some Sores or Wounds are infectious, like Plague-Sores, or the Leprosy, they infect the Clothes and Garments of the wounded and diseased Person, and not only so, but the very House where he dwells, and the People also that come near him, or converse with him: Sin is of an infectious Nature, no Plague more catching and infectious, than the Sore or Plague of Sin, it defiles all a Man's best Actions, and makes all our Righteousness like filthy Rags. If ye daily converse with, or are frequently in the Company of some wicked Men, 'tis a thousand to one if you are not the worse for it; Who can touch Pitch, and not be defiled therewith? We are commanded to keep our selves unspotted from the World; 'tis a hard matter to keep clear of these Spots and Pollutions wicked Men are defiled with. Sin is of such an infectious Nature that it hath corrupted the Earth,2 The Earth is defiled under the Inhabitants thereof, &c. Nay some conceive, the Sin of Man hath darkened, in some respect, the glorious Heavens,3 with the Sun, Moon and Stars, that they shine not so splendidly as they did at the first.