B25425:2282
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.
3. When the Wound spreads and increaseth, or a Person grows more vain, carnal, and filthy, 'tis a sad sign. Some Men have been for a time cautions, and somewhat tender, their Consciences have restrained them from yielding unto Sin, but afterwards they came to grow more hard and bold, and have adventured on this and the other Evil, and so by degrees from little Sins make no Conscience of greater, till they are notorious in Wickedness, and this after common Illuminations; this is a sign they are near Hell.
4. When a Person is sorely and grievously wounded, and yet is unsensible, does not cry out, nor feel any pain, 'tis a sad sign. Come to some wounded Persons, and ask them how they do; they will answer you, Very well, I ail nothing, then Relations begin to weep: so some Sinners, through a custom of Sin, grow insensible, they are past feeling, they are not only without pain themselves, but laugh at such who complain of their Sores upon the Head, and mourn for their Sin; of this Man you may write in Red Letters, Lord have Mercy upon him.
5. When a Man is dangerously wounded, and nothing that is given him will go down, neither Food nor Physic; or if he doth take it, yet it will not stay with him, 'tis a very bad sign: so when a Sinner refuseth all good Counsel that is given him, and instead of vomiting up, by true Repentance, his Sin, he vomiteth up the Physic and Food of his Soul that should do him good, and despises all Reproof,1 hardening himself against it, he is near to Destruction.
5. When a Man is dangerously wounded, and nothing that is given him will go down, neither Food nor Physick; or if he doth take it, yet it will not stay with him, 'tis a very bad sign: so when a Sinner refuseth all good Counsel that is given him, and instead of vomiting up, by true Repentance, his Sin, he vomiteth up the Physick and Food of his Soul that should do him good, and despises all Reproof,