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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.
1. There is a Debility and Weakness of all Parts in them that have this Disease, because the Spirits are exhausted: So Sin makes feeble, weakens, and debilitates the Powers of the Soul Hence Jacob, when he blessed Reuben, cries out, As weak and unstable as Water, because of his Sin. Saints have weak Hands, and feeble Knees oft times hereby.
1. There is a D•bility and Weakness of all Parts in them that have this Disease, because the Spirits are exhausted: So Sin makes feeble, weakens, and debilitates the Powers of the Soul Hence Jacob, when he blessed Reuben, cries out, As weak and unstable as Water, because of his Sin. Saints have weak Hands, and feeble Knees oft times hereby.
2. There is in a Leper a Tumour and Swelling in the Flesh: So Sin swells a Man up in Pride, Vain-glory, and Self-conceitedness.
2. There is in a Leper a Tumor and Swelling in the Flesh: So Sin swells a Man up in Pride, Vain-glory, and Self-conceitedness.
3. There is in them, saith my Author, a burning Thirst, through the adust and burnt Blood by Melancholy, whereof it ariseth: So Sin causeth an Inflammation and Burning of Anger, of Lust, and vehement Thirst after the World, Preferment, Pleasures, Riches, &c. [See Poison.]
3. There is in them, saith my Author, a burning Thirst, through the adust and burnt Blood by Melancholy, whereof it ariseth: So Sin causeth an Inflammation and Burning of Anger, of Lust, and vehement Thirst after the World, Preferment, Pleasures, Riches, &c. [See Poyson.]