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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.
Parallels.
Poison inflames, heats, and (as it were) sets the Body on fire: So Sin inflames, heats, and sets (as it were) a Man's Spirit on fire. What a Heat doth the Devil put some Men in, by stirring up their Wrath, Rage, and Malice against their Neighbours!
POyson inflames, heats, and (as it were) sets the Body on fire: So Sin inflames, heats, and sets (as it were) a Man's Spirit on fire. What a Heat doth the Devil put some Men in, by stirring up their Wrath, Rage, and Malice against their Neighbours!
II. Poison causeth a great and extreme Thirst. Gross or dreggish Liquor will not quench the fiery Thirst of Poison;1 it drinks (saith one) nothing but pure Spirits: So Sin stirs up an insatiable Desire or Thirst after Revenge, as also after the Pleasures, ⟨p. 351⟩Profits, and Honours of this World, which nothing can allay, but the Water of Life, which Jesus Christ gives; John 4.14.
II. Poyson causeth a great and extreme Thirst. Gross or dreggish Liquor will not quench the fiery Thirst of Poyson;1 it drinks (saith one) nothing but pure Spirits: So Sin stirs up an insatiable Desire or Thirst after Revenge, as also after the Pleasures, ⟨p. 351⟩