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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.
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⟩Profits, and Honours of this World, which nothing can allay, but the Water of Life, which Jesus Christ gives; John 4.14.
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III. Poison gets quickly (saith one) to the Spirit, 'tis subtle and spiritful,1 and in a very little time will corrupt the whole Mass of Blood, &c. So Sin in a little time corrupted the whole Lump of Mankind. Adam had no sooner sinned against God, but the spiritual Poison and Venom thereof struck to his Heart, corrupting every Faculty of his Soul, and not only so, but also the Souls of all his Posterity. [See Wounds.]