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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.
IV. 'Tis noted by Plutarch, that when an Asp stings a Man, it doth first tickle him, and makes him laugh, till the Poison by little and little gets to the Heart, and then it pains and torments him, more than ever it delighted him before: So doth Sin, it may please a little at first: Though Wickedness be sweet in his Mouth, 1tho he hide it under his Tongue, though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepeth it still within his Mouth: Yet his Meat in his Bowels is turned, it is the Gall of Asps within him. Forbidden Profits and Pleasures are very delightful to carnal Men, and many love to be meddling with these poisoning Morsels of Sin. Many eat that on Earth, which they digest in Hell. Men must not think to dine and dance with the Devil, and then to sup with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in God's Kingdom.
IV. 'Tis noted by Plutarch, that when an Asp stings a Man, it doth first tickle him, and makes him laugh, till the Poyson by little and little gets to the Heart, and then it pains and torments him, more than ever it delighted him before: So doth Sin, it may please a little at first: Though Wickedness be sweet in his Mouth, 1tho he hide it under his Tongue, though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepeth it still within his Mouth: Yet his Meat in his Bowels is turned, it is the Gall of Asps within him. Forbidden Profits and Pleasures are very delightful to carnal Men, and many love to be medling with these poysoning Morsels of Sin. Many eat that on Earth, which they digest in Hell. Men must not think to dine and dance with the Devil, and then to sup with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in God's Kingdom.
V. Poison in a Toad or Serpent, suits and agrees well with their Nature; but Poison in a Man's Stomach makes fearful Work, it being of a contrary Nature: So Sin in a wicked Man, one that hath no spark of true Grace in him seems to be suitable, and agree well with him, his whole Nature being so grievously corrupted, and changed into the evil Nature thereof, he having used himself so long in sinful Ways, that Sin, (viz. open Profaneness, Superstition, and Error) is habitual, and become natural to him, as Poison to a Toad. Naturalists say, That if a Man take a little quantity of Poison at a time, and so accustom himself to it,