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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.
THE Causes of Natural Sickness are divers, sometimes it arises from some inward, and sometimes from some outward Cause; to know from whence the Distemper grew or did arise is very necessary, whether it be Chronic or Acute, i. e. that which hath seized on the Patient on a sudden, by Heats, Cold, or from the Corruption of the Blood, by an infectious Air, &c. which an able Physician is diligent to pry and search into. Now as touching the Sickness of the Soul, 'tis evident the Original Cause thereof, was by eating of the forbidden Fruit, which surfeited the whole Lump of Mankind; or (if you please) it was occasioned by Poison, by the Poison of the old Serpent. Deadly Poison makes a Man very sick, and corrupts the whole Mass of Blood: And as 'tis needful to find out (if possible) the Cause of Sickness, so 'tis as necessary to find out the Cause of Spiritual Sickness; the Cause being discovered, the Cure is easy. If a Man doth not see what his state is, as considered in the first Adam, nor the evil and damning Nature of Sin in general, nor the particular Plague of his own Heart, he is in no hopeful way of help and healing.
THE Causes of Natural Sickness are divers, sometimes it arises from some inward, and sometimes from some outward Cause; to know from whence the Distemper grew or did arise is very necessary, whether it be Chronical or Acute, i. e. that which hath seized on the Patient on a sudden, by Heats, Cold, or from the Corruption of the Blood, by an infectious Air, &c. which an able Physician is diligent to pry and search into. Now as touching the Sickness of the Soul, 'tis evident the Original Cause thereof, was by eating of the forbidden Fruit, which surfeited the whole Lump of Mankind; or (if you please) it was occasioned by Poyson, by the Poyson of the old Serpent. Deadly Poyson makes a Man very sick, and corrupts the whole Mass of Blood: And as 'tis needful to find out (if possible) the Cause of Sickness, so 'tis as necessary to find out the Cause of Spiritual Sickness; the Cause being discovered, the Cure is easy. If a Man doth not see what his state is, as considered in the first Adam, nor the evil and damning Nature of Sin in general, nor the particular Plague of his own Heart, he is in no hopeful way of help and healing.