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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. The Distemper which we call the Sickness, or Pestilence, is very mortal, and sweeps away thousands: Sin is such a Sickness, no Pestilence like it; Sin is the Plague ⟨p. 353⟩of Plagues. That which is most opposite to God, is the greatest Evil; but Sin is most opposite and contrary to God, and therefore the greatest Evil. That which separates Man from, and deprives him of the greatest Good, must needs be the greatest Evil, or the Plague of Plagues; but Sin doth this, therefore the greatest Evil. That which is the greatest Judgment to be left unto, is the worst of Evils; but 'tis the greatest Judgment in the World, to be left or given up to the Lusts of our own Hearts: Ergo, &c. When God designs to bring his severest Wrath upon a People, or a particular Soul, when he resolves to afflict them to the uttermost, he doth not say, I will bring Plague, or Sickness, or Famine upon them, but, I will deliver them up to their Sins. Israel would have none of me, &c. and what then?1 So I gave them up to their own Hearts Lusts, &c. Thus he gave up the Gentiles to vile Affections. That Sickness, Plague, or Pestilence, that destroys most, that kills Millions, which is so infectious, that none amongst Thousands, nay, Millions of Thousands, can escape, is the Plague of Plagues; but such a Sickness is Sin. More shall be damned, than shall be saved; nay, but few comparatively enter in at the strait Gate, and so find Life. Now all that are damned, are damned or destroyed by Sin, and therefore it is the worst of Evils. That which kills or destroys Body and Soul too, is the Plague of Plagues; but Sin destroys Body and Soul too: Ergo, Sin is the Plague of Plagues.
- 1Psal. 81.11. Rom. 1.26, •8.