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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.
V. Many of those who have the Disease we call the Sickness, have Spots upon them, which are of two sorts, one of which are called the Tokens; and when they appear, they look upon themselves as dead Men: So Sin, this spiritual Plague and Sickness of the Soul,1 marks some Men out for eternal Death: Their Spot (saith the Lord) is not the Spot of my Children; that is, their Sin is not a Sin of Infirmity, such as appear upon the Children of God. Any Spot is bad, but some are worse, very bad, they are deadly Spots, they have the Tokens of Death and Wrath upon them.
1. The Sin or Spot of a godly Man is rather a Scar or Wound that is healed, or almost healed: But Sin in some of the Ungodly, is like a rotten, putrefying Sore in the Flesh.
1. The Sin or Spot of a godly Man is rather a Scar or Wound that is healed, or almost healed: But Sin in some of the Ungodly, is like a rotten, putrifying Sore in the Flesh.
2. The Spots of the Godly are not so contagious or infectious as the Sins or Spots of the Wicked. The Sins of the Ungodly make their very Persons and Prayers loathed and hateful in God's sight; now God, tho he hates the Sins of his own Children,1 yet he loves their Persons.