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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.
4. They were like a silly Dove without a Heart; they let their dearest Enjoyments go, like as a silly Dove parts with her Young, and did not, like the Hen, strive to preserve them: This might be another of his grey Hairs. A Dove is easily caught with a Net; so was Ephraim easily ensnared by his Enemies. A Dove will keep her Nest, tho you take it away, and thereby take her captive: O how unwilling are some Men to part with their Lusts! They will not leave their Sins, or Company, tho it prove their Ruin: They are like the silly Dove.
4. They were like a silly Dove without a Heart; they let their dearest Enjoiments go, like as a silly Dove parts with her Young, and did not, like the Hen, strive to preserve them: This might be another of his gray Hairs. A Dove is easily caught with a Net; so was Ephraim easily ensnared by his Enemies. A Dove will keep her Nest, tho you take it away, and thereby take her captive: O how unwilling are some Men to part with their Lusts! They will not leave their Sins, or Company, tho it prove their Ruine: They are like the silly Dove.
5. The great Things of God's Law were accounted strange Things to Ephraim; tho God himself wrote them, yet he liked them not, but rather derided at them that owned, and subjected to them. This was another grey Hair.
5. The great Things of God's Law were accounted strange Things to Ephraim; tho God himself wrote them, yet he liked them not, but rather derided at them that owned, and subjected to them. This was another gray Hair.
16. Ephraim was as a Cake not turned, he was not through for God; he stood halting between two Opinions, did not know what Religion to be of: Or he was so perverse, that tho he lay under heavy Judgments, and was ready to be burned on the Coals; yet he sought not to prevent the Danger,