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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.
II. The Day is set in opposition to the Night, and it signifies the Time of Light: So the Time of God's Patience, whilst the Gospel is preached to Men, and God waits upon them, and strives with them, to bring them over to the Knowledge of the Truth, is the Time of Light; and when God takes away the Means of Grace, and the Gospel, from a Kingdom, Nation, or particular Soul, that is a Time of Darkness, and then it may be said, the Day is gone, and Night is come upon them.
II. The Day is set in opposition to the Night, and it signifies the Time of Light: So the Time of God's Patience, whilst the Gospel is preached to Men, and God waits upon them, and strives with them, to bring them over to the Knowledg of the Truth, is the Time of Light; and when God takes away the Means of Grace, and the Gospel, from a Kingdom, Nation, or particular Soul, that is a Time of Darkness, and then it may be said, the Day is gone, and Night is come upon them.
III. 'Tis Day when the Sun rises, and Night when the Sun sets: So 'tis the Sinner's Day, whilst the Gospel-Sun shines, and the Means of Grace are continued to them; but Night then, when the Ministration of the Gospel is taken away, and no more Means of Grace afforded to them.
IV. The Day is Man's working Time; Labourers in the Field, when the Day is ended, go home, they can work no longer: So whilst God affords the Gospel, and Means of Grace, Sinners should, like faithful Labourers, work hard, work out their own Salvation, labour for the Meat that perisheth not: for when that is gone, no Man can work; then the Things of their Peace will be hid from their Eyes, like as it fell out with Jerusalem.