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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.
VII. The Harvest sometimes is very long, and sometimes but short: So God lengthens or shortens the Day of Grace, as he pleases. The old World had an hundred and twenty Years; others but a short Season. O that thou hadst known in this thy Day the Things that belong to thy Peace! but now they are hid from thine Eyes. Christ seems to be quick with them. And so it fared with those, Acts 13.46.
VIII. In Harvest the Husbandman will not neglect a fit Opportunity of gathering in his Hay and Corn, upon presumption of much fair Weather to come: So a wise Christian will not lose the present Season for his Soul, upon hopes of much Time to come, but rather says, Now is the Time, &c.
Observe in Summer's sultry Heat, How in the hottest Day, The Husband-man doth toil and sweat About his Corn and Hay. If then he should not reap and mow, And gather in his Store, How should he live, when for the Snow He can't move out of Door? The little Ants, and painful Bees, by Nature's Instinct led, These have their Summer-Granaries, For Winter furnished. But thou, my Soul, whose Summer's Day Is almost past and gone, What Soul-Provision dost thou lay In Stock, to feed upon? If Nature teacheth to prepare For temporal Life; much rather Grace should provoke to greater Care, Soul-Food in time to gather. Days of Affliction and Distress, Are hasting on apace; If now I live in Carelessness, How sad will be my Case? Unworthy of the Name of Man, Who for that Soul of thine, Wilt not do that which others can Do for their very Kine! Think, frugal Farmers, when you see Your Mows of Corn and Hay, What a Conviction this will be To you another day? Who ne'er were up before the Sun, Nor broke an Hour's Rest, For your poor Souls, as you have done, So often for a Beast. Learn once to see the Difference Betwixt eternal Things, And these poor transient Things of Sense, That fly with Eagles Wings.