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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.
6. That which all the wise Men of the World, merely by all their natural Wisdom, Arts, and Sciences, could never find out, nor arrive at the true knowledge of, is a great Mystery: But all the wise Men of the World, merely by all their Arts and Sciences, and human Learning, could never arrive to the true knowledge of Christ, and real Godliness: Ergo, the Principles of true Godliness, and the Mysteries thereof, are out of the reach of mere humane Reason; tho not against or contrary to Reason, yet they lie above Reason: Reason must stoop to Faith in these things. The Gospel is called Wisdom, as opposite to the Wisdom of Men; and the Apostle saith positively, That it was Wisdom in such a Mystery, that none of the Princes of this World knew. Nay, the Spirit, says one,1 jeers all the Learned of the World in this very thing, because of their gross Ignorance. Where is the Scribe? where is the Wise? where is the Disputer of this World?2 Hath not God made foolish the Wisdom of this World? 3Hence the Preaching of the Gospel was accounted by the learned Greeks but Foolishness. Natural Men may understand natural Religion; but true Godliness consists in the Light of Divine Truth, and in the Life of Grace, God manifesting himself in the Light of Truth, and working the Life of supernatural Grace by his Spirit in the Heart. True Godliness doth not consist in the Knowledge of the Letter of the Gospel. A natural Man may have the historical or notional Knowledge of the Gospel and Christianity, he may arrive to the most exact understanding of things, as far as Letters and Words can express them; that is, he may know the true sense and meaning of things in the Gospel, according to what either the History, or Tenor of such Words will import, and know the Grammatical Sense of Words, better than many true Christians: But this is not the spiritual and true Knowledge of Religion and Godliness; for that consists in the saving and experimental Knowledge of God, and Jesus Christ. The Mystery of the Gospel, and Power of Godliness, is the Discovery of God's Glory in it self, and the working of it gloriously in the Soul; it lies not in the bare Expression, or Knowledge of Words, nor in the external Form of Profession of these Words; but it lies in the Divine Glory of God, which is wrapped up in these Words, and the gracious Conformity, Disposition, and Affections of the Soul to these things.