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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.
1. In Faith: As, (1.) That a Sinner should believe, i. e. go out of himself, and be carried above himself, to believe Things impossible to Man's Sense, and above his Reason, that he should seek for Justification by the Righteousness and Obedience of another! for a Man (as one would think) to have a great deal of Holiness, and good Works, and yet to throw it, as it were, all away, and be dead to it in point of Trust and Dependence! is not this a Mystery? (2.) To believe, when every thing is opposite to it: To work for Life, and to oppose some Sin, a natural Man is ready to do; but to believe in Christ for Life and Holiness, to rely upon his Doings, his Works and Merits, this the Heart of Map is averse to; nay, and Satan opposeth it, the World mocks at it, and accounts it Foolishness. (3.) That a Man should believe, and not see, nay, believe, as Abraham did, in hope against hope.
1. In Faith: As, (1.) That a Sinner should believe, i. e. go out of himself, and be carried above himself, to believe Things impossible to Man's Sense, and above his Reason, that he should seek for Justification by the Righteousness and Obedience of another! for a Man (as one would think) to have a great deal of Holiness, and good Works, and yet to throw it, as it were, all away, and be dead to it in point of Trust and Dependence! is not this a Mystery? (2.) To believe, when every thing is opposite to it: To work for Life, and to oppose some Sin, a natural Man is ready to do; but to believe in Christ for Life and Holiness, to relie upon his Doings, his Works and Merits, this the Heart of Map is averse to; nay, and Satan opposeth it, the World mocks at it, and accounts it Foolishness. (3.) That a Man should believe, and not see, nay, believe, as Abraham did, in hope against hope.
2. There is a Mystery in Love, that a Man should love him with an endeared Affection, with a superlative Love, whom the World can see no beauty in; nay, thus to love him, whom their natural Eyes never beheld, nay, love him, who is able to make great, and save from all Misery, and yet suffers his People, and best beloved Ones, to lie amongst the Pots, and to be hated and persecuted in the World, and, to appearance, to be of all Men the most miserable! A Saint knows the Reason of these Things, but 'tis a Mystery to others. The Love of Christ turns the Affections another way, it drives, as it were, Jordan back, it makes the Waters ascend, and run up hill. Is it not a Mystery, to see a Saint, who hath a