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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.
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 ⟨p. 375⟩Hundred, nay, it may be, Five Hundred a Year, a gracious Wife, many sweet and lovely Children, enjoying much Health, and living in all Prosperity; yet if he hath lost the Light of God's Countenance, or Christ be withdrawn from him, he is cast down, and greatly distressed and afflicted in his Spirit, and crying out, Ah! what is all that I possess, sith I want the Love of Christ, the Presence of Christ? what's an Estate, and no Christ? Wife and Children, and no sight of Christ? Christ (saith he) is all to me, and all is nothing without him. This is a Mystery to carnal Hearts, they wonder at it: Nay, to see a Man, that hath all the Comforts of the World, expose himself to cruel Mockings, Loss of Goods, to Imprisonment, and Death it self for Christ's sake, is a strange thing to worldly Men, they think the Man is mad, 'tis a Mystery to them, &c.
Fourthly; The Effects and Operations of Grace and Godliness are a Mystery.
(1.) That God should make Men wise, by teaching them to become Fools.