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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. Clouds are said to be round about the Almighty,1 nay thick Clouds are said to be a covering to him, and yet he dwelleth in the Light, which no Man can approach unto: Now when God is said to dwell in Darkness, or to have Clouds and Darkness round about him, it shows that God's Works and Ways are hid from us: so that we are not able to see him, nor look up to behold what he doth, God's Providences are like Clouds, they obscure or hide God's Counsel and way of his working from us; he is in the Clouds tho we see him not, those Clouds and Darkness which are about him do not hinder his sight of us, tho they hinder our sight of him.
II. Clouds are said to be round about the Almighty,1 nay thick Clouds are said to be a covering to him, and yet he dwelleth in the Light, which no Man can approach unto: Now when God is said to dwell in Darkness, or to have Clouds and Darkness round about him, it shews that God's Works and Ways are hid from us: so that we are not able to see him, nor look up to behold what he doth, God's Providences are like Clouds, they obscure or hide God's Counsel and way of his working from us; he is in the Clouds tho we see him not, those Clouds and Darkness which are about him do not hinder his sight of us, tho they hinder our sight of him.
III. Clouds are of different kinds, some are said to be thick and very black, when others have a kind of thinness in them, and are, as Mr. Caryl notes (as it were) transparent; some are more gross and opacous, quite hindering and intercepting our sight of things beyond them: So some of God's Dispensations are dark, very dark, and others more bright; some are so dark and gloomy, such black and thick Clouds are over us, that we can see no Light, we cannot see through them, no seeing things beyond them; when others are not so dark, they are like light Clouds, the Mind of God may be seen and plainly understood in them. Job was covered with thick darkness, he understood not the reason why God contended with him, he had quite lost sight of the Almighty; I go forward, but he is not there,