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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.
Parallels.
A Rod puts to pain, if it be sharply laid on; it makes the Person to smart, and cry out, &c. So Afflictions are grievous and painful to Flesh and Blood; they wound and pain the outward Man, whilst the inward Man takes pleasure in them:1 I take pleasure in Infirmities, in Reproaches, in Persecutions, in Necessities, in Distresses for Christ's sake. Yet in another place the same Apostle saith, No Affliction for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous. 2As the Spirit would not do those Evils, which the Flesh would and doth; so the Flesh would not endure those Evils of Sorrows and Afflictions, which the Spirit gladly yieldeth to. As a Believer delights in the Law of God after the inward Man, when the Flesh is vexed and troubled at it: So he delights in the Rod after the inward Man, when his corrupt Part is most impatient and unquiet under it: Rejoice when ye fall into divers Temptations; that is,3 into divers Afflictions. The Flesh hath its Sense, and feels Smart; but the Spirit is armed with Faith, which overcomes the Smart. Afflictions were not so much as a Rod,4 if they did not pain, and make smart; and we are not so much as Christians, if we cannot bear the Smart with Patience, &c.
A Rod puts to pain, if it be sharply laid on; it makes the Person to smart, and cry out, &c. So Afflictions are grievous and painful to Flesh and Blood; they wound and pain the outward Man, whilst the inward Man takes pleasure in them: