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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. A Rod is used to correct, not to kill: Affliction is called a Rod, in regard of the Hand that useth it; a Sword is in the hand of a Judg, and a Rod in the hand of a Father. God deals with his People, as a Father with his Children, in chastising them. When we offend him, he doth not take a Sword into his hand to slay us, but a Rod to scourge us.
II. A Rod is used to correct, not to kill: Affliction is called a Rod, in regard of the Hand that useth it; a Sword is in the hand of a Judg, and a Rod in the hand of a Father. God deals with his People, as a Father with his Children, in chastizing them. When we offend him, he doth not take a Sword into his hand to slay us, but a Rod to scourge us.
IV. A Father hath divers Rods; if one will not do, and make the Child bow, submit, and humble himself, another shall: So God hath divers Rods; He sometimes corrects with the Rod of Sickness, Losses, Crosses, &c. Sometimes with the Rod of Poverty, sometimes with the Rod of Desertion; and sometimes he uses the Wicked in his hand, as a Rod to afflict and chasten his own People, which is one of the worst of God's Rods; and therefore David chose rather to fall into the immediate Hand of God, than to be scourged with the Rod of the Enemy. The Assyrian is called the Rod of God's Anger.