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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.
Let those Christians who are under the Rod, confess they have deserved it; He hath not punished us according as our Sins have merited at his hands.
LEt those Christians who are under the Rod, confess they have deserved it; He hath not punished us according as our Sins have merited at his hands.
II. Let us from hence also learn to submit to the Rod, and not strive and struggle with God. O how uneasy are some Men and Women under Affliction. O I could bear, saith the Soul, any thing but this. Alas! is it necessary that thou shouldest choose thy own Rod? God will correct us with what Rod he pleases, according to his good pleasure it must be, for the degree and kind of it too; and are you troubled at the Rod, at this Rod? It may be you had rather God should afflict you some other way; but God sees this is the best, and no other will do the work upon your Hearts. It may be, if we had committed some other Sins, and not such and such a Sin, we should have been corrected but with such and such Rods, and not with this which seems most cross and grievous to us.
II. Let us from hence also learn to submit to the Rod, and not strive and struggle with God. O how uneasy are some Men and Women under Affliction. O I could bear, saith the Soul, any thing but this. Alas! is it necessary that thou shouldest chuse thy own Rod? God will correct us with what Rod he pleases, according to his good pleasure it must be, for the degree and kind of it too; and are you troubled at the Rod, at this Rod? It may be you had rather God should afflict you some other way; but God sees this is the best, and no other will do the work upon your Hearts. It may be, if we had committed some other Sins, and not such and such a Sin, we should have been corrected but with such and such Rods, and not with this which seems most cross and grievous to us.