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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.
III. A Furnace is made sometimes very hot: So Afflictions are sometimes very sore and grievous to the Godly. A weak Fire will not refine some Gold; no more will small Trials refine some Christians.
IV. A Furnace melts the Gold, and makes it soft, before it is refined: So Afflictions melt or make the Hearts of Believers soft: — And I will leave you there, (speaking of the Furnace) and melt you.1
V. A Furnace consumes Tin, Lead, &c. and also the drossy part of Gold: So those Afflictions and Trials God brings upon his People, burn up or consume all loose and hypocritical Professors, who are compared to base Metal, as Tin, Lead, &c. And not only so, but also all the Filth and Corruption of such who are sincere.1 Into Smoke shall they consume, (speaking of ungodly Ones.) [See Gold, and Refiner in the First Volume, pag. 262, 264.]