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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.
IV. Great Heat, or the continual scorching Beams of the Sun, quickly fade, consume, and spoil the Beauty of the Body: So cruel Sufferings and Persecutions spoil the outward Beauty of the Church, making her look very black and deformed in the Eyes of the World, which made the Spouse to cry out, I am black, &c.1 Which she attributed to the vehement and scorching Sun-Beams of Persecution: The Sun hath looked upon me. And as Persecution seems to mar the external Beauty of the Church and People of God, rendering them the most miserable People in the World to a carnal Eye: So likewise other Afflictions have the like effect upon the Body: My Skin (saith Job) is black upon me, 2and my Bones are burnt with Heat. The Skin, and external Beauty cannot hold its own against the ill Effects of a Disease, especially if lasting: When thou with Rebukes dost correct a Man for his Iniquity, 3thou makest his Beauty to consume away like a Moth, &c.
IV. Great Heat, or the continual scorching Beams of the Sun, quickly fade, consume, and spoil the Beauty of the Body: So cruel Sufferings and Persecutions spoil the outward Beauty of the Church, making her look very black and deformed in the Eyes of the World, which made the Spouse to cry out, I am black, &c.1 Which she attributed to the vehement and scorching Sun-Beams of Persecution: The Sun hath looked upon me. And as Persecution seems to mar the external Beauty of the Church and People of God, rendring them the most miserable People in the World to a carnal Eye: So likewise other Afflictions have the like effect upon the Body: My Skin (saith Job) is black upon me, 2and my Bones are burnt with Heat. The Skin, and external Beauty cannot hold its own against the ill Effects of a Disease, especially if lasting: When thou with Rebukes dost correct a Man for his Iniquity, 3thou makest his Beauty to consume away like a Moth, &c.