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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.
V. The scorching Heat of the Sun is but for a short time, in the heat of the Day: So the Persecution lasts but for a short time: Our Afflictions which are but for a moment, &c. Sorrow may continue for a Night, but Joy shall be in the Morning, &c.
VI. In the Time of Heat, and hot scorchings of the Sun, Men use to betake themselves to some shadowy Places for Refreshment: So in the Day of Affliction, and hot Persecution the Church of God, and each sincere Christian, hath a shadowy Place to retire unto; God affords sweet Refreshment to his suffering Saints.
VII. In a Time of great Heat, the Fruits of the Earth, and many green Things are dried up, and wither away, and a Famine many times follows: So by the means of a hot and cruel Persecution, many Christians, who seemed zealous for God, and to have much Greenness upon them, in a Day of Liberty and Prosperity, are dried up, like the fruitless Fig-Tree, and wither away; and also sometimes a Famine of the Word follows.
VIII. In a Time of great Heat and Drought, those Trees that are planted by rhe Water-Courses flourish sweetly notwithstanding: So all faithful and sincere Christians, in the hottest Time of Persecution, shall flourish, and not cease from yielding Fruit: Blessed is the Man that trusteth in the Lord. — For he shall be as a Tree planted by the Water-side,