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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.
Affliction compared to Wormwood.
Wormwood properly is an Herb well known amongst us, upon the account of its exceeding Bitterness; hence a common Proverb rises, 'Tis as bitter as Gall or Wormwood, &c.
WOrmwood properly is an Herb well known amongst us, upon the account of its exceeding Bitterness; hence a common Proverb rises, 'Tis as bitter as Gall or Wormwood, &c.
Parallels.
Wormwood and Gall, and other bitter Things, are physical, very good in divers Distempers: So Afflictions are good spiritual Physic; the diseased Soul receives much Profit by them many ways. 1. They purge out the corrupt and noxious Humours of the Soul. 2. They tend to abate and pull down the Tympany of Pride. 3. They are good against spiritual Deadness. 4. They are good against spiritual Barrenness; nothing (when sanctified) makes a Soul more fruitful. 5. They kill Worms, (as Wormwood naturally doth) principally the Worm of an accusing Conscience, that breeds out of the Corruption of the Heart and Life, &c.