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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. Wormwood and Gall are exceeding bitter, and make such things bitter as are given with them, tho sweet in their own Nature: So Afflictions, especially some sorts of Afflictions are very bitter and irksome to the Flesh; they also make bitter all our earthly Sweets.
III. Wormwood and Gall are exceeding bitter, and make such things bitter as are given with them, tho sweet in their own Nature: So Afflictions, especially some sorts of Afflictions are very bitter and irksom to the Flesh; they also make bitter all our earthly Sweets.
Quest. Perhaps some may say, When are Afflictions so exceeding bitter? &c.
Answ. 1. When God strikes us in our best and dearest earthly Enjoyments; when he takes away an only Son, a Husband, a Wife; or by a Fire, or otherwise, takes away all our earthly Substance, stripping us quite naked of every thing: Then Afflictions may be said to be bitter, like Gall and Wormwood.
2. When God brings upon us one Affliction after another: To day thy Cattle are taken away, and then presently upon it thy Children, by a severe Judgment; and after all, thou art struck with a sore and dismal Affliction in thine own Body. Thus it was with Job. When God deals thus with a Man or Woman, Afflictions may be said to be bitter. But then again,