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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.
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,
2. When God brings upon us one Affliction after another: To day thy Cattel 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,
3. When God strips a People, or particular Person, not only of all their outward Mercies, or earthly good Things, but also of all their spiritual good Things too, such Things as are dearer to them than their Lives; then Afflictions may be said to be bitter. Should God at once bring so severe a Stroke upon us, as to deprive us of all our Civil Rights and Privileges, suffering an Enemy to break in upon us, who would not regard our good and wholesome Laws, by which every Man's Propriety is secured to him; and not only so, but deprive us of the Gospel, and blessed Ordinances thereof, and drive our Ministers into Corners, or burn them to Ashes in Smithfield, and set up Popery, and tyrannize it over our Consciences: This Affliction would be bitter, like Wormwood and Gall, — Which God in Mercy prevent. —