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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.
4. Consider, thy Afflictions are not so bitter as the Afflictions of many of God's Children were, of whom we read, who were far more worthy and deserving than thee or I are: What are thy Afflictions compared with holy Job's?
5. Consider the bitter Potion Jesus Christ drunk up for thy sake: He never offended, and yet suffered, and his Sufferings were intolerable; no Mortal is able to express the Nature of his Grief and Sorrow. Shall Christ suffer willingly for us, who sinned not? and shall we be troubled at the bitterness of our Sufferings, who are so grievously defiled with Iniquity, and many times suffer for our Sins?
6. Consider, that all the Bitter a godly Man meets with, or ever shall, will be in this World. As wicked Men have all their Sweet here, and shall have nothing but bitter hereafter: So godly Men have all their Bitter here, and shall have nothing but Sweet hereafter.
7. Consider, how gracious God is to his own Children, in intermixing all their Bitter with Sweet. 'Tis not like the Bitter some wicked Men have in this World: