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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.
6. But did I say, a Desire after Christ? Be not mistaken, to think that every Desire after him is a Sign of true Faith. (1.) It is a fervent Desire; such desire him more than all the World. That Soul pants after him, and Union with him,1 more than after Heaven and Glory. It greatly endears Christ to the Soul. He is the chiefest of Ten Thousand. (2.) 'Tis such a Desire, as in a hungry Man, nothing will satisfy him but Bread; so nothing will satisfy a true Believer, but Christ, the Bread of Life.
- 1Psal. 75.25
7. If a Man hath true Faith, he knoweth the Time when he was without it; he knoweth he was once blind, and without God and Christ. I will not say, he knows the very Instant when God wrought it in his Soul; but he can say with the Man whose Eyes Christ opened, Whereas I was blind, I now see.1
- 1Jon. 9.25.
8. And not only so, but he knows the Way and Means by which he obtained it, viz. either by Hearing, or Reading, or Meditating on the Word of God; either in the free Tender of Christ to Sinners in general, or to dejected, burdened, and heavy laden Sinners, in particular.
8. And not only so, but he knows the Way and Means by which he obtained it, viz. either by Hearing, or Reading, or Meditating on the Word of God; either in the free Tender of Christ to Sinners in general, or to dejected, burthened, and heavyladen Sinners, in particular.