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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.
The Life of Man compared to a Flower.
Job 14.2. He cometh forth like a Flower, and is cut down, &c.
MAN is compared to a fading Flower. There are many Rarities and Excellencies in a Flower. 1. Sweetness, to please our Smell. 2. Beauty and Variety of Colour, to affect the Eye. 3. Softness affecting the Touch, &c. But Job speaks not a Word of any of these Properties, he speaks not of a flourishing but withering Flower; not of its springing up, but of its cutting down, or of its springing up, only in relation to cutting down.
Parallels.
A Flower comes up in the Spring, and seems very beautiful, but its standing is very short, as you may observe in the Cowslip and divers other Flowers: So Man comes up, but his Abiding here is short, his standing is so small, that it is not so much as mentioned. We are born to die, and we die as soon as we are born; i. e. We are in a dying State.