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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.
II. Be persuaded thy Days are uncertain, when thou liest down, thou knowest not whether thou shalt rise any more or no; when thou goest out, thou knowest not whether thou shalt return any more or no. What a small Thing may take away thy Life!
III. Learn from hence to get a true Measure of your Days. David desired a Measure of his Days, that he might know how frail he was. Some do not measure their Days by the King's Standard; they measure their Days by the Life of their Progenitors. My Father and my Grand-father, saith one, lived so long, and why may not I live as long as they did? Others measure their Days by their present Health and Strength; Others by the sound and healthy Constitution of their Bodies. Now these Things are not a fit nor lawful Measure of your Days, but rather those Things of which you have heard, viz. The Weaver's-Shuttle, the morning Dew, the Flower of the Field, the early Cloud, the Shadow and Vapour that flieth away.
III. Learn from hence to get a true Measure of your Days. David desired a Measure of his Days, that he might know how frail he was. Some do not measure their Days by the King's Standard; they measure their Days by the Life of their Progenitors. My Father and my Grand-father, saith one, lived so long, and vvhy may not I live as long as they did? Others measure their Days by their present Health and Strength; Others by the sound and healthy Constitution of their Bodies. Novv these Things are not a fit nor lavvful Measure of your Days, but rather those Things of vvhich you have heard, viz. The Weaver's-Shuttle, the morning Dew, the Flovver of the Field, the early Cloud, the Shadovv and Vapor that flieth away.
IV. This may reprove and show the Folly of many wicked Men, who, like the rich Man in the Gospel, say in their Hearts, We have Goods laid up for many Years, take your Ease,