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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.
Obj. The Soul of a Child of God at Death is happy and with Christ, and shall be for ever, whether the Body rise or not▪ and therefore they are not of all Men most miserable, unless the Soul be mortal and die with the Body, as some affirm.
Answ. The Life of the Soul, as well as of the Body, depends wholly upon Christ's Resurrection; and if Christ be not risen, we are yet in our Sins: and therefore this makes nothing either to prove Saints happy without a Resurrection, or for the mortality of the Soul.
5. If the Saints of God in the primitive time, did believe and were well grounded in the Truth of the Resurrection: Then the Dead shall rise. But the Saints of the Primitive time did so believe, and were so established. Ergo. See these Scriptures;1 I know he shall rise again, in the Resurrection at the last day: For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive: but every Man in his own order, Christ the first Fruits, and afterwards they that are Christ's at his coming: for the Trumpet shall be sounded, and the Dead shall be raised, &c. For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so those which are fallen asleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. 2And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it, and Death and Hell delivered up the dead that were in them, and they were judged every Man according to their Deeds:3