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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.
Hell a Furnace of Fire, the Place of the Damned.
Mat. 13.42. —And shall cast them into a Furnace of Fire, there shall be wailing and gnashing of Teeth.
WE are now drawing towards a Conclusion; it remains only, that we speak something concerning Hell, which is the Place prepared for the Damned, the Torment of whom is set forth by Fire, by a Furnace of Fire, and by utter Darkness. It hath been a long and ancient Controversy, whether Fire here is to be taken Properly or Figuratively? I shall not undertake to determine, whether it be real Fire or not: Doubtless the Torment of the Wicked, will be worse than 'tis to be cast into any Furnace of Elementary Fire. The Schoolmen affirm, that the least Torture in Hell, exceeds the greatest that can be devised by all the Men on Earth; even as the least Joy of Heaven, surpasseth the greatest Comforts of this World, &c. There is scarce any Pain here on Earth, but there is some hope of Ease, Mitigation, or Intermission; but in Hell, their Torments are easeless, endless, remediless, and they themselves left hopeless, helpless, and pitiless. However, we will run a Parallel between a Furnace of Fire, and the Place of the Damned; for in some things there is a fit Resemblance.
WE are now drawing towards a Conclusion; it remains only, that we speak something concerning Hell, which is the Place prepared for the Damned, the Torment of whom is set forth by Fire, by a Furnace of Fire, and by utter Darkness. It hath been a long and ancient Controversy, whether Fire here is to be taken Properly or Figuratively? I shall not undertake to determine, whether it be real Fire or not: Doubtless the Torment of the Wicked, will be worse than 'tis to be cast into any Furnace of Elementary Fire. The Schoolmen affirm, that the least Torture in Hell, exceeds the greatest that can be devised by all the Men on Earth; even as the least Joy of Heaven, surpasseth the greatest Comforts of this World, &c. There is scarce any Pain here on Earth, but there is some hope of Ease, Mitigation, or Intermission; but in Hell, their Torments are easeless, endless, remediless, and they themselves left hopeless, helpless, and pittyless. However, we will run a Parallel between a Furnace of Fire, and the Place of the Damned; for in some things there is a fit Resemblance.