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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.
Parallels.
GOD sometimes hath brought Darkness, upon a People, as a great Judgment, for Sin and Rebellion against him: So God in just Judgment, will cast the Wicked into Darkness, into a burning Furnace of Fire, but such Fire as shall give no Light, therefore called utter Darkness.
II. Where there is Darkness, either by want of Light, or want of Sight to see the Light, there cannot be any comfortable Enjoyment of any visible Object, that might afford them Satisfaction and Content, as it doth those that enjoy the Light: So to be cast into Darkness, nay utter Darkness, not only such Darkness that is a deprivation of Light, or occasioned by want of Sight, but a Darkness of Terror and Torment, reserved for Wicked and Ungodly Men, called the blackness of Darkness: For as the Glory of Heaven shall abound beyond all comparison with glorious Light, called the Inheritance of the Saints in Light, Col. 1. So the Horrors and Terrors of Hell will consist in that abounding Darkness, beyond all comparison.
II. Where there is Darkness, either by want of Light, or want of Sight to see the Light, there cannot be any comfortable Enjoyment of any visible Object, that might afford them Satisfaction and Content, as it doth those that enjoy the Light: So to be cast into Darkness, nay utter Darkness, not only such Darkness that is a deprivation of Light, or occasioned by want of Sight, but a Darkness of Terror and Torment, reserved for Wicked and Ung•dly Men, called the blackness of Darkness: For as the Glory of Heaven shall abound beyond all comparison with glorious Light, called the Inheritance of the Saints in Light,