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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.
[Hope] the Word is derived from [Greek or Hebrew] Havah, which signifieth to expect, or wait; and it notes a very vehement Intention both of Body and Mind, in waiting, expecting, or hoping; when a Man waits (as it were) stretching forth his Spirit or his Mind, putting himself out exceedingly to hope or wait for a thing.
[Hope] the Word is derived from 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Havah, which signifieth to expect, or wait; and it notes a very vehement Intention both of Body and Mind, in waiting, expecting, or hoping; when a Man waits (as it were) stretching forth his Spirit or his Mind, putting himself out exceedingly to hope or wait for a thing.
Hope is a Divine and Super-natural Grace or Fruit of the holy Spirit, and may be thus described:
First; 'Tis a patient and well-grounded Expectation of whatsoever God hath promised. God is the Author of it, called the Hope of Israel, and the God of Hope. The Believer is the Subject of this Hope. The Object, in a strict sense, is God, who comprehends all the Good that Saints dwell in the Faith and expectation of:1 What wait I for? my Hope is in thee: In a large sense, it is the Good of the Promise not in hand,2 or already accomplished, but to be performed hereafter: Hope that is seen, is not Hope; for what a Man seeth, why doth he yet hope for it? Futurity is intrinsical to Hope's Object, and distinguisheth it from Faith, which gives a present Being to the Promise,3