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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.
III. The Pillar of Fire was not only a Guide to them, but it also afforded them much Light, which made their Journey comfortable to them; Persons may have a sure Guide in a Night, and yet be in Darkness, or have but little or no Light: So Jesus Christ is not only a Guide to his People in their passing through the Night of Mortality, but also a Light; a Light to them that sit in Darkness, as well as a Guide for their Feet into the Way of Peace;1 he is upon this account the Comfort and Joy of God's Israel.
IV. The Pillar of Fire was Darkness to the Egyptians, tho it gave Light to Israel: So is Christ's Salvation, Joy, and Comfort to the Godly, but a Stumbling-block, and Stone of Offence unto the Wicked.
1V. The Pillar of Fire did not afford the Israelites Light only, but Heat also, (as a worthy Writer observes) by which means they were kept from the piercing Cold of the Night: So Jesus Christ, the Anti-type of this Fiery Pillar, affords us much spiritual Heat, by his Word and Spirit, which are compared to Fire; by which means we are kept from the cold and lukewarm Temper or Frame of Heart, which God's Soul hateth, and thereby preserved fervent in Spirit, burning in Love and Divine Zeal to God, his Saints, and to Holiness.
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