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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.
Answ. 1. Negatively. It is not a Hope of being rich, great, and mighty in the World. They esteem not of things below at such a rate, as to make them their Hope: If I have made Gold my Hope, or have said to the fine Gold, 1thou art my Confidence, &c. Gold is put here (by a Synecdoche of the Part for the Whole) for all earthly things; so that whereas Job saith, If I have made Gold my Hope, his meaning is, if I have made any good things on Earth my Hope.
Answ. 1. Negatively. It is not a Hope of being rich, great, and mighty in the World. They esteem not of things below at such a rate, as to make them their Hope: If I have made Gold my Hope, or have said to the fine Gold, 1thou art my Confidence, &c. Gold is put here (by a Synechdoche of the Part for the Whole) for all earthly things; so that whereas Job saith, If I have made Gold my Hope, his meaning is, if I have made any good things on Earth my Hope.
There is great difference (saith Mr. Caryl) between hoping for Gold, and making Gold our Hope; we may hope for worldly good things, but we must not make any thing of this Life our Hope. And further he saith,
'To make Gold, either gotten, or to be gotten, our Hope, implieth these four things: