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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.
2. A longing Desire after it. There is always so much Desire of that we hope for, that the thing hoped for is sometimes expressed by the Desire.1 Hope deferred maketh the Heart sick; but when the Desire (that is, the thing hoped for) cometh, it is a •ree of Life.
2. A longing Desire after it. There is always so much Desire of that we hope for, that the thi•g hoped for is sometimes expressed by the Desire.1 Hope deferred maketh the Heart sick; but when the Desire (that is, the thing hoped for) cometh, it is a •ree of Life.
3. Utmost and unwearied Endeavours to obtain it. That which a Man makes his Hope, he will make his Work, and never ceaseth working till he hath attained it, or is convinced there is no possibility of attaining it.
4. To make Gold our Hope, implieth much Trouble and Anxiety of Mind, when once we see our Endeavours ineffectual and unsuccessful about the attaining of it. If Hope deferred makes the Heart sick, (as was hinted before) then when Hope dies, or as Zophar speaks, chap. 11.20. is as the giving up of the Ghost, the Heart must needs die too.