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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.
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.
2. It is not Hope of Length of Days: If I wait, the Grave is my House, &c.
But then, 2. Positively, it is a patient and well-grounded Expectation of the Accomplishment of what God hath promised. Faith sees the Promise, and beholds it, tho afar off: Abraham saw my Day, saith Christ: But then in comes Hope, and keeps the Soul alive, in a well-grounded expectation of the fulfilling and accomplishment of it. See the Description of it where Faith is compared to an Helmet.
Why Hope is compared to an Anchor, may appear by what followeth.