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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. 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.
Metaphor. | Parallel. AN Anchor is a good Stay and Security to a Ship in a Storm. What would the Mariner do, had he not an Anchor to cast out of the Ship, when he is in danger of Rocks and Sands? | SO Hope in God, through Christ, is a most excellent Stay for the Soul of a Believer, in a Day of Trouble and Persecution.1 They suffered joyfully the spoiling of their Goods, knowing in themselves, they had in Heaven a better and enduring Substance. We are saved by Hope, &c. It stays the Soul, as an Anchor does the Ship. II. An Anchor takes hold of something which is out of sight. | II. So Hope, the Anchor of the Soul, takes hold of something which is not seen with carnal Eyes, which is within the Veil, &c.