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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.
The Understanding makes a double Proposition, one grounded in the Word of God, the other in the Heart of Man; as thus: He that keepeth the Commandments of God, truly loves God; but I do keep the Commandments of God: This is grounded in the Heart of Man, and then draws a Conclusion from both, Therefore I do love God truly. This Conclusion, whilst holy, and drawn from Divine Premises, to wit, the Word of God, and true Grace in the Heart, the Spirit of God strikes in with the Soul in making of it, and assists the weak Soul, so that he concludes with strong Confidence, he is sincere, or loves God in truth; and not only secretly assists, but seconds him, and saith the same thing to Man that his own Spirit doth:1 The Spirit beareth witness with our Spirits, that we are the Sons of God. If the Premises be corrupt which the Understanding makes, (for the Heart makes Propositions suitable to the Light that is in the intellectual Part) then the Devil, that lying Spirit, strikes in, and seconds the Soul in that corrupt Conclusion, which he collects from corrupt Principles concerning himself, thereby to ruin and undo the Soul in Ignorance and Unbelief.
Thirdly; This Faculty or natural Power, called Conscience, only appertaineth to Men, and not to any irrational Creatures. Brutes want Reason, and therefore are not capable Subjects of Conscience; yet against Reason and Conscience Men oftentimes do worse than a Beast.
Fourthly; Conscience is a natural Power in Man, which compares his Ways and Thoughts by some Rule; and according as his Ways agree or disagree with that Rule, so answerably doth it bear witness with or against him.