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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.
which brings Men to the best Way of Living, the noblest Way of Suffering, and the comfortablest Way of Dying. — Now must not such pure Streams needs flow from the Fountain of all Perfection? Does such a serious and effectual Advancement of Holiness in the World, look like an Intrigue of polluted Man, or any unclean Spirit? How can we better judg of a Law, that declares it proceeds from God, and is of Divine Obligation, than by its Nature, Tendency and Influence on humane Life? Whether it be suitable to those Pretensions, and such an adorable and unspotted Original? And when we find so holy and excellent a Design, as appears throughout this whole Book, for the Honour of God, and completing the Happiness of Men, by Methods so agreeable, and yet above the reach of Humane Invention; what can we judg, (unless we will be obstinately perverse) but that such a Book's Testimony of it self is true, and that it is indeed of God, and not of Men?
which brings Men to the best Way of Living, the noblest Way of Suffering, and the comfortablest Way of Dying. — Now must not such pure Streams needs flow from the Fountain of all Perfection? Does such a serious and effectual Advancement of Holiness in the World, look like an Intrigue of polluted Man, or any unclean Spirit? How can we better judg of a Law, that declares it proceeds from God, and is of Divine Obligation, than by its Nature, Tendency and Influence on humane Life? Whether it be suitable to those Pretensions, and such an adorable and unspotted Original? And when we find so holy and excellent a Design, as appears throughout this whole Book, for the Honour of God, and compleating the Happiness of Men, by Methods so agreeable, and yet above the reach of Humane Invention; what can we judg, (unless we will be obstinately perverse) but that such a Book's Testimony of it self is true, and that it is indeed of God, and not of Men?
V. The sweet and admirable Agreement, Consent, Dependence, and Harmony,1 that we find in all and every part of Scripture, tho there are so many Books thereof, written by so many different Persons, of various Conditions, many Ages removed, in several Places, and in different Languages, yet all agreeing with each other, and every part with the whole, which could not be foreseen or contrived by any humane Wisdom or Cunning, in the writing of any one Part: For all the Histories, Prophecies, Promises, Types, and Doctrines, in an orderly Connection, tend to promote the same Thing; and every Age proves a fresh Interpreter, and reveals to us more and more of this admirable Concord, which could not be the Effect of humane Artifice, nor of any other Cause, but an infinite Comprehension and Fore-sight, and that the several Writers of this Book were in all Times guided in what they wrote by the Supreme Wisdom of that one God, who is always constant to himself, and the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.