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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.
A Vineyard, the Place where Vines are planted, metaphorically signifieth the Church. The Church is compared to a Vineyard.
Metaphor. | Parallel. The Land that is made into a Vineyard, is a Piece of Ground taken out of a Wilderness, or other common Ground, designed to that special use. | SO the Church is taken out of the Wilderness of this World,1 being separated from all People, to be a peculiar People to God:2 By Nature Saints were as barren and fruitless as Sinners. II. A Vineyard is fenced or walled in, to secure it from wild Beasts, and others, who may offend or hurt it. | II.3 So the Lord's Vineyard hath a Wall or Fence about it: Saith the Lord, I will be a Wall of Fire unto her round about. What use soever a Fence is to a House, Garden, or Vineyard, the same is God to his People. 1. Every one of his Attributes (as we have elsewhere showed you) is a Fence or Security to her; his Power is a Fence, his Wisdom is a Fence, his Mercy is a Fence, his special Providence is a Fence. 2. The holy Angels are as a Wall or Fence to the Church, and to every particular Saint; they were as a Wall of Safety to the Prophet, 2 Kings 6.15, 16. 3.4 There is about the Church the Fence or Wall of Ordinances, Church-Government, and Discipline. — The Reason why God makes a Wall about his People, is opened under Metaphor, God a Husband man; also the Nature and Strength of it, to which we refer you. Quest. Perhaps some may enquire, How much Ground doth this Hedge or Wall take in? 1. It taketh in all the Bodies of God's People; no Disease, Sickness, or Affliction whatsoever can come upon those that truly fear and serve the Almighty, but what he lets in. This appears in the case of Job; and by what David saith, My Life is in thy hand, &c. 2. This Wall comprehends more especially the Souls of Saints; no Temptation,