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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.
Inferences.
Stand and wonder! Doth Christ espouse and take to Wife such a poor and contemptible Creature as Mankind! What disproportion is there between a King and a Beggar, between an Ant and an Angel? a far greater disproportion there is between Jesus Christ and Sinners. He is high and great; but we are base and vile: He is blessed and glorious; we are wretched and miserable: He is a mighty King, King of Kings; and we poor Slaves and Vassals, yea, the worst of Slaves, Vassals and Slaves to Sin and Satan.
STand and wonder! Doth Christ espouse and take to Wife such a poor and contemptible Creature as Mankind! What disproportion is there between a King and a Beggar, between an Ant and an Angel? a far greater disproportion there is between Jesus Christ and Sinners. He is high and great; but we are base and vile: He is blessed and glorious; we are wretched and miserable: He is a mighty King, King of Kings; and we poor Slaves and Vassals, yea, the worst of Slaves, Vassals and Slaves to Sin and Satan.
2. From hence you may perceive the unspeakable Nearness there is between Christ and his People; can there be a sweeter and more glorious Union than this! If we consider the Properties of it, it is a spiritual, a real, an operative, an enriching, an intimate, an indissoluble Union, to be Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh. What can any Soul desire more? What greater Happiness, what more glorious, (saith one of the Ancients) than this Union!