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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.
So the Church of God taketh care to carry it tenderly, and with much Wisdom, to all her Children. She acts not partially towards them, to countenance one more than another; the weak and poorest Saint is as dear to our spiritual Mother, as the strongest and richest of them. VIII. A tender Mother hath much Compassion and Bowels towards her weak, sick, and helpless Children; her Heart aches many times for such. | VIII. So God's Church is filled with Bowels of Pity and Compassion towards her weak and distempered Members. How is she troubled for such as are under Temptations, or fallen into any spiritual Distemper of the Soul! The Churches Bowels should exceed the Bowels of a natural Mother to her sick Children upon this account. IX. A gracious and godly Mother loveth those Children best, that are most dutiful, and who dearly love, and are most like their Father. | IX. So the Church of God loveth those Children or Saints best, that are most diligent, dutiful, and obedient to Christ, and to all the good and wholesome Laws of the Family; who love, and are most like God, in Mercy,1 Heavenly-mindedness, in good Works, and Acts of Pity and Charity to the Poor; these she esteems and prizes highly. X. A Mother is allowed by the Father to chastise or correct those Children, that grow heady and proud, or any ways misbehave themselves, to the dishonour of the Father, and reproach of the Family. | X. So the Church is allowed, nay, required by Christ, to correct by gentle Reproof, those Children or Members that do transgress the Law of God; and if they grow heady, proud, and stubborn, she reproves them sharply; but if that will not reclaim them, but that they still ⟨p. 111⟩proceed in a rebellious Mind, and misbehave themselves, she proceeds further, and taketh the Rod of Church-Discipline, and withdraws her self from them, and denieth them to come to the Table with the rest of her Children: Nay, if they fall into any scandalous Evil, to the Reproach of Christ, his Truth, and the Household of Faith, she chastiseth them with the Rod of Excommunication, and putteth them quite out of the Family. Deliver such an one unto Satan, 2for the Destruction of the Flesh, that the Spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus. XI. A Mother is sometimes allowed, in the absence of the Father, to be chief Governess in the Family;