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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.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Garden is a Piece taken out of common or waste Ground, appropriated to more special Use than the rest. | The Church of God (and every Believer, or Member thereof) is taken out of the common Mass of Mankind, to be a chosen and select People to Christ. II. The Ground of a Garden before it is planted, is as barren, and as unprofitable, as the rest out of which it was taken. | II. The People of God, and Soul of every Believer, naturally were as barren, blind, sinful, Enemies to God, and every way as vile and rebellious, as any other Sinners in the World.1 And were by Nature the Children of Wrath, as well as others. Who hath made thee to differ from another? &c. III. In a Garden no choice or rare thing cometh up naturally of it self, until it is sown or planted therein. | III. So no spiritual good Thing can grow or spring up in our Hearts, until the Seed of Grace is sown in us, or a Divine Principle of Life be implanted. IV. A Garden, before it be sown or planted, must be digged, purged, and well prepared. | IV. So must our Hearts, like fallow Ground, be digged up with powerful Convictions of the Word and Spirit, that so Grace may the better take Root in us. Hence 'tis said of God's Vineyard, when he was resolved to bring Judgment upon it, It shall not be pruned, nor digged. 2Hence God calleth upon them to plough up their fallow Ground, and sow not among Thorns. V. A choice Garden is walled or well fenced about, for its Security from Danger and Spoil. | V. So the Church of God, or every Christian, is hedged or walled in.3 Hast thou not made a Hedge about him, and about all he hath, on every side? &c. God is said to be a Wall of Fire round about Jerusalem. [See Vineyard. 4] ⟨p. 113⟩VI. A choice Garden hath in it many Plants, Herbs, and Flowers, of great Worth and Value, both for Pleasure and Profit. | VI. So in the Church are many choice, pleasant, and profitable Plants, of God's own right-hand planting:5 'Tis sown with holy right Seed, ye Men of Israel are his pleasant Plants. All choice and saving Graces, and Gifts of the Spirit, are found in God's Garden. VII. A Garden must have much Cost bestowed upon it, and much Pains taken with it, or it will soon decay. | VII. So must the Church of God have much Pains bestowed upon it,