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B25425	Troposchēmalogia: 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; Tropologia. Book 4.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Tropologia. aut	1682 (1682)	Wing K101A; ESTC R7039	690,855	608

Instit lib. 2. BOOK IV. THE Fifth HEAD OF Metaphors Allegories and Similes With other borrowed Terms Respecting the Graces of the Holy-Spirit AND THE Blessed Ordinances of the Gospel Grace compared to Salt Mark 9.50 Have Salt in your selves c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. TOuching the several Metaphorical Notations of this Term Salt we shall refer you unto the Eleventh Chapter of Philologia Sacra By Salt in this place is meant the blessed and most precious Grace of the Spirit Metaphor Parallel SAlt is of a searching quality if it be laid or rubb'd upon Meat it will pierce and search it to the very Bone TRue Grace or the spiritual Operation of the Spirit is of a searching nature it will when received in Truth infuse it self into every Faculty of the Soul The Spirit searcheth all things yea 2 Cor. 2. the deep things of God If there be any Sin hid it will search and find it out Simile Parallel II. Salt is of a purging cleansing and purifying nature it will work out Blood Filth c. as common Experience shews II. Grace is of a purging and purifying virtue it will not only search Corruption out whether it be in the Heart or Life but also in a blessed manner purge and work it forth He that hath this Hope 1 Joh. 2.3 purifieth himself even as he is pure III. Salt hath a preserving quality it will not only purge Corruption out of Meat but also preserve Meat and other things from Corruption and Putrefaction III. Grace preserves the Soul from all manner of Sin and Defilements it will not suffer a Saint to run with others to the same excess of Riot 1 Pet. 4.4 but teacheth us to deny all Vngodliness and worldly Lusts and to live righteously soberly Tit. 2.12 and godly in this present World How shall I do this thing and sin against God IV. Salt seasons things causing that to taste savoury which otherwise would be no way pleasant wholsom or good for the Body Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without Salt Job 6.6 IV. Grace seasons a Christian it makes him savoury to God and to all good Men savoury in his Words savoury in his Dealings and Commerce savoury in all his whole Conversation not only savoury himself but seasoning others also hence called the Salt of the Earth Let your Speech be alway with Grace Col. 4 6 seasoned with Salt That ye may know how to answer every Man V. Salt is of universal use throughout the World it is the one thing needful among Men it is said to season all things we receive great Advantage by it It is known to be exceeding necessary both by Sea and Land V. Grace is also absolutely necessary 't is the one thing needful to Salvation without which there is no getting to Heaven The Advantages all Believers receive thereby are wonderful All Men of what rank or quality soever stand in need of Grace they were better be without Gold than without Grace It is good in every Place and Condition Men need it as well at Sea as at Land in Sickness and Health VI. Salt as Pliny and other Naturalists say is exceeding good against the Sting of Serpents and will destroy Worms that breed in the Body and hath many other medicinable Virtues in it VI. Grace is a most Sovereign Remedy against Sin that Sting of the old Serpent and there is nothing like it to kill the Worm of Conscience that is bred by means of the Corruption of the inward Man and there gnaws and greatly torments the Soul and many other Soul-medicinable Virtues it hath VII Salt was made use of under the Law in Sacrifices And every Oblation of thy Meat-Offering shalt thou season with Salt ●●v 2 13. With all thy Offerings thou shalt use Salt VII Grace must be made use of in all our spiritual Sacrifices and Offerings unto God We must pray with Grace and sing with Grace and do all in God's Worship with Grace in our Hearts nothing we do will be accepted without it Mark 9.4 Every one shall be salted with Fire or seasoned with Affliction and every Sacrifice shall be salted with Salt viz. Grace Metaphor Disparity SAlt is natural or else made by Art of salt Water Ashes Fire Plin. lib. 3● p. 41● 41● c. Pliny says that in India they have Salt out of Quarries of Stone GRace is supernatural No Man hath the Divine Influence and Operation of the Spirit of God naturally nor can he get it by any humane Contrivance or Art whatsoever Joh. 1.14 it is the Gift of God II. If Meat be quite corrupted putrified stink and is loathsom Salt cannot recover it nor make it savoury II. But if the Soul be wholly or in every Faculty thereof corrupted stinks and is loathsom in the Nostrils of God yet Grace can quickly recover it and make it very savoury and sweet to God and good Men. III. Salt may lose its Saltness or Savour and become good for nothing but to be trodden under the foot of Men. III. Grace cannot lose the excellent Savour thereof Christians may lose much of their Salt or decay in Grace but Grace be it little or much will never lose its own precious Virtue IV. Things may be over-salted or seasoned so that they may be spoiled and become unwholsom to human Bodies IV. But no Man can be over-much seasoned with Grace never had any Christian too much of this spiritual Salt in him The more you receive and take in of this the better you will be seasoned thereby Inferences FRom hence we infer That Grace is the principal Thing 2. How unsavoury are all graceless Persons The whole World lieth in Wickedness They are like putrified or stinking Carrion in a Common-Shore as the Greek Word there signifieth 3. This may stir up all ungodly Ones to look out and cry mightily for Grace the excellent Nature of which is set forth under the Metaphor Light Vol. 1. 4. Let all who profess themselves Christians examine themselves throughly whether they are salted with Grace or not Are you savoury Men and Women What is your Communication your Speech your Conversation c. 5. Take heed you lose none of this Divine Salt you will soon become unsavoury if you have not Salt in your selves 6. You that should season others should have much Salt in your own Hearts and Lives Ye are the Salt of the Earth The Girdle of Truth Ephes 6.14 And having your Loins girl about with Truth c. A Girdle properly is a Belt or Girdle used to be worn by Souldiers to preserve the Breast and Belly Truth hath various Acceptations in the holy Scriptures some of which according to Wilson and others you may take as follows 1. The most perfect Divine Essence which is Truth it self and the Author of all Truth in his Creatures Thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth Psal 31.5 2. Jesus Christ I am the

had with good Wishes and formal Prayer by crying Lord have mercy upon us and Christ have mercy upon us c. And if he have but Time a little before he breaths out his last on a Death-Bed but to cry unto God after this manner it will be sufficient Tho God's Word saith The Soul that sinneth it shall die And Except a Man be born again Ezek 18. Joh. 3.3 Heb. 12. he cannot see the Kingdom of God And Without Holiness no Man shall see the Lord. It is only a holy Life that is attended with a happy Death 4. The fourth is one worldly-wise a Person much in request in these Days whose Counsel many are ready to follow What! saith he art thou such a Fool to expose thy self to such great Sorrow and Suffering for Heaven when thou mayest have it without half the Ado. Pity thy Wife and Children save thy self out of a Prison and hazard not thy Estate For my part I came into the World raw and I will not go out roasted I will be of that Religion that is in fashion and set up by the Supreme Law of the Nation Are you wiser than every Body You meddle with Things too high for you c. Christ saith Whosoever comes after me Mat. 16.24 25. and doth not deny himself and take up his Cross cannot be my Disciple and that his Saints in the World shall have Tribulation But this Man would fain make the Cross of Christ to cease Come Popery and what will by this Argument he must and will conform to it he will be of that Religion that is uppermost And thus he renders the Apostles and Primitive Christians and all the holy Martyrs Fools and Fanaticks nay worse Rebels because they did not conform to the Religion of their Superiors 5. The fifth Enemy is one Moralist a very honest Man but that Ignorance and Blindness of Mind hath got such Rule in him He saith It is sufficient and no more is required of us but to do as we would be done unto and pay every Man his own and that if a Man can but get out of the deep Ditch of Sensuality and fleshly Debauchery and lead a spotless Life towards Man he need not doubt of Heaven nor trouble himself about Faith in Christ and Regeneration Tho our Saviour expresly saith Except your Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 5.20 ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of God And Paul saith That he accounted his own Righteousness and all other external Privileges and Attainments that he once thought Gain to him but Dung for the Excellency of the Knowledg of Jesus Christ Phil. 3.8 9 10. 1 Cor. 2.1 2. and that he desired nothing more than to know Chtist and him crucified If a Man could be saved by his own Righteousness Christ came into the World and died in vain and the Law which was a perfect Rule of Righteousness had then been sufficient to bring Men to Heaven Besides how do we come to be delivered from the Curse Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law to do them 6. The sixth Adversary is Presumption a bold confident Fellow that cries Cast your self upon the Mercy of God in Christ the Lord Jesus died for Sinners trouble your Head no more you shall be saved Tho I am a Sinner and am now and then drunk and let flie an Oath sometimes before I am aware yet I doubt not but it will go well with me my Heart is good and Christ died for such as I am This Man sins because Grace hath abounded and forgets that Christ came to save Men from their Sins and not in their Sins and that that Faith that justifies Acts 15.9 1 Joh. 3.3 is attended with good Fruits and purifieth the Heart and Life of him that obtains it 7. The seventh Enemy is Vain-Glory If Satan cannot ensnare the Soul by any of the other Ways he strives to puff it up with Pride and Self-conceit Now Vain-Glory is a deadly Enemy therefore take heed of him It becomes Christians to be lowly-minded Learn of me saith Christ for I am meek and lowly in Heart Mat. 11.28 29. and ye shall find Rest to your Souls XI A Pilgrim is glad when he comes at last to his desired Place and forgets all his former Trouble and Afflictions which attended him in his Way XI So a Saint when he comes to Heaven or hath obtained the End of his Hope 1 Pet. 1.9 viz. the Salvation of his Soul greatly rejoyceth and forgets all the Sorrow and Trouble he met with in this World They shall return and come to Zion with Songs Isa 35.10 Isa 51.11 everlasting Joy shall be upon their Heads They shall obtain Joy and Gladness and Sorrow and Sighing shall flee away Inferences THis may serve to inform God's People what their State and Condition is and will be whilst they remain in this World This is not your Rest c. Mic. 2.10 Heb. 13.14 Here we have no continuing City but we seek one to come 2. Therefore it sharply reprehends those Christians that settle themselves as Inhabitants and Dwellers here below like other People Alas Sirs ye forget that ye are Strangers and Pilgrims and but Sojourners as it were for a Night Why do ye seek great Things for your selves and seem to be so much taken with the Pleasures and Profits of this Life Ye are not of this World Let such as regard no higher things Joh. 15.19 take their Fill here and delight themselves in their Portion for 't is all the Good they are ever like to have but let them remember those dismal Sayings of our blessed Saviour Wo unto you that are rich for ye have received your Consolation Luk. 6.24 25 26. wo unto you that are full for ye shall hunger wo unto you that laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep wo unto you that all Men speak well of c. Saints compared to Palm-Trees Psal 92.12 The Righteous shall flourish like a Palm-Tree c. Cant. 7.7 This thy Stature is like a Palm-Tree c. Verse 8. I said I will go up to the Palm-Tree c. THe Palm-Tree and Date-Tree is one and the same Tree called in Hebrew Thamar in Greek Phenix Why the Saints and People of God are compared to the Palm-Tree will appear in the following Parallel Metaphor Parallel THe Palm-Tree is an excellent Tree amiable to look upon it is very tall and all its Branches shoot upwards there are none grow out of the Side as in other Trees THe Righteous who are compared to a Palm-Tree are a choice and excellent People their Affections like Branches ascend they are set upon Things above they grow Heavenward Col. 3 1.2 They do not shoot out their Branches as I may say this way and that way to the World they grow high in Grace and in

his Days Or who having a long Race to run that requires all his Strength resolves to defer it until old decrepid Age IX Wicked Men think 't is time enough to repent when they have spent all their Days in Sin and in serving the Devil When they should reap the Harvest of a godly Life they think 't is time enough to begin to sow to the Spirit and convert to God They sow to the Flesh and yet think to reap Life everlasting when nothing is more evident than this viz. Whatsoever a Man soweth that shall he reap therefore saith the Apostle Gal. 6.7 8. He that soweth to the Flesh shall of the Flesh reap Corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life everlasting Shall foolish Men think to serve the Devil all the best of their Days and yet hope that at last God will accept of their Repentance X. A Fool delighteth to do Mischief Prov. 10.23 or as Solomon saith It is a Sport to a Fool to do Mischief We daily see how mischievous Idiots are 't is dangerous to let some of them at large or to be in Company with them tho others are more harmless X. Wicked Men are full of Mischief Hence saith David Psal 26.10 Gather not my Soul with Sinners nor my Life with bloody Men in whose Hands is Mischief c. Psal 28.3 Draw me not away with the Wicked and with the Workers of Iniquity which speak Peace to their Neighbour but Mischief is in their Hearts Yea he deviseth Mischief upon his Bed he setteth himself in a way that is not good Nothing more evident than this How restless have the ungodly been in every Age of the Church to contrive Mischief against their peaceable Neighbours especially the wicked Papists What Plots and Sham-Plots have they devised to destroy the Quiet and Peace of this Land nay to destroy the upright and godly People that dwell therein They care not what Mischief they do so that they may undo and spoil those who hate their idolatrous Church One while they study Ways how to blow up the King and Parliament another while burn our Houses and lay our famous City in Ashes And as if this Mischief were not enough they have carried on a secret and devillish Design to take away our Religion and Lives and whatsoever is dear to us and then to blind the unwary and credulous Sort of People invent Sham-Plots to cast all upon the innocent Protestants But let them remember in this they are but Fools they have the Mark and Brand of Fools upon them and their Mischief shall fall upon their own Heads He that seeketh Mischief Prov. 11.27 it shall come upon him XI Is not he a Fool that labours for the Wind and thinks to feed on the Wind and pursues a Shadow and sets his Heart upon that which is not XI Wicked Men are said to labour for the Wind Riches are compared to the Wind and he that pursues after them pursues after the Wind and what a Fool is he that doth thus What Profit hath he saith Solomon that hath laboured for the Wind And as Men are said to labour for the Wind Eccl. 5.16 so likewise they are said to feed upon the Wind Ephraim feedeth on Wind Hos 12.1 and followeth after the East-Wind Which saith Mr. Burroughs is a Proverbial Speech to note the following after vain and unprofitable Things that is to feed on the Wind when Men please themselves in their own Conceits and in their own Counsels and Plots c. 1. When they promise to themselves great Matters by Ways of their own and leave God's Ways and Institutions they may be said to feed on the Wind and the Prophet rebuketh the Ten Tribes for this 2. They feed on the Wind saith he and so their Hearts are puffed up in Pride and carnal Confidence You know according to the Food a Man or Woman feedeth upon so will their Bodies be so those that feed upon the Wind must needs have proud Hearts or be puffed up with Pride and Self-conceitedness 3. Evil Men that live upon Comforts that are carnal and seek for the Honour and Applause of Men they feed upon the Wind they seek to satisfy themselves with Vanity they strive to take hold of a Shadow and follow after the Wind Things that cannot fill the Soul nor satisfy its Desires Things that are uncertain lost by one Storm at Sea consumed by one Spark of Fire or gone by a false Oath or wasted by the Badness of Trade or by the Extravagancy of an evil and foolish Son and therefore are Fools XII Is not he a Fool that esteems the greatest Evil above the greatest Good XII Wicked Men set their Hearts upon their base and cursed Lusts love their Sins more than God and Christ We read of some who are Lovers of Pleasure more than Lovers of God Now is not Sin the greatest Evil and God the greatest Good 2 Tim 3.4 There is nothing bitterer than the one nor nothing b●tter than the other and yet they chuse Sin and refuse the Good that is in the eternal God and account Christ not worth the Pleasure of one wicked Lust and therefore Fools XIII Is not he a Fool who to avoid a Spark leaps into the Fire or to save his Hat loses his Head XIII Wicked Men to avoid a little Trouble and Affliction in this World expose themselves to eternal Torment before they will deny themselves of their Lusts they will burn in Hell for them rather than go to Prison for Christ they will go to Hell for denying of him Inferences LAment over wicked Men Fools are to be pitied 2. Be patient and thou wilt see what will become of these Fools 3. It shews what abundance of Folly and Fools there are in the World 4. It shews us how strangely ungodly Men worldly wise Men are deceived in themselves 5. It shews what true Wisdom is The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom and to depart from Evil is Vnderstanding and in another place 't is said Psal 111.10 The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom and a good Vnderstanding have all they that do his Commandments 6. Let it caution thee to take heed lest thou art a Fool The Characters of such an one as given by wise Solomon take as followeth 1. He will be medling Prov. 2.3 2. One that is as you have heard mischievous Prov. 10.23 3. One that many Afflictions and Stripes will not work upon nor humble 4. One whose Sin cleaves to him Prov. 27.22 5. One that is full of Words Eccles 10.14 6. One that will utter all his Mind Prov. 29.11 speaks that which he should conceal 7. One that Prosperity destroys Prov. 1.32 8. One that is slothful Eccles 4.5 9. One that trusteth in his own Heart Prov. 28.26 10. One that holdeth it Folly to depart from Evil. Prov. 13.19 Wicked Men compared to

only a Woman and a City but a very evil Woman and a City of Confusion There is the Name of the Lamb much spoken of but his Doctrine undervalued and slighted his Laws trampled upon and violated his Example not regarded for Imitation either by the Bishop himself his Cardinals or inferior Orders having his Humility and Self-denial only in Words like those the Apostle speaketh of that in Words profess God but in Works deny him For under this verbal Humility here is the greatest Pride in the World under this verbal Meekness and Self-denial the greatest Oppression and Cruelty Covetousness and Love of the World as appears by their pompous Garbs their cruel Punishments and the vast Sums of Money brought in from all parts of their Dominion by Sleights and cunning and deceitful Cheats Besides a meer Hodg-podg of Principles one Order or Fraternity professing that which another writes against and cries down which is the more strange to come from a Church infallible Besides the strange Mixtures in their visible Worship of Traditions and human Inventions of lying and diabolical Tricks of blessing by a Cross consecrating holy Water and cleansing by it which are too numerous and tedious to relate and the less needful because every Man that hath seen their Ways hath an imperfect Book of it in his own Mind and can read the Truth of what we say within himself And let any People in the Christian World pretending to Religion be compared to them for supernumerary trifling and insignificant Ceremonies crouded into their pretended Worship nay let all the People in the Christian World be laid in the Ballance against the Church of Rome in this respect and they will be found inconceivably wanting for which we have this Reason to judg her to be Babylon and the City of Confusion If there is more Confusion in Contrariety of Principles Practices contradicting Pretensions crouding in Supernumeraries and Mysteries of Unscriptural Inventions into visible Worship in Rome Papal or the Church of Rome than is to be found amongst any or all People pretending Religion in the Christian World besides Then is Rome Papal or the Church of Rome the great Babylon or City of Confusion But there is more Confusion in the forementioned Respects to be found in Rome Papal or the Church of Rome than in any or all People pretending Religion in the Christian World besides Ergo c. IV. Babylon is not only a Woman and a City a City of Confusion but she is a Whore which is a strange Word to be applied to a great and famous People a Word that carries in it one of the highest Impeachments but no other than was given to Israel Isa 57.3 16.17 Hos 4. 5.3 Judah and Jerusalem in the Days of old upon a very good Reason for they being joined in Covenant with God to serve him in Obedience and Subjection did like to an adulterous Woman break Wedlock and set up other Lovers or Idols in his stead Ezek. 16.38 Hos 1.9 2.2 5. and continued so a long time till a Bill of Divorce was given and God proclaimed them not married to him as his Wife but a Whore and divorced yet it is observable that they used his Name tho they worshipped Idols and cried The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are we IV. Rome Papal or Church of Rome is not only a Woman and a City a City of Confusion but according to Scripture-History and notorious Matter of Fact she is a Whore also and may be justly so called for in the Apostles Time she joined her self to the Lord by firm Ties of a Gospel-Govenant and Profession and was the renowned Spouse of the Son of God owned and profess'd him in the Time of Heathenism received the Apostles and Servants of God amongst them withstood the Fury of the Emperors suffered Persecution had their Faith spoken of throughout the whole World and yet after all this like Israel of old she left God and his holy Laws made Idols to her self of Saints Angels Reliques and Images upon which she doted and forsook the Son of God upon the working and appearance of the Man of Sin who exalted himself into the place of Christ and became her Head by which means she is so far degenerated from what she once was that she retains nothing holds fast nothing of what really appertains to true Godliness but the bare Names of God and Jesus Christ having corrupted the true Worship of the Son of God her first Husband and notoriously abandoned Obedience to him taking this vile Person to be her Head and chief Guide and setting him in the Place of and Dignity above her first Head and true Guide of her Youth and yet like Israel of old still cries The true Church the Catholick Church the Mother-Church are we having on her Forehead a strange Mystery written i. e. God Christ Truth Verity Infallibility and next to this there lies nearest her Heart Devil Pope Lying Deceit Perjury Idolatry and horrible Cruelty towards the best of Men professing Christ and Religion in Uprightness and Truth For which Change of her first Head Husband and Guide of her Youth for this vile Person with which she commits most abominable Lewdness together with the Kings of the Earth she is ranked by the Angel amongst the worst of Women and stiled as her Type and Predecessor of ol● a well-favoured Harlot or of the Angel a Woman a City and notorious Whore which ill and black Characters we conclude with this Argument If there be no Body of professing People in the Christian World that hath so apparently de●lined or adulterated from what they once were deserted the holy Doctrine Example and right Government of Jesus Christ and set up another visible and publick Head of the Church in room and stead of him whose Power and Laws are preferred above and before the Authority and Laws of the Lord Jesus as Rome Papal or Church of Rome hath done Then Rome Papal or Church of Rome is this Whore spoken of But there is no Body of professing People in the Christian World that hath so apparently declined or adulterated or deserted the holy Doctrine Example or right Government of Christ ut suprà Ergo Rome Papal or Church of Rome is this Whore spoken of To reinforce this Argument let it be shewed by any Man that any People different from the Church of Rome hath made such a Change in point of Religion and Headship and Matters thereto pertaining so as that this black Character of Whore can more fitly and fully be made to meet upon them and we must confess our Argument not weighty but till then we conclude it carries Conviction in the Bowels of it V. Babylon this Woman this City of Confusion this Whore is a very great Woman City and Whore And the great City was divided Rev. 16.19 Chap. 17.18 chap. 18.10 Verse 16. And the Woman which thou sawest is that great City