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

Parallels.

THe Devil at first was formed or created by the Almighty; I do not say, he was created a Devil, Sin made him a Devil, but God at first made him; he was created an Angel of Light: So God created wicked Men; they are God's Creatures:* 1.1 Tho God at first made no Man wicked: The Lord created Man upright, but he hath sought out many Inventions. 'Tis Sin that hath made Man so vile.

II. The Devil then is grievously degenerated from what he once was; so are wic∣ked Men from what they were in Adam.

III. The Devil is an Enemy to God; he was God's first Enemy: So are wicked Men cursed Enemies of God, and early Enemies too: 'Tis thought Man became God's Enemy not many days after Satan fell; he is almost as old an Enemy as the Devil is.

IV. The Devil conspired like a vile Traitor against his lawful Sovereign: So have all the ungodly ever done, and still daily do: They would not have God reign, nor his Laws be obeyed, &c. but would magnify themselves, and their cursed Edicts; above the righteous Laws and Statutes of Heaven.

V. The Devil sins freely, naturally, with full purpose, and cannot but sin: So wicked Men sin freely, 'tis sweet and pleasant to them, 'tis like sweet Wine, &c. They delight in Sin;* 1.2 their Hearts (as Solomon says) are fully set in them to do wic∣kedly: They drink in Iniquity, as the Fish drinks Water. Can the Aethiopian change his Skin? then may they who are accustomed to do Evil, learn to do well. Hence saith the Apostle, Having their Eyes full of Adultery, and that cannot cease from Sin.

VI. The Devil hates those that are truly godly, and seeks to beguile and deceive them: So wicked and ungodly Men hate the Saints, and strive to entice and draw away their Hearts from God and his Ways. Hence, as Satan is called a Deceiver, and a Serpent, so are some of his Children.

VII. The Devil's great design is to encourage Vice and all Prophaneness, and by one means or another to suppress real Godliness: So this is the great Design and En∣deavour of some wicked Men.

VIII. The Devil is so vile, that God seeth it necessary to lay a restraint upon him, and put him into Chains, or else the World would not have a Moment's time of Peace and Quiet: So ungodly Men are so much like the Devil in this, that God also sees the like need to restrain them: for as the Devil is boundless in his Wrath, Rage, and Malice against Mankind; so are his cursed Emissaries against their Fellow-Creatures: Hence God puts a Hook into their Jaws, and sets Bars to these swelling Seas.

IX. The Devil trembles at the thoughts of God's Wrath, and dreads the Day that is coming: So do wicked Men fear him, not because they love him, but because they are his Enemies, and as such, they fear he will one day reckon with them.

X. The Devil tempts to Sin; he is not contented to be vile himself, but he would fain have others be vile and ungodly as well as he: So wicked Men tempt, entice, and draw others to Sin; they are not content to be ungodly themselves, but strive to defile and corrupt others also.

XI. The Devil is a Murtherer, a great Murtherer, and takes delight in shedding of Blood,* 1.3 and making Desolation in the Earth, hence called a Lion, and a Dragon: So wicked Persecutors are in this the very Picture of the Devil, viz. great Murtherers; their Feet run swift to shed Blood. How many thousands of innocent Souls have the bloody Roman Devils destroyed within these twelve hundred Years! They delight in spoiling, and making desolate the Inhabitants of the Earth, who oppose their Pride,* 1.4 or stand in the way of their Exaltation; and thence they are called Lions and Dragons likewise.

XII. The Devil would fain make those who fear God miserable in this World, he envies their Happiness, and if he was but let loose upon them, he would utterly de∣prive them of their Goods, of their Children, of their Health, &c. and bring them into a forlorn and miserable Condition, as he dealt with holy Job: So some wicked Men in this are like the Devil, they envy the Peace and Prosperity of God's People, and if God did not restrain them, (were it in their Power) they would rob them of all their Goods, (as some have attempted of late,) nay, and destroy their Off-spring. How many innocent Babes did the Papists destroy in the Massacre in Ireland, crying out, Spare them not, Nits will become Lice! They grutch them their Liberty; and therefore (saith God) The Devil shall cast some of you into Prison, &c.* 1.5 Is the Devil come to be a Pursevant, or an Officer, or to give Warrants to cast into Prison? No, but it is spoken of wicked Persecutors, that the Devil sets on work.

XIII. The Devil is an Accuser, one that vilifies and reproaches all sincere Christi∣ans; he is called the Accuser of the Brethren: Wicked Men are in this also like the Devil, they love to accuse and vilify the Godly in the Land; as Tertullus served Paul,* 1.6 We have found this Man a pestilent Fellow, a Mover of Sedition, &c. They continually labour to render them odious, that so they might be hated, and exposed to the Severity of the Law, and merciless Rage of the rude Rabble.

XIV. The Devil is utterly cast off and forsaken of God, and shall have his Portion in the Lake; there is no hope left him for an Escape; he knows it will for ever be his Portion: So some wicked Men are utterly rejected of God, and given up to a re∣probate Mind, and there is no Hope left for them of escaping the Damnation of Hell; they shall as surely be damned and tormented for ever and ever, as 'tis certain the Devils shall. So that in these, and many other things that I shall pass by, it appears, wicked Men bear a resemblance of the Devil, they are like unto him, they have the Image of the Devil upon them; Sin turns a Man into a Devil.* 1.7 Have not I chosen you twelve? and one of you is a Devil.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Eccles. 7.29.
• * 1.2

  Eccles 8.11. Job 15.16. Jer. 13.3. 2 Pet. 2.24
• * 1.3

  1 Pet. 5.8.
• * 1.4

  Psal. 37.4. Psal. 44.19
• * 1.5

  Rev. 2 10.
• * 1.6

  Acts 24.3, 5.
• * 1.7

  Joh. 6.70.