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

Saints compared to Heirs.

Rom. 8.17. If Children, then Heirs, &c.

Rev. 21.7, He that overcometh, shall be Heir of all things.

Note, The Saints of God are Heirs, Heirs of God, Heirs of all things, &c.

Heirs.	Parallel.
THe First-born had a Princely Power and Dominion over their Brethren, who bowed down before them; they were next their Fathers in Honour.	THe Saints are made Kings to God, are called Kings and Princes:* 1.1 A King shall reign in Righteousness, and Princes shall decree Judgment. They shall have Do∣minion over the Mighty of the Earth, in their Day. They are next to Christ in Honour,* 1.2 and shall sit upon the Throne with him.
II. The First-born were Priests in their Father's Family, till the Le∣vites came in.	II. The Saints are Priests as well as Kings to God:* 1.3 He hath made us Kings and Priests, &c. They are called an holy Priesthood, to offer up a holy and acceptable Sacrifice unto God.
III. The First-born had the In∣heritance; the rest had but a Piece of Money. And to this day we see, that Men use to make their Inheri∣tance over to the First-born; and besides the Inheritance, they had a double Portion of Goods.	III. The Saints have the eternal In∣heritance made over to them; the World hath but a small Allowance, for all they have amounts to no more than Vanity. God giveth himself, and all he hath, to Believers; they have a double Portion, an Hundred-fold in this Life, and in the World to come Life everlasting.
IV. An Heir sometimes stays a great while, before he comes to the full Possession of the Inheritance; and until then he is under Tutors and Governors, and differeth but little from a Servant.	IV. The Saints patiently wait a while, (being under Age) before they come to the full Possession of the Inheritance pur∣chased for them by Christ; and until they come to full Age, they are under Tutors and Governors, who deal hardly with them, and they seem not to differ from Servants.
V. The First-born had a peculiar Sort of Apparel, whereby they were distinguished from others; such was Esau's goodly Raiment which Rachel put upon Jacob.	V. The Saints are cloathed with a goodly Raiment, viz. the Righteousness of Christ: Holiness is the Saints Livery, whereby they are distinguished from the rest of the World.
VI. The First-Born had the Blessing annexed to them, and (un∣less they were supplanted, as Esau was by Jacob) they were blest of their Father, especially when their Fathers were at the point of Death.	VI. The Saints are the Blessed of the Lord; none can take either Birth-right or Blessing away from them; they are blessed, and shall be blessed. The Lord Jesus blessed them at his Departure, and that Blessing shall never depart from them.
Heirs.	Disparity.
AMong Men, all a Man's Children are not Heirs, nor can they fully possess the same Estate entirely to themselves, as if but one had it.	BUt all the Saints are Heirs together, they are all Joynt-heirs, and yet every one hath all to himself: They have all one and the same Father, one and the same Christ, one and the same Spirit,

the same Apparel, the same Grace; all one Faith, Hope, &c. all the same Promises, same Attendance, viz. the holy Angels; the same Crown, Kingdom, and Eternal Inheritance.

II. Heirs among Men have but a small Inheritance. What is all this World? Luther called all the Tur∣kish Empire, but a Crust God casts to a Dog.	II. But the Saints are Heirs of all Things, Heirs of Heaven and Earth too, Heirs of God. And what is there more? what can a Man ask, or desire to have? would he have more than all?
III. An Heir among Men is often deprived, by Force or Craft of his Title, and turned out of all.	III. But the Saints cannot by Force or Fraud be deprived of their Title to Eter∣nal Life. That it may be sure and firm to them, it is made over to them by the Oath of God. See Light in the First Volume.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Isa. 32.1.
• * 1.2

  Rev. 3.21.
• * 1.3

  Rev. 1.6. 1 Pet. 2.5.