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.

ARrows are shot out of a Bow by some Man; some Arm must bend the Bow, and shoot the Arrow, or the Arrow moves not: So all Afflictions come from God, who is the efficient Cause of them; hence called the Arrows of the Almighty.

II. Arrows flie swift, and wound suddenly: So Afflictions come very speedily oftentimes with a glance, as an Arrow, quick as a Thought.

III. Arrows come unexpectedly oftentimes, and wound a Man: So Afflictions come many times upon a Person or People unexpectedly: When they cry Peace and Safety, then sudden Destruction comes upon them.

IV. An Archer hath commonly many Arrows; his Quiver is full of them: So God hath many Judgments; we read of his Quiver too; He can send one Arrow after another.

* 1.11. He hath the Pestilence; this is one of his Arrows: Thou shalt not be afraid for the Ter∣ror by Night, nor for the Arrow that flieth by Day, nor for the Pestilence that walketh in Dark∣ness, &c.

* 1.22. He hath Famine; this is another of his Arrows When I shall send upon them the Arrow of Famine, &c.

3. He hath the Sword: This is another Arrow of the Almighty, and this Arrow God shot at Job;* 1.3 He brought upon him the Sabeans, who slew his Servants with the Edg of the Sword.

4. He hath Thunder-Bolts and Hail-stones, which are also some of the Arrows of his Quiver; and these are in readiness against the Day of Battel.

5. The withdrawings of God from a Soul or People, are also part of the Arrows of his Quiver,* 1.4 and these go deepest of all, they go to the very Heart: For thine Arrows stick fast in me, saith David.

V. Arrows flie secretly, and make no Noise, they are felt before they are seen: So many Afflictions flie silently upon a Man, stealing upon him, and wounding him unobserved and unseen.

VI. Arrows are sharp Things, and made sometimes more sharp than ordinary, as the Ar∣cher sees cause: So Afflictions are very sharp and bitter Things, and sometimes God makes them sharper than at another time: I will make mine Arrows drunk with Blood. Arrrows are Instruments drawing Blood,* 1.5 and some Rebukes and Judgments of God are like unto them. The Arrows of the Almighty are within me,* 1.6 the Poyson whereof drinketh up my Spirit.

Job seems to allude to the Custom of those cruel Men,* 1.7 who, when they pursued the Enemies with deadly Hatred, and would wound them incurably, used to dip the Heads of their Arrows, the Top of their Spears, and the Point of their Swords, &c. in Poyson, that so every Wound might be Death: The Poyson of such Arrows, &c. drinks up the Spirit, and corrupts the Blood.

Job compares the Arrows God shot at him, not to ordinary Arrows, which kill only by piercing, but to poysoned Arrows, which kill by infecting. Afflictions, like Ar∣rows, put a Man to great Pain. When a Man hath Terror without, and Terror within, Terror coming from the Wrath of Man, and Terror coming from the Wrath of God; his Potion is bitter: Such Arrows are sharp and tormenting.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Psal. 91.5.
• * 1.2

  Ezek. 5.16.
• * 1.3

  Job 1.15.
• * 1.4

  psal. 38.1, 2.
• * 1.5

  Deut. 32.42.
• * 1.6

  Job 6.4.
• * 1.7

  Caryl.