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mercy_n	woman_n	wrath_n	youth_n	20	3	7.7352	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37483	Tropologia, or, A key to open Scripture metaphors the first book containing sacred philology, or the tropes in Scripture, reduc'd under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each / partly translated and partly compil'd from the works of the learned by T.D. The second and third books containing a practical improvement (parallel-wise) of several of the most frequent and useful metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes of the Old and New Testament / by B.K.	De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.; Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing D895; ESTC R24884	855,682	1,006

Account given of one of the greatest Battles fought that ever was between Man and Man between Man and Hell between God and Man yet Job went away with Victory True Grace is often assaulted yet never was nor ever shall be overthrown or conquered 4. God brings his Jobs under this severe Dispensation and then runs upon them like a Giant that he might convince and reprove Satan and all wicked Men that continually slander vilify and reproach the Godly saying They serve the Lord for their own Ends and follow him for Loaves that they attend upon him for an Estate or for vain Glory the pleasant and good Things of this World Doth Job serve God saith Satan for nought He is a very Hypocrite tho he now seem so godly No such Zealot as he but he hath a base and selfish End and Design in all he doth If God do but run upon him like a Giant and strip him of all these worldly Comforts which he enjoys you will then see what becomes of his Religion He will curse God to his face The Lord did on purpose cause these things to be acted and to come upon Job for ever to stop the Mouth of Satan and his Servants to shew that his Children follow him for the Love they bear to him and for the Excellency they find in him and in his Ways and from that Bond and Duty that is incumbent upon them Tho he strip them naked of all they have yet they will cleave to him 5. God ran thus upon his Servant Job that he might become an Example of Patience and Sufferings to future Generations and that God's People might hence have wherewith to sustain themselves under killing severe Dispensations and not faint when they are rebuked of God For if God thus deals with his beloved Jobs let no Soul give up their Hope or utterly despair who are under the sorest and most amazing Dispensations of the Almighty Whatsoever was written afore-time was written for our Instruction that we through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope Take my Brethren the Prophets saith the Apostle who have spoken unto you in the Name of the Lord for an Example of suffering Affliction and of Patience 6. God thus deals with his dear Children in this World to increase and add to their Glory in the World to come Afflictions here will not go without their Reward hereafter No Believer shall lose by suffering hard things according to the Will of God He doth it not simply for his own Pleasure but for our Profit that we might be Partakers of his Holiness Though at present no Affliction seemeth joyous but grievous nevertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable Fruit of Righteousness to them that are exercised thereby And hence Paul saith Our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal Weight of Glory The Inferences are these 1. Terror 2. Counsel 3. Comfort 1. Terror Let all ungodly Men and Women hence tremble for if God breaks his own dear Children thus to pieces and runneth upon them like a Giant how will he come forth in Wrath and Vengeance upon them Their only way is to submit themselves at his Foot whilst there is Mercy For when once he is risen up and awaketh as one out of Sleep like a Giant or mighty Man that shouteth by reason of Wine He will break their Bones in pieces and put them to perpetual Reproach Wo●●to that Man that God stirs up all his Strength and Wrath against when his absolute Design and Purpose is to kill and utterly destroy God is ●●ngry ●●ith the Wicked every day If he return not he will whet his Sword he hath bent his Bow and made it ready He hath prepared for them the Instruments of Death 2. Counsel to you that are the Enemies of the dreadful Majesty Bless God you are not cut off that you are not ground to Pouder and before now amongst the Damned And let me advise you in Love to your Souls not to adventure one step further in a way of Sin and Rebellion against God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Therefore God's Counsel is Kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish in the Way when once his Wrath is kindled but a little Blessed are all they that put their Trust in him God is now ready to treat with you from the Mercy-Seat but the Time is near when he will get upon the Seat and Throne of Judgment and then it will be to late 3. Comfort to you that are Saints and under Afflictions This may administer much Consolation unto you You see God deals no otherwise with you than he did with blessed Job nay what are all thy Sufferings compared with Job's Sufferings And you have heard that God in his severest Dispensations designs your Good and that he will make you Gainers by all at last and if he lays an heavy Burthen upon you he will give you Strength to undergo it Wait therefore patiently upon the Lord and be humbled under his mighty Hand How did Job behave himself when God did all this to him Did he oppose did he strive with his Maker No no Job knew that was in vain bu●● he tells us He put Sackloth upon his Loins and defiled his Horn in the Dust My Face saith he is foul with Weeping and on my Eye-l●●ds is the Shadow of Death The only way under the heavy Strokes of the Almighty is to prostrate our Souls at his Foot When God lets out visible Tokens of his afflicting Hand upon us we should let out visible Tokens of our Humiliation under his Hand when we are greatly afflicted we should be greatly affected when God seems angry we should be troubled when he runs on us in a way of Affliction we should fall down before him in a way of Contrition Ephraim's Sighs and Moans were Musick in God's Ears Ephraim did not murmur against God but mourned before God The way to have God's Rod removed is to be sensible of the Rod and who hath appointed it If we would be free from Affliction we must be humbled for our Sin if we are humbled under the Cross God will soon exalt us upon the Throne God compared to a Lion Hosea 13.7 I will be unto them as a Lion as a Leopard will I observe them I will meet them as a Bear bereaved of her Whelps And I will rent the Caul of their Heart and then will I devour them like a Lion WE have here a threefold Simile which sheweth the fearful State of a wicked and provoking People 1. I will be unto them as a Lion I will devour them like a Lion 2. As a Leopard I will observe them 3. I will meet them as a Bear bereaved of her Whelps Doct. 1. God in his breaking in upon a wicked and rebellious People in a way of Wrath and Judgment will be unto them

that in the words of the Apostle there may be an opposition between this Life and that which is to come this life being compared to an obscure place which needs a Candle to light it which Candle is the Prophetical Revelations but life to come is compared to a clear Day in which Christ our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 phosporos or light-bringer shall illuminate the Eyes of believers with a most full and bright radiance And thus the great perfection of the Prophetical Scriptures as also of the Apostolical which are exactly conformable to them and as it were an explanatory light to them is proved because most sufficient with the help of Divine Grace for the obtaining of Everlasting life c. The parts of the day are the Morning Noon and Evening Psal. 55.17 Evening and Morning and at Noon will I pray c. The morning season metaphorically denotes diligence sedulity and care because men rise early to go about such business as they are careful of and are much upon their hearts Job 8.5 Psal. 5.3 and 92.2 and 101.8 Prov. 8.17 2 Chron. 36.15 Jer. 35.4 Zeph. 3.5 7. The Watchman said the morning cometh and also the Night c. Some understand that the morning is here put put for Prosperity as if he had said to Dumah or the Idumeans The yoke of the Israelites being shaken off of thy Neck as it is said Gen. 27.42 You shall enjoy liberty prosperity and plenty of good things But another Calamity hangs over thee from the Assyrian by which as with the darkness of night thou shalt be obscured Others take the word morning properly but not unlike the former sense the morning indeed comes as ye ask ver 11. Watchmen what of the night that is when shall the day-dawn come And what will happen then But together with it that night comes which is more dark and terrible For when the days are calamitous there arises with the Sun as it were a new light yet ending in a night more full of calamity then the former Illyricus says Although the Morning properly taken will come yet the metaphorical morning will not come but it will be a metaphorical Night The Chald. takes it metaphorically but applies it more generally thus it paraphrases the whole verse The Prophet said there is a reward provided for the just and vengeance for the wicked if you will repent do it while you may Esa. 47.11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee the morning thereof thou knowest not so the Hebrew that is whose sudden coming or beginning thou that shalt not at first mind as in the morning betimes the Sun rises and darts out its beams upon a sudden Some think that the Prophet derides the vanity of the Chaldean Astrologers Others thus the morning or day break gives an indication of the Suns coming so this evil that was to come upon Babylon was not without its marks and tokens that went before it which were as illustrious as the dawn that ushers in or harbingers the day But not known to Babilon because of its blindness and conceited security Hos. 10.15 In a morning shall the King of Babylon be utterly cut off that is swiftly and suddenly He speaks of Hosea the Son of Elah 2 Kings 17.1 5. c. This term moreover denotes divine grace to believers because of the beauty and sweetness of the springing and arriving light For as the morning brings the beginning of day light after the tedious sadness of a dark night and is no little comfort to them especially if sick that are weary of darkness and earnestly long for day so the grace of divine consolation does wonderfully recreate and refresh the hearts of such as are troubled and afflicted c. Of which take two examples Psal. 110.3 From the Womb of the morning thou hast the Dew of Of which place many have said many things It is certainly to be expounded by a metaphor denoting the Grace of God given in his Word which is compared to the Morning Esa. 58.8 Hosea 6.3 A Womb is attributed to the morning because of the mystery of God in his spiritual begetting of his Children The unfolding of this Trope is thus as the Dew by a wonderful and invisible way as it were born of the Womb of the morning that is it plentifully falls at that time without any help or assistance of man Job 38.28 So by the grace and mercy of God and by the power of his heavenly word but in a far more abstruse and mystical manner the youth of the Messiah that is that willing people in the day of his power and in the beauties of holiness of which the Psalmist speaks in the same verse See Psal 22.30 31. Ps. 87.4 5. Esa. 53.10 and 54.1 Micah 5.7 John 1.12 13. and 3.5 8. Jam. 1.18 c. The other place is Esa. 8.20 where the morning is put for the grace of God and that comfort and peace of spirit which flows from it the words in Hebrew are because there is no morning in him But Interpreters do not agree whether this is to be understood of men or the perverse Doctrines of such as consulted them that pretended to foretell things to come by a devilish or familiar Spirit If it be referred to men it bears this sence To the Law and to the Testimony If they speak not according to this word they shall have no morning that is true light This is true in it self but the letter of the text is not altogether conformable to it for it is not in the plural to them but in the singular to him or it But others expound this text better thus To the Law and the Testimony that is recourse must be had thither for the Law and Testimony must be consulted according to the Will of God otherwise that is if they do not speak the truth of Divine Grace there let them speak an Ironical concession joyned with indignation let them speak because they will not do otherwise though seriously and frequently admonished let them speak I say according to this word viz. in which there is no morning that is no light of Divine Grace or Comfort ver 21. And let him pass through it the Earth hardly bestead and hungry the singular for the plural and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry they shall fret themselves and curse their King and their God c. Now whereas the Prophet calls this speech of that wicked People viz. that they were to seek Councel of them that had familiar Spirits c. and not of the Law and Testimony a word without a morning or void of the light of divine Grace and Consolation it certainly follows according to the intention of the Prophet that that morning of Grace and Comfort is to be found in that word of the Law and Testimony alone with sure and safe counsel in Tribulations and Afflictions which to distressed minds is like the morning sweetness or