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TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: 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. KTroposchēmalogia: 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
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Inferences.
This may inform Mankind of their Original, and may tend to keep them humble. Why should any Mortals have such high towering Thoughts of themselves, and vaunt in Pride, and Haughtiness of Heart, spotting, trimming, and decking themselves, when, alas! their Bodies are nothing but Earth, Lumps of Earth: They dwell in Houses of Clay,1 and it is but a little while ere the Worms will feed upon them. Tho now they seem like curious Vessels, or refined Earth, yet in a short space they will be part of the grossest and loathsomest Earth that Eyes can behold, nothing but Filth, and stinking Putrefaction.
THis may inform Mankind of their Original, and may tend to keep them humble. Why should any Mortals have such high towring Thoughts of themselves, and vaunt in Pride, and Haughtiness of Heart, spotting, trimming, and decking themselves, when, alas! their Bodies are nothing but Earth, Lumps of Earth: They dwell in Houses of Clay,1 and it is but a little while ere the Worms will feed upon them. Tho now they seem like curious Vessels, or refined Earth, yet in a short space they will be part of the grossest and loathsomest Earth that Eyes can behold, nothing but Filth, and stinking Putrefaction.
- 1Job 4.19.