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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.
Saints compared to Eagles.
Isa. 40.31. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their Strength, they shall mount up with Wings as Eagles. Psal. 103.5. Who satisfieth thy Mouth with good Things, so that thy Youth is renewed like the Eagles.
Note. In some Things the Saints are likened to Eagles.
Simile. | Parallel. AN Eagle is the chief amongst the Fowls of the Air, as a Lion is the King or chief among all the Beasts of the Earth. | SO the Saints are the chief of Men, the Excellent, as David calls them: Thou art my Lord, 1my Goodness extendeth not to thee, but to the Saints that are in the Earth, and to the Excellent, in whom is all my Delight. The Righteous are said to be more excellent than their Neighbour. 2The World is not worthy of them. Hence Jabez, that holy and gracious Man, is said to be more honourable than his Brethren. A godly Man is of a more noble Extraction than the Men of the Earth. Saints have an honourable Pedigree and Descent, they are born of God, are (as it were) of the Blood-Royal of Heaven, and nearly related to the Prince of the Kings of the Earth. They daily converse, have Communion and Fellowship with the Father, and the Son, the glorious Sovereign of all the World. They are delicately and most splendidly fed every day. Others live and feed upon the empty Things of this World, nay, on the Dust of the Earth, on Ashes, Husks, and Gravel; as the Holy-Ghost declares, They feed upon the Wind,