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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 Pilgrims.
Heb. 11.13. They confessed, that they were Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth. 1 Pet. 2.11. I beseech you, as Strangers and Pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly Lusts, that war against the Spirit.
Note. The Saints of God are in these Scriptures compared to Strangers and Pilgrims.
Simile. | Parallel. A Pilgrim is one that travelleth from one Place to another, and is far from home. | The Saints of God are spiritual Travellers, they are far from their Father's House, Heaven is their everlasting Home, and thither they are going. All the holy Patriarchs and Prophets confessed they were Pilgrims on the Earth. Jacob said, The Days of the Years of my Pilgrimage, (rather than the Days of my Life,1) because of the Uncertainty of his Abode here, and in respect of his removing from Place to Place. II. A Pilgrim that sets out in a long Journey, takes care to free himself of all manner of Weights, and unnecessary Burdens, and whatsoever else may tend to weary, or unfit him for his Journey. | II. So the spiritual Pilgrim, when he first sets out in the Ways of God, lays aside every Weight,