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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 Cedars.
Psal. 92.12. He shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon; the Trees of the Lord are full of Sap. Psal. 104.16. The Cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted, &c. Hos. 14.5. — And cast forth his Root as Lebanon.
God's People, their Growth and Rooting, are in these Scriptures compared to the Cedar-Tree, the Cedar in Lebanon, in Greek Libanos, which was a Mountain in the North Part of the Land of Canaan, possessed of old Time by the Hivites, Judg. 3.3. afterwards by the Israelites; on it grew many stately Cedars, &c.
GOd's People, their Growth and Rooting, are in these Scriptures compared to the Cedar-Tree, the Cedar in Lebanon, in Greek Libanos, which was a Mountain in the North Part of the Land of Canaan, possessed of old Time by the Hivites, Judg. 3.3. afterwards by the Israelites; on it grew many stately Cedars, &c.