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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.
Isa. 41.19. I will plant in the Wilderness the Cedar, the Shittah, and the Myrtle-Tree, &c. Isa. 55.13. In the stead of the Thorn, shall come up the Fir-Tree; and in stead of the Briar shall come up the Myrtle-Tree, &c. Zech. 1.8, 11. I saw by Night, and behold a Man riding upon a red Horse, and he stood among the Myrtle-Trees that were in the Bottom.
Isa. 41.19. I will plant in the Wilderness the Cedar, the Shittah, and the Myrtle-Tree, &c. Isa. 55.13. In the stead of the Thorn, shall come up the Fir-Tree; and in stead of the Bryar shall come up the Myrtle-Tree, &c. Zech. 1.8, 11. I saw by Night, and behold a Man riding upon a red Horse, and he stood among the Myrtle-Trees that were in the Bottom.
The wise God, who best knows the Nature and Properties of all Things that his Hands hath made compares the Ungodly oftentimes in holy Scripture to Trees, and other Things that are of a hurtful and evil quality, or are of such a Nature that He sees will suitably set them forth: They are compared to Briars, Thorns, Nettles, &c. And also the Godly are set forth by, and compared to several Sorts of Trees, as to the Palm-Tree, the Cedar, the Willow, &c. and in these Places (as many understand) to the Myrtle-Tree; the Nature of which, together with an useful Parallel, take as followeth.
THe wise God, who best knows the Nature and Properties of all Things that his Hands hath made compares the Ungodly oftentimes in holy Scripture to Trees, and other Things that are of a hurtful and evil quality, or are of such a Nature that He sees will sutably set them forth: They are compared to Bryars, Thorns, Nettles, &c. And also the Godly are set forth by, and compared to several Sorts of Trees, as to the Palm-Tree, the Cedar, the Willow, &c. and in these Places (as many understand) to the Myrtle-Tree; the Nature of which, together with an useful Parallel, take as followeth.