B25425:1375
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.
V. Kings sometimes meet with great Trouble and Sorrow after they are anointed, before they come to the quiet Enjoyment of their Crowns; they have been severely persecuted, and chased from one Place to another, as King David particularly was: So the Saints of God, tho they are anointed with the Oil of Gladness, and have an Assurance given them of the Crown of Glory, meet with very great Trouble in this World, being persecuted, tormented, afflicted, and sometimes having no certain Dwelling-Place, as is said of some of the ancient Worthies, Heb. 11.1
VI. Some Kings have possessed and reigned over many Kingdoms, their Dominions have been very great: The Saints are the Heirs of a Kingdom, nay• all the Kingdoms under the whole Heavens shall be given to them.1 The Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, &c. And the Kingdoms, and Dominions, and the Greatness of the Kingdom, under the whole Heaven, shall be given to the People of the Saints of the Most High, &c.