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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.
Wicked Men compared to Swine.
Mat. 7.6. Neither cast your Pearls before Swine. 2 Pet. 2.22. The Dog is turned to his Vomit again, and the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the Mire.
Some Sort of wicked Men are more especially in these Scriptures compared to Hogs or Swine; we shall in the following Parallels show who they are, and how fitly they may be resembled to them.
SOme Sort of wicked Men are more especially in these Scriptures compared to Hogs or Swine; we shall in the following Parallels shew who they are, and how fitly they may be resembled to them.
Metaphor. | Parallel. Swine love to be in the Mud, they will wallow in Filth and miry Places, which Sheep, and divers other Creatures strive as much as they can to avoid. This Beast (saith Gesner) is a most impure and unclean Beast, and its Nature ⟨p. 217⟩