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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.
Parallels.
I. A Man smites such as have offended him with his Hand, and with a Rod or Sword: So God makes use of the Wicked, as an Instrument to chastise his Children, when they transgress his Law, and grievously sin against him.
I. A Man smites such as have offended him with his Hand, and with a Rod or Sword: So God makes use of the Wicked, as an Instrument to chastize his Children, when they transgress his Law, and grievously sin against him.
II. As a Hand or Rod lays on harder or softer Blows, according to the Pleasure and Purpose of him that strikes: So God lets the Wicked out upon his own People, to oppress and afflict them as he fees good, either in a milder or more severe manner.
III. When a Father hath chastised his Children sufficiently, and throughly humbled them, he sometimes casteth the Rod into the Fire: So when God hath by the Wicked, who are his Rod, throughly humbled his People, and taken away their Sin, he will throw the Wicked, their bloody Persecutors, into the Fire of his Wrath: For yet a very little while,