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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 Mountains.
Isa. 41.15. Thou shalt thresh the Mountains, and beat them small, &c. Isa. 2.14. Upon all high Mountains that are lifted up, &c. Zech. 4.7. Who art thou, O great Mountain? &c.
Isa. 41.15. Thou shalt thresh the Mountains, and beat thm small, &c. Isa. 2.14. Ʋpon all high Mountains that are lifted up, &c. Zech. 4.7. Who art thou, O great Mountain? &c.
Parallels.
Mountains are high and lifted up, and seem to have the Preeminence: So the wicked Princes and Potentates of the Earth are high in Power, and seem to be lifted up in Pride and Arrogancy, and to have Preeminence over the Righteous.