B25425:1606
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.
A Mad Man is one that is deprived of his natural Reason, a Beast (as it were) in the shape of a Man: So all the Ungodly of the Earth have lost their spiritual Reason, they are Men of no Understanding, and more fitly may be said to be Beasts in the form or shape of Men, than such as have lost their humane Reason.
II. Some mad Men are desperate, and very mischievous, care not what hurt they do: O how desperate are wicked Men! how will they swear, curse, and blaspheme the holy Name of God, and dare God to damn them; and for Mischief, they delight in nothing more, spoiling and utterly destroying their innocent Neighbours.
III. Mad Men are usually bound, lest they should proceed too far in their mischievous Ways: So God chains up, or puts wicked Men into Bonds, limits their Power, lest they should go too far in their cruel and mischievous Designs against his People.