B25425:1673
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.
The Epithets expressing the Nature of the Fox, among Writers, are these, viz. Crafty, wary, deceitful, stinking, strong-smelling, quick-smelling, tailed, warlike, or contentious, rough; the Grecians, fiery-coloured, subtle for Slaughter.
The Epithets expressing the Nature of the Fox, among Writers, are these, viz. Crafty, wary, deceitful, stinking, strong-smelling, quick-smelling, tailed, warlike, or contentious, rough; the Grecians, fiery-coloured, subtil for Slaughter.
A wicked and subtle Persecutor is, and may be fitly compared to a Fox, which we shall briefly open in the following Parallel.
A wicked and subtil Persecutor is, and may be fitly compared to a Fox, which we shall briefly open in the following Parallel.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Fox is a crafty and subtle Creature, which appears in these respects following: (1.) In that he claps his Tail between his Legs, when he is pursued. (2.) When he perceiveth he cannot escape, he urines on his Tail, and whisks it on the Dogs, which hath an exceeding strong Scent, insomuch that the Dogs not enduring the Scent, are forced for a while to desist. (3.) He will often, when he is in danger, and no avoiding of it, bite the Dogs on their hinder Legs, for that is the tenderest part about them. (4.) Because the Beast called the Urchin is too strong for him, he taketh him by Craft: for when he casteth himself down upon the Ground, he leapeth upon his Belly, and destroyeth him. (5.) The Fox (Naturalists observe) hath a subtle ⟨p. 242⟩way to take Fish: Wandering by the Shore, he dippeth his Tail in the Water, and the little Fish immediately entangle themselves in it, and so are taken. (6.) By Craft, as Gesner observes, he gets the Badger's Den for his own use; and by laying in the mouth of the Wolfe's Den, an Herb called Sea-Onion, which is contrary to the Nature of Wolves, he frights away that Creature, so that he will not come near it. (7.) He is often troubled with Wasps in the Summer-time, but useth this Wile to destroy them: He hideth himself, but layeth his Tail out; the Wasps fly to his Tail, and when there are abundance in it, he runneth to the Wall, or to some Tree, and striketh his Tail against the Tree, and rubbeth it against the Ground, and so he destroyeth all of them.