B25425:1705
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.
X. Some are great Thieves, and therefore called the Captains of the Thieves, under whose Conduct and Direction the lesser Thieves do rob and steal: So some Wicked Men are so notorious in Wickedness, that they lead the Van as it were, and are not only examples to others of inventing new coined Oaths, and sinful Fashions, and Customs; but do command or lay some kind of force upon such, who are under their Power, to be as Wicked as themselves, else they turn them off as not fit to do them Service:1 as it is written; If a Ruler hearken to Lies, all his Servants are wicked, (that is) he will so discountenance and discourage Truth and honest Dealing, that none but Liars and Wicked Persons can live with him.
X. Some are great Thieves, and therefore called the Captains of the Thieves, under whose Conduct and Direction the lesser Thieves do rob and steal: So some Wicked Men are so notorious in Wickedness, that they lead the Van as it were, and are not only examples to others of inventing new coined Oaths, and sinful Fashions, and Customs; but do command or lay some kind of force upon such, who are under their Power, to be as Wicked as themselves, else they turn them off as not fit to do them Service:1 as it is written; If a Ruler hearken to Lies, all his Servants are wicked, (that is) he will so discountenance and discourage Truth and honest Dealing, that none but Lyers and Wicked Persons can live with him.
XI. Some Thieves are so merciless, they steal and carry all away that People have: So some Persecutors have been so void of pity and humanity, that they have took all away, which some Godly People had, even their very Beds from under them.