B25425:1735
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.
II. The Viper devours Scorpions, and thereby the Poison becomes stronger: So the Pharisees and Sadducees, taking in the poisonous Opinions of their corrupt Rabbins, by adding their own, increased the Poison of their vile Errors. Blackwood.
II. The Viper devours Scorpions, and thereby the Poison becomes stronger: So the Pharisees and Sadduces, taking in the poisonous Opinions of their corrupt Rabbins, by adding their own, encreased the Poison of their vile Errors. Blackwood.
III. The Viper hath a beautiful Skin, tho inwardly very venomous: So those Pharisees, like other painted Hypocrites, made a fair Show in the Flesh, appeared devout, and glorious to Men, but were inwardly full of the Poison of Lust, and abominable Error.
III. The Viper hath a beautiful Skin, tho inwardly very venemous: So those Pharisees, like other painted Hypocrites, made a fair Shew in the Flesh, appeared devout, and glorious to Men, but were inwardly full of the Poyson of Lust, and abominable Error.
IV. Young Vipers (as Aristotle, Pliny, Rhodogin, 1and others affirm) eat their way into the World through their Mothers Belly, (tho some seem to doubt of the Truth of this generally received Opinion): So the Scribes, and Pharisees cried out, We are Abraham's Children, &c. and from thence concluded, they were meet Subjects for Baptism, and should be saved: They, like Vipers, as one observes, would needs find a way to Heaven through the Bowels of their Ancestors,2