B25425:1737
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.
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 or by the Faith of their Parents:3 but what said the Baptist? O Generation of Vipers, &c. Think not to say within your selves, We have Abraham to our Father, &c. Or as another worthy Writer observes upon the place: As the Viper eats (saith he) through the Bowels of his Dam, that they may come to Life; so you Scribes and Pharisees kill your Mother, the Synagogue, your Fathers, the Prophets, and faithful Teachers, that you may live in your Pride and Covetousness. —
- 1Aristot, Hist. of Anim. lib. 8. ch. 29.
- 2Plin. lib. 10. p. 62. Rhod lib. 3. cap. 37.
- 3Mat. 3.7, 9.
V. Gesner, and divers others, affirm, that the Female Viper is the worst,1 and her Biting more deadly than the Males; after the biting of the Male there are but two Holes, but after the biting of the Female there are four. See the Verses of Nicander.