B25425:1782
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.
Eagles are very swift in their Flight, and that especially when they pursue their Prey: So cruel Persecutors are swift to shed Blood:1 They haste like Eagles to the Prey.
EAgles are very swift in their Flight, and that especially when they pursue their Prey: So cruel Persecutors are swift to shed Blood:1 They haste like Eagles to the Prey.
II. Eagles are quarrelsome Creatures, preying, devouring, envious, proud, lofty, the Plague and Tormenters of all other Birds or Fowls of Heaven, (as Naturalists observe.) Gesner reports, that in a certain Eagle's Nest were found three hundred Ducks, one hundred and sixty Geese, forty Hares, and many Fishes, &c. In these respects wicked Men, or bloody Persecutors, may fitly be compared to them: They are very quarrelsome, always seeking occasion against the Innocent; envious, proud, and lofty, as appeared in Pharaoh, and others. They are the very Plague and Torment of all their Neighbours. How many hath the Roman Eagle destroyed! how many Thousands, nay, Hundred Thousands of the Sheep and Lambs of Jesus Christ have been found in her Nest! (as I may so say.) In her was found the Blood of Prophets,