B25425:1937
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.
Ministers compared to Pillars.
Gal. 2.9. And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed Pillars, &c.
Ministers are like Pillars in the House of God.
MInisters are like Pillars in the House of God.
Simile. | Parallel. A Pillar helps to support and bear up the Building. | SO Ministers help to support and bear up the Church and House of God. II. Pillars are a great Ornament to a Building; they serve not only for Use, but for Beauty. The two Brazen Pillars in Solomon's Temple were curiously adorned with Nets of Chequer-Work, Lilly-Work, and Rows of Pomegranates, &c. | II. So godly Ministers are a great Ornament to the Church, being gloriously adorned (many of them) with the Gifts and Graces of the blessed Spirit, which some think was figured forth by the Pillars of the Temple, in respect of the Chequer and Lilly-Work; and by the Pomegranates, the Fruitfulness of their Conversation, &c. III. These Pillars stood in the Porch of the Temple. | III. So the Apostles, those chief Pillars of the Gospel-Church, lived in the beginning of the Church, saith Mr. Lee,