B25425:2018
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 Fox is not only crafty, but cruel to harmless Creatures: So are False-Teachers to the Souls of Men.
III. Foxes invade in the Night-Time, like Wolves, &c. So do Deceivers, whilst Ministers sleep, or are secure, or neglect their Watch.
IV. Foxes are great Spoilers of Vineyards: So False-Teachers do great hurt to the Church of God.
V. Foxes never go strait forward, but by crooked Windings, &c. So False-Teachers never keep to the plain Letter, and express Meaning of the Word of God, but have their Shifts and Evasions, and unnatural Inferences, whereby they seek to defend their evil Doctrine, &c.
VI. Foxes are often taken by Traps that are laid for them, &c. So are False-Teachers often found out and discovered by the true Ministers of Christ: But these, as natural brute Beasts, were made to be taken and destroyed.