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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.
A Well is a fit Receptacle for Water, and 'tis expected Water should be therein; but if it be empty, it greatly deceives and disappoints them that come to draw Water out of it: So Ministers should be stored with much Grace and heavenly Doctrine, &c. But those who come to a False-Teacher, to receive Instruction and Comfort for their Souls, are grievously deceived.
II. A Well that hath no good Water in it, may notwithstanding have much Dirt and Filth, and some foul and stinking Water: So False-Teachers, tho they are empty and barren of good Doctrine, yet it may be they have much corrupt, detestable, and abominable Filth of false Doctrine, Error, and Heresy in them, which foolish Ones are greedy of, draw out, and take down, to the poisoning and utter ruin of their Souls.
II. A Well that hath no good Water in it, may notwithstanding have much Dirt and Filth, and some foul and stinking Water: So False-Teachers, tho they are empty and barren of goood Doctrine, yet it may be they have much corrupt, detestable, and abominable Filth of false Doctrine, Error, and Heresy in them, which foolish Ones are greedy of, draw out, and take down, to the poysoning and utter ruine of their Souls.