B25425:2028
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.
False-Teachers compared to Clouds without Rain.
2 Pet. 2.17. These are Wells without Water, Clouds that are carried with a Tempest, to whom the Mist of Darkness is reserved for ever. Jude 12. Clouds they are without Rain, carried about of Winds, &c.
AS False-Teachers are compared to Wells without Water, so likewise they are to Clouds without Rain, carried with a Tempest, &c.
Parallels.
Some Clouds seem as if they had much Water or Rain in them, tho empty: So some false Teachers do seem very like the true and faithful Servants and Ministers of Christ; they in outward Show appear devout, and talk like Saints, pretending to much Humility and Godliness, as if they were the very Men that God had appointed to dispense his Word, and heavenly Truth: But alas! they are but mere empty Clouds, being only filled with airy and unprofitable Notions. Some Clouds (as Pliny observes) are nothing else but mere empty Vapours, and these are often carried very swiftly with the Wind: So False-Teachers are carried away as empty Vapours, with the Wind of Delusion, or false Doctrine.