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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.
(2.) The Christian Doctrine and Religion blocked up her Way, on the other hand, that she could not extend her Influence to either neighbouring, or remote Nations, as this Woman, Whore, or City is said to do: For thy Merchants were the great Men of the Earth; for by thy Sorceries were all Nations deceived.1
(2.) The Christian Doctrine and Religion block'd up her Way, on the other hand, that she could not extend her Influence to either neighbouring, or remote Nations, as this Woman, Whore, or City is said to do: For thy Merchants were the great Men of the Earth; for by thy Sorceries were all Nations deceived.1
5. Jerusalem, tho she were guilty of much Blood, from the beginning of her Excellency and Glory, in Solomon's Time, killing Prophets, even all that were sent unto her, murdered John Baptist, and our Lord and Saviour, as also the blessed Martyr, St. Stephen; yet in her could not be found that great Mass of Blood that was shed, and Myriads of Christian Saints that have been barbarously murdered, by Massacre, and public Martyrdom, since they were ruined and destroyed by Titus Vespasian, which we find positively charged upon this City Babylon: 1And I saw the Woman drunk with the Blood of Saints, and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus, and I wondered with great Admiration; as indeed well he might, (as shall be shown.2) And in her was found the Blood of Prophets, and of Saints, and of all that were slain upon the Earth; that is, since the Destruction of Jerusalem.