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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.
II. It cannot be the Turks and Saracens, for two Reasons offered by the Learned Mead, lib. 3. p. 643.
1. Because tho they did arise to great Power in the World, yet they had not their Seat in that great City, which in St. John's Time reigned over the Kings of the Earth, which this Babylon is expressly said to have.1
1. Because tho they did arise to great Power in the World, yet they had not their Seat in that great City, which in St. John's Time reigned over the Kings of the Earth, which this Babylon is expresly said to have.1
2. That they did not rise by Apostasy from the Christian Religion, which this Babylon (with her Head, the Man of Sin) did; for, as this worthy Author saith, the Turk (whatever he be) could be no Apostate, because he was of a Nation that never was Christian.
2. That they did not rise by Apostacy from the Christian Religion, which this Babylon (with her Head, the Man of Sin) did; for, as this worthy Author saith, the Turk (whatever he be) could be no Apostate, because he was of a Nation that never was Christian.