B25425:2082
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.
From whence did proceed the Murders, Massacres, and Martyrdoms of all the Religious Professors of Christianity, that have died by violence in the Christian World, for the space of twelve hundred Years last past? And from what People did proceed those horrid Oaths, Blasphemies, and Execrations, that the World hath woefully been acquainted with, most horrid and strangely astonishing to repeat?
From whence did proceed the Murthers, Massacres, and Martyrdoms of all the Religious Professors of Christianity, that have died by violence in the Christian World, for the space of twelve hundred Years last past? And from what People did proceed those horrid Oaths, Blasphemies, and Execrations, that the World hath wofully been acquainted with, most horrid and strangely astonishing to repeat?
Came these unparalleled Degrees of Impiety from the Turks? from the Waldensians, Lutherans, Calvinists, or any Non-conforming Protestants? No, no. Why, whose Language then is it? Whose! Why, 'tis the Language of the Beast of the bottomless Pit, and bloody Whore, who bare these blasphemous Sons of her own Body, daily nourishes them at her Breast, and strengthens them in their sinful Courses, by accounting them the Sons, the precious Sons of Zion, the true Sons of the Catholic Church, the Darlings of Heaven, the beloved Ones of the Virgin Mary, and giving them Pardons for these bold and Heaven-daring Sins, as often as they do commit them, and come to ask Pardon for them; so that Sin and Pardon is as constant and common with them, as Breathing and Eating. And these Things are done to seal and confirm Lies, which is the more heavy, heinous, and prodigious: For if Men may lie by allowance; may kill, and shed innocent Blood, without Control of Conscience, and Church-Censures; may swear and blaspheme, and challenge God himself to damn them; may burn Men for Religion, consume Cities to Ashes, conspire the Death of Kings, the Ruin and Overthrow of Kingdoms, whore, and murder Infants; and yet be accounted a Church, the Members and Parts of it, called Saints, holy Children, and Sons of the Most High God: Then may we claim a Patent, and take a License to change the Name of all Things, and alter all the Idea's of the Minds of Men; call and account Beelzebub a good God, and all his black Tribe, the pure Saints of the Most High; call the lower Regions of Blackness and Darkness, to which he is confined,