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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.
(5.) This Head of the Babylonish State is said to sit in the Temple of God, which the Power of Rome Heathen did not do, neither in the Temple of Jerusalem, nor in the Church, which is more properly the Temple of God: For the Jews kept the Possession of the Literal Temple, till it was destroyed; and for the Church of God, the Heathen Emperors never loved it so well, at to make their Residence in it. But the Bishop of Rome, before he showed himself to be that wicked One, viz. the Man of Sin, d•d evidently sit in the Church or Temple of God, and so fulfilled this Prophecy in the very Letter of it.
(5.) This Head of the Babylonish State is said to sit in the Temple of God, which the Power of Rome Heathen did not do, neither in the Temple of Jerusalem, nor in the Church, wh•ch is more properly the Temple of God: For the Jews kept the Possession of the Literal Temple, till it was destroyed; and for the Church of God, the Heathen Emperors never loved it so well, at to make their Residence in it. But the Bishop of Rome, before he shewed himself to be that wicked One, viz. the Man of Sin, d•d evidently sit in the Church or Temple of God, and so fulfilled this Prophecy in the very Letter of it.
(6.) He (that is, the Man of Sin, or Head of this Babylonish State) was to rise by Apostasy, or falling away from the Christian Religion: 2 Thess. 2.3. There shall come a falling away first; exactly agreeing with another Prophecy to the same purpose, 1 Tim. 4.1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter Times some shall depart from the Faith, &c. But Rome Heathen did not rise by Apostasy from the Christian Religion, or a departing from the Faith, which they never professed, as is evident to the whole World: Ergo Rome Heathen cannot be this Babylonish State.