B25425:2098
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.
(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.
(6.) He (that is, the Man of Sin, or Head of this Babylonish State) was to rise by Apostacy, 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 expresly, that in the latter Times some shall depart from the Faith, &c. But Rome Heathen did not rise by Apostacy from the Christian Religion, or a departing from the Faith, which they never profess'd, as is evident to the whole World: Ergo Rome Heathen cannot be this Babylonish State.
(7.) This Man of Sin, or Head of Mystery Babylon, lay hid in the Apostle's Time, and was not revealed:1 but the Power of Rome Heathen did not then lie hid, or wanted to be revealed; for it stood visible and high, upon a Hill, even upon seven Hills, according to the Roman Poet, Ovid, (who lived about the very Time of Christ's being on Earth) in Lib. de Tristibus.
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