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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.
(1.) Because the ten Horns, that afterwards the Roman Power fell into, were not come up, and so could not destroy the Power of Rome in its Heathen State.
(2.) Because Babylon's Persecution, Misery, and Confusion, did not utterly cease, which it must have done, so as to rise no more for ever, if the Power of Rome Heathen destroyed by Constantine, had been this Mystery Babylon.
(3.) Because tho there might be a Body of good People with Constantine, when he overthrew Maxentius, yet the Power of the Kingdom was not so established in the hand of good People, as not afterward to be left to others, as the Text affirms; And the Kingdom shall not be left to another People: For (as we shall anon show) the Kingdom or Power that ceased to be in the hands of Heathens, and by a mighty and divine ⟨p. 306⟩Providence came to be in the hands of a worthy and renowned Christian Emperor, came afterwards into the hands of very Devils incarnate, who acted all the Violence of the Heathen Power over again, and indeed out-did them.
(3.) Because tho there might be a Body of good People with Constantine, when he overthrew Maxentius, yet the Power of the Kingdom was not so established in the hand of good People, as not afterward to be left to others, as the Text affirms; And the Kingdom shall not be left to another People: For (as we shall anon shew) the Kingdom or Power that ceased to be in the hands of Heathens, and by a mighty and divine ⟨p. 306⟩Providence came to be in the hands of a worthy and renowned Christian Emperor, came afterwards into the hands of very Devils incarnate, who acted all the Violence of the Heathen Power over again, and indeed out-did them.