B25425:2129
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.
and next to this there lies nearest her Heart, Devil, Pope, Lying, Deceit, Perjury, Idolatry, and horrible Cruelty towards the best of Men, professing Christ and Religion in Uprightness and Truth: For which Change of her first Head, Husband, and Guide of her Youth, for this vile Person, with which she commits most abominable Lewdness, together with the Kings of the Earth, she is ranked by the Angel amongst the worst of Women, and styled, as her Type and Predecessor of ol•, a well-favoured Harlot, or of the Angel, a Woman, a City, and notorious Whore, which ill and black Characters we conclude with this Argument: If there be no Body of professing People in the Christian World, that hath so apparently declined or adulterated from what they once were, deserted the holy Doctrine, Example, and right Government of Jesus Christ, and set up another visible and public Head of the Church in room and stead of him, whose Power and Laws are preferred above and before the Authority and Laws of the Lord Jesus, as Rome Papal, or Church of Rome hath done: Then Rome Papal, or Church of Rome is this Whore spoken of: But there is no Body of professing People in the Christian World, that hath so apparently declined, or adulterated, or deserted the holy Doctrine, Example, or right Government of Christ, ut suprà: Ergo, Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, is this Whore spoken of. To reinforce this Argument, let it be showed by any Man, that any People different from the Church of Rome hath made such a Change, in point of Religion and Headship, and Matters thereto pertaining, so as that this black Character of Whore can more fitly and fully be made to meet upon them, and we must confess our Argument not weighty; but till then, we conclude it carries Conviction in the Bowels of it. V. Babylon, this Woman, this City of Confusion, this Whore, is a very great Woman, City, and Whore: And the great City was divided. 1And the Woman which thou sawest, is that great City, &c. The Merchants stood afar off, saying, Alas! alas! that great City, Babylon, that mighty City. Again they wept, saying, Alas! 2alas! that great City, which was clothed, &c. What City is like unto this great City! And cried, weeping and wailing, 3saying, Alas! alas! that great City, wherein were made rich! &c.