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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.
But there is no united Body of People, or visible Community in the Christian World, that is so great in Name, Power, Multitude and Action, vile Actions, as Rome Papal, or the Church of Rome is— Ergo, Rome Papal, &c. is this great, very great Woman, City, and Whore spoken of. To reinforce this Argument, let it be considered that the Christian World is distinguished or divided into two Parts, viz. Papists and Protestants; the Protestants cannot be this Whore. 1. Because they own Jesus Christ to be Head of the Church, and only him. 2. They have never revolted or changed him, so as to set up another in his room under any Title whatsoever, but profess him to be their Lord, and are in Obedience and Subjection to his Laws in all matters purely Religious. 3. Neither is their Name, Power, Multitude, or Actions, so great by far as the Papists are) they being but small, inconsiderable, and low, in all Papist Countries: And when the Protestant Religion hath gotten up to be the profest Religion of any Nation, Kingdom or City, what is that Nation, Kingdom, or City, in comparison of those Nations, Kingdoms and Cities, where the Papists reign, and Popery is profest? This every intelligent Man hath so full a Prospect of, that it appears needless to give proof by Instances. VI. Babylon, This Woman, City of Confusion, and Whore, which is very great, sitteth upon many Waters;1 which is expounded to be Peoples, and Multitudes, and Nations, and Tongues; And he (the Angel) said unto me, 2the Waters which thou sawest where the Whore sitteth, are Peoples, and Multitudes, and Nations, and Tongues, &c. Which according to the learned Mede, and a famous French Author, is more than a third part of the ten considerable parts, which the Roman Monarchy fell into, not long before the Pope, Man of Sin, or Head of Mystery Babylon, assumed the Imperial Seat and Crowns, which afterward became ten Kingdoms with crowned Heads, assisting the Beast against the Lamb, and persecuting of the Saints, distinguished into ten Kingdoms or Empires. 1. Of Germany. 2. France. 3. England. 4. Scotland. 5. Denmark. 6. Polonia. 7. The Kingdom ⟨p. 311⟩of Spain. 8. The Kingdom of Navarre. 9. The Kingdom of Hungary. 10. The Kingdom of Naples and Sicily. All which Rome Papal had in Possession, as our French Author saith, in the days of Pope Leo the tenth, which was less than 200 Years. | VI.