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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.
Mystery Babylon, or the great Whore, is such a Woman, such a City, such a Whore that the Kings and great Men of the Earth have committed Fornication with. See the Text,1 With whom the Kings of ⟨p. 312⟩the Earth have committed Fornication, i. e. Spiritual Fornication, or Fornication in a Mystery, after a mysterious manner,2 such as Jerusalem of old was charged with, which was a following the same Idolatry that this Woman Babylon had set up, and was devoted unto; and so great was her Fornication,3 that 'tis said, she did corrupt the Earth with it. | VII. Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, is such a Woman, such a City of Confusion, such a Whore that the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication with, and that hath corrupted the Earth with her Fornications, Fornications after a mysterious manner, by following abominable ⟨p. 312⟩Superstition and Idolatry. 1. Hath she adored the Pope as her Lord God, Universal Head, and Bishop infallible, acknowledged above all Laws? so have the Kings, and their misled People, done. 2. Hath she worshipped the Virgin Mary, divers Angels, and many departed Saints? so have the Kings, and their misguided People, done. 3. Hath she adored Images, the Crucifix, and Pictures of pretended Saints? so have the Kings, and their misguided People. 4. Hath she foolishly debased her self with the Adoration of the Relicts of known and unknown Saints? so have the Kings, and their misguided People. 5. Hath she grossly and superstitiously worshipped the true God in a false manner, by crowding in an innumerous Train of Fopperies into his Worship and Service, which he never ordained, as Candlesticks, Altars, Vestments, Spits, Oil, Holy Water, Beads and a World of such like Trumpery? so have the Kings and their misguided People, not only the Emperor of Germany, Kings of France, Spain, Poland, Portugal, that are still under her Influence; but the Kings of England and Scotland too, (before the Reformation got Ground): Upon which we form this Argument. Arg. If there be no Body of People in the Christian World, pretending a Church-State, that hath set up Idolatry to that Degree, and with whom the Kings of the Earth have complied, as Rome Papal, or Church of Rome hath done. Then Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, is the Mysterious Whore of Babylon treated of.