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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.
And as they dare not gainsay upon their Salvation, so will they embrace and use all Opportunities to fight and make Wars, overcome Cities, and lay waste Countries and Kingdoms, to kill and slay, by Massacre, and all manner of murdering ways, all Ranks and Degrees of Men, that oppose the horrid Principles and Practices of those cursed Children. Nay, they will go boldly to their own Death, when convict, and condemned for Villainies, and deny that to day, that they were convicted of but yesterday, and tho never so notoriously guilty, yet will take it upon their Death and Salvation, that they are as innocent as the Child unborn. What can this be, tho they drink it down for most sweet and pleasant Wine, but an Infusion of the rankest and most deadly Poison that the lowest Cellar of the Bottomless Pit can afford, the very Wine of Fornications, and the most dangerous Drunkenness and Intoxication in the World? Which is attended with this Aggravation, that the best prepared Medicines of the wisest Physician will not recover them; for Babylon having made the Multitude drunk with this sort of poisoned Wine, how rare is it to have any come to themselves, to their right Mind again! And to shut up this Head, take this Argument: Argument. If no People in the Christian World hath made the Multitude, or common Sort of People drunk, corrupted and intoxicated their Minds by wicked Lies and false Doctrine, such as before-mentioned, as Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, hath done: Then Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, is this Babylon treated of. But no People in the Christian World hath made the Multitude, or common Sort of People drunk, corrupted and intoxicated their Minds by wicked Lies, and false Doctrine, such as before-mentioned, as Rome hath done. Ergo, Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, is this Babylon treated of. IX. Mystery Babylon is such ill Company, as to let Kings be dishonestly familiar with her, and make the lower and ruder Sort of her ⟨p. 314⟩Associates drunk. She is said to sit drunk upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast, and this Beast is full of the Names of Blasphemy:1 And I saw a Woman sit upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast, full of the Names of Blasphemy, &c. So that the Woman and the Beast are distinct; the Woman, the Church; the Beast, the Secular Power, or Civil State. This appears evident from divers Considerations, arising, 1. From other Prophecies relating to the same Thing. 2.