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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.
Because she hath shed a Mass, a very great Mass of Blood upon the account of Religion, (all which was unlawfully shed) of this the whole Christian World is a Witness. 2. To clear her supposed Heretics from this red and bloody Crime. (1.) It is against their Principle to kill Men for Religion, and this they do avowedly profess, pleading for Liberty of Conscience, in Matters purely Religious in all places. (2.) They have wanted Power to do it, in case they had been for it in Principle, all Power being in the Hands of Papists before the Reformation. ⟨p. 320⟩(3.) Where there hath since been a Protestant Seat or Kingdom, governed by Laws different from that of the Popish Countries, yet they have not made use of their Power and Laws, to take away the Lives of Papists merely for Religion; and if it hath happened at any time, that some Ecclesiastical Persons have been put to Death by Protestants; it has been but very rare and seldom, and the Cause not for their Religion, but for Sedition, Rebellion and Treason: otherwise they have lived peaceably under Protestant Governors, enjoying their Civil Right in Common with other Men. And for the confirming of this, we make a Challenge to all Christendom to come forth and make it appear, Where England, Scotland, and Ireland, the United Provinces, &c. since the Reformation, have, by Massacres, Murders, or Martyrdom, put one thousand, nay one hundred to Death of Men, Women and Children, only because they professed the Romish Religion, or any Religion different from theirs: so far have they been from making themselves Drunk with the Blood of Saints, and Religious Men. And if this cannot be done, then having brought our Character within the Confines of the Christian World, we must necessarily charge this Drunkenness, by Blood, upon the Church of Rome. This Head we will conclude with the following Argument. If no Sect of People in the Christian World be guilty of so much Blood, drunk with Blood, innocent Blood, Blood of Saints, as the Church of Rome is. Then the Church of Rome is this Woman, that St. John saw, to his great astonishment, Drunk, with the Blood of the Saints, and the Martyrs of Jesus. But there is no Sect of People, &c. guilty of so much Blood, or Drunk with the Blood of Saints, &c. Ergo, The Church of Rome is this Woman, &c. ⟨p. 320⟩XIV.
Because she hath shed a Mass, a very great Mass of Blood upon the account of Religion, (all which was unlawfully shed) of this the whole Christian World is a Witness. 2. To clear her supposed Hereticks from this red and bloody Crime. (1.) It is against their Principle to kill Men for Religion, and this they do avowedly profess, pleading for Liberty of Conscience, in Matters purely Religious in all places. (2.) They have wanted Power to do it, in case they had been for it in Principle, all Power being in the Hands of Papists before the Reformation.