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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.
Babylon is a Church, or Body of People, that sits upon a Beast that had seven Heads, or seven sorts of Sovereign Governments 1. Kings. of whom Romulus was the first.1 2. Consuls.2 3. Military Tribunes. 4. Decemvirs. 5. Dictators. 6. Heathen Emperors. 7. Christian Emperors.) Rev. 17.9, 10, 11. And here is the Mind that hath Wisdom, the seven Heads are seven Mountains, on which the Woman sitteth. And there are seven Kings, five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: but when he cometh he must continue a short space. And the Beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and of the seven, and goeth into Perdition. | XIV. Besides all that hath been said, we hope to very good Purpose, if we find not Rome here, we will let her go for ever: For (1.) This is the place which hath had seven Sovereign Governments, five of which were gone off the Stage, and the sixth, (viz. the Heathen Empire) was in Being in St. John's time. (2.) The seventh was to appear and to continue but a short space (viz. the Christian Empire): for it cannot be the Papal Power, because that was not up in St. John's time, so not the sixth Head; and as the Papal Power, for that Reason, could not be the sixth Head, so for a very good Reason it could not be the seventh Head, because that whensoever that did appear, it was to continue but a short space; which respects not the Papal Power, but answers the Christian Empire; for the Papal Power has continued longer than any of the other Sovereignties that went before: and if the Papal Power be neither the Sixth, nor seventh Head, then it must needs be the eighth, which is of the seventh, and goes into Perdition, or else it must be no Head or Power at all. But a Head and a Power it is, a great Head and Power it hath been, therefore it is the eighth Head which carries the Whore, according to the express Le•ter of the Text, and shall go into Perdition. And that by the Woman, City, or Whore, that sitteth upon the seven Mountains, is meant Rome, we have no cause to doubt, because the great Sons of Rome themselves, as Baronius, Bellarmine, and many others do confess it; but would defend their Mother from being a Whore, by putting it off to the Power of Rome in its Heathen State; to which we have fully answered already: