B25425:2152
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.
the Prophecy of the Apostle Paul, in two remarkable Epistles, the First to Timothy, and the Second to the Thessalonians; and conclude. The Sum we shall cast into one general Argument, and so proceed to the various Branches of it. The concluding Argument is this: Argument. That People whose Acts and Progress do most fitly and fully comport with Literal Babylon, which was a Type, with the Prophecy of Daniel about the little Horn, and Revelations of the New Testament about the last Scene of Things, is undoubtedly the wicked and bloody Whore of Babylon. But Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, is that People, whose Acts and Progress do most fitly and fully comport with Literal Babylon, the Prophecy of Daniel, and Revelation of the New-Testament, about the last Scene of Things. Ergo, Rome Papal, or Church of Rome, is undoubtedly the wicked and bloody Whore of Babylon. The Truth of this Argument we will endeavour to illustrate by this Induction of Particulars following. Metaphor. | Parallel. AS Literal Babylon was the Head-City of the First or Chaldean Kingdom, called the Glory of the Chaldean Kingdom,1 and great Babylon, &c. | SO Rome Papal is the Head-City of the last Kingdom, called, Great Babylon, or the great and Mother-City, Rev. 17.18. II. Literal Babylon had a great Head or King over her, called Lucifer, or Son of the Morning. | II. So Rome Papal hath a great Head or King over her, called the Angel of the Bottomless-Pit, Son of the Evening, Darkness, or Perdition. III. Literal Babylon had Dominion over many Countries or Provinces. | III. Rome, or Mystery Babylon, hath Dominion over many Countries or Kingdoms, no less than the Territories or Jurisdictions of ten considerable Kings, called ten Horns. IV. Chaldea, or Literal Babylon, fell under a fourfold Circumstance, in respect of her Supreme Lord, or chief Head: As, (1.) That He was, when in great Pride he did insultingly say, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built, by the Might of my Power, for the Honour of my Majesty? (2.) He was not, when by the Watchers, and the holy Ones, he was tossed from his Throne, and made to eat Grass with Oxen, till seven Times (or Years) past over him. (3.) Yet was, when his Reason, and the Hearts of his Nobles returned to him, and gave him a ⟨p. 323⟩Re-advancement. (4.)