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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.
Rome, or Mystery Babylon, hath been so beastly villainous, that it is almost beyond Belief, taking Women before their Husbands Faces, and Maidens before their Parents Faces; first ravishing them openly, in the sight of the Sun, and then imbruing their barbarous Hands in their Blood, as divers Histories do declare. XVI. Chaldea, or literal Babylon, delighted in Hanging as well as Burning, serving God's People, as Men serve Dogs that they do not think fit to live; as well as used them like dry Bones and rotten Wood, by burning them to Ashes and Powder, they hanged them up as well as burnt them, and hanged them up in a miserable manner too, even the best among the People, ⟨p. 326⟩Lam. 5.12. Princes are hanged up by their Hands, the Face of Elders were not honoured, which is the worst way of hanging for continuance of Shame and Pain. | XVI. Rome, or Mystery Babylon, hath not less answered her Type in this than in many other things; for she hath served the best of Men like Dogs, that have been counted not fit to live, for besides making them like rotten Wood, and burning their Bones into Lime, Dust or Powder, she hath driven a very cursed Trade in hanging; and because she would see which was the wor•t way of hanging, she has hanged some by the Neck till dead, and others by the middle, and burnt them by degrees, to lengthen out their Pain and ⟨p. 326⟩Misery; others by their tenderest Parts; O monstrous Barbarity! A Shame to have it told in Gath, or published in the Streets of Askelon! What was done to the noble Lord Cobham, and many others in these parts of the World, is so plain and notorious, as if she had been under a constraint to accomplish the Iniquity of her Type. Here we shall (for the further clearing up of this Mystery) run a brief Parallel between the little Horn and the Popes, or Bishops of Rome, and so conclude. ⟨p. 325⟩I. The little Horn rose at the latter end of the Fourth Kingdom, or when the Roman Empire stood upon its last Legs, or fell into a Division of ten Parts. Dan. 7.7, 8. And the Roman, or fourth Beast had ten Horns; and behold, there came up amongst them another little Horn. | I. The Popes of Rome were kept under by the Emperors, who kept a strict Eye over them, curbed their Insolencies and Exorbitances, and at the first appearance nipping their aspiring Projects in the very Bud;