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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
Tropes and Figures; OR, A TREATISE of the METAPHORS, ALLEGORIES, TY… › Head 10 › Sin a Thief.
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.
This is generally taken for a Parable, tho 'tis not so called, and before I run the Parallel concerning Sin and a Thief; I shall very briefly open the whole Parable, according to my present Understanding, and commit it to better Judgments.
THis is generally taken for a Parable, tho 'tis not so called, and before I run the Parallel concerning Sin and a Thief; I shall very briefly open the whole Parable, according to my present Understanding, and commit it to better Judgments.
1. By this certain Man, I understand the First Adam.
2. By Jerusalem, that happy State, and Place of Peace, and Rest, which he enjoyed before his Fall.
3. By his going from Jerusalem to Jericho, his departing from God, in obeying the Serpent.