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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.
III. No Disease is more stinking and hateful to Men than the Leprosy: So nothing is more abominable and detestable in the sight of God, and sincere Christians, than Sin.
IV. No Disease is more contagious and infectious than the Leprosy; the Plague of the Pestilence (saith a Divine) is not so infectious as the Plague of the Leprosy;1 it infecteth Houses, Walls, Vessels, Garments, &c. So nothing is so infectious as Sin. [See Sin a Wound.]
- 1Dr. Taylor
V. The Plague of the Leprosy separated the infected Person from the Fellowship of all Men, whatever they were, if incurable, although Kings; they were utterly and for ever excluded the Host, as Uzziah, neither were they admitted to come into the Temple, to join in holy Things: So Sin unrepented of,1 separateth from God and Christ, and from the Fellowship of the Saints; it shuts Souls out of the Church, nay, out of Heaven it self.
V. The Plague of the Leprosy separated the infected Person from the Fellowship of all Men, whatever they were, if incurable, altho Kings; they were utterly and for ever excl•ded the Host, as Ʋzziah, neither were they admitted to come into the Temple, to join in holy Things: So Sin unrepented of,1