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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.
Inferences.
O What a woeful Condition is Man in by Nature, how unclean in God's sight! Well might Eliphaz say,1 How abominable and filthy is Man, who drinketh in Iniquity like Water! The Word [Greek or Hebrew] notes that which is most abhorring to the Nature of Man; that which is not only so nauseous that the Stomach cannot digest it, but so base, that the Mind is burdened to think upon it; yea, the Word imports that which is rejected by all the Senses, that which the Eye cannot endure to look upon, that which the Ear cannot endure to hear of, that which is a Stink in the Nostrils, and which the Hand will not touch, such a a thing is Man in God's Sight, by reason of Sin. Filthy, [Greek or Hebrew], the Word is derived from a Root that signifies,2 corrupt, rotten, putrefied, the Scum of a Pot, the Rust of Metals, the Dung or Excrement of Man and Beasts. There are no Words (saith Caryl) filthy enough to express the Filthiness of Man. The Word is found, saith he, but three times in Scripture, in this Construction, and in all of them 'tis applied to show the abominable Wickedness of Man: The first is this, Job 15.16. Psal. 14 3. Psal. 53.3. as if this were a Word picked out on purpose, as a Glass, to show Man his Face and natural Complexion in, &c.
O What a woful Condition is Man in by Nature, how unclean in God's sight! Well might Eliphaz say,