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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.
Disparity.
GOD is without Beginning; the Devil had a beginning: God is an uncreated Spirit, the Devil an Angel and a created Spirit (I do not say he was created a Devil) Sin made him a Devil. God can do what he pleaseth, he hath an unlimited Power; the Devil's Power is limited, he can go no further than God permits him. God hath a just and rightful Power, Satan hath only an usurped Power, &c. God is infinite, immense, &c. But some may say, in what Sense is Satan said to be God of this World? What World? &c. The word World is a convertible Phrase, and here I understand it is to be taken for the Inhabitants of the World; I mean the Wicked, distinct fr•m the Godly. He is the wicked Man's God three ways.
1. By Devolution, they have fallen off from God to Satan, they have departed from the true God, and his Service, and have closed in with the Devil; and so Satan owns them to be his Subjects. The whole World is divided into two parts, two Bodies, and are under two Heads, either Subjects of Christ's Kingdom, or of the Kingdom and Power of Satan; they are either of the Army of Light, or Regiment of Darkness.