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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.
The Devil a Dragon.
Rev. 12.7. And the great Dragon was cast down, that old Serpent called the Devil and Satan, &c.
AS the Devil is compared to a Lion, so likewise to a Dragon. Some are ready to question whether there be any such Creature, or no; but it is without any just ground, since the holy Scripture speaks of them in so many places: Besides, we have approved Histories and Historians, which treat of them, as Aelianus, Aristotle, Pliny, Mantuan, Gesner, Ovid, &c.
Parallels.
The Dragon is a flying Serpent, he is described with Wings very voluble, and spreading themselves wide according to the quantity or largeness of the Dragon's Body; which caused Lucan the Poet to write in this manner, Vos quoque qui cunctis innoxia numina terris Serpitis, aurato nitidi fulgore Dracones, Pestiferos ardens facit Africa; ducit is altum Aëra cum Pennis, &c. — You shining Dragons, creeping on the Earth, Which fiery Afric holds, with Skins like Gold, Yet pestilent by hot infecting Breath, Mounted with Wings in th' Air we do behold.