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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.
IV. Dragons are mortal Enemies to Mankind, and Multitudes have been destroyed by them; in this they fitly resemble the Devil.
V. Dragons have a cruel infectious Breath: Those in Phrygia, when they are hungry, turn themselves towards the West, and gaping wide, with the force of their Breath (saith my Author) they draw the Birds that fly over their Heads into their Mouths; which some attribute to the infectious Nature of their Breath: Also they kill with their Tails; nay, some say, the Strokes of their Tails are more deadly than the biting of their Teeth. The Devil, like the Dragon, has many ways to wound and destroy Mankind. Sin is like the biting of Dragons,1 and false Doctrine in Scripture is called Dragon's Poison, 'tis the Poison of this old Dragon: Their Wine is as the Poison of Dragons, and the cruel Venom of Asps.
V. Dragons have a cruel infectious Breath: Those in Phrygia, when they are hungry, turn themselves towards the West, and gaping wide, with the force of their Breath (saith my Author) they draw the Birds that flie over their Heads into their Mouths; which some attribute to the infectious Nature of their Breath: Also they kill with their Tails; nay, some say, the Strokes of their Tails are more deadly than the biting of their Teeth. The Devil, like the Dragon, has many ways to wound and destroy Mankind. Sin is like the biting of Dragons,1 and false Doctrine in Scripture is called Dragon's Poyson, 'tis the Poyson of this old Dragon: Their Wine is as the Poyson of Dragons, and the cruel Venome of Asps.
- 1Deut. 22.