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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.
Serpents are a venomous sort of Creatures, especially the Cockatrice: For his Poison (Naturalists affirm) infecteth the Air, and the Air so infected killeth all living Creatures, and all green Things, Fruits and Plants of the Earth; it burneth up the Grass whereupon it goeth, or creepeth; and the very Fowls of the Air fall down dead, when they come near his Den or Lodging: So the Venom or Poison of the old Serpent, viz. Sin, is very deadly, and of an infectious Nature, as hath been largely showed. What Creature hath not been hurt and corrupted, more or less, by this Poison? It hath disordered the whole Creation; the very Ground is cursed,1 and bringeth forth Thorns and Thistles hereby.
SErpents are a venemous sort of Creatures, especially the Cockatrice: For his Poyson (Naturalists affirm) infecteth the Air, and the Air so infected killeth all living Creatures, and all green Things, Fruits and Plants of the Earth; it burneth up the Grass whereupon it goeth, or creepeth; and the very Fowls of the Air fall down dead, when they come near his Den or Lodging: So the Venom or Poyson of the old Serpent, viz. Sin, is very deadly, and of an infectious Nature, as hath been largely shewed. What Creature hath not been hurt and corrupted, more or less, by this Poyson? It hath disordered the whole Creation; the very Ground is cursed,1 and bringeth forth Thorns and Thistles hereby.
- 1Gen. 3.
II. Amongst all living Creatures, there is none that perisheth sooner than doth a Man, by the Poison of a Cockatrice, for with his Sight he killeth him, the Beams of his Eyes do corrupt the Spirit of a Man; nay, saith my Author, he kills other Serpents by his Sight, such is the Venom of his Poison: So no Creature hath suffered, or received such hurt, as Mankind hath by the Poison of the old Dragon. Tho the Sin of Man, which is the Venom of this Serpent, hath been a Plague to all Creatures, yet Man receives the greatest Ruin by it, it destroys him eternally. Wicked Men, who are compared to Serpents, are destroyed by this old Serpent.