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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.
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.
II. Amongst all living Creatures, there is none that perisheth sooner than doth a Man, by the Poyson 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 Poyson: So no Creature hath suffered, or received such hurt, as Mankind hath by the Poyson 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 Ruine by it, it destroys him eternally. Wicked Men, who are compared to Serpents, are destroyed by this old Serpent.
III. A Serpent is a very subtle Beast; Be ye wise as Serpents, &c. The Devil being compared to a Serpent, it principally denotes his Subtlety, who hath a thousand Ways to destroy and undo the Children of Men.
III. A Serpent is a very subtil Beast; Be ye wise as Serpents, &c. The Devil being compared to a Serpent, it principally denotes his Subtilty, who hath a thousand Ways to destroy and undo the Children of Men.