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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.
2. The Gospel, and great Things of Christianity and Godliness, are the rare Contrivance of God's eternal Wisdom,1 and therefore full of Mystery. If any Man thinks he knows any thing, he knoweth nothing as he ought to know. These things are not easily found out.
3. The History of the Gospel, and Principles of Christianity and Godliness, could not be known without Revelation; had not God afforded us the written Word, what should we,1 or could we have known of these Mysteries? What do the Heathen know of them, that have not the Holy Scripture? Doth the Light within discover the Incarnation, Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and Intercession of Jesus Christ? Doth that teach the Mystery of Faith and Regeneration? 'Tis true, some have affirmed, that they should have known all Things the Gospel reveals, if they had never had the written Word: But how false that is, appears to all; and they themselves have been silenced, by putting one Question to them,2 which is this: 'Tis said in John 20. Many other Signs did Jesus, in the presence of his Disciples, which are not written, &c. Now let them show us what those other Signs were: But alas! they can tell us nothing but what the Scripture relates; neither had we or they known them, but by the Record thereof.
3. The History of the Gospel, and Principles of Christianity and Godliness, could not be known without Revelation; had not God afforded us the written Word, what should we,