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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.
5. That which the Children of Men are not able to take in or receive the knowledge of at once, but when God fees necessary to discover by degrees, by little and little, notwithstanding all those proper and fit Mediums he condescends to make use of, is a great Mystery: But the Mysteries of the Gospel, and Godliness, God sees the Children of Men, notwithstanding all those Mediums he is pleased to make use of, cannot take in or receive at once, but that there is need for him to open and discover them by degrees, by little and little: Ergo, 'tis very mysterious, so vast a Depth, so great a Light, so strange a Mystery is this Mystery, that God reveals it now a little, and then a little. Adam had the first Discovery of it: The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's Head. Abraham had more of it made known to him; Moses had a greater Revelation of it than the Prophets: And then, John Baptist, who saw more than all that went before him, and upon that account was called the greatest Prophet that ever arose amongst them that were born of Women; and yet he saw but a little of this great Mystery,1 comparatively to what those saw who were in the Kingdom of Heaven, viz. the Gospel-Church, after the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
5. That which the Children of Men are not able to take in or receive the knowledg of at once, but when God fees necessary to discover by degrees, by little and little, notwithstanding all those proper and fit Mediums he condescends to make use of, is a great Mystery: But the Mysteries of the Gospel, and Godliness, God sees the Children of Men, notwithstanding all those Mediums he is pleased to make use of, cannot take in or receive at once, but that there is need for him to open and discover them by degrees, by little and little: Ergo, 'tis very mysterious, so vast a Depth, so great a Light, so strange a Mystery is this Mystery, that God reveals it now a little, and then a little. Adam had the first Discovery of it: The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's Head. Abraham had more of it made known to him; Moses had a greater Revelation of it than the Prophets: And then, John Baptist, who saw more than all that went before him, and upon that account was called the greatest Prophet that ever arose amongst them that were born of Women; and yet he saw but a little of this great Mystery,1 comparatively to what those saw who were in the Kingdom of Heaven, viz. the Gospel-Church, after the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.