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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.
7. That which the most wise and knowing in the same Art or Mystery, can reach or understand but part of, must needs be a great Mystery: As suppose a School-master, nay, the ablest in the World, who professes to know and teach such or such an Art or Mystery, is forced to confess, he sees and knows but little of it, or sees but in part, 'tis so hard and difficult to find out; all would conclude, that Art or Science was a Mystery indeed: But so it is here; for the holy Apostles, who had as great a knowledge of these Mysteries as any ever had in the World, nay, we may modestly conclude, a greater, yet they declare, they knew but in part, and saw but in part, they saw comparatively but a little way into these Mysteries, For we know but in part. — Now we see through a Glass darkly. 1— Now I know in part. — Ergo, These are great Mysteries.
7. That which the most wise and knowing in the same Art or Mystery, can reach or understand but part of, must needs be a great Mystery: As suppose a School-master, nay, the ablest in the World, who professes to know and teach such or such an Art or Mystery, is forced to confess, he sees and knows but little of it, or sees but in part, 'tis so hard and difficult to find out; all would conclude, that Art or Science was a Mystery indeed: But so it is here; for the holy Apostles, who had as great a knowledg of these Mysteries as any ever had in the World, nay, we may modestly conclude, a greater, yet they declare, they knew but in part, and saw but in part, they saw comparatively but a little way into these Mysteries, For we know but in part. — Now we see through a Glass darkly. 1— Now I know in part. — Ergo, These are great Mysteries.