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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.
Affliction compared to the Winter.
Cant. 2.11. For lo, the Winter is past, &c.
Some understand by Winter, the State of the Elect before Conversion; but others,1 (in my Judgment) upon better grounds, those cruel Persecutions the Church of God shall be under, during the Reign of the Tyrannical and Antichristian Powers of the Earth: The Winter is past, the Rain is over and gone, &c. These things (saith Mr. Ainsworth) may be applied to the outward Troubles and Grievances of this Life, by the Malice of the World, as when Israel was brought into the Bondage of Egypt, and of Babylon, and after was released: likewise to the spiritual Winter, Reign, and Rage of Antichrist; after which the Graces and Fruits of the Gospel began again to flourish: It may also signify the Afflictions of the Soul.
SOme understand by Winter, the State of the Elect before Conversion; but others,1 (in my Judgment) upon better grounds, those cruel Persecutions the Church of God shall be under, during the Reign of the Tyrannical and Antichristian Powers of the Earth: The Winter is past, the Rain is over and gone, &c. These things (saith Mr. Ainsworth) may be applied to the outward Troubles and Grievances of this Life, by the Malice of the World, as when Israel was brought into the Bondage of Egypt, and of Babylon, and after was released: likewise to the spiritual Winter, Reign, and Rage of Antichrist; after which the Graces and Fruits of the Gospel began again to flourish: It may also signify the Afflictions of the Soul.