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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.
You had in the First Volume a Treatise of Tropes, reduced under their proper Heads; and here you have the Schemes or Figures in Scripture handled after the same manner. And because there is some difficulty to understand Allegorical Scriptures, or to know what Places are to be taken metaphorically, we shall show,1 (as 'tis noted by the Learned) 1. What an Allegory or figurative Scripture is. 2. When 'tis necessary to understand a Scripture figuratively, or in an Allegoric Sense.
You had in the First Volume a Treatise of Tropes, reduced under their proper Heads; and here you have the Schemes or Figures in Scripture handled after the same manner. And because there is some difficulty to understand Allegorical Scriptures, or to know what Places are to be taken metaphorically, we shall shew,1 (as 'tis noted by the Learned) 1. What an Allegory or figurative Scripture is. 2. When 'tis necessary to understand a Scripture figuratively, or in an Allegorick Sence.
- 1See, Key to Clavis Cantic.
For the first, there is a great difference betwixt an Allegoric Exposition of Scripture, and an Exposition of Allegoric Scripture: The first is that which the Fathers and School-men fail in, i. e. when they allegorize plain Scriptures and Histories, seeking to draw out some secret meaning, other than appears in the Words, and so would fasten many Senses upon one Scripture. This is indeed unsafe, and is justly reprovable; for this makes clear Scripture dark, and obtrudes Meanings on the Words never intended by the Spirit: As suppose one speaking of Goliath's Combat with David, should pass by the Letter, and expound Goliath to be the Flesh, or the Devil; and David, to mean the Spirit or Christ. Such Expositions may have some pleasantness, but very little solidity; and such who commonly thus interpret Scripture, often fall into Errors, and guilty of this Fault Origen is thought to be.