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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.
II. A Storm comes now and then very suddenly, before Men are aware: So doth the Storm of God's Wrath come oftentimes very suddenly upon a sinful Nation and People. It may be the Plague this night breaks forth, or a Fire, or a War, which Men dreamed not of: When they cry Peace and Safety, sudden Destruction, &c. I only allude to that Text.
III. A Storm is sometimes very tempestuous, mixed with Thunder, Lightning, and great Hail, so that it is very terrible, causing Horror and Amazement in most Men and Women: So the Wrath of God sometimes breaks forth upon a People in a most sore and dismal sort, so that the Mountains, the great Ones of the Earth, quake at him, and all are afraid of his Judgments, and cry out to the Rocks and Hills to cover them:1 The Lord thundered with a great Thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them, &c. The Lord also thundered in the Heavens, and the Highest gave his Voice, Hail stones, 2and Coals of Fire: Yea, he sent out his Arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out Lightning, and discomfited them.
III. A Storm is sometimes very tempestuous, mix'd with Thunder, Lightning, and great Hail, so that it is very terrible, causing Horror and Amazement in most Men and Women: So the Wrath of God sometimes breaks forth upon a People in a most sore and dismal sort, so that the Mountains, the great Ones of the Earth, quake at him, and all are afraid of his Judgments, and cry out to the Rocks and Hills to cover them:1 The Lord thundred with a great Thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them, &c. The Lord also thundred in the Heavens, and the Highest gave his Voice, Hail stones, 2and Coals of Fire: Yea, he sent out his Arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out Lightning, and discomfited thm.