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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.
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.
For the first, there is a great difference betwixt an Allegorick Exposition of Scripture, and an Exposition of Allegorick 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 Goliah's Combat with David, should pass by the Letter, and expound Goliah 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.
2dly, An Exposition of allegorical Scripture is the opening and expounding of some dark Scripture, (wherein the Mind of the Spirit is couched and hid under Figures, &c.) making it plain and edifying, by bringing out the Sense according to the meaning of the Holy Spirit in the place, tho at first it seems to bear no such thing. So Mat. 13. Christ expounds that Parable or Allegory, (for tho Rhetoricians make a difference between Metaphors, Similes, Parables, and Allegories, yet in Divinity there is none, but that Allegories are more large and continued) calling the Seed the Word, and the Sower the Son of Man, &c. This way of expounding such dark Scriptures is both useful and necessary, and was often used as edifying by our Lord Jesus to his Disciples. Now 'tis this we speak of, which teacheth how to draw plain Doctrines out of Metaphors, Allegories, &c. and not to draw Allegories out of plain Histories.