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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.
Parallels.
The Wind passeth away speedily: So doth the Life of Man.
THe VVind passeth away speedily: So doth the Life of Man.
II. The Wind passeth irresistibly, you cannot stop the Wind: So no Man, be he never so strong, can hinder the speedy Motion of his Days.
II. The VVind passeth irresistibly, you cannot stop the VVind: So no Man, be he never so strong, can hinder the speedy Motion of his Days.
III. The Wind, when it is past, returns no more: As you cannot stop the Wind, or change its Course; so all the Power in the World is not able to recall or direct the Wind; which way the Wind goes, it will go; and so soon as it comes, it is gone: So when a Man's Days are gone, there is no recalling of them again: Our Days pass, and shall not return, by any Law or Constitution of Nature, or by any Efficacy of natural Causes. He remembered that they were but Flesh, 1