B25425:2882
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.
AS the Cloud (such a Cloud as you see hanging in the Air) is consumed, or gradually spent: So the Days or Life of Man by little and little is consumed.
II. A Cloud comes to its Height, and then is quickly dispersed, and vanisheth: So Man soon comes to his full Strength, and presently is gone.
II. A Cloud comes to its Height, and then is quickly disperst, and vanisheth: So Man soon comes to his full Strength, and presently is gone.
III. A Cloud is like a Bottle full of Rain, or Sponges full of Water; God crushes these Sponges, or unstops these Bottles, and they are emptied, and in emptying vanish away, and return no more: So Man, being emptied of Life, vanisheth away, and returns not again.