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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.
1. Natural Death, (1.) by Sickness. (2.) By Age.
2. Violent Death. (1.) Casual, when a Man is slain by Accident. (2.) Cruel; when a Man is slain by Murderers. (3.) Legal; when a Man is slain or cut off by the Magistrate.
III. A Flower, if it be not cut or cropped off, yet it soon withers away, and is gone. The very Sun, the Wind, and Air consumes its Beauty. The Naturalists tell us of a Plant, called Ephemeron, because it lasts but one Day; as also of a Worm, called Hemerobion, because it lives but one Day. Such a Plant and Worm is Man. The Heathen Poet gives his Wonder and Observation of the Rose, that it grows old in the very Budding. The Seventy read these Words of Job in the same Tenor, he Decays like a budding Flower; as if Death (saith Caryl) did rise early,1 and watch for this budding Flower to cut it down. And though some of these Flowers stand till they wither, as Solomon in his Allegory showeth; that is, till grey Hairs: yet all the Time of their standing they have been falling. So that we may well say with the Psalmist:2 As for Man, his Days are as Grass: as a Flower of the Field so he flourisheth: for the Wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the Place thereof shall know it no more.
III. A Flower, if it be not cut or cropt off, yet it soon withers away, and is gone. The very Sun, the Wind, and Air consumes its Beauty. The Naturalists tell us of a Plant, called Ephemeron, because it lasts but one Day; as also of a Worm, called Hemerobion, because it lives but one Day. Such a Plant and Worm is Man. The Heathen Poet gives his Wonder and Observation of the Rose, that it grows old in the very Budding. The Seventy read these Words of Job in the same Tenour, he Decays like a budding Flower; as if Death (saith Caryl) did rise early,