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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.
A Shadow is next to nothing; what is there in a natural Shadow? So what's the Life of Man? he rather seems to live, than lives. A Shadow you know is opposed to a Substance.
II. A Shadow is a very uncertain Thing: So is the Life of Man. The Shadow, a Man may be under now, may, before he is aware, be gone. A Shadow is as fleeting and uncertain a Thing as any Thing in the World.† Our Days on Earth are as the Shadow. How is it that there is no abiding no certainty of our Lives?
III. A Shadow is very swift in Motion; what flies more swiftly than a Shadow (as common Experience shows)? So the Life of Man is gone in a Moment, like Lightning, a Dream, a Bubble, the Flower of the Field or a flying Shadow. Our Days on Earth are as a Shadow; that is: They fly swiftly away like as a Shadow, and there is no abiding. A Vapour is much of the Nature of a Shadow.