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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 Furnace of Fire, hath been prepared as a place of Torment; the King of Babylon caused a Furnace to be heat exceeding hot, and that whosoever would not bow down to his Golden Image should be cast unto it: Hell is a place of Torment prepared for all Wicked and Ungodly Men,1 who live and dye in their Sins.
- 1Rev 21.8.
II. A Furnace of Fire that is heated exceeding hot, is very terrible and amazing to him, who for his wicked Deeds is told he must be cast therein: So Hell is a very terrible and an amazing thing to think upon; how lamentable is the Thoughts of it to a guilty Sinner, that is awakened, that sees no Remedy, but thither he must go?
III. What Torment can be greater than to be cast into a burning fiery Furnace? So what Torments can be greater than the Torments of Hell?