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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.
Jacob's Ladder, which he saw in a Vision, stood upon the Earth, but the Top reached to Heaven: So Christ, albeit he was humbled in shape of sinful Flesh, to the Earth, as it were; yet he was the Most High God, reaching so to Heaven.
JAcob's Ladder, which he saw in a Vision, stood upon the Earth, but the Top reached to Heaven: So Christ, albeit he was humbled in shape of sinful Flesh, to the Earth, as it were; yet he was the Most High God, reaching so to Heaven.
II. The Angels went up and down by it: So we ascend up to God by Jesus Christ, and God descends (as it were) by him also down to us.
II. The Angels went up and down by it: So we ascend up to God by Jesus Christ, and God des•ends (as it were) by him also down to us.
III. The Lord stood above it, and made Promises of Canaan to Jacob: So God in Christ, and through him, hath made all Promises of Heaven, and ratified them to us.