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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.
III. Joseph was a Man of great Wisdom, able to expound deep Secrets, &c. In Jesus Christ are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge, who is therefore called the Great Counsellor, and is that blessed Lamb, who hath prevailed to open the Books, and loose the Seals thereof: He hath the Spirit without measure, and thereby opens all the deep Mysteries of God, that lay hid from Ages and Generations, &c.
III. Joseph was a Man of great Wisdom, able to expound deep Secrets, &c. In Jesus Christ are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledg, who is therefore called the Great Counsellor, and is that blessed Lamb, who hath prevailed to open the Books, and loose the Seals thereof: He hath the Spirit without measure, and thereby opens all the deep Mysteries of God, that lay hid from Ages and Generations, &c.
1IV. He is called a fruitful Bough, whose Branches run upon the Wall, because out of him branched two Tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh: Therein (saith Dr. Taylor) he was a Type of Christ, who is not only a fruitful Bough, and called the Branch, &c. but also a Root, from whom all the Tribes of God branch out, and flourish. And whereas those Trees are withered, Christ shall see his Seed, and prolong his Days, and they shall abide to Eternity.
V. Joseph was a Type of Christ in his Actions. (1.) He was sent by his Father, to visit his Brethren in the Wilderness, who evilly treated him there: So Jesus Christ came to visit his poor People, who were wandering in the Wilderness of this World; and when he came hither, was evilly treated by his own Brethren, the Jews, who conspired to take away his Life, like as Joseph's Brethren sought to deal by him. (2.) Joseph sed his Brethren,