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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.
Joshua, or Jesus, he was a Saviour, (as his Name signifies) he saved Israel from temporal and external Enemies and Calamities: So Christ saves us from all spiritual and internal Enemies and Miseries, as well as he will from all external.
JOshua, or Jesus, he was a Saviour, (as his Name signifies) he saved Israel from temporal and external Enemies and Calamities: So Christ saves us from all spiritual and internal Enemies and Miseries, as well as he will from all external.
II. Joshua led Israel quite into Canaan, not only unto the sight of it, but into it: So Christ leads us, as we said before, into Heaven. What Moses could not do, Joshua did do upon this account: So what the Law could not do, being weak through the Flesh, Christ, our Joshua, hath done.
III. Joshua was a mighty Conqueror: So is Christ. Joshua overcame and utterly destroyed many Kings, that so he might give Israel the peaceable Possession of the Land of Canaan: So Jesus Christ overcame, and totally vanquished divers mighty Kings, and Enemies of our Souls, that so he might give us a certain Assurance of the eternal Inheritance, viz. (1.) Satan, the great King of the Bottomless-Pit. (2.) Sin, who, like a cruel and merciless King and Tyrant, reigned over all the Children of Men. (3.) Death, the King of Terrors, &c.