B25425:3293
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.
But to return back, and speak a little further to the Robe of the Ephod, and Bonnet on the Skirts of the Ephod, 1were fastened, the Pomegranates of blew Silk, and Purple, and Scarlet round about: this Fruit had a most pleasant smell, sweet in it self, and sweetening other things, and is full of precious Juice and Liquor. 2. Bells of Gold between them round about a Golden Bell and a Pomegranate, &c. this Vesture or Garment, might signify the Righteousness of Christ's Human Nature, and by the sweet Pomegranates, the most excellent savour of his Righteousness and Obedience, in the Nostrils of God the Father, in the behalf of Man; which also in a Spiritual Sense was full of precious Juice and Virtue, to qualify and abate the raging heat of God's Wrath; as the Juice of Pomegranates doth allay the burning heat of an Ague or Fever; as also they might signify what a sweet savour Christ's Righteousness doth cast upon us, when wrapped, as it were, therein, who by Nature are in a stinking and loathsome Condition. 2. As to the golden Bells they might figure forth the blessed sound of the Gospel; or, as some understand, Christ's visible owning of us now in Heaven, and our public owning of him on Earth, which must be Sincere; we must not only make a sound, but also have good Fruit; we must not on•y have a Word for God, but a Work for God; a Bell, a Pomegranate, a Word, and a Work.
But to return back, and speak a little further to the Robe of the Ephod, and Bonnet on the Skirts of the Ephod, 1were fastned, the Pomegranets of blew Silk, and Purple, and Scarlet round about: this Fruit had a most pleasant smell, sweet in it self, and sweetning other things, and is full of precious Juice and Liquor. 2. Bells of Gold between them round about a Golden Bell and a Pomegranate, &c. this Vesture or Garment, might signify the Righteousness of Christ's Human Nature, and by the sweet Pomgranates, the most excellent savour of his Righteousness and Obedience, in the Nostrils of God the Father, in the behalf of Man; which also in a Spiritual Sense was full of precious Juice and Virtue, to qualify and abate the raging heat of God's Wrath; as the Juice of Pomgranates doth allay the burning heat of an Ague or Feaver; as also they might signify what a sweet savour Christ's Righteousness doth cast upon us, when wrapped, as it were, therein, who by Nature are in a stinking and loathsome Condition. 2. As to the golden Bells they might figure forth the blessed sound of the Gospel; or, as some understand, Christ's visible owning of us now in Heaven, and our publick owning of him on Earth, which must be Sincere; we must not only make a sound, but also have good Fruit; we must not ony have a Word for God, but a Work for God; a Bell, a Pomegranate, a Word, and a Work.