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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.
1. He must daily dress the holy Lamps and Lights, Morning and Evening,1 before the Lord, to preserve the Lights from going out: So Christ preserves the Light of his Word and Gospel from being put out, tho Men and Devils with all their Might have endeavoured to do it.
2. He must weekly make the Show-Bread, and set it before the Lord continually and,1 more expressly, every Sabbath he must set on the Table twelve Loaves, according to the number of the Tribes of Israel, and take the old away, &c. In this he was a Type of Christ, who sets himself continually in the Ministry of the Word (as the Substance and Anti-type of the Show-Bread) before the Children of Men, especially to feed and strengthen his own Children, nay an• brings forth fresh Food, new Bread for them every Sabbath.
2. He must week•y make the Shew-Bread, and set it before the Lord continually and,1 more expresly, every Sabbath he must set on the Table twelve Loaves, according to the number of the Tribes of Israel, and take the old away, &c. In this he was a Type of Christ, who sets himself continually in the Ministry of the Word (as the Substance and Anti-type of the Shew-Bread) before the Children of Men, especially to feed and strengthen his own Children, nay an• brings forth fresh Food, new Bread for them every Sabbath.