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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.
The Altar of Perfume, Exod. 30.1. to 13. a Type of Christ.
The Altar was made of Shittim Greek, incorruptible Wood, or Wood that never rots, overlaid with Gold, and having a Crown about it (as had the Ark): this Altar signified Christ in both his Natures, his Deity yielding Glory to his Humanity, and now crowned with Glory and Majesty at God's right Hand, where he abides for ever incorruptible, &c.
THe Altar was made of Shittim Greek, incorruptible Wood, or Wood that never rots, overlaid with Gold, and having a Crown about it (as had the Ark): this Altar signified Christ in both his Natures, his Deity yeilding Glory to his Humanity, and now crown'd with Glory and Majesty at God's right Hand, where he abides for ever incorruptible, &c.
II. The Altar had Horns on the four Corners thereof; overlaid with Gold, which were not only for Ornament,1 but to keep things from falling off the Altar, for the Horns were upward: And Horns usually signify Power and Might; these four Horns, saith the learned Ainsworth, signified the Power and Glory of Christ's Priesthood, for the Salvation of his Church, gathered from the four Corners of the Earth.