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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.
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.
III. The Incense was only to be offered upon this Altar; to show that all our Prayers and Services must be performed in Christ's Name,1 or offered up upon the Golden Altar of his Mediation.
III. The Incense was only to be offered upon this Altar; to shew that all our Prayers and Services must be performed in Christ's Name,1 or offered up upon the Golden Altar of his Mediation.
- 1Re•. 8.3, 4, 5.