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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.
1VI. The Incense was offered up by the Priest: So are the Prayers of all the Saints made acceptable to the Father, through the Oblation and Intercession of our High Priest.
VII. No strange Incense was to be offered upon this Altar. This figured, the Prayers of the Saints must be according to the Will of God,1 by his Spirit, and in Faith, not in a vain or formal manner, after the Tradition of Man; we must not intermix them with any Superstitious and Idolatrous Devices, or Human Inventions, we must offer up no strange Prayer, no Prayer to Saints nor Angels.
8. The Perfume was to be perpetually before the Lord; which signified not only the continual exercise of Prayer, which daily we should use,1 but also the perpetual Intercession of our Saviour, in the Heavens, for us.