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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.
III. This Altar had four Horns also: [See Altar of Incense.]
IV. It had a brazen Grate in the midst of it, which let the Ashes and like things fall through, &c. whereon the Fire was put, which might signify two things. 1. The Humanity of our Saviour, who bore the Fire of God's Wrath for our Sins; thus Guild. 2.1 It signifieth, saith Ainsworth, the place wherein the Holy Fire always burneth; that is, the Heart which sustaineth also the Sacrifice,2 and where all Ashes and Excrements of Corruption are inwardly conveyed away, as they are discovered by the Word and Spirit of God; as also our Sanctification by Affliction.
V. In that the Altar was to be made of Shittim Wood, and overlaid with Brass, that it might endure the Fire; it might figure out the Human Nature of Christ, supported or sustained by the Deity, to endure God's Wrath for our Sins.