B25425:3437
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.
OF the two He-Goats it was by Lot, that the one was taken, and the other escaped, &c. The Manner (saith Ainsworth) was thus: They had two Lots, the one had written upon it, [For Jehovah]; and on the other, [For a Scape-Goat]. Now God by these Lots showed which of the two he would have die: figuring clearly unto them, how that Jesus Christ, the lively Anti-type of them was to die by God's Decree, or according to the determinate Counsel of his own Will,1 that we might escape eternal Damnation thereby.
OF the two He-Goats it was by Lot, that the one was taken, and the other escaped, &c. The Manner (saith Ainsworth) was thus: They had two Lots, the one had written upon it, [For Jehovah]; and on the other, [For a Scape-Goat]. Now God by these Lots shewed which of the two he would have die: figuring clearly unto them, how that Jesus Christ, the lively Anti-type of them was to die by God's Decree, or according to the determinate Counsel of his own Will,1 that we might escape eternal Damnation thereby.
- 1Acts 4.
II. He on whom the Lot fell, was made a Sin-Offering for the People; to signify, that Christ should by God's Decree become an Offering or Sacrifice for our Sins.
III. The Blood of the He-Goat, as also the Blood of the Bullock, was brought into the Veil, and was sprinkled upon the Mercy-Seat, on the East Side, which was towards the People: So are the Merits of the Blood of Jesus brought within the Holiest of all, viz. Heaven it self,