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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.
1IV. The Priest was to make an Atonement for the Holy-Place, because of the Uncleanness of the Children of Israel, And so he shall do (saith the Text) for the Tabernacle of the Congregation, &c. This showed the horrible Nature of Sin: For tho the People never came into the Holy-P•ace, much less into the Most Holy Place; yet such was the Power of their Iniquities, that the holy Altar, Ark, and Sanctuary it self was defiled in the Sight of God, and could not be cleansed without Blood: So our Sins do defile God's Church, and his most holy Ordinances therein performed, so that neither we, nor any of our best Services, can meet with acceptance, but by the means of Christ's Blood and Merits.
1IV. The Priest was to make an Atonement for the Holy-Place, because of the Uncleanness of the Children of Israel, And so he shall do (saith the Text) for the Tabernacle of the Congregation, &c. This shewed the horrible Nature of Sin: For tho the People never came into the Holy-P•ace, much less into the Most Holy Place; yet such was the Power of their Iniquities, that the holy Altar, Ark, and Sanctuary it self was defiled in the Sight of God, and could not be cleansed without Blood: So our Sins do defile God's Church, and his most holy Ordinances therein performed, so that neither we, nor any of our best Services, can meet with acceptance, but by the means of Christ's Blood and Merits.
V. No Man was to be in the Tabernacle, when the High-Priest went in to make Atonement, only the High-Priest himself, &c. plainly signifying, that Jesus Christ, our High-Priest, hath no Partner with him in working our Salvation: He his own self bare our Sins in his Body on the Tree,