B25425:3563
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.
4. To things mute and altogether void of sense, where, by a Prosopopoeia, a Person is attributed to them; 2 Sam. 1.21. Ye Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no Dew, 1neither let there Rain be upon you, nor Fields of Offerings, because the Shield of Saul was cast away there, upon which place, Brentius says excellently, This is Prosopopoeia, very familiar with such as are full of Indignation: For as such as are in a mad fit of Anger, snatch up the next thing that comes to hand for a Weapon, to annoy or assault their Adversary; so to such as are oppressed with a weight of Grief, whatsoever ⟨p. 8⟩is obvious to them or in view, seems to be the cause of their Misfortune; yea such things as are insensible, and contribute nothing to it. So Job in his Affliction, cursed the day of his Nativity, and the night in which it was said, a Man is born: Wherein was the Day or Night guilty? in nothing surely. So the Mountains of Gilboa are cursed by David, when yet they did no hurt: For Saul might have tarried at home, and acted righteously, which would have hindered that Mischance. But by this Prosopopoeia, the Affection and Passion of him that grieves is denoted, who would have all destroyed, provided the thing he loves, be safe. Other Examples are, 1 Kings 13.2. Psal. 114.5, 6. Psal. 148.3, 4, 5, 6, &c. Jer. 47.6. Ezek. 13.11. (in the Hebrew) & 21.16. & 36.1, 4, 8, &c. Joel 2.21. Micah. 6.2. Zech. 11.1, 2.