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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.
1In Specie, an Apostrophe is directed sometimes to the Heavens and the Earth; Deut. 32.1. Esa. 1.2. Jer. 2.12, 13. & 22.29. upon which Arias Montanus in libro Joseph. Cap. 6. says, Coeli aliquando testes adeo appellari solent, &c. The Heavens are wont sometimes to be appealed to as Witnesses by God, because of their Integrity and Certainty. For nothing transacted on Earth, can be hid from the view of Heaven, which by its daily Motion perlustrates all things. Heaven lives, feels, hears, and sees to God, to whom all things live, &c. By the very Text and Parallel Phrases, Deut. 30.19. Psalm. 50.1, 4. Rom. 8.20, 22. it is evident that these Apostrophes were used for Conviction and Detestation of the Malice, Stubbornness and Ingratitude of Men, whose Duty it was to receive the gracious Invitations of a Merciful God, and sincerely to obey him.
- 1Apostrophe to the Heavens and the Earth.
Jerome in his Commentary on Isa. 1.2. says, Quia per Moisen Testes vocaverat Dominus Coelum & Terram, &c. Because the Lord by Moses called Heaven and Earth as Witnesses, when he prescribed Israel his Law after their Prevarication;* he calls them again as Evidences, that all the Elements may know, that the Lord had just Cause to be angry, and distribute Vengeance to the Infringers of his holy Commands: the meaning is, If Heaven and Earth were endued with Understanding and Reason, they would certainly accuse this People for their Wickedness. For they and all things contained in them, carefully observe their appointed Station, and do answer the end they were intended for: But Man alone, for whom all things were made, becomes refractory and disobedient.