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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.
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.
1V. [Greek or Hebrew], Prosopopoeia, (signifying the feigning of a Person) is when an inanimate thing is introduced, as speaking like a rational Person. This Prosopopoeia we have treated of in the first Volume, Book 1. p. 92. among Metaphors, but that differs from this Figure, (1.) With respect to Subject, for that relates only to certain things inanimate, which are not Persons; whereas these concern Men also. (2.) With respect to the Predicate and Attributes: For in that, such Attributes of all kinds, from animate things, chiefly Men, as are translated to inanimate things, are treated of; but in this what relates only to Speech, and when mention is made in that of Speech, attributed to inanimate Creatures, there is regard had only to its Action or Act; but in this, there is respect to the formality of Speech, or Words actually pronounced, &c.