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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.
1. A good and true Speech is proposed by the sacred Writers, whenever the Words of God himself, and our Saviour Christ, or of Angels and good Men are expressed:1 Psal. 2.7, 8, 9. The Lord said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I will give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance, and the utmost parts of the Earth for thy Possession. Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron; ⟨p. 9⟩thou shalt break them in pieces like a Potters Vessel. Psal. 50.16. But unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldst take my Covenant in thy Mouth? Verse 17. Seeing thou hatest Instruction, &c. Isa. 66.1. Thus saith the Lord, the Heaven is my Throne, and the Earth is my Footstool. And so very frequently the Prophets introduce God himself speaking, not only that their Speech may have the greater Authority by it, but chiefly because (as 2 Pet. 1.21.) The Prophecy came not in old time by the Will of Man; but holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost: 'Tis therefore doubtful, whether (speaking accurately) this kind of Speech belongs to this kind of Rhetorical Prosopopoeia; because God is the real Author of the Scripture, and immediately both spoke and writ it by the Prophets, who were his Ministers and Amanuenses; Men do not introduce God as speaking, but God moves them by Inspiration to represent him; see Heb. 1.1.