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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.
3. Speeches prudently feigned and composed to signify another thing, are to be read in Scripture-Parables, especially the Writings of the Evangelists, which shall be treated of at large in this Work, in the Chapter of Parables, to which we refer you. To this belongs when a Speech is attributed to persons, to be a sign of the very state of Things,1 and is figured as the thing signified by that Speech; as is intimated, Isa. 3.6. When a Man shall take hold of his Brother, of the House of his Father, (saying) Thou hast clothing, be thou our Ruler, and let this Ruin be under thy hand: Ver. 7. In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a Healer; for in my House is neither Bread nor Clothing; make me not a Ruler of the People: The rareness or fewness of Governors capable to exercise that Dignity,2 is denoted in this Dialogism, or feigned Speech: Isa. 4.1. And in that day seven Women shall take hold of one Man, saying, 3We will eat our own Bread, and wear our own Apparel, only let us be called by thy Name, to take away our Reproach.— This is a Prophecy of the want of Men, because of the frequent Slaughters that were to come, and the Desolation of Women. See other Examples, Mat. 23.39. with 21.15, 16.
3. Speeches prudently feigned and composed to signify another thing, are to be read in Scripture-Parables, especially the Writings of the Evangelists, which shall be treated of at large in this Work, in the Chapter of Parables, to which we refer you. To this belongs when a Speech is attributed to persons, to be a sign of the very state of Things,1 and is figured as the thing signified by that Speech; as is intimated, Isa. 3.6. When a Man shall take hold of his Brother, of the House of his Father, (saying) Thou hast cloathing, be thou our Ruler, and let this Ruine be under thy hand: Ver. 7. In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a Healer; for in my House is neither Bread nor Cloathing; make me not a Ruler of the People: The rareness or fewness of Governours capable to exercise that Dignity,