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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.
4. A Covert Prosopopoeia, when the Verb of saying is omitted, called [Greek or Hebrew], (or Imitation) 'tis either simple or connex; the simple are such as are without Collocution: Isa. 21.3. Therefore are my Loins filled with pain, Pangs have taken hold of me, as the Pangs of a Woman that travelleth; I was bowed down at the hearing of it, I was dismayed at the seeing of it: Ver. 4. My Heart wandereth, Horror affrights me, he hath made my amiable Night terrible, (so the Hebrew.) After that Divine Oracle which foretells the Destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians, this Mimesis of the King of Babylon is subjoined, by which he expresses his Anxiety and Terror, as if the thing was then a doing: You may find the fulfilling of this described, Dan. 5.6, 9, 10, 30. Other Examples you may read, Jer. 49.10, 11, 14. Psal. 2.3. Psal. 82.8, 9. & 89.3. Eccles. 4.8. Prov. 23.35. Isa. 14.16. & 22.13. & 33.18. & 56.12. & 58.3. Jer. 3.17. & 6.4, 5, 6. & 8.14. & 11.19