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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.
The use of Interrogations 1is various, and almost serves every Affection: There is,
- 1The use of Interrogations.
1. An Interrogation, which denotes Absurdity1 in a way of exploding it; as Joh. 3.4. How can a Man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his Mother's Womb? as if he had said, This is absurd, and in my Judgment, cannot be; Joh. 6.52. How can this Man give us his Flesh to eat? as if he had said, This is most absurd: See Ver. 60. and Chap. 12.34.
- 1Absurdity.
2. Admiration, 1Gen. 17.17. Shall a Child be born unto him that is an hundred Years old! and shall Sarah that is ninety Years old bear! This is an Interrogation, admiring the Divine Power, and comparing it with his own and his Wives Impotency; as Rom. 4.19, 21. More Examples, see