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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. [Greek or Hebrew], Occupation, is when that which may be objected, is anticipated and avoided:— this is done either covertly, or tacitly; or open and plainly. Of the first sort we reckon, when the Objection is not mentioned, but only the Answer; Rom. 9.6. It cannot be that the Word of God should take no Effect; for they are not all Israelites, that are of Israel (so the Greek:) This obviates an Objection, viz. If Israel be rejected, the Word of God will be ineffectual; I will be thy God, and the God of thy Seed, &c. An open or plain Prolepsis, 1is when the Objection is stated and answered: this is often joined with a Prosopopoeia,— the parts of this are [Greek or Hebrew], Hypophora, and [Greek or Hebrew], Anthupophora: The first is the Adversaries Reason, or Objection; the latter, the Solution or Confutation of it. Examples are, Isa. 49.14. But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me: The Answer of this ⟨p. 15⟩Objection follows, Ver. 15. Can a Woman forget her sucking Child, &c. See also Mat. 3.9. Rom. 3.1, 2, 3, 4, 27, 29, 31. & 4.1, 2, 3. & 6.1, 2. & 7.7. & 9.14, 19, 20. & 10.18, 19. & 11.1, 11, 19, 20. 1 Cor. 15.35, 36, &c.