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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.
Secondly; as a Body, in opposition to Figures and Shadows, as Westhemerus says,* Sacrificium & Oblationem noluisti, id est, Ceremonias illas V. T. repudiasti, sed Corpus apt asti mihi, &c. That is, Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldest not; that is, thou hast abrogated the Ceremonies of the Old Testament, but thou hast prepared a Body for me; that is, the Truth, of which, those Sacrifices were only Shadows; a Figure thou wouldest no longer, the time coming wherein the Body, that is, the very thing it self, and Truth was to be made manifest, Col. 2.9, 17. Hunnius in his Comment says, That these words from the Greek Translation are by a very good Reason retained, because that Body provided or fitted for Christ, or taken in the Incarnation, is to be opposed (as a thing adumbrated, and the true propitiatory Sacrifice) to the Rites of the Law, which contained only a Shadow, not the absolute Image or Substance of things.
- *Westhemerus lib. de Tropis Sac. Scrip. p. 148.VVesthemerus lib. de Tropis Sac. Scrip. p. 148.
12. Exegetically, that is, by way of Illation or Inference, as Psal. 68.18. Thou hast received Gifts among Men (so the Hebrew) which Eph. 4.8. is thus quoted, [Greek or Hebrew], And gave Gifts unto Men; both are true, and the one is the Consequence of the other, or an Illation from it. Esa. 1.9. Except the Lord of Hosts had left us a Remnant ([Greek or Hebrew], reliquum) this