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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.
1Amos 5.27. I will cause you to go into Captivity beyond Damascus: this is quoted, Acts 7.43. thus, I will carry you away beyond Babylon. Both were fulfilled: for the Israelites were not only carried away into Syria only, whose Chief or Metropolitan City Damascus is, but also beyond Babylon, into Persia and Caspia, as appears, Esd. 8.17.
1Mic. 5.2. And thou Bethlehem Ephratah, tho thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come forth unto me that is to be a Ruler in Israel. This Text is thus cited Mat. 2.6. And thou Bethlehem in the Land of Judah, art not the least among the Princes of Judah; for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule (or feed) my People Israel. In the former Text it is called Bethlehem Ephrata, of which you may read Gen. 35.16, 19. and 48.16. In the latter, it is called, The Land of Judah, by a Synecdoche, for a City seated in the Land of Judah: For at that time the Epithet of Judah was more used, and to Herod himself better known then the Surname of Ephrata, which perhaps at that Season, grew out of use, or was less known ⟨p. 23⟩to the Vulgar. In the former Text Bethlehem is called little, with respect to external Splendour and Eminency: But in the latter it is called not the least, because of that singular Honour which accrued to it by the Nativity of the Messiah. In the former 'tis said, among the thousands of Judah; but here among the Princes of Judah, of which, see our first Book, Chap. 3. Sect. 3. there the Messiah is called a Ruler in Israel, but here a Captain (or Governor), who shall feed the People: which eminent Metaphor is elsewhere expounded as it respects the Office of Christ.