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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.
So much for a change in Words themselves, the like may be found in their Accidents, such as respect, (1.) Number, as that which is said, Psal. 32.1. in the singular Number, viz. Blessed is he whose Transgression is forgiven, whose Sin is covered, is cited, Rom. 4.7. in the plural; so Esa. 52.7. with Rom. 10.15. in both places the sense is the same, for the singular is put for the plural synecdochically. Compare Deut. 6.16. with Mat. 4.7, &c. (2.) Person,1 of which Examples are given elsewhere. (3.) Mood and Tense, of which there is an eminent Example in the Citation from Esa. 6.10. which is made Mat. 13.14, 15. John 12.40. Acts 28.26, 27. where there is an emphatical Change of the Imperative Mood into the Indicative, and of the Present Tense of the Subjunctive into the Future Tense of the Indicative.
- 1Gram. Sacr. p. 680.
Now before we proceed it is to be noted, 1