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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.
5. But to approach nearer to our Scope and Business, [Greek or Hebrew], a Type, denotes a Figure, Image, Effigy, or Representation of any thing, and that either painted, feigned, or engraven or expressed by any other way of Imitation. Acts 7.43. So, Isocrates in Evag. encom. calls [Greek or Hebrew], the Images of Bodies, ([Greek or Hebrew].)
5. But to approach nearer to our Scope and Business, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Type, denotes a Figure, Image, Effigie, or Representation of any thing, and that either painted, feigned, or engraven or expressed by any other way of Imitation. Acts 7.43. So, Isocrates in Evag. encom. calls 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Images of Bodies, (〈non-Latin alphabet〉.)
6. Divines understand nothing else by Types, but the Images or Figures of things present, or to come; especially the Actions and Histories of the Old-Testament, respecting such as prefigured Christ our Saviour in his Actions, Life, Passion, Death, and the Glory that followed. In which Sense some judg this Appellation to be [Greek or Hebrew], written or inscribed, and refer Rom. 5.14. to it, where Adam the first Man, is called [Greek or Hebrew], Figura futuri, the Figure of him that was to come, (viz. the last Adam, 1 Cor. 15.45.) and 1 Cor. 10.6. [Greek or Hebrew], now these things were our Types; and ver. 11. [Greek or Hebrew], now all these things happened to them for Types. These two Texts we translate Examples, or Ensamples. But in the former place (