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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.
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 (Rom. 5.14.) a Type seems not properly to denote what we here intend, for there is a certain Comparison made between Adam and Christ, which carries rather a Disparity than a Similitude in it. The Protasis, or Proposition, is in v. 12. As Adam conveyed Death together with Sin to all that were born of him (ut Adamus omnibus ex se natis cum peccato mortem communicate.) The Apodosis, Rendition, or Return, is not expressly set down, but insinuated in the foregoing words, as if he had said, So Christ conveys or communicates Life to all those that by Faith are given to, and implanted in him. A Type therefore in the said place denotes a Similitude generically, and relates to the fifth particular. In the latter Example [Greek or Hebrew] a Type, signifies an Example, Shadow, or Umbrage of things to come, as the words annexed make out, yet not properly relating to the Types in hand. To this some refer Heb. 8.5. Acts 7.44. where [Greek or Hebrew], a Type, is taken for the Pattern and Image shown to Moses in the Mount [Exod. 25.40. in the Hebrew 'tis called [Greek or Hebrew], an Exemplar (Pattern) Figure or Form] denoting that the Structure of that Levitical Tabernacle, was a Type or Prefiguration of the Truth, which was to be expected under the Gospel-Dispensation: So Gregory Nazianzen says,