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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.
Article III. Of Prophetical Types, and Typical and Symbolical Actions.
Prophetical Types are such, whereby the Prophets who were divinely inspired by External Symbols, figured or signified things present, or to come, in their Speeches, or Writings, either by way of Warning, Admonition, or Prophecy. This must be considered, (1.) with respect to Actions. (2.) Visions.
PRophetical Types are such, whereby the Prophets who were divinely inspired by External Symbols, figured or signified things present, or to come, in their Speeches, or Writings, either by way of Warning, Admonition, or Prophecy. This must be considered, (1.) with respect to Actions. (2.) Visions.
1. Prophetical Actions are typical, when some thing mystical and hidden, is adumbrated or shadowed by those things which the Prophets by Divine Command acted; as for Instance; Esa. 20.2.1 The Prophet goes out naked; (that is, without his Prophetical Garments) to prefigure the fatal Destruction of the Egyptians and Ethiopians: Jer. 13.1.2