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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.
To the former Class belongs;
First, The Dream of the Patriarch Jacob, Gen. 28.12. And he dreamed, and behold, 1a Ladder set upon the Earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven; and behold, the Angels of God ascending and descending upon it: Verse 13. And behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord, &c. Certain Interpreters, by reason of the Antitype, refer this Vision to the Patriarch Jacob himself, making the Ladder to signify the Journey of Jacob; the ascending Angels his Keepers when he travelled, and the descending Angels, when he returned; they say, that God stood on the top of the Ladder, since he is the Moderator or Governor of the whole Affair, because by his Providence Jacob is taken from his Parents, led in his Journey, entertained by his Father-in-Law Laban, and led back again. This Interpretation, they say, is made by God himself, ver. 15. But Christ is a more sure Interpreter, who, Joh. 1.51. makes himself the Antitype of that Vision. Verily, verily, I say unto you, hereafter ye shall see Heaven opened, and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man: That is, from day to day, ye shall more and more understand, that I am he who is prefigured in that Vision of Jacob's Ladder. That Vision holds forth,
First, The Dream of the Patriarch Jacob, Gen. 28.12. And he dreamed, and behold, 1a Ladder set upon the Earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven; and behold, the Angels of God ascending and descending upon it: Verse 13. And behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord, &c. Certain Interpreters, by reason of the Antitype, refer this Vi•ion to the Patriarch Jacob himself, making the Ladder to signify the Journy of Jacob; the ascending Angels his Keepers when he travell'd, and the descending Angels, when he return'd; they say, that God stood on the top of the Ladder, since he is the Moderator or Governour of the whole Affair, because by his Providence Jacob is taken from his Parents, led in his Journy, entertained by his Father-in-Law Laban, and led back again. This Interpretation, they say, is made by God himself, ver. 15. But Christ is a more sure Interpreter, who,