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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 latter Class belong,
1. The Dream of Pharaoh King of Egypt, Gen. 41, of the fourteen Cows and the fourteen Ears of Corn, by which the future State of Egypt, and the neighbouring Country, with respect to Fertility, and the scarcity of Corn, is prefigured, as Joseph himself expounds it, Chap. 41.25, &c. and is evidenced by the Event ver. 47, 54, &c.
2. The double Dream of Nebuchadnezzar; the first is described, Dan. 2.29,1 &c. viz. of the great, large, splendid, terrible Image of a Man, whose Head was Gold, his Breast and Arms Silver, Belly and Sides Brass, Legs Iron, Feet part Iron, part Clay, and of the Stone hewen out without hands, which brake them to pieces; becoming afterwards a great Mountain. By which typical and symbolical Image: the four universal Kingdoms or Monarchies of the Earth are again shadowed, or adumbrated, as the Prophet himself expounds it, Dan. 2.37. and the following Verses.