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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.
Canon VI. In expounding the Types of the Old Testament we are to examine accurately, whether the Shadow, or the Truth, represented by a Shadow, be proposed: That is, whether the Prophets prophesy of Christ under the Umbrage or Shadow of Types, or in express Terms (viz. speaking of our Saviour in a literal Sense.)
Canon VI. In expounding the Types of the Old Testament we are to examin accurately, whether the Shadow, or the Truth, represented by a Shadow, be proposed: That is, whether the Prophets prophesy of Christ under the Umbrage or Shadow of Types, or in express Terms (viz. speaking of our Saviour in a literal Sense.)
THE Reason depends upon that Custom of Prophetical Speech, yea of God himself, speaking by the Prophets, by which they are wont to make a sudden Transition from the Type to the Antitype, from a corporeal to a spiritual Thing; and when the Speech is of another Thing, to turn themselves to Christ, the Kernel (as it were) of the Scripture, and prophesy of him not under the Shadow of Types, but in express Terms. As for Instance, it is said Psal. 2.7. Thou art my Son, this Day have I begotten thee. Calvin, in his Commentary upon this Psalm, says, that it is to be understood Literally of David, but Typically of Christ. So the Place Micah 5.2. But thou Bethlehem Ephrata, &c. out of thee shall come forth unto me a Ruler, (or Captain) this the same Calvin expounds not literally of Christ, but of some Politic Governor, as a Type of Christ. When yet these, and all Texts of the same Purport are to be understood of Christ literally, which the Coherence and Scope of the Text does clearly prove, &c.