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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.
4. In the right Explication and Application of Parables the Scope of them is principally to be heeded, viz. the Drift of the Spirit, which may be gathered from foregoing and subsequent Things, with which it has any Connection. See Mat. 20.16. & 19.30. and Mat. 13.31.
4. In the right Explication and Application of Parables the Scope of them is principally to be heeded, viz. the Drift of the Spirit, which may be gathered from foregoing and subsequent Things, with which it has any Connexion. See Mat. 20.16. & 19.30. and Mat. 13.31.
5. In Parables there is no necessity of being too sifting and anxious about every single Word, nor ought we to expect a too curious Adaptation or Accommodation of it, in every Part, to the spiritual Thing inculcated by it: but only to mind the Applicatory Part; as the Edge of a Sword is only designed to cut.
6. Parabolical Theology is not argumentative. That is, any Exposition or Accommodation of them beyond their Native Scope, or wherein the Interpretation disagrees with the Analogy of Faith, or where it is superstitiously wrested; this is like the wringing of the Nose, till it brings Blood,