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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.
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, Prov. 30.33.
7. It helps very much in the Understanding of Parables, if Men know the Natural Properties of such Things, Arts or Mysteries, as are proposed in the Similitudes. As what Treasure is, what a Jewel or Pearl is, what Mustard, Tares, &c. are.
8. Whereas it is frequently said, that the Kingdom of Heaven is like this or that Thing, we are not to understand that it is so in all its Parts, or in every Respect, but only in such Things as are declared in the Similitude. So Christ is compared to a Thief only in this respect, because he comes in a Time when unlooked for, or when unexpected, Luk. 12.39.
8. Whereas it is frequently said, that the Kingdom of Heaven is like this or that Thing, we are not to understand that it is so in all its Parts, or in every Respect, but only in such Things as are declared in the Similitude. So Christ is compared to a Thief only in this respect, because he comes in a Time when unlook'd for, or when unexpected, Luk. 12.39.