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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.
Rom. 6.4. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized ([Greek or Hebrew]) into Jesus Christ, (that is, into the Profession of his Faith, Confession of his Name, and Communion with his Church) were baptized into his Death. Col. 2.12. — Buried with him in Baptism, wherein ye are also risen with him, &c.
Rom. 6.4. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) into Jesus Christ, (that is, into the Profession of his Faith, Confession of his Name, and Communion with his Church) were baptized into his Death. Col. 2.12. — Buried with him in Baptism, wherein ye are also risen with him, &c.
For the opening of this Metaphorical Text, we will show, 1. The Literal Signification of the Word Baptism. 2. The Metaphorical Signification thereof. 3. What Burying literally and tropically is. 4. Give a symbolical Parallel between Baptism and a Burial. 5. Produce some Inferences from the Whole.