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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
Tropes and Figures; OR, A TREATISE of the METAPHORS, ALLEGORIES, TY… › Head 5 › The Lord's Supper.
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But to come directly to the Business in hand: Either Christ spake figuratively, when he said, This is my Body, or he did not: And that the Words cannot be taken in a proper sense, is evident; for it is impossible for Words to express any thing more plainly, than that by this is meant the Bread. It is said, that Christ took Bread, and brake it, and gave it, and said, Take, eat, this is my Body; where this necessarily relates to that which Christ took, brake, and gave. Also the Apostle saith positively thrice in a Breath, that it is Bread: 1 Cor. 11.26. As often as ye eat this Bread, &c. And whosoever shall eat this Bread. 1 Cor. 1•.16. The Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? Also the Participation of the Sacrament is called, breaking of Bread, Acts 2.46. & 20.7. which Popish Authors themselves understand of the Sacrament. Now can any be so ignorant and foolish, to believe it is Christ's proper and real Body, which the Holy-Ghost calleth so often Bread, after it is blessed, &c.
But to come directly to the Business in hand: Either Christ spake figuratively, when he said, This is my Body, or he did not: And that the Words cannot be taken in a proper sence, is evident; for it is impossible for Words to express any thing more plainly, than that by this is meant the Bread. It is said, that Christ took Bread, and brake it, and gave it, and said, Take, eat, this is my Body; where this necessarily relates to that which Christ took, brake, and gave. Also the Apostle saith positively thrice in a Breath, that it is Bread: 1 Cor. 11.26. As often as ye eat this Bread, &c. And whosoever shall eat this Bread. 1 Cor. 1•.16. The Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? Also the Participation of the Sacrament is called, breaking of Bread, Acts 2.46