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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 now if after the Words of Consecration, there is under the Species of Bread, the Nature and Properties of Flesh, then are the Senses of the wisest of Mortals deceived: And if our Senses be deceived here,1 they are not (as a late Author observes) to be trusted in any other thing; no, not when they are most sure that we see Father or Mother, or Wife, or Children. Can we be sure, This is my Body, is written in Mat. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. 1 Cor. 11.? For may not those Words be some other Words? why should we trust our Eyes? What if we should tell the Papists, These Words, This is my Body, are neither in this Chapter, nor any where else written in the New Testament, and grow confident of it, and tell them the Words are, This is not my Body, 'Tis the Bricks that were laid to build Babel, 'Tis the Gates of Solomon's Porch: This is the Show-Bread that Abimelech gave to David, the Bottles that Abigail took from Nabal? If they tell us, We are strangely deceived, and the Sense of all that can read will give it against us; may not we tell them as well, when they say, This is the real Body of Christ, (when it is nothing but a Wafer-Cake) That they are strangely deceived, and that the Senses of all, that can either see, taste, smell, or feel, will give it against them? This being so, what reason is there for them to burn us, because we cannot see the Bread to be Christ's real Body, more than there is for us to kill them, because they cannot see that it is the Gates of Solomon's Porch.
But now if after the Words of Consecration, there is under the Species of Bread, the Nature and Properties of Flesh, then are the Senses of the wisest of Mortals deceived: And if our Senses be deceived here,1 they are not (as a late Author observes) to be trusted in any other thing; no, not when they are most sure that we see Father or Mother, or Wife, or Children. Can we be sure, This is my Body, is written in Mat. 26