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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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Secondly; It is against Reason. And shall any conclude, that is any Principle of the Christian Religion, that is contrary to, and utterly against Reason? For it would make us believe things that are absolutely impossible, and gross Contradictions. Tho some things may be above Reason, yet they themselves confess no Principle of Religion can be against it.
Object. But they say, We imagine many things impossible, that really are not so; and further intimate, If we can prove any real Impossibilities, which this Doctrine forceth them to believe, they will yield to us: For they with us condemn the Lutheran Opinion, 1That Christ's Body is every where, because it is impossible; and therefore expound those Words, I am the Vine, I am a Door, &c. figuratively, (as we do) because it is impossible for him who is a Man, to be a Vine, or a Door, &c. [See Mr. Pool, p. 107.]
- 1See a Book called Scripture-Mysteries, p. 279.
Answ. It is no less impossible for the Bread to be Christ's real Body. Why might not the Vine, as well as the Wine, be by Transubstantiation converted into Christ's real Substance? I think, saith Mr. Pool, the Mother as good as the Daughter: And especially since Christ saith, I am the Vine, might not they have devised another Transubstantiation, to make Christ's Words good?