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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.
II. This rebukes the Papists, who deny the People the holy Cup of our Lord, and give the Sacrament (or holy Ordinance) only in one kind, when that nothing is more clear, than that Jesus Christ gave his Disciples the Cup, as well as the Bread.
Quest. Why did Christ institute this holy Ordinance, and give it to his Disciples, the very Night in which he was betrayed?
Answ. 1. To strengthen their Faith in an Hour of Temptation, that was just at the Door, and ready to come upon them. When is a Cordial more necessary, than when the Patient is ready to faint, and his Spirits fail? Christ saw what a sad Qualm was coming upon his poor Saints, and therefore gives them this Soul-reviving Cordial, to bear up their Spirits.
2. Because the last Words of a dying Friend are mostly kept in mind, or Tokens of Love given by him are chiefly born in remembrance.