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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.
The Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures asserted and vindicated, and the groundless Cavils against the same detected and confuted.
THE main Scope of this Work, being to offer some Assistance towards the explaining and finding out the true Sense and Meaning of the Holy Scriptures, it will be convenient (according to our Promise in our Specimen of this Undertaking) to premise something touching the Divine Authority of that blessed Book. For tho it be commonly owned by Christians to be the Word of God, yet since on the one Hand, there are (especially in this Atheistical Age) too many amongst us, whose Love of Sin, and Resolutions to continue therein, tempt them to seek for shelter in bold Contempt of, or subtle Cavils against those Heavenly Oracles; and on the other hand, not a few poor Souls are sometimes shaken with Temptations, and know not how to discharge themselves from the ensnaring Questions that they are often attacked with, touching the Divine Original and Authority of those Sacred Records; Not so much for want of Assent thereunto, as of a right Understanding or Consideration of the Grounds of that Assent, and the true formal Reason thereof; Therefore that with a perfect Security to our present and future Welfare, we may rely on that Book, as the infallible Store-house of Heavenly Verities, that great and only Revelation, whereby God does Inform, Rule, and will Judg the World; we shall set forth some Considerations evincing this most important Truth: But finding that divers able and worthy Men have of late wrote most learnedly and excellently upon this Subject, we shall upon that account be the more concise; and tho we have said but little, yet we hope enough to satisfy any rational considering Man, and confute the vain Cavils of the Adversary; for all along in this Essay we strive to join Perspicuity with Brevity, and to speak so plainly and familiarly, that the weakest Capacity may with ease gather it up; (the neglect hereof having rendered the Labours of some others on the same Subject less serviceable to the vulgar unlearned Reader.) It being our great Design to endeavour the Help and Establishment of the Unskilful, and to assist weak Christians; knowing, that if Satan can once bring them into a diffidence of the Truth and Authority of God's Word, he at the same Instant shakes the very Foundation of all their Hope and Religion: And if the Foundations fail, what shall the Righteous do?