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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.
That the Scripture, or Book called the Bible, is of Divine Original, Inspired by the Spirit of God, and therefore of infallible Truth and Authority, Appears,
1I. By the Contents, or Matters therein discovered and treated of, which are so transcendently sublime and mysterious that they could never be the product of Human Invention, or Discovery; and therefore tho written by Men, as Instruments, must needs be revealed from above: for what Human Brain could ever have imagined a* Trinity in the Deity, or such an Existence of one simple Essence as this Book acquaints us withal? It describes the Person of Christ, so plainly, fitly and excellently, that if the Mind of Man consider it attentively, of necessity it must needs acknowledge, it doth far exceed the reach of a finite Understanding. It discovers unto us the Misery and Corruption of Man by Nature, together with that general defect of the whole Creation (which tho some of the Heathen had some glimpse of) yet could never find out the Cause, nor how it came to pass; No finite Intellect could ever have travelled into such Heights and Depths, touching the Nature of God and his Eternal Counsels that stupendous Contrivement for the Salvation of Man, that the second Person should descend from Heaven, and assume Human Nature into a Conjunction with the Divine, take upon him in his own Person the Sin of Mankind, and die for the World, thereby making a satisfaction proportionate to infinite Justice, so that God may show the utmost Act of Mercy, in a Conjunction with the highest Exercise of Justice: Nothing less than an Infinite Understanding could have found out Expedients to reconcile those two infinite Attributes, in his dealings with an Apostate Creature. It unfolds the Covenant of Grace, which God made after the Fall, all which can be drawn from no other Fountain but Divine*