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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.
Therefore when God is said to have Armies, it is either to signify, First, That he hath all things at his Command, and is full of Power: Or, secondly, That although he can do all things by himself, yet he will use the Agency of his Creatures to effect his Purpose.
Therefore when God is said to have Armies, it is either to signify, First, That he hath all things at his Command, and is full of Power: Or, secondly, That altho he can do all things by himself, yet he will use the Agency of his Creatures to effect his Purpose.
Metaphor. | Parallel. AN Host or Army have a Prince or General, who is the Head of them. | The Lord's Host, or Army of Angels, have a Prince or General, who is their Head and Leader, viz. the Lord Jesus Christ, who is c•lled the Head of Principalities and Powers. II. An Host or Army consists of many Companies, amongst which there are divers Ranks and Orders, and yet all in Subjection to their Prince, and chief Leader. | II. Angels, the Lord's Host, consist of many Companies or Legions:1 Thinkest thou, that I cannot pray to my Father, and he shall send me more than twelve Legions of Angels? (Christ spake in the Roman Phrase, who reckoned their Armies by Legions, as we by Regiments.) Six thousand six hundred sixty six, was the Number of a Legion; then the Number of twelve Legions was, Seventy nine thousand nine hundred ninety two, a great Army: But how many more, no Man can say. Christ pitched upon a great certain Number, to show (saith Mr. Caryl) he could have what Number he pleased, if he did but call for them. We are come (saith the Apostle) to an innumerable Company of Angels. The Lord's Camp is very great. The Chariots of the Lord are twenty thousand, even many thousands of Angels. 2We read of many Degrees or Orders of Angels, which some account to be nine. 1. Cherubims, that is, Angels of Knowledge, as St. Hierom interprets the Word; but others from Cherub, a Figure or Image. Others from Chi, a Note of Similitude, and a Chaldee Word which signifies (Puerum & Juvenem) a Youth. And so, as a learned Writer observes, they were usually represented in the shape of a young Man; to show them to be intellectual Creatures; of a young Man, to express their Vigour and Strength; with Wings, to declare their Agility and Swiftness. These we read were placed at the East End of the Garden of Eden, with a flaming Sword;