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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 Holy Angels compared to the Faces of a Man, of a Lion, of an Ox, and of an Eagle.
Ezek. 1.6.10. And every one had four Faces, &c. (that is, every one of the living Creatures or Angels which the Prophet saw in the Vision.)
Four particular Angels, as some conceive, which were chief over the rest of the whole Host of Angels. Others, upon better Reason, rather understand it relates to the four Parts of the World, East, West, North, and South; i. e. the Work of Angels laid out in all those Parts. See Mr. Greenhill on Ezekiel, pag. 85.
FOur particular Angels, as some conceive, which were chief over the rest of the whole Host of Angels. Others, upon better Reason, rather understand it relates to the four Parts of the World, East, West, North, and South; i. e. the Work of Angels laid out in all those Parts. See Mr. Greenhill on Ezekiel, pag. 85.
Observ. 1. God employeth glorious intelligent Creatures in his Service, in the Ways and Workings of his Power and Providence in the World.