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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.
(f)so lively, as if he had lived under them, and had that experience of them all respectively, which the World hath since had of them. How wonderful is that Prophecy of Isaiah, at the end of his 44th, and the beginning of the 45th Chapter, touching Cyrus, delivered at least an hundred Years (some say, two hundred) before he was born, wherein yet he is not only expressly named, Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed Cyrus; but it is foretold, he should conquer Babylon, and rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem: which came to pass accordingly. Nor can this Prophecy be suspected of Forgery, or to be supposititious in any kind, since it was pronounced openly, as other Prophecies were, in the hearing of all the People, and so divulged into many hands, before the Captivity, and then also carried into Babylon, where no doubt it was perused by many, long before the accomplishment of it. And that there was such a Man as Cyrus many Years afterwards, that conquered Babylon, and restored the Jews from their Captivity, and furthered the Building of the Temple, all Heathen Authors, that write of those Times, do affirm. And indeed one great Inducement of his Kindness to the Jews, was, because he understood how his Successes had been thus prophesied of, so long before, by one of that Nation. So that it appears the said Prophecy was then publicly known, and its Truth and Authentickness no way doubted of. How manifestly are the many Prophecies of the Old-Testament, concerning our Saviour, fulfilled? And how dreadfully his Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem, was made good about forty Years after his Crucifixion, we find in the History of Josephus, exactly corresponding to what is foretold in Mat. 24. And ⟨p. vii⟩how many other Prophecies of the New-Testament, and especially of the Revelations, do we daily find Verified in and by the Apostasy, and wicked Usurpations of the Church of Rome? Since therefore to foretell so plainly, Particulars and Events so remote, and depending on the mere Motions and Acts of the Wills of particular Persons, yet unborn, is an evident Mark of Omniscience; we cannot but conclude, that the Scriptures, which are filled with so many evident and certain Predictions, must certainly proceed from the Finger of God.