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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 Church the Temple of God.
1 Cor. 3.16. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God. 2 Cor. 6.16. For ye are the Temple of the Living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, &c.
The Church is the Anti-type of Solomon's Temple, and we shall therefore run the Parallel with respect to that.
THe Church is the Anti-type of Solomon's Temple, and we shall therefore run the Parallel with respect to that.
Type. | Parallel The Temple was built with costly Stones, well hewed, squared, and polished, before they were laid into the Building. | SO the Church of God is built with spiritual Stones,1 who are well hewed and polished by the Word and Spirit, before added to, or laid into the heavenly Building, II. In the Building of the Temple there was no Noise heard of Hammer or Axe; and the House, when it was in building, was built with Stones made ready before they were brought thither;