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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 is, thy Church and People, who worship none but Thee, as the Turtle-Dove, that never entertains Conjunction with another; and who in their Affliction, like a Dove, express their Grief in Sighs and solitary Groans to thee; and which is unarmed, weak, simple, and meek, like the Turtle-Dove, which is esteemed the least among the Species of Doves, as Aristotle says. The Chaldee renders it, The Soul of such as learn thy Law, (that Word [Greek or Hebrew] a Turtle-Dove, being of some affinity with [Greek or Hebrew] Law.) Christ calls his Church a Dove, by which Metaphor, saith Glassius, its Simplicity, Chastity, &c. is denoted.
THat is, thy Church and People, who worship none but Thee, as the Turtle-Dove, that never entertains Conjunction with another; and who in their Affliction, like a Dove, express their Grief in Sighs and solitary Groans to thee; and which is unarmed, weak, simple, and meek, like the Turtle-Dove, which is esteemed the least among the Species of Doves, as Aristotle says. The Chaldee renders it, The Soul of such as learn thy Law, (that Word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a Turtle-Dove, being of some affinity with 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Law.) Christ calls his Church a Dove, by which Metaphor, saith Glassius, its Simplicity, Chastity, &c. is denoted.
Doct. That the Spouse of Christ, or a gracious Soul, is or may fitly be compared unto a Dove.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Dove is a meek and harmless Creature: Be ye innocent as Doves. | The Saints of God are injurious to none, they seek the hurt of no Man, they are and ought to be harmless, 1the Children of God, in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation. II. The Dove makes her Nest in the Rock;