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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.
Inferences.
IS Christ's Church, and so consequently every gracious Person, compared to a Dove, being meek, humble, harmless, chaste, and single-hearted to the Lord Jesus Christ? &c. Then we may assure our selves, that she that delights in Prey, Rapine, and Blood, as doth the Romish Church, is none of the Dove or Church of Jesus Christ.
IS Christ's Church, and so consequently every gracious Person, compared to a Dove, being meek, humble, harmless, chast, and single-hearted to the Lord Jesus Christ? &c. Then we may assure our selves, that she that delights in Prey, Rapine, and Blood, as doth the Romish Church, is none of the Dove or Church of Jesus Christ.
2. Are the Eyes of a Dove by the Rivers of Water? do they delight in Springs, Fountains, and pure Rivers? and in this are they an Emblem of the Godly, who hate all filthy, loathsome, and detestable Traditions of Men, and delight only in the pure, unmixed, and Chrystal Streams of God's holy Institutions? Then all those, who, like Ravens, and other foul and unclean Birds of Prey, delight in Ditches, and in long-standing, stinking Pools of this false Church, (where they defile themselves in searching for the detestable Carrion of Idolatry) are none of Christ's Dove-like People.
2. Are the Eyes of a Dove by the Rivers of Water? do they delight in Springs, Fountains, and pure Rivers? and in this are they an Emblem of the Godly, who hate all filthy, loathsom, and detestable Traditions of Men, and delight only in the pure, unmixed, and Chrystal Streams of God's holy Institutions? Then all those, who, like Ravens, and other foul and unclean Birds of Prey, delight in Ditches, and in long-standing, stinking Pools of this false Church, (where they defile themselves in searching for the detestable Carrion of Idolatry) are none of Christ's Dove-like People.