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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.
1 Cor. 12.13. — All baptized into one Body. Eph. 2.16. — Both unto God in one Body. Eph. 4.12. — For the edifying of the Body of Christ. Col. 1.18. He is the Head of the Body, the Church, &c. Verse 24. For his Body sake, which is the Church, &c.
The Body, [Greek or Hebrew], (Soma) is frequently put for the Church or People of God, the Explication of which Trope is concisely opened in the following Parallel.
THe Body, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, (Soma) is frequently put for the Church or People of God, the Explication of which Trope is concisely opened in the following Parallel.
Metaphor. | Parallel. Every natural Body hath a Head. | SO the Church of God hath a Head, viz. the Lord Jesus Christ:1 He (God the Father) hath put all things under his Feet, and gave him to be the Head over all things to the Church, which is his Body, the Fullness of him that filleth all in all. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 2Verse 17. And he is the Head of the Body, the Church, &c. II. The natural Body hath many Members,3