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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.
And this Argument is abundantly reinforced and strengthened from the Consideration of that Glorious Company of Martyrs, those Innumerable Multitudes, who in the Flames and Rage of Persecution, have with the loss of their Lives maintained the Scriptures to be the Sacred Word of God, and had the same in such Veneration, that in the Primitive Ages the Traditors (Deliverers up of their Bibles to the Heathen to be destroyed) were always esteemed as bad as professed Apostates. Since therefore they did so constantly, and with such Hazards affirm this Truth, what shadow of Reason is there to suspect such a Cloud of Witnesses of Folly, Weakness, Credulity, Wickedness, or Conspiracy amongst themselves? (which such a diffused Multitude was absolutely uncapable of.) Nor can we suppose that Popular Esteem on Earth, and Vain-Glory could be the Ground upon which they suffered, since they gave up their Lives for a Religion, which both utterly condemned such Vanity, and was every where in the World at that time odious and detestable, and whose Profession brought nothing but outward Shame and Contempt.
And this Argument is abundantly reinforc'd and strengthned from the Consideration of that Glorious Company of Martyrs, those Innumerable Multitudes, who in the Flames and Rage of Persecution, have with the loss of their Lives maintained the Scriptures to be the Sacred Word of God, and had the same in such Veneration, that in the Primitive Ages the Traditors (Deliverers up of their Bibles to the Heathen to be destroyed) were always esteemed as bad as profess'd Apostates. Since therefore they did so constantly, and with such Hazards affirm this Truth, what shadow of Reason is there to suspect such a Cloud of Witnesses of Folly, Weakness, Credulity, Wickedness, or Conspiracy amongst themselves? (which such a diffused Multitude was absolutely uncapable of.) Nor can we suppose that Popular Esteem on Earth, and Vain-Glory could be the Ground upon which they suffered, since they gave up their Lives for a Religion, which both utterly condemned such Vanity, and was every where in the World at that time odious and detestable, and whose Profession brought nothing but outward Shame and Contempt.
XIII. But the Doctrines and Matters of Fact in the Scripture (which if true,