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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.
Answ. Some of the Reasons of it, according to our weak Judgment, are hinted in the following Parallels.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Bush is a thing of small worth and value, few esteem or regard a Bramble-Bush; stately Trees are viewed and prized, and some of them valued highly, but so is not a Bush. | SO likewise the Church of God was then, and is now, a thing of small value, of little or no esteem in the eyes of wicked Men; it was no more regarded by proud Pharaoh, and many of the Egyptians, than a sorry Bramble-Bush. Hence the Apostle speaketh of the Church, as being very contemptible in the sight of Men. We are made as the Filth of the World, 1and are the Off-scouring of all things unto this day. II. A Bramble-Bush, as it is a thing of no Worth or Value, so it is a thing that hath no Beauty in it, in comparison of other Trees; it is in no wise taking to the eye. Some things that are of no great worth, seem very glorious and ⟨p. 107⟩beautiful; but there is none of this in a Bramble. | II. So the true Church of God is not clothed with outward Beauty, not arrayed in Purple and Scarlet, decked with Gold, precious Stones, and Pearls, like the Mother of Harlots; but seemeth low,2 base, and contemptible to a carnal Eye, her Beauty being all hidden: The King's Daughter is glorious within. 3And 'tis from hence the World values her no more. ⟨p. 107⟩As Christ made himself of no Reputation,4 so the Church for a while remaineth among Men in a like State; no carnal Eye that seeth her, doth at all desire her. ⟨p. 106⟩