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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.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Mother is the Wife of an Husband; it imports a Marriage-State. Every godly Woman that is a Mother, can show who is (or was) her Husband. | The Church is the Spouse and Wife of Christ.1 For thy Maker is thy Husband, the Lord of Hosts is his Name. Wherefore, my Brethren, 2ye also are become dead to the Law by the Body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to him that is raised from the Dead, that we should bring forth Fruit unto God. II. A Mother is one that beareth and bringeth forth Children. | II. So the Church beareth and bringeth forth Children to Christ:3 Of Zion it shall be said, This and that Man was born in her. Hence the Saints are called Sons, Daughters, and Children of Zion. III. A Mother travails, and is in great Pain, in bringing forth Children. | III. So the Church is said to travail, and be in pain, in bringing forth of Children to Christ:4 As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her Children. The Church may be said to travail two manner of ways: (1.) By Preaching, Prayer, and by other godly Means and Endeavours, to bring forth poor Sinners out of a State of Nature into a State of Grace. Paul was said to travail in Pain, till Christ was formed in those to whom he preached. (2.) She travaileth by Preaching, Prayer, Tears, and Sufferings, and other lawful Ways, to bring forth her Children out of a State of Bondage, and external Slavery and Captivity, into a State of perfect Peace, Joy, and Prosperity, free from all outward Violence and Thraldom, according to the Promise of God; Therefore will I give them up, 5until the Time which she that travaileth hath brought forth. — Then the Remnant of his Brethren shall return unto the Children of Israel. — She being with Child, cried, travailing in Birth, and pained to be delivered. 6— For I have heard a Voice as of a Woman in Travail and Anguish, as of her that bringeth forth her first Child. The Voice of the Daughter of Zion, that bewaileth her self,