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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.
The Church compared to a Garden.
Cant. 4.12. A Garden enclosed is my Sister, my Spouse, &c. Verse 16. Awake, O North Wind; and come thou South Wind, and blow upon my Garden, &c. Cant. 5.1. I am come into my Garden, my Sister, my Spouse.
The Church of Christ is or may fitly be compared to a Garden.
THe Church of Christ is or may fitly be compared to a Garden.
Metaphor. | Parallel. A Garden is a Piece taken out of common or waste Ground, appropriated to more special Use than the rest. | The Church of God (and every Believer, or Member thereof) is taken out of the common Mass of Mankind, to be a chosen and select People to Christ. II. The Ground of a Garden before it is planted, is as barren, and as unprofitable, as the rest out of which it was taken. | II. The People of God, and Soul of every Believer, naturally were as barren, blind, sinful, Enemies to God, and every way as vile and rebellious, as any other Sinners in the World.