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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.
Some of the most frequent Objections against the Bible, are these that follow.
Object. 1. How Men, in the respective Ages wherein the several parts of the Bible were written, could know that they were written by an infallible Spirit, and so distinguish them from other Writings?
Answ. Two ways: First, by the Quality of the Persons; and secondly, from the Nature and Quality of the Matter. As for Moses, there could not be the least Cause of doubting his being inspired by God, since he wrought such Miracles, and had a visible and audible Intercourse with the Lord, as we read, Exod. 19.9. that the Lord said unto him, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick Cloud, that the People may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. The other Parts of the Old Testament were written by Prophets, and holy Men. And tho several of them were not received and hearkened to as such, by the corrupt ruling Part of the Jews, whilst they lived; yet they were acknowledged afterwards, as well for the Sanctity of their Lives, and the fulfilling of those things mentioned, the Judgments which they foretold coming to pass, and the Agreeableness of what they delivered to the established Worship of God. For two ways God himself had provided, for discovering all Pretences to Revelation: First, If any such Pretender went about to seduce the People to Idolatry, he was to be rejected. — The Prophet that shall speak in the Name of other Gods, shall die(f). Secondly; If the Matter came not to pass, as we have it in the next Verse save one; When a Prophet speaketh in the Name of the Lord, if the Thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the Thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the Prophet hath spoken it presumptuously. And a final Decision, what was to be received for the Old Testament, God was pleased to make, after the Babylonish Captivity, in the Days of Ezra, and that famous Synagogue, several of the last Prophets being personally present, where, by a divine Direction, all the Parts of the Old Testament were collected, and a Separation made, not only between the Works of true Prophets and false; and such Writings as came by divine Inspiration, from those that were of divine Extraction; and such as were to be a perpetual Rule to the Church, from such as relating only to particular Cases, were not so. And in this Settlement the Jewish Church did acquiesce, and from that time to this have had no further Disputes, but received those very Books, and none others, (for those called Apocrypha, which the Papists would obtrude upon us, were never received as Canonical by the Jews.)