Troposchēmalogia: 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
Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704., De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Tropologia. aut
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V. Schemes taken from Comparates.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Syncrisis, Parathesis, Comparison; is an Amplification of the Sacred Speech by the comparison of such things as are like and unlike, grea∣ter or less,— as in a Proposition and its Answer, or the Proposition only, leaving the Answer to be found out, of which sort there are many Examples in the Para∣bles of our Saviour; of which see Gram. Sacr. p. 483, &c. and Illyricus Part 2. Clavis Script. 4. Tract in the Titles of Similitudes, as also our Treatise of Pa∣rables.
