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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A TREATISE Of all the TYPES, PARABLES and ALLEGORIES of the Old and New-Testament, with the Ex∣positions of the Learned upon such as are obscure, &c.

Article VII. Canons or Rules expounding Types.

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Canon IX. In Types and Antitypes an Enallage, Permutation or Change sometimes happens, as when the Thing figured and adumbrated takes to it self the Name of the Figure, shadow or Type: and on the contrary, when the Type and Figure of the Thing represented takes to it self the Name of the Antitype.

EXamples of the first Sort may be read Ezek. 34.23. & 37.24. Hos. 3.5. where Christ is called David, who in many Things was a Type of Christ. John 1.29, 36. Christ is called a Lamb, because the Paschal-Lamb was an eminent Type of him: Thus he is called our Passover, 1 Cor. 5.7. Rom. 3.25. Christ is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Propitiatory or Mercy-seat, not because of the Propitiation he made for our Sins, 1 John 2.2. but because the Covering of the Ark of the Covenant (which the 70 render by 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉*) was a Type of him.

The New Testament Church is frequently called Sion, Isa. 2.2, &c. Jerusalem, Gal. 4.26. Rev. 21.2. because these were Types of it. The Ministers of the Gos∣pel are called the Sons of Levi, (say some) for the same Reason, viz. that they typi∣fied these; but this is disputed. Of the later Kind you may read Examples (1) in Prophetical Types, when the Name of a Person or Thing (which properly agrees with the Antitype, for which the Type is proposed) is given or attributed to any, as Esa. 7.3. and 8.1, 3. So the honest Wife of Hosea the Prophet, and his Chil∣dren born in lawful Wedlock, by the Command of God, are called a Wife of Whore∣doms, and Children of Whoredoms, Hos. 1.2. Because of the Israelites,* who were the Antitype, and guilty of this (viz. spiritual) Whoredom. See ver. 4, 6, 8.

In Historical Types, as when hanging was called in the Old Testament the [ 2] Curse of * the Lord; because it was a Type of Christ, who was made a Curse for our Sins, Gal. 3.13. See Esa. 45.1. with 8. verse.

To conclude with a general Canon, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Imagines gerunt nomina sui Prototypi —, that is, Pictures or Figures are call'd by the Names of the Persons they represent; as, Caesar's Statue or Picture is called Caesar —: and so of others. See Gen. 41.26. Dan. 8.20, &c.

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