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B25425	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; Tropologia. Book 4.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Tropologia. aut	1682 (1682)	Wing K101A; ESTC R7039	690,855	608

such however adorned with Philosophical Notions or Metaphysical Speculations cannot comprehend They are like the Waters of the Sanctuary where a Lamb may wade and an Elephant may swim A weak Christian that is gracious may go through were the unsanctified Schoolman may be plunged and overwhelmed They are so plain and easy that a Babe in Christ may understand them and some Places so difficult as to find Work for the utmost Study and Inquisition of the most knowing This is the Second and Last Volume and perfects our whole Design which I thought at first might have came into one entire Book That which was promised at first concerning the Divine Authority of the Scripture and the Whore of Babylon you will find here And tho there is one Thing omitted or left out which was in the Specimen viz. Demonstrations touching the Validity of our Translation which we lately found done some time since by the Learned Dr. Owen and others Yet you have in the room of it a Treatise of Types which I am persuaded will be more acceptable to most Men and hath been much more laborious and chargeable to compleat it containing divers Sheets A Treatise of Types under the Law carefully opened we have ground to believe will be very serviceable especially to those in the Ministry And such hath been my Care that I have not run one Parallel concerning Types but what I have had the Opinion of the most learned Typical Writers upon so that I readily confess 't is rather their 's than mine And tho there is a great difference between Metaphorical or Allegorical and Typical Scriptures yet we thought an Essay to open the most eminent Types found in the Old-Testament would well suit with this sublime Subject And because some for want of Study or Learning may not readily understand the Difference that is between them we will give you here the Sence of the Learned upon it See Mr. D●rham of Glasgow Key to his Clavis Cantici particularly between what is Allegorical and Typical we take Allegory here as Divines do who take it not as Grammarians or Rhetoricians for a continued Discourse of many Figures together properly or strictly taken For sometimes an Allegory may be taken largely and so may comprehend whatsoever is figurative whether Typical Tropological Analogical c. as the Apostle hath it in Gal. 4. speaking of Abraham's two Sons Isaac and Ishmael which is yet properly a Type differeth from Types or Typical Scripture thus 1. Types suppose still the Verity of some History as Jonah's being three Days and three Nights in the Fishes Belly when it is applied to Christ in the New Testament it supposeth such a thing was once done c. Allegories again have no such necessary Supposition but are as Parables propounded for some mystical End Thus whilst it is said Mat. 21. A certain King made a Marriage for his Son planted a Vineyard c. Those Places suppose it not necessary as to the being of the Allegory that ever such a thing was but a Type cannot be without reality in the thing as Fact which is made a Type 2. Types look only to Matter of Fact and compare one Fact with another as Christ being slain and lying three Days in the Grave to the Paschal Lamb and Jonah's lying so long in the Whale's Belly But Allegories take in Words Sentences Doctrines both of Faith and Manners as in the former Example is clear 3. Types compare Persons and Facts under the Old-Testament with Persons and Facts under the New and is made up of something that is present prefiguring another to come Allegories look especially to Matters in hand and intend the explaining some hidden and mystical Sence upon the Words which at present they seem not to bear 4. Types are only Historical as such and the Truth of Fact agreeing in the Antitype makes them up it being clear in Scripture that such things are Types for we must not forge Types without Scripture-Warrant But Allegories c. are principally Doctrinal and in their Scope intend not to clear or compare Facts but to hold forth and explain Doctrines or by such Similitudes to illustrate and make them the better understood and to move and affect the Heart the more or the more forcibly to convince the Conscience as Nathan made use of a Parable when he was about to convince David 5. Types in the Old-Testament respect only some Things Persons and Events as Christ the Gospel and the spreading thereof c. and cannot be extended beyond these But Allegories Similitudes c. take in every thing that belongs either to Doctrine or Instruction in Faith or Practice for ordering of one's Life Hence according to the Judgment of the Learned Metaphors Allegories c. are more extensive and comprehensive in their Meaning and Application than Types tho 't is not denied but that care ought to be had that they be not run beyond the Analogy of Faith and many times it behoveth to see we go not beyond the Scope of the Text which plainly shews the whole Mind of the Spirit in making use of such Similitudes for Illustration sake and we hope we have kept within a due compass in this respect and avoided whatever may give just cause of Offence to any You had in the First Volume a Treatise of Tropes reduced under their proper Heads and here you have the Schemes or Figures in Scripture handled after the same manner And because there is some difficulty to understand Allegorical Scriptures or to know what Places are to be taken metaphorically we shall shew See Key to Clavis Cantic as 't is noted by the Learned 1. What an Allegory or figurative Scripture is 2. When 't is necessary to understand a Scripture figuratively or in an Allegorick Sence For the first there is a great difference betwixt an Allegorick Exposition of Scripture and an Exposition of Allegorick Scripture The first is that which the Fathers and School-men fail in i. e. when they allegorize plain Scriptures and Histories seeking to draw out some secret meaning other than appears in the Words and so would fasten many Senses upon one Scripture This is indeed unsafe and is justly reprovable for this makes clear Scripture dark and obtrudes Meanings on the Words never intended by the Spirit As suppose one speaking of Goliah's Combat with David should pass by the Letter and expound Goliah to be the Flesh or the Devil and David to mean the Spirit or Christ Such Expositions may have some pleasantness but very little solidity and such who commonly thus interpret Scripture often fall into Errors and guilty of this Fault Origen is thought to be 2dly An Exposition of ●llegorical Scripture is the opening and expounding of some dark Scripture wherein the Mind of the Spirit is couched and hid under Figures c. making it plain and edifying by bringing out the Sence according to the meaning of the Holy Spirit in the place tho at

so eminent so visible and lasted so long for they continued in the Church two or three hundred Years and the Account of them has descended down to us by such a constant uninterrupted written and unwritten Tradition that scarce any Man has assumed Impudence enough to gainsay them Irenaeus who lived about the Year of our Lord 200 affirmeth that in his Time the working of Miracles the raising of the Dead the casting out of Devils healing the Sick by meer laying on of Hands and Prophesying were still in force and that some that were so raised from the Dead remained alive amongst them long after And Cyprian and Tertullian mention the ordinary casting out of Devils and challenge the Heathen to come and see it Remarkable are those Words of the latter (h) Tertullian Apol. Ca. 23. Let any one be brought before your Tribunals who is apparently possessed with a Devil that Spirit being commanded by any Christian shall confess of truth himself to be a Devil as at other Times he boasts himself a God And in his Book to Scapula the Procurator of Africk Cap. 4. he repeats several miraculous Cures done by Christians Quanti honesti viri c. How many Persons of good Quality and Esteem says he for we speak not of the Vulgar Sort have been remedied either from Devils or Diseases Severus himself the Father of Antoninus was recovered by Christians c. So that here we have the best Doctrine under the highest Attestation God himself setting thereunto his supernatural Seals to convince us of the Truth thereof And this was the great Argument whereby Christ all along convinced the World for upon his beginning of Miracles at Cana in Galilee he manifested his Glory and his Disciples believed in him (i) Joh. 1.48 The Jews therefore enquired for Signs as that which must confirm any new Revelation to be of God (k) Joh. 2.18 And tho Christ blames them for their unreasonable unsatisfied Expectations herein and would not humor them in each Particular yet he continued to give them Miracles as great as they desired They that saw the Miracles of the Loaves said This is of a truth the Prophet that should come into the World (l) Joh. 6 14. Many believed when they saw the Miracles which he did (m) Joh. 10 4● Acts 4.16 Heb. 2.4 If I had not done the Works that no Man else could do ye had not had Sin in not believing (n) Joh. 15.24 And the Way of bringing Men to believe in these Days is expressed Heb. 2.3 4. How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those that heard him There is the Evidence of Sense to the first Re●eivers and their Tradition to the next God also bearing them witness both with Signs and Wonders and divers Miracles Let us conclude this Argument with that smart Interrogation of that blind Man (o) Joh. 19.16 Can a Man that is a Sinner do such Miracles Natural Reason shewing us that God being the true and merciful Governor of the World the Course of Nature cannot be altered but by his special Appointment and that he will never set the Seal of his Omnipotency to a Lie nor suffer the last and greatest Inducement to Belief to be used to draw Men to embrace Falshood and Forgeries 9. The wonderful Preservation of the Scriptures IX To these astonishing Miracles we may fitly add the Preservation of these holy Writings for so many Ages being it self little less than miraculous and such as is a great Argument that they belong to God as the Author and Parent of them It being reasonable to derive that from God as a Book of his own Dictates about which he has exercised a peculiar Care Were not the Bible what it pretends to be there had been nothing more suitable to the Nature of God and more becoming Divine Providence than long since to have blotted it out of the World For why should he suffer a Book to continue from the beginning of Times falsly pretending his Name and Authority How do learned Men accuse Time of Injuries for swallowing up the Works of many excellent Authors and bewail the Loss of divers of Livy's Decades and other choice Books which are now no where to be found Nay tho the Romans were so careful for the preservation of the Books of the Sybils that they lock'd them up in Places of greatest Safety and appointed special Officers to look after them yet many Ages since they are gone and perished and only some few Fragments do now remain Whereas on the contrary the Bible notwithstanding part of it was the first Book in the World as we proved in the second Argument and tho the Craft of Satan and the Rage of Mankind have from time to time combin'd utterly to suppress it yet it has born up its Head and remains not only extant but whole and entire without the least Mutilation or Corruption Antiochus Epiphanes when he set up the Abomination of Desolation in the Jewish Temple in the Days of the Machabees with utmost diligence made search after their Law and wheresoever he found it immediatly burnt or destroy'd it and threatned Death with exquisite Tortures to any that should conceal or retain it In like manner since Christ the Tyrant Dioclesian about the Year 300 with a full purpose to root out Christianity for ever out of the World publishes an Edict That the Scriptures should every where be burnt and destroyed and whosoever should presume to keep them should be most severely tormented Yet God permitted them not to quench the Light of these Divine Laws But the Old Testament above two hundred Years before the Incarnation of Christ was translated into Greek the most flourishing and spreading Language at that time in the World and about thirty Years before Christ it was paraphras'd into Caldee and at this Day both Old and New Testaments are extant not only in their Original Languages but in most other Tongues and Languages that are spoken upon the Face of the Earth which no other Book can pretend to So that all Endeavours that have from the very first been bent against it have been vanquished and remarkable Judgments and Vengeance shew'd on all such as have been the most violent Opposers of it And further whereas even those to whom it was outwardly committed as the Jews first and the Antichristian Church of Apostatiz'd Rome afterwards not only fell into Opinions and Practices absolutely inconsiltent with it but also built all their present and future Interests on those Opinions and Practices yet none of them could ever obliterate one Line in it not even of those Places which make most against their obstinate Errors and Defections But for their own Plea they both are forced to pretend additional Traditions for the Mishua Talmud and Cabala of the Jews and the Oral Traditions of the Papists all

Beauty and Perfection in Christ is all fulness of Light Beauty and Perfection 2. There use was to receive by them answer from God in difficult Cases when the Priest consulted with him the Oracle by Vrim gave certain Direction So Christ is the most perfect Rule and Direction shadowed by that Heb. 1.1 2. As God spake then by Vrim to the Priest so now by his own Son Those who would have their Doubts resolved must go to the Vrim go to Christ and to his Ordinances c. But to return back and speak a little further to the Robe of the Ephod and Bonnet on the Skirts of the Ephod Exod. 28.31 were fastned the Pomegranets of blew Silk and Purple and Scarlet round about this Fruit had a most pleasant smell sweet in it self and sweetning other things and is full of precious Juice and Liquor 2. Bells of Gold between them round about a Golden Bell and a Pomegranate c. this Vesture or Garment might signify the Righteousness of Christ's Human Nature and by the sweet Pomgranates the most excellent savour of his Righteousness and Obedience in the Nostrils of God the Father in the behalf of Man which also in a Spiritual Sense was full of precious Juice and Virtue to qualify and abate the raging heat of God's Wrath as the Juice of Pomgranates doth allay the burning heat of an Ague or Feaver as also they might signify what a sweet savour Christ's Righteousness doth cast upon us when wrapped as it were therein who by Nature are in a stinking and loathsome Condition 2. As to the golden Bells they might figure forth the blessed sound of the Gospel or as some understand Christ's visible owning of us now in Heaven and our publick owning of him on Earth which must be Sincere we must not only make a sound but also have good Fruit we must not on●y have a Word for God but a Work for God a Bell a Pomegranate a Word and a Work 6. The High Priest must be heard when he goeth into the Sanctuary signifying saith Dr. Taylor the Power of Christ our High Priest's perpetual Intercession being entered into the true Sanctuary viz. Heaven it self for us As touching the Miter or Bonnet upon the Priest's Head made of blew Silk and fine Linnen like to an half Coronet beautified with a Golden Plate on which was written Holiness to the Lord. 1. The Miter might not only signify God's covering and protecting our Head the Lord Jesus and us in him but also his Kingly Dignity 2. The Golden Plate in which was written Holiness to the Lord figured forth in a most conspicuous manner that most divine and perfect Holiness of the Lord our Righteousness the Holiness of his Person the Holiness of his Nature the Holiness of all his Actions and Passions his Holiness who is the Cause Stream and Original of all our Holiness that is accepted of God Fourthly The Priest was a Type of Christ in the Execution of his Office 1. The Priest must kill the Sacrifices and none but he signifying Jesus Christ's vo●untary Action Joh. 10.18 in laying down his Life for us none could take it away from him he was as well the Priest as the Sacrifice 2. The Priest offered the Blood of the Sacrifices to God and sprinkled it on the Alter no Man might offer his ●wn Sacrifice but he must bring it to the Priest Lev. 7.4 figuring there was no coming to God but by Christ who offered up his own Blood to atone for our Sins no other can offer any Sacrifice to take away Sin but him alone 3. The Priest prepared the Body of the Sacrifice fley'd it divided it into several parts Lev. 1.6 washed the Intrails put Fire unto the Burnt-Offerings consumed the Fat cast the Filth and Dung into the pl●ce of Ashes c. signifying that Christ alone did the whole work of our Redemption he suffered the heat of God's Wrath and Justice he puts away all our Filth and covers it in his own Grave and washeth us in the Fountain of his own Blood c. 4. The Priest was to teach the People The Priest's Lips must preserve Knowledg Mal. 2.7 and thou shalt seek the Law at his Mouth this figured forth Christ in his Prophetical Office who is the great Doctor and Teacher of God's Mind and Will to the Children of Men 't is he who hath the Tongue of the L●arned so that never Man spake like him Psal 45.2 it is he who hath the Words of everlasting Life 5. The Priests were to preserve the Oyl for Lights and the Incense Luk. 24.50 and for the daily Meat-Offering and the anointing Oyl c. signifying that Jesus Christ is the Preserver of all Grace in and for his Church he only watcheth for the safety of his People he preserves the light of Grace and good Works in us and the Oyl of Gladness from decaying in our Lamps and Vessels There were some Actions more peculiar to the High Priest 1. He must daily dress the holy Lamps and Lights Morning and Evening Lev. 24.2 3. before the Lord to preserve the Lights from going out So Christ preserves the Light of his Word and Gospel from being put out tho Men and Devils with all their Might have endeavoured to do it 2. He must week●y make the Shew-Bread and set it before the Lord continually and Exod. 25.30 more expresly every Sabbath he must set on the Table twelve Loaves according to the number of the Tribes of Israel and take the old away c. In this he was a Type of Christ who sets himself continually in the Ministry of the Word as the Substance and Anti-type of the Shew-Bread before the Children of Men especially to feed and strengthen his own Children nay an● brings forth fresh Food new Bread for them every Sabbath 3. He must yearly and that in the day of Expiation go into the Holy of Holies Exod. 30.10 Lev. 16.2 to make an Atonement for himself for his House and for all the People but not without Blood signifyi●g that Christ by one alone Sacrifice of hims●lf hath opened the Sanctuary of H●aven and by his Ascension hath made entrance into it on our behalf and there appears be●ore God once for all to make Intercession for us The Priest went alone without any Attendants Heb. 10.12 19 So Christ hath trod the Wine-Press alone no Competitor no Companion h●th he in this work and now pleads alone as our own and only Mediator by virtue of his own Blood at the Father's right Hand There is one that is but one Mediator between God and Man c. 4. The High Priest continually was to decide the highest Controversies he must judg between the cl●an and the unclean he must put the one out and receive the other into the Congregation signifying that Christ only Christ alone is the Supream judg of all Controversies 't is his Word only that can