 | 1828 - 590 pages
...EXPOSITORS OF SCRIPTCRE. HOOKER, in his Ecclesiastical Polity, says, " I hold it for a most infallihle rule, in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the suhstance... | |
 | 1815 - 538 pages
...derided as absurd. ' I hold,' says the admirable Hooker, ' for a most infallible rule in the exposition of Sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst There U nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art; which ctiangeth the meaning or words,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 686 pages
...the kingdom of heaven. I hold it for & most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, th;it where a literal construction will stand, the farthest...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than ihi- licentious and deluding art, which changcth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do... | |
 | 1816 - 700 pages
...only mean, That unless a man be born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions...sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction w3t Btand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than... | |
 | 1816 - 700 pages
...only mean, That unless a man be born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions...sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction win stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than... | |
 | 1816 - 886 pages
...only mean, that unless a man he born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven. I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of Sacred Scripture, that, where a literal construetion will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...Lord himself a condition of salvation. Hooker lays it down as ' an infallible rule in expositions of Scripture, that where a literal construction will...( farthest from the letter is commonly the worst.' He will not admit of the possibility of a doubt as to the literal meaning of the passage on which the... | |
 | William Wall - 1819 - 458 pages
...extremity, and says on that account, — "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of holy Scripture, that where a literal construction will...the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. To hide the general consent of antiquity agreeing in the literal interpretation, they cunningly affirm,... | |
 | 1821 - 790 pages
...it may be ii. iiir ought to be followed ; this accords with the well known passage in Hooker, I hold for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred...Scripture, that where a literal construction will ttand, thefurthett from the letter is commonly -the wortt." To the Editor of the Remembrancer. Sir,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 860 pages
...Infallible ti t in expositions of sacred Scripture, that, where a literal construction will sta"1the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more av gerous than this licentious and deluding art. which changes the meaning of ww^1 as alchemy doth... | |
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I HOLD it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. 
