 | 1828 - 818 pages
...rule in his immortal work : I hold it for a most infallible rule, in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...doth, or would do, the substance of metals, maketh of anything what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing." — Eccles. Pol p. 275. fol.... | |
 | William Wall - 1819 - 458 pages
...and says on that account, — "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of holy Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. To hide the general consent of antiquity agreeing in the literal interpretation, they cunningly affirm,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Peck - 1827 - 160 pages
...learned Honker : — '' I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sac. ,id scripture, that, where a literal construction will stand, the...dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would do the substance of metals, making- of any thing... | |
 | George Peck - 1827 - 166 pages
...infallible rule in expositions of sac ed scripture, that, where a literal construction will stand, thu farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this lir centious and deluding art, which changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would do the... | |
 | 1828 - 648 pages
...Ecclesiastical Polity, says, " I hold it for a most infallible rule, in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance... | |
 | 1830 - 580 pages
...the passage. " I hold it," he says, " for a most infallible rule in expositions of Sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and deluding than the art which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance... | |
 | 1830 - 854 pages
...the passage. " I hold it," he says, " for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and deluding than the art which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance... | |
 | Francis Russel Hall - 1832 - 248 pages
...Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, t'ne far/hi -. from the letter it commonlythe worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, maketh of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all Truth to nothing" — Eccl. Pol. vol.... | |
 | George Musgrave MUSGRAVE - 1833 - 562 pages
...authorized versions of Scripture, will do well to reflect on that excellent observation of Hooker—' Where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst.' Indeed, the utmost privilege which the Versifier, desirous of increasing the sum of his readers' pleasure,... | |
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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. 
