 | John Davison - 1840 - 694 pages
...rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the furthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing...changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or Another occasion of doubt has been the use made by many divines of the word Regeneration, when they... | |
 | John Henry Newman, John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, William Palmer, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Isaac Williams - 1840 - 702 pages
...GODS WORD THE BEST. " rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal con" struction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly...the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licen" tions and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, " as alchemy doth, or would do,... | |
 | 1840 - 744 pages
...case as to the other — " 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. T/tere [ts nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning... | |
 | 1840 - 746 pages
...case as to the other — " 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. Tliere \is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changelh tlte meaning... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1841 - 624 pages
...king" dom of heaven." [a.] I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...alchymy doth or would do the substance of metals, making of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing. Or howsoever such... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - 1841 - 624 pages
...king" dom of heaven." [2.] I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of \ sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...alchymy doth or would do the substance of metals, making of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing. Or howsoever such... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - 1841 - 124 pages
...Believers, by John Durant, 1653. " I hold it for a most infallible role in Expositions of Sacred Scripture, that, where a literal construction will stand, the...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words as Alchy my doth or would do the substance of metals, maketh of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth... | |
 | 1841 - 430 pages
...here of great value, "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions [114] of sacred scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...dangerous than this licentious and deluding art which changes the meaning of words as Alchymes does or would do the substance of metals, makes of any thing... | |
 | John Lillie - 1842 - 252 pages
...Eccl. Pol. B. v. 59 ;— " 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." — Or hear Vitringa ; —... | |
 | George Bourne - 1842 - 230 pages
...worthy to be transcribed*: " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...alchymy doth, or would do^ the substance of metals, making of anything what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing. Or howsoever such... | |
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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. 
