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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. "
The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with his life ... - Page 211
de Richard Hooker - 1830
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Two sermons on baptismal regeneration, and on the receiving of the body and ...

William Linwood - 1842 - 62 pages
...REMISSION OF SINS." 1 1 " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of Sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, maketh of anything what it listeth, and bringeth...
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The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection Stated and Defended: with a ...

George Peck - 1842 - 494 pages
...Hooker says : — " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from...dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changelh the meaning of words, as * Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection, pp. 69, 70. alchymy...
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First Elements of Sacred Prophecy: ...

Thomas Rawson Birks - 1843 - 458 pages
...rule, in the exposition of Scripture, that, where the literal construction will stand, the furthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, maketh of anything what it listeth, and bringeth,...
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The Restitution of All Things

William Wollaston Pym - 1843 - 348 pages
...ages and generations. This last has been accurately defined by a man of God of no common mind, as a " licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning...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." 1 The symbolical...
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A Survey of the Holy Land: Its Geography, History, and Destiny

J. T. Bannister - 1844 - 650 pages
...the literal interpretation of prophecy, and adopted the principle laid down by the judicious Hooker, that " where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst," the expectation is rising that God's ancient people the Jews will shortly be gathered from the four...
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Sermons, Bearing on Subjects of the Day

John Henry Newman - 1844 - 460 pages
...Church, — " I hold it," he says, " 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."* Indeed, these figurative interpretations have given * Deut. iv. 2. 30. vi. 7. xi. 22-25. t Hooker,...
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Ordo Sæclorum: A Treatise on the Chronology of the Holy Scriptures: and the ...

Henry Browne - 1844 - 732 pages
...prefigure," has had its results in a grievous tampering with the Word of God, an unbridled exereise of that " licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do that of metals, making of anything what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing1."...
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Zebulun found for the Jews of England [a sermon, signed P.S.].

Peter Spencer - 1844 - 44 pages
...heterodoxy, but only used that means of interpretation which has always been esteemed in our church, viz. that " where a literal construction will stand, the...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst."* We must first go back to the last moments of the aged Jacob, when, full of the spirit of prophecy,...
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The History of Infant Baptism: Together with Mr. Gale's ..., Volume 2

William Wall - 1844 - 612 pages
...says on that account, ' 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 com' monly the worst. To hide the general con' sent of antiquity agreeing in the literal interpre'...
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The History of Infant Baptism: Together with Mr. Gale's ..., Volume 2

William Wall - 1844 - 636 pages
...on that account, ' I • hold it for a most infallible rale in expositions of • sabred Scripture, that where a literal construction • will stand, the farthest from the letter is com• monly the worst. - To hide the general con' sent of antiquity agreeing in the literal interpre•...
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