| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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'... | |
| 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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