| Benjamin Harrison - 1849 - 482 pages
...judicious Hooker, we must " 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 worst9," we must at the same time admit, — and in perfect consistency with the principle thus laid... | |
| Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - 1850 - 860 pages
...king" dorn of heaven." [2.] I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of .sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...the substance of metals, maketh of any thing what * " Private baptism first rose upon a false interpretation of the place ' of St. John, ch. iii. 5.... | |
| Chronological catena - 1850 - 168 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...alchymy doth or would do the substance of metals, maketh ol any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing. Or, howsoever such voluntary... | |
| Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1850 - 188 pages
...Hooker, which has much truth in it : "I hold for a most infallible rule m expositions of 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... | |
| Henry Hamlet Dobney - 1850 - 304 pages
...wickedness cannot be otherwise than wretched. We cannot conceive, I say, that there is anything in the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing...dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changes the meanfng of words as alchemy doth or would do' the substance of metals, making of anything... | |
| 1850 - 356 pages
...Ecclesiastical Polity, gays, "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. There is not a more dangerous and deluding art, than that which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth,... | |
| Samuel Hulbeart Turner - 1851 - 206 pages
...weighty, but overwhelming. " 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."* Nothing can be more true. But let us not lose sight of the condition: " where a literal construction... | |
| Advent - 1853 - 384 pages
...2) truly applies here :—" 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." 7 Exod. xx. 11. G their voices are heard among them 8 ," to declare the coming glory of the Son of... | |
| William Harrison - 1853 - 214 pages
...proportion of error, if that sentiment of Hooker, respecting the exposition of Scripture, be correct, " where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." It was its practical import and comfort — not any deep or abstract reading connected with it —... | |
| 1853 - 330 pages
...expositions of Sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will StaiK^ the farthest from the letter 5s commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding act, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do the substance of metals, making... | |
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