| Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1858 - 486 pages
...the interpretation which is sought to be put upon it, and that, as the judicious Hooker has remarked, "where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is generally the worst," so in this place, if our Lord was crucified on Friday and rose on Sunday morning,... | |
| John William Burgon - 1859 - 556 pages
...it away. "I hold it for a most infallible rule, in Expositions of Sacred Scripture," (says Hooker,) "that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." Now, "a literal construction will stand" here; — is in strict keeping with our LORD'S other recorded... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1859 - 666 pages
...has well said, " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." [How is it consistent with reverence for our Blessed Lord, when He has said, " Whose soever sins ye... | |
| 1860 - 978 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, making of everything what it listeth, and bringing in the end all truth to nothing.' "a I was touched... | |
| James Sanford Lamar - 1860 - 336 pages
...of an exegesis which we * "I hold it for a most infallible ride in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than the licentious and deluding art which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do,... | |
| Cator Chamberlain - 1860 - 336 pages
...defined as — the subjugation of Christ's ministers to lay spiritual democracy. It has been said, "There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as Th« evils of alchemy doth -or would the substance of metals, and makcth trifliog with the t»rmi of... | |
| Charles Frederic Hudson - 1860 - 188 pages
...1583.) And Hooker: "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." (Eccl. Polity, b. 5, c. 59, § 2.) See also JP Smith, Scr. Test, I. 214. And Jeremy Taylor: " In all... | |
| William Lister - 1861 - 480 pages
...justly be applied : — " I hold it for a most infallible rule in eipositions 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."— Eccl. Pol. bv... | |
| Charles Henry Davis (of Wadham College, Oxford.) - 1861 - 124 pages
...heaven" ! Hooker asserts : "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." &c. (B. v., C. lix., s. 2.) J So that even clever rogues, like Mahomet and Joe Smith, may be "inspired"... | |
| 1862 - 492 pages
...acting upon another. And more emphatically than ever do we press home the truth of Hooker's words, " There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, — making of anything what it listeth, and bringeth... | |
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