 | 1841 - 430 pages
...differ. Hooker's rule is here of great value, "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions [114] of sacred scripture, that where a literal construction...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art which changes the meaning of words... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1841 - 624 pages
...cannot enter into the king" dom of heaven." [a.] I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words,... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - Millennialism - 1841 - 124 pages
...Salvation of Believers, by John Durant, 1653. " I hold it for a most infallible role in Expositions of Sacred Scripture, that, where a literal construction...farthest from the Letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words... | |
 | William Linwood - 1842 - 62 pages
...acknowledge one Baptism FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS." 1 1 " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of Sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words,... | |
 | George Bourne - Baptism - 1842 - 230 pages
...upon this point are worthy to be transcribed*: " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words... | |
 | John Lillie - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1842 - 252 pages
...thing in these words, Eccl. Pol. B. v. 59 ;— " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words,... | |
 | George Peck - Perfection - 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 the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changelh the meaning of words,... | |
 | John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw - Second Advent - 1842 - 256 pages
...overthrown and trodden in the dust by the Gentiles.* * " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of Sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest We take God's word as it stands, and interpret the prophecies according to the plain meaning of the... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Faith - 1844 - 460 pages
...great authority in our Church, — " I hold it," he says, " for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...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,... | |
 | William Wall - Baptism - 1844 - 612 pages
...cases of extremity : and 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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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. 
