 | James Herman Whitmore - 1876 - 302 Seiten
...meaning."* Says Hooker: "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred" Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and delusive than that act which changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would the substance... | |
 | Churchman - 1877 - 434 Seiten
...allowed to quote a few words from Hooker. He says : " I hold it for a most infallible rule, in exposition of Sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changes the meaning of words, as Alchemy does, or would do, the substance of metals; makes of everything... | |
 | Edward White - 1878 - 590 Seiten
...words of Hooker : ' I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of Sacred Scripture that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from...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 bringing... | |
 | 1878 - 544 Seiten
...well observed, " I hold it for a most infallible rule in the exposition of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and delusive than that art •which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the... | |
 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1878 - 458 Seiten
...Hooker declares, “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.” What then are we to do with the prophecies to which I have referred? The literal meaning is evident.... | |
 | Daniel T. Taylor - 1882 - 644 Seiten
...!"f Says Hooker: "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and delusive than that art, which changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would the substance... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1882 - 408 Seiten
...Hooker declares, " 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." And CH Spurgeon observes, " To set up canons of interpretation of the Book of God which would be absurd... | |
 | 1882 - 600 Seiten
...theology." 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." Alford says, " A canon of interpretation which should be constantly borne in mind is that a figurative... | |
 | Baptism - 1882 - 92 Seiten
...where the scope of the speaker's discourse shows clearly that he uses them metaphorically; that " when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." MR. L. So I remember my early favourite Richard Hooker argues ! Well, let us not shrink from accepting... | |
 | George Nathaniel Henry Peters - 1884 - 736 Seiten
...infallible rule in expositions of the Sacred Scriptures, that where a literal construction will Etand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst....dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changes the meaning of words, as alchymy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, making of anything... | |
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of sacred Scripture, that where 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 changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would... 
