 | Richard Hooker - 1807 - 512 pages
...it for a moft infallible rule in expofitions of facred Scripture, that where a literal conftruction will ftand, the fartheft from the letter is commonly...dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do the fubftance of metals, maketh of any thing... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 568 pages
...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 alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, maketh of any... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1816 - 570 pages
...for a moft infallible " rule in expofitions of facred Scripture, that " where a literal conftruction will ftand, the " fartheft from the letter is commonly...what it lifteth ; and " bringeth in the end all truth to nothing1*." 2. Whilft we take the plain fenfe of Scripture for our leading guide in the interpretation... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 700 pages
...Scripture, that where a literal construction win 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 \vonM do the substance of metals: maketh of any thing... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 700 pages
...Scripture, that where a literal construction w3t Btand, 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 do the substance of metals ; maketh of any... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 886 pages
...that, where a literal construetion 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 Aldiymip doth, or would do, the substance of -metals ; maketh of any... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1825 - 688 pages
...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 do the substance of metals, maketh of any thing... | |
 | George Peck - Candid Examiner - 1827 - 160 pages
...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 changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would do the substance of metals, making- of any thing... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Dissenters, Religious - 1830 - 584 pages
...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 do the substance of metals, maketh of any thing... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Henry Clissold - Church polity - 1831 - 168 pages
...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 do the substance of metals, maketh of any thing... | |
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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. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth... 
