 | Mrs. John Pugh - 1846 - 232 pages
...where much is given, much shall be required." Luke xiv. 48. LETTER XIII. ON THE EFFICACY OF PRATER. " THE right way of interpreting Scripture is, to take...in almost the strongest terms: I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages to bring them down to some system. Let him go with them in their... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1850 - 492 pages
...simple religion of the Scriptures, to which, in a greater or less degree, their eyes had been blinded. THE right way of interpreting Scripture, is, to take...in almost the strongest terms : I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages, to bring them down to some system : let him go with them in their... | |
 | 1856 - 624 pages
...it is not the incomprehensible but grand plan of the Bible. It is somewhat of human con trivance,it savours of human poverty and littleness. " — " The...Many passages speak the language of what is called Galvanism, and that in almost the strongest terms. I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages... | |
 | 1852 - 454 pages
...Calvinism, and its consequent failure to satisfy a practical Christian, in the following apophthegms:— " The right way of interpreting Scripture is, to take...in almost the strongest terms. I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages, to bring them down to some system: let him go with them m their... | |
 | 1852 - 870 pages
...Christian, in the following apothegms : "The right way of interpreting Scripture is, to take it us we find it, without any attempt to force it into any...in almost the strongest terms. I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages, to briog them down to some system : let him go with them in their... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1854 - 310 pages
...simple religion of the Scriptures, to which, in a greater or less degree, their eyes had been blinded. The right way of interpreting Scripture is to take...in almost the strongest terms. I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages, to bring them down to some system : let him go with them in their... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1854 - 312 pages
...simple religion of the Scriptures, to which, in a greater or less degree, their eyes had been blinded. The right way of interpreting Scripture is to take...in almost the strongest terms. I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages, to bring them down to some system : let him go with them in their... | |
 | John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool.) - 1854 - 360 pages
...whatever a verse of the Bible seems to mean, it does mean. Cecil's rule is a very valuable one, — " The right way of interpreting Scripture, is to take...any attempt to force it into any particular system." Well said Hooker, " I hold it for a most infallible rule in the exposition of Scripture, that when... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1857 - 516 pages
...simple religion of the Scriptures, to which, in a greater or less degree, their eyes had been blinded. THE right way of interpreting Scripture, is, to take...in almost the strongest terms : I would not have a man clip and curtail these passages, to bring them down to some system : let him go with them in their... | |
 | 1852 - 880 pages
...Calvinism, and its consequent failure to satisfy a practical Christian, in the following apothegms : " The right way of interpreting Scripture is, to take...Calvinism, and that in almost the strongest terms. 1 would not have a man clip and curtail these passages, to bring them down to some system : let him... | |
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THE right way of interpreting Scripture, is, to take it as we find it, without any attempt to force it into any particular system. Whatever may be fairly inferred from Scripture, we need not fear to insist on. Many passages speak the language of what... 
