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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Though we are not always to adhere to the bare Letter, for the meaning of the words;1 yet if the words be applied mystically, ye are not to make a force upon the History; Mystery doth not destroy the History. The History of the two women, Hagar and Sarah, is by the Apostle applied to the two Testaments; yet this doth not destroy the History: For as words are the Substractum of the History; so History is the Substractum of the Mystery. Some when they have attained to the Mystical application, do deny the History; but remember, that though the words of the Scripture be applied mystically, yet the Mystery is never to destroy the History.
Though we are not alwaies to adhere to the bare Letter, for the meaning of the words;1 yet if the words be applied mystically, ye are not to make a force upon the History; Mystery doth not destroy the History. The History of the two women, Hagar and Sarah, is by the Apostle applied to the two Testaments; yet this doth not destroy the History: For as words are the Substractum of the History; so History is the Substractum of the Mystery. Some when they have attained to the Mystical application, do deny the History; but remember, that though the words of the Scripture be applied mystically, yet the Mystery is never to destroy the History.
- 1In interpretation Scripturae sacrae illud apprime observandum est ne ulla vis inferatur literali. August. de quivos. Disput. de sensu Scripturae. Verborum sacrae Scripturae Germana intelligentia imprimis quaerenda et instituenda, non quod tropo-logicam intelligentiā condemnemus sed quod spiritualis interpretatio sequi debet ordinem historiae, quod plerique ignorantes, lymphati co in sacra Scriptura vagantur error. Hieronyn. in cap. 13. Es.In interpretatione Scripturae sacrae illud apprime observandum est ne ulla vis inferatur literali. August. de quivos. Disput. de sensu Scripturae. Verborum sacrae Scripturae Germana intelligentia imprimis quaerenda et instituenda, non quod tropo-logicam intelligentiā condemnemus sed quod spiritualis interpretatio sequi debet ordinem historiae, quod plerique ignorantes, lymphati co in sacra Scriptura vagantur errore. Hieronyn. in cap. 13. Es.