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The new command renewed, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity…The new command renew'd, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity…
The new command renewed, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, by several uniting principles, among which there are ten rules for a right understanding of scripture, very useful for these divided times / by Ralph Venning.The new command renew'd, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, by several uniting principles, among which there are ten rules for a right understanding of scripture, very useful for these divided times / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1652
THE NEW COMMAND RENEWED: OR, Love one another. › Part 3 › Principle 2 › Rule 6: The sixth Rule.
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.
The sixth Rule.
6 Seeing God in Scripture speaks much in a little, interpret Scripture in the largest sense. 1Scripture is like to Laws of favour, which are to be extended as far as may be. We wrong many a Text of Scripture by confining, bounding and limiting it in a narrow compass.
6 Seeing God in Scripture speaks much in a little, interpret Scripture in the largest sense. 1Scripture is like to Laws of favour, which are to be extended as farre as may be. We wrong many a Text of Scripture by comfining, bounding and limiting it in a narrow compasse.
- 16 Rule. The Hebrew Doctors say that the Law hath seventy faces, i. e. manner of ways to beopened and applied.6 Rule. The Hebrew Doctors say that the Law hath seventy faces, i. e. manner of ways to beopened and applyed.
The Evangelists look upon several Texts as fulfilled in their days, which were fulfilled long before; as