. Lectures in divinity . rom the fame Hiilory,much to the prefent purpofe. — f 1 Tim, V. 23. X Joel i. 5. and iTim. v. 23. form a Contradlclion : there aremany fuch in Scripture; all arifmg from the fame caufe, takingikit Letier, without fuch limitations as are implied. 74 BOOK I. CHAP. X. SECT. XI. principle of condud, in the Governors of his chofeiiPeople *.— II. Perhaps fome of the infiances here men-tioned may be thought needlejs, becaufe no one islikely to be milled in fuch cafes;—it is true, thatthere is the moft danger of error, where what isimplied is the leaft evident; but thefe infha
. Lectures in divinity . rom the fame Hiilory,much to the prefent purpofe. — f 1 Tim, V. 23. X Joel i. 5. and iTim. v. 23. form a Contradlclion : there aremany fuch in Scripture; all arifmg from the fame caufe, takingikit Letier, without fuch limitations as are implied. 74 BOOK I. CHAP. X. SECT. XI. principle of condud, in the Governors of his chofeiiPeople *.— II. Perhaps fome of the infiances here men-tioned may be thought needlejs, becaufe no one islikely to be milled in fuch cafes;—it is true, thatthere is the moft danger of error, where what isimplied is the leaft evident; but thefe infhancesfeem more hkely, than any abflrad: reafoning, tolead us to a cuiiom of interpreting all fayings ofScripture, by the circumftances in which they areufed.—I am much miflaken, if fuch a cuftomwould not be the means of removing, (not alldifficulties, but) all difputes and diflentions aboutfome of thofe do6trines, which are reckoned themoft abftruie and intricate.— • See Bifhop Porteuss Sermon on this Subjeft;. CHAP. BOOK I. CHAP. XI. I C H A r. XL 75 OF APPLYING SAYINGS AND ACTIONS RKCORDi:DIN THE SCRIPTURILS, TO OLTRSELVES. 1. TpHIS chapter is allied to tlie preceding,JL inafmuch as they both turn upon eltimatingCircumftances and Situations, taking the accuracyof expreflions for granted: we interpret, by confi-dering the circumftances of others; we apply, byconfidering our own: or, more ftrictly fpeaking,by making a comparifon between the circumftancesofthofe, to whom Scripture was immediately ad-drefted, and our own.—If we neglecl their circum-ftances, we fhall do things enjoined only by theLetter of Scripture j if we neglecl our own, wefhall do things which are not enjoined at all, butbarely mentioned. 2. But, though there is a connexion betveenthe fubjeds of this Chapter and the preceding, iheyare quite diftinft. This chapter ftiould go upon the fuppofitbn,that the end of the former is accomplilhed ; :hefeveral expreflions of Scripture fliould be now fu
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