The Whole Works Of The Rev John Lightfoot Dd Master Of Catharine Hall Cambridge Containing An Exposition Of Three Articles Of The Apostles Creed And Sermons

Author : John Lightfoot
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230460895
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Whole Works of the Rev. John Lightfoot; Master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge Volume 7 written by John Lightfoot and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...enow, in this head, also, to confirm what I say, and to show, --That the style and difficulty of Scripture requires all sober and serious study of Scripture. III. A third head, let be the strange manner of accounting and reckoning of numbers, even in the Old Testament different from itself, as if that were not constant and conso-nant to itself. 1 shall give you some instances also of this head, a few amongst many. 1. In Josh. xiii. 3, the text is reckoning five lords of the Philistines, and it counts them, the Gazathites, Ashdothites, Eshkalonites, the Gittites, Ekronites, and Avites; it speaks of five, but reckons six. 2. In 2 Kings viii. 26; " Two-and-twenty years old is Ahaziah, when he began to reign; and reigned one year in Jerusalem;" but, in 2 Chron. xxii. 2, " Two-and-forty years old was Ahaziah, when he began to reign," &c. And if you look well there, and compare his father's age in the latter end of the chapter next before, you will find that he is made there two years older than his father. Need I trouble you with any more instances to prove the difficulty of Scripture? I might give a thousand, some in chronology, some in chorography, some in language, some in sense. So that some have taken upon them to pick out some places in the Bible, which, they say, are past all possibility of interpreting or understanding. But I may seem to have pleaded the Papist's cause against the Scripture enough, and too much. But I am far from making the consequence and conclusion from the difficulties of Scripture, that they make. They say, the Scriptures are hard; therefore, let not the laity and unlearned meddle with them or read them at all. I say, The Scriptures are hard; therefore, let the laity and unlearned read and study them the more. And I...