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Excerpt from A New Dissertation on an Old Controversy: With an Especial Reference to the Reasoning Contained in Dr. Halley's Seventh Lecture on the Sacraments
Scripture, there might be some ground to take excep tion against it. But when it is considered that ana logical reasonings pay the very highest deference to revelation - that it is the truth of the Bible alone about which they concern themselves, and for which they contend - evidently there can be no reason for representing them as irrelevant or inapplicable. Truth must be consistent with itself; all its several parts must harmonize with each other; and it is the object of analogy to vindicate the consistency of truth, to demonstrate that there is no one part of the beautiful fabric that is ill-proportioned - nothing that mars or destroys the perfect order and unity of the whole. We readily admit that, in all cases where it is possible, philology should take the precedence, and that no plausible reasonings from analogy should be allowed to stand against the plain and unequivocal meaning of the words of Scripture, fairly interpreted by the rules of sound criticism. At the same time, it cannot be pretended that analogy is to be excluded from the province of Biblical interpretation. It is as essential in some cases as verbal criticism itself, to aid us in discovering the true sense of a passage. The results of these two different kinds Of argumenta tion, in truth, cannot by any possibility be at vari ance with each other. If such could be the case, the harmony Of truth would be broken.
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