 | Samuel White - 1709 - 550 pages
...againft which the Prophet here warns them. , -.1 Ver- 20. To the law and. to the tejhmony: if-they fpeak not according to this word^ it is becaufe there is no light in them.'} Here the Prophet tells them where they mould apply themfelves, if they had a .mind to receive fatisfaftion,... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1727 - 204 pages
...go from the living to the dead <* No, let them go to the Law and to the Tefti* many: If they fpeak not according to this Word, it is becaufe there is no Light in them, ife. viii. 20. In fine, the 'Prophet Malachi being the laft Prophet which God would fend unto the Jews,... | |
 | Samuel Chandler - 1728 - 436 pages
...in being, but to which the people might have conftant recourfe. To the LAW, and to the teftimony ; iftheyfpeak not according to THIS WORD, it is becaufe there is no light in them, Ifai. viii. 20. other places might be mentioned. Sa that the lofing of the law is a fi&ion of our author's,... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1737 - 614 pages
...Objection is ufually drawn obie£ 1. from Ifaiab viii. 10. To the Law and to the Teflimony^ if tbeyfpeak not according to this Word, it is becaufe there is no Light. Now this Law, Teflimony and Word, they plead to be the Scriptures. To which I Anfwer; That that is... | |
 | James Blair - 1740 - 476 pages
...Prophets, let them hear them: And as the Prophet IJaiah fays, To the Law and to the Teftimony ; iftheyfpcak not according to this Word, it is becaufe there is no Light in them. Ifa. viii. 20. And certainly there can be nothing more agreeable to Reafon than this Method ; for if... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1747 - 410 pages
...we are indeed called to examine them by the Law And the Teftimony, Ifaiah viii. 20. and it is faid, iftheyfpeak not according to this Word, it is becaufe there is no Light in them. But the Defign of this Text is not to make the very Words and Syllables the Judges of Truth, but the... | |
 | James Fisher - 1764 - 312 pages
...the rule ? Anjw. No : all human traditions are to be examined by the fcriptures ; and ;/ theyfpeak not according to this word, it is becaufe there is no light in them, Tfaiah viii. 20. Queft. 42. Can the heathens, by all the helps they have, without revelation, attain... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1765 - 298 pages
...they are of God *." Or with the prophet Ifaiah, u To the law and " to the teftimony, if they fpeak not according " to this word, it is becaufe there is no light " in them f." There is alfo a very proper advice, mixed with caution, given by the fame prophet, in the following... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...things which are written in this book. I fa. viii. 20. To the law and to the teftimony: If they fpeak not according to this word, it is becaufe there is no light in them. Lukeivi. 29. They have Mofes and the prophets ; let them hear them : v. 31. If they hear not Mofes... | |
 | John Flavel - 1767 - 258 pages
...by them; bnt they by the Scriptures, Ifa. viii. 20. To the Law, and to the Teftimony ; if they /peak not according to this Word, it is becaufe there is no Light in them. Q^8. What may be fairly inferred from this Proportion, That the Scriptures are the Word of God? A.... | |
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If they fpeak not according to this word, it is becaufe there is no light in them. 
