“Comparing Scripture with Scripture. All the plain texts, from Genesis to Revelation, relating to any particular subject, must be taken together, impartially compared, and the expressions of one of them restricted by those of another, and explained in mutual consistency. Then, the doctrine fairly deduced from them all in conjunction is the doctrine of the Bible on that particular subject. We are not to expect in every place the whole circle of Christian truth to be fully stated: and therefore no conclusion should be drawn from the absence of a doctrine from one passage so long as we can find that doctrine clearly stated in another.
This is a rule of common sense, and is so just and so essential to a right understanding of the Bible, or indeed of any other book, that I wonder it is not observed by all. And yet in a vast number of instances it is neglected, sometimes through mere indolence, and sometimes through a desire to deceive others. The neglect of it, however, is a fruitful source of crude notions, false doctrines, and destructive heresies, of nearly every shade and degree.”
(Wiley Jones, The Gospel of the Kingdom: Advocated In a Series of Ten Discourses, p. 18, Third Edition)
This is a rule of common sense, and is so just and so essential to a right understanding of the Bible, or indeed of any other book, that I wonder it is not observed by all. And yet in a vast number of instances it is neglected, sometimes through mere indolence, and sometimes through a desire to deceive others. The neglect of it, however, is a fruitful source of crude notions, false doctrines, and destructive heresies, of nearly every shade and degree.”
(Wiley Jones, The Gospel of the Kingdom: Advocated In a Series of Ten Discourses, p. 18, Third Edition)
