authority unless they be fatally strengthened by our hypocrisies, our errors, and our sins. I repeat, then, no defence of that divine authority can be more directly serviceable than the removal of the false methods of interpretation by which it has been impaired. We can judge of those methods, not only from the vast folios in which their application has been illustrated, but also from the rules in which they have been summarised. The rules might be correct, and yet their application might be extravagant;