I ' ! The PR E FAcE to the whole ·EpiUle. Tom.r ./ib.6. Art.23. read a/foDr. Rainolds d~ libris Apocryphis, Tom. J , pr<f.le£l.4. &c. Out of all 'Which you r»llJ fee 'What eAu– thority it had among the Ancimts; 1[ llf.te:l confefs it bath found mDo8:or, harder meafure. Cajetan and Erafmus /heW little reJPeEt to it; Lu– whtta~e;-. · therplainly rejeUeth it, andjfJr the incivility f411~ rudenefs ofhir den~eth.It as. expr.ejfion_, in calling it Stramineam Epifrolam,as"it ~·am1ot 6e m de.. ~oth. ndmgk . 1 t nyed;fo ' tu not to be excufcd. Luther himfelf feemeth to retra[&- In 1s wor s, . JP L. ,f.' • [If h · h E 'll. J h but 'cis oene: Jt, ea,Jng o 1 zt e 'Jew ere wtt more reverence, · ptno am . anc rall y g~a nted qlumv is rejed amaveteribus, pro utili ramen& non concemnenda tbat this was habeo, vel ob hanc caufam quod nihil plarJe humana: dot'hin.r ofre– l.uc~:n e.x·b· rat, ut legemD.:i fortiter nrge:it; verum ut meamde illafententiam f~~ f~~;d[ inecandide promam exrra pra: judicium, exifiimo nullius etTe Apofioli. lmGerman Lut/,er. pra:f. Epifi. Iacob. that u, this Epifile though not owned B ible&Primcd by many of the Ancients, I judge ~o be full of profitable and preci1 5:oS · the ous matter, it offaing no d0drine of an humane invention, frrong-. , ~;eodrdbs rE:cor;. ly urging the Law ofGod; yec in my opinion( which I would fpeak. " Y row · h • d' ) · r h b · b A ll.l man. are chefe. Wit out preJU 1ce tt 1ecmet not to e wmten yany pou e;. Epzfiola Iacobi which WtU the err.or ana failing of this holy_ and-eminent {ervant of v_ncJir'ninea God; and therein he isfollowed by others ofhis oWn profe;Jion, OG– epti>'ofa ejt , ander,Camtr.arius, Bugenhag, &c. andAlthameros whofe Blafphecultata Hi rn E- • d Jb G · · h' a· · A td·r; .rr v.u;"elio lo~ m~es are recor eu 1 rotms sn ss wectan po . ~J cuJJ. pag.170. ha r~1is& ejus and by him unWorthily urgd torefleCl P¥ fcornupol'l. ~Ur Churches; iipijiola prima, Co11cq:ning this Andreas Althamerus,fee learned Rn~ets Reply , i?J & cum Eptfio- his .hd.r.wmGrot. difcuJf.pag.48o. HoWever Luther is herein de11~ Pauhn1s, (erted by the modernLutherans, who alloW this EpijUe. in. theCazmprtmu qu&e · l · b h · · ,f.'H · M G h d W 1 ad li..tJmanus non,.u 1s p am· '} t e wrstmgs oJ unmus, ontrer, er ar , aG.alatas, 1 ther, &c. ·Brochmanda learndLro~theran, and Bijhop of Seland in – E phd ios [ai- D~nmark,hath written aWorthy Comment upon this EpifUe, tf1 pt~.fu"Rt ;. nee whom(though I rec!ived himlate,and when the.Work.,.was in PI good e~t, gemum progrt[s) 1have been beholding fgr. /ome help in this Expofttion, _ ~~b~;:"~'l;;ngc- efPecially i PJ the c~itic~~ZI expii&-ction. of fomc Greek. .words, and licam._So in mop ofthe quotateons out of the Socmtan p~tmph./et.r; andfor Whom his Comment Iaci0o'Wledge my /elf indebted to the courtefte of that learned and ~n GenejiS, H w<Jrth] Gem/em11n;, Colonel Edward Leigh, to .who{e faithfulnefs . ;:i~:r:~ff.:n~ anfl induftry, the C!hurch ofGod oweth Jo. muck· . · aemedio ad· The reafons Wh1ch movedLu.ther to re1ea JhVP Epiftle , foal/ he -'Uelf ari t, CJ/,m anjwered in their proper pJaces; by his oWn.teftimony cited befou,_ fuo Iaco~o, it contAineth n.othing repugnant to other Scriptures; and it [avou– ?u;m t{.~ej t reth oftbe Genius ofthe Gofpel, as we{l as other Writings of the A– 'i1fJ. 14 o. r e ftn '!oftles; llnd.though befum~th to mak$ little mentionofChrift and-, ' - . . - ~
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