tranflatienJ ofholyScriptures anfvered. 353 tnd cleered the text ; how therefore in fuch diuifion andve- hement difcord fhould fuch a thing bee concealed? How Mouldany corrupt the whole Scriptures, or any principal! places; feeing there is filch controuerfies from timeto time about euery letterand fyllable ? Laftly,this truthofthe Scrip- tures hath been fealed andconfirmedwith theblood ofcna- nieMartyrs,who haue been exceIIently learned in theorigi- nail tongues and who can imagine that they wouldhaue been fo foolifh,as tohauegiuen their hues for the maintai- ning that truth which is contained in the Scriptures as wee haue them tranilated, ifthey thought them corrupted and faltfied in the tranflation ? But the tempter will obie that the tranflations cxcee- 4,Se11,2.. dinglydiffer one fromanother; and therefore foineof them of the diffe- mutt needes be.falfe,and whowould_ground his faith vpon- roue ofvan. any,vntillheknowwhich is thebelt-and truefl?I anfwer,that fiataons, though therebediuers tranflations,and onebetter than ano- ther;yet euenthat which is moll corrupt and imperfeé,is fuf- ficient to inflru& vs in the knowledge ofGod, and in the principles of Chriflian religion; neither is there amongft them all, many errors which concerne the articles of our fáith,or come neere the fubitanceof do&rine which we are bound to beleeue; for all the tranflators haue laboured to conforme their tranflations according to the analogie -of faith ; and though they hauenot inall places delivered the proper fenfe,.,yet they haue endetioured tocome as ,>neere, it as they can ; and vhere they haue failed, it is rather in circumstances than in fubflance, in the proper and fpeci- all truth, than in the common and generall; and though in oneplace they doenot foeleere the truth as they fhould, yet they doe it inmanyother,Andtherfore let notSatanper, fwadevs to neglectthe.Scriptures, becaufe there are wants and imperfe ions in the tranulations; for ifwe (ludic and meditate euen inthe meanefl, and conforme and fraizie our huesaccording tothat truthwhich wee learncout oftheta,, -wee (hall attaine unto ëuerlafling life and happincffee Men doenot vfe to t e let ,thenbufine%, 'becaufe by reams fon of forme cloude the Swine' Both not.Thine ßr1on theta. Aar'
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