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Soots
temptations
függeled
againfi
the
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CHAP.
XXII
Satans
temptationsfisggefted
aping
the
troutillattons
of
bolie.
Scriptures
anfz,ered.
Nd
fo
much for anfwering
ratans
fecond
temp.
tation,
wherby
he
laboureth to
make men
neg-
le&
the
hearing
of
Gods word,
that
fo
they
may neuer
be
effe6lually
called.Now
thirdly,if
he
cannot perfwademen
that
the
Scriptures
are
not
the word
ofGod,that
fo
he
may
take away
all
the
autho-
ritie thereof,then
he will take exceptions againfl the
tranfla--
tion; fuggefling into their minds,
thrthough
the
Scriptures
be
the word
of
God,
as
they were
penn
ed
i
n
their
mile
pro-
per languages; by men inlpired by
his
fpirit, yet for
'ought
they
know,being
villearnekthe
Scriptures may
be corruptly
tranflated, altred from their
lira
originall,and things added
and
detraaed
at thetranflators
pleafure.
To
this
I
anfwere,
that not
only
profeffors
of
religion,
but
allo Pagans,Infidels,,
Epicures and Atheifls, who
are
euen
the
very litnmes
of
the
di
uell,haue
been
skilfull and
learned in
thefe
languages;
and
therefore
if
the
tranflations were
not
neere
the originall,whof
could
flop
theirmouthes
from
inueighing
againfl
fuch
falfe-
hood
?
Who
could reflraine them from declaiming ,againft
fuch
corruption,
feeing they
-fo
hate and
abhor
this
truth,
as
that
they
with the
vtter extirpati6 therof,
and
with extreame
malice oppefe thernfelhes againfl
it,perfecuting and
rnurthe-
.
ring
to their vttermofl
power,
whofoeuer
hnbrace and
pro..
feffe
?
Moreouér,we know
that
the Iewes
who moremali-
tionfly-maligne Chriflians
and
chriflianitie than
the
Turkes-
and
Pagans,doe notwithflanding
agree
with
vs
in
the tran
.
Elation
of
the old
Tab
ment,
and
can
take
no exception
a-
gainfl the new.
Thirdly,
there
hath been
euer
fince
Chrifls
comMirig
many
fe6taries
and
heretikes,who
for the mainte-
Lance
of
their
opinions
haue
but
fought to
corrupt
fome few
places oftihe
Scripturs,but
flit
God
bath railed
vp force god..
lie learned i2
the original ton gues,who haue
confuted them
and
,.Sea.
I.
That
the
fcrip-
tures are truely
Iran
gated.