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tranf
latienJ
of
holy
Scriptures anfvered.
3
53
tnd
cleered
the
text
;
how therefore
in
fuch
diuifion and
ve-
hement
difcord fhould
fuch a
thing
bee
concealed?
How
Mould
any corrupt
the
whole
Scriptures,
or
any principal!
places;
feeing
there
is
filch
controuerfies from time
to
time
about
euery
letter
and
fyllable
?
Laftly,this
truth
of
the Scrip-
tures
hath been
fealed
and
confirmed
with
the
blood
ofcna-
nieMartyrs,who
haue been
exceIIently
learned
in
the
origi-
nail tongues
and
who
can imagine
that
they
would
haue
been
fo
foolifh,as
tohaue
giuen their
hues for
the maintai-
ning
that
truth
which
is
contained
in
the Scriptures
as
wee
haue them tranilated,
if
they thought them
corrupted
and
faltfied
in the tranflation
?
But
the
tempter will
obie
that
the
tranflations cxcee-
4,Se11,2..
dinglydiffer
one from
another;
and therefore
foine
of
them
of
the diffe-
mutt
needes be.falfe,
and whowould
_ground
his
faith
vpon- roue
of
van.
any,vntillheknowwhich
is
the
belt
-and
truefl?I
anfwer,that
fiataons,
though there
be
diuers
tranflations,and
one
better
than ano-
ther;yet
euen
that
which
is
moll corrupt and
imperfeé,is
fuf-
ficient
to
inflru&
vs
in the
knowledge
of
God,
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
fubitance
of
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
haue
not
in
all places
delivered
the
proper
fenfe,.,yet they haue endetioured
to
come
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 one
place
they doe
not
fo
eleere
the
truth
as
they
f
hould,
yet they doe
it
in
many
other,And
therfore let
notSatan
per,
fwadevs
to neglect
the
.Scriptures,
becaufe there
are
wants
and
imperfe
ions
in
the
tranulations; for
if
we
(ludic
and
meditate
euen in
the meanefl,
and
conforme and
fraizie
our
hues
according
to
that
truth
which
wee learnc
out
of
theta,,
-wee
(hall attaine
unto
ëuerlafling
life and
happincffee
Men
doe
not
vfe
to
t
e
let
,then
bufine
%,
'becaufe by
reams
fon
of
forme
cloude
the
Swine' Both
not.
Thine
ßr1
on
theta.
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