A feriom Di!Jwajive from P operie. 589 A All of them with full confent rejed:ing thefe fame Apocryphall bookes with us. '!;;f,j,[,!:· Nowheare the prefent Church of Ro•e in her owne words, thus: The holy Synode sap" nt"• Paf· o fTrmt bath thought good to fet down with this Decree a jull Catalogueofbooks ':::.,":::;::,:- ofholyScripture, Jell any man lbouldmake doubt which they bewhich are received Jud"'""q"' by the Synode:and they are thefe under-wrirten;Ofthe OldTellament,fivebooks ~:;~: Hug• ofMofo1 , then Joj1J11Ah,the JHagu,Huth,foure hookes ofthe Kingt,two ofthe chroni- con,;t. Tddmrcles,two of Efdra<, the firll and the fecond, which is called Nehemitn, Tohia<, Judt th, v'" ·"' c-. Ejler,J•h;the Pfalrer of D•vid,~ontaining one hundred and fifrJ. Pfalms,The Preverht s , ;p.Ap;t.B. ofSII/olnon, EccltjiajfeJ, theSullgofStJngt, thebookeofWifdome, EccleflajlicHI, ~~ffi;~~~~:;~ Ef•! Hterenne &c. twohookes ofrhe Macca6w, the firll and the fecond. ""' ''' '"" ;,. A~d if any m~n £hall not receive thefe whole bookeswith all the parrs ofthem, as d;<tmhu;, deB they are wont robe read in rbe Carholike Church,and as they are had in the oldvul- ~t';,;f!:,":::,: gar Latine Edition, for holy and Canonicall, lethimbe accurfed. Thus lbe: Judge f.1ra~um ;,fo, you nowofourage,and fay,whether the opinion ofthe ancient Church(that is ours) ~r:!,~':~~:~ be not a direCt enmy ro Popery, and flatly accurfed by the Romifh. lrbr; Moj,,&,. Paff'eon yet alirtlefurrher. Ourquellion is, whether the Hehrtll' and Gree~ Cl- ~"'l'i!• rignallsbe corrupted - and whether thofe fir(! Copies ofScriptures be not to be fol- ,;s:::::::;, !owed above all tranllarions. Heare firll the ancient Church with us: Bur(faith ' ""i•ft""' Saint Augujline) howfoever k be taken, whetherit be bel~eve~ to befo done, or not s;~;':':!;~,. beleeved, or lallly, whether 1t were fo, or not fo; I bold 1t a nghr courfe, that when tw, ;pfo• muany thing is found dilferentin eitherbooks(rhe He6rtW and s ept•agi•t) lince forthe ' """'mmbH> certaintyofthings done, therecanbe butone truth;that tongue£hould rather be be- ~:.!(;~~;7,. c leeved from whence the tranllation wasmadeintoanother language. Upon which ft~ '"b""' '' words Lutiovi&Nt Yivu (yet a Papill) faith thus : The fame (faith he) doth Hltrom t""f"'"'";,' proclaimeevery where; and reafon it felfe teacherh it, and there is none of found ,,;: 't;;;: E: judgement that will gainfay it : butinvaindoth theconfent of all goodwits reach d;,;.,, hahtntbis, for t!ie llubborn blocki£hnes ofmen oppofeth againll it. '!;;/;,;[;~:,.& Let Hierom himfelfe then, . a greater Linguift, be heard fpeake: And if there be fu(<rp,-,a, ,.,_ any man(faith he) that will fay the Hehrer; bookes were afterwards corruptedby the ~h'"':' ft•·t•'l Jewes; let him heareOrige11, what he anfwers in the eight volumeofhis explanations ·~-~~~: '' 1 ' of Ef•J, tothisquellion: that theLord •ndhisApollleswhich reproveother faults in sdq.,moNutheScribes&Pharifes,would never havebeen filent in this,whichwere the greatell bu ;P;;' ':_'j'" crime tbat could be. But if they fay thatthe He6'""" falfifiedthemafrerthe corn- ;:;~:,~~; D mingofChrill and preachingofthe A pollles,I cannot hold from laughter, thatour thm,m<dtrfl Saviour and the Evangelills and Apollles fhould fc> cite tellimoniesofScriprure, as ~;;'fl:t[~~~ •. the Ier11u would afterwarddeprave them: Thus Hierom. And theCanon Law it felfe .;,,p;.,.,, u,;d, harh this determination, tbat the truth and credit ofthe booksofthe old Tellamept ~,:;;:~~ ..';;;; fhould beexaminedby theHehrt!V Volumes; ofthe new, by the Gree~. And Pope uh;q.,,h" ;p,;< I n,.centint, as he iscited by Grati•n, could fay, Haverecourfe to the divineScrip- d.m '"" '&'. cures in theirOriginal! Gr<e~. The fame lalllyby Bellatminu owne confetlion, the ~:!:;~~/::.: Fathers reachevery where: As Jerome in hishook againCl HelvidiHt, and in hisEpi- <i[rnfm h" d.- ~~~!f,~::~~~~~s::~dr;~e:~~:.~f:~~a:rtt~~~d~~~~~~n~i~:~~~~~e~d~d re; ~J:i~~; " theHebr..,; inhis Commentupon Zach•ry8. The very fame bath Aujlen inhisfe- d;m;, Htln": condbookeofChrilliari doCtrine, chap. 11. 1 o. r 5.and llpift. 19. andelfewhere. 'j.1 Z"/:/}.'" This was the old Religion, and ours: now heare the new, Theprefcnt Church of ;.,, ~;. ,;:;; Rome bath thus: The holy Synod decreerh that theold vulgar uti"" Edition in all d;minr P•ft M: Lectures, Difputarions, Sermons, Expofitions, be held for Amhenticall, faith the {.,~'::;:;z.•:;.: Councell ofTrwt: And her Champion Bell.,minehath thefe words: That the foun· H<b"" lih" taineofttieOriginalls in many places run muddy and impure we h•ve formerly f'"Jfifoifat.,, fhewed,•nd indeed it can fcarcebedoubted,but thatasrhe LalineChurch harh been ;:'!:;;:;:..:::; moreconfl3r in keeping the fa ith than theGree~,fc>it bath been morevigilat indefen- foiv""' & Acap. 6. Dur.p. I .di~-9-t.ut 'tltttrKm. Yt t<~ttrNm libror~~m fi:/ts Jt Hlbr.til wfM111111ibtu tx.zlfin4lltlt1 tP~ itttn~or11m Gr.!:~::/::;11M~ mourJ dtfid..,at. Ad DtCT.p.J .d I 9 c. 3• Addj'!lilfa rtcurrt {criptaGrtttlf.Btilm-J.dt vtr6.Dti, l.,tap.r t.St,'f 3· Autdit qll&i plltru !affim dotmt, Ufo'!r.W Htbr.w_ & Guc~s tfft rwnwndum: & H~mn.in lib.ctmlr.Htivid. & inEJiiP ad Mttrctfltnn.&c. Cmllil. Trid. frff. i • Slll'I''Jimfl•{]lloduJ fi.uUJt,Mt bttt1p(autus, &c.l"'ttutbtnt"a htt/leatltf. Bt!l.tlt vtrb./.~ .c.tt.N~mcauumfonmmJdtUi11 '"" t !4rbidos jllltrl,&c. OmlliM conJmdJmt J~s in tlii11m Clrtiflia~~.enli!.• ~Ndibfi dtpravajfi: UaJHtt Jacobus Chriflopolite'" & Ctt 1 ulf,&c. ding
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