An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…

I speak nothing of their relics, pilgrimages, purgatory, and such other cloaks of shame, which they use to hide their covetousness, and thereby draw unto themselves the riches of the whole world. They cannot say with the Apostle, our exhortation was not by deceit, nor uncleanness, nor by guile.

I speake nothing of their reliques, pilgrimages, purgatorie, and such other cloakes of shame, which they vse to hide their couetousnesse, and thereby drawe vnto themselues the riches of the whole worlde. They cannot say with the Apostle, our exhortation was not by deceit, nor vncleannesse, nor by guile.

I know there are some, that lay it unto our charge, as the false Apostles did unto Paul, ⟨p. 47⟩that we use the word of God deceitfully: they find fault with our translations of the Scriptures. They spare not to say, there be a thousand faults in the new Testament. Yet would they never set down 500, or 100, or 50, or 25, or 5.

I know there are some, that lay it vnto our charge, as the false Apostles did vnto Paule, ⟨p. 47⟩that we vse the word of God deceitfully: they finde fault with our translations of the Scriptures. They spare not to say, there be a thousand faults in the new Testament. Yet would they neuer set downe 500, or 100, or 50, or 25, or 5.

If there be errors in the translation, I know they were men which translated it, and might err like men. May no translation be allowed that is not altogether perfect? As if the greek translation were without fault, or as if many faults were not in the common vulgar translation in latin, or in the translation of Hierom. What then? Must the greek translation be forbidden? Must Hieromes translation, or the vulgar translation be forbidden? As for the old latin common translation, though many learned men have showed the gross errors thereof: Yet have they well provided for it in the counsel at Trident, Ne quis veterem vulgatam editionem reijcere quovis praetextu audeat, vel praesumat. Let no man dare, or presume (say they) by any manner of colour, to refuse the old common translation of the Bible. Yet is no translation of ours so corrupt, as that which they have thus privileged. But if it were true which they falsely report: reason would, they did correct the errors, and so set it abroad. But thus they bear in hand, that they may