A13257:54
A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the…A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the…
A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the seas: with an exhortation to the reformation of the Church. Perused and allowed according to the Queens Majesties injunctions.A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the seas: with an exhortation to the reformation of the Churche. Perused and allowed accordinge to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by Henry Wykes for Lucas Harrison, 1568
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There be two kinds of interpretations: The one is of that sort, which 1do not consider properly the thing it self, and what is spoken, but take in hand to declare, with what words any thing is spoken, changing only the phrases, & the manner of speech. The which kind of interpretation, although it can scarcely, no not at all rightly be performed of him, that understandeth not the thing it self, yet standeth it in the words.
There bee twoo kindes of interpretaciōs: The one is of that sorte, which 1doe not consider properly the thyng it self, and what is spoken, but take in hande to declare, with what woordes any thyng is spoken, chaungyng onely the phrases, & the maner of speache. The whiche kinde of interpretacion, although it can scarsly, no not at all rightly be performed of hym, that vnderstandeth not the thyng it self, yet standeth it in the woordes.
- 1Two kinds of interpreters.
The other kind is of them, which do declare the thing and matter it 1self with many words, and give the reasons. In the which kind of interpretation (in my judgement, and as I suppose in the judgement of all the learned, that have read his books) that noble John Calvin, that man of blessed memory, and my father in. Christ shall be found (so that no man envy my saying) far to have passed and excelled all the writers, both did and new. Therefore, though I some times in certain places, not in any point of his doctrine (the which I have always marked, to be most pure & sounds in his writings, as in any other interpreter besides) but in the explication of certain places, do dissent from him: yet do, I judge of his commentaries, that which Cicero did judge of Julius Caesars commentaries, in a kind of writing far unlike (that is to say) that he made all men of any wit, affrayed to write after him. And would to God that we, that are ministers in Christs church, through the […]