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You shall do me mischief enough M. R. and be sufficiently avenged on me,¹ if you can prove all that you have here propounded against me. Big words, bold brags, terrible threats: a man would think my case were very miserable, that have to deal with so cruel and mighty an adversary. I may indeed be sorry for my chance, to be thus cumbered with an unlearned and ridiculous trifler, that seeketh only by show and multitude of words to dazzle the eyes of simple men, and somewhat disgrace the truth of god. A man that hath but a drop of learning cannot be deceived by such painted & pelting stuff: the unlearned that cannot judge, may think ⟨p. 220⟩M. R. hath said some what to purpose.

You shall doe me mischiefe enough M. R. and be sufficientlie auenged on me,¹ if you can prooue all that you haue here propounded against me. Bigge words, bolde bragges, terrible threats: a man would thinke my case were verie miserable, that haue to deale with so cruell and mightie an aduersarie. I may indeed be sorie for my chaunce, to be thus cumbred with an vnlearned and ridiculous trifler, that seeketh onelie by shewe and multitude of words to dazle the eyes of simple men, and somewhat disgrace the truth of god. A man that hath but a drop of learning cannot be deceiued by such painted & pelting stuffe: the vnlearned that cannot iudge, may thinke ⟨p. 220⟩M. R. hath said some what to purpose.

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First you say no wit nor learning will allow me to translate [Greek or Hebrew] an Image, or [Greek or Hebrew] a carcass. And what came in your head to charge me with translating psuche a carcass? where have I so translated it? or where is it so found in any of our translations? For my part I never so translated it, I never saw it so translated, I never thought it lawful so to translate it. Beza I grant translated it so in his latin translation once, but afterwards upon better consideration, he changed his translation, as you may see in the latter editions. As for eidolon, it is truly & properly translated an Image, as any man will confess, that knoweth the nature of the word, & as it hath been largely proved in sundry discourses. It was then far from wit or learning in you Master Rainolds, to say that as well might minister be translated a slave, or homo a dog, as eidolon an Image. For among the words, wherewith the learned Grecians commonly express the same thing that we call an Image, is eidolon, as fit and natural as any other. Your sacred Images are eidola: & if eidolon signify an Idol, then are they Idols, as in trueth they are. By use and custom