A15061:329
An answer to a certain book, writtenAn answere to a certeine booke, written
An answer to a certain book, written by Master William Rainolds student of divinity in the English college at Rhemes, and entitled, A refutation of sundry reprehensions, cavils, etc. by William Whitaker ...An answere to a certeine booke, written by Maister William Rainolds student of diuinitie in the English colledge at Rhemes, and entituled, A refutation of sundrie reprehensions, cauils, etc. by William Whitaker ...
Printed at London : For Thomas Chard, 1585
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.
For proof that the Hebrew fountains are by the Jews corrupted,1 you bring us forth a place out of the prophet Isaiah, Chap. 9. First in that I say the Jews have not corrupted the hebrew text, I say no other thing, then that which the most learned Papists of all times have affirmed:2 and that by the same argument, which my self used, that then this corruption most certainly would have appeared in those places that directly concern our Saviour Christ: amongst the which this that you mention here is notable: And although I will not deny but that the Jews might have some purpose to wrest it from the sense, that it might be applied to any rather, then to Christ, yet the corruption is not so great as you would have it seem, consisting not in change of any letter, but only of the points. The letters remaining without alteration, whatsoever is amiss in the points, may easily be corrected. Furthermore if we read the word with the same points, which now it ⟨p. 255⟩commonly hath in the Hebrew Bibles, whereby the verbópassive is turned into an active, yet the place notwithstanding proveth invincibly the Divinity of our Saviour Christ. For as well doth it confirm this doctrine, if we read,3 & vocabit, that is, God the father shall call his name wonderful, &c, as if we read,4 vocabitur, his name shall be called wonderful. Although, you that take upon you such profound knowledge and cunning in the Hebrew language, should not have been ignorant that this is the phrase of that tongue. That the Jews refer the last name only, which is the Prince of peace, 5to the Child borne, all the rest going before to God him self, this I grant to be a malicious construction of the words, but no corruption of the text. One thing is it to expound the words in a wrong sense, an other to falsify the words. You hoped no doubt to have gained much more by this place, then will any ways be yielded unto you: for that you add of the Churches authority, which you call the supreme ground and stay, is nothing worth, being an old worn and wasted sentence, brought in rashly without credit or