A15061:373
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.
In the 1. of Samuel Chap. 9. v. 25. these words are added to the text,1 And Saul spread upon the top of the house, and slept, there being nothing in the text either of spreading or sleeping, or any such matter. If therefore you will be tried by either hebrew, or Chaldee, or sundry exemplars of your latin translation, you shall confess a corruption in this place, & so in deed you do, but will not yet amend it. How be it better were it not to acknowledge a fault, then acknowledging one, still to retain the same. And in the 19. Chap. 24. v. the scripture telleth that Saul put of his clothes, & prophesied before Samuel, and fell down naked all that day and night. So hath the ⟨p. 298⟩Hebrew, so the Greek, and so your own Masters confess it should be. Which notwithstanding as it were in open and presumptuous maintenance of your corruptions against the sincerity of the text, in your books you read thus,2 and he song naked. This came to pass by negligence in the writer, mistaking one letter for another. But why will ye not be brought in this clear light of knowledge, whereby such gross faults are easily espied, to amend your books, to remove the fault, to restore the right word to his place? you see belike what danger might ensue of mending any thing: if once you should begin, you wist not how to make an end, and therefore you are determined to stir nothing, for fear you bring down all upon your heads.
In the 1. of Samuel Chap. 9. v. 25. these wordes are added to the text,1 And Saul spred vpon the top of the house, and slept, there being nothing in the text either of spredding or sleeping, or anie such matter. If therfore you wl be tryed by either hebrew, or Chaldee, or sundrie exemplares of your latine translation, you shall confesse a corruption in this place, & so in deed you do, but will not yet amend it. How be it better were it not to acknowledge a fault, then acknowledging one, still to retaine the same. And in the 19. Chap. 24. v. the scripture telleth that Saull put of his cloathes, & prophecied before Samuel, and fel downe naked all that daie and night. So hath the ⟨p. 298⟩