An answer to a certain book, writtenAn answere to a certeine booke, written

In the book of the Preacher Solomon saith in the very conclusion,¹ God will bring every work into judgement, with every hidden thing, whether it be good or evil: your translation goeth something ⟨p. 321⟩wide from this true sense, and telleth us that God will bring into judgement all things that are done, for every error, ²be it good or evil. In the book of Canticles by mistaking an hebrew word, your translator hath put thy p•ppes for thy Love diverse times. In the 2. Chapter for Bether is put Bethel, and so still is it standing in your text, and of long hath stood, as appeareth by Gregory & S. Bernard: & yet is it a plain corruption in the judgement of all, that can judge any thing, insomuch as Genebrard hath not feared to make a change of the words even in the text it self, which he hath printed with his annotations. In the 4. Chapter in stead of these words between thy looks, ³your translation hath far otherwise,⁴ besides that which lieth hid inwardly: and afterward for one chain of thy neck, it hath one hear of thy neck. All this perhaps in your judgement seemeth little, who have learned more highly to esteem the word of your Pope, then of God, and therefore so your Pope may gain something, or loose nothing, you care not how corruptly or sincerely Gods word be red and set forth amongst you. But they that consider how ⟨p. 322⟩holy and precious a thing the word of God is, and what charge the Lord hath given to keep it faithfully, must needs confess that these are indeed gross corruptions, and ought with all diligence to be searched, and removed out of the Scriptures.

In the booke of the Preacher Salomon saith in the verie conclusion,¹