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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
Preface: AN ANSWER TO MASTER RAINOLDS PREFACE.Preface: AN ANSVVER TO MASTER RAINOLDS PREFACE.
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.
That you wish we would be content to yield to the very scriptures themselves,1 doubt you not, Master Rainolds, thereof, but we are most ready to yield unto them: if ye would be as willing, the controversy might have thereby, and by other good means, an end. But your conscience telleth you, scripture will not serve you, and therefore in a word you deny the whole body of the scriptures. Think not (good reader) that herein I have spoken rashly without reason, I know what I speak, and thy self considering the matter advisedly wilt say as much. For in making an old rotten translation, (as I may boldly call it, being compared with the original word of scripture, although otherwise I ⟨p. 26⟩give to it that reverence, that the antiquity thereof deserveth) full of wants, faults, errors, oversights, imperfections, and corruptions of all sorts, as in this book hereafter (god willing) thou shalt perceive, to be the authentical word of God, and denying the original faithful text, which Moses, the Prophets, the Apostles, the Evangelists did write, to be the word of God, what do they else but plainly as it were with one dash of a pen cancel the whole scriptures? Herein mayest thou see what conscience these men make of scripture, that do cast away the very authentical text and books of holy scripture, preferring before them a homily latin translation, which, besides it is such as I have said, no man can tell from whence, or from whom it came. And this forsooth is their scripture, coined and canonized of late in the council of Trent, and never before: and other scripture have they none.
That you wish we would be content to yealde to the verie scriptures themselues,1 doubt you not, Master Rainolds, thereof, but we are most redie to yealde vnto them: if ye would be as willing, the controuersy might haue thereby, and by other good meanes, an end. But your conscience telleth you, scripture will not serue you, and therfore in a word you deny the wholl bodie of the scriptures. Thinke not (good reader) that herein I haue spoken rashly without reason, I know what I speake, and thy selfe considering the matter aduisedlie wilt saie as much. For in making an olde rotten translation, (as I may boldlie call it, being compared with the originall word of scripture, although otherwise I