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Sin theoni en christoni the answer to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By…Syn theōi en christōi the ansvvere to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By…
Sin theoni en christoni the answer to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By T. Cartwright.Syn theōi en christōi the ansvvere to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By T. Cartwright.
Edinburgh: printed by Robert Walde-grave, 1602Edinburgh: printed by Robert Walde-graue, 1602
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Thus then we may see, that all the soap, nitre and scouridge, that the Jesuits are able either to beg, to borrow, to steal, or otherwise to come by: are not able to cleanse the vulgar translation, from the filth of blood, either wherein it was first conceived, or which it hath gathered, from some hundred years by passing through so many filthy hands of unlearned Monks; from the which the Greek copies, have had great freedom and rest: because until a few years ago, wherein the Popish shavelings have been somewhat wakened, by the professors of the Gospel: their unskilfulness in the Greek tongue, was so notorious, that they caused it to come into proverb: It is Greek, it cannot be red. yea we doubt not, but it is apparent unto all indifferency: that it is not only cleansed from the filth thereof, but that the more they have laboured to rub and scour it, the fouler it appeareth, ⟨p. 171⟩to all that have not willingly closed their eyes against the trueth, which, that it may more evidently and without contradiction be understood; go to you Jesuits, and after a vomit of your dogged stomach discharged against the Greek copies, almost in a continual untruth. Hear the most true and modest charge, that shall be objected against the insufficiencies of your vulgar translation, in one kind alone. Where, far be it from us, that we should take a vantage of that which may (probably) be deemed, to have crept in, by the slip either of pen or print. For it were not only a point of unfaithfulness, but of m•re folly, in such an infinite number of foul corruptions, whereof the mower may (in a manner) fill his arm, labouring in this field: once so much as to stoop after these slips, before the other were cut down. Although (even in them also) the love that popery is in with error, may evidently appear: which counting them slips of pen, have not yet in