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…

That the Greek never favoureth you, it shall evidently appear, that there is no corruption used of Master Beza in either of these verses: let the reader look in their several places. To the rest we answer nothing: as we do not unto the next section, nor the next to it. For first, it is known to all the world, that in both the' Epistles to the Hebrews, & Saint James: we acknowledge the holyest and highest authority that can be. Secondly, it shall appear in the place, that we keep the bounds of modesty, in abstaining to name the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose name the holy ⟨p. 212⟩Ghost hath concealed. Thirdly, not sticking to name Saint James Epistle in our best translations, General: it is well known, that both that title, is not given of the holy Ghost, but of the scholiast, which took it of Eusebius, and is not given, for a mark of further degree of holiness above other Epistles, but only to note the difference of the' other Epistles, written with greater restraint of person or place. Where these latter Epistles of Saint James, Peter, John, and Jude, were directed to the Jews, scattered in divers countries & provinces, whither they had been carried captive: and therefore are called general. Beside that it were good for you, not to be bold with Eusebius in the title of Catholic: ¹unless you will match Saint James most holy Epistle, with the Epistles of Denis Bishop of Corinth, which Eusebius calleth Catholic, as he doth Saint Jameses. Eusebius therefore was not a fit²