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…

To the fourth reason.

Although your speech being used of the most part, being faint and short to prove that it alone should now be used: yet even this is very false: first you are constrained to confess, that the Greek fathers used it not: which argueth plainly that they had it not in that estimation, which you have it. For then they would have caused it to be translated for th' use of their own churches; if they had esteemed it truer then the Greek copies. Secondly the most ancient Latin fathers do not ⟨p. 110⟩follow it, as Tertullian, Cyprian, Hilary, who have scarce a footstep of it: albeit it was (likely) in the church in their times, before Jerome corrected certain places in it, Jerome often dissenteth from it, often also confuteth it. There remain Ambrose & Augustine, who although they use it more then the rest: yet do they often forsake it, and used it not (as you do) seruily. This is yet¹ more evident, in that th' ancient fathers, and even those that used them most, send men (when there is controversy of Latin books) to th' originals of Hebrew & Greek. Yea in the very diocese of Rome, long after the time of these fathers: the Pope himself doth witness, that not only he, but the Apostolic seat used both the new and old translation in Latin. Now if th' Apostolic seat in Gregory's time (who made too great account of this translation) used both, and (in the book of the Psal.) refusing Jerome followed the old translation: there is no likelihood that th' authority which this had before his time, buried th' authority of th' other ⟨p. 111⟩translation. And as the elder expositors have not used nor expounded it, without controlment: So the later writers whereof some have ben pillars in your synagogue, have been bold manifoldly to cross this translation of yours. For besides Bede, Burgensis, and Armacan: of late days Lyra, Jansenius and others, have left the ferular in the old translators hand. As for the Church service, it was so (in the primitive Church) in the Latin tongue, as the people by reason of the Romaine Empire understood it. As touching your Popish service, full of Idolatry and superstition, as we care not what translation it followeth; so we judge most corrupt the most commodious.