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 tenth reason, and first to the proof in the first section.

To the tenth reason, and first to the proofe in the first section.

Th' original copies of the new Testament, are (by this paradox of the Jesuits) least beholden to Gods ⟨p. 123⟩watchful providence, of all other writings. For in all other learning the good liquor is best preserved in the first tongue, as it were the first cask wherein it was put; and the water is always sweeter and holsommer in the fountain, then in the streams that stream from it. Whereupon it is holden by all learned consent, that it is better to read Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Euclid, and Galen, in Greek then in any language whereinto they have been turned, be th' interpreter never so wise and faithful. And therefore (in their works) the doubts which rise of their meaning are voided by their Greek Copies, as by their highest court which taketh knowledge thereof. Only in th' art of all arts, & learning of all learnings, which concerneth men so deeply, as all other knowledge (in comparison) is scarce as one hair to the whole head: the providence of God hath so slept, that therein th' original as the gold is become silver, and the old translator which would hardly go for good silver, is become the finest ⟨p. 122⟩[…] ⟨p. 123⟩[…] ⟨p. 124⟩and purest gold. The profane writers some hundred years before the new Testament, have been maintained in that pureness, that their translations, have always remained in subjection and obedience of their first copies, from whence they were drawn: only in th'original of the new Testament, the watchman of Israel hath so not slumbered only, but slept also: that that which was sometime the Lady & Dame of all, is now become tributary to th'old translator. These are the golden consequences of the leaden Jesuits, which how brutish they be, let the reader judge, of that which hath been spoken in th'entrance to this question. They might (with as much truth) have led the Lord himself into captivity, and thraldom of th'old translator, as to put down his sceptre which is the new Testament in the Greek tongue; by not suffering it to be born up, in the presence of th'old translator. But th'old translator himself, from whence hath he received, the great wealth & riches supposed