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Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend…Certayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend…
Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Junius, divinity reader at Leiden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where upon the said letters were first writtenCertayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Iunius, divinitie reader at Leyden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where vpon the said letters were first written
Amsterdam : Printed, in the year. 1602Amsterdam : Printed, in the yeare. 1602
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.
For herein, if I see any thing, the contemplation of your cause hath deceived you, which thing I trust ye your selves without doubt will mark if ye would go a little from that your particular sense“ from your cause.
For herein, if I see anie thing, the contemplation of your cause hath deceyved you, which thing I trust yee your selves without doubt will marke if ye would goe a little from that your particular sense“ from your cause.
- “A causa vestra.
I have showed that there is some error in that end. Let us come to the fact. In the fact ye frame a purgation of your selves. That thing is denied to none, if there be cause, if measure, if place, if time. But where fore with me brethren, who do neither hear these accusations of yours; neither if I should hear them, would I receive them rashly? Wherefore in public? where ye know that it falleth out for the most part, that they who purge them selves, before they be accused, either bewray themselves, or raise suspicions against themselves more easily than they can afterward wash away. Ye know that the public voice is neither a just judge oftentimes, nor at any time almost a lawful Judge; so greatly doth evil prevail and bear sway in the public. Therefore ye appeal to these Judges, who can neither judge, not take knowledge: finally, they are not only no Judges, but not so much as witnesses: so the private cause is not furthered, and the public is many ways hindered. Ye will say then, who shall be? What judges, what witnesses shall we call upon? Your own preface shall answer ye for me. For when, ye pronounce that ye have found a place of rest by the mercy of God in these places (ye do acknowledge I think your own words) ye plainly signify two things. One, that if ye have found a place of rest, ye shall do wisely, if ye do not stir, where ye may be in quiet. The other that ⟨p. 34⟩