Repl. We shall not be so over-credulous as to believe you, that these ⟨p. 99⟩words are not in the ancient Copies: It is enough that we believe that some few ancient Copies have them not; but that the most (even the Generality, except those few) have them: The judgment of our English Translators, and almost all other Translators of Matthew, and of the R. R. B.•. of Chester among your selves, putting the Copy that hath it in his Bible (as that which is most received and approved by the Church) do show on which side is the chief Authority. If the few Copies that want it; had been thought more authentic and credible, the Church of England, and most other Churches, would not have preferred the Copies that have this Doxology: And why will you in this contradict the later Judgement of the Church, expressed in the Translation allowed and imposed? The Syriac, Ethiopic, and Persian Translations also have it; and if the Syriac be as ancient as you your selves even now asserted, then the Antiquity of the Doxology is there evident: And it is not altogether to be neglected, which by Chemnitius, and others, is conjectured, That Paul's words, 2 Tim. 4. 18. were spoken as in reference to this Doxology; and as Pareus, and other Protestants conclude, it is more probable the Latins neglected, than that the Greek inserted, of their own heads, this sentence. The Socinians and Arians have as fair a pretence for their Exception against 1 Joh. 5. 6, 7. Musculus saith, non cogitant vero similius esse, ut Graecorum Ecclesiae, majis quam Latina, quod ab Evangelistis Graece Scriptum est, integrum servavit, nihilque de suo adjecerit, quid de Graeca Ecclesia dico? vidi ipse vetustissimum Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, Codicem, Chalaaeis, & Elementis, & verbis conscriptum, in quo Coronis ista perinde atque in Graecis legebatur. Nec Chaldei solum sed & Arabes Christiani pariformiter cum Grecis orant, Et exemplar Hebraeum a docto & celebri D. Sebast. Munstero vulgatum, hanc ipsum Coronidem habet: Cum ergo consentiant hac in re, Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Arabum, & Graecorum Ecclesiae, valde inconsideratum videtur, quod uni Latinorum Ecclesiae contra omnes reliquas tautum tribuitur authoritatis, ut quod sola diversum legit, ab Evangelistis traditem esse credatur: quod vero reliquae omnes, concorditer habem, & orant, pro a•dititio & peregrino habeatur.
Repl. We shall not be so over-credulous as to believe you, that these ⟨p. 99⟩words are not in the ancient Copies: It is enough that we believe that some few ancient Copies have them not; but that the most (even the Generality, except those few) have them: The judgment of our English Translators, and almost all other Translators of Matthew, and of the R. R. B.•. of Chester among your selves, putting the Copy that hath it in his Bible (as that which is most received and approved by the Church) do shew on which side is the chief Authority. If the few Copies that want it; had been thought more authentick and credible, the Church of England, and most other Churches, would not have preferred the Copies that have this Doxologie: And why will you in this contradict the later Judgement of the Church, expressed in the Translation allowed and imposed? The Syriack, Ethiopick, and Persian Translations also have it; and if the Syriack be as ancient as you your selves even now asserted, then the Antiquity of the Doxologie is there evident: And it is not altogether to be neglected, which by Chemnitius, and others, is conjectured, That Paul's words, 2 Tim. 4. 18. were spoken as in reference to this Doxologie; and as Pareus, and other Protestants conclude, it is more probable the Latines neglected, than that the Greek inserted, of their own heads, this sentence. The Socinians and Arrians have as fair a pretence for their Exception against 1 Joh. 5. 6, 7. Musculus saith, non cogitant vero similius esse, ut Graecorum Ecclesiae, majis quam Latina, quod ab Evangelistis Graece Scriptum est, integrum servavit, nihilque de suo adjecerit, quid de Graeca Ecclesia dico? vidi ipse vetustissimum Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, Codicem, Chalaaeis, & Elementis, & verbis conscriptum, in quo Coronis ista perinde atque in Graecis legebatur. Nec Chaldei solum sed & Arabes Christiani pariformiter cum Grecis orant, Et exemplar Hebraeum a docto & celebri D. Sebast. Munstero vulgatum, hanc ipsum Coronidem habet: Cum ergo consentiant hac in re, Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Arabum, & Graecorum Ecclesiae, valde inconsideratum videtur, quod uni Latinorum Ecclesiae contra omnes reliquas tautum tribuitur authoritatis, ut quod sola diversum legit, ab Evangelistis traditem esse credatur: quod vero reliquae omnes, concorditer habem, & orant, pro a•dititio & peregrino habeatur.
