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Sect. 3. Lords Prayer.

Answ. [Deliver us from evil] These words [for thine is the Kingdom, &c.] are not in St. Luke, nor in the ancient Copies of St. Matthew; never mentioned in the ancient Comments, nor used in the Latin Church, and therefore questioned whether they be part of the Gospel; there is no reason that they should be always used.]

Answ. [Deliver us from evil] These words [for thine is the Kingdom, &c.] are not in St. Luke, nor in the ancient Copies of St. Matthew; never mentioned in the ancient Comments, nor used in the Latine Church, and therefore questioned whether they be part of the Gospel; there is no reason that they should be alwayes used.]

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,