Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

R. I also ask you. 1. How was all the Greek Church for many hundred years sure of the soundness of the Translation called the Septuagint? or that of Aquila, Theodot. Symmachus, &c. when it is certain that in many things they were all unsound? 2. How was the Latin Church sure of the soundness of their Translation before Hierome amended it? And how have you been sure since then, when Pope Sixtus, and Pope Clement have made so many hundred alterations or differences? Had you then Infallible Translators? And why then do your Translators (as Montanus and others) still differ from that Vulgar Latin? 3. And how do all your unlearned persons know that you give them not only the true sense of the Scriptures, but of all your Councils or Traditions? But I will answer you directly. We still distinguish the Essentials of our Religion, from the Integrals and Accidentals. 1. The unlearned may be certain that the Essentials are truly delivered them in sense: Because they have them not only in the Scripture, but by Universal certain Tradition, in the constant Use of Christian Baptism, and in the use of the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue in all the Church-assemblies: And they may easily know that mens tempers, Countries, Interests, opinions in other points, and sidings are so various, that it is not a thing possible without a miracle, that all these should conspire both in a false Translation, and Universal assertion and Tradition of all these Essentials. For the effects must be contrary to a torrent of Causes: The Papists, Protestants, Arians, Greeks, Socinians, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anabaptists, Separatists, &c. have so much animosity against each other, that undoubtedly if any party of them did falsify Scripture even ⟨p. 20⟩in the Essentials which are easily discerned, multitudes would quickly detect it and contradict them. And this the unlearned may surely and easily discern. But as for all other less necessary texts of Scripture, neither you nor we, learned or unlearned, are certain that they are perfectly translated, nor are they by any one perfectly understood, nor are they sure (by reason of the various readings) which copy of the original is absolutely faultless. 2.

R. I also ask you. 1. How was all the Greek Church for many hundred years sure of the soundness of the Translation called the Septuagint? or that of Aquila, Theodot. Symmachus, &c. when it is certain that in many things they were all unsound? 2. How was the Latine Church sure of the soundness of their Translation before Hierome amended it? And how have you been sure since then, when Pope Sixtus, and Pope Clement have made so many hundred alterations or differences? Had you then Infallible Translators? And why then do your Translators (as Montanus and others) still differ from that Vulgar Latine? 3. And how do all your unlearned persons know that you give them not only the true sence of the Scriptures, but of all your Councils or Traditions? But I will answer you directly. We still distinguish the Essentials of our Religion, from the Integrals and Accidentals. 1. The unlearned may be certain that the Essentials are truly delivered them in sence: Because they have them not only in the Scripture, but by Ʋniversal certain Tradition, in the constant Ʋse of Christian Baptism, and in the use of the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue in all the Church-assemblies: And they may easily know that mens tempers, Countreys, Interests, opinions in other points, and sidings are so various, that it is not a thing possible without a miracle, that all these should conspire both in a false Translation, and Ʋniversal assertion and Tradition of all these Essentials. For the effects must be contrary to a torrent of Causes: The Papists, Protestants, Arians, Greeks, Socinians, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anabaptists, Separatists, &c. have so much animosity against each other, that undoubtedly if any party of them did falsifie Scripture even