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The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…
The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
There are divers words in the Greek tongue which the Gospel was wrote in, which we translate by one word [Master;] but if our language be more scarce of words then the Greek, it doth not follow that Christs words are all one. The word here used in Matthew is [Greek or Hebrew], and elsewhere [Greek or Hebrew] which is as much as the chief Leader of the way or the Sect-master; What if this, be forbidden, is all Mastership therefore forbidden because this one is? The word [Greek or Hebrew] is translated [Master] too, and sometime [a Teacher.] I pray you consider here your most ignorant and sottish dealing; The Gospel was not written by the Apostles in English but in Greek: Because one word signifieth a Teacher and a Master (such as a Schoolmaster is) and our Translators sometime translate it a Teacher and sometime a Master, you impudently cry out that one of them is not Scripture, and yet yield that the other is; When in the Greek they are the same word, as you may see it used in Eph. 4. 11. Luk. 2. 46. 1 Tim. 2. 7. 2 Tim. 1. 11. Acts 13. 1. 1 Cor. 12. 28. Mat. 10. 24. Luk. 6. 40. Heb. 5. 12. Jam. 3. 1. In all which places the holy Ghost useth the word [Greek or Hebrew] though we English it sometime Masters, sometime Teachers, and sometime Doctors, yet it is all one word in the language that the Scripture was written in; and therefore Scripture alloweth one as much as another.
There are divers words in the Greek tongue which the Gospel was wrote in, which we translate by one word [Master;] but if our language be more scarce of words then the Greek, it doth not follow that Christs words are all one. The word here used in Matthew is , and elsewhere which is as much as the chief Leader of the way or the Sect-master; What if this, be forbidden, is all Mastership therefore forbidden because this one is? The word is translated [Master] too, and sometime [a Teacher.] I pray you consider here your most ignorant and sottish dealing; The Gospel was not written by the Apostles in English but in Greek: Because one word signifieth a Teacher and a Master (such as a Schoolmaster is) and our Translators sometime translate it a Teacher and sometime a Master, you impudently cry out that one of them is not Scripture, and yet yield that the other is; When in the Greek they are the same word, as you may see it used in