A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…

Reader, I will conclude also with an Admonition as my Accuser doth; As thou lovest Christianity, Scripture and thy soul, take heed of those Ignorant destroying-defenders of the Scripture, who would tell the Infidel world, that they may continue Infidels till we can prove, that the Scripture alone by its own light, without humane Testimony, History or Tradition, will bring it self to all mens hands without mans bringing it, and will translate it self, without mans translating it, or in the original tongues will make all English men, and all that cannot read at all, to understand it; or being translated will tell you sufficiently which is the true translation; and where the Translator failed; or will tell you among many hundred divers Readings which is the right, and which Copy is the truest, and ⟨p. 186⟩which particular text is uncorrupted, or rightly translated? For instance, whether it should be in Luke 17. 37. [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew], when it is [Greek or Hebrew] in Matth. 24. 18. and Beza saith, In uno exemplari & apud Theophilactum Scriptum est, [Greek or Hebrew], id est Cadaver; sicut etiam in nonnullis codicibus testatur selegisse Erasmus; Videturque haec lectio magis accomodata, &c. Hundreds of such may be named.

Reader, I will conclude also with an Admonition as my Accuser doth; As thou lovest Christianity, Scripture and thy soul, take heed of those Ignorant destroying-defenders of the Scripture, who would tell the Infidel world, that they may continue Infidels till we can prove, that the Scripture alone by its own light, without humane Testimony, History or Tradition, will bring it self to all mens hands without mans bringing it, and will translate it self, without mans translating it, or in the original tongues will make all English men, and all that cannot read at all, to understand it; or being translated will tell you sufficiently which is the true translation; and where the Translater failed; or will tell you among many hundred divers Readings which is the right, and which Copy is the truest, and ⟨p. 186⟩which particular text is uncorrupted, or rightly translated? For instance, whether it should be in