The judgment of Archbishop Cranmer concerning the peoples right to, and discreet use of…

Our Translation ought not to be objected against by any Church in the World; because after the several Reviews of it, and the vast Pains of so many very Learned Men upon it in King James the First Days, we may without Vanity say, That it is as Perfect, and as Complete, as any Translation in use in any Church in the World. We do not pretend that it is perfectly free from Mistakes, or the least Error; as no Translation of the Bible ever was so perfect, So, I believe, none ever will, or can, as long as Men not Inspired have the Charge of Translating; but this we say, and challenge the World to disprove it, That it is freed from all material Faults, and that it is accurate as to Matters of Faith and Good Manners, the Errors about which can only be Dangerous to Mankind.

Our Translation ought not to be objected against by any Church in the World; because after the several Reviews of it, and the vast Pains of so many very Learned Men upon it in King James the First Days, we may without Vanity say, That it is as Perfect, and as Compleat, as any Translation in use in any Church in the World. We do not pretend that it is perfectly free from Mistakes, or the least Errour; as no Translation of the Bible ever was so perfect, So, I believe, none ever will, or can, as long as Men not Inspired have the Charge of Translating; but this we say, and challenge the World to disprove it, That it is freed from all material Faults, and that it is accurate as to Matters of Faith and Good Manners, the Errors about which can only be Dangerous to Mankind.

And as no Church now in the World ought to accuse our Translation, so much less ought the Church of Rome to do it, whose Latin Translation of the Bible is so full of material Faults. For not to insist upon those Numerous and Great Differences betwixt the two Bibles of Pope Sixtus Quintus and Clement VIII. which yet both of them, under the Pain of Excommunication are declared to be Authentic. Isidore Clarius, a learned Spanish Bishop, does own, That the Errors in their Vulgar Latin are almost numberless, and he himself has observed eight thousand Places erroneous in it: And which is more, there are not only Literal Mistakes, Omissions or Additions of single Words in their Bibles; but in one Book of the Old Testament alone, to wit in the Proverbs, there are not fewer than eighteen whole Verses or Sentences, which are not in the Original Hebrew: So that the Church of Rome, of all Churches, should not charge us with Errors in our Translation.