A short and plain answer to two questions

To which it may be added, That all the malicious and cunning Adversaries of God and true Religion; all the Pagans, Popes, and Hellish Apostates; all the Devils themselves, and their incarnate Brethren the Jesuits, with all their Subtlety and Contrivance, have not been able to destroy nor discredit that Book: No, nor to Corrupt it neither, in any such degree, but that still there remains good Copies thereof in several Languages. And though there may be deficiency and Humane frailty, in some Readings and Versions, as to some particular words, yet is not that any blemish unto, or diminution of the Beauty and Excellency of the whole, but may rather teach us to value it the more: For since neither the failings of some, nor the fraud of others hath availed in Sixteen hundred years, to do any substantial damage to that Book, it is a convincing Argument, that Divine Providence hath been engaged for it's preservation.

To which it may be added, That all the malicious and cunning Adversaries of God and true Religion; all the Pagans, Popes, and Hellish Apostates; all the Devils themselves, and their incarnate Brethren the Jesuits, with all their Subtilty and Contrivance, have not been able to destroy nor discredit that Book: No, nor to Corrupt it neither, in any such degree, but that still there remains good Copies thereof in several Languages. And though there may be deficiency and Humane frailty, in some Readings and Versions, as to some particular words, yet is not that any blemish unto, or diminution of the Beauty and Excellency of the whole, but may rather teach us to value it the more: For since neither the failings of some, nor the fraud of others hath availed in Sixteen hundred years, to do any substantial dammage to that Book, it is a convincing Argument, that Divine Providence hath been engaged for it's preservation.

If it should be here objected, That since there are so many various Readings of the Scriptures, it may be doubtful which of them is the best: I readily grant it, but then there can be no doubt, but that ⟨p. 17⟩every one of them, for the main Substance of it, is the Word of God. Let us suppose Religio Medici to be turned into several Languages; there may be divers faults in every one of them, as is observed to be in the Latin Copy, and some of them very gross ones: But, will any body from thence infer, that Sir Tho. Brown is not the Author? For though indeed he is not the Author of those Errors, wherein the true Sense of some particular Words is mistaken: Yet since they are not such, nor so many, as to evacuate the design and scope of the Book, much less to denominate the whole Work from the Translator; I may say, with good Propriety of speech, that that Book was written by the Learned Sir T. Brown, though I should find the same in Latin or French, and had never seen the Original English. Thus I scruple not to say, the Rhemists Translation is the Word of God. That is, for the Substance, and main Purpose of it, it is not so spoiled as to lose the Nature of Divine Truth, but is profitable for Doctrine, for Reproof, for Correction, for Instruction in Righteousness: And, to such as cannot procure a better, it may doubtless be sufficient to make them Wise unto Salvation. But I intend not in the mean time, to Entitle God Almighty to the failings or frauds of that Version, or of any other.