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A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Usher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoined a tract, entitled Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore written [sic] and published by the same author.A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.
London: printed by M.F. for Tho. Downes and Geo. Badger, 1645
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.
How can the certain understanding of the Scriptures be taken out of the original tongues,1 considering the difference of reading in divers Copies both of Hebrew and Greek: as also the difficulty of some words and phrases, upon which the best Translators cannot agree?
How can the certain understanding of the Scriptures be taken out of the originall tongues,1 considering the difference of reading in divers Copies both of Hebrew and Greek: as also the difficulty of some words and phrases, upon which the best Translators cannot agree?
- 1An objection grounded on various readings answered.
Although in the Hebrew Copy there hath been observed by the Nazarites some very few differences of words by similitude of letters and points; and by the Learned in the Greek tongue there are like diversities of reading noted in the Greek Text of the new Testament, which came by fault of writers; yet in most by circumstance of the place and conference of other places, the true reading may be discerned; and albeit in all it cannot, nor the Translator in all places determine the true interpretation, yet this diversity or difficulty can make no difference or uncertainty in the sum and substance of Christian religion, because the Ten Commandments and the principal Texts of Scripture on which the Articles of our faith are grounded, the Sacraments instituted, the form of prayer taught, (which contain the sum or substance of Christian religion) are without all such diversity of reading or difficulty of translating, so plainly set down, and so precisely translated by consent of all men learned in the tongues, that no man can make any doubt of them, or pick any quarrel against them.