A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved

I shall answer, that first, this objection presumeth, that Christ and the Apostles might, and did find errors, and mis-printings even in written Scripture, which might reduce the Church in after ages to an invincible ignorance in matters of faith, and yet they gave no notice to the Church thereof; or if there was no errour, de facto, then for so many hundred years, yet there are now substantial errors, and so soul, that it may be, we have no word of God, at all, amongst us, and God hath no Church, no believer on earth, but we must all take the word of Printers and Translators, which is merely the word of man: and what is become of all the Martyrs, that suffered by the bloody woman Babel? they dyed for mere conjectures and opinions, for they had not the first original copies of Moses, and the Prophets, yea Stephen the first Martyr, who according to all our copies Act. 7. addeth five to Moses his 70 souls, that went down to Egypt, in that glorious Sermon that he hath before his death, when he sealed the truth with his blood, and dyed gloriously, and said, Lord Jesus receive my spirit, dyed but upon the faith of mens fallible skill in Grammar, Printing and writing, for he citeth the writings of Moses to his enemies that stoned him, according to the copies that they then had;¹ who would quickly have controlled him,² if he had cited false copies, and Stephens own Testimony was controverted,³ and therefore except we say,⁴ that Stephen and Christ, ⁵and the Apostles, cited the testimonies of the Prophets as they were then obvious to the eyes and reading of both the people of God,⁶ and the enemies,⁷ and that not simply, as their own words which they spake as immediately inspired,⁸