him or folovv him vvhich are our English Caluinists and Bezites Many other vvaies there are to make most certaine proofe of their Wilfulnes as vvhen * Calu. Heb. 5 7 Tit. 3 6. Beza 2 Thessal 2 15. 1 6. the traÌ„slation is framed according to their false and heretical commentarie and When they vvil auouch their translations out of profane vvriters Homer Plutarch Plinie Tullie Virgil and Terence and reiect the Ecclesiastical vse of vvordes in the Scriptures and fathers vvhich Beza doth for the most part alvvaies but it vvere infinite to note al the markes and by these the vvise reader may conceiue the rest 55 But vvould you thinke that these men could notvvithstanding speake very grauely and honestly against voluntarie and vvilful translations of Scripture that so notoriously offend therein them selues Harken vvhat Beza saith against Castaleo and the like Annot. act 10. v. 46. The matter saith he is novv come to this point that the traslatours of Scripture out of the Greeke into Latin or into any other tongue thinke that they may lavvfully doe any thing in translating Vvhom if a man reprehend he shal be ansvvered by and by that they doe the office of a manslatour not that translateth vvord for vvord but that expresseth the sense So it commeth to passe that vvhiles euery man vvil rather freely folovv his ovvne iudgement then be a religious interpreter of the Holy Ghost he doth rather peruert many things then â—ranslate them Is not this vvel-said if he had done accordingly but doing the cleane contrarie as hath been proued he is a dissembling hypocrite in so saying a vvilful Heretike in so doing and condemned by his ovvne iudgement 56 But after this general vewe of their wilful purpose and heretical intention let vs examine their false translations more particularly and argue the case vvith them more at large presse them to ansvver vvhether in their coÌ„science it be so or no as hitherto is said and that by seueral chapters of such CONTROVERSIES as their corruptions concerne and first of al vvithout further curiositie vvhence to begin in cases so indifferent of TRADITIONS CHAP. II. Heretical translation of holy Scripture against Apostolical TRADITIONS 1 THIS is a matter of such importance that if they should graunt any traditions of the Apostles and not pretend the vvritten vvord only they knovv that by c See the annotations of the nevv Testament 2 Thess 2 15. such traditions mentioned in al antiquitie their religion vvere vvholy defaced and ouerthrovven for remedie vvhereof and for the defacing of al such traditions they bend their translations against them in this wonderful maner Vvheresoeuer the Holy Scripture speaketh against certaine traditions of the Ievves partly friuolous partly repugnant to the Lavv of God there al the English translations folovv the Greeke exactly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neuer omitting this vvord tradition Contrarievvise vvheresoeuer the holy Scripture speaketh in the commendation of Traditions to vvit such traditions as the Apostles deliuered to the Churche there al their said traÌ„slations agree not to folovv the Greeke vvhich is still the self same vvord but for traditions they translate ordinances or instructions Vvhy so and to vvhat purpose vve appeale to the vvorme of their conscience vvhich continually accuseth them of an heretical meaning vvhether by vrging the vvord traditions vvheresoeuer they are discommended and by suppressing the vvord vvheresoeuer they are commended their purpose and intent be not to signifie to the Reader that al traditions are naught none good al reprouable none allovvable 2 For example Mat. 15. Thus they translate Vvhy do thy disciples transgresse the TRADITION of the Elders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And againe Vvhy do you also transgresse the commaundement of God by your TRADITION And againe Thus haue you made the commaundement of God of no effect by your TRADITION here I vvarant you al the belles sound tradition and the vvord is neuer omitted and it is very vvel and honestly translated for so the Greeke vvord doth proprely signifie But novv on the other side concerning good traditions let vs see their dealing The Apostle by the self same vvord both in Greeke and Latin saith thus 2 Thes 2. v. 15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 traditiones 2 Thess 3 6. Therfore brethren stand hold fast the TRADITIONS vvhich you haue learned either by vvord or by our epistle And againe Vvithdraw your selues from euery brother walking inordinatly not according to the TRADITION vvhich they haue receiued of vs. 1 Cor. 11 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And againe according to the Greeke vvhich they professe to folovv I praise you brethren that in al things you are mindeful of me and as I haue deliuered vnto you you keepe my TRADITIONS 3 Here vve see plaine mention of S. Paules traditions and coÌ„sequently of Apostolical traditions yea and traditions by vvord of mouth deliuered to the said Churches vvithout vvriting or Scripture In al vvhich places looke gentle reader seeke al their English translations thou shalt * Yet M. Fulke saith it is found there pag. 153 against D. Sand. Rocke If he giue not vs an instance let him giue him self the lie not once finde the vvord tradition but in steede thereof ordinances instructions preachings institutions and any vvord els rather then tradition in so much that Beza their maister traÌ„slateth it traditam doctrinaÌ„ the doctrine deliuered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putting the singular number for the plural adding doctrine of his ovvne so framing the text of holy Scripture according to his false coÌ„meÌ„tarie or rather putting his coÌ„meÌ„tarie in the text making it the text of Scripture Vvho would thinke their malice and partialitie against traditions vvere so great that they should al agree vvith one consent so duely and exactly in these and these places to coÌ„ceale the word vvhich in other places do so gladly vse it the Greeke vvord being al one in al the said places 4 Yea they doe els vvhere so gladly vse this vvord tradition vvhen it may tend to the discredite thereof that they put the said vvord in al their English Bibles vvith the like ful consent as before vvhen it is not in the Greeke at al. As vvhen they translate thus Col. 2.20 If ye be dead vvith Christ from the rudiments of the vvorld 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvhy as though liuing in the vvorld ARE YE LEDDE VVITH TRADITIONS as an other * of the yere 1579. English translation of theirs readeth more heretically Vvhy are ye burdened vvith traditions Tel vs sincerely you that professe to haue skill in the Greeke to translate according to the Greeke tell vs vve beseche you vvhether this Greeke vvord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do signifie tradition and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be ledde or burdened vvith traditions You can not be ignorant that it doth not so signifie Col. 2 14. Ephes 2 15. 〈◊〉
interpreted and draw on to an other signification 45 Vve replie againe and say vnto them vvhy Is not the credite of those Septuaginta interpreters vvho them selues vvere Ievves and best learned in their owne tongue and as S. Augustine often and other auncient fathers say vvere inspired vvith the holy Ghost in translating the Hebrue bible into Greeke Is not their credite I say in determining and defining the signification of the Hebrue vvord far greater then yours No. Is not the authoritie of al the auncient fathers both Greeke and Latin that folovved them equiualent in this case to your iudgement No say they but because vve finde some ambiguitie in the Hebrue we wil take the aduantage and we wil determine and limite it to our purpose 46 A gaine vve condescend to their vvilfulnes and say vvhat if the Hebrue be not ambiguous but so plaine certaine to signifie onething Psal 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it can not be plainer As Thou shalt not leaue my soule in Hel vvhich proueth for vs that Christ in soule descended into Hel. Is not the one Hebrue vvord as proper for soule as anima in Latin the other as proper and vsual for Hel as Infeunus in Latin Here then at the least vvil you yeld No say they not here neither for Beza telleth vs that the Hebrue vvord vvhich commonly and vsually signifieth soule yet for a purpose of a man vvil straine it may signifie not only body but also carcas and so he translate that But Beza say vve being admonished by his frendes corrected it in his later edition Yea say they he was content to change his translation but not his opinion concerning the Hebrue word as himself protesteth 47 Vvel then doth it like you to reade thus according to Bezas translation Thou shalt not leaue my carcas in the graue No we are content to alter the word carcas which is not a seemely word for our Sauiours body and yet we are loth to say soule but if we might we vvould say rather life person as appeareth in the margent of our Bibles but as for the Hebrue word that signifieth Hel though the Greeke and Latin Bible through out the Greeke and Latin fathers in al their writinges as occasion serueth do so reade it and vnderstand it yet wil we neuer so translate it but for Hel we vvil say graue in al such places of Scripture as might inferre Limbus patrum if we should translate Hel. These are their shiftes and turninges and windinges in the old Testament 48 In the new Testament we aske them wil you be tried by the auncient Latin translation which is the text of the fathers and the whole Church No but we appeale to the Greeke Vvhat Greeke say we for there be sundrie copies and the best of them as Beza confesseth agree with the said auncient Latin for example in S. Peters wordes 2 Pet. ca. 1. Labour that by good vvorkes you may make sure your vocation and election doth this Greeke copie please you No say they we appeale to that Greeke copie which hath not those wordes by good workes for othervvise we should graunt the merite and efficacie of good workes tovvard saluation and generally to tel you at once by what Greeke we wil be tried we like best the vulgar Greeke text of the new Testament which is most common and in euery mans handes 49 Vvel say we if you wil needes haue it so take your pleasure in choosing your text and if you wil stand to it graunt vs that Peter was cheefe among the Apostles because your ovvne Greeke text saith The first Peter No saith Beza Mat. 10. we vvil graunt you no such thing for these wordes were added to the Greeke text by one that fauoured Peters primacie Is it so then you wil not stand to this Greeke text neither Not in this place saith Beza 50 Let vs see an other place You must graunt vs say we by this Greeke text that Christs very bloud which was shed for vs is really in the chalice because S. Luke saith so in the Greeke text No saith Beza those Greeke wordes came out of the margent into the text therfore I trāslate not according to them but according to that which I thinke the truer Greeke text although I finde it in no copies in the world and this his doing * See chap. 1. nu 37. chap. 17. nu 11. is mainteined iustified by our English Protestants in their writinges of late 51 Vvel yet say we there are places in the same Greeke text as plaine for vs as these novv cited where you can not say it came out of the margent or 2 Thess 2. it was added falsely to the text As Stand and hold fast the traditions c. by this text we require that you graunt vs traditions deliuered by word of mouth as wel as the vvritten word that is the Scriptures No say they we knovv the Greeke word signifieth tradition as plaine as possibly but here and in the like places we rather translate it ordinances instructions and what els soeuer Nay Sirs say vve you can not so ansvver the matter for in other places you translate it duely and truely tradition and vvhy more in one place then in an other They are ashamed to tel vvhy but they must tel and shame both them selues and the Diuel if euer they thinke it good to ansvver this treatise as also why they changed congregation which vvas alvvaies in their first translation into Church in their later translations did not change likevvise ordinances into traditions Elders into Priests 52 The cause is that the name of Church was at the first odious vnto them because of the Catholike Church which stoode against them but afterward this name grevve into more fauour vvith them because of their English Church so at length called and termed but their hatred of Priests and traditions continueth still as it first began and therfore their translation also remaineth as before suppressing the names both of the one and of the other But of al these their dealings they shal be told in their seueral chapters and places 53 To conclude as I began concerning their shiftes and iumpes and vvindinges and turninges euery way from one thing to an other til they are driuen to the extreme refuge of palpable corruptions and false translations consider vvith me in this one case only of traditions as may be likevvise considered in al other controuersies that the auncient fathers councels antiquitie vniuersalitie custom of the vvhole Church allovv traditions the canonical Scriptures haue them the Latin text hath them the Greeke text hath them only their translations haue them not Likevvise in the old Testament the approued latin text hath such and such speaches that make for vs the renovvmed Greeke text hath it the Hebrue text hath it only their translations haue it not These are the translations vvhich vve cal heretical and vvilful and vvhich
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but as a litle before in the same chapter in other places your selues translate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ordinances decrees so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must be as in the vulgar Latin it is Quid decernitis Vvhy do you ordaine or decree or vvhy are you ledde vvith decrees 5 Iustifie your translation if you can either out of Scriptures fathers or Lexicon and make vs a good reason vvhy you put the vvord traditions here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they translate ordinance and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tradition cleane contrarie vvhere it is not in the Greeke and vvould not put it in the places before vvhere you knovv it is most euidently in the Greeke Yea you must tel vs vvhy you translate for tradition ordinance and contrarie for ordinance tradition so turning catte in panne as they say at your pleasure and wresting both the one and the other to one end that you may make the very name of traditions odious among the people be they neuer so authentical euen from the Apostles vvhich your conscience knovveth and you shal ansvver for it at the dreadful day 6 Somevvhat more excusable it is but yet proceding of the same heretical humor and on your part that should exactly folovv the Greeke falsely translated vvhen you translate in S. Peters Epistle thus 1 Pet. 1 18. You vvere not redeemed vvith corruptible things from your vaine conuersation receiued by the tradition of the fathers Vvhere the Greeke is thus rather to be translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from your vaine conuersation deliuered by the fathers but your fingers itched to foist in the vvord tradition and for deliuered to say receiued because it is the phrase of the Catholike church that it hath receiued many things by tradition vvhich you vvould here controule by likenes of vvordes in this false translation 7 But concerning the vvord tradition you vvil say perhaps the sense thereof is included in the Greeke vvord deliuered Vve graunt but vvould you be content if vve should alvvaies expresly adde tradition vvhere it is so included then should vve say 1 Cor. 11 2. Tradidi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I praise you that as I haue deliuered you by tradition you keepe my precepts or traditions And againe v. 23. For I receiued of our Lord vvhich also I deliuered vnto you by tradition c. And Luc. 1. v. 2. As they by tradition deliuered vnto vs vvhich from the beginning savv c. and such like by your example vve should translate in this sort but vve vse not this licentious maner in trāslating holy Scriptures neither is it a translators part but an interpreters and his that maketh a commentarie neither doth a good cause neede other translation then the expresse text of the Scripture giueth 8 And if you vvil yet say that our vulgar Latin translation hath here the vvord tradition vve graunt it hath so and therfore vve also translate accordingly but you professe to translate the Greeke and not the vulgar Latin vvhich you in England condemne as Papistical and * Discouer of the Rocke pag. 147. say it is the vvorst of al though * Prefat in no. Test 1556. Beza your maister pronoūce it to be the very best and vvil you notvvithstanding folovv the said vulgar Latin rather then the Greeke to make traditions odious Yea such is your partialitie one vvay and inconstancie an other vvay that for your heretical purpose you are content to folovv the old Latin translation though it differ from the Greeke againe an other time you vvil not folovv it though it be al one vvith the Greeke most exactly as in the place before alleaged where the vulgar Latin trāslation hath nothing of traditions but Quid decernitis as it is in the Greeke you translate Vvhy are ye burdened vvith traditions Col. 2 20. 9 So that a blinde man may see you frame your translations to bolster your errours heresies without al respect of folovving sincerely either the Greeke or the Latin But for the Latin no maruel the Greeke at the least vvhy doe you not folovv 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is it the Greeke that induceth you to say ordināces for traditions traditions for decrees ordinances for iustifications Elder for Priest graue for hel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 image for idol tel vs before God and in your conscience vvhether it be because you wil exactly folow the Greeke nay tel vs truely and shame the Diuel vvhether the Greeke wordes do not sound and signifie most properly that vvhich you of purpose vvil not translate for disaduantaging your heresies And first let vs see concerning the question of Images CHAP. III. Heretical translation against sacred IMAGES 1 I BESECHE you vvhat is the next and readiest and most proper English of Idolum idololatra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idoloratria is it not Idol idolater idolatrie are not these plaine English vvordes and vvel knovven in our language Vvhy sought you further for other termes and vvordes if you had meant faithfully Vvhat needed that circumstance of three wordes for one vvorshipper of images Bib. 1577. Eph. 5. Col. 3. and vvorshipping of images vvhether I pray you is the more natural conuenient speache either in our English tōgue or for the truth of the thing to say as the holy Scripture doth Couetousnes is idolatrie and consequently The couetous man is an idolater or as you translate Couetousnes is vvorshipping of images and The couetous man is a vvorshipper of images The absurditie of this translation A couetous man is a Worshipper of images 2 Vve say commonly in English Such a riche man maketh his money his God and the Apostle saith in like maner of some Vvhose belly is their God Phil. 3. generally euery creature is our idol vvhen vve esteeme it so excedingly that vve make it our God but vvho euer heard in English that our money or bellie vvere our images and that by esteeming of them to much vve become vvorshippers of imāges Among your selues are there not some euen of your Superintendents of vvhom the Apostle speaketh that make an idol of their money and belly by couetousnes belly cheere Yet can vve not call you therfore in any true sense vvorshippers of images neither would you abide it You see then that there is a great difference betvvixt idol and image idolatrie and vvorshipping of images and euen so great difference is there betvvixt S. Paules vvordes and your translation 3. Vvil you see more yet to this purpose In the English Bible printed the yere 1562 you reade thus 2 Cor. 6. Hovv agreeth the Temple of God vvith images Can vve be ignorant of Satans cogitations herein that it vvas translated of purpose to delude the simple people and to make them beleeue that the Apostle speaketh against sacred images in the churches vvhich were then in plucking dovvne in England vvhen this your translation vvas first published
shal be examined discussed in this booke THE ARGVMENTS OF EVERY CHAPTER VVITH THE PAGE VVHEReuery Chapter beginneth CHAP. 1. THAT the Protestants translate the holy Scripture falselâ— of purpose in fauour of their heresies through out 〈◊〉 controuersies pag. 2. CHAP. 2 Against Apostolical Traditions pag. 25. CHAP. 3 Against sacred Images pag. 32. CHAP. 4 The Ecclesiastical vse of vvordes turned into their original anâ— profane significations pag. 58. CHAP. 5 Against the CHVRCH pag. 63. CHAP. 6 Against Priest and Priesthod Vvhere much also is said of theiâ— profaning of Ecclesiastical vvordes pag. 72. CHAP. 7 Against Purgatorie Limbus patrum and Christs descending inâ—â— Hel. pag. 98. CHAP. 8 Concerning Iustification and Gods iustice in revvarding gooâ— vvorkes pag. 133. CHAP. 9 Against Merites meritorious vvorkes and the revvard for thâ— same pag. 140. CHAP. 10 Against Free vvil pag. 163. CHAP. 11 For Imputatius iustice against true inherent iustice pag. 180. CHAP. 12 For Special faith vaine securitie and only faith pag. 187. CHAP. 13 Against Penance and Satisfaction pag. 196. CHAP. 14 Against the holy Sacraments namely Baptisme and Confession pag. 213. CHAP. 15 Against the Sacrament of Holy Orders and for the Mariage oâ— Priests and Votaries pag. 220. CHAP. 16 Against the Sacrament of Matrimonie pag. 244. CHAP. 17 Against the B. Sacrament and Sacrifice and alians pag. 249. CHAP. 18 Against the honour of Saincts namely of our B. LADIEâ— pag. 273. CHAP. 19 Against the distinction of Dulia and Latria pag. 285. CHAP. 20 Adding to the text pag. 290. CHAP. 21 Other heretical treacheries and corruptions vvorthie of obseruâ—tion pag. 298. CHAP. 22 Other faultes Iudaical profane more vanities follies and nouelties pag. 306. A DISCOVERIE OF THE MANIFOLD CORRVPTIONS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES by the Heretikes of our daies specially the English Sectaries of their foule dealing herein by partial and false translations to the aduantage of their heresies in their English Bibles vsed and authorised since the time of Schisme CHAP. I. That the Protestants translate the holy Scriptures falsely of purpose in fauour of their heresies 1 THOVGH this shal euidently appeare through out this vvhole booke in euery place that shal be obiected vnto them yet because it is an obseruation of greatest importance in this case and vvhich stingeth them sore toucheth their credite excedingly in so much that one of them setting a good face vpon the matter * Confutation of Io. Hovvlet fol. 35. pag. 2. saith confidently that al the Papists in the vvorld are not able to shevv one place of Scripture mistraÌ„slated wilfully and of purpose therfore I vvil giue the reader certaine breife obseruations and euident markes to knovv vvilful corruptions as it vvere an abridgement and summe of this treatise 2 The first marke and most general is If they translate els vvhere not amisse EuideÌ„t markes or signes to knovv vvilful corruptions in translating and in places of controuersie betvvene them and vs most falsely it is an euident argument that they doe it not of negligence or ignorance but of partialitie to the matter in coÌ„trouersie This is to be seen through the vvhole Bible vvhere the faultes of their translations are altogether or specially in those Scriptures that concerne the causes in question betvvene vs. For other smal faultes or rather ouersightes vve vvil no further note vnto them then to the end that they may the more easily pardon vs the like if they finde them 3. If as in their opinions heresies they forsake the auncient fathers so also in their translations they goe from that text auncient reading of holy Scriptures vvhich al the fathers vsed and expounded is it not plaine that their translation folovveth the veine and humor of their heresie And againe if they that so abhorre from the auncient expositions of the fathers yet if it seeme to serue for them sticke not to make the exposition of any one Doctor the very text of holy Scripture vvhat is this but heretical wilfulnes See this 1. chap. nu 43. ch 10. nu 1.2 cha 18. numb 10.11 and chap. 19. nu 1. 4 Againe if they that professe to translate the Hebrue and Greeke and that because it maketh more for them as they say and therfore in al coÌ„ferences and disputations appeale vnto it as to the fouÌ„taine touchstone if they I say in translating places of controuersie flee from the Hebrue and the Greeke it is a most certaine argumeÌ„t of vvilful corruption This is done many vvaies and is to be obserued also through out the vvhole Bible and in al this booke 5 If the Greeke be Idololatria and idololátra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 5. Col. 3 Bib. an 1577. and they translate not Idolatrie and idolater but vvorshipping of images vvorshipper of images and that so absurdly that they make the Apostle say Couetousnes is vvorshipping of images this none vvould doe but fooles or mad men vnles it vvere of purpose against sacred images See chap. 3. numb 1.2 6 If the Apostle say A pagan idolater 1 Cor. 5. and a Christian idolater by one and the same Greeke vvord in one and the same meaning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and they translate A pagan idolater Bib. an 1562 a Christian vvorshipper of images by tvvo distinct vvordes and diuerse meanings it must needes be done vvilfully to the foresaid purpose See chap. 3. nu 8.9 7 If they traÌ„slate one the same Greeke vvord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tradition vvhensoeuer the Scripture speaketh of euil traditions and neuer translate it so vvhensoeuer it speaketh of good and Apostolical traditions their intention is euident against the authoritie of Traditions See chap. 2. numb 1.2.3 Yea if they translate Tradition takeÌ„ in il part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvhere it is not in the Greeke traÌ„slate it not so where it is in the Greeke takeÌ„ in good part Col. 2. v. 20. it is more euidence of the foresaid wicked intention See chap. 2. nu 5.6 9 If they make this a good rule to translate according to the vsual signification and not the original deriuation of wordes as Beza and * Pag. 209. M. Vvhitakers doe and if they translate contrarie to this rule vvhat is it but vvilful corruption So they doe in translating idolum an image Presbyter an elder and the like See chap. 4. chap. 6. nu 6.7.8 c. nu 13. c. 10 If Presbyter by Ecclesiastical vse be appropriated to signifie a Priest no lesse then Episcopus to signifie a Bishop or Diaconus a Deacon and if they translate these tvvo â—ater accordingly and the first neuer in al the nevv Testament vvhat can it be but vvilful corruption in fauour of this heresie 〈◊〉 That there are no Priests of the nevv Testament Vvhitak p. 199. See chap. 6. numb 12. 11 If for Gods altar they translate Temple for Bels idololatrical table they translate altar iudge vvhether it be not
of purpose against our altars and in fauour of their communion table See chap. 17. numb 15.16 12 If at the beginning of their heresie vvhen sacred images vvere broken in peeces altars digged dovvne the Catholike Churches authoritie defaced Bib. in king Edvv. time printed againe 1562. the king made supreme head then their translation vvas made accordingly and if aftervvard vvhen these errours vvere vvel established in the realme and had taken roote in the peoples hartes al vvas altered and changed in their later translations and novv they could not finde that in the Greeke vvhich vvas in the former translation vvhat vvas it at the first but vvilful corruption to serue the time that then vvas See chap. 3.5 chap. 17. nu 15. chap. 15. nu 22. 13 If at the first reuolt vvhen none were noted for Heretikes and Schismatikes but them selues they did not once put the names of Schisme or Heresie in the Bible but in steede thereof diuision and secte in so much that for an Heretike they said an author of Sectes Bib. 1562. Tit. 3. vvhat may vve iudge of it but as of vvilful corruption See chap. 4. numb 3. 14 If they trāslate so absurdly at the first that them selues are driuen to change it for shame it must needes be at the first vvilful corruption for example vvhen it vvas in the first Temple and in the later Altar in the first alvvaies Congregation in the later alvvaies Church in the first To the king as cheefe head in the later To the king as hauing preeminence So did Beza first translate carcas and afterward soule Which alteration in al these places is so great that it could not be negligence at the first or ignorance but a plaine heretical intention See chap. 17. numb 15. chap. 5. nu 4.5 chap. 15. numb 22. chap. 7. nu 2. 15 If they vvil not stand to al their translations but flee to that namely vvhich novv is readde in their churches if that vvhich is novv read in their churches differ in the pointes aforesaid from that that was readde in their churches in king Edvvards time if from both these they flee to the Geneua Bible and from that againe to the other aforesaid vvhat shal vve iudge of the one or the other but that al is voluntarie and as they list See chap. 3. numb 10.11.12 cha 10. numb 12. 16 If they gladly vse these wordes in il part vvhere they are not in the original text Procession shrines deuotions excommunicate images and auoid these vvordes vvhich are in the original Hymnes grace mysterie Sacrament Church altar Priests Catholike traditions iustifications is it not plaine that they doe it of purpose to disgrace or suppresse the said things and speaches vsed in the Catholike Church See chap. 21. numb 5. seq chap. 12. numb 3. 17 If in a case that maketh for them they straine the very original signification of the vvord and in a case that maketh against them they neglect it altogether vvhat is this but vvilful and of purpose See chap. 7. nu 36. 18 If in vvordes of ambiguous and diuers signification they vvil haue it signifie here or there as it pleaseth them and that so vehemently that here it must needes so signifie and there it must not and both this and that to one end and in fauour of one and the same opinion Beza in 1. Cor. 7. v. 1. 9. v. 5. vvhat is this but vvilful translation So doth Beza vrge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie vvife and not to signifie vvife both against virginitie and chastitie of Priests and the English Bible translateth accordingly Bib. an 1579 See chap. 15. nu 11.12 19 If the Puritanes and grosser Caluinistes disagree about the translations one part preferring the Geneua English Bible the other the Bible read in their Church and if the Lutherans condemne the Zuinglians Caluinistes translations and contrarivvise and if al Sectaries reproue eche an others translation Vvhat doth it argue but that the translations differ according to their diuers opinions See their bookes vvritten one against an other Luc. 3. v. 36. Act. 1. v. 14. c. 2. v. 23. c. 3. v. 21. c. 26. v. 20. 2 Thes 2. v. 15. c. 5. v. 6. 20 If the English Geneua Bibles thē selues dare not folovv their Maister Beza vvhom they professe to translate because in their opinion he goeth vvide and that in places of controuersie hovv vvilful vvas he in so translating See chap. 12. numb 6.8 cha 13. numb 1. 21 If for the most part they reprehend the old vulgar translation and appeale to the Greeke and yet in places of controuersie sometime for their more aduantage as they thinke they leaue the Greeke and folovv our Latin translation vvhat is it els but voluntarie and partial translation See chap. 2. nu 8. chap. 6. nu 10.21 chap. 7. nu 39. chap. 10. nu 6. 22 If othervvise they auoid this vvord iustificationes Peza Luc. 1. Ro. 2. Apoc. 19.8 altogether yet trāslate it When they can not choose but vvith a cōmētarie * Beza in c. 19. Apoc. v. 8. that it signifieth good vvorkes that are testimonies of a liuely faith doth not this heretical commentarie shevv their heretical meaning vvhen they auoid the vvord altogether See chap. 8. nu 1.2.3 23 Vvhen by adding to the text at their pleasure they make the Apostle say Ro. 5. v. 18. No. Test an 1580. Bib. 1579. that by Adams offence sinne came on al men but that by Christs iustice the benefite only abounded tovvard al men not that iustice came on al vvhereas the Apostle maketh the case alike vvithout any such diuers additions to vvit * Ro. 5. v. 18. that vve are truely made iust by Christ as by Adam vve are made sinners is not this most vvilful corruption for their heresie of imputatiue and phantastical iustice See chap. 11. nu 1. 24 But if in this case of iustification vvhen the question is vvhether only faith iustifie vve say no hauing the expresse vvordes of S Iames they say yea hauing no expresse scripture for it if in this case they vvil adde only to the very text is it not most horrible and diuelish corruption So did Luther * Ia. 2. v. 24. Ro. 3. v. 28. Luth. tom 2. fol. 405. edit Witteb an 1551. Whitak pag. 198. vvhom our English Protestants honour as their father and in this heresie of only faith are his ovvne children See chap. 12. Their ignorance of the Greeke and Hebrue tongue or their false wilful translation thereof against their knowledge 25 If these that account them selues the great Grecians Hebricians of the vvorld vvil so translate for the aduantage of their cause as though they had no skil in the vvorld and as though they knevv neither the signification of vvordes nor proprietie of phrases in the said languages is it not to be esteemed shamlesse corruption 26 I vvil not speake of the
gouerne 22 To the diminishing of this Ecclesiastical authoritie in the later end of the reigne of king Henrie the eight during the reigne of king Edvvard the sixt the only translation of their English Bibles vvas Submit your selues vnto al maner ordināce of man vvhether it be VNTO THE KING 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AS TO THE CHEEFE HEAD 1 Pet. 2. Vvhere in this Queenes time the later translatours can not finde those wordes novv in the Greeke but do trāslate thus Bibl. 1577. 1579. To the king as hauing preeminence or to the king as the Superior Vvhy so because then the King had first taken vpon him this name of Supreme head of the Church and therfore they flattered both him and his sonne til their heresie vvas planted making the holy Scripture to say that the king vvas the Cheefe head vvhich is al one vvith supreme head but novv being better aduised in that point by Caluin I suppose and the Lutherans of Magdeburge Calu. in c. 7. Amos. Magdeb. in praef Cent. 7. fo 9.10.11 vvho doe ioyntly inueigh against such title and Caluin against that by name vvhich vvas first giuen to king Henrie the eight and because they may be bolder vvith a Queene then vvith a king and because novv they thinke their kingdom is vvel established therfore they suppresse this title in their later translations vvould take it from her altogether if they could to aduance their ovvne Ecclesiastical iurisdiction vvithout any dependence of the Queenes supreme gouernement of their church vvhich in their conscience if they be true Caluinists or Lutherans or mixt of both they do and must mislike 23 But hovvsoeuer that be let them iustifie their translation or confesse their fault and as for the kings supremacie ouer the Church if they make any doubt let them read S. Ignatius vvordes Epist 7. ad Smyrnenses who vvas in the Apostles time euen vvhen S. Peter gaue the foresaid admonition of subiection to the king and knevv very vvel hovv far his preeminence extended and therfore saith plainely in notorious vvordes that vve must first honour God then the Bishop thē the king because in al thinges nothing is comparable to God in the Church nothing greater then the Bishop vvho is consecrated to God for the saluation of the vvhole vvorld and c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among magistrates temporal rulers none is like the king See his b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 other vvordes immediatly folovving vvhere he preferreth the Bishops office before the kings and al other thinges of price among men 24 But in the former sentence of S. Peter though they haue altered their translation about the kings headship yet there is one corruption remaining still in these vvordes Submit your selues VNTO AL MANER ORDINANCE OF MAN Vvhereas in the Greeke it is vvord for vvord as in the old vulgar Latin translation omni humanae creaturae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as vve haue translated to euery humane creature meaning temporal Princes and Magistrates 1 Pet. 2. v. 13.14 as is plaine by the exemplification immediatly folovving of king and dukes and other sent or appointed by him But they in fauour of their temporal statutes actes of Parliament Proclamations Iniunctions made against the Catholike religion do translate all vvith one consent Submit your selues to al maner ordinance of man Doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie ordinance or is it al one to be obedient to euery one of our Princes and to al maner ordinance of the said Princes 25 A strange case and much to be considered hovv they vvring and vvrest the holy Scriptures this vvay and that vvay and euery vvay to serue their heretical procedings For vvhen the question is of due obedience to Ecclesiastical canons and decrees of the Church and general Councels vvhere the holy Ghost by Christs promis is assistant and vvhereof it is said Mat. 18. If he heare not the Church let him be vnto thee as an hethen Publicant and He that heareth you heareth me Luc. 10. he that despiseth you despiseth me there they crie out aloud and odiously terme al such ordinances Mens traditions and commaundements of men most despitefully contemne and condemne them but here for obedience vnto tēporal edictes Patliament-statutes daily enacted in fauour of their schisme and heresies they once malitiously forged and still vvickedly reteine vvithout alteration a text of their ovvne making the Apostle to commaund submission vnto al maner ordināce of man vvhereof hath ensued the false crime of treason and cruel death for the same vpon those innocent men and glorious martyrs that chose to obey God and his Churches holy ordinances rather then mans statutes and lavves directly against the same CHAP. XVI Heretical translation against the Sacrament of MATRIMONIE 1 BVT as they are iniurious translatours to the sacred Order of Priesthod so a mā vvould thinke they should be very frendly to the Sacrament of Matrimonie for they would seeme to make more of Matrimonie then vve doe making it equal at the least vvith virginitie Yet the truth is vve make it or rather the Church of God esteemeth it as a holy Sacrament they doe not as giuing grace to the maried persons to liue together in loue concord and fidelitie they acknovvledge no such thing So that Matrimonie vvith them is highly esteemed in respect of the flesh or to say the best only for a ciuil cōtract as it is among Iewes Pagans but as it is peculiar to Christians and as S. Augustine saith in the sanctification also and holines of a Sacrament they make no account of it but flatly deny it 2 And to this purpose they translate in the epistle to the Ephesians 5. vvhere the Apostle speaketh of Matrimonie This is a great secrete Sacramentū hoc magnū est Vvhereas the Latin Church and al the Doctors thereof haue euer read This is a great Sacrament the Greeke Church and al the fathers thereof This is a great mysterie because that vvhich is in Greeke mysterie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is in Latin Sacrament contrarievvise the vvordes in both tongues being equiualent so that if one be taken in the large signification the other also as Apoc. 17. I vvil shevv thee the sacramet of the vvoman Sacramentū 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I vvil shevv thee the mysterie of the vvoman and so in sundrie places againe if one be restrained from the larger signification and peculiarly applied signifie the Sacraments of the Church the other also As the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ or the Mysterie of the body and bloud of Christ Duo Sacramenta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Caluinists in their Latin and Greeke Catechisme say tvvo Sacraments or tvvo Mysteries 3 This being so vvhat is the fault of their translation in the place aforesaid this that they translate neither Sacrament nor Mysterie As for the vvord
this place that if the Greeke vvord vvere only a passiue as it is not yet it might beseeme Beza to translate it actiuely vvho hath turned the actiue into a passiue vvithout scrupulositie as him self confesseth and is before noted against the real presence Much more in this place might he be bold to translate that actiuely vvhich is both an actiue and a passiue specially hauing such an example and so great authoritie as is al the auncient Latin Church vntil this day But vvhy vvould he not surely because he vvould fauour his and their heresie vvhich saith cleane contrarie to these vvordes of the Apostle Annot. No. Test an 1556. Mat. 6. v. 13. to vvit that God is a tempter to euil Is that possible to be proued yea it is possible and plaine Bezas vvordes be these Inducit Dominus in tentationem eos quos Satanae arbitrio permittit autin quos potius Satanam ipsum inducit vt cor eorum impleat vt loquitur Petrus Act. 5. v. 3. that is The Lord leadeth into tentation those vvhom he permitteth to Satans arbitrement or into vvhom rather he leadeth or bringeth in Satan him self to fill their hart as Peter speaketh Marke that he saith God bringeth Satan into a man to fill his hart as Peter said to Ananias Vvhy hath Satan filled thy hart to lie vnto the Holy Ghost So then by this mans opinion God brought Satan into Ananias hart to make him lie vnto the holy Ghost so ledde him into tentation being author causer of that heinous sinne 4 Is not this to say God is a tempter to euil cleane contrarie to S. Iames the Apostle or could he that is of this opinion translate the contrarie that God is no tempter to euil Is not this as much to say as that God also brought Satan into Iudas to fil his hart and so vvas author of Iudas treason euen as he vvas of Paules conuersion See Beza Annot. in Ro. c. 1. v. 24 Act 2. v. 23. Vvhit ad ra Camp pag. 139. 145. Let Beza novv and Maister Whitakers or any other Heretike of them al vvrest vvring them selues from the absurditie of this opinion as they endeuour and labour to doe excedingly because it is most blasphemous yet shal they neuer be able to cleere discharge them selues from it if they vvil allovv mainteine their foresaid exposition of Gods leading into tentation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 2. v. 23. Doth not Beza for the same purpose trāslate Gods prouidēce for Gods prescience Vvhich is so false that the English Bezites in their translation are ashamed to folovv him 5 An other exceding treacherie to deceiue the reader is this that they vse Catholike termes and speaches in such places vvhere they may make them odious Corruption in abusing Catholike vvordes and vvhere they must needes sound odiously in the peoples eares As for example this terme procession they put very maliciously falsely thus 2 Mach. 6. v. 7. Vvhen the feast of Bacchus vvas kept they vvere constrained to goe in the procession of Bacchus Let the good reader see the Greeke Lexicō Bib. 1570. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 procession if there be any thing in this vvord like to the Catholike Churches processions or vvhether it signifie so much as to goe about as their other bibles are translated Bib. 1562.1577 vvhich meant also heretically but yet durst not name procession 6 Againe He put dovvne the Priests of Baal vvhom the kings of Iuda had founded to burne incense Founded 4 Reg. 23. v. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So they translate the Hebrue being simply to giue make appoint because in the Catholike Church there are foundations of chaunterie Priests Chapples ditiges c. Neither is it sincerely and vvithout il meaning that they say here the Priests of Baal vvhom c. Because the Hebrue word signifieth al those that ministred in the temples of false gods 7 Againe Shrines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Siluer shrines for Diana Act. 19. v. 24. Because of the shrines tabernacles made to the image of our B. Ladie the Greeke vvord signifying temples and Beza saith he can not see hovv it may signifie shrines 8 Againe Deuotions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As I passed by beheld your deuotiōs I found an altar Act. 17. v. 23. So they call the superstition of the Athenians toward their false gods because of Catholike peoples deuotiōs toward the true God his Church altars Saincts c the Greeke vvord signifying the things that are vvorshipped as 2 Thess 2. v. 4. and Sap. 15. v. 17. not the maner of vvorshipping 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 9 Againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Ievves had agreed that if any mā did confesse that he vvas Christ he should be excommunicate Ioh. 9. v. 22. And Iesus heard that they had excōmunicated him v. 35. to make the Ievves doing against them that confessed Christ sound like to the Catholike Churches doing against Heretikes in excōmunicating them Excommunication and so to disgrace the Priests povver of excommunication vvhereas the Ievves had no such spiritual excommunication but as the Greeke must needes only signifie they did put them out of the Synagogue Aposynagogum facere and so they should haue translated the Greeke vvord including the very name of Synagogue But they as though the Church of Christ and the Synagogue of the Ievves vvere al one so translate excommunicating and putting out of the Synagogue as al one 10 I omit here as spoken before that they call an Idol the Queene of heauen because vve call our Lady by that title so to make both seeme like Also Altars that they say Bels altar thrise Images for Bels table to disgrace altars and that for idols they say images in despite of the Churches images that they say traditiō duely in the il part Traditions yea sometime when it is not in the Greeke to make traditions odious and such like Thus by similitude like sound of vvordes they beguile the poore people not only in their false expositions concerning Iudaical fastes meates obseruatiō of daies as is els where shevved but also in their translations So doth Caluins nevv Testament in frenche Mat. 23. for Nolite vocari Rabbi translate Be not called nostre maistre or Magister noster in derision and disgrace of this title and calling vvhich is peculiar to Doctors of Diuinitie in the Catholike Vniuersities beyond the seas euen as Wicleffe their grand-father did vpon the same vvordes condemne such degrees in Vniuersities But their Rabbines can tel them that Rabbi signifieth Magister and not Magister noster and S. Iohn telleth them so chap. 1. v. 38. and chap. 3. v. 2. and chap. 20. v. 16. and yet it pleaseth them to translate othervvise and to abuse Christs ovvne sacred vvordes against Catholike Doctors schooles not considering that as Christ forbadde them to be called Rabbi