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A15622 A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither Wither, George, 1540-1605. 1588 (1588) STC 25889; ESTC S120301 238,994 326

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A VIEW OF THE MARGINAL NOTES OF THE Popish Testament translated into English by the English fugitiue Papists resiant at RHEMES in France By George Wither Psalm 19. vers 7. The Law of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule the testimonie of the Lord is sure and giueth wisedome to the simple Augustine in epistolam Iohan. tract primo Iohannes maluit se ponere in numero peccatorum vt Christum haberet aduocatum quam ponere se pro Christo aduocatum inueniri inter damnandos superbos Iohn had rather place himselfe in the number of sinners that he might haue Christ to be his aduocate than to let himselfe in steed of Christ to be an aduocate and so to be found amongst damnable proud men Printed at London by Edm. Bollifant for Thomas Woodcocke TO THE MOST-REVEREND FAther in God IOHN Archbishop of Canterburie Primate and Metropolitane of England GEORGE WITHER wisheth abundant increase of all heauenly and spirituall blessings IT is the manner vse and custome of all that set foorth any thing to be seene and read of others to set downe some reasons that mooued them to take such pains and to publish their labors In the yeere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred eightie two a testament trāslated into English at Rhemes in France was published in print by the English fugitiue Papists resiant there The censure view and examination whereof hath euer since been hartily looked or rather longed for of all both rich and poore high and low that feare God and loue his truth But by what occasion I cannot tell it hath been hitherto delaied Whereupon I thought it would not be amisse neither misliked if some thing in the meane space might be done toward the satisfaction of the well affected and the repressing of the triumphes of the contrarie Therefore at my returne from London from Michaelmasse terme last past I tooke in hand to discouer the loose corrupt vniust and vntrue dealing of our Rhemists in their marginall notes Which if I could effect and bring to passe afore an answer to their whole worke came foorth I did suppose that it would somwhat diminish the griefe of manie good men and make them the more patiently to expect and wait for the censure of the whole work And againe if it should happen that by reason I tooke it in hand so late that I ●ould not compasse it or bring it to passe afore the censure of the whole worke were in presse yet I did thinke that bicause that worke could not be but verie great and therfore chargeable that it would not be thought amisse of if some part were answered by it selfe which the poorer and those which either were vnable or vnwilling to be at charges with the other might attaine and haue with small cost Now hauing by the fauor of God gone through it I thought that I could not choose a better patron for it than your Grace whom God hath aduanced to the highest Ecclesiasticall place and dignitie in our Church of England For some make the dedication of their works testimonies of old friendship and familiaritie and as it were monuments of their old long continued loue Which cause if there were no more were sufficient considering the loue wherewith you haue imbraced me these thirtie yeeres and vpwards Others do it to witnes their mindfulnes of their dutie to them that be in honorable place and calling And why should not I heerin also imitate them sith it hath pleased God leauing me in a meane place so highly to aduance you Others to get the fau●●able patronage and defence of their works by high dignitie and authoritie against all maleuolous cauillers and backbiters whereof this wicked world is alwaies full And heer of both I stand in great need hauing the whole band of Popish sophisters in this against me and also none can better protect and defend me than you either for learning and iudgement or for power and authoritie wherewith God hath indued you Their whole worke consisteth altogither of lieng fraud and deceit which I thought not vnmeete in some part to touch disclose and make manifest in this mine Epistle First in their Preface then in their Translation after in their collected and concluded Annotations lastly in their thicke and threefold allegations of the fathers In which I will vse all possible breuitie and shortnes for that my purpose is but to giue a little small taste of their foule and shamelesse dealings whereby the sinceritie of their dealing in the rest may be the easilier and better gessed at The first part of their Preface maintaineth against the whole course of the Scriptures and against all authoritie of the ancient primitiue Church that it is not necessarie for al Christians to haue and read the Scriptures in a knowen vulgar toong Which if it were true why are all men commanded continually to talke of them and to write them vpon the doores wals and posts of their houses and how should they meditate in them day and night How should fathers teach them to their children and they againe to their children The Scriptures giue wisedome to the simple why then shall not the simplest seeke in them to waxe wise If life be to be found in the Scriptures why shall not all search them that looke for life If they be written for our learning why should it not be as lawful to learne by reading as by hearing The Cōstitutions which they sundry times alledge as ordeined by the Apostles do appoint Laie men to read the Law the books of the Kings the Psalmes and the Gospell Saint Hierome commendeth poore plough men bicause at the plough taile in their worke and labor they could sing the Psalmes Our Rhemists adde of their owne beleeue them if you list to salue the matter withall that they sang in a language they vnderstood not and wherein they could not read those Scriptures Saint Chrysostome exhorted the common people to get them Bibles and Testaments and refuted the same obiections which the Papists at this day make to the contrary But our Papists tel vs that he dealt like a pulpit man and therfore his rules must not be generall but serue for his owne people which he preached vnto As who should say the pulpit were not as meet a place to deliuer the rules of religion and a generall truth in as the schooles They adde that euery artificer dealeth in the hardest and deepest matters of religion omitting the more easie that they presuppose no difficulties that they aske for no expositor that they feele no depth of Gods science in Scripture that maners and life are nothing amended that priuate fantasies and not the sense of the Church and doctors thereof in interpreting the Scriptures is followed And whosoeuer knoweth the state and condition of the Church of England knoweth all this to be an beape and dunghill of lies packed togither If their commendation of their Churches