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A65553	A plain discourse, proving the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein the late bold attempts and aspersions of the Jesuits and other missionaries of the Church of Rome are confuted; and all their objections against our English Bible are fully and clearly answered. By a reverend prelate of the Church of England.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing W1510; ESTC R219451	40,562	165

will prevent Scriptures being useless and besides will both lead us to an higher pitch of knowledge and secure us from any dangerous Errours For amongst other parts of Christian duty we shall then practice Meekness Humility and a conceit of our selves we shall not therefore too much lean to our own understanding we shall not exceed our own measures And then Psal xxv 9 14. The meek will the Lord guide in judgment the meek will he teach his way The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his Covenant These are the great Uses we should make of this sure Word of Prophecy Law and Gospel to value and reverence it in testimony thereof to capacitate not only our selves but all ours by moderate at least the lowest degree of Learning being able to read to make use of it and then diligently to read it and hold it fast But especially by getting into our minds a form of sound words a due understanding Carechetical doctrine and by living according to what we know to ensure to our selves the right use of it And if we thus take heed to this sure word 't is sure we shall do well We shall be sure not only of our Faith but of the End of it too We shall be certainly and unspeakably rewarded in Glory and Bliss everlastingly Which God grant c. FINIS APPENDIX CHAP. I. IT is not at all the Design of the following Papers to expose or vilifie the Greek Translation of the Old Testament made by LXXII Elders of the Jewish Nation near three hundred years before Christ and commonly called the Septuagint but rather to leave it in the possession of what is its just and undoubted right the First and Highest place amongst all the Antient Versions Only reserving in the mean while and Asserting to the Original Hebrew its precedency as well in Authority as Age and consequently to all modern Translations from it a degree of Authority proportionable to their Accord with it both which I mean the Hebrew Original and modern Translations have been strangely trampled upon by some in their undue cariere of zeal for the Septuagint The great Argument they urge is the Use which the Pen-men of the New Testament make of the Septuagints Version in those Texts which they produce out of the Law and the Prophets Boldly they have affirmed that the Evangelists Apostles and the whole Christian Church by perpetual consent have acknowledged the Truth of the Septuagints Version And hence they would inferr that no where of right we may depart from it Nay not only all of the present Age who prefer the Original to it but even S. Hierom himself is severely censured for so doing and the Authority of any one of those Seventy Interpreters for it is supposed that some single persons of them came several times into Egypt and translated the Prophets and Hagiographa the whole LXXII having at first translated only the Pentateuch the Authority I say of any single person of those Elders is avowed of greater credit than all the Synagogues of the Jews since that time or all the Learning of the Rabbies their Followers This Argument I have in effect denyed and on the contrary Truly I have affirmed § 14. That the Sacred Pen-men of the New Testament have not always followed the Septuagints Version that they very commonly take a Latitude and content themselves with the general sense of the Text not indeed following either that or any other Version that we know of then extant And hence I would infer that the Authority of the Septuagint is not so Sacred as these men pretend it having not so constant Vouchers as asserted nay it being left oftner by the Evangelists than followed and especially left in most of those Texts which by peculiar circumstances prove our Jesus to have been the true Messias which Texts in the present Septuagint are for the most part vitiously rendred but in the Original Hebrew are intire and clear as the Sun In fine that the Original therefore is to be acknowledg'd the only Authentick Old Testament Now because I will not as some expect to be believed upon my meer saying so for a Tryal of the truth herein we will take at a venture the ten first Texts by each Evangelist reported out of the Old Testament and collating them both with the Septuagint and the Hebrew as we shall find them in particular to accord with or recede from each or either we will for the present make a more general Estimate I could willingly have taken more but these will suffice to try an ordinary Reader 's Patience as well as give us a proof what we might expect in the rest were all examined And for more clear proceeding herein let it in the first place be granted or supposed that where the Phrase or principal Terms in any Text are altered however the same sense be still kept there the Translation of such Text is not the same For if both Phrase and Sense should be altered it would no longer be a different Translation but different Text. The alteration therefore of the Phrase or of the principal Terms is sufficient to warrant the name of a different Translation This being taken for a Foundation the Propositions which we are to prove are distinctly these two I. That the Evangelists do not always follow the Septuagints Translation And for clearer casting up the account let this Proposition be known by the letter A. So that where ever it stands in the Margin there may be observed an instance of this Propositions being verified II. That they used a Liberty or took a Latitude not following ever the expressions of any other known Translation or indeed of the Original it self but contenting themselves generally to report sometimes only to allude to the Sense of such or such Texts as they had occasion to make use of And let not this be thought the worse of because it was of old S. Jerome's doctrine who may be thought a party The holy Apostles and Evangelists saith he commonly alledge Testimonies out of the Old Testament according to the Sense not the Words as indeed do the Fathers and most Writers out of all Authors And as the other let this Proposition be known by its letter viz. B. And further because upon this Enquiry there will arise matter of fact which will prove other Propositions to be treated of anon all tending to vindicate the Authority of the present Hebrew Text which I contend to be the Original and alone Authentick for the better making up our account therein also let C signifie the single Concord of the Evangelists and Septuagint but CC the Concord of all three Hebrew Septuagint and Evangelists and † Texts perverted in the Septuagint And now in the name of God let us examine all without Prejudice or Partiality not solicitous for Victory but Truth CHAP. II. Texts produced out of the Old Testament by S. Matthew THE first Testimony

practice as may most naturally comport with the design of the Discourse it may be hoped the pious Readers patience will not be tired in that last so short Stage And First That the word of §. III. Prophecy is sure or the Scriptures of the Old Testament a more demonstrative evidence that Christ was the Messias than was that miraculous voice from Heaven For a foundation we will take it for granted what cannot be denyed that no man of common reason who reads the Old Testament can question but that these things were explicitly and as good as in terms foretold that the Messias should be born of a Virgin that the place of his birth should be Bethlehem the time while the second Temple was standing that he should live a most holy modest and humble but yet a mean and despised life that he should make his soul an offering for sin and be cut off but not for himself that he should rise again before his body could see corruption that he should ascend into heaven and give gifts to men impower sundry sorts of people to supernatural acts by a miraculous effusion of the Holy Ghost that some time after this the City of Jerusalem and the Sanctuary should be destroyed and desolations were determined upon them the nation of the Jews should be disperst and live as vagabonds and accursed upon the face of the earth The Original and generally all Translations agree in these and such like material Prophecies of the Messias as these nor can it be pretended there are such ambiguities of Words varieties of Senses and Versions or discrepancies of Copies that all these and many other like points predicted of the Messias are uncertain Now this being admitted I say that these things being thus foretold of Jesus Christ so many hundred years before his Nativity and being also exactly verified of him in the fulness of time the Records which predict them are a greater and surer proof of his being the Son of God and Saviour of the world than the miraculous voice from heaven For 1. This Prediction was no less a §. IV. miracle than that immediate voice By a Miracle we mean a sensible effect surpassing the power of nature Now what power especially at such a vast distance of time could foretel these particularities but his by whose counsel they were effected that is they were Divine that is Supernatural and Miraculous Besides 2. These Predictions are a more publick and lasting Miracle That voice was only heard by a few Peter James and John attested but by three or four witnesses and transient This known to thousands to myriads an evident miracle in actual being to this day and likely to continue such as long as men shall live on the face of the earth or indeed to survive the world 3. In these Predictions there is no possibility of our being or of mens pleading that we can be imposed upon Collusion Fiction or Mistake might be at least pleaded in case of the immediate voice In one instance of it John xii 29. the people that heard it said it thundered others that an Angel spake to him but neither could thunder promulge nor Angel either foretel or verifie these things 1 Pet. i. 12. Angels desired to look into these things but knew them not till revealed In summ then these predictions being no less a Miracle than that immediate voice upon the Mount and as a Miracle having these three advantages of the other that they are a more publick more lasting and more unexceptionable miracle than that we may say with the Apostle in having the Scriptures of the Old Testament we have a more sure word of Prophecy than was the voice from heaven And having thus proved the §. V. certainty of the Old Testament by way of Corollary we may infer the truth of the New. For this containing partly the History of the things predicted partly a Scheme of Doctrine asserted in the Old by reason of its accord with the Old must be true if that be true At least nothing can be justly pretended against its truth except the matter of Fact should be deny'd viz. that such a person lived as Jesus of Nazareth and that he did such things and had such things done unto him as are there recorded Now as to this besides the undeniable credit of Histories there are in being a people disperst over all the world who profess such a person to have been of their Nation and that they executed him and prosecuted his followers and still execrate both as indeed we read in those books Now this matter of fact being admitted it is sure no power could effect such things for fulfilling of those Prophecies but that Divine power from whence the Prophecies first came To predict things hundreds of years before they come to pass and in pursuance of those Predictions at such distance to effect them are both of the same omnipotence Therefore the Relations contained in the New Testament are true therefore the historical Records of them must be true because containing a relation of things truly done and by the finger of God. And the Doctrinal part must be true because according with and asserted by the Old Testament which was before proved true Therefore seeing both Historical and Doctrinal parts are true the whole New Testament is a sure word We have then God be blessed both a sure word of Prophecy and a sure word of Gospel too and they do well who take heed thereto But I conceive I may upon the §. VI. Apostles authority affirm they do not so who imploy their wits and learning to traduce and overthrow the certainty of this sure word of Prophecy For if the surer be uncertain what will become of the other Nay what of all evidences of Christianity May I therefore take leave to answer the new-form'd at least new-trim'd Objections against the certainty of the Old Testament which it is therefore now more necessary to do because the books that proclaim those Objections to the world are made English and in the hands of the very common people The summ of those Objections I may reduce to three heads the Imputations of Corruption of different Readings and of the none or indeterminate Sense of the Originals Objection I. We have not the §. VII books of the Old Testament as they were written by the first Authors but certain pieces and contractions of them and those too very mutilate and corrupt Answ I crave leave to make answer for the Scriptures of the Old Testament out of those of the New. The Apostles pronounced the Scripture as extant in their days A surer word of Prophecy as we have seen given by inspiration of God able to make men wise unto Salvation perfect throughly furnished to all good works 2 Tim. iii. 15 16 17. Now we say They are the same at present as to all substantial points variations of Spelling and Orthography we are not to account for as