Catholique traditions. Or A treatise of the beliefe of the Christians of Asia, Europa, and Africa, in the principall controuersies of our time In fauour of the louers of the catholicke trueth, and the peace of the Church. Written in French by Th. A.I.C. and translated into English, by L.O.

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Title: Catholique traditions. Or A treatise of the beliefe of the Christians of Asia, Europa, and Africa, in the principall controuersies of our time In fauour of the louers of the catholicke trueth, and the peace of the Church. Written in French by Th. A.I.C. and translated into English, by L.O.
Author: Eudes, Morton.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. Stansby, for Henry Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Rose,; 1609.
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Subject terms: Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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ANNOTATION.

IN the Catholike Church of the East, VVest, North, and South is manifestly accomplished, that Scripture, which saith, That all languages doe confesse the Lord. The Church of Rome onely (say the Protestants) labours to hinder the same: They will not permit the Masse, nor any part of Diuine seruice, to bee celebrated in the French tongue in Fraunce: and which is more, they haue brought their La∣tine seruice into America: But the people cannot saym 1.1 A∣men, to any purpose: if they vnderstand not that which is said in the Church, their vowes and their intentions cannot be ioyned together with those of the Priest.

The Priest and the people, which speake a language vn∣knowne and barbarous each to other, may thinke one thing and say another: behold here the confusion. Likewise one may gather by the places or sentences before alleadged, that the foresaid Apostolicke Churches prohibite not at all the reading of the holy Scripture: for if it be permitted to the Laicks, yea commaunded, to be present at the reading therof, being written in the vulgar tongue: it followeth that they may reade it also in priuate. There are Romane Catholickes which on the contrary side doe abhorre and hate the same.

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Their Doctors and Teachersn 1.2 not being ashamed to say, that the Translation of the holy Scripture into the vulgar tongue is the mother of heresies.

But there are many Catholikes in the Church of Rome which are not of this opinion, and who reade attentiuely the holy Scripture. Immitating therefore the practise of the Catholike Church, we will say,

That the language of the Countrey ought to bee vsed in euery Church, and that it is good to read the holy Scriptures, and to heare them read in the vulgar tongue.

Notes

m 1.1

1. Cor. 14. 16.

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n 1.2

Alph. de Castro de ha∣res.

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