A defense of the sincere and true translations of the holie Scriptures into the English tong against the manifolde cauils, friuolous quarels, and impudent slaunders of Gregorie Martin, one of the readers of popish diuinitie in the trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes. By William Fvlke D. in Diuinitie, and M. of Pembroke haule in Cambridge. Wherevnto is added a briefe confutation of all such quarrels & cauils, as haue bene of late vttered by diuerse papistes in their English pamphlets, against the writings of the saide William Fvlke.

FVLK. 4. We hold, that a man, when he is truly pe∣nitent, ought to assure himself, that his sins bee forgiuen him, because God hath so promised, in an hūdred places, without iniurie of whose credit, we cannot doubt of the performance of his promise. But that which the sonne of Syrach speaketh of propitiatiō, is meant of the shadowie propitiation by the sacrifices of the lawe, which can not assure anie man of the forgiuenesse of his sins by them∣selues, much lesse them that heape sin vpon sin, which are neuer truely repentant. For vnto true repentaunce is re∣quired an hatred of sin, & a desire, & purpose of amend∣ment. Our translation is (as your vulgar Latine) not pre∣cise to the words of the Greeke, but iuste vnto the mea∣ning, for the words are, concerning propitiation, be not without feare: and your Latin is, De propitiato peccato, of sin forgiuen. And if you wil reprooue your Latin, aswel as our English, and say, we must be afraid of the very for∣giuenes, I haue told you, that the forgiuenes of God te∣stified by the sacrifices, pertained vnto them that be tru∣ly penitent, and not to hypocrites. And where you make it a doubt, whether sin shall bee forgiuen, or no, in them that heape one sin vpon an other: we are out of doubte, that sin shall neuer bee forgiuen to suche, as so continue

without true conuersion vnto God.