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.

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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.
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Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
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At London :: printed by Henrie Bynneman,
Anno. 1583. Cum gratia & priuilegio.
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Martin, Gregory, d. 1582. -- Discoverie of manifold corruptions of the holy scriptures of the heretikes -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Bible -- Versions, Catholic vs. Protestant -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01309.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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FVLK. 20. Some in deede are small faultes, some none at al. That you mislike vs not, for not translating a few words, whose signification is vnknowen, or else they can not be aptly expressed in the English tongue, it is of

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no equitie towardes vs, but that you might vnder that shadowe, creepe away with so huge a multitude of wordes, which may as well be translated, as any in the Bible, and that in the new Testament, which is scarse the sixte parte of the whole Bible. The wordes which wee haue translated Images, are out of question termes signi∣fying Images, and of your translator, they be called ey∣ther imagines, simulachra, sculptilia, Idola, &c. Our En∣glish tongue, being not so fruitefull of wordes, we call them sometimes Idols, sometimes Images, which when we speake of worshipped images, can be none other, but such as you call Idols. To obscure such a multitude of words, & so much matter by them, as you do, S. Augu∣stine wil not warrant you, who speaketh only of two, or three words vsually receiued in the Latine Church in his time, not of such a number as you haue counterfaited.

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