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 June 23, 2025.

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Fulke.

IF you aske for the readiest and moste* 1.1 proper English of these wordes, I must needes answere you, an image, a wor∣shipper of images, and worshipping of images, as we haue sometimes transla∣ted. The other, that you would haue, I∣doll, Idolater, and Idolatrie, be rather Greekish than English wordes: which though they be vsed of many English men yet are they not vnderstoode of all, as the other be. And therefore I say, the more na∣turall, and conuenient speech for our English tongue, &

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as conuenient for the truth of the thing it is to say, co∣uetousnesse is the worshipping of images, and the co∣uetous man is a worshipper of images: as to say coue∣tousnesse is idolatrie, and the couetous man is an idola∣ter, as I haue proued before. Seeing Idolum by your owne interpreter is called simulachrum, and simulachrum signi∣fieth as much as imago an image, Cap. 1. numb. 5.

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