FVLK. 4. In al those places by you rehearsed, Act. 15. and 16. your owne vulgar Latine text hath seniores, which you had rather call auncients (as the French Protestants call the Gouernours of their Churches,) than Elders,
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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- 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 24, 2025.
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as we doe. That Popish Priestes should haue any digni∣tie or authoritie in Councels, wee doe flatly denie: but that the Seniors, Auncients, Elders, or Priests (if you wil) of the new Testament, should haue as much dignitie and auctoritie, as Gods worde doth afford them, we desire with all our hartes. That our Christian Forefathers eares were not acquainted with the name of Elders, it was be∣cause the name of Priest in their time, soūded according to the etymologie, and not according to the corruption of the Papistes: otherwise I thinke their eares were as much acquainted with the name of Elders, which we vse, as with the name of Auncientes, and Seniors, that you haue newly taken vp, not for that they differ in significa∣tion from Elders, but because you woulde differ from vs.