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.

MART. 45. But if in points of controuersie betweene vs, they will say, diuers pointing is of no importance, they knowe the contrarie by the example of auncient heretikes, which vsed this meane also to serue their false hereticall purpose. If they say, our vulgar Latine sense pointeth it so, let them professe before God and their conscience, that they doe it of reuerence to the saide auncient latine text, or because it is indifferent, and not for any other cause, and for this one place we wil admit their answere.

FVLK. 45 We say that wrong pointing may great∣ly alter the sense, but good composition and placing of wordes in a sentence is a good rule to direct pointing, where it is either lacking, or falsly signed. Wee refuse ••ot the testimonie of the vulgar Latine, where it agreeth with the truth of the Greeke or Hebrewe, yea before God & our consciences, we reuerence it, as a monument of some antiquitie, from which wee neither doe, nor are willing to dissent, except the same dissent from the ori∣ginall text. Otherwise the truth of this assertion, that Christ was slaine from the beginning of the world, hath not only testimonie of the ancient fathers, but also may bee confirmed out of the Scripture. For by the obedi∣ence of Christ Saint Paule Rom. 5. teacheth that ma∣ny

are iustified, meaning all the elect of God, who ex∣cept Christes death had bene effectuall to them, before he suffered actually on the crosse, must haue gone, not into Limb•• patrum, but into hell Diabolorum, which is the place appointed for all them that are not iustified freely by the grace of God, through the redemption of Christ Iesus, whom God before hath set foorth, to be a propi∣tiatorie in his bloud, Rom. 3. v. 24. &c. The title of this chapter threatneth a discouerie of heretical translations against Purgatorie especially: but in the whole discourse thereof, which is shamefull long one, containing 45. sections, there is not one place noted against Purgato∣rie, Amphora coepit institui, curren••e rota cur vrceus exit?