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CHAP. XIIII. That to leaue the ordinarie translation of the Bible appointed by the Church, & to appeale to the hebrevv, greeke, and such nevv diuers translations as the protestants haue made, is the very vvay to Atheisme & Infidelitie. (Book 14)
IN this later parte this haue I to shew, that whosoeuer ta∣keth to him self that libertie which the heretiks geue, & here M.W. most busily striueth for, that is, to refuse the latin, and appeale to the greeke and hebrew, and these new translations, which (as they beare vs in hand) are framed according to the greeke and hebrew, he taketh the high way to denial of al faith, to Apostasie from Christ, and plaine Atheisme. This to do, the fittest way were historically to declare, how certaine knowen Sects of the Protestants, principally vpon this very reason of pretending the greeke and hebrew veritie, and therefore running to infinite varietie of diuers translations, and resting in no one, haue fallen to despise al Bibles, & Scriptures, and concluded as a most assured Euangelical veritie, that no∣thing is certaine, but euerie man is to be left to his owne fansie, to beleeue as he list. Such is the sect of the