A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither
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A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither
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Wither, George, 1540-1605.
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Printed at London :: By Edm. Bollifant for Thomas Woodcocke,
[1588]
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Bible -- N.T -- English -- Versions -- Douai -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. -- N.T -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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The answer.
The Scriptures (you say) containe not all necessarie rites
and truthes, whie do you couple rites and truthes togither? You
know that we hold that rites and ceremonies may be variable
according to diuersitie of times, places, and maners of people: so
the generall rules of Scriptures giuen to frame them by be ob∣serued.
But truth is alwaies one and the same, & not to be found
but in the word of truth, and therefore though you could haue
prooued that some of these rites were had by tradition, yet it
would not followe that anie necessarie truth were omitted in
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scriptures. But let vs sée how doughtilie you prooue that, forsooth
halfe the ceremonies here spoken of, are not mentioned in the
place of Scripture, to the which the Apostle alludeth, nor in anie
other place, and therfore it can not be otherwise, but he had them
by tradition. As you are true in this, so I would you might finde
credit in all things els:* 1.1 first in the place by your selues quoted,
the reading of the Lawe, the sprinkling of the people and the
book, with the blood of the sacrifices, with the words here rehear∣sed
are mentioned. Then resteth water, skarlet wool and hissope,
to be shewed els where. In Leuiticus we finde that water was
mingled with the blood which was to be sprinckled,* 1.2 and that the
sprinckle it selfe was made of cedar wood, of hissope, and of a skar∣let
lace. Thus haue you one place for the sprinckling, and another
for the sprinkle, and nothing héere at all by tradition, which you
so contend for.