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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Iohn. 9. 24.
The text.
They therefore againe called the man that had beene blind
and said to him, ∴ Giue glorie to God, we know that this man
is a sinner.
The note.
So saie the heretikes when they derogate from miracles done by
Saints, or their relikes, pharisaically pretending the glorie of God. As
though it were not Gods glory when his saints do it by his power & ver∣tue,
yea his greater glorie, that doth such things by his seruants, and by
the meanest things belonging to them, as Peters shadow, Act. 5. and
Paules napkin, Act. 9.
The answer.
If by pretence of giuing glorie to God, the pharisies had not
gone about to derogate from the glory of our Lord and Sauiour
Christ, their words had not béene faultie. We confesse that by
the smaller and weaker things God worketh, the more his glory
thereby appéereth. Yet that maketh nothing for your impudent
shamelesse forged miracles, as in making our Ladie a chappell
kéeper (I will not saie a baude) in a nunnerie xv. yéeres togither,
to couer the vile life of Beatrix the Nun, who plaied the whoore
so many yéeres togither. Do you thinke that such miracles as
this will make to the glorie of God? And yet your bookes of lies
are full of them.