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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Title: 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
Author: Wither, George, 1540-1605.
Publication: Printed at London :: By Edm. Bollifant for Thomas Woodcocke,; [1588]
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Subject terms: 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 19. 20.

The text.

This title therefore manie of the Iewes did read: bicause the place was nigh to the citie: & it was written in ∴ Hebrue, in Greeke, and in Latine.

The note.

These three tongues being for other causes most famous before in all the world, are now also dedicated to God in the triumphant title of the crosse of Christ, and in them the holie Scriptures are more conueniently written, taught and preserued.

The answer.

I pray you shew vs by what reason you can collect this dedi∣cation out of this place, or that it is not as conuenient also to haue the scriptures in other tongues: it is strange, you go about what you can to discredit the scriptures written in those tōgues. You would if you could abolish knowledge out of the world, and bicause you can not doo that, you labour to make the groundes of knowledge vncertaine, to the end that the onlie oracles accomp∣ted of in the world, may be the decrées of your holie father of Rome.