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.
If you meane by these principall gouernors the pope and his
cardinals, as I do not doubt but you do, then we answer: That
as they are méere men, so they shew themselues: for they both
haue erred,* 1.1 and do erre. I would faine see one plaine place in all
the ancient fathers, that no bishop of Rome can err in saith. That
position is a late heresie vnknowen for a whole thousand yéeres
after Christ. And the generall consent of the diuines of Christen∣dome
against it, till within these two hundred yéeres,* 1.2 as may ap∣péere
in the councell of Basill, where pope Eugenius was con∣demned
for an obstinate heretike, and therefore deposed.