An apologie for religion, or an answere to an vnlearned and slanderous pamphlet intituled: Certaine articles, or forcible reasons discouering the palpable absurdities, and most notorious errors of the Protestants religion, pretended to be printed at Antwerpe 1600. By Edvvard Bulkley Doctor of Diuinitie

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An apologie for religion, or an answere to an vnlearned and slanderous pamphlet intituled: Certaine articles, or forcible reasons discouering the palpable absurdities, and most notorious errors of the Protestants religion, pretended to be printed at Antwerpe 1600. By Edvvard Bulkley Doctor of Diuinitie
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Bulkley, Edward, d. 1621?
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At London :: Printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Iohnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Flower de-luce and Crowne,
1602.
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Wright, Thomas, d. 1624. -- Certaine articles or forcible reasons -- Controversial literature.
Church of England -- Apologetic works.
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"An apologie for religion, or an answere to an vnlearned and slanderous pamphlet intituled: Certaine articles, or forcible reasons discouering the palpable absurdities, and most notorious errors of the Protestants religion, pretended to be printed at Antwerpe 1600. By Edvvard Bulkley Doctor of Diuinitie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17144.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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The Pamphlet. All Protestants who are ignorant of the Greeke and Latine tongues are Infidels. 3. Article.

WHosoeuer relieth his faith vpon the ministers credit and fidelitie, hath no faith at all.

But all those in England, who are ignorant of the Greeke and Hebrew tongues, rely their faith vpon the ministers credit. Ergo.

All those in England who are ignorant of the Greeke and Hebrew tongues, haue no faith at all.

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The Maior is manifest: because they themselues confesse that euery man may erre, and doth erre; neither haue they any warrant why the ministers doe not erre, since they constantly doe defend, that whole generall councels, yea and the vniuersall Ca∣tholike Church may erre and hath erred.

The Minor I proue: for all such Protestants ground their faith vpon the Bible, translated into English, the which transla∣tion they know not whether it be true or false, whether the mi∣nister Tindall for example erred or no, either vpon ignorance as Broughton one of the greatest linguists among the preci∣sians affirmeth in an epistle dedicated to the Lords of the Coun∣sell, or vpon malice to induce the people to protestancie, or to cause them to leaue the Catholike Religion: as Gregorie Mar∣tin in his discouerie most pregnantly prooueth. These errors I say they know not, and consequently cannot discerne a true tran∣slation from a false, and therefore must needes rely their faith vpon the sillie ministers faithles fidelitie: which conuinceth that they haue no faith at all.

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