Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete
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- Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete
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- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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- 1631.
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"Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22627.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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1. VVOnderfull is the depth of thy Scriptures; which at first sight, little ones please them∣selues withall: and yet are they a wonderfull deepnesse, O my God, a most admirable profundity. * 1.1 A depth, stri∣king horror to looke into; euen a horror of honor, and a trembling of loue. The ene∣mies of it doe I hate vehe∣mently; oh that thou wouldst slay them with thy two-ed∣ged sword, that they might no longer bee enemies vnto it: for thus do I loue to haue them slayne vnto themselues, that they may liue vnto thee. But now behold others not fault-finders, but extollers of thy booke of Genesis: The
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Spirit of God (say they) which by his seruant Moses wrote these things, would not haue those words thus vnderstood: hee would not haue it vnderstood, as thou faiest, but so as we say; Vnto whome, making thy selfe Iudge, O thou God of vs all, do I thus answer.
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* 1.1
Here fals my papist out with fawcy and simple wo∣men (as he stiles them for daring to reade the Scrip∣tures with∣out licence because they be hard. But does the Popes li∣cence make them the easier? If none should read but such as vnder∣stand, the St Austen had beene barred. I wish our women would read more, and interpret lesse. They must read more that they may vnderstand; not all but something. But if our women haue too much, I am sure yours haue too little reading.