Shibboleth, or, Observations of severall errors in the last translations of the English & French Bibles together with many other received opinions in the Protestant churches, which being weighed in the ballance are found too light / written by John Despagne ... ; and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...
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Shibboleth, or, Observations of severall errors in the last translations of the English & French Bibles together with many other received opinions in the Protestant churches, which being weighed in the ballance are found too light / written by John Despagne ... ; and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...
Author
Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.
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London :: [s.n.],
1656.
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Bible -- Versions.
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"Shibboleth, or, Observations of severall errors in the last translations of the English & French Bibles together with many other received opinions in the Protestant churches, which being weighed in the ballance are found too light / written by John Despagne ... ; and translated into English by Robert Codrington ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38614.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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Of certain Books written on the Re∣velation,
and beleived to
be propheticall.
THe Interpretations of Napeir on
this last Book of the Bible have
been a long time admired, but they
have now lost their reputation, for
the term, which they gave to divers
events that are yet to come, is already
expired. These mistakes ought to
serve to disabuse the vulgar, who of∣tentimes
imagine that the concepti∣ons
of Expositors are infallible pre∣dictions.
So divers men do to this
day extoll Brightman, who hath also
commented upon the Revelations, as
if that man had the Spirit of Prophe∣cy;
Nevertheless, if we shall ob∣serve
the applications which he ma∣keth,
especially at the beginning, we
shall find that he stragleth very much