The ninth probation.
The vniuersal church of Chrst did neuer allowe nor approue Scripture to bee in the vulgare tongue, weying the manifolde inconueniences, that haue issued thereof: but euer from tyme to tyme amonge other errours
A discourse wherin is debated whether it be expedient that the scripture should be in English for al men to reade that wyll. Fyrst reade this booke with an indifferent eye, and then approue or condempne, as God shall moue your heart.
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- A discourse wherin is debated whether it be expedient that the scripture should be in English for al men to reade that wyll. Fyrst reade this booke with an indifferent eye, and then approue or condempne, as God shall moue your heart.
- Author
- Standish, John, 1507?-1570.
- Publication
- Excusum Londini :: In ædibus Roberti Caly, typographi,
- mense Decembris. Anno. 1554.
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- Bible -- Versions -- English -- Early works to 1800.
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"A discourse wherin is debated whether it be expedient that the scripture should be in English for al men to reade that wyll. Fyrst reade this booke with an indifferent eye, and then approue or condempne, as God shall moue your heart." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12919.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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did tread that doune & suppresse it. If we therfore, according to the article of oure Crede, beleue the vniuersal Churche, we must not admit the scripture to be in our Englishe tongue, knowing that as S. Ciprian sayeth, that whiche hathe been done and or∣deyned by the church (the holye ghost being the guyde) is of as great weyght, as that whiche was done by Christ him selfe.