A Key for Catholics, Treatise 1 · Chapter 30 – Chapter 31
CHAP. XXX.
Detect. 21. ANother of the Papiſts waies of deceiving is, by impudent Lyes and Slanders againſt their Adverſaries; which they vent with ſuch confidence, that the ſeduced people eaſily believe them. They that are taught to believe their Prieſts againſt their own ſeeing, hearing, feeling, taſting and ſmelling, muſt needs believe the vileſt Lyes that they are pleaſed to utter, in caſes where the miſerable people are unable to diſprove them. I will give you but a few of that multitude of Inſtances that might be given.
1. In a Manuſcript of the Papiſts which I lately received from a Neighbour of Sturbridge, as ſent from Wolverhampton, there are theſe words, with which they conclude [Luther having richly ſupped, and made his friends merry with his facete conceits, died the ſame night. This is teſtified by Cochleus in vita Lutheri. And John Calvin, a branded ſodomite, conſumed with lice and worms, died blaſpheming and calling upon the Devil. This is regiſtred by Schluſſelburge and Bolſeck; theſe were the Ends of the Parents of the Proteſtant and Presbyterian pretended Reformed Religions.
And as if their own tongue muſt ſentence them to Hell, in the very words before they ſay [All Lyars, their part ſhall be in the pool burning with fire and brimſtone, which is the ſecond death] And ſo make Application of it to the Proteſtants, as being Lyars; and when they have done, conclude with the two forecited impudent Lies of Luther and Calvin. The like words of Calvin hath the late Marqueſs of Worceſter (or Dr. Baily for him) in his Papers to King Charles; the whole writing being ſtuffed with ſuch impudent Lies, that one would wonder that humane nature ſhould be capable of ſuch wickedneſs, and that the ſilly people ſhould ſwallow down ſuch heaps of falſhood. And it is not theſe two alone, but multitudes of Papiſts that have written theſe Lies of Luther and Calvin. Thyraeus the Jeſuite in his Book de Daemoniacis, part. 1. cap. 8. pag. 21. tells us this ſtory: that the ſame day that Luther dyed, there was at Gheola a Town in Brabant many perſons poſſeſſed of Devils, that waited on their Saint Dymna for Deliverance, and were all that day delivered: but the next day they were all poſſeſſed again; whereupon the Exorciſt or ſome body asked the Devils where they had been the day before; and they anſwered, that they were commanded by their Prince to be at the Funeral of their fellow Labourer Luther. And for proof of this, Luthers own ſervant that was with him at his death, looking out at the window, did more then once, to his great terror, ſee a company of ugly ſpirits leaping and dancing about without: and alſo that the Crows followed the Corps all the way with a great noiſe.]
O wonderful patience and mercy of God, that ſuffereth ſuch abominable Lyars to live, and doth not cauſe ſome ſudden vengeance to befall them! Reader, I will tell thee now the caſe of theſe two ſervants of Chriſt that are thus reviled (even as their Maſter was before them, that was ſaid to do Miracles by the power of the Devil.)
As for Luther, he was oft taken with a great pain in his breaſt, about the mouth of the ſtomack, and thought his Death when it came would be ſudden; which made him ſay, Feri Domine, feri clementer, quia ipſe paratus ſum: ſtrike Lord, ſtrike mercifully, for I am ready] Having preached his laſt Sermon at Wittenberge, Jan. 17. he took his journey the 23. to Count Mansfields Countrey, whither he was called. When he came thither, he was grown ſo weak, that they almoſt deſpaired of his life; yet by the uſe of ſomentations he had ſo much eaſe, as that he preached ſometime, and did other work from Jan. 29. to Febr. 17. The laſt day of his life, though he was weak, yet he ſate at the table with them, and at Supper his diſcourſe was upon the Queſtion, Whether we ſhall know one another in Heaven? which he affirmed and proved, in that Adam knew Eve as ſoon as he ſaw her, that ſhe was fleſh of his fleſh: and therefore much more ſhall we know one another in Heaven, &c. After Supper, he withdrew himſelf as he uſed, for private prayer; but the pain of his breaſt increaſed on him. When he had taken a medicine, he lay down on a Couch and ſlept ſweetly two hours, and then went to his Chamber, ſaying to thoſe about him [Pray God to preſerve the Doctrine of the Goſpel to us; for the Pope and Council of Trent have ſtrange Contrivances.] When he was laid down and had ſlept a while he awakened, and found by the increaſe of his pain, that he was near his End, and ſpoke to God as followeth in their hearing [O my heavenly Father, the God and Father of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, the God of all Conſolation, I thank thee that thou haſt revealed to me thy Son Jeſus Chriſt, in whom I have believed, whom I have profeſſed, whom I have loved, whom I have Celebrated (or Honoured) whom the Pope of Rome and the reſt of the rabble of the ungodly do perſecute and reproach: I beſeech thee O my Lord Jeſus Chriſt receive my ſoul. O my heavenly Father, though I am taken from this life, and though my body muſt now be laid down, yet I know certainly that I ſhall abide with thee for ever, and that none can take me out of thy hands.] Then he ſaid [So God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him, ſhould not periſh, but have everlaſting life] Then he repeated part of the 68. Pſalm: and when he had drunk a medicine that was given him, he ſaid [I go hence: I now return my ſpirit unto God] preſently adding [Father, into thy hands I commend my ſpirit, thou haſt Redeemed me O God of Truth] And ſo he dyed as if he were ſetting himſelf to ſleep, without any ſign of further pain: but when they ſaw him dying, Dr. Jonas and Caelius cryed to him [Reverend Father; do you die conſtant through Chriſt in his doctrine which you have hitherto preached?] And he anſwered [Yea] and never ſpoke more. When he was dead (at Iſlebe) Count Mansfield would have kept his body, but the Duke of Saxony would not ſuffer him, but cauſed it to be brought back to Wittenberge, and there with great ſolemnity interred.]
This is the true report in brief of Luthers Death, delivered to the world by thoſe that ſtood by him, and were eye witneſſes. And yet theſe impudent Lying Papiſts have perſwaded their followers that the Devils were ſeen dancing about him, that when he ſhould be buryed there was a horrible thunder, and the body was taken away out of the Coffin by the Devil, and a ſtink of Brimſtone left behind, with more ſuch ſtuff as this, which they have printed, and which one would think the Father of Lies ſhould be aſhamed of.
And for Calvin, not only thoſe before mentioned, but alſo Bolſecus, Surius, Prateolus, Demochares, Lindanus, Sancteſius, Cahierus, and others publiſh to the world, not only that he was an Epicure, but a Sodomite, and was burnt on the ſhoulder for Sodomie with a hot iron at Noviodunum where he was born. Yea Leſſius the Jeſuite impudently calls Chriſt to witneſs, that ſhall judge all men according to their works, that he doth not deviſe theſe things of his own brain, but from good authors, and forty years currant fame. And his Authors are theſe Papiſts, Bolſecus, Brigerus, Stapleton, Campian, Duraeus, Surius, and Reginaldus. Hath Hell any greater calumnies then theſe to fill the mouths or writings of men withall?
Reader, I ſhall ſhew thee what credit theſe men are of by this inſtance. As for the time when they ſay he was ſtigmatized for Sodomie, it was when he was a Papiſt, and therefore if it had been true, it had been a greater diſhonour to them then to us. But its a meer forgery of the Devil and a Fryar. Hierom Bolſeck a Fryar, ſeemed to turn Proteſtant, and coming to Geneva, he began to preach the Pelagian doctrine there, and openly contend againſt the Paſtors in the Congregation; and being confounded by Calvin, the Magiſtrates impriſoned him, and baniſhed him for ſedition. Then he betakes himſelf to the neighbour Towns, to play the ſame game there: but the Magiſtrates of Bern alſo baniſh them out of their Countrey. Whereupon he turned Papiſt again, and when Calvin was dead, he wrote all theſe abominable lies of him, and all the reſt (with Schluſſelburgius the Lutheran, an enemy of Calvins) do take up the report from this one Lying heretical Papiſt: and ſo it becomes a currant fame with them, as if it were as true as the Goſpel: Whereupon our writers call to them, provoke them, challenge them to ſearch the Records at Noviodunum, where they ſay the thing was done, and prove that ever there was ſuch a thing, or elſe bear the open ſhame of Lyars. But they can bring no proof, but call on us to diſprove it: When the City are Papiſts, and haters of Calvin. But after all this, as God would have it, the Papiſt Dean of that City, called Jacobus le Vaſſeur, publiſheth at Paris, 1633. the Annals of their Cathedral Church, and therein pouring out his hatred againſt Calvin, and ſaying what he can againſt him, doth yet out of their records clear him of all theſe accuſations, and lets the world know that there was never any ſuch thing, and that they had no crime at all againſt him, but that he turned from the Papiſts; and that the Major or chief Governour of the City went away with Calvin, when he was forced to fly from his native Countrey. He recites all the paſſages of Calvins life there, but profeſſeth that they had no more againſt him. Thus God confounded the Lying Papiſts by one of themſelves, and the Records of that City, where they ſaid the thing was done. And yet they believe one another, and carry on the Lye to this day.
Mr. Rob. Amſtrowther, Chaplain to the King of Englands Embaſſadors with the Emperour, being at Vienna, heard the Jeſuites and other repeating confidently this ſlander of Calvin; Whereupon he opened to them this Evidence againſt it; and ſatisfied them of the flaſhood, ſo that they told him, they never knew ſo much before, and promiſed him they would never mention it more.
If any would ſee the very words of their own Records, and Doctor Vaſſeur, he may read them in Rivets Sum. Contr. againſt Baily, and again in his Jeſuita Vapulans, Cap. 2.
And as for the life of Calvin after he forſook the Papiſts, if you will but believe that the City of Geneva, and all the Miniſters and others that were about him, in his life and at his death, did know better then Bolſeck, a fugitive Apoſtate Papiſt that was his enemy, and then far off, you may ſee at large in Melchior Adamus, and Beza, the deſcription of ſuch a ſhining burning light as Rome hath not to boaſt of. He was a man of admirable wit, judgement, induſtry, and piety. When he had forſaken his own Countrey for the Goſpel ſake, and taken up in Geneva, and planted the Goſpel there, with Farellus and Viretus, at laſt the ungodly part getting the Head, the Miniſters were baniſhed. And ſo he ſetled in in another City. The four Bayliffs of Geneva that baniſhed the Miniſters, within two years were ruined by the judgements of God. One of them accuſed of ſedition, ſeeking to ſcape through a window fell, and was broken to death. Another was put to death for murder. The other two being accuſed of Mal-adminiſtration, fled and were condemned. Calvin is ſent for and intreated to return to Geneva: which by importunity, and Bucers perſwaſion, he yieldeth to. There was he continually moleſted by the ungodly, and loved by the good. The Malignants whom he would reſtrain by Diſcipline from Whoredom, drunkenneſs, and other wickedneſs, were ſtill plotting or raging againſt him, and called their Dogs by his name. But ſhame was ſtill the end of their attempts. His revenge was to tell them [I ſee I ſhould have but ſorry wages if I ſerved man: but its well for me that I ſerve him that alway performeth his promiſes to his ſervants] As for his work, he preached every day in the week each ſecond week, and beſides that, he read three dayes a week a Divinity Lecture. And every Thurſday he guided the Presbyterie; and every Friday at a meeting he held an Expoſitory conference and Lecture: ſo that the whole came to almoſt twelve Sermons a week. Beſides this, he wrote Epiſtles to moſt Countries of Chriſtendom (in Europe) to Princes, Divines and others; And he wrote all thoſe great volumes of moſt Learned judicious Controverſies, Commentaries, and other Treatiſes, which one would have thought might have been work enough for a man that had lived an hundred years, if he had done no other. And many Hereticks he confuted, and ſome convinced and reduced. He ſet up among the Miniſters a courſe of teaching every Family from houſe to houſe, of which he found incredible fruit; For all this his labour he endured the affronts, contradictions, and reproaches of the rabble, yea and ſometime hath been beaten by them: becauſe he would not adminiſter the Sacrament to ungodly men, that were rulers in the place, he was at firſt baniſhed, and after threatned, and continually moleſted by them, and railing fellows ſet to preach and write againſt him. And whether he were an Epicure, you may ſoon judge: He alwayes uſed a very ſpare dyet: and for ten years before his death did did never taſte one bit, but at ſupper, as his conſtant courſe ſo that every day was with him a better faſt then the Papiſts uſe to make on their faſting dayes. By this extream labour, ſpeaking, and faſting, and watching (for he dictated his writings as he lay in bed much,) he overthrew his body, and falling firſt into a Tertian, and then into a Quartan, after that he fell into a Conſumption, with the gout and ſtone, and ſpitting of blood, and the diſeaſe in the Hemorrhoid veins, which at laſt ulcerated by over much faſting, ſpeaking, and uſe of Aloes; beſides the head-ach which was the companion of his life. In theſe ſickneſs he would never forbear his labour, but when he he was perſwaded to it, he told them, that he could not bear an idle life. And when he was near to death was ſtill at work, asking thoſe that intreated him to forbear, Whether they would have God find him idle? Under all theſe pains of Gout, Stone, Collick, Head-ach, Hemorrhoids, Conſumption, &c. thoſe that were about him teſtified to the world that they never heard him ſpeak a word unbeſeeming a patient Chriſtian. The worſt was that oft repeated word [How long, Lord! how long!] as being weary of a miſerable world. Witneſſes he had enough; for he could ſcarce have reſt, for people crowding to him to viſit him. On Mar. 23. he went among the Miniſters to their Meeting, and took his farewell of them there. The next day he was wearyed by it: but the twenty ſeventh day he was carryed to the Court to the Senate of the City, where he made a ſpeech to them, and took his farewell of them, with many tears on both ſides. April. 2. he was carryed to Church, and ſtaid the Sermon, and received the Sacrement. Afterward the Senate of the City came to him, and he made an heavenly Exhortation to them. On April 25. he dictated his Will, which I would his ſlanderers would read. His Library it ſelf, and all his goods being prized, came ſcarce to three hundred Crowns. May 11. he wrote his farewell to Farellus. May 19. all the Miniſters came to him, with whom he ſate, and did eat, and cheerfully take his leave of them. On the twenty ſeventh of May his voice ſeemed to be ſtronger, and ſo continued till his laſt breath that day, which was with ſuch quietneſs as men compoſe themſelves to ſleep. The next night and day the City Magiſtrates, Miniſters, Schollars, people and ſtrangers, were taken up in weeping and lamentation. Every one crowded to ſee the Corps, among whom the Queen of Englands Embaſſador to France was one. He was buryed according to this deſire in the common Church-yard, without any Monument or Pomp: and hath left behind him ſuch a Name, as in deſpight of all the Devils in Hell, and all the Papiſts on earth, ſhall be precious till the coming of Chriſt; and ſuch writings hath he left as are the comfort of the Diſciples of Truth, and the ſhame of the reproaching Adverſaries.
Reader, this is that Calvin that is ſo hated by the bad, and loved and honoured by the good: whom theſe Papiſts have called an Epicure and Sodomite, and ſaid that he died blaſpheming, and calling upon the Devil, and was eaten with lice and worms. Is not God exceeding patient, that will ſuffer ſuch wretches to live on the Earth? What man could they have named ſince Auguſtine, yea ſince the Apoſtles dayes, that was more unfit for ſuch a ſlander then Calvin? Yet becauſe one man Bolſeck that was baniſhed and turned Papiſt, and lived then I know not in what Countrey, hath written theſe things againſt him, the reſt of them, even as much as the late Marqueſs of Worceſter, take them up as confidently, as if the infallible Chair had uttered them.
But yet if thou think this Enemy Bolſeck is more to be believed then thoſe that lived with Calvin, and the City of Geneva, that had continual acceſs to him, I will give thee ſuch a Teſtimony as ſhall ſhame the Papiſts, that have a ſpark of modeſty. Hear then what other Papiſts themſelves ſay that knew better what they ſaid, or made more Conſcience of their words.
Florimundus Raimundus a Papiſt of Burdeaux (or the Jeſuite Richeome that wrote in his name) writing for the Pope and againſt Calvin, hath theſe words of him. [Under a dry and lean body he had a ſharp and lively wit, ready in anſwering; bold in attempting; a great faſter; even from his youth, whether for his health to overcome the head-ach, or for his ſtudies—There is ſcarce a man found that ever matched Calvin in Labours: for the ſpace of twenty three years, in which he remained in the Epiſcopacy of Geneva, he preached every day once, and twice on the Lords day of times. And every week he read publick Lectures of Divinity (beſides) and every Friday he was at the conference of the Paſtors: The reſt of his time he ſpent either in writing Books, or anſwering letters.]
Reader, is this Teſtimony from a Papiſt like the reſt? But yet thou ſhalt have more. Papirius Maſſonius a Learned Papiſt, and Schollar to Baldiom one of Calvins Enemies, wrote Calvins life; and he ſaith of him, [No day almoſt paſſed in which he did not preach to the Citizens. Thrice every eight daies as long as he lived, he profeſſed (or publikely taught) Divinity (in the Schools;) being Laborious, and alwayes writing or doing ſomething.—Of a weak body, but worn by watchings, reading, writing, meditations, diſeaſes, buſineſſes, preachings. He took very little ſleep; and therefore much of his works he dictated in bed to his ſervant that wrote them from his mouth. He did eat but once a day: and confeſſed that he found not a more preſent or ſurer Remedy for his weakneſs of ſtomack and head-ach. His cloathing was of ſmall price, to cover him rather than adorn him.—At Worms and Ratisbone he exerciſed the ſtrength of an excellent wit with ſo great applauſe of the Germane Divines, that by the judgement of Melanchthon and his Aſſociates; by a peculiar priviledge he was called The Divine. He wrote as much and as well as any man of the contrary parties, whether you reſpect number, acuteneſs, language, ſharpneſs, emphaſis, or ſubtilty: not a man of all his Adverſaries, whether Catholicks, Anabaptiſts, Lutheranes, Arrians, or the forſakers of his Party, that wrote againſt him, did ſeem to match him in gravity of writing, and weight of words and ſharpneſs, in anſwering his principles. He almoſt terrified Pighius himſelf diſcourſing of free will, and Sadaletus.] Theſe are the words of a Learned Papiſt.
But this is not all. Abundance of Papiſts tell us of a ſtory how Calvin hired one in Geneva to take on him dead, that he might have the honour of raiſing him from the dead. This the Jeſuite Thyraeus de Daemoniacis writes, and many others, and it goes among them for a currant truth; and all from the report of Bolſeck. But, as God would have it, Pap. Maſſonius confuteth this alſo, and ſaith, that his Maſter Baldwinus knew nothing of it, who lived at Geneva, and after turned Papiſt, and Calvins enemy: and other reaſons he giveth to diſprove this and the other ſlanders that were raiſed of Calvin, ſaying, that they were but ſcriptores plebii, maledicendi ſtudio, &c. vulgar Writers, that ſtudy or love to reproach or ſpeak evil, that vend theſe things. And ſo much ſhall ſerve againſt the Papiſts Lies againſt Luther and Calvin.
If you would ſee more of that heap of Lies confuted, which the Marqueſs of Worceſter gave in to King Charles, read Mr. Chr. Cartwrights Reply to them, where part of them (and but part) are detected.
And as they have done by theſe, ſo by others alſo. When Beza was eighty years of age, a falſe report came to the Papiſts that he was dead. Whereupon Claudins Puteanus with his Jeſuitical Companions wrote a Book, that at his death he turned Papiſt and renounced his Religion: ſo that the old man (that lived ſeven years longer) was fain himſelf to write againſt them, to prove that he was not dead, nor turned Papiſt: Theſe be the means by which men are reconciled to the Church of Rome.
They have printed alſo a ſtory that Calvins own Son being bitten by a mad dog, was ſent by his Father to one of their Saints Images for Cure, when no other means would ſerve; and being cured, he turned Papiſt: when as the world knew that Calvin never had a Son. Alſo they tell us of a ſaying of Luthers, that [This Cauſe was not begun in the Name of God, nor will it be ended in the Name of God] This Luther ſpoke of Eckius and the other Papiſts, as himſelf profeſſeth in his Anſwer to Eurferus, Tom. 1. fol. 404. And theſe ſhameleſs Lyars confidently publiſh that he ſpoke this of himſelf, as the Marqueſs of Worceſter to King Charles did.
Another ſaying of his they as impudently abuſe, viz. [If the wife will not, let the Maid come,] perſwading the world, that Luther would have a man lye with his Maid, if his Wife refuſe: whereas he only labours to prove, that Deſertion is a ſufficient cauſe of divorce: and that if the Wife refuſe, ſhe ſhould be warned again and again before others and the Judges, and in Caſe of utter refuſal and deſertion, Vaſthe may be rejected, and Heſter the Maid taken to Wife: which many a Papiſt is ready to juſtifie.
Yea they annex that Luther would have men Contain but five dayes; when as he vehemently deteſteth it, and urgeth the contrary, telling them that God no doubt will enable them to be Continent, if they will uſe his Means, Tom. 5. ſerm. de Matrimon. They forgot that the 5. ſuppoſititious Epiſt. of their Clement pleading for the Community of all things, adds [In omnibus autem ſunt ſine dubio & Conjuges] [Among theſe All no doubt but Wives and Husbands are contained.]
Of the horrid Lyes of Genebrard, Poſſevine, and other Papiſts againſt Peter Martyr, Beza, Calvin and others, ſee Dr. Reynolds ad Anglica. Seminar. ante lib. de Idololatria Rom. Eccl. §. 5. pag. 20, 21, 22, 23.
When the fall of their houſe at Black-fryars had killed their Prieſts, and ſuch abundance of the people that were hearing him in the midſt of the Sermon, they printed a Book to perſwade the people beyond ſea, that it was a company of the Hereticks or Puritans that were killed at the hearing of one of their preachers: Dr. Gouge tells you when and where it was printed, and many read it.
When the Gunpowder Plot was in hand, they had contrived preſently to give it all abroad that the Puritans did it: Read Mr. Samuel Clark of it in his Mirror of Gods Judgements, Fol. and you ſhall find this fully detected.
When Fiſher the Jeſuite had held his conference with Dr. Featley, and Dr. White, there being preſent two Earls, one of them (the Earl of Warwick) having buſineſs ſhortly after beyond ſea, fell unknown into Dr. Weſtons company at Saint Omers, who preſently tells it him for news, how Fiſher had confounded the Proteſtant Doctors, and that two Earls and ſo many people were turned by it to the Church of Rome; not knowing that he that heard him was one of the two Earls, and that there were not ſo many people there, and how they were confirmed againſt Popery by that Diſpute. And when the Earl of Warwick brought home this jeaſt, Dr. Weſton hearing what ſport was made with it in England, writ a ſimple excuſe for his Lying, which I have at hand, but find it had been better for him to have ſaid nothing.
Should I recite but half the forgeries of this nature, by which the Prieſts and Jeſuites cheat the poor people, I muſt be voluminous.
But alas, their very worſhip of God is much of it compoſed of Lyes, and is not that like to be acceptable worſhip? How their Offices and Legends are ſtuff with fictions, Canus and many of their own confeſs. And Caſſander ſaith that ſo few of the reliques in all Germany would be found true ones if examined, that its better quite take off the people from the veneration of them. Inſtancing in one of old that was worſhipped as a Saint, and upon enquiry was found to be the bones of a Thief.
Agobardus Biſhop of Lyons (ſaith Uſher) complained about eight hundred years ago, that the Antiphonary uſed in his Church had many ridiculous and phantaſtical things in it: and that therefore he corrected much of it, cutting off what ſeemed ſuperfluous, or light, or lying, or blaſphemous. Agobard. ad Cant. Lugd. de Correct. Antiphon. pag. 396. And not long ſince Lindanus made the like complaint, that [Not only Apochryphal matters out of the Goſpel of Nicodemus and other toyes are thruſt in, but even the ſecret prayers, (yea, alas for ſhame and grief, the very Canon varying, and redundant) are defiled with moſt filthy faults.]
Reader, I will trouble thee no more with ſtirring in this puddle; but only warn thee, as thou loveſt thy ſoul, truſt it not on the bare reports of ſuch Lyars, but try before thou truſt, and give not up thy ſenſe and Reaſon to men that make ſo little, or ſo ill a uſe of their own. If thou refuſe this Council; ſay not but thou waſt warned.
CHAP. XXXI.
Detect. 22. ANother of their Deceits is by quarrelling with our Tranſlations of the Bible, and making the people believe that we have ſo corrupted it, that it is none of the word of God, and ſo they openly ſcorn it, and deride it.
As to this point, though Learned men can ſoon confute them by vindicating the Text as in the Original Languages, and then vindicating our Tranſlation; yet the common diſputant need not put them and himſelf to ſo much trouble. If really they will but let the Law of God contained in the Holy Scripture be the Rule by which our difference ſhall be tryed and decided, we will cut ſhort the reſt of the controverſie, and take it wholly together, and we will ſtand to the Vulgar Latine, which is it that themſelves applaud. We are content that this be the Rule between us. Yea rather then they ſhall ſhift off the unlearned by theſe tricks, we will admit of their own Tranſlation, which the Rhemiſts have (with little friendſhip to our cauſe) compoſed. Only we muſt intreat them that their Commentaries and conceits be not taken into the Text as part of the Word of God. So that this quarrell is quickly at an end. The Scripture is ſo full againſt them, that no Tranſlation that makes it not another thing, can make it to be on their ſide.