OF THE PROTESTANT BIBLE: OR THE TRUTH OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS EXAMINED: IN A TREATISE shewing some of the ERRORS that are to be found in the English IN WHICH ALSO, From their Mis-translating the Twenty-third Verse of the Fourteenth Chapter of is occasionally considered. BY THOMAS WAR D, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED POEM ENTITLED ENGLAND's REFORMATION. A NEW EDITION CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED. For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add to these things, God LONDON Printed in the Year 1688: AND C Dublin REPRINTED BY RICHARD COYNE, 28, EAST ARRAN-STREET, AND SOLD BY KEATING, BROWN, AND CO. DUKE-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE, LONDON. U.G.D. LIBRAR ADVERTISEMENT FROM THE EDITOR. IN offering to the Public such a Work as the present, the Editor feels that he cannot be totally silent. And first, he begs leave to make his most grateful acknowledgments to those Friends who have, with so marked a partiality, and so indefatigable a zeal, exerted themselves in his behalf; and to the Public in general, who have patronized the Publication far beyond his most sanguine expectations. So great indeed has been his encouragement, that he has already obtained a Sale for more than 2000 Copies. To merit this, no labour has been spared; every care has been taken in the present, to correct the numerous Errors of the former Editions, and to amend the obsolete stile of the Author. How far the circulation of this learned Work will prove beneficial to Society, must appear from its being an antidote to those principles of Deism, Infidelity, and Irreligion, which in this age so much pains have been taken to disseminate; and from its power to stem the torrent of falshood and misrepresentation, which is every day pouring in on public credulity. It must certainly be acknowledged by every unprejudiced mind, a Work that incontrovertibly proves and exposes the miserable shifting of the first pretended Reformers; who, to support the novelty of their doctrines, and their noxious innovations, were reduced to the wretched necessity of falsifying the Word of God. The Editor prides himself on sending forth to the Public the Works of Mr. Ward, whose bright and transcendent genius was eclipsed for a time, and involved in his early days in the dark errors of infidelity, until, as the scripture phrase expresses it, God commanded Light to shine forth from the darkness, and dispersed the ignorance wherein he was enveloped. Nursed in the lap of prejudice, and imbued with the principles of his cotemporaries, his strong mind burst through the cloud that surrounded it, and he became an instrument in the hands of God to defend his Word, to instruct and to enlighten.-Coyne pledges himself to re-print every work of merit which may serve as a shield to the Catholics against the numerous Publications which daily appear, in order to deceive the ignorant, and misrepresent our Religion.* 66 a * The Editor particularly alludes to what Dr. Milner says of the "frequent publications of John Fox's lying book of martyrs, with prints of inen, women, and children expiring in flames; the nonsense, inconsistencies, and falshoods of which," he says, he had in part exposed in his letters to a prebendary. In revenge for this detection," continues he," the editors of the work have this year published it under my name; in consequence of which artifice, I have been considered and addressed by several persons as having lost my reason as well as my religion." See Dr. Milner's Case of Conscience, published by me, page 102, note 44... |