' Death, under the Name of Thomas Matthews, C with the Addition of the Appocrypha, Tranſlated by John Rogers. ) The Lord Cromnel, with Archbiſhop Cranmer, preſented it to the King, and obtained an Order from His Majeſty for leave for any of his Subjedsro read itz butthis was not without the great regret of the Biſhops.
About thirteen years after this"1540 (or not ſo much the Lord Cromwel obtained Letters from K. Henry VIIT.for a Sube '#Qof his ro Reprint at Paris the Bible in Exglifh;, the King allo wrote a Letter to Bo-zer( at that time his Embaſſador in \ Frarcce)to further it. Graftoz and Whitchurch undertook the Work, upon what ſeeming encouragment from Boer may | be read in Mr. Fox's 24. Vol. of his Mariyrolrgy, Pref. 1641.pag. 515, 516. Eut how it came to paſs I cannot tell.( tho' | Bomncrs Treachery wasſaſpeted in the caſe) wien it was upen the point finithed,the Copies were ſeized, and order'd to be
- burnt,and the work had wholly ceaſed, but for the covetouſneſs of the Officer, who ſold four great dry fats filled with \ them to an Hiberdaſher to lay Caps in. By this means having recovered ſome Copies, they came to Loydorw, and there
; made a new Impreſton. But after this my Lord Crommel! being put to death, the Bz/hops and Popifo party made fo great complaint to the K ing
C whole watmrh for the Reformation much abated in the Jatier partot his Lite that the Sale of the Engliſh Bible was again Prohibited, and the Prizter.imprifoned 3 and althoug the Bzſhops promiſed the K ing they would make a more corre
Tranſlation, yet it was never done during that Aizgs Reign,
* Butin the Year of our Lord 1577. 'w | ſhed a new Trantlation ; bur till thar time, the B7blzs uied in Churches were 7 zdalls and Covordales, being allowed by
- the publick Authority of K. Edw.6. 1549,1550, 1551, 1552. Andto this day, the Pſalzzs 1n our Service-Eook are according ' to T:zdallsand Corerdales Bibles 3 which ſhould make us wary in our Cezſures of that Tranſlation, tho' welee reiſon in -- many things to diſſent from it Only we having a more corrett Tranſlation Eftabliched by Authority, why C for the a- voiding the offence of the leſs knowing people ' we have not made ule of that.but retained 2 Tranſ/ation not undertaken by _ any publick Anthority, and confeſſed to be more imperfect, 1s what I cannot,nor count my lelfobliged to account for. Poſ- ſibly God for the honour of his Mar/yr hath ſo ordered it. | After this, King J«mes coming to the Crow7,being a Prince of great, Learning and Judgment, and obſerving the diffrent uſage of ſome words in his age, trom the uſage of them in K. Hey. 8. or in Q. Elizabeth's time, and allo the ſeveral miſtakes Cthk>y of a minntenature | in thoſe more ancient Verſions, was pleaſed to employ diverſe learned men in making a New \ Tranſlation,which is that which attiis day is generally uſed. With what Renerence to former Tranſlators, what 1:bour and \ eare & pains they accompliſhed their work,theReader may fee at large in their Preface prefixed to thoſe Copies that are Print- ed in Folio, and in their Epiſtle to K. James in our Biblerof a lefler form 5 of which Tranſlation { tho'it may net be with- out its more minute Errors) yerlI think it may be ſaid, that it is hardly exceeded by that of any other Church. By this Hiſtory (Reader ) thou mayeſt underftand the mighty workings of Divine Previdence,and wonderfn) goodneſs of God to this Nation in theplenty we have of Bibles,and that ofa very corre Tranſlation, ( tho' poſſibly not in every litcle thing perfe&t. ) Mr. Fox ( if we remember right) tells us a Story of two Maids in Lincelnſhire, that in Q. Mariestime parted with a conſiderable part of their eſtate for a few leaves of the Bitle. How good 15 God to vs,that we for a few ſhil- lings can have the whole Revelation of the Divine WWII? Upon which account, we ofter it to the con{ideration ofany think. ing Eel: Man or Womran.what heor ſhe will anſwer for his or her ignorancein the Holy Scriptures,or for the ignorance of his or her Children if( having ſo much means as we have,to learn to Read )any ſhall negleCt the Teaching of their Children
toread it.or Learning themſelves, incaſe their Parents have negleCted them : or being able to Read, ſhillneglett the prac. _
5ce of it,in exerciſing himſe]tin the Law of the Lord day and night,and living up to theRule of it.The Erg/ih Bible is come o us at the price of the Blood of one Martyr, and the unwearied Labour of a multitude.of Holy and Learned Men ſuc- ding one another for more than Six7y ears, betare we had the Tranſlation ſo perfett as now it is, in all hands,
Poor Chriſtians in Popiſh Conniries either have not this Pof of Spiritual Food, or muſt cry out, - Death 3s in the Pox: rs ia their Preface obſerve, that of late the Church of Rowe would ſeem. to bear ſomething of
A Our Ezeliſh PTra»ſlato | | > 4 a Motherly Affettionto her Children, and allow 'them the Scriptures in the Mother-1ongre : But it is indecd a vift nor \ worthy of it Names. They mult firſt get a Licerſe in Writing before they uſe them and to get that, they mult approve | them-
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