Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XIIII.
Foolish men intending to saile, honour woodden idols, in regard of the profite
they receiue by shippes: 6. by which some were saued in the general diluge.
8. Idols, and idolmakers are cursed. 12. They were not from the
beginning, 15. but were deuised for memorie of the dead, and worshipped
with diuine honour. 22. So men forgetting God, proceeded in idolatrie,
with other abominable, and cruel enormities.
1 Agayne an other thinking to sayle, and begynning to
make a iorney through the fierce waues, inuocateth
wood note more fraile then the wood that carieth him.
2 For
couetousnes of getting inuented it, and the craftesman by his
wisdom framed it.
3 But thy prouidence, รด Father, doth gouerne:
because thou hast geuen a way euen in the sea, and
among the waues a most sure path,
4 shewing that thou art
able to saue out of al thinges, yea note if a man goe to the sea
without art.
5 But that thy workes might not be voyde of
wisdom: for this cause also men commit their liues euen to a
little wood, and passing ouer the sea are deliuered by shippe.
6 But from the begynning also when the prowde giants
perished, the hope of the world fleing to a shippe, rendered
to the world seede of natiuitie, which was gouerned by thy
hand.
7 For note blessed is the wood, by the which note iustice is
made.
8 But the idol that is made by handes, cursed is both it,
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and he that made it: because he in deede wrought it: and the
same being fraile, was called god.
9 But to God the impious
and his impietie are odious alike.
10 For that which is made,
with him that made it, shal suffer torments.
11 For this cause
also in the idol of the nations there shal be no respect: because
the creatures of God were made to hatred, and for tentation
to the soules of men, and for a snare to the feete of the vnwise.
12 For the begynning note of fornication is the deuising of idols:
and the inuenting of them is the corruption of life.
13 For
neither were they from the begynning, neither shal they be
for euer.
14 For this vanitie of men came into the world: and
therfore there is found a short end of them.
15 For09Q0298 the father
being sorowful with bitter moorning, made vnto himself the
image of his sonne quickly taken away: and him, that then
was a dead man, now note he began to worshipe as god, and
appointed holie thinges and sacrifices among his seruants.
16 noteAfterward by succession of time, the wicked custom preuayling,
this errour was kept as a law, and thinges grauen
were worshipped by the commandement af tyrants.
17 And
those, whom openly men could not honour, for that they
were far of, their figure being brought from a far, they made
an euident image of the king, whom they would honour: that
by their carefulnes they might honour as present, him that
was absent.
18 And to the worshipping of these, the excellent
diligence also of the artificer, holpe them forward, that were
ignorant.
19 For he willing to please him, that entertained him,
laboured by his art, to fashion the similitude in better sort.
20 And the multitude of men caried away by the beautie of the
worke, him that a little before had bene honoured as a man,
now they estemed for a god.
21 And this was the deceyuing
of mans life: because men seruing either affection, or kinges,
gaue the name that is note not communicable to stones and
wood.
22 And it was not sufficient that they erred about the
knowlege of God, but also liuing in a great battail of ignorance
so manie and so great euils they cal peace.
23 For note either
sacrificing their children, or making abscure sacrifices, or
hauing watches ful of madnes,
24 they now neither keepe
life, nor mariage cleane, but one killeth an other by enuie,
or playing the adulterer maketh him sorowful:
25 and al
thinges are mingled together, bloud, manslaughter, theft and
fiction, corruption, and infidelitie, truble, and periurie,
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disquieting of the good,
26 forgetfulnes of God, inquination
of soules, immutation of natiuitie, inconstancie of mariage,
disorder of adulterie, and vnchastnes.
27 For the worshippe
of idols not to be named, is the cause of al euil, and the beginning
and end.
28 For either when they reioyce, they are madde:
or certes prophecie false thinges, or liue vniustly, or quickly
forsweare themselues.
29 For whiles they trust in idols, which
are without soule, swearing amisse they hope not to be hurt.
30 noteTwo euil thinges therfore shal happen to them worthely,
because they haue thought euil of God, attending to idols, and
haue sworne vniustly, in guile contemning iustice.
31 For it is
not the powre of them, that are sworne by, but the punishment
of them that sinne, goeth alwayes through the trangression
of the vniust.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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