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. XV.
The wise gratfully praise the swetenes, and mercie of God, by whom they are
deliuered from idolatrie: 6. detesting the makers, & worshippers of idols.
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1 Bvt รด thou our God, art sweete, and true, patient, and
disposing al thinges in mercie.
2 For if we sinne, we are
thine, knowing thy greatnes: and if we sinne not we know
that we are counted with thee.
3 For to know thee, is absolute
iustice: and to know iustice, and thy powre, is the toote
of immortalitie.
4 For mens inuention of euil art hath not
brought vs into errour, nor the shadow of a picture being a
labour without fruite, a shape grauen by diuerse colours,
5 the sight wherof geueth concupiscence to the sensles, and
and he loueth the shape without life of a deade image.
6 The
louers of euils, are worthie to haue their hope in such thinges,
both they that make them, and that loue, and that worshippe
them.
7 Yea and the potter pressing softe earth, with labour
fashioneth euerie vessel to our vses, and of the same clay maketh
the vessels, that are cleane to vse, and in like maner them,
that are contrarie to these: but what the vse of these vessels
is, the potter is iudge.
8 And with vaine labour he note fashioneth
a god of the same clay: he which a litle before was made
of earth, and a litle after returneth backe whence he was taken,
being exacted the debte of the life which he had.
9 But
his care is, not because he shal labour, nor because he hath a
short life, but he contendeth with goldsmithes and siluer
smithes: yea and he imitateth the copper smithes, and counteth
it a glorie, because he maketh vaine thinges.
10 For his
hart is ashes, and his hope vaine earth, and his life viler then
clay:
11 because he was ignorant who made him, and who inspired
into him the soule which worketh, and who breathed
into him the vital spirite.
12 Yea and note they estemed our life
to be a pastime, and the conuersation of life made for a gayne,
& that we must get euerie way euen of euil.
13 For he knoweth
that he offendeth aboue al men, which of the matter of
earth fashioneth frayle vessels, and sculptils.
14 For al the vnwise,
and vnhappie aboue measure of the soule, proude note are
the enemies of thy people, and rule ouer them:
15 because
they haue estemed al the idols of the nations for goddes,
which neither haue vse of eies to see, nor nosthrels to take
breath, nor eares to heare, nor fingers of the hands to handle,
yea and their feete are flow to walke.
16 For a man made them:
and he that borowed breath, the same fashioned them. For
no man can make God like to himself.
17 For wheras himself
is mortal, he maketh a dead thing with his wicked handes For
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he is better then they, whom he worshippeth, because he in
deede liued, though he were mortal, but they neuer.
18 But
note they worship also most miserable beasts: for the senslesse
thinges compared to these, are worse then they.
19 Yea neither
by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they haue
fled from the prayse of God, and from his blessing.
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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