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ia tbeir Pulpits continually how the Text may be
better tranllated, fo, of fo.
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And when Dr. Bitrgefs gives his Opinion about
fubfciibing to Scriptures not rightly vendred, be
faith, ^ Oar Subrcription to the Cow/wo^-Fz-^^/r-
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Book^ is to approve the reading of fuch Scrip-
* tures as are there appointed to be read, and
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not to iailine the Printers or Tranflators Er-
* rors therein.
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Thefe Interpretations King Jama accepted,
and the then Archbilhop o{ Canterhmy z&xmzd.
to be the true Sence, Meaning and Intention of the
ChiiYih of England. _
SNtx& I minded, I could give you much more
of this kind ; but left it fhould be thought I had
fome other Intention than what 1 have propokd,
I Ihall forbear doing it till a further Occalion
Ihall ofFer it felf.
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By this time I hope it will not feem to Mv^Men
to be fo great a Crime as he thought it had been,
to queftion him for juftifying our Tranflation m
Ibme few particular fnftances.
But why Cbould I trouble my lelf to contend
lArith one who either is not a competent Judge of
TranQ^tions, or elfe is not fiacere, but guilty of
handling the Word of God deceitfully, and doth
what in him lies (in the Cafe before us) to cheat
the Underttanding of his EngliHi Reader.
For in the clofe of his Book he faith, ^ It bc-
* ing afferted in this Treatife, that the Divine
* Book: of Pfatms were written by the holy Pen-
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men in Hebrew metre, aad fome of them in
* Rhime, not only in the Original Sence of the
* Word, as it denotes no more than Verfe or
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Number, but alfo in the Vulgar Notion ofit.