[Sidenote: _Plutarch in Camillo._] _Plutarch_ writeth, that after that _Rome_ had been burnt by the _Gauls_, they fell soon to build it again: but doing it in haste, they did not cast the streets, nor proportion the houses, in such comely fashion, as had been most sightly and convenient. Was _Catiline_ therefore an honest man, or a good patriot, that sought to bring it to a combustion? Or _Nero_ a good Prince, that did indeed set it on fire? So by the story of _Ezra_ and the prophecy of _Haggai_ it may be gathered, [Sidenote: Ezra 3. 12.] that the temple built by _Zerubbabel_ after the return from _Babylon_ was by no means to be compared to the former built by _Solomon_: for they that remembered the former wept when they considered the latter. Notwithstanding might this latter either have been abhorred and forsaken by the _Jews_, or profaned by the _Greeks_? The like we are to think of translations. The translation of the _Seventy_ dissenteth from the Original in many places, neither doth it come near it for perspicuity, gravity, majesty. Yet which of the Apostles did condemn it? Condemn it? Nay, they used it, (as it is apparent, and as St. _Hierome_ and most learned men do confess;) which they would not have done, nor by their example of using of it so grace and commend it to the Church, if it had been unworthy the appellation and name of the word of God. And whereas they urge for their second defence of their vilifying and abusing of the _English_ Bibles, or some pieces thereof, which they meet with, for that hereticks forsooth were the authors of the translations: (hereticks they call us by the same right that they call themselves catholicks, both being wrong:) we marvel what divinity taught them so. We are sure _Tertullian_ was of another mind: [Sidenote: _Tertull. de præscript. contra hæreses._] _Ex personis probamus fidem, an ex fide personas?_ Do we try men’s faith by their persons? We should try their persons by their faith. Also St. _Augustine_ was of another mind: [Sidenote: _St. August. 3. de doct. Christ. cap. 30._] for he, lighting upon certain rules made by _Tychonius_ a _Donatist_ for the better understanding of the word, was not ashamed to make use of them, yea, to insert them into his own book, with giving commendation to them so far forth as they were worthy to be commended, as is to be seen in St. _Augustine’s_ third book _De Doct. Christ_. To be short, _Origen_, and the whole Church of God for certain hundred years, were of another mind: for they were so far from treading under foot (much more from burning) the translation of _Aquila_ a proselyte, that is, one that had turned _Jew_, of _Symmachus_, and _Theodotion_, both _Ebionites_, that is, most vile hereticks, that they joined them together with the _Hebrew_ original, and the translation of the _Seventy_, (as hath been before signified out of _Epiphanius_,) and set them forth openly to be considered of and perused by all.