them for their odds and jarring; we hope the children have no great cause to vaunt of their uniformity. But the difference that appeareth between our translations, and our often correcting of them, is the thing that we are specially charged with; let us see therefore whether they themselves be without fault this way, (if it be to be counted a fault to correct,) and whether they be fit men to throw stones at us: _O tandem major parcas insane minori_: They that are less sound themselves ought not to object infirmities to others. If we should tell them, that _Valla_, _Stapulensis_, _Erasmus_, and _Vives_, found fault with their vulgar translation, and consequently wished the same to be mended, or a new one to be made; they would answer peradventure, that we produced their enemies for witnesses against them; albeit they were in no other sort enemies, than as St. _Paul_ was to the _Galatians_, [Sidenote: Gal. 4. 16.] for telling them the truth: and it were to be wished, that they had dared to tell it them plainlier and oftener. But what will they say to this, That Pope _Leo_ the Tenth allowed _Erasmus’_ translation of the New Testament, so much different from the vulgar, by his apostolick letter and bull? [Sidenote: _Sixtus Senens._] That the same _Leo_ exhorted _Pagnine_ to translate the whole Bible, and bare whatsoever charges was necessary for the work? Surely, as the apostle reasoneth to the _Hebrews_, [Sidenote: Heb. 7. 11. & 8. 7.] that _if the former Law and Testament had been sufficient, there had been no need of the latter_: so we may say, that if the old vulgar had been at all points allowable, to small purpose had labour and charges been undergone about framing of a new. If they say, it was one Pope’s private opinion, and that he consulted only himself; then we are able to go further with them, and to aver, that more of their chief men of all sorts, even their own _Trent_ champions, _Paiva_ and _Vega_, and their own inquisitor _Hieronymus ab Oleastro_, and their own Bishop _Isidorus Clarius_, and their own Cardinal _Thomas a vio Cajetan_, do either make new translations themselves, or follow new ones of other men’s making, or note the vulgar interpreter for halting, none of them fear to dissent from him, nor yet to except against him. And call they this an uniform tenor of text and judgment about the text, so many of their worthies disclaiming the now received conceit? Nay, we will yet come nearer the quick. [Sidenote: _Sixtus 5. Præf. fixa bibliis._] Doth not their _Paris_ edition differ from the _Lovain_, and _Hentenius’s_ from them both, and yet all of them allowed by authority? Nay, doth not _Sixtus Quintus_ confess, that certain Catholicks (he meaneth certain of his own side) were in such an humour of translating the Scriptures into _Latin_, that Satan taking occasion by them, though they thought of no such matter, did strive what he could, out of so uncertain and manifold a variety of