Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
And as the Church of the Jews did preserve the Hebrew Original of the Old Testament safe and sure, so I doubt not but the same hand of the providence of God, hath and doth preserve the Greek Original of the New Testament.
And for that it is not possible that the Originals should serve the turn of all, or immediately of any, but of such as have the knowledge of those tongues, (who are but a poor few in respect of all the world over) wherefore I take it for granted that the line of God’s providence hath, and doth, and will carry the matter, in having translations of several languages so entire, as to be a sufficient rule to ground their faith: else God in his providence must needs be wanting in providing necessaries for his Church.
Nor do I think that there was, or ever shall be a Church of Christ, or a Church of Christians in the belly of Antichrist, but have had translations sufficient to rest their souls on. I doubt not but the vulgar, for all its faults hath sufficient for the saving of some souls. ...
For more, see Richard Capel on the preservation and translation of scripture for our salvation.
And for that it is not possible that the Originals should serve the turn of all, or immediately of any, but of such as have the knowledge of those tongues, (who are but a poor few in respect of all the world over) wherefore I take it for granted that the line of God’s providence hath, and doth, and will carry the matter, in having translations of several languages so entire, as to be a sufficient rule to ground their faith: else God in his providence must needs be wanting in providing necessaries for his Church.
Nor do I think that there was, or ever shall be a Church of Christ, or a Church of Christians in the belly of Antichrist, but have had translations sufficient to rest their souls on. I doubt not but the vulgar, for all its faults hath sufficient for the saving of some souls. ...
For more, see Richard Capel on the preservation and translation of scripture for our salvation.