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the censures of the Church, and other holy actions 

 and solemnities ; these things, I think, will not be 

 much controverted. 



But for the particular exceptions to the liturgy 

 in form as it now standeth, I think divers of them, 

 allowing they were just, yet seem they not to be 

 weighty ; otherwise than that nothing ought to be 

 counted light in matters of religion and piety ; as 

 the heathen himself could say, &quot;etiam vultu ssepe 

 laeditur pietas.&quot; That the word, priest, should not 

 be continued, especially with offence, the word, mi 

 nister, being already made familiar. This may be 

 said that it is a good rule in translation, never to 

 confound that in one word in the translation, which 

 js precisely distinguished in two words in the origi 

 nal, for doubt of equivocation and traducing. And 

 therefore seeing the word vpe ^T f ^ and j^ be al 

 ways distinguished in the original ; and the one used 

 for a sacrificer, the other for a minister ; the word, 

 priest, being made common to both, whatsoever the 

 derivation be, yet in use it confoundeth the minister 

 with the sacrificer. And for an example of this 

 kind, I did ever allow the discretion and tenderness 

 of the Rhemish translation in this point ; that finding 

 in the original the word ayd^ and never e^, do ever 

 translate charity, and never love, because of the in- 

 differency and equivocation of the word with im 

 pure love. 



Touching the absolution ; it is not unworthy 

 consideration, whether it may not be thought im 

 proper and unnecessary : for there are but two sorts 



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