passage wanting which you charge with being spurious. For example, if you hold that the
Epistle of Paul to the Romans is spurious, you must bring forward another incorrupt, or
rather another manuscript with the same epistle of the same apostle, free from error and
corruption. You say you will not, lest you be suspected of corrupting it. This is your usual
reply, and a true one. Were you to do this, we should assuredly have this very suspicion;
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and all men of any sense would have it too. See then what you are to think of your own
authority; and consider whether it is right to believe your words against these Scriptures,
when the simple fact that a manuscript is brought forward by you makes it dangerous to
put faith in it.
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Of the Authority of the Scriptures.