The Rheims New Testament (1582) — Title Page

The title page of the Rheims New Testament of 1582, with its two Latin texts and their English renderings, followed by the Latin censure and approbation signed by four doctors of Rheims (Petrus Remigius, Hubertus Morus, Ioannes le Besgue and Gulielmus Balbus) and a closing sentence from Saint Augustine in Latin and English, all as the edition prints them.

THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH, out of the authentical Latin, according to the beſt corrected copies of the ſame, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith ARGVMENTS of bookes and chapters, ANNOTATIONS, and other neceſſarie helpes, for the better vnderſtanding of the text, and ſpecially for the diſcouerie of the CORRVPTIONS of diuers late tranſlations, and for cleering the CONTROVERSIES in religion, of theſe daies: IN THE ENGLISH COLLEGE OF RHEMES.

Pſal. 118.

Da mihi intellectum, & ſcrutabor legem tuam, & cuſtodiam illam in toto corde meo.

That is, Giue me vnderſtanding, and I vvil ſearche thy lavv, and vvil keepe it vvith my vvhole hart.

S. Aug. tract. 2. in Epiſt. Ioan.

Omnia qua leguntur in Scripturis ſanctis, ad inſtructionem & ſalutem noſtram intentè oportes audire: maxime tamen memoria commendanda ſunt, qua aduerſus Hareticos valent plurimùm: quorum inſidia, infirmiores quoſque & negligentiores circumuenire non ceſſant.

That is, Al things that are readde in holy Scriptures, vve muſt heare vvith great attention, to our inſtruction and ſaluation: but thoſe things ſpecially muſt be commended to memorie, vvhich make moſt againſt Heretikes: vvhoſe deceites ceaſe not to circumuent and beguile al the vveaker ſort and the more negligent perſons.

PRINTED AT RHEMES, by Iohn Fogny. 1582. CVM PRIVILEGIO.

THE CENSVRE AND APPROBATION.

CVM huius verſionis ac aeditionis authores, nobis de fide & eruditione ſint probè cogniti, aliiue S. Theologiae & linguae Anglicanae peritiſsimi viri conteſtati ſint, nihil in hoc opere reperiri, quod non ſit Catholicae Eccleſiae doctrinae, & pietati conſentaneum, vel quod vllo modo poteſtati ac paci ciuili repugnet, ſed omnia potius veram fidem, Reip. bonum, vitaeue ac morum probitatem promouere: ex ipſorum fide cenſemus iſta vtiliter excudi & publicari poſſe.

• PETRVS REMIGIVS Archidiaconus maior Metropolitana inſignis Eccleſia Rhemenſis, Iuris Canonici Doctor, Archiepiſcopatus Rhemenſis generalis Vicarius.
• HVBERTVS MORVS, Rhemenſis Eccleſiae Decanus, & Eccleſiaſtes, & in ſacratiſsimae Theologiae facultate Doctor.
• IOANNES LE BESGVE, Canonicus Rhemenſis, Doctor Theologus, & Cancellarius Academiae Rhemenſis.
• GVLIELMVS BALBVS, Theologiae profeſſor, Collegij Rhemenſis Archimagiſter.

S. Auguſt. lib. 1. c. 3. de ſerm. Do. in monte.

Paupertate ſpiritus peruenitur ad Scripturarū cognitionem: vbi oportet hominem ſe mitem praebere, ne peruicacibus concertationibus indocilis reddatur.

Vve come to the vnderſtanding of Scriptures through pouertie of ſpirit: vvhere a man muſt ſhevv himſelf meeke-minded, leſt by ſtubburne contentions, he become incapable and vnapt to be taught.

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Printed edition: The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin … in the English College of Rhemes (Rhemes: Iohn Fogny, 1582; STC 2884, ESTC S102491), the Catholic New Testament translated from the Latin Vulgate chiefly by Gregory Martin. Copy transcribed: the Eton College Library copy, as filmed for Early English Books Online (image set 2646).

Transcription: Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), Phase I text A16049 (keyed 2005–06, proofread and released 2006), placed in the public domain under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal. Converted for the Good Works Library in October 2026.

What was done: the spelling, punctuation and capitals of the transcription are kept exactly, including u/v, i/j, "vv" for w, long s (ſ), the abbreviation stroke (as in "vpō") and the edition's own marks (″ for an annotated word, ⸬ and * for marginal references, ⊢ for the end of a liturgical Gospel or Epistle; ▪ is the transcribers' sign for a punctuation mark they could not identify). Removed as apparatus: the TEI markup, page breaks, line-end hyphenation, and the small cross ✝ that the edition sets at the beginning of each verse beside the verse number in the margin; the number is given here instead. Marginal notes are gathered after each chapter, keyed to their verse; the annotations follow as the edition prints them. Words the transcribers could not read are shown as ⟨illegible⟩; words printed in Greek or other non-Latin letters, which the transcription did not key, are shown as ⟨non-Latin script⟩. No gap has been filled or guessed.

In the Latin approbation the transcription twice encodes a character with the private-use code point U+E002 ("aliiue", "vitaeue"), which it does not define; it is kept exactly as transcribed and may display as an empty box.

On this page no place is marked ⟨illegible⟩.

This is an archival transcription of a historic English Bible. It is not a Good Works Translation.

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