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In A General View of the History of the English Bible, renowned New Testament scholar B.F. Westcott calls attention to some points in the history of the English Bible which have been neglected. According to the author, the history of the English Bible is a type of the history of the Church, and both histories have suffered similar fates. Those who labor most successfully upon them generally...

aboundantly as from the beginning: who can doubt but that such thinges as remayne yet vnknowen in the gospell, shalbe hereafter made open to the latter wittes of our posteritie, to their cleare vnderstanding? They felt then that their labour was provisional, and that the Spirit had yet further lessons in His Word to teach to later ages. It is not certainly known by whom the whole revision was actually made.* Initials are placed at the end of some of the books, and this, Parker says, was done by his
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