Ward, Thomas. Errata of the Protestant Bible; or the Truth of the English Translations Examined; in a Treatise, showing some of the Errors that are to be found in the English Translations of the Sacred Scriptures, used by Protestants, against such points of Religious Doctrine as afre the subject of Controversy between them and the Members of the Catholic Church; in which also, from their Mistranslating the Twenty-third Verse of the Fourteenth Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, the Consecration of Dr. Matthew Parker the first Protestant Archbishop in Canterbury, is occasionally considered. New York: D. & J. Sadlier, 1844. A New Edition, carefully Revised and Corrected. [8635]
Faded blindstamped cloth, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, (iv), 118 pp., light foxing, tight. Printed in double columns except where comparative charts take up the page. Good. Hardcover.
Title continues: To which are added, The Celebrated Preface of the Rev. Doctor Lingard in answer to Ryan's "Analysis," and A Vindication, by the Right Rev. Dr. Milner, in answer to Grier's "Reply."
A strident attack on the Protestant reliance on sola scriptura, attempting to show that the scriptura relied upon by Protestants is truncated, and contains errors in translation intended specifically to refute Catholic doctrines.
Includes comparative charts of important texts listing side-by-side the Vulgate Latin Text, the true English of the Rhemes, Protestant corruptions, and of the 1683 Authorised version, "the last Translation of the Protestant Bible."
Chapters include The Truth of Protestant Translations of the Bible Examined; Of the Canonical Books of the Bible; On Books rejected by Protestants for Apocryphal; Protestant Translations against 22 Catholic Doctrines; Protestant Corruptions by Adding to the Text; Considerations on the Lambeth Records; Protestant Corruptions of the Scripture; Protestant Absurdities in turning Psalms into Metre; A Vindication of the Roman Catholics; A Vindication of Ward's Errata, by the Right Rev. Dr. Milner.