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Dearing , being chairman, said unto mee that he was acquainted with a learned minister beneficed in Essex, who had long lived in England, but was born in High Germanie, in the palatinate, Paul Amiraut, whom the committee sending for, desired him to take both the original and my translation into his custodie, and diligently to compare them together, and to make report unto the said committee whether he found that I had rightly and truly translated it according to the original; which report he made accordingly.â The book was then âlicensed,â and Amyraut's âreportâ was prefixed to it. The great folio translation has an important place in English literary history.
70:, a living which, according to Walker's âSufferings,â had been âsequesteredâ from a John Bretten. While at East Dereham he published âThe Triumph of a Good Conscienceâ (Rev. ii. 10), one of the rarest of later puritan books. From thence he was transferred to Munsley, in the same county, which had been âsequesteredâ from John Tenison, father of the more famous archbishop of that name. It would seem that Amyraut was resolute in his nonconformity, and took no time to delay the sacrifice. Calamy and Palmer range him under 1662; but it is probable that he was âejectedâ under the
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