Quomodo enim in peccatum reputari potest, si iniusta principum iudicia recto meliorum principum examine corrigantur: ac mendax stilus scribarum iniquorum discreta prudentium sacerdotum sententia deleatur ac redigatur in nihilum, iuxta exemplum sacrae historiae, quae tempora regum Iudae a David et Salomone usque ad ultimum Zedechiam describens, nonnullos quidem in eis religiosos, sed plures reprobos extitisse designat,
For how can it be reckoned sinful if the unrighteous judgments of some princes be amended with the right judgment of better princes, and the lying pen of unjust scribes be blotted out and brought to naught by the sober utterance of wise priests; after the example of sacred history which, in setting forth the times of the kings of Judah from David and Solomon down to the last king Zedekiah, declareth that, while some among them were religious, yet many more were reprobate,
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