A15057:104
An answer to the Ten reasons of Edmund Campian the Jesuit in confidence whereof…An ansvvere to the Ten reasons of Edmund Campian the Iesuit in confidence wherof…
An answer to the Ten reasons of Edmund Campian the Jesuit in confidence whereof he offered disputation to the ministers of the Church of England, in the controversy of faith. Whereunto is added in brief marginal notes, the sum of the defence of those reasons by John Duræus the Scot, being a priest and a Jesuit, with a reply unto it. Written first in the Latin tongue by the reverend and faithful servant of Christ and his Church, William Whitakers, Doctor in Divinity, and the Kings Professor and public reader of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. And now faithfully translated for the benefit of the unlearned (at the appointment and desire of some in authority) into the English tongue; by Richard Stock, preacher in London. ...An ansvvere to the Ten reasons of Edmund Campian the Iesuit in confidence wherof he offered disputation to the ministers of the Church of England, in the controuersie of faith. Whereunto is added in briefe marginall notes, the summe of the defence of those reasons by Iohn Duræus the Scot, being a priest and a Iesuit, with a reply vnto it. Written first in the Latine tongue by the reuerend and faithfull seruant of Christ and his Church, William Whitakers, Doctor in Diuinitie, and the Kings Professor and publike reader of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge. And now faithfully translated for the benefit of the vnlearned (at the appointment and desire of some in authoritie) into the English tongue; by Richard Stocke, preacher in London. ...
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Cuthbert Burby and Edmund Weaver, 1606London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Cuthbert Burby and Edmund Weauer, 1606
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Have you yet any thing more against Luther? 1Luther, say you, casteth above among the four Evangelists and preferring S. Pauls Epistles far before the three former Gospels, in the end concludeth, that the only Gospel of S. John from henceforth is to be taken for the gay, the true, and the principal Gospel; Luther indeed ⟨p. 51⟩preferreth the Gospel of John before the other three, because he setteth down the Acts of Christ more briefly, and his Sermons more fully. Now a Gospel consisteth rather in heavenly doctrine, then in the history of things done. Yet he denies not but that the other Gospels are well set out, true, and very excellent; and far is he from esteeming this the only gay and true Gospel. Now this very point you speak of here, I find also in the preface of the first Epistle of S. Peter. And I would entreat the Christian reader to take thorough notice of this thing, so shall he easily perceive both Luther's integrity, and Campians cavilling. First Luther teacheth what a Gospel is: and writeth that a Gospel signifieth nothing else, But the preaching and publishing of the grace, and mercy of God by the Lord Christ, merited and purchased to us by his death. He that either preacheth or writeth this grace and mercy of God in Christ, he, as Luther affirmeth, teacheth the Gospel. And therefore not the four Evangelists only have taught the Gospel; but also all the Apostles have done so too, and especially Saint Paul & Saint Peter in their Epistles. And moreover he affirmeth, that of all those they are the bestm Evangelists, who have therein specially laboured, to teach justification by faith in Christ alone: for this is the sum of the Gospel. And hereupon he concludeth that the Epistles of Paul may more fitly be called the Gospel, then those things Matthew, Mark, and Luke have written: for that he doth more fully & plentifully decipher to us the grace of God in Christ, then those three, whose history is for the most part spent in the declaration of the Acts and Miracles of Christ. And this is the true cause wherefore he preferred the Gospel of S. John and the Epistles of S. Paul before the three other Gospels; ⟨p. 52⟩whereby he neither casteth a bone among the Evangelists, nor goeth about to make the Apostles partakers of his brawlings; neither hath said any thing either frowardly or preposterously: for why, I pray you, may we not say, that S.