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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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And is it to be thought possible, that you, who have demeaned your selves so impiously towards these Parents and Pastors, will be more respective towards others? Nay there is not any Council, which you have not long ago trodden under feet, so that every one of you, are enfolded in a thousand excommunications. And dare you, Campian, notwithstanding make mention of Councils, which if they were in any force, surely you should no more be tolerated in the Church, then Publicans and Pagans. There followeth this, say you, for the rooting out of heresy, the four general Councils of the ancient Fathers, which were of such strength and authority, that a thousand years since, they were had in singular account even as Gods word it self. And we likewise do freely confess, that the authority of those four Councils was good and profitable.1 Read what learned Luther hath writ of those four general Councils, and so also you may know our judgement of them. Notwithstanding there is no reason why we should assent unto Gregory, 2who professeth that he doth embrace and reverence these four Councils, as the four books of the holy Gospel. For this were rather to violate the Gospel, then to reverence the Councils. Although as I take it, Gregory's meaning was, that what was decreed and concluded in these four Councils, out of Gods word against Arrive, Eu••onius, Macedonius, Nestorius, Eutyches, and Diosc•ru•, that he firmly embraced, and would not suffer ⟨p. 98⟩these decreet, which are approved by the Evangelical writings, and in which this impious heresy is condemned, to be revoked and repealed no more then the Gospel it self, neither can I imagine that it was Gregory's purpose to affirm this of all these Councils, that the Council of Nice, Constantine ple, Ephesus and Chalced•n, were fully equal unto the holy Gospel in authority and dignity. And so we our selves do not doubt, that those things which these Fathers have determined against those heretics, before named concerning the consubstantial subsistence of the Father and the Son, of the divinity of the holy Ghost, of the one person of Christ in two natures, are as true as the Gospel it self; not because these Councils so judged and concluded, but because in the Gospel, the self same doctrine of faith is delivered.