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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE CHRISTIAN READERS.
The holy Apostle S. Paul knowing his calling, and remembering well his commission, which he had received from Christ, saith: Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the Gospel. 1Not meaning that he had no commission to baptise at all, for then had he offended, when he baptised some; but that this was the special end, and the chiefest part of his calling, to preach. So to allude to it, I may say of my calling, that Christ sent me not to write, but to preach; so I judge of that one talent Christ hath given me, if I be able to judge aright of it. Which hath been the reason why I have withstood so many motions of friends, who have set upon me with earnestness to have published in print divers things, God enabled me to utter in preaching. And knowing the necessity of preaching, and feeling the greatness of the burden, as S. Paul said, Who is sufficient for these things, 2I find all my private studies little enough for my public Ministry, that the more I attain unto, the more I may communicate to others. As the Preacher saith,3 The more wise the Preacher was, the more he taught the people knowledge, and caused them to hear, and searched forth, and prepared many parables. I am not of their minds, who think that a man may gather Manna enough upon the day before the Sabbath, to serve his family or charge upon the Sabbath it self. And though I know men have their several gifts, some men able to do that in an hour, which another ⟨image 6⟩