A15057:169
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.
Clement, who was author of the book called Stromatum, yielded out of his works cockle and dregs. And the residueh of the Fathers of this age, which were in very deed* Apostolic men, left unto their posterity blasphemous and monstrous doctrine. Ini Tertullian they greedily catch at that fault, which being told thereof by us, they with us also detest. But let them call to mind, the book which he writ de Praescriptionibus, wherewith the heretics of our time had so sound a blow, was never hither to reprehended by the Church. How sufficiently and evidently hath* Hippolytus kBishop of Portua foreshowed the reign of Luther's heresies, which was a strong pillar▪ in Antichrists building? And for that cause they call him a most childish scribble, & a masker. Thatl critical French man Caussaeus, and them Magdeburgeans do call S. Cyprian (who was the flower and honour of Africa) a block head, a man cast out of Gods sight a depraver of the true doctrine of Penance: why, what hath he done? he hath writ for sooth one book of Virginity, and another of those that are Relapsed, and certain treatises of the unity of the Church, yea & such Epistles also unto Cornelius Bishop of Rome, that except this blessed Martyr be disgraced, Peter Martyr ⟨p. 118⟩the Vermillian, and all his confeder a•s, must be taken for worse then adulterous & Church-robbers. And lest I should stand too long upon particularities, aft the Fathers of that age aren generally