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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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If you love heaven, I say, not as you ought, but even in any sort as you love the world, and have in any measure the like care for your spiritual estate, as you have for the temporal, in these dangerous times get to you the balance of the Sanctuary, not to have it in your houses only, but in your hearts and memories. The exhortation of Chrysostom is not so necessary for these times:1 Provide for your selves Bibles; for most have them in their hands and houses. But that he saith in another place is fitter for our times:2 When you are at home, give your selves to a continual reading of the holy Scriptures. A thing verily much neglected of most in our times, to whom his complaint will well agree: Which of our people go about any thing worthy the name of a Christian? 3who searcheth out the sense of the Scriptures? undoubtedly none: but the Chess-board and dice-play we find often and every where; but their books are seldom in hand. For your books are seldom in hand, but when you go to Church: they lie in your houses covered with dust, and as it were spread over with spiders webs, as if it seemed you durst not touch them; when the Tables are kept clean with use, and Cards worn black with continual play. But beloved these things should not be so, if either you regard the commandment of Christ,4 Search the Scriptures; which is as absolute and general, as that Commandment, Thou shalt not commit adultery, or steal: or if you reverence the counsel ⟨image 7⟩of the Apostle, which is as much as a commandment: Let the word of God dwell plentifully in you in all wisdom. 5As good scholars therefore in the school of Christ, give obedience to these things, and use a continual and constant reading of the word, at least every day some part of it: which because it is obscure, not in it self, but by the weakness of mans understanding, as men do to weak eyes apply some wholesome salve, not to make the light more perspicuous, but the eyes more able: so use the help of some other writers, by which you may more profitably read it, and enable your selves the better to conceive of it, and to know how to apply to every occurrence the things, which are there set down in their most excellent and wise order, though somewhat hidden and infolded to those, who have not their senses, as they ought, exercised therein.