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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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EDMUND CAMPIAN. The eighth Reason, which is the Paradoxes of our adversaries.
EDMVND CAMPIAN. The eighth Reason, which is the Paradoxes of our aduersaries.
When that (most excellent men) I revolve in my mind amongst many heresies wherewith I have to do, certain monstrous opinions of such as are fantastically given; I could not but condemn my self of slothfulness and cowardliness, if making trial thereof, I should be afraid of any mans activity and strength: let him be as eloquent as ye would wish, let him be as much exercised as you would desire, yea let him be one that hath throughly studied all sorts of books, yet must he needs be to seek, both for matter and words also when he shall undertake to maintain those his unpossible propositions as follow: for (if he perhaps will give his consent) we will dispute of God, of Christ, of Man, of sin, of Justice, of Sacraments, and of Manners, I will try whether they dare maintain their opinions, & such sayings, as they, lingering after their own lure, have bruited abroad by their writings. God grant they will acknowledge these their owna axioms:* God is the author and cause of sin, willing, prompting, making, commanding, and working it, and their governing the wicked counsels of naughty men.* The adultery of David, and the treason of the Traitor Judas, was as properly the work of God, as the calling of S. Paul was. This monstrous doctrine, whereof Philip, Melanchthon was once ashamed, yet Martin Luther from whose breast Philip sucked the same, as highly extolleth, as though it had been some heavenly oracle, and therefore matcheth his said scholar in a manner with the Apostle S. Paul. I will ⟨p. 185⟩demand also what mind Luther was of whom the English Calvinists affirm to have been a man sent from God to lighten the Word, when he razed out of the Litany used in the Church this verse, O blessed Trinity, and one God have mercy upon us: then in order I will proceed to the person of