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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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as by the ill willed Jews, through the good will of the father, Christ was slain, which was so great a good, that the Apostle Peter, what time he would not have had it done, is termed Satan by him who was willing to be slain. And elsewhere: God (saith he) hardened Pharaoh by just judgement, 1and Pharaoh hardened himself by his own free will. And that you may plainly perceive there is nothing taught by us touching the will of God, but that which the Church of Christ long since hath taught, I will annex some other sentences which the same Augustine hath written in another place: Great are (saith he) the works of the Lord distinguished into all his wills, 2so as after a wonderful and unutterable manner that is not done without his will, which also is not done against his will: because it should not be done, if he did not suffer it, neither certainly doth he suffer it unwilling, but willing. And again: God worketh in the hearts of men to incline their wills whither so ever he will, 3whether to good according to his mercy, or unto evil, according to their merits. And that certainly in his judgement sometime open, sometime secret, but always just. I can use infinite testimonies in this matter, but I think, not very needful. I will raise up out of your own schoole Hugo de Sancto victore, who shall most clearly approve our opinion with his own words. For thus he writeth:4 His will is never idle, so as that is not done, which he willeth: neither in a word can any thing be done at any time which he willeth not. And a little after:5 The will of God is ever fulfilled, and wicked men are not therefore excused, because the will of God is performed in them and by them, for that they are not directed by their own will, to fulfil the will of God, but by his secret providence.
as by the ill willed Iewes, through the good will of the father, Christ was slain, which was so great a good, that the Apostle Peter, what time he would not haue had it done, is termed Satan by him who was willing to be slaine. And elsewhere: God (saith he) hardened Pharao by iust iudgement,