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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.
EDMUND CAMPIAN. The tenth Reason, which is all manner of Witnesses.
EDMVND CAMPIAN. The tenth Reason, which is all manner of Witnesses.
This shall be to you a direct path, so that the simplest that be, need not wander out of it. For who is,1 though he be but of the meaner sort of common people, so senseless (so that he have an eye unto his souls health) that cannot see, (if he look but a little about him) the path of the Church so plainly trodden, that cannot keep it, if he dislike of by-ways that lead him through brambles and ragged rocks, and places that cannot be passed? These things shall be well known even of those that be ignorant as Isaiah hath prophesied, and therefore most manifest unto ⟨p. 287⟩you. If you will,* let us take a view of all things that are any where to be seen: let us traverse over every thing wheresoever it be. All things do minister matter fit for our purpose. Let us ascend into heaven by imagination, there may we find such as through martyrdom,3 are as ruddy as the reda rose, and also such as for their innocency while they lived do glister as beautifully as the white Lilly. There may we see (I say) those* three and thirty Bishops of