A15057:316
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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Paula was on our side, who forsaking her fair palace situated within the city of Rome, and her goodly farms abroad in the ⟨p. 289⟩Country, went on pilgrimage by long journeys even unto to the cave of Bethlehem, where Christ lay crying in his cradle, there in solitariness to spend the residue of her time. On our side was S. Paulus, S. Hilarion, S. Antony, who lived in solitariness till they were old men. On our side was Satyrus, that was brother german unto S. Ambrose, who carrying about him in a stole that dreadful host, and being in present danger of shipwreck, hoping assuredly that he would protect him, leapt into the raging sea and s•ome to land. On our side were S. Nicholas and S. Martin, who were both Bishops much exercised in watchings, clothed altogether in hair-cloth, and fed with fasting. On our side was S. Benet, who was father unto a great number of Monks. Ten years were not long enough for me to recite this infinite number of Saints, neither do I here make mention of them, whom before I placed among the Doctors of the Church. I do not forget my promise, that I would pass over things as briefly as I could conveniently: let him that would know more hereof peruse not only the large histories of ancient writers, but also much more rather the grave authors, which have almost every one of them written special books of the lives of the Saints, for a remembrance to their posterity:* then let him tell me what his opinion is of those most ancient Christians,2 and most blessed, of whether religion were they, of the Catholics religion, or of the Lutherans religion?* I call to witness the throne of God, and that his tribunal seat, before which I shall stand to render an account of these my ten reasons, and of my said act in making my challenge, that either there is no heaven at all, which I and my adherents do detest, or that it belongeth properly to such only as are of our religion, which thing we for our parts hold for sound doctrine. Now on the contrary side, if you think good let us look down into hell,4 where lye some burning in everlasting fire. Who? the Jews: what Church are they against? ours. Who else? the heathen: