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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.
For what Church I pray you hath always withstood the gates of hell,1 but ours? When after the expulsion of the Jews under Vespasian, and Titus his son, Christians increased at Jerusalem, O immortal God what coming of good people was there to the holy places that were there! What wonderful devotion was there among all sorts of people to see that City of Jerusalem! What zeal to see Christs Sepulchre, what desire to see the manger wherein Christ lay, what thirsting after the sight of the cross whereon Christ was nailed, what longing to behold all sorts of monuments there, in which the holy Church taketh as much delight, as doth a spouse in the garments laid off by her husband! Upon this began that mortal hatred and implacable of the Jews against us; for even at this day they* complain, that our Ancestors were the cause of their Ancestors overthrow: as for Simon Magus, and the Lutherans,3 they received never a blow at their hands. Among the heathen there were many tyrants, who during their reign for the space of 300. years, by fits at divers times, invented most bitter torments against Christians. Against what manner of Christians I pray you?4 Truly against the Fathers of our faith and their Children. Mark well with your selves the speeches of this tyrant, that broiled S. Laurence on a Gridiron: It now well appears,5 that this is the order and fashion in your sacrifice. This doctrine you all agree to, that Bishops must offer up their sacrifice in plate of gold, and the people say, that the sacred blood smoketh out of your cups of silver, and that ye have tapers burning on golden candlesticks, during all the time of your night sacrifices. Also as common fame doth testify, your brethren have a special care to offer up thousands of pounds, though they sell their lands to get the same, ⟨p. 291⟩the lawful heir being thus disinherited and brought to beggary, though his holy parents greatly complaineth for such shameful sale of lands, as should by right descend to him from his grandfathers. This wealth lieth hid in some secret corners of your Churches, and you think it a great godly deed to make your sweet babes go naked: fetch out these treasures which thou hordest up by thy crafty persuasions, and wicked witchcraft, the which I say thou haddest in one dark hole or other: