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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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Let us take a view of heretics,1 which are the very dregs and bellows, and fit food for hell fire. The first that cometh into my mind is Simon Magus: what did he?* he took from man freewill, he was still prating of faith only. The next that I remember was Novatian. What of him? he opposed himself to Cornelius the Pope of Rome. He was an enemy to the Sacraments of Penance, and holy Unction. Thirdly, I think of Manes the Persian, who taught that* Baptism was not a sufficient mean to work our salvation. After him there started up Aerius and Arian, who condemned prayers for the only, and was therefore forenamed the* Atheist as well as Lucian was. Then followed Vigilantius, which would not permit men to pray unto Saints, and Jovinian, who maintained marriage to be as excellent as virginity: Finally there came after all the whole rabble of heretics, as Macedonius, Pelagius, Nestorius, Eutyches, Monothelites, Image breakers, and others; to which number our posterity will add also Luther and Calvin: what of all these? Every one of them like carrion Crows, hatched all of one kind of egg, rebelled against the chief rulers of our Church, and by them were confounded and brought to naught. Let us now leave speaking of hell, to return to the earth again.5 Whither soever I shall cast mine eyes, and incline my cogitation, whether I behold the Patriarchs, and Seas Apostolic, or the Bishops of other countries, or renowned Princes and Emperors, or the first entrance of Christian religion, into every nation, or any monuments of antiquity, or the light of reason, or the ⟨p. 294⟩comely sight of honesty.6 I find that all of them do dutiful service, and speak favourably for our religion: witness hereof the Roman succession. In whose Church (that I may say as doth S. Augustine)*