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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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The Conclusion.
Here have you (most flourishing men of both the Universities) this my slender gift, composed at vacant times as I travelled: I minded herein both to acquit my self before you of arrogance, and to answer your expectation, why I had so great a trust in this cause, and in the mean while to give you a taste of some reasons to find you occupied until you may be invited to take my part in the Schools, and to forsake the adversaries. If you judge it to be right and reason, if you think it a safe thing for you, if you think it to be an honest point that* Luther and Calvin should be taken for the true Canon of Scripture, for the true meaning of the holy ghost, for the rule of the Church, for a Schoolmaster over ⟨p. 298⟩all Councils and Fathers, and lastly for a God, and therefore to be believed before all witnesses and ag••. There is no cause then at all why I should conceive any good hope of your indifferency, either in perusing of these my ten reasons, or else in giving ear unto me if I might be allowed to dispute. But if you be such men as I have always persuaded my self that you were, I means wise Philosophers, very circumspect, and embracers of truth, simplicity and modesty, enemies to rashness, fables, and sophistical cavilling; then I doubt not but you which now spy a little light at a narrow chink, will quickly see the day light in an open place: freely and frankly I will let you understand of that which the love I bear you, the danger you stand in, and the weightiness of the cause requireth. It is well known to the devil that you shall see the truth of this cause, if ever you begin to cast up your eyes. For what a senseless part were it to prefer such as Hanmer and Charke before the antiquity of all Christendom?* But there be certain pleasant baits in Luther's doctrine, wherewith he enlargeth his kingdom, with which baits he being first caught himself, hath entangled as many of your coat, as bite at the same baits. For what are these baits? forsooth gold, vainglory, delicate fare, and Venus games. Despise them; for what are they else but the very off-scum of the earth, a loud blast of wind, delicate worms meat, and fair dunghills I say regard them not, for Christ is rich, who will not fail, but find you all things necessary. Christ is a King, and will adorn you.