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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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Campian, you are now low drawn and do plainly bewray your want and desperate beggary. Hitherto have you found no place of sure footing, and therefore now you have resolved to wander and run thorough whatsoever is in the world. So one while you fly aloft into heaven, by and by you slip down to hell: after you visit the Jews, Pagans, Turks, Heretics, Lands, Seas Apostolic, Nations and Countries far remote, searching diligently for any monument of your superstition. I am sorry and ashamed on your behalf, whom I see painfully busied about mere trifles. For what a witless kind of reasoning is this; first to reckon up the Saints in Heaven, and say, these are ours? Then to number up the damned, Jews, Gentiles, Turks, Heretics, and affirm those are the enemies of our Church? To rehearse those Countries that have been converted to the faith of Christ, and conclude by and by, these are of our Religion? would you take this man to be well in his wits, compassing Heaven, Earth and Hell so childishly,a ridiculously, and impertinently taking unto himself, what he liketh, and rejecting the rest? A worthy cavil, fit for none but Jesuits, which when ⟨p. 300⟩a man hath by one negative discharged, can never be proved by their perverse sect and whole society. These dreams of yours (Campian) are unworthy any answer, one word of denial confutes this whole Chapter. I will not bestow much time in answering this Sophism, so unhandsomely framed, and patched together; it shall suffice lightly to pass, and only touch every thing in a word. First therefore you allege the prophecy of Isaiah, of a straight way wherein the simple should not err. bHere the Prophet describes the entrance into Christs Church, viz. that it should be ready, plain and easy. But this way brings us not to your Church: c for of this way the Prophet reports, that no profane man, no Lion or cruel beast shall be found in it; whereas all your ways are compassed with polluted men, raging beasts, Lions, Bears, Leopards, Dragons, Devils; and in conclusion, they lead miserably bewitched men, unto woeful destruction. As for us, we tread that way, which Christ and his Apostles have traced out before us, we avoid your erroneous and strange ways, because ⟨p. 301⟩it is the way of sinners, that you sd in; which way whosoever tread,