A15057:330
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 (say you) as•••d into heaven: I fear you Jesuits have no place there, Heaven is for Christians, not Jesuits. But suppose your selves for the time to be in heaven, what followeth? Let us behold (say you) the Martyrs▪ 33. Bishops of Rome slain together, the Universal Pastors, companies of the faithful, all holy Saints. Well, survey (Campian) heaven it self, and all the heavenly host, look well in all the parts, and coasts of it whiles you list, you shall not find there (upon my word) one Jesuit not one Papist; for none shall stand in Mount Zion with the Lamb,1 that have received the mark of the beast, or belong unto Antichrist. But in heaven are 33. Bishops of Rome, and many more, I doubt not; but of all these, name me one, if you can, of your religion, whom you may justly claim as yours. Those were holy and faithful Bishops which shed their blood for the name of Christ. But your Popes for these many hundred years, what else have they done, but persecuted Christ, and murdered his true servants? If those 33. Bishops be in heaven (as doubtless they are) how many late Popes could I reckon up, which possibly cannot be where they are, in all things they are so unlike them? You pick out a few, let us see who these are: Ignatius, say you, was ours; why I pray you? He thought no man equal to the Bishop in causes ecclesiastical, not the King himself, and left in writing certain Apostolic traditions; neither say we that any man is to be compared with the Bishop in such things as belong to his office:d He only ought to oversee ⟨p. 302⟩holy things, viz. instruction of the people, administration of the Sacraments, use of the keys of the kingdom of heaven. These are matters of great weight, and exceed the kingly authority; yet are Kings above Bishops in wealth, honour, government, majesty, and they may lawfully both admonish them of their duty, and restrain them when they offend. If Bishops herein would equal themselves with Kings it were too intolerable. As for the Apostles traditions which Ignatius hath left in writing, we receive them so far as they agree with the Apostolical Scripture: if they dissent from those, we refuse them. The Epistles of Ignatius were most of them counterfeit, as every man may see: here you rehearse many, and still the undersong is, these are ours: