A15057:332
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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Telesphorus enjoined a more strict observation of Lent fast, appointed by the Apostles. eI deny that the ⟨p. 303⟩Apostles ordained any such Lenten fast, or that Telesphorus, commanded a more precise observation thereof. The Apostles were far from ordaining, and Telesph•rus from reviving so great superstition.
Telesphorus enioyned a more strict obseruation of Lent fast, appointed by the Apostles. eI deny that the ⟨p. 303⟩Apostles ordeined any such Len•en fast, or that Telesphorus, commaunded a more precise obseruation thereof. The Apostles were farre from ordeining, and Telesph•rus from reuiuing so great superstition.
- eDVR. But J prove it by these witnesses, Augustine, Hierome, Basil, Ambrose, Epiphanius, Clemen•. WHIT. pag. 862. And I prove the contrary by the Fathers. August. Epist. •6. writeth plainly that neither Christ not his Apostles ordained any certain time for fastings. And so not Lent. Tertul. aduer. Psychicos: In times past Christians indifferently fasted, of their own free will, as every mans time and occasions required, and not by any command of new government. Doth not this overthrow the necessary observation of Lent? Chryso. in Mat. hom 47. freely confesseth that Christ did not command us to imitate his fast. But what is Lent but an imitation of it? Further, Montanus was the first who brought up set solemn days of fastings, Euseb. lib. 5. cap. 17. Finally, Ireneus in Eusebius lib. 5. cap. 26. showeth that in the Primitive Church, there was great variety about the keeping of this fast, and that this difference began not in his time only, but was long before. Therefore it is false that Christ and his Apostles appointed the fast of Forty days.