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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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Sixtus is ours: and why so? Seven of the Clergy ministered unto him, while he served at the altar. Seven Deacons helped Sixtus to celebrate the Lords supper, ergo Sixtus is yours. If this reason be of force, let him be yours hardly, I will not strive with you about him; but herein is nothing why he may not as well bek ours as yours. Doth it become you (Campian) ⟨p. 305⟩thus to trifle, thus to abuse our patience? What followeth? Laurence is yours: how so I pray you? Our adversaries have cast him out of their Calendar. We remember him with reverence as a saint, and a friend of Christ; though we worship him not as God. But Prudentine prayed unto him a thousand years ago. Give leave (Campian) to a Poet, to use poetical aversions, from whence yet no strong reason can be drawn. But if Prudentius were something too superstitious, what is that to us? Now you reckon up virgins, C•cilia, Agatha, and others: but what have they done why they should not be ours? When the Tyrants examined them of their faith, they professed themselves Christians: if they were Christians, they were ours. But Helen, say you, was ours, who is every way famous for finding the cross of Christ. That which Ambrose reports of Helen, is very suspicious, and Golasius Bishop of Rome calleth these things that were bruited of the invention of the cross,2 new revelations. But grant that Helen found the Cross, for it is not greatly material: Did she adore it? for that is to the purpose. Hear what Ambrose saith: She found the stile, 3she worshipped the King, not the wood certainly: for this is a heathenish error, and a vanity of the wicked. Wherefore though she found the Cross, that is no reason to prove her yours, seeing she worshipped not the cross, as you do: for not finding, but adoring of thel Cross makes a Papist.
Sixtus is ours: and why so? Seauen of the Clergie ministred vnto him, while hee serued at the altar. Seauen Deacons helped Sixtus to celebrate the Lords supper, ergo Sixtus is yours. If this reason be of force, let him be yours hardly, I will not striue with you about him; but herein is nothing why he may not as well be