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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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Now being fallen from heaven,1 you look into hell. I wish (Campian) you could seriously view those infernal regions and places of the damned; for though I do willingly think nothing but well of the dead; yet I fear you should find too too many of them that have flourished in your Church, in those places. Certainly (to say nothing of the rest) your later Popes, as those which were called by the names of Boniface, Innocent, Sylvester, Gregory, Calixt, Urbane, Alexander, Adrian, Pius, Leo, Paul, & almost all the rest; were such, as hardly can any man think they could enter into heaven. And further, I call Christ the only teacher of heavenly doctrine to record, that such is your faith and religion, that who so maintains it fully and wholly, cannot reign with Christ, nor be partaker of that heavenly life; and therefore not Jews only, Pagans, Turks, and notorious Heretics are tormented in that fire that never goes out, but Papists also, of all Heretics the most vile and odious. Infinite are the souls of Christian men, which have been thrown headlong into this most woeful destruction these many hundred years by that Antichrist of yours, who alone hath more enlarged that infernal kingdom, then all Jews, Nerves, Mahomets, Arians, Nestorians, Macedonians, Eutychians, and the rest. To you (Campian) I wish that salvation which consisteth in the true knowledge of God, and whom he hath sent Jesus Christ, and desire from my hart that now at length you will renounce that Roman Antichrist, with whom you have conversed, and return unto Christ the only giver of eternal life, from whom too long you have banished your self.
Now being fallen from heauen,1 you looke into hell. I wish (Campian) you could seriously view those infernall regions and places of the damned; for though I do willingly thinke nothing but well of the dead; yet I feare you should find too too many of thē that haue flourished in your Church, in those places. Certainely (to say nothing of the rest) your later Popes, as those which were called by the names of Boniface, Innocent, Siluester, Gregory, Calixt, Vrbane, Alexander, Adrian, Pius, Leo, Paul, & almost all the rest; were such, as hardly can any man thinke they could enter into heauen. And further, I call Christ the only teacher of heauenly doctrine to record, that such is your faith and religion, that who so maintaines it fullie and wholie, cannot raigne with Christ, nor be partaker of that heauenly life; and therefore not Iewes only, Pagans, Turks, and notorious Heretikes are tormented in that fire that neuer goes out, but Papists also, of all Heretikes the most vile and odious. Infinite are the soules of Christian men, which haue been throwne headlong into this most wofull destruction these many hundred yeares by that Antichrist of yours, who alone hath more inlarged that infernall kingdome, then all Iewes, Nerves, Mahomets, Arians, Nestorians, Macedonians, Eutychians, and the rest. To you (Campian) I wish that saluation which cōsisteth in the true knowledge of God, and whom he hath sent Iesus Christ, and desire from my hart that now at length you will renounce that Romane Antichrist, with whom you haue conuersed, and returne vnto Christ the onely giuer of eternall life, from whom too long you haue banished your selfe.