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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Neither was this often recourse of Christians into those places the cause of the Jews hatred unto them, as you untruly surmise; but the Gospel was the true cause of difference betwixt them and us.1 They urge Moses; we teach that Moses must give place to Christ;q from hence only proceeds their hatred unto us: but you are odious unto them in many respects;r your manifold idolatries continually hindering ⟨p. 311⟩them from receiving the Gospel of Christ. Remove your idols, that we all that are called Christians, may worship God in spirit and truth. The Jews then will join themselves unto us, and will speedily in great multitudes betake themselves to the sheepfold of Christ. The Jews complain they have been destroyed by your Ancestors; whom mean you, the Romans who raced the City under the conduct of Titus? These were enemies of the faith of Christ: will you be their posterity, or what other Ancestors have you, that have been author of so great calamity unto the Jews? They have, I grant, many things in their religion, which will ever alienate them from you: yet in many respects the Jews are much beholding unto you; so as unless they will incur the suspicion of great unthankfulness, they must love you again deservedly. For you give them leave to use their ancient Ceremonies, and that in Rome, and freely to utter their blasphemies against Christ without blame; so they pay tribute, they have impunity for all their sacrileges and blasphemies. The Lutherans (say you) never opposed themselves against them, neither did they ever receive any damage from the Jesuits.4 You proceed to Heathens, among whom you affirm those were most violent which devised the most grievous torments for Christians. I will easily grant, that those Tyrants that killed and murdered the Christians for the space of 300. years, were violent and outrageous above measure. What of this? These (say you) that were thus drawn unto all kinds of torment that could be devised, These were the fathers and children of our faith. Nothing less (Campian:) this should have bin ⟨p. 312⟩