A15057:347
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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But you now appear out of hell,1 and are come to land, and wheresoever you cast your eyes or thoughts, All is your own (as you say) all subject themselves, and subscribe to your religion. Me thinks I see that brainsick Merchant, who standing by the sea, and beholding the ships, cried out, all he saw was his own; otherwise such senseless dreams could not proceed, but from a wit and judgement exceedingly weakened.2 For (say you) the Roman succession witnesseth, in which Church (as Austen speaketh) the Primacy of the Apostolic chair hath always had the preeminence. Many causes there were, why special account in times past should be made of the church of Rome, especially for that Rome was the seat of the Empire, as approved in the Council held at Constantinople. 3bI grant therefore tha• •his Church was accounted the supreme, chief, greatest, and the principal, preferred before other Churches. Trow you hence to conclude, the Bishop of Rome is the chief and principal Bishop or head of the Church?5 Austen himself forbid it in the Council of Carthage, viz. that the Bishop of the chief Sea should not be called Prince of Priests, or any like title. Although then the holy Fathers for divers respects gave the preeminence to the church of Rome, yet ⟨p. 319⟩••d they never acknowledgec that infinite p••••• ••ll authority which he now challengeth, neither ••d other Apostolic Churches, whether they were founded by the Apostles themselves, or by some of their scholars, yield any testimony of truth to the church of Rome. Here you stick in a quagmire, and e fain by entreaty to beg that which by strong reason you should prove and cannot.