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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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But you urge further, and recount the Pastors of several countries, to wha• end I pray you. The remainder•, say you, of the labours of all those that have published the Gospel in all nations far and wide, all, present unto us this same religion which Catholics at this day profess. What could be affirmed more weakly? for the Grecians are opposite unto you, which unto this time have their succession of Bishops not interrupted. And further, the spye• which you send in your new found lands, have found in the furthest coasts thereof many monuments of that faith which we maintain,1 neither may you prefer us before them, at least afore all, you ought to prefer the truth,2 as the Philosopher saith. But if you think your Popes and other glorious titles more ancient then the Gospel, what can you allege why Christ should not deny you to belong to him, seeing you value any thing more then him. Here you tell us of Princes, 3Kings, Caesars, Emperors, and make a goodly show of names, as your manner is. At length you mention our noble Queen• Elizabeth, and will needs teach her, her duty. But she, Campian, needs no such Masters, 4or instructors. She knoweth her self to be the nursing mother of the Church, and that by divine dispensation, and accordingly doth she with all watchfulness and care procure the good thereof, and labours by all possible diligence to prevent all dangers intended by you and your adherents. You say of Calvin and these Princes, ⟨image 179⟩[…] you have spoken, th•• […] heaven can no• contain them. But it passeth your skill to pronounce certainly hereof, nay your Pope himself cannot with all his might pull Calui•• out of heaven, not any of them whom Christ hath made witnesses of his truth. As for you and your fellows, we wish you not the gallows, but salvation. I desire to hope the best of you; and I doubt not but you might attain to the knowledge of the truth in controversy betwixt us, if for the time you could lay aside all prejudicate opinions, and consult with the word of God, and the holy Fathers of the Church. As for the society of Jesus, whereunto you are admitted, it braggeth that it is wholly at the Popes dispensation, and loves Gregory the 13. too well, to love Queen Elizabeth any thing at all, who is so far differing from him.