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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.
The Conclusion unto the University men.
The Conclusion vnto the Vniuersitie men.
Campian (most worthy men) would present this gift of his unto you, which of what worth it is you can best judge. I will not go about to turn or alienate your affections from him, whom I know more firmly resolved, then that any such slender reasons can any whit move you. He may (I grant) make some show, and get some applause from the unlearned multitude; but that he should be able to beguile you, or cast a mist before such and so great ⟨p. 324⟩judgements, if I should suspect it, I should be too in••tio•s to the Universities. Therefore I a• well content that Campian have such place is your conceits and affections, as he can procure, and refer the censure of the matter most willingly unto you. This work he composed at vacant times us he travelled, if we may believe him of his word. He would not seem to write any thing purposely and ••• rately, wherein he both apparently distrust his cause, and bewrays the vanity of his disposition. For whereas before he had prepared it with great deliberation, and brought it into England from Rome, he would seem to us to have penned it on a sudden, at idle times in his travail, which plainly shows the badness of his cause, and argues more then ordinary arrogance. But this is ordinary with our Papists, to pretend all their writings are done of a suddaine, and ex tempore, hoping thereby to be easily excused in their errors: besides they will hereby make us believe, that when they write more deliberately, and take greater pains, then their writings shall be unanswerable. After Bishop Jewell that famous preacher of the truth, had challenged all Papists, and called them to the trial of antiquity, some years ago, certain books were published by men of great name, Harding, Rastall, Dorman: but observe their notable policy. When they had been full three years in preparing their answer, and at length had finished somewhat, fearing they should be but lightly respected by the learned and circumspect reader, they dissembled their intent, alleging that they were written in hast, not with purpose of publishing them, but only to satisfy the particular request of some private friends, what could they have feigned more foolishly, or affirmed more featefullie?