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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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The first reason, which is holy Scriptures.
Whereas there are many things. which evidently open the Adversaries mistrust in the cause, yet nothing so much, as the majesty of Gods books, by them most filthily* corrupted. For they, who after that they have rejected the voices and testimonies of all other witnesses, and are nevertheless, ⟨p. 18⟩driven to so narrow shifts, that they cannot defend their cause to be good, except they lay violent hands upon the holy Scriptures also, assuredly show themselves to be in great distress, and all other helps failing and fainting, must now try the last and uttermost shift. What cause had the Manichees to cancela S. Matthew's Gospel, and the Acts of the Apostles? Desperation: for they were tormented with these books, both because they had denied Christ to beb borne of a Virgin, and also had falsely affirmed, that then the holyc Ghost came first down from heaven amongst Christians, when theird Paraclete, that most wicked Persian leapt out. What made thee Ebionites to abandon all S. Pauls Epistles? Desperation: for so long as these kept their authority, Circumcision is abolished, which they had brought back again. What enforced