A15057:7
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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM LORD KNOWLES, BARON OF GREYS, TREASURER OF HIS MAJESTIES Household, and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable privy Council.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WILLIAM LORD KNOVVLES, BARON OF GREYS, TREASVRER OF HIS MAIESTIES Houshold, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honorable priuie Councell.
Right Honourable, the Religion, or more truly, the superstition of the malignant Church of Rome, hath two special privileges above any religion in the world that either hath been, or is. The one, that the professors of it may eat their God in the Sacrament: the other, that they may kill their King in their discontentment; not only when he is an Heretic, but, as the law saith,1 when he is Inutilis, not for their turn and to their minds. The former hath bin the cause of the spilling of much blood in the days of Q. Mary: the latter of deposing of so many Kings, and murdering of them, in France, and other places of Christendom, and of the manifold treasons in the days of Queen Elizabeth of blessed and happy memory. And of two attempts against his sacred person and state, in these ⟨image 3⟩three years space. The first was but a smoke, the latter should have been a sire: the first was but the lightning; the latter should have been the thunderclap; if he that is the God both of lightning and thunder had not graciously prevented it. Now the former of these points they defend every where: but the latter they a little blush to hear of; not that it is not in their hearts, but because their hands want power to effect it. Yet that it is their doctrine and constant opinion, hath been proved in a small treatise, which I presented to •our I honour some few months ago. And that so apparently that they are at a default, as the Council was