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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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Now you much commend Augustine's modesty. Who, 1say you, hath made a Catalogue of the books of holy Scripture, far better then either the Jews, or Sectaries. I could wish you Jesuits had a little more modesty, that ye might be more like Augustine; for all men speak and cry out of your male pertness and insolency. But Augustine counted those books Canonical, which we do not; true, I deny it not, but what of that? is not Augustine opposite to Hierome? for Hierome expressly denies those books to be numbered in the Canon. And Augustine setting down the whole Canon of the Scripture, doth annex these to it. It seemeth there is a great difference in their judgements: for those which Hierome denies, Augustine affirmeth to be Canonical: both famous men and such as have deserved well of the Church of God; how then may we satisfy Augustine, whom Campian objecteth unto us? No otherwise then as the truth is. The terms of Apocrypha and Canonical Hierome useth in one sense, and Augustine in another: Hierome accounted all these books Apocrypha, which were not written in Hebrew: Augustine though in deed and in truth he differed not, yet he gave this name especially to those books, which ⟨p. 42⟩were not fraught with fables and lies, such as those times afforded very many. For so he writeth lib. 15. cap. 23. de civit. Dei. Though there be some truth found in the Apocrypha books, yet they have no Canonical authority, there being so many lies in them. Therefore he names in the Canon the book of Judith and Toby and Ecclesiasticus, & other of that sort, because there was more truth and sincerity in them, then in those common and divulged fables. Therefore Augustine useth the term of Canonical Scripture more largely then Hierome, and of Apocrypha more strictly: unless happily we will suppose that of set purpose Augustine would differ from Hierome in a thing of that moment. Besides the Romish Cardinal,2 of whom we spake before, writeth that certain Councils with Augustine accounted these books Canonical because they were rules for manners, not for faith and doctrine. And what reason Augustine had to plead for the book of Wisdom, 3least it should be turned out of the Canon, let him look to it himself;