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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32964	Reasons of a challenge sent to the universities of England, in matters of religion by Edmund Campion ; faithfully translated into English.	Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.	1687 (1687)	Wing C407; ESTC R12917	29,015	40

and lmbowel its very Body their only Buoy to Posterity exenterating its most goodly and specious parts For the seven Books of the Old Testament to connive at small things were spew'd out by the Calvinists and the Epistle of St. James and five others by the Lutherans with the like Hickups of indigestion about which there was one while a Controversie To these our Modern Presbyterians add the Book of Hester and in a manner the Three Chapters of Daniel which the Anabaptists their contemporaries long since Hiss'd out and derided How modestly did St. Augustine who concluding his Holy Catalogue did not lay down the Hebrew Alphabet for a Rule as the Jews did nor a private Spirit as the Sectaries did but that Spirit which Christ infused into his Church which Church indeed is the Trustee of this Legacy not the Testatrix as some Hereticks do object This Trust the Council of Trent embraced and was challenged by more Ancient Councils The same St. Augustine could not draw into the Scheme of his knowledge why the Book of Wisdom which is now and was then in force as Authentick and Canonical both by the Suffrages of the Church Succession of Ages by the Testimony of the Ancients and Inspirations of the Faithful should be struck out of the Canon with a Rash and Unadvised Censure What would he say now if he should have survived so many Lutheran and Calvinistical Artificers of the Bible who with their Polite and Elegant File have extenuated the Old and New Testament neither have they excluded the Book of Wisdom only but many others out of the Canonical Predicament That whatsoever came not from their Anvil that by a Phrensical Decree was spew'd out as Monstrous and Abortive To this so Dire and Unconsecrated a Sanctuary who have recourse to they indeed although they are extolled in the mouths of their Scullions do make Sale of their Benefices Declaim against Catholicks in their Sermons prepare Axes Racks Tormentilio's and Crosses yet they have been overcome abject disgrac'd vanquish'd and defeated forasmuch as having passed their Sentences as Authoriz'd Judges they obliterate Scripture it self if any part agrees not with their Stomach who is there even ordinarily Learned would fear such Rabbet-like Enemies Which Enemies when they are besieg'd by a Ring of such Learned men as we are will run to their old wiles as it were to Familiar Devils and should not be Entertain'd with Victorious Hummings but Disgraceful Hissings I ask of them for instance By what Right they Maim and Rend the Body of the Bible They answer They do not cut out the true Scriptures but cull out the Supposititious Who is their Judge The Holy Spirit For this answer is prescribed by Calvin that he might escape the Sentence of the Church by which Spirits are tryed Why therefore do you torment one another when all glory in the same Spirit The Spirit of the Calvinists receive Six Epistles which do not please the Spirit of the Lutherans yet both trusted in the Holy Spirit The Anabaptists term the History of Job a Fable interwoven with Comical and Tragical Laws How do they know The Spirit teaches them so Castalio a Debauch'd Rascal esteem'd the Mystical Song of Solomon which the Catholicks admire as the Paradice of the Soul as the hidden Manna as Rich delights in Christ no more than a Song on his Mistriss a Love-colloquie with the Ladies of the Court Whence did he draw it From the Spirit In the Revelation of St. John where every point doth express something Magnificent and Lofty as St. Jerome says yet Luther Brentius and Kemnitius curious Criticks desire it should be Authoriz'd Who would they ask The Spirit Luther with a Preposterous Zeal places the Four Evangelists by themselves and preferring them before the Three Epistles of St. Paul doth moreover Decree that the Gospel of St. John should be denominated True and Singular and good Reason for it because in it he made the Apostles partakers of his Contentions who teach'd him so to do the Spirit But yet that Frier did not scruple to touch the Gospel of S. Luke with a petulant stile because the good Works of Vertue are too often commended in it Who told him so The Spirit Theodorus Beza dared to Traduce that Mystical Expression out of the Twenty Second Chapter of St. Luke This is the Cup the New Testament in my Blood which Cup shall be poured out for you as Corrupted and Depraved because these Sentences admit of no other Exposition than of the Wine of the Cup being chang'd into the real Blood of Christ who told him so the Spirit Lastly when every one intrusts all things to his Spirit they do asperse the Holy Spirit with horrible Blasphemy whoever doth these things do not they betray themselves are they not easily Confuted are they not bridled and restrained without difficulty by a Consistory of such Learned Men as you are O! ye Academians May I fear to dispute with those who have not only with the most Treacherous Infidelity laid hands on Humane Writings but Divine I pass by those things which they have misconstrued although I can accuse them of things inexcusable I submit that to my Friend Gregory Martin who is Skilful of Languages who will perform it more Learnedly and Accurately than I and to others who as I am inform'd have it on the Anvil I Prosecute Crimes more heinous and of a worse nature I have found out Learned Banterers who with rash Incursions have Invaded Gods Prerogative and in many places have inveighed against it as Corrupt Imperfect False and Surreptitious Some parts they have Corrected some they have Carped at and some they have Rooted out quite Hence all the Turrets which they were Fortified with were chang'd into Lutheran Spirits as it were into Castles of Phantasms that they should not be Gravell'd when they should Quote the Scriptures infested with their Errours which indeed they can no more clear themselves of than Sup the Sparks or Eat the Stones For this Cause my first Reason was Vehement and Just that when it had delineated our Adversaries party despersed and vanish'd it might add Courage to all Christians who exert their Wits in these Studies to Fight for a Crown of Glory against the residue of our overthrown Enemies The Second Reason ANother thing which hath inflamed me to a Combat and to bring such Ammunition Musquets and Blunderbusses with me is our Adversaries policy big with Fraud and barren of Prudence in explaining the Scriptures presently ye will touch at this ye Philosophers and therefore I sought out you for my Auditors We ask of our Adversaries for instance who they follow what new Sect they entered into that they exclude Christ out of the Mystical Supper If they Quote the Gospel we appeal to it the words with us are This is my Body this is my Blood which expression seem'd so prevalent with Luther that he desired to be a