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A17867	Campian Englished. Or A translation of the Ten reasons in which Edmund Campian (of the Societie of Iesus) priest, insisted in his challenge, to the Vniuersities of Oxford and Cambridge Made by a priest of the Catholike and Roman Church.; Rationes decem. English	Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.	1632 (1632)	STC 4535; ESTC S116202	50,740	196

and vnder this title the verie sound of his Name iarres in the eares of our Aduersaries This man I say the furie of Caluin denyes to haue beene instructed in the Schoole of the Holie Ghost because he called sacred Images by which the Saints are to vs absently present the Bookes of the illiterate and vnlearned The day is too short and indeede the Sunne must runne a greater circle of his course to serue my turne before I can number the Epistles Sermons Homilyes smaller Volumes Disputations of the Fathers all being filled and stored with vnanswerable proofes in defence of the Sentences and Articles of our Catholike Religion As long as these their Monuments of Learning are to be soulde in the Stationer's shopps in which the Enemie most vnworthily pretends as you haue seene so many chaynes of Errour and Superstition to haue beene wouen so long in vaine are our Bookes forbidden to be read in vaine are the Sea-ports so narrowly kept for the preuenting of their entrance in in vaine are the houses of Catholiks their t●unks boxes and other priuate receptacles violently broken open in vaine are so manie minacious threatening Proclamations sett vpon the publike Gates and other chiefe places in Cittyes since neither Harding nor Sanders nor Allan nor Stapleton nor Bristoll doe affect these supposed new dreames more zealously or with greater feruour and sedulitie then these Fathers aboue by me mentioned haue donne When I ●eflected vpon this poynt with a serious introuersion of minde I grant it gaue an edge to my desire and my greedines of Combat was encreased in the which what way soeuer the Aduersary shall take except he will yeeld to God's honour he runneth himself vpon the sands Yf he allowe of the Fathers he then looseth the field Yf he exclude them he thus escapeth but by flight It so chanced myself then being yong that Iohn Iewell the Antesignanus fore-man of the Caluinists in England who euer buylded his state in the ruines of men's Soules did in his Sermon at Paul's Crosse prouoke the Catholiks with incredible boasting he through Hypocrisie appealing to and calling vpon those Fathers who flourished within the first six hundred yeares of our Redemption Those worthie men who then suffered exile at Louayne in all haste arrested his challenge with their penns though they stoode obnoxious to diuers difficulties in regard of the iniquitie of the times I dare be bolde to pronounce that the calumnie ignorance improbitie and supercilious impudencie of this Iewell who indeede wanted a foyle to make his luster good then happely layed open by these Men's wrytings did so much benefitt to our generall Cause at that I can hardly remember any one thing more aduantageous to the Catholike Church of England then groaning vnder the Burden Menacing Edicts and scrowles were in all haste affixed vpon the common Posts that no such bookes should be redd or kept by any though Iewell 's vaunting exclamation might iustly seeme to extort the writing of them All Persons at that time which obserued this passage did by this meanes learne that the ancient Fathers were wholy Catholike that is wholy Ours Neither did D. Humfrey conceale this wound giuen to himself and his Brethren who though he daigned to become Iewell 's Encomiast in immoderatly extolling him and by seeking to embalme his Memorie by writing his life yet did cast this one aspersion of incōsideration and inaduertencie vpon him to witt that Iewell proffered to stand inalterably to the iudgements of the Fathers with which men this Doctour in peremptorie expresse words disclaymeth from hauing the least entercours commerce or association so loath is the Enemie to keepe anie quarter with the Primitiue Writers and Fathers One time in familiar discours we throughly sownded Tobie Mathew who now domineres in the Pulpit enchanting much aboue others by his often Sermoning the eare of Credulity and whome for his good literature and sparks of Moralitie we greatly affected entreating him to answer ingenuously and plainely Whether that man who spent himself in diligent reading the Fathers could possibly fluctuate touching the truth of the Roman Religion or could vnfeignedly embrace that Fayth to the which himself so earnestly exhorteth He freely vnbreasted himself and thus replyed it was impossible if so with the reading ●f them he would giue an indubious ass●nt and credi●t vnto them Which Sentence is most true and I am fully perswaded that neither himself at this present nor Matthew Hutton who is reputed by some to be much trauelled in the Fathers nor the rest of our Aduersaryes who performe the like labour can be of any other iudgement Hitherto therefore I may securely descend into these Lists as prepared to battaile with those who as men houlding the wolfe by the eares are forced to leaue vpon their Cause a perpetuall and indelible scarre or blemish w●ether they reiect or admitt the Fathers Since in the One they but prouide for their running away in the Other they are suffocated and strangled The sixt Reason THE GROVND of the Fathers IT is cleare that if euer that precept and command Scrutamini Scripturas Search the Scriptures was as in reason it hath and ought to be to vs peculiarly incumbent vpon anie sorte of Christians that the most holie Fathers did with the greatest prayse and in the highest degree accomplish the same since by these Men's diligence and charges the Bibles haue beene translated and transcribed into so manie tongues and transported into so manie discoasted Nations By these Men's dangerous yet successiue attempts they were snatched out of the flames of the Enemy and of all vtter deuastation and extinguishment By these Men's indefatigable paynes each part and passage of them was most painfully cutt vp and as it were anatomized For both day and night those Fathers did euen drinke vp the Holie Scriptures they were euer most readie from out their Chayres and Pulpitts to discourse of the Holie Scriptures they alwayes enriched their voluminous writings with testimonies borrowed from the Holie Scriptures they haue disclosed and vnfoulded with their faythfull Scholiaes and Commentaries the most knottie passages of the Holie Scripture they haue seasoned their Feasts Fasts with studying the Holie S●riptures To conclude they haue spent all their dayes with a Sabaoth l●sse incessant labour ●euen to the end of their feeble old age in meditating vpon the H●lie Scriptures And although the said Doctours were frequently accustomed to draw their arguments in patronage of their Fayth from the authoritie of their fore-fathers from the practise of the Church from the Succession of Popes from Generall Councells from Apostolicall Traditions from the vn●aunted constancie of Martyrs from the Sentences Decrees of the Pastours of the Church and from stupendious and astonishing Miracles whereby the setled Course of Na●ure was as I m●y say vnnatured and dissolued Yet all these different sorts of proofes they euer most willingly enleuened with stored testimonies of the written

preuayling Cause and impregnable Truth The third Reason The nature of HOLIE CHVRCH AT the verie hearing of the word Church pronounced the Enemie did grow pale Neuerthelesse one imposture he hath excogitated of which I much desire you should take notice that thereby you may more easily deprehend the ruine and mendicitie of falshood After he had diligently obserued that both in the Propheticall and Apostolicall Scriptures there was made frequently most honourable mention of the Church As that it is called the Holie Cittie a fructiferous Vine a mightie high Mountayne the right and streight Way the onlie Doue the Kingdome of Heauen the Sp●use and bodie of Christ the pillar of Truth that Societie into the which the Holie-Ghost then promised instilleth all healthfull things that Societie vpon the which the Deuill though swolne with malice through out all the parts thereof could neuer fasten his teeth with ●nie deadlie bitt briefly that Societie against the which whosoeuer is contumacious and refractorie although with his tongue he preacheth Christ yet he can haue no greater share in him then anie Publican or Heathen Now in regard of these Panegyricks the Aduersarie dares not in expresse words openly impugne the Church which the Scriptures do so much magnifye and celebrate Therefore the name of the Church he subtilly retayneth the thing it self by defining he vtterly ouerthroweth thus he making the Being of the Church to consist in a Not-being For he hath attempted to delineate and draw the Church with such proprieties and shadowes which do keepe her in a continuall latencie and as being remoued from all sensible apprehension like to Plato's Idea do expose her to the sight of some few men and those only who being rapt Spiritualists can comprehend with their nice imagination this aerie bodie and can with a transpearcing and searching eye finde out and stedfastly behould the members of this Sodalitie Where is anie candour in this proceeding Where ingenuitie and playnenesse the Attendant of Truth What Scriptures what sententionall Resolutions what Fathers do thus pensill forth the Church There are Epistles written to the Churches of Asia there are also seuerall written by Peter by Paul by Iohn and other the Apostles The planting propagation and expansion of Churches is abundantly recorded in the Acts of the Apostles What do all ●●ese passages of Scripture inforce Do they euict those Churches to be made knowne and manifest only to God and holie men or otherwise to Christians of all sortes But certainly Durum telum necessitas Commiserate them For since these men during the full space of fifteene hundred yeares after long disquisition and search made could not light vpon one Cittie one Village one House empoysoned with their Nouelismes vntill that vnhappie M●nke had polluted a Virgin deuoted to God by incestuous copulation or that Swash-buckler Roaring-Boy of Heluetia had conspired against his Countrie or that Stigmaticall fugitiue had impatronized himself of Geneua no wonder if they be constrayned to vaunt of their Church if ani● Church they will challenge 〈◊〉 lying in a perpetuall obscuritie and to make clayme to those for their Progenitours whome neither themselues had knowne nor any others haue euer seene Except perhaps they glorie in some of their chiefe Prodromi and fore-runners whom to haue beene positiue and formed Heretikes is euident As Aerius Iouinian Vigilantius Heluidius the Iconomachi Berengarius the Waldenses Lolhardus Wicliff Huss from all which they haue begged certain pestilent fragments of Doctrinall speculations greedily indeede licking vp much of that poyson which those former had vomited out in their blurred papers Wonder not Academians if I nothing feare these emptie smoakes the which so soone as I shall come to the height of your presence will be most easie to dissipate and dispell For this is our Sermocination and discours Tell me ô Protestant wilt thou strike sayle and yeald to that Church which hath euer enioyed in former Ages an vneclipsed and glorious Conspicuitie Altogeather replyes he and without appeale Let vs then perlustrate the places and times To which Church dost thou subscribe To the Congregation of the Faythfull Who were the Men Their names indeede do lye interred in obliuion but it is euident that manie such did then liue Euident To whome is it euident To God Who dares mantayne this groundles assertion We who haue receaued from the Lord herein sublime Enthusiasmes and illuminations Fabulous toyes How can I be drawne to belieue this Yf thou didst burne with an inflamed fayth thou wouldst as certainly know this as thou knowest that thou dost liue Spectatum admissi risum teneatis Whereas the diuine Word commaundeth all Christians to range ioyne themselues to the Church to take heede of being slayne by the spirituall sword to liue in peace in the house of God to lay downe their soules vpon the affiance of the Church as vpon the pillar of Truth here to determine all complaynts and accusations to repute men disincorporated and cast out from thence but for Heathens Is it possible then as if Christ instantly intended to repudiate his Spouse that it should not be knowne during the reuolution of so manie Hundreds of yeares where the Church was or whether in all that time it remayned in its full Orb but rather suffered an vtter disparition or who they were that appertayned thereto Or will our Aduersaries notwithstanding all this still whisper in Corners that there there only the Church is where their Gospellers and such only as they suppose to be predestinated are to be found From whence it ineuitably resulteth that if one should depraue calumniate the authoritie of his spirituall Prelat he offendeth not if so he can be perswaded that his said Prelat were at that time in mortall sinne and had finally fallen from the Church Whereas then I called to minde that our Aduersaries haue fabricated such deceiptfull Stratagems wherewith no Church in anie former Age was acquaynted and that they being depriued of the thing itself would in these straights neuerthelesse seeke to possesse therein rest solaced the naked sound of a poore Word or Name I was much animated at the remembrance of your Christalline and cleare Iudgemenrs did vndoubtedly promise to myself that as soone as you had discouered these subterfugious Sophistications and frauds euen from the Aduersaries owne confession you as Men of true resolution and fortitude would instantly cutt asunder all such netts and illaqueations wouen to ensnare your Soules vnto your owne interminable perdition The fourth Reason COVNCELS IN the infancie of the Church a most weightie question doubt touching the practise of the Ceremonies of the Law which then much afflicted the weake and tender mindes of the Belieuers receaued its finall decision from a Councell of the Apostles and Seniours vpon that occasion assembled The Sonnes did then belieue their Parents the Sheepe their Pastours charging