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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

fiue other Epistles which at some time and in some place heretofore haue beene called in question With these our late spiritualized Brethren of Geneua do range as Apocryphall The Booke of H●ster and almost three whole Chapters of Daniel which the Anabaptists their pew-fellowes long since with a scornefull and subriding contenance haue exploded O with how much more modestie did Austin proceede who composing the sacred Catalogue of Scripture tooke not for his boundarie therein the Hebrew Alphabet with the Iewes nor the priuate reuealing spirit with our Sectaryes but measured it with that verie Spirit with the which CHRIST doth inanimate the whole Bodye of the Church Which Church being the Gardian of this Depositum as the Heretikes doe suggest and not the Mistris hath challenged to itself long-since by the authoritie of most ancient Councells all this Treasurie Which poynt of late the Councell of Trent hath in like manner acknowledged The same Austin elaboratly disputing but of one small branch of Scripture could not be induced to belieue that the Booke of Wisdome which so long had receaued its further strength from the iudgement of the Church from the long hand of Time from the approbation of the Ancients from the secret instinct or Dictamen of the faythfull should after all this through the precipitate rashnes or swispering cōtradiction of some one fellow or other be reiected as a Booke adulterate and spurious or vnworthie anie place in the Canon of Scripture But what would the said Father say if he were here conuersing vpon earth and should behold diuers Luthers and Caluins to become Bible-makers who with their polishing fyle and castigation haue shaued the Old and New Testament Neither haue they strooken out the Booke of Wisdome only but diuers other parts besides from the whole bulke of Scripture and this with such a magistralitie and peculiar deliuerie of themselues as that whatsoeuer of this nature is not vented out of their shopp the same should through a phreneticall resolution be spitted at loathed as wares vntrimmed and not saleable These men who are forced to descend to such a dire and execrable refuge though they be much honoured through the assenting tongues of their followers though they t●afficke at pleasure in Church-liuings though they haue gayned a popular applause by their often Sermoning though they iointly threaten in words writing the sword torture or the gallowes against Catholiks neue●thelesse they are found to be but men ouerthrowne dishonoured contemptible and whose Cause euen in its maisterveyne lyes mortally a-bleeding Since they assuming to themselues a censo●ious and correcting authoritie and sitting forsooth as honou●able Iudges doe obliterate and deface with their expunging ●enne ●uen the Tables of Sacred W●in i● so it seemeth to endanger them in anie sort Is there anie man though but initiated in this kinde of studie who will feare the pettie though subtil forces of such enemies Which enemies not being able to withstand the first onsett so soone as they appeare in the eye presence of you Learned Men and make their flight to these their cony-holes as relying therein vpon their familiar Spirit or Genius are to be entertayned not so much with words of contumelie as with hissing and trampling of feete I would demaund of them for instance sake by what right or priuiledge they thus cleaue and teare a peeces the Bodie of the Scripture They returne this horse and dry answer that they doe attempt non exscindere sed ●xcernere not to cutt of any true parts but to cull out the suppositions and forged By the authoritie of what Iudge doe they attempt this By the spirit of the Holie-Ghost they reply For this verie euasion being a cardinal poynt and great mysterie in their art is deliuered by Caluin that he might decline the iudgement of the Church by which all Spiritts are tr●ed Why then do seuerall of you wound with your pennes seuerall parts of the said Scripture since you all promiscuously vaunte of enioying the same Spirit Are you not here plunged and stabled The Spirit of the Caluini●ts achnowledgeth six Epistles which Epistles are wholy reiected by the Spirit ●f Luth●r And yet they both we must presume were endued with the Spirit of the Holie-Ghost The Anabaptists do stile the Historie of Iob a fable as being intermixt with Tragicall and Comicall matter By what meanes know they this The Spirit so teacheth them Castalio that goatish and lecherous companion was not ashamed to prize the mystical Canticle of Salomon which all Catholiks do admire as the Paradise of the Soule as the Hidden Manna as most choyce delights in Christ at no more then as a loue-song made to one's Lemman or as an amorous discours had with the wayting-maydes of the Mistris From whence sucked he this from the Spirit The Apocalyps of Iohn where euerie line according to Hierome soundeth some sublime magnificall poynt Luther Brentius and Kempnitius such rigid Aristarchi they are doe note with a Theta of condemnation as censuring it to be defectiue and there-vpon they wished that it might loose the honour of being reputed Scripture Who was here their Instructour The Spirit Luther through a preposterous zeale ballanceth and compareth the foure Gospells togeather and aduancing the Epistles of Paul much aboue the three first he in the close of all peremptorily and Senatour-like decreeth the Gospell of Iohn only to be acknowledged as fayre true and most principall because as much as in him did lye he willingly would haue made the Apostles partakers of his contentions in matters of Fayth By whome was he here warranted By the presumed soueraignetie and domination of the Spirit Yea this our diminutiue Brother blushed not to disgorge some wanton and petulant words against the Gospell of Luke by reason that the exercise of Vertue and Good Works is therein frequently inculcated Who instilled this into him The Spirit Theodorus Beza so commaunded ouer the written Word as that he dared to traduce as corrupted and by some meane vitiated that most sacred and hidden sentence out of Luke 22. Hic est calix nouum testamentum in sanguine meo qui calix pro vobis fundetur This is the Chalice the new Testament in my bloud which Chalice shal be shed for you Because this texture of words could suffer no other exposition then that of the Wine in the Cupp turned into the true Bloud of Christ. Who reuealed thus much to him The Spirit Briefly whiles euerie one belieueth in his owne Spirit they do belye the name of the Spirit of God with most horrible blasphemie Who runne these diuisions of desperate boldnes Learned Academ●ans do they not betray themselues are they not easily vanquished are they not in the presence of such indicious Men as you are layed prostrate with the least encounter May I be afraid to dispute with these in defence of the Catholike Fayth who

concerning these two of which the fi●st out of Religion vastly runneth vpon my said Wryting the other euen brea●hing malice rudely tumbles tosses it vp and downe there is late●y published a small Treatise for them to pe●vse which discourseth so farr forth as is th●ught conuenient of our Societie of the iniuryes offe●ed vs by these kinde of men and of the function which we vndergoe Now to me it remayned because I see the chiefe Protestant Doctours prepare for me the rack and gallowes not the Schooles to war●ant with you the cause of this my proceeding and to poynt out those branches and heads of Matter harbingers of my desired future D●sputation which haue distilled into me so great confidence and securitie And further I would hereby wish you who are more peculiarly ●bliged thereto then others to espouse you● seruiceable dayes chiefly to t●is incumbencie and lab●ur since CHRIST the Church the Common-wealth and your owne Sou●e's wellfare exact thus much from you If I as enioying pregnancie learning art reading memorie should prouoke anie one skilfull and experienced Aduersarie I might iustly haue thereby bewrayed in me a swelling vent●sitie and pride as neither rightly balancing myself nor them But if I looking vpon the Cause of Religion with a dispassionate vnpreiudging and single eye haue thought myself able enough to demonstrate this Sunne to shine in its Meridian your Ingenuities ought not to rest disedifyed thereby but freely to grant to me being imbarked in so great an Action this seruour which the Honour of IESVS CHRIST my King and the impugnable Truth haue produced You well know that Marcus Tullius in his Oration for Quintius when Roscius did 〈…〉 to obta●ne the Cause then controuersed if he could but euict that seauen hundred miles could not be runne in the space of two dayes did not only litle rega●de the elocution of Hortensius but neither of those whe excelled Hortensius in his Art as the Philippies the Cottae the Antonies t●e Crassi who●e re●●e countenāces were full of R●etorike to wh●ch men himself ascribed all perfection in Oratorie and stoare of fyled w●rds For there is as c●●taine Truth of that radiancie and splendour that no impostures either in gallantrie of speach or in the matter itself can ouerclowde it Now this which we here vnde●take is more cleare and illustrious then was the Thesis or Subiect of Roscius For if I can but make good that there is a Heauen that there is a God that there is a Fayth that there is a CHRIST I do come of victorius May I not then be he●e courageous may I not here shew an inexpugnable confidence● Certainly hangd drawne quartered I well may be ouercome I cannot be Since I ancker myself on those Doctours whome that Spirit did i●struct which is neither vanquished nor deceaued How then can I here loose the honour of the day I humbly beseech you that you would be but content to be saued this is the Butt ob my desires which one request if I may obtayne I shall be farre more hopefull in all the rest In the meane-time render yourselues wholy vp to this solicitude and Warrfare batter at the eares of CHRIST with your incessant payers become breathlesse in your diligence and labour herein And then doubtlesly you shall finde the matter to stand as abstracting from all Circumstances it is in itself that is you shall finde our Aduersari●s ●o vse strange tergiue●sations of distrust and despayre and vs as being securely grounded readie to expect and wayte for this field of Combat with all composed se●enitie of minde and spirituall resolution I here forbeare to spreade myself in more words since in the rest following I direct further speaches to you Fare you well THE REASONS of the Challenge of EDMVND CAMPIAN made to the ACADEMIANS of England The first Reason THE SACRED SCRIPTVRES IN the throng of so manie things which proclaime our Aduersarie's guiltie diffidence in matter of Religion there is not anie point so much preuayling therin as the Maiestie of God's sacred Writt being by them most vnworthily dishonoured For after they haue spurned at the authorities and consents of all Witnesses they are finall● b●ought to this one shift that they a●e not able longer to subsist and stand exc●pt th●y make violent incursions and sallyes vpon the said Diuine Bo●kes Doubtlessely these men discouer themselues to be in the extreamest perill and being in these straytes they are most desperatly r●solued to expect endure the danger of the last shott What forced the Man●ch●es to reade with a maleuolent and troubled eye the Gospell of Mathew the Acts of the Apostles Dist●ust in thei● Cause and d●speration For with these volu●es of Holie Scripture they were wounded since they denyed CHRIST to haue beene borne of a Virgin and dreamed that the Holie-Ghost then descended from Heauen when their Paraclete that most blasphemous and wicked Persian fi●st stepped forth and appeared to the world What constrayned the Ebyonits to discanon all the Epistles of Paul De●peration For these retayning their dignitie Circumcision which those men laboured to reuiue was wholy antiquated and disannulled What induced Luther that flagitious Apostata to alleuiate the worth of the Epistle of Iames by stiling it Contentious swelling dry strawy and vnworthie the spirit of Apostle Desperation For with this writing the wretch was appaled and confounded when he enthroned Iustice in the onlie seate of Fayth What caused the littar or p●sthumi of Luther at one push to thrust out of the Canon of the Bible the Bookes of Tohie Ecclesiasticus the Machabies and diuers others equally calumniated by them for their Serpentine malice borne to th●se former Desperation since by these Diuine Oracles they are vtterly foyled as often as they dispute of the patronage of Angells as often as they impugne the doctrine of Fr●e-will as often as they entertayne anie discours of the state of the faythfull departed as often as they make assault vpon the Article of Intercession of Saints But what Is the matter brought to this issue Is pertinacie in iudgement and insolent Bouldnes arriued to this ascent and strayne Are not our Aduersaryes afraide after they haue betrampled with all contempt vpon the Church of Christ vpon Coun●ells the seates of Christ's Apos●les the Fathers Martyrs Emperours Assents of all People ancient Lawe● Vniu●rsities Histories briefly vpon all steps or prints of Antiquitie Sanctitie and further haue publikely dogmatized that all Controuersies are to receaue their inappealable tryall only from the written Word of God Are they not afraid I say neuerthelesse thus to haue mangled that verie Word yet remayning by hauing hewed from thence as from the whole bodye so many so good so fayre parcells thereof The Caluinists haue paired away not to speake of some small passages seauen Bookes out of the Old Testament The Lutherans the Epistle of Iames and through their malignant disaffection to this