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Reasons of a challenge sent to the universities of England, in matters of religion by Edmund Campion ; faithfully translated into English.
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Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
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1687
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Wing C407; ESTC R12917
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When therefore Rome had corrupted its Faith so earnestly celebrated when it ceas'd to be what it was before At what time under what Pope after what manner by what force with what encrease did another Religion invade the City and the World What Votes what Ryots what Lamentations did it beget All the rest of the World were asleep while Rome Rome I say had new Sacraments a new Sacrifice and a new Model of Religion on the Anvil Is there no Historian either Latin or Greek far nor near would lay this unto his Commentaries Therefore this certainly is evident if we do believe any thing much History and various the Messenger of Truth the life of memory would fluently speak and repeat it those things which they do obtrude no Modern relation can authorize in the Church The Historians are for me and my Adversaries Incursions very cold which cannot move any one unless 't is first received all Christians of all times fell into gross Treachery and into the Lake of Hell till Luther Ravish'd Bora. The Eighth Reason BUt most excellent Men when I consider the monstrous opinions of men concerning Heresies I had some with me which will come in the way to be Confuted I may condemn my self of Sloth and Madness if I should fear the faculty or force of any one in trying me Let him be Ingenious Eloquent let him be Active let him be well Read in Books he will necessarily seem dry when he shall Defend things so impossible he shall be disputed with if he refuses these of God of Christ of Man of Sin of Justice of the Sacraments of Manners I will see whether they dare to affirm those things which they think and those things which they accounting as necessary do divulge as the Scripture viz. God is the Author and cause of my Sin Willing Suggesting Effecting Commanding Labouring and Governing the Diabolical Counsels of the Wicked It was the proper work of God so was the calling of Paul the Adultery of David and the wickedness of the Traytor Judas This Monster which sometime Philip was ashamed of yet Luther from whom Philip had it as an Heavenly Oracle extoll'd it with wonderful praise and his Scholar for that he did not much differ from the Apostle St. Paul I will ask also of what Spirit Luther was whom the English Calvinists term a Man Divinely inspired to enlighten the World when he took this from the Litany of the Church Holy Trinity one God have mercy one us By and by I will go to the Person of Christ I will see what they would have to themselves there Christ the Son of God Son of the God Calvin God of himself Beza he is not begot of the Essence of the Father also their are two Hypostatical Vnions constituted in Christ one of the Soul with the Flesh another of Divinity with the Humanity There is a place in St. John I and my Father are one he doth not shew Christ God of the same Substance with the Father but my Soul also saith Luther hates this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 go forward Christ from his Infancy was not perfect in Grace but in the Dowries of the mind as other men he grew older becoming more wise by use so that the Youth Laboured with Ignorance which is as much truly as to say he was contaminated with Original Sin and Vice but know those things which are more horrid Christ when Praying in the Garden sweat Water and Blood was amazed with the sense of Eternal Damnation he cry'd out with a loud Voice without Reason without Spirit a sudden Voice with the Impetuosity of Grief which being not well Premeditated he severely rebuked Is there any thing more Christ when he was Nailed on the Cross cry'd out my God my God c. He was Kindled with the Flames of Hell he sent out the Voice of despair no otherwise affected than if he was in everlasting Death also they add what they can to these Christ they say Descended to Hell viz. being Dead tasted of Hell no less than the Souls of the Damned unless that they were restored by him For even as corporal Death profits nothing so the Soul also ought to struggle with everlasting death and after this manner weigh our wickedness and punishment and lest any one should by chance think that this crept into Calvin through neligence the same Calvin calls all them if any of them revolv'd that Doctrine of Comfort damn'd Knaves O the times you have nourish'd this Monster that delicate and Royal Blood which Sprung out of the torn and cleft Body of the Lamb every drop of whose Blood by means of the Dignity of the Host could redeem a 1000 Worlds profited nothing to manking unless the Mediator of God and Man Christ Jesus had made also the second Death the Death of the Soul the Death of Grace partaker of Sin alone Execrable Blasphemy Bucer will seem modest in respect of this madness altho he is impudent who accounts the Grave Hell in a symbol by a vain preposterous repetition and Tautology rather The English Calvinists have recourse to Calvin their Idol part to Bucer their great master part also have murmured against this article lest it should cause any more trouble since that 't was exempted from the Symbol without noise that also was attempted in a Conventicle at London I remember Rich. Cheney who was there told me so a very Old Man who had been injuriously Fin'd by the Plunderers abroad and could not enter into his Fathers House So far concerning Christ what concerning Man The Image of God was quite raz'd out in man no spark of good was quick in him his whole nature as to all the parts of his Soul was so extremely rever'd that truly he was not at all Holy there is nothing else within him but coruption and contagion To what purpose are are these things That they who got Glory by Faith only wallowing in the Dunghil of their filthiness may accuse nature despair of virtue and disburthen Precepts Hither Illyricus the chief of the Magdeburgenses added his direful opinion of Original Sin which he would have to be the inward substances of the Soul for those since Adams Fall the Devil procreates and makes like himself This also is trivial in this case all sins are alike so lest the Stoicks should revive they are weighed by God the Judge altho God that just Judge should add a heap to our Burthen rather than an easement and should heap up that which is not in the thing when he is just The Cook who killed a Dunghil Cock when there was no need of him did no less offend against God the righteous Judge than that Assassinator who Beza like being disguis'd in Drink killed the Duke of Guise a Prince of great worth with his Hand Gun than which Exploit the world never saw any thing in our Age more Dolorous and Lamentable But perhaps they which are in this state
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