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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

that not with the least tecture of reason he could forge anie Fayth to be in Infants did allow the caution of Luther and exiling all Pedobaptisme out of the Church did thereupon decree that only Persons of ripe age should be washed in the sacred Font. As touching the other Sacraments Although that many headed Beast doth often please himself with the eiaculation and casting out of his throate of most horrible contumelies against them yet since they daily obtund the eares with a fastidious iteration I wholy pretermit and passe them ouer There yet remaine behind certaine most hurtfull gobbetts of Hereticall doctrine touching life and Manners the which Luther had vomited out in his papers that so from the impure belching of his stomach he might inhale breath poyson into his Readers Heare ô you Academians with patience but withall blush for I presume your cheekes cannot endure such vnchast words and pardon me being the Relatour If the wife will not nor can performe the due of marriadge let the chamber-mayde come and stepp in her roome Certainly the art of Venerie is as necessarie to euerie one see what filth he disgorgeth as meate drinke or sleepe Matrimonie is much more excellen● then Virginitie since from this latter Christ and Paul haue dehorted all Christians But what Are these perhaps indiuiduall or peculiar to Luther They are not Since they were lately defended by my Antagonist Chark but most miserably God knowes and fearefully Will you haue anie more drawne out of this Vessel Why not By how much thou art the more wicked by so much saith Luther thou art more neare to Grace All good Actions God iudging them are Mortall Sinnes God resting propitious veniall and more pardonable No man thinketh euil out of his owne disposition The Decalogue nothing belonged to Christians God respecteth not our Good Works Only they rightly participate of the Supper of our Lord whose seuered Consciences are attended on with sorrowfull afflicted troubled confused and erring th●ughts or cogitations Our sinnes are indeede to be confessed but to anie man who if he do absolue th●e but in ●east so that thou belieuest thou art fully absolued To reade prayers of sett Howers belongeth not to Priests but to the Lai●●e Christians are free from the S●a●uts and Ordinances of Men. I am loath to foule my Paper any longer with such ordure And I hope I may be thought to haue already stirred enough in this vnsauourie puddle I now end And here I am not to incurre a●ie reprehension in your Censures because I haue promiscuously insimulated the Lutherans and Zwinglians within the former Tenets or Positions Since both these being mindfull from whose loynes they are first proseminated doe much couet through their proximitie of bloud to entertaine a mutuall entercours and friendship and therefore being thus interlinked doe interprete it as no small iniurie to be dis-ioined one thing onely excepted in dogmaticall Articles of ●a●th and Religion Truly I am not of that strength as that I will vendicate to mys●lf but the middle ranke of those selected Deuines who at this day haue proclaymed open Warre and Hostilitie against H●resies But this I well know how feeble weake soeuer I am I cannot be endangered whylest being supported with the Grace of Ch●ist and s●conded both with Heauen and Earth I shall fight against Innouations so odious so exec●able so grosse and brutish euen benighting wholy darkning the iudgement of Man The ninth Reason SOPHISMES IT i● an out-worne saying that a fellow hauing but one eye is able to gallant it among those who be stone-blinde A varnished an● dissolute kinde of arguing hat● oft●n a soueraignetie ouer the iudgments of the vnlearned which manner of dispute at not being solide and substantiue it itself the Schoole of Philosophers doth wholy exsibilate The Aduersarie who is poore needie in proufes much offendeth herein But his impostures for the most part are wrought vpon foure Threds the which rather in your Vniuersities then in the common streets I make choyse to vnweaue The first we may call a Schiamachia by the which a man doth diuerberate a shadow or the ayre with an imp●tuous but idle endeauour In this sort Against those who vowe perpetuall Chastitie and who confesse that Marriadge is good but withall belieue that Virginitie is better the Scriptures are produced s●eaking worthily and honourably of Marriadge Whome doe they wound Against the meritorious workes feriall or paynfull labours of Christians d●ed in the bloud of Christ otherwise vnauayleable manie diuine passages are alleadged by the which we are commaunded to confide neither in Nature nor in the Law but in the Bloud of Christ. At whom do they roue Against those who worship the Saints of Heauen as most gratious seruants in the eye of CHRIST are discharged whole volleys of shott out of the sacred Writ prohibiting vs to adore manie Gods Where be those Gods This kinde of arguments the which familiarly droppe from our Aduersaries penne can in no sort proue to vs dangerous to you perhaps wearisome and disgustfull An other peccant humour of theirs is called Logomachia Here one leauing the sense doth childishly and litigiously contend with the naked Word As thus Finde me if thou canst say our Aduersaries the word Masse or Purgatorie in the Scripture What then must here be the inference Doth not this open the sluce to the denyal of the vndiuided Trinitie Is not the doctrine of the T●initie Con●ubstantialitie and the Person in the Scriptures because these Words occurre not in the Scriptures Cosin germaine to this Paralogisme is a birding or captious taking hould of the verie letters where the approued custome and minde of the Speaker being neglected which is the verie life of the Word or by which the Word through a continuall acceptation is as it were indenized we idely fight against the verie syllables after this manner The Word Presbyter in Greeke is nothing but a Senior in Latin Againe A Sacramen● is euerie Mysterie But as in all so in this S. Thomas most pregnantly teac●eth saying In words we are to obserue non tam à quo quàm ad quid Lot so much from whence they are deriued as to what by a warrantable custome they are applyed A third Imposture is tearmed H●mon●mia which largely spreadeth itself and by which a Word is euen wrenched and ouer-much strayned For Example To what end should there be the Order of Priests in the Church since Iohn hath stiled you all priests In like sort Iohn there addeth We shall raigne vpon the earth Why then should their be anie peculiar Kings Againe The Prophet doth much celebrate a spirituall fast to witt an abstinencie from inueterate and accustomed sinnes Away therefore withall superstitious choice of meates popish fish and prescript times of fasting But is this good Logike Then marke how it

of insinuating so violent an irruption of a new Fayth or giue the smallest ouerture thereof in his writings Therefore I conclude It is more then euident if we belieue those things to be true which Historie in itself various and large being the Embassadour of Antiquitie the Soule of Memorie euer reflecting back the image of things past doth affluently and abundantly testifye that such a Change of Religion as our Aduersaries seeke to obtrude vpon vs is a mere vapourous and imaginarie conceipt as not being warranted with the authoritie of any History since the Churches first beginning and consequently that all Historiographers are mine and that the effectlesse attempts herein and incursions of our Aduersaries are most cold and feeble as nothing preuayling except it be first receaued for a mayne Theoreme and Principle that all Christians of all times did precipitatly fall into grosse misbeliefe and into the lowest gulfe of Hell vntill Luther did constuprate and lustfully pollute Catherin Bore The eight Reason PARADOXES TRuly most accomplished Men when I call to minde out of the abundance of manie Heresies certaine strange and prodigious Phantasies of some opinionatiue Wryters which will occurre to be impugned by me I should deseruedly condemne myself of supine negligence sloath and pusillanimitie if I should feare the shock and encounter of anie enemie Let him be acute l●t him be eloquent let him be much practised in this kinde of warre let him be a Helluo of bookes and wholy absorpt in his studyes briefly let him be All or More then he is yet of force must he bewray himself to be but drye loose and faultering as long as he shall sustentate or maintayne these following 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and impossibilities We ●ill dispute if it chance our Aduersaries giue vs leaue of God of Christ of Man of Sinne of Iustice of the Sacraments of Manners I will trye if they haue the courage to iustifye that by dint of argument which they in their owne soules belieue and which as necessarily resulting from their discourses they diuulge in their pestilent Scripts and pamphlets I will cause them to owne these their Axioms and Principles God is the authour and cause of Sinne willing suggesting effecting commanding working and gouerning the flagitious counsells of the wicked As the calling of Paul so the adulterie of Dauid and the impietie of Iudas the proditour was the peculiar hand-worke of God ô monstrous Assertion of which after Philipp Melancthon was ashamed neuerthelesse Luther from whome Melancthon had borrowed it doth extoll with infinite prayse this Sentence as a heauenlie Oracle and in this respect in part equalls this his Schollar with Paul the Apostle I would further here demaund what was Luther's conceipt whom our English Caluinists pronounce to be virum diuinitus datum ad orbem illuminandum A man euen sent by God to enlighten the World when he did expunge this Verse out of the prayers of the Church Sancta Trinitas vnus Deus miserere nobis Holie Trinitie one God haue mercie of vs I will next proceede to the Person of Christ. What is the meaning of these vnseasoned words ●hrist being the Sonne of God is God of God So Caluin teacheth Christ is not begotten of ●he substance of the Father So Beza Againe Two Hypostaticall Vnions are constituted in Christ the one of the soule with the flesh the other of the Diuinitie with the Humanitie That passage in Iohn I and my Father are one sheweth not that Christ being God is consubstantiall to God the Father Yea further Luther thus pronounceth Anima mea●odit hoc ve●bum Homousion my verie soule hateth th●s word H●mousios or Consubstantial●s These loe are the beginnings and conceptions of Arianisme which after receaue a more perfect shape But let vs dogg these men further Christ from his infancie was not consummate and full of grace but as other men encreased in the faculties of the Soule And he being daily become more experienced by vse did as litle children first labour wi●h ignorance Which is potentially as much to say as that Christ was stayned with the spott and blemish of Originall Sinne. But take notice of more direfull and horride Doctrines Christ praying in the Garden when he did sw●ate drops of Water and Bloud was afraid wi●h the sense feeling of eternall damnation He then vttered words without reason without spiri● words suddenly bu●sting out through force of griefe and payne and such as not being sufficiently premeditated he instantly recalled and corrected Is there any more of this stuffe yet behind Obserue When Christ being vpon the Crosse cryed out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me He was burned with flames of fire and vttered words of black despaire no otherwise then if he should haue perished with eternal perdition See how these Gospelers do euen meditate and studie blasphemies poysening the texts of holie Scripture with their wicked constructions They further thus comment that Sentence Christ descended into Hell that is He being dead did no lesse tast● Hell then the Soules of the damned this only excepted that he was after to be restored to his former felicitie For since say they only by corporall death he could profitt vs nothing his soule therefore ought to fight with euerlasting death that by this meanes he might expiate our wickednes and punishment Thus do they detort the Written Word to ouerthrow the dignitie of the Eternal Word Now that no man shall surmize these speeches to fall from Caluin through inaduertencie the same Caluin taketh such complacencie therein so strong he is in this his blasphemie as that he pronounceth all them to be perditos nebulones lost damned fellowes qui doctrinam istam solarij plenam exagitant who do call in question this most comfortable doctrine O Times ô portentious Times what monster haue you here nourrished 〈◊〉 delicate and princelie dropping ●loud which streamed from the torne pearced bodie of the innocent Lamb of which bloud euerie small dropp in regard of the impreciable worth of the Sacrifice was of force to redeeme a thousand Worlds could it nothing profit Mankinde except the x Mediatour of God and Man the Man CHRIST IESVS had suffered mortem secundam the second death the death of the Soule the death of all grace and such as is companion only to Sinne and execrable blasphemie In regard of this man's lunacie Bucer though impudent will needs seeme to be of a more pliable sterne and modestie who by the word Hell in the Creede vnderstandeth the graue by the figure Epexegesis though most preposterously or rather by an vnfit and idle Tautologie Of our English Sectaries diuers are accustomed to range themselues herein vnder Caluin their Idol diuers vnder Bucer their great Maister and half Arche of their Church and diuers also such Heteroclits in Fayth they are do secretly murmure