Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Church, and through ye great mercie of God vowed now these viii years into the Religion of the Societie of Jhesus. Hereby I have taken upon me a special kind of warfare under the banner of obedience, and eke resigned all my interest or possibilitie of wealth, honour, pleasure,...
Suffice it to say that Mr. Simpson, in the _Appendix_ to his _Edmund Campion_ enumerates not less than twenty works, which appeared in those controversies between 1581 and 1585....
12. iii. 2), unless this your faith foretells you your perseveranceassuredly, without possibility of hallucination, it must be cast aside as vain and feeble. I recognise the disciple of Luther. A Christian, said Luther (_De captivitate Babyloni...
9. ix. If these my offers be refused, and my endeavours can take noplace, and I, having run thousands of miles to do you good, shall be rewarded with rigour, I have no more to say but to recommend your case and mine to Almightie God, the Search...
11. xvi. 17, 19): at the time when Paul, being kept there in freecustody, was spreading the gospel (Acts xxviii. 31) : at the time when Peter once in that city was ruling _the Church gathered at Babylon_ (1 Peter v. 13): at the time when that...
8. viii. Moreover I doubt not but you her Highness' Council being, ofsuch wisdom and discreet in cases most important, when you shall have heard these questions of religion opened faithfully, which many times by our adversaries are huddled up and...
6. vi. I would be loth to speak anything that might sound of anyinsolent brag or challenge, especially being now as a dead man to this world and willing to put my head under every man's foot, and to kiss the ground they tread upon. Yet have...
7. vii. And because it hath pleased God to enrich the Queen mySovereign Ladye with notable gifts of nature, learning, and princely education, I do verily trust that--if her Highness would vouchsafe her royal person and good attention to su...
5. v. I do ask, to the glory of God, with all humility, and underyour correction, iii sortes of indifferent and quiet audiences: _the first_ before your Honours, wherein I will discourse of religion, so far as it toucheth the common weale and...
1. i. I confesse that I am (albeit unworthie) a priest of ye CatholikeChurch, and through ye great mercie of God vowed now these viii years into the Religion of the Societie of Jhesus. Hereby I have taken upon me a special kind of warfare under th...
2. ii. At the voice of our General Provost, which is to me awarrant from heaven, and Oracle of Christ, I tooke my voyage from Prage to Rome (where our said General Father is always resident) and from Rome to England, as I might and would...
4. iv. I never had mind, and am strictly forbidden by our Father thatsent me, to deal in any respect with matter of State or Policy of this realm, as things which appertain not to my vocation, and from which I do gladly restrain and sequester my...
3. iii. My charge is, of free cost to preach the Gospel, tominister the Sacraments, to instruct the simple, to reforme sinners, to confute errors--in brief, to crie alarme spiritual against foul vice and proud ignorance, wherewith many...