34 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, haps it was not thought convenient that Campion s book 

 I1L should have so much honour done it, to be so solemnly an 

 swered. But yet it went not without answer, Mr. Whit- 

 aker, Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, and others do 

 ing it. 



His reflec- But when the Treasurer had soon after sent the Bishop 

 c &quot;on&quot; Campion s pamphlet, and desired him again, as his health 

 book. would serve, to peruse it, and according to his discretion 

 to set some about the work, this caused some farther 

 thoughts in him concerning it pro re nata ; which he thus 

 imparted to the said Nobleman ; that as for his collections of 

 strange opinions and sayings of some of the Reformers set 

 down in his chapter entitled Paradoxa, he thought (sup 

 posing the author truly alleged them) that none of our 

 Church meant to defend Luther s hyperbola, or all things 

 that had passed the pens of Calvin or Beza : for, quisque 

 suo sensu dbundet. That we read them as Austin read 

 Cyprian, and as he would be read himself, that where he 

 dissented from the canonical Scripture, he should not be al 

 lowed. Secondly, that if we should make such a malicious 

 collection of their writers and Schoolmen, we should find 

 other manner of things in them : sed in nullius juravi- 

 mus verba magistri ; i. e. &quot; but that we had learned to 

 &quot; swear to the dictates of no master&quot; but of Christ. Then 

 he shewed what little credit was to be taken to his quota 

 tions of Scripture, when in the very first text that he cited, 

 he used the Septuagint interpretation, utterly different from 

 the truth of the original : that if he dealt so in all others, 

 his credit would be but small: Ex unguibus leonem. 

 Again, that there was a favourableness of interpretation 

 due to writers and speakers ; and if we should take every 

 thing to the worst, and not interpret candidly, what should 

 we say of Gregory Nazianzen, who saith, Ita nos Deos fecit 

 Christus, ut ille factus homo est ; with many such in Lac- 

 tantius and others. He added, it was a property of a spider 

 to gather the worst and leave the best : and that his Lord 

 ship should find his (Campion s) writings to be the arrogant 



