[Footnote 138: Euseb. l. 2 de vit. Const. c. 7, 8, 9; Sozom. l. 1, c. 8, 9.] [Footnote 139: Athan. in vita S. Ant.] [Footnote 140: Theod. l. 1, hist. cap.] [Footnote 141: Vid. Volate, lovium Aemilium l. 8, Blond. l. 9 de 2.] [Footnote 142: Clem. l. 1, recog.] [Footnote 143: Iren. l. 1, c. 2.] [Footnote 144: Cypr. ep. ad Iubatam et l. 4 ep. 2.] [Footnote 145: Theod. de fab. haeret.] [Footnote 146: Aug. haer. 46, 53, 54.] [Footnote 147: Epiph. haer. 75.] [Footnote 148: Aug. haer. 54.] [Footnote 149: Socr. l. 2, C. 28.] [Footnote 150: Hier. in Iovin. et Vigilant.; Aug. haer. 82.] [Footnote 151: Vid. Tert. de praescr.; Aug. l. 2 de doctr. christ. c. 8.] [Footnote 152: 1 Cor. i. 13.] [Footnote 153: 1 Reg. v. 4.] TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. This is no dry controversial divinity, but a sort of illuminated copy of _theses_, the call of a knight's trumpet challenging his antagonist to come forth. The Ten Reasons represent the ten _theses_, which Edmund Campion would fain have maintained in the Divinity School at Oxford against all comers, sharing, as he did to the full, the passion which his age felt and seems entirely to have lost, for such intellectual tournaments, as the natural means to bring out the truth and compose religious differences. The reader, then, must not be surprised to find in this little work quite as much of rhetoric as of logic; if he is unfriendly, he may say considerably more. Nor, if he knows anything of the controversial methods of the sixteenth century, will he be surprised at the vehemence of the language. Compared with his opponents, Luther for example, Edmund Campion is mere milk and honey. His book made a great stir: it is what a successful book must be, instinct with the spirit of the age in which and for which it was written. The Protestant answer to the Ten Reasons was not given in the Divinity School at Oxford. It was the rack in the Tower, and the gibbet at Tyburn; and that answer was returned ere the year was out. J.R. Pope's Hall, Oxford May 1910 PREFACE. _Edmund Campion, to the Learned Members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Greeting._