FULICE. 387 Cartwright; knew well his great worth ; and united with other learned divines in warmly soliciting him to answer the Rhernish Testament. But when he found, that by the tyrannical prohibition of Archbishop Whitgift, Mr. Cartwright was forbidden to proceed, he undertook to answer it himself His work was entitled " A Con- futation of the Rhemish Testament," 1589 ; in which he gave notice, that the reader might some time be favoured with a more complete answer fromMr. Cartwright.. That whichoccasioned the publication of the Rhemish Testament was as follows :-The English papists in the seminary at Rheims, perceiving, as Fuller observes, that they could no longer " blindfold their laity from the scriptures, resolved to fit them with false spectacles ; and set forth the Rhemish translation," in opposition to the protestant versions. Fulke undertook,and successfully accomplished, an entire refuta- tion of the popish version and commentary. The late Mr. Hervey passed a very just encomium on this noble per- formance : which he styles, " a valuable piece of ancient controversy and criticism, full of sound divinity, weighty arguments, and important observations. Would the young student," he adds, " be taught to discover the very sinews of popery, andbe enabled to give an effectual blow to that complication of errors ; I scarce know a treatise better calculated for the purpose."+ In the year 1582, Dr. Fulke, with several other learned divines, was engaged in a public disputationwith certain papists in the Tower. He was a person in every respect qualified for the undertaking. He had to contend, with Campion, his old school-fellow, with whom he had formerly contested for the silver pen. And it is observed, evidently with a view to reproach his principles, and depreciate his memory, that " Dr. Fulke and Dr. Goad, being puritani- cally inclined, and leaning to Calvin's notions, afforded Campion, on one or two points, an advantage which his cause did not give him over the real principles of the English church."t We should have been extremely happy, and it would have been some addition to our stock of knowledge, if our learned author had mentioned those points, and stated the superior advantage they afforded the learned Jesuit, above the real principles ofthe ecclesiastical establishment. He did not, surely, mean to insinuate, that Peirce's Vindication, part i. p. 103. + Toplady's Historic Proof, vol. ii. p. 196, 197. Churtou's Life of Nowell, p. 278.
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