An ansvvere to a certen libel intituled, An admonition to the Parliament, by Iohn VVhitgifte, D. of Diuinitie

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Title: An ansvvere to a certen libel intituled, An admonition to the Parliament, by Iohn VVhitgifte, D. of Diuinitie
Author: Whitgift, John, 1530?-1604.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Henrie Bynneman, for Humfrey Toy,; Anno. 1572.
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Subject terms: Church of England -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.; Admonition to the Parliament -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.; Puritans -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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Admonition.

The twentith. And as for the Commissaries Courte, that is but a pettie little stinking ditch, that floweth out of that former great puddle, robbing Christes Church of lawfull pastors, of watchfull seniors and elders, and carefull Dea∣cons, in thys Court as in the other, * 1.1 one alone doth excommunicate, one alone sitteth in iudge∣mente, and when he will can drawe backe the iudgement whiche he hath pronounced hauing called vppon the name of God, and that for money, whiche is called by chaunging of pen∣naunce. In this Courte for non payment of two pens, a man shalbe excōmunicated if he appeare not when he is sente for, if he do not as his ordi∣narie woulde from whome he had his Popish

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induction and institution, & to whome he hath sworne canonicam obedientiam, canonicall obedience if he learne not his catechisme like a good boy without booke, when it were more meete he should be able to teach others. To conclude: if he be not obediente to all these Lorde Bishops officers, by and by he must be cut of by excōmu∣nication, and as it is lightly graunted and gy∣uen forth, so if the money be payed, & the Court discharged, it is as quickly called in agayne. This Court poulleth parishes, scourgeth the poore hedge preests, ladeth Churche wardens with manifest periuries, punisheth whordoms and adulteries with toyish censures, remitteth without satisfying the congregation, and that in secrete places, giueth out dispensations for vnlawfull marriages, and committeth a thou∣sand such like abominations. God deliuer all Christians out of this Antichristian tyrannie, where the Iudges, aduocates, and proctours, for the moste parte are Papists, and as for the scribes and notaries as greedy as cormorants, and if they al should perhaps see this writing, they would be as angry as waspes, and sting like hornets, three of them would be ynough to sting a man to death, for why? they are high Commissioners.

All this we say springeth out of this Ponti∣ficall, whiche we must allowe by subscription, setting downe our hands, that it is not repug∣nant or against the worde of God. Wee meane

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this Antichristian hierarchie and popishe orde∣ring of ministers, straunge from the worde of God, and the vse of all well reformed Churches in the worlde.

Notes

* 1.1

1 Cor. 5.4.

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