The defense of the aunsvvere to the Admonition against the replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall.

Io. Whitgifte.

COnsidering the strangenesse of the time, the varietie of mens mindes, and the maruellous inclinations in the common sort of persons (especially where the Gospel is most preached) to imbrace newe inuented doctrines and opiniōs, though they tende to the disturbing of the quiet state of the Church, the discrediting and defacing of such as be in au∣thoritie, and the mainteining of licenciousnesse and lewde libertie: I thought it good to set before your eyes the practises of the Anabap∣tistes, their conditions and qualities, the kinde and manner of their beginnings and proceedings, before the broching of their manifolde

and horrible heresies, to the intent that you vnderstanding the same, may the rather in time take heede to such as proceede in like maner: least they being suffred too long, brust out to worke the same effect. I accuse none, onely I suspect the authors of this Admonition, and their fautours: what cause I haue so to do, I refer to your selues to iudge, after that I haue set forth vnto you the Anabaptisticall prac∣tises, euen as I haue learned in the writings of suche famous and learned men, as had themselues experience of them, when they first began in Germanie, and did both personally reason with them, and afterwardes very learnedly write against them: neither will I in this point write one word, which I haue not my author to shew for.