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.

T. C. pag. 8. Sect. vlt.

I answere that Doeg, when he saide that Dauid came to Abimilech, sayde nothing but truth, and when they that witnessed against Christ that he sayde, destroy the temple, and in three dayes I will build it vp againe, saide nothing but that our sauiour Christ sayde. But yet Doeg was a slaunderer, and the other, false witnesses: bycause the one spake of minde to hurte, and the other vnderstoode it of another temple, than our sauiour Christ ment it: so although you do in parte re∣hearse their wordes, yet taking them contrary to their meaning (which might easily appeare by the circumstances) I see not howe you can bee free from these faultes, vnlesse it be done ignorantly, which I wishe were true for your owne sake. And here I wyll desire thee gentle reader, to marke with what conscience this man sayth, that they are ioyned and confederate with the Papistes a∣gaynst the Church. The Papistes mislyke of the Booke of common prayers for nothing else, but bycause it swarueth from their Masse booke, and is not in all poyntes lyke vnto it. And these men mislyke it, for nothing else, but that it hath to much lykelyhoode vnto it. And iudge whether they be more ioyned with the Papistes, which woulde haue no communion or fellowship wyth them, neyther in ceremonies, nor doctrine, nor gouernment, or they, which forsaking their doctrine, re∣teyne part of theyr ceremonies, & almost their whole gouernment: that is, they that separate them∣selues, by three walles, or by one, they that woulde be parted by the broade sea from them, or which woulde be beuided by narrowe water, where they maye make a bridge to come agayne, and displace the truth of the Gospell, as they haue done in tymes past: They that woulde not onely vnhorse the Pope, but also take awaye the styrrops, whereby he shoulde neuer get into the sadle agayne: or they that beyng content wyth that, that he is vnhorsed, leaue his ceremonies and his gouernment especially, as styrrops, whereby he maye leape vp agayne when as occasion serueth. They that are content, onely to haue cut the armes and body of Antichristianitie, or they which would haue stumpe, and roote all vp.