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.

Chapter. 1. the. 11. Diuision.

Ansvvere of the Admonition. Pag. 38. Sect. 1.

You say that there be admitted into the ministerie of the basest sort of the people: I know not what you mean by the basest sort: this I am sure of, that the ministerie is not now bound to any one tribe, as it was to the tribe of Leui, in Ieroboams time: now none is seclu∣ded from that function of any degree, state, or calling, so that those qualities be founde in him, whiche in that office are to be required.

T. C. Page. 26. Lin 14.

You know they meant by the basest of the people, such as gaue but one leape out of the shop in∣to the Church, as sodainly are changed out of a seruing mans coate, into a ministers cloake, making for the most part, the ministerie their last refuge. &c. And seeing that besides the words be playne, the dayly experience teacheth it, you neede not make it so straunge, as though you knew not what they meant.

Io. Whitgifte.

I heare you say so, but why did they then quote the. 1. Reg. 1〈1 line〉〈1 line〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3〈1 line〉〈1 line〉. that manife∣stly proueth the same sense that I haue gathered of their words, and that text onely occasioned me so to do.