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.

That there shoulde be a tryall of suche as are to be admitted to the ministerie, I thinke it moste conuenient (as I tolde you before) excepte the parties be sufficiently known to such as haue authoritie to admit them: but I say that this place of the Acts dothe not proue it, both bicause the office of a Deacon (by their opinion) is altogether distinct from the office of a minister of the woord, the one perteyning to the body, the other to the soule, the one occupied aboute moneye, the other in the woorde, and al∣so,

for that there is in that place no mention made of any triall. That place rather proueth that whyche before was noted A〈1 line〉〈1 line〉t. 1. that suche onely shoulde be appoyn∣ted to that office, as bée knowne by good experience to be fitte for suche a function.

Tell me one worde in that texte that signifieth any such tryall as the Admonition speaketh of. Therfore I say againe as I sayd before, that suche as be well knowne, néede no farther tryall: as both that example Act. 1. and this also Act. 6. manifestly de∣clareth.