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.

Chap. 3. the. 2. Diuision.

T. C. Page. 45. Sect. 1. 2. 3. 4.

And that you maye haue some thyng to doe more, than peraduenture you thoughte of, when you wrote these woordes, I will shewe my reasons, why I thinke there oughte to be none, nor can be none, vnlesse they haue wonderfull and extraordinarie callings. It must first be vnderstan∣ded that the signification of this worde Apostle, when it is properly taken, extendeth it selfe not only to all the ministers of God, beeing sente of God, but to the Embassador of any Prince or no∣ble man, or that is sente of any publike authoritie, and is vsed of the Scripture by the trope of Synecdoche for the twelue, that our Sauior Christ appointed to go thoroughout all the worlde, to preache the Gospell, vnto the which number was added Saint Paule, and as some thinke Bar∣nabas, whiche are seuered from all other ministers of the Gospell by these notes.

First, that they were immediatly called of God, as S. Paule to the Galathians, proueth him* 1.1 selfe to be an Apostle, bycause he was not appoynted by men.

Then that they sawe Christe, whiche argument Saincte Paule vseth in the. 9. 1. Cor. Am I not an Apostle? haue I not seene Christe?

Thirdly, that these had the field of the whole world to tyll, whereas other are restrained more particularly, as to a certaine plough lande, wherin they should occupie themselues: wherevpon it followeth, that as we conclude against the Pope truly, that he can be no successour of the Apostles, not only bicause he neyther teacheth, nor doth as they did, but bicause the Apostles haue no succes∣sours, neyther any can succeede into the office of an Apostle: so may we lykewyse conclude against those that woulde haue the Apostles now a dayes, that there can be none, bycause there is none, vnto whome all these three notes doe agree: as that he is both sent of God immediately, or that he hath seene Christe, or that he is sent into all the worlde.

Io. Whitgifte.

M. Caluine vpon the sixtéenth to the Romaines sayeth, that this woorde Apostle, in proper and vsuall signification, dothe onely comprehende that firste order whyche

Chryste in the beginning did appoynt in his twelue disciples, whiche is directly con trarie to your saying.

I graunt that in suche respectes as you now put downe, there bée no Apostles: although Matthias was not immediatly called by God, as it appeareth Actes. 1. and you before haue confessed: neyther can you proue by the Scripture, that Bar∣nabas was so called, but the contrarie rather dothe appeare in the. 11. of the Actes, and yet he was an Apostle. Sainct Paule in the firste to the Corinth. 9. doth not saye that he sawe Christe, to proue that he was an Apostle, but to declare that he was in that respect nothing inferiour to the reste of the Apostles. I haue before declared in what sense I say that ther be Apostles in the church: neyther is it a matter so strange séeing that M. Caluine sayeth as muche in the place before recited: Quanquam non ne∣go, quin Apostolos postea quoque, vel saltem eorum loco Euangelistas interdùm excitarit Deus, vt* 1.2 nostro tempore factum est, Although I doe not denye, but that God hath afterwardes also stirred vp Apostles, or at the least Euangelists in steade of them, as it is doone in oure dayes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Gal. 1.
• * 1.2

  Cal. in. 16. Ro. instit. cap. 8.