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.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 58. Sect. 2. 3.

Peter Martyr in the Epistle before mentioned touching this matter,* 1.1 writeth on this sort.

But let vs consider your other argument, that is to saye: It is not lavvfull to vse these kinde of vestures, bicause they vvere inuented by the Popes ty∣rannie. In this poynt I doe not vvell perceiue hovve it may be affirmed for a suertie, that vve can vse nothing that perteined to the Pope, and is vsed in* 1.2 Poperie. Truely vve must take good heede that vve bring not the Churche of Christ into suche bondage, that it may not vse any thing that the Pope vsed. It is very true that our forefathers toke the temples of Idols, & turned* 1.3 them into holy Churches, vvhere Christ should be vvorshipped: And they tooke also the salarie and reuenevves consecrated to the Idols of the gentils, to their vvicked shevves and playes, and to their holy votaries virgines, and transposed it to finde the Ministers of the Church: And yet all these things dyd not onely seruice vnto Antichrist, but vnto the deuill: yea the holy Ec∣clesiasticall* 1.4 vvriters dyd not sticke to take the verses of Poetes, vvhiche had

bene dedicated to Muses, and to other diuerse Gods and goddesses, for to be played in playes, and spoken in shevves, to obteine the fauour of theyr Gods: I say they did nothing sticke or feare to vse them, vvhen it seemed to them conuenient, imitating Paule the Apostle, vvho stucke nothyng at all to rehearse for his purpose Menander, Aratus, and Epimenides, and that he dyd in intreating the holy Scripture apply prophane vvordes to set forth Gods Religion. VVe reade also hovve that vvine vvas consecrated* 1.5 vnto Bacchus, bread vnto Ceres, vvater vnto Neptune, oyle vnto Miner∣ua, letters vnto Mercurie, song vnto the Muses and vnto Apollo, and ma∣nie other things Tertullian rehearseth in his booke intituled de corona militis Christiani, vvhere almost he entreateth thys selfe same argumente: yet for all that vve sticke not to vse all these things freely asvvell in holye as in pro∣phane vses, although at one time or other before, they had bene consecrated to Idols and to deuils. Hetherto Peter Martyr.

Notes

• * 1.1

  P. Martyr.
• * 1.2

  Temples of Idols conuer ted to the wor ship of God.
• * 1.3

  Reuenewes.
• * 1.4

  Phrases of Poetes.
• * 1.5

  Wine, bread▪ &c. consecra∣ted to Idols.