If there were no stronger places than this against the Pope of Rome his vsur∣ped authoritie, it might stand still, for any thing that I know: bycause this place spea∣keth only of the offices occupied in preaching the worde and administrating the sa∣craments, as I haue said, not of any office of gouernment. Neyther is it a perfect pat∣terne bycause it hath omitted those offices before mentioned. I haue tolde you before that a negatiue argument from the scripture (except it be in matters of saluation) is but weake. Likewise that an Archbyshop is no new ministery, but may well be con∣teyned in the number of those, of whome the Apostle there speaketh. For the name of a Pastor doth comprehende both Archbishops and Byshops. The name dothe but signify an office of gouernment conuenient for the state of the Church in the external pollicy of it. And if it did preuaile againste the Pope, yet dothe it not so againste the* 1.1 Archbyshop. For the Pope dothe chalenge hys authoritie by succession from Peter, so dothe not the Archbyshop. The Pope saythe that he is the head of the vniuersall Churche of Christe, so dothe not the Archbyshop. The Pope saith that to be subiect to him is necessary to saluation, the Archbyshop thinketh no suche matter. The Pope chalengeth power to remitte and retayne sinnes, to dispense with the word of God, to make newe articles of faythe. &c. so dothe not the Archbyshop. To be shorte the Pope claymeth authoritie ouer kings and princes, and saithe that they haue autho∣ritie
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.
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- 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.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15130.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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from him: but the Archbyshops (if you speake of ours) acknowledge themsel∣ues to be subiects to their Prince, and to haue that authoritie and iurisdiction from hir, which they practise ouer and aboue that that other byshops do, and therefore▪ on must needes be reproued here, either of great lacke of discretion, or else of gresse ig∣norance, or purposed malice. You mighte saye that God gaue no magistrate in that place to his Church, Ergo, the magistrate can do no good. Surely I thinke that if you should well consider how néere your arguments approch to the Anabaptists, you would eyther more circumspectly vse them, or else quite cast them away.
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The great difference be∣twixt the Pope and the Archbyshop.