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.

T. C. Pag. 73. Sect. vlt.

Eusebius out of Egesippus writeth, y^e as long as the Apostles lyued, y^e Church remained a pure virgin, for that if there were any that went about to corrupt the holy rule that was preached, they* 1.1 did it in the darke, and as it were digging vnderneath the earth. But after the death of the Apo∣stles, and that generation was paste, whiche God vouchsaued to heare the diuine wisedome with their owne eares, then the placing of wicked error began to come into the Church.

Io. Whitgifte.

It is euident in diuerse places of the Scripture, namely in the first Epistle to the* 1.2 Corinthians, and the Epistle to the Galath, that there were many grosse and greate corruptions openly professed in the Churche, by diuerse, not onely in maners, but al∣so

in doctrine, euen in the Apostles tyme, and Eusebius hymselfe declareth that there* 1.3 was one Simon mencioned Acts. 8. whom he calleth the author of all heresie, Lib. 2. Cap. 13. Likewyse he sheweth Lib. 3. that Ebion, Cerinthus, and the Nicholaites, all horri∣ble heretikes were in the Apostles time. Wherefore if this be a good reason, then is it not safe for vs to follow, no not the Apostles time.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Euseb. lib. 3. cap. 32.
• * 1.2

  Corruptions in the churche in the Apo∣stles time▪
• * 1.3

  Euseb. lib. 2. Cap. 13. Idē. Lib. 3.