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. 2. the. 41. Diuision.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 67. Sect. 4.

And for as much as the originall and beginning of these names Metropolitane, Archbyshop, Archdeacon, Primate, Patriarke, and such like (such is their antiquitie) cannot be found so farre as I haue reade, it is to be supposed they haue their originall from the Apostles themselues. For as I remember S. Augustine hath thys rule in hys* 1.1 118. Epist. ad Ianuar. Those things that be not expressed in the Scriptures and yet by tradition obserued of the vvhole Churche, come eyther from the A∣postles or from generall Councels, as the obseruing of Easter, the celebra∣ting of the day of the ascention, and of the comming of the holy Ghost, & suche like. Uery vnlearned therefore and ignorant be those which so boldly affirme that these names vsed in the purest time of the church, be Antichristian.

T. C. Page. 74. Sect. 4. 5.

And by and by in saying that the Archbyshops beginning is vnknowne, in steade of a (a) 1.2 bastard which some brought into the Church, that hid themselues bycause they were ashamed of y^• child, he will make vs beleue that we haue a newe Melchisedech, without father, without mother, & whose generation is not knowen, and so concludeth with the place of S. Augustine, as farre as he remem∣breth, in the. 118. Epistle to Ianuarie, that the original of them is from the Apostles themselues.

Here (b) 1.3 M. Doctor seemeth to seeke after some glory of a good memory, as thoughe he had net Augustine by him when he wrote thys sentence, and yet he maruellously forgetteth himselfe, for he vsed this place before in his. 23. Page, and cyteth it there precisely and absolutely, where also I

haue shewed, howe vnaduisedly that sentence of Augustine is approued: and howe that thereby a window is open to bryng in all Popery, & whatsoeuer other corrupt opinions. That the names of Lordes and honour as they are vsed in this Realme, are not meete to be giuen to the Ministers of the Gospell, there hath bene spoken before.

Io. Whitgifte.

This place of Augustine is of greater force and credite with those that be learned, than that it can be shifted off. I haue answered whatsoeuer you saye against it in that place, and shewed of what credite it is with some famous writers of our time, name∣ly with Master Zuinglius, Master Caluine, and Master Gualter. And surely I thinke no learned man doth dissent from them.

Your iestes are to vsuall and vnséemely for a Diuine, especially when you abuse the scripture to make sport withal. I might haue sayd also of you, y^t you sought after some glory of a good memorie, when as you vsed the like kinde of speach, in alleaging of Gil∣das and Lumbard, Pag. 68. but that I am not delighted with such kinde of eloquence.* 1.4

Notes

• * 1.1

  August▪
• (a) 1.2

  Modestie.
• (b) 1.3

  This is fro〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 the matter.
• * 1.4

  Pag. 68. Sect. 4.