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.

Io. Whitgifte.* 1.1

Yes, I wil cōclude that ther ought to be degrées of superioritie amōg y^e ministers also, bicause they labour of imperfections as wel as other mē do, & especally of pride, arrogancie vainglorie, which ingender schismes, heres〈1 line〉〈1 line〉es, contentions, as the exam∣ples of all times and ages euen from the Apostles to this time declare.

I am persuaded y^t the externall gouernment of the church vnder a christiā Magi∣strate, must be according to the kinde & forme of the gouernment vsed in the cōmon wealth, else how can you make the Prince supreme gouernour of all states & causes ecclesiastical? wil you so deuide the gouernment of y^e Churche from the gouernment of the cōmon wealth, that the one being a monarchie, the other must be a Democra∣tie, or an Aristocratie: this were to deuide one realme into two, and to spoyls the Prince of the one halfe of hir iurisdiction and authoritie. If you will therefore haue the Quéene of Englande rule as Monarche ouer all hir dominions, then muste you also giue her leaue to vse one kinde and forme of gouernment, in all and euery parte of the same: and so to gouerne the Church in Ecclesiasticall affaires, as she doth the common wealth in ciuile.

But you say, that I must remember that it is not necessarie in a common welth, that there* 1.2 should be one ouer all: & I say, that you must remember that in this cōmon wealth it is necessarie, y^t one shuld be ouer al, except you wil trāsform aswel y^e state of y^e kingdom as you would of y^e church: which is not vnlike to be your meaning, for not long after you adde that the common wealth must be stamed a〈1 line〉〈1 line〉cording to y^e church, as the hangyngs to the house, & the gouernmēt therof w^t her gouernment, &c. & not contrary: meaning y^t the gouernmēt of the cōmon wealth, ought not to be monarchical, but either democratical, or Aristo∣cratical, bicause (as you say) the gouernment of the Church ought to be such. What this in time wil bréed in this common wealth, especially when it cōmeth to the vn∣derstanding of the people, who naturally are so desirous of innouations, I referre it to the iudgement of those that can and ought best to consider it.

The vnlike linesse that is betwixt one Cesar being ouer all the world, & of one archbishop being ouer all the world. I haue shewed before, they be most vnlike, & yet this is but a friuolous & vaine supposition, & M. Caluin in his Inst. cap. 8. sect. 96. doth say, that it is ab∣surdissimum, most absurd.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Why there ought to be superioritie among mini∣sters as well as other. The gouern∣mente of the churche in a Christi〈1 line〉〈1 line〉n cōmon wealth oughte to bee according to the forme ther in vsed.
• * 1.2

  T. C. spea∣keth suspici∣ously of go∣uernment.