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. 86. Sect. 5.

I maruell therefore what M. Doctor meaneth, to be so busye wyth M. Caluine, and to seeke confirmation of hys Archbyshop and Byshop at hym, whyche woulde haue shaken at the namyng of the one, and trembled at the offyce of the other, onlesse it be bycause he woulde fayne haue hys playster, where he receyued hys wounde. But I bare assure hym, that in hys garden he shall neuer fynde the herbe that wyll heale hym. And bycause that the Scriptures, when they make for oure cause, receyue thys answere commonly, that they serued but for the Apostles tymes, and Master Caluines authoritie wyll weye nothyng as I thinke wyth M. Doctor, when he is alleaged by vs againste hym, I will sende hym to the Greeke S choliast, whiche vpon this place of Titus saythe after this sorte. He woulde not (speaking of Saynte Paule) haue the whole Isle of Crete, ministred and gouerned by one, but that euerye one shoulde haue his proper charge and care: for so shoulde Titus haue a lighter laboure and the peo∣ple that are gouerned, shoulde enioye greater attendance of the pastor, whylest he that teacheth them dothe not runne aboute the gouernmente of manye congregations, but attendeth vnto one and garnisheth that.

Io. Whitgifte.

What opinion Master Caluine hathe of Archbyshops, and of Superioritie a∣mongest Pastors and Ministers, maye appeare in his wordes that I haue alleaged in my Answere. I thinke Master Caluine neuer vttered in worde or wryting hys

mislyking of the present gouernmente of thys Churche of Englande, by Archbyshops and Byshops, what he hath spoken agaynst the abuse of them in the Popes Church, is not to be wrested against the right vse of them in the true Churche of Christ.

I haue answered the Scriptures by you alleaged, truely, and directly. You haue not as yet vrged me wyth that authoritie of Master Caluine, that I haue so shif∣ted of, as you haue done this last.

The Scholiast meaneth that euery Citie shoulde haue his Pastor, in the Isle of Creta, and that Titus shoulde gouerne them as Byshop, not as hauyng the whole* 1.1 and sole charge of euery seuerall towne or Citie: whych maye euidently appeare to be true, by these wordes of Theodoret placed in the same author. Titus was a notable Diseiple of Paul, but was ordeyned Bishop of Creta, whych was a very large Isle, &* 1.2 it was permitted & cōmitted vnto him, that he might ordeine 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Byshops that were vnder hym. Wherby it may be gathered that euery Citie in Creta had a Byshop, whyche had the seuerall charge, and that Titus gouerned them as Archbyshop. The lyke doth Chrysostome (whom the Greeke Scholiast doth espe∣cially followe) affirme of Timothie in. 1. Tim. 5. vpon these wordes aduersus presby∣terum. &c. Timotheo credita fuerat ecclesia, imò gens ferè tota Asiatica: The Churche, yea al∣moste* 1.3 the whole people of Asia was committed to Timothie. But what néede I vse ma∣nie wordes, when Chrysostome hymselfe affirmeth the same directly of Titus. 1.* 1.4 ad Titum: neque eius profectò illi. &c. Truely Paule woulde not haue committed the whole Isle to hym, neyther woulde he haue commaunded those thyngs to be supplyed whyche were wanting, (for he sayth that thou myghtest correcte those thyngs whyche are wan∣ting) neither woulde he haue committed vnto him the Iudgemente of so manye Byshops, if he had not trusted hym very well.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Titus Arch∣byshop.
• * 1.2

  Theodoret. in arg. Epist. Tit. apud Scholiast.
• * 1.3

  Chrysost.
• * 1.4

  Idem.