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. 3. the. 60. Diuision.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 72. Sect. vlt.

Ignatius who was S. Iohn his scholer, and lyued in Chrystes* 1.1 time, in his Epistle ad Trallianos, speaketh thus of the authoritie of a Bishop ouer the reste: Quid aliud est Episcopus quàm quidam obtinens principatum,* 1.2 & potestatem supra omnes? VVhat is a Bishop, but one hauing povver and rule ouer all? And in his Epistle ad Smyrnenses, he writeth on this sorte: Ho∣nora quidem Deum vt authorem vniuersorum & Dominum: Episcopum autem, vt Sacerdotum Principem, imagi〈1 line〉〈1 line〉em Dei ferentem: Dei quidem per Principatum: Christi verò per Sacerdotium. Honor God as the author and Lorde of all thinges, and a Bishop as the chiefe of Priestes, bearing the Image of God: of God bicause of his su∣perioritie: of Christ by reason of his Priesthoode. And a little after: Let laye men be subiecte to Deacons, Deacons to Priests: and Priestes to Bishops, the Bishop to Christ. And agayne: Let no man doe any thing vvhiche perteyneth to the Churche, vvithout the consente of the Bishop. And agayn: He that attēpteth to do any thing vvithout the Bishop, brea∣keth peace, and confoundeth good order. The like saying he hath in his Epistle ad Magnesianos. These three Epistles doth Eusebius make men∣tion of Lib. 3. cap. 35. &. 36. and Hiero. de viris illustribus.

T. C. Pag. 87. Sect. 4.

It is no maruell although you take vp the authors of the Admonition for wante of Logike, for you vtter great skill your selfe in writing, whiche keepe no order, but confounde your Reader in that thing which euen the common Logike of the countrey, which is reason, might haue directed you in: for what a confusion of times is this, to beginne with Cyprian, and then come to Ie∣rome and Chrysostome, and after to the Scripture, and backe agayne to Ignatius that was be∣fore Cyprian: which tymes are ill disposed of you, and that in a matter wherin it stoode you vpon to haue obserued the order of the tymes.

Io. Whitgifte.

Be patient a whyle, the matter is not great, the Authors be knowne, and the* 1.3 antiquitie of them, my mynde is of the matter: and there is reason why I should〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 thus place them. Cyprian telleth the necessitie of suche superioritie, and so dothe Chrysostome: Hierome, the cause and the originall: Paule, Timothie, and Ti∣tus

be examples hereof: Ignatius and the rest are brought in as witnesses of the continuance of such offices and superioritie in the Churche, euen from the Apostles. Now first to proue the name of these offices not to be Antichristian, then to shew the necessitie of the offices, thirdly the cause, and last of all to declare the vse of the same to haue bene in the Churche euen from S. Paules time to this houre, is to kéepe a better order, than you shall be able to disorder, with all the Logike, Rhetorike, and hote Eloquence you haue.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ignatius.
• * 1.2

  The bishops 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉uthoritie.
• * 1.3

  The order ob serued in pla∣cing the au∣thorities in y^e answere.