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.

The high priest was a figure of Christ, so was Dauid and Salomon: but yet was the high priest also appointed to gouerne other for order and pollicie, and so was Dauid and Salomon. The figure is taken a way and the kinde of Sacrifice: but the office of gouerning remaineth still, and is to be obserued as the state of the Church requireth. Christ being come, the office of sacrificing ceaseth but not the office of gouerning: for Christ by his comming did not take away gouernment, and pollicie, no notfrom the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 state.

This reason of yours, that that priest was the head priest ouer all the Church, therefore if by* 1.1 his example we will haue an Archbyshop he must be such a one as shall gouerne the whole church, is in déede a plaine confirmation of the Papistes reason for y^e supremacie, who thinke that they may reason in lik〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 maner. But I answere you as M. Caluine answereth thē Lib. inst. cap. 8. Sect. 87. There is no reason that compelleth to extende that vnto the whole* 1.2 worlde, which was profitable in one nation: nay rather there is a great diuersitie betwixt one nation and the whole world. Bicause the Iewes were compassed in on euerie side with Ido∣laters, least they should be withdrawen through the varietie of Religion, God did place the seat of his worship in the middest of the earth: there he appoynted ouer them one prelate, whom all should looke vpon, that they might the better be conteined in vnitie. Now when as true Religion is dispersed through out the whole worlde, who dothe not see it to be ab∣surde, that the gouernment of both the East & VVest, should be giuen to one? it is like as if one would say, bycause one precincte of grounde hath not many gouernours, therefore the whole world ought to be ruled of one president or gouernour.

I knowe that he maketh another answere likewise: euen the same that you haue borrowed of him, touching the figure, but his first answere is more direct in my opi∣nion. And M. Nowell, against Dorman reasoning as you do, giueth him this answere,* 1.3 It agreeth very wel with the estate of the Iewes, that as they beyng one natiō had one chiefe* 1.4 Priest, so is it good likewise that euery Christian nation haue their chiefe Priest or Byshop.

It agreeth not that bicause the Iewes, one nation, had one high Priest to gouerne them in doubtes, therfore all nations through the world should haue one high priest ouer al other: for not only the vnlikelyhood betwene these two, but the impossibili〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ie of the latter is most euident. Other learned men also ther be, as Hyp〈1 line〉〈1 line〉rius Lib. 3 Method Theolog & d〈1 line〉〈1 line〉uers others, who answering this same argument of the Papists, say, that by it we may well proue that one Archbishop or Metropolitane maye gouerne one Prouince, or one kyng∣dome, but that it is to weake to proue that one Pope may gouerne all t〈1 line〉〈1 line〉e world. Now be it you had rather giue strength to the aduersarie, than lacke argumentes to the defense of your cause.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A popish rea∣son vsed by the Replyer.
• * 1.2

  Caluine.
• * 1.3

  Nowell.
• * 1.4

  Lib. 1. 63.