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. 92. Sect. 3.

Furthermore he sayth, that the Churche is not gouerned by names, but by offices, so is it in deede. And if the office of an Archbishop or Archdeacon can be shewed, we wyll not stryue for the name, but for so much as all the needefull offices of the Church togither with theyr names are mentioned in the the Scripture, it is truely sayde that bothe the offices and names of Arche∣bishop and Archedeacons, beeing not onely not conteyned in them (but also condemned) ought to be banished out of the Churche.

Io. Whitgifte.

I haue before shewed, that the office of visiting Churches, of ouerséeing many Pa∣stors* 1.1 and Bishops, of suppressing schismes. &c. was in the Apostles, and is in the scrip∣tures: But in these things doth the office of an Archbyshop consist, and in part of them the office of an Archdeacon, therefore the offices of Archbyshops and Archdeacons be conteined in the scriptures, and were in the Apostles time. For although (as I then sayde) that this part of the Apostolicall office, which did consist in planting and foun∣ding Churches through the whole world, is ceased: yet the manner of gouernment by placing Byshops in euery Citie, by moderating and gouerning them, by visiting the Churches, by cutting of schismes and contentions, by ordering Ministers, remai∣neth still, and shall continue, and is in this Church in the Archbyshops and Byshops as most meete men to execute the same. Wherefore séeing the offices be in the scrip∣tures, there is no cause why the names should be mislyked, much lesse banished and cast out of the churche.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The office of archbyshops & archde〈1 line〉〈1 line〉cons contemed in scripture.