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.

Admonition.

And (g) 1.1 as the names of Archbishops, Archdeacons, Lord bishops, Chancelours, &c. are drawen out of the Popes shop, togither with their offices: So the gouernment which they vse by the life of the Pope, which is the Canon law, is Antichristian and diuelishe, and contrarie to the scriptures.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 208. Sect. 1.

Both of the names, and also of the offices of Archbyshops, Arch∣deacons,* 1.2 Lorde Byshops. &c. I haue spoken before sufficiently, and fully answered those places quoted in this margent, sauyng the. 2. to the Galat. the. 5. to the Hebrues. Ezech. 34. 2. Cor. 1. for these places haue bene founde out since, and thoughte meete now to be alleaged, but howe discretely, by examination it will appeare. The words of the Apostle to the Galat. 2. verse. 6. be these. And of them vvhich see∣med to be great I vvas not taughte (vvhat they vvere in tyme passed, it ma∣keth no matter to me, God accepteth no mans person) neuerthelesse they

that are the chiefe, dyd communicate nothing vvith me. The Apostle in these wordes doth declare, that he receyued not the Gospell, which he preached, of men, no not of the Apostles, but of Iesus Christ, and that the Gospell preached by him oughte to be no lesse credited, than the Gospell preached by them. So that in those wordes he decla∣reth that the truthe of the doctrine dothe not depende of any mans person. He speaketh nothyng agaynst superioritie quoad ordinem, conc••r∣ning order, but dothe rather acknowledge it, for he sayth, they that are the chiefe, &c. But it is true that Master Caluine noteth on thys place. Hic non est certamen ambitionis, quia nequaquam de personis agitur. The contention is not for ambition, for it is not vnderstanded of the persons. Nowe I praye you consider this argument, Paule receyued the Gospell that he preached, not of the Apostles, but of Christ: or the Gospell prea∣ched by Paule, is equiualent with the Gospell preached by other of the Apostles: therefore the names of Archbyshops, Archdeacons, &c. are drawne out of the Popes shop together wyth their offices, or this. Paule sayth that they that were the chiefe did cōmunicate nothing with him: Ergo, the names and offices of Archbyshops be taken out of the Popes shop.

Notes

• (g) 1.1

  Lu. 22. 25. 26. 1. P〈1 line〉〈1 line〉t. 5. 3. 4. 5. Math. 20. 25. 26. Math. 23. 8 11. 12. Gala. 2. 6. Hebr. 5. 4. Lu. 16. 25. Eze. 34. 4. 2. Cor. 1. 24.
• * 1.2

  Scriptures wreasted.