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.

M. Bucers wordes are plaine, there is no cause why you shoulde make such (I〈1 line〉〈1 line〉s) but onely that you may be thought able to say some thing, howe contrary to truth and reason soeuer it be. Your owne bare deniall of M. Bucers iudgement, will weigh little with any wyse or learned man, considering what difference there is betwixte your knowledge and his: the triall that hath bene of him, and the triall that hath bene of you: his experience, and yours. But what shoulde I compare together things so vn∣like? That M. Bucer is directly against you in this assertion of yours, it dothe not ap∣peare onely in these words of his, but in others also, which he speaketh to the like ef∣fect, as in the. 4. to the Eph. as I haue before declared. And again vpon the same chap∣ter* 1.1 he saith, The third part of discipline is obedience, which is first to be rendred of al to the Bishop and Minister, then of euery clearke, to those that be in degree aboue him, & to suche as may helpe him to the well executing of his ministerie. Last of all of Bishops to synodes, and to their Metropolitane Byshops, and to all other, to whom a more ample charge of the churches is committed. And in the same commentaries after that he hath proued by sundry examples & apt reasons, y^t this superioritie among Ecclesiasticall persons is conuenient and profitable, and shewed that these degrées in the Church, Bishop, Arch∣byshop, Metropolitane, Primate, Patria〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ke, be not onely most auncient, but also necessa∣rie, he concludeth on this sort. Bicause it is necessarie that euery one of the cleargie should* 1.2 haue their rulers and gouernours, the authoritie, power, vigilancie, and seueritie of Bishops, Archdeacons, and all other, by what name soeuer they be called (to whome any portion of keping and gouernin〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 the cleargie is committed) should or ought to be restored, least there be any in thys order out of rule, and without gouernment. Howe thinke you nowe of M. Bucers iudgement? Is it not directly against you? be not his wordes plaine?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Bucer. 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉n. 4. Ephe.
• * 1.2

  Idem.