Constantine speaketh of the feast of Easter, which he would not haue obserued accor∣ding to the manner of the Iewes, and yet you know that the Churches in Asia, fol∣lowing the examples of Philip and Iohn the Apostles, and of Polycarpus, and many o∣ther godly men, did celebrate that feast togyther with the Iewes, as it is to be seene in the fifth booke o〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 Eusebius eccle. history. Wherfore the matter was not of so great* 1.1 importance, before it was for quietnesse sake determined by the Churche: neyther doth Constantine in eyther of the places meane, that we should haue nothing com∣mon with the Iewes, but only that we should haue no suche thinges common with them, as are repugnant to Christian libertie, or to the truth of the Gospell, or such as may cō〈1 line〉〈1 line〉rme them in their obstinacie and error. For if his meaning had bin general∣ly and simply, then mighte he haue vtterly abrogated the feast of Easter, being no commaundement sor it in the new testament. As therefore Cōstantine thought that the Churche had not the feast of Easter common with the Iewes, not bycause the thing it selfe was abrogated, but the 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ay altered: Euen so the Churche of Englande cannot be said to haue any thing common with the P〈1 line〉〈1 line〉pisticall Church, though it re∣teine something vsed in the same, bycause the manner is changed, and certayne cir∣cumstances altered: 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉or whereas before it was in a straunge tongue, nowe it is in a tongue knowne: and whereas it was before abused and mixt with superstition, now it is rightly vsed and purged from all corruption. And therefore, although the thing remaine, yet bycause the circumstances be altered, it is not the same, no more than our Sabbat is the Iewes Sabbat, and our Easter the Iewes Easter.
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.
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- 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.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15130.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Euseb. lib. 5. cap. 23. 24. &. 25. 26.