Notwithstanding my dutie of defending the truth, & loue which I haue first towardes God, and then towards my countrie, constrayneth me being thus prouoked to speake a few wordes more particularly of the forme of prayer, that when the blemishes thereof do appeare, it may please the Queenes inaiestie & hir honorable councell, with those of the Parliament, whom the Lorde hath v∣s〈1 line〉〈1 line〉o as singular instrumentes to d〈1 line〉〈1 line〉liuer this realme from the hote fornace and yron yoke of the po∣pish Egipte, to procure also, that the corruptions which we haue brought from them (as those with which we being so deepely died and stayned, haue not so easily shaken of) may be remoued from a∣mongst vs, to the ende that we beyng necrclicr both ioyned vnto the sinceritie of the gospell, and the 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ollicie of other reformed Churches, may thereby be ioyned nearer with the Lord, and may be se〈1 line〉〈1 line〉te so farre from Rome, that both we may comfort our selues in the hope, that we shall neuer returne thither againe, and our aduersaries which desire it, and by this to much agreement with them, and to little with the reformed Churches, hope for it, may not onely be deceyued of their expectation, but also being out of all hope, of that which they desire, may the soner yeelde themselues vnto the truth, wherevnto they are now disobedient.
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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- Whitgift, John, 1530?-1604.
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- Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603. -- Replye to an answere made of M. Doctor Whitgifte -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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- Episcopacy -- Early works to 1800.
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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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What dutie can there be in defacing a knowne and receaued truth? what loue, in flaundering your countrie vniustly, and renting it in pieces with sectes and Schis∣mes, and prouoking the subiectes to haue mislikyng of their Magistrates, and such as be placed in authoritie ouer them? these be but clokes to couer an euill and vngodly purpose. If you shall be able to shewe any suche blemishes in the booke of Common prayers, they shall not be couered for me: but if not, than are you not a man to be credited.
I haue tolde you M. Caluines, and M. Gualters opinion, touching the ambitious* 1.1 morositie of such, as would haue all Churches framed, after the example of some one: and nowe I tell you agayne, that there is no cause why this Churche of Englande, eyther for truth of doctrine, sinceritie of publike diuine seruice, and other pollicie should giue place to any church in Christendome: and sure I am, that we are as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ioyned with the Lorde our God, as the members are to the bodie, and the bodie to the head.
Our aduersaries haue 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉o such hope vpon any suche occasion as you pretende: if* 1.2 their hope be any, it is especially in your contentions.
Wherein do we agrée with the Papistes, or wherein do we dissent from the re∣formed Churches? with these we haue all poynts of doctrine and substance common: from the other we dissent, in the most parte both of doctrine and ceremonies. From what spirite come these bolde and vntrue speaches?
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Sup̄ra Cap. 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉. t〈1 line〉〈1 line〉e 13. Diuisi〈1 line〉〈1 line〉.
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The aduersa∣ries hope is in contention.