themselues. I study not to encounter the Answer, for eyther I set downe the whole place, or else quote it so, that it may easily be found. Touching this booke of instituti∣ons of M. Caluines, which I now follow, I haue spoken before, and declared why I do vse it rather than any other: I haue laboured it, noted it, I am acquainted with it, and belike, I red it, before you knew whether there was any such booke or no: and if there be no suche booke of M. Caluines institutions, only deuided into chapters and sections, and not into bookes, I will giue you all M. Caluines works, bycause you so complayne of lacke of bookes.
But to come to the thing it selfe, M. Caluine in that place speaking of such lawes and orders in the Church, as are not perpetuall but alterable, as occasion serueth, vseth this commaundement of S. Paules touching the silence of women in the Churche, for one example to make the matter more manifest: his wordes be these. Or is the commaundement touching hir silence such, as it may not be broken without wic∣kednesse? And alittle after. Et est, vbi loqui nō minus opportunum illi sit, quàm alibi tacere, And there is a time and place, when and where it is as fit for hir to speake, as else where to holde 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ir peace. These words be plaine, and do sufficiently answer all, that you can obiect to the contrary.