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.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 177. Sect. 2.

Caluine in lyke manner writing vpon the fourth to the Galati∣ans,* 1.1 doth not disallow this kinde of obseruing dayes, his wordes be these: VVhen as holynesse is attributed to dayes, vvhen as one day is dis∣cerned from an other for religion sake, vvhen dayes are made a peece of di∣uine vvorship, then dayes are vvickedly obserued, &c. But vvhen vve haue a difference of dayes, laying no burden of necessitie on mens consciences, vve make no difference of dayes, as though one vvere more holy than an other, vve put no religion in them, nor vvorshipping of God, but onely vve obserue them for order and concorde sake, so that the obseruing of dayes vvith vs is free, and vvithout all superstition. And agayne vpon the. 2. to the Colloss. But some vvill say, that vve as yet haue some kinde of obser∣uing dayes: I ansvvere that vve obserue them not, as though there vvere any religion in them, or as though it vvere not then lavvfull to labour, but vvee haue a respect of pollycie & orders, not of dayes. And in his Institutions vpō the fourth commaundement, Neyther do I so speake of the seuenth daye, that I vvould binde the Church onely vnto it, for I do not condemne

those Churches vvhich haue other solemne dayes to meete in, so that they be voyde of superstition, vvhich shall be if they be ordeyned onely for the obseruing of discipline and order.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Caluine.