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.

T. C. Pag. 127. Lin. 18.

And least he shoulde seeme to be thus euill aduised, without some reason in the. 159. Page, he asketh whether (if a man wryte his Sermon and after reade it in the booke) that reading be preaching. Here is hard shift, what if I graunted that it is preaching, yet I denie that there∣fore he that readeth an other mannes Sermon preacheth: and further I say, that if there be any such, as beeing able to preache for his knowledge, yet for fault eyther of vtterance or memorie, can not doe it, but by reading that whiche hee hath written: It is not conuenient that hee shoulde bee a Minister in the Churche. For Saint Paule doth not require onely, that the* 1.1 Bishoppe or Minister shoulde be learned in the mysteries of the Gospell, and such a one as is

able to set downe in wryting in his studie, the sense of the Scripture, but one whiche is apt and fitte to teache. And the Prophete Malachie sheweth, that he must haue the lawe, not in his pa∣pers,* 1.2 but in his lippes, noting thereby that it is necessarie to haue the gifte of vtterance: And Esay the Prophete saying that God had giuen him the tongue of the learned, doth thereby declare,* 1.3 that it is not sufficient that he be well instructed in the mysterie of saluation, but that he haue also the gift of vtterance.

Io. Whitgifte.

And why doth not he which readeth an other mans Sermon preache, as well as hée doth when he readeth his owne? What if he pronounce another mans Sermon in the Pulpit without booke, doth he not preache, bicause it is not his owne? I do not speake this to defende any such ignorant Pastor, that should néede so to depende vpon other mens labours: I doe but put a case. It may be that a learned Pastor hauing both memorie and vtterance, sometime vpon occasion may reade a Sermon. And I nothing doubt, but in so doing he preacheth. And surely he shall the more redily haue the lawe in his lippes, if he haue it first in his Papers. And yet if he reade, he must vse his lippes. Ieremie the Prophete as it appeareth in the. 36. Chapter, was com∣maunded to write that which the Lord had commaunded him to say to the people of* 1.4 Iuda, and of Ierusalem, and to cause it to be read vnto them, and so it was in the open congregation, and in the house of the Lorde, in the hearing of all the people. And so did Baruch in like maner write that which he had to say to Iechonia, and to* 1.5 all the people, and read the same in the open congregation Bar. 1. and surely both these bookes were Sermons.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3.
• * 1.2

  Mal. 2.
• * 1.3

  Esay. 50.
• * 1.4

  Iere. 36.
• * 1.5

  Bar. 1.