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 Pag. 180. Sect. vlt. &c.

You say, sitting is the most meetest gesture, bycause it signifyeth rest, that is a full fini∣shing thorough Christ of al the ceremoniall law. &c. What? are you now come to* 1.1 allegories and to significations? Surely this is a very papisticall reason: nay then we can giue you a great deale better significations of the surples, of crossing, of the ring in marriage, and many o∣ther ceremonies, thā this is of sitting. I pray you in the whole scrip∣ture where dothe sitting signify a full finishing of the ceremoniall law, and a perfect worke of redemption that giueth rest for euer? If allegories please you so well, let vs haue eyther standing which signi∣fyeth a redinesse to passe (vsed also in the eating of the passouer) or kneeling, which is the proper gesture for prayer, and thanksgiuing, and signifyeth the submission and humblenesse of the mind. But you say, Christ sate at his supper, therefore we must sit at the receiuing of the supper. You may as wel say, Christ did celebrate his supper at night, after supper, to twelue, only men and no women, in a parloure, with∣in a priuate house, the thursday at night before Easter, therefore we ought to receiue the communion at night, after supper, being twelue in number, and onely men, in a parlour, within a priuate house, the thursday at night before Easter. But who seeth not the Non sequitur of this argument?

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Admo∣nitors flye to allegories.