Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 103. Sect. 2. 3. & Pag. 104. Sect. 1.
This is a very slender reason to proue that the sacrament of the Supper is not sincerely ministred, bicause there is singing, pyping, surplesse and Cope: when you shewe your reasons agaynst that pompe, whiche is nowe vsed in the celebration of that Sacrament, you shall heare what I haue to saye in defense of the same. I thinke that there is nothing vsed in the administration thereof, that dothe in any respecte contaminate it, or make it impure. As for pyping, it is not prescribed to be vsed at the Communion by any rule, that I knowe. Synging I am sure you doe not disallowe, beeing vsed in all reformed Churches, and an arte allowed in Scriptures, and vsed in praysing of God by Dauid. Of Surplesse and Cope I haue spoken before, & wyl speake more hereafter as occasionis ministred.
There is no suche inuentions or deuises of man mixed wyth the Supper of the Lorde as can make it sinfull, beeing all perteyning to edifying, and to good & decent order, and nothing there appoyn∣ted to be done contrarie or not agreable to the Scriptures. Caluine him selfe sayth in his Institutions, Lib. 4. Cap. 10. That those thynges vvhiche be partes of decencie, commended vnto vs by the Apostle, though they be prescribed by man, yet are they Gods traditions, and not mans, as kneeling at solemne prayer, and suche like. The Supper it selfe in all poynts of any moment is ministred nowe in this Churche of Eng∣lande, euen as Christ deliuered it, as the Apostles vsed, and as the Primitiue Churche continued the same.
These be all the reasons you vse to proue that the Sacrament of the Supper is not rightly and sincerely ministred, wherof some be impious, some ridiculous, and all of them vnworthy any con∣futation.
T. C. Pag. 133. Sect. 1. 2.
Unto that whyche is conteyned in the two next sections in the. 103. and a peece of the. 104. pages, I haue answered before, partly particularly, & partly when I noted the general faults of the Seruice booke, especially seeing that M. Doctor wyll not defende the pyping and Organes, nor no other synging than is vsed in the re〈1 line〉〈1 line〉rmed Churches, which is, in the synging of two Psalmes, one in the beginning, and an other in the ending, in a playne tune, easy both to be song of those whych haue no arte in singing, and vnderstanded of those, whych bicause they can not reade, can not sing with the rest of the Churche.
For that whiche is in the. 105. page, and concerneth the surplesse, I haue answered before.
Io. Whitgifte.
To the moste of it you haue not answered any where, and the substance of it you haue left vntouched, that is, whether these things be of that weight, or no, that in any respect they can contaminate the sacramentes, or make them impure, as they b〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 nowe vsed. Neyther haue you proued, or can proue that the sacraments are not ministred in this Church of Englande in all poyntes of any moment, euen as Christ deliuered them, the Apostles vsed them, & the primitiue Churche continued them. Touching singing, piping (as you cal it) surplesse & cope wearing. I answere with Oecolampadius, These things be free vnto Christians, whiche holy or godly Bishops may eyther adde, if it seeme vnto them conuenient, and profitable for the people, or take away if there be any abuse, as the time requireth: euen as they may also doe