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. 111. Sect. 3. & Pag. 112. Sect. 1.

I knowe not what you meane when you saye (That in the absence of* 1.1 the parentes some one of the congregation knowing the good behauiour and sound faithe of the Parentes, may both make a rehersal of their fayth: and also if their faith bee sounde and agreable to holy scriptures, desire in the same to be baptised) what if the parētes be of euil behauiour? what if it be the child of a drūkard, or of an 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ar∣lot? what if y^e parentes be Papistes? what if they be heretikes? what* 1.2 if they erre in some point or other, in matters of fayth? shall not their children be baptised? herein you haue a further meaning than I can vnderstande, and I feare fewe do perceiue the poyson that lieth hid vnder these wordes: may not a wicked father haue a good childe? may not a Papiste or heretike haue a beleuing sonne? wil you seclude for the Parentes sake (being himselfe baptised) his seede from bap∣tisme? Surely your fantasies, naye your daungerous errours wyll burste out one daye in more playne manner.

This reformatiō you seeke for and desire, were rather a deformatiō nay a confusion: and whylest you will nothing to bee done but that, for the whiche there is expresse warrant in Gods worde, you your selues prescribe that whiche is not to be founde in all Gods worde.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Of the saythe a〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ood be∣〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 of the Parentes. &c.
• * 1.2

  Whether the chi〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 of a wic∣ke〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 man may be baptised.