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.

Io. Whitgifte.

I confesse the name to be mistaken: it is an ouersight, and yet no greater than* 1.1 yours is in alledging Iosias for Ezechias. And both this, and that which followeth of Theodorete for Theodotus, were corrected as well in the bookes of the first edition, as in the seconde, before I had your warning. The placing of one name for another is not so great an ouersight, but that it may somtime happen to those which are verie circumspect, and euen vnto your selfe, as Iosias for Ezechias, in the beginning, (*) and Gregorie for George, afterwarde: so that herein you are not inferiour to me, and the* 1.2 one may well be set agaynst the other. But let these tryfles go: it is Ambrose in his booke de Officijs cap. 27. whose wordes be these: Let the Bishop vse the Clearkes, and espe∣cially the Ministers which are indeede his sonnes, as his owne members: let him assigne e∣uerie one to that office whereunto he shall see him to be meete. The part also of the bodie which putrifyeth is with griefe cut off, and it is long looked vnto; if it can be cured with me∣dicines▪ but if it cannot, thē is it cut away by a good Phisition. So it is the propertie of a good Bishop, that he be desirous to heale the weake, to take away sores that creepe on, to burne some, and not to cut them away: last, to cut away with griefe that which cannot be cured.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In his Epistle Sect. 8▪
• * 1.2

  Pag. 97. Sect. 3 Ambrose.