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. 152. Sect. 1.

In the. 228. page he thinketh the Archbishops Court necessarie, but bringeth no reason, and further confesseth himselfe ignorant of the estate of it, and therefore I know not from whence that good opinion of his should come, vnlesse it be from thence, that he liketh of al things be they neuer so euill which the Admonition misliketh. The rest which M. Doctor hath of this matter, is nothing else but great and high wordes. And as for the Canon law, it is knowne what a stroke it beareth with vs, and that a few cases excep〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ed, it remayneth in his former effect.

Io. Whitgifte.

I haue shewed better reasons for it, than you haue done agaynst it as yet. For it* 1.1 is a reason for me sufficient, that the Court is established by the authoritie of the Prince, and the whole Realme, and fit it is, that very strong reasons should be vsed, before this reason be reiected. For in matters of gouernment, place must be giuen to the gouernors, law makers, and to the state: except there can be shewed inuincible reasons to the contrarie, whereof you haue not in this place vttered one.

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