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. 121. Sect. 2.

I am sure you are not offended that there be Deacons in Cathe∣drall Churches: for if they ought to be in euery Congregation, they ought to be there also: and yet I knowe no such order nowe in Ca∣thedrall Churches, that they be more bounde to Deacons in the re∣spect of reading the Gospell, than other Churches be: But admitte they were, it is no peruerting of the office of a Deacon, being incident to his office, as well to read the Scriptures in the congregation, and* 1.1 to exhort, as to giue almes, and distribute to the poore: for the state of the Church is not nowe, as it was in the Apostles time, neither is that part of the office of a Deacon, so necessarie now, as it was then,

being lawes & orders otherwise to prouide for the poore, than there eyther was then, or could haue bene.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Diuerse state of the church. Some part of the Deacons office not now so necessarie.