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.

Chap. 1. the. 7. Diuision.

Admonition.

And yet least the reformers of our tyme should seeme vtterly to take out of Gods church this necessary function, they appoynte some thyng to it concerning the poore, and that is, to searche for the sycke, needy, and impotent people of the paryshe, and to intimate their estates, names, and places where they dwell to the Curate, that by his exhortation they maye be releeued by the Parishe, or other conuenient almes. And this you see is the nyghest parte of his office, and yet you must vn∣derstande it to be in such places where there is a Curate and Deacon: euery paryshe cannot bee at that coste to haue both, nay, no paryshe so farre as can be gathered, at this present hath.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 122. Sect. 1.

And what faulte can you fynde herewith, is not this greatly to be commended? If euery paryshe can not be at the coste to haue bothe Curate and Deacon, why do you require them both in euery parishe? why do you not thinke well of such lawes as appoynte Collectours for the poore, whiche may as well prouide for them and better to, than coulde the Deacon, who must be susteyned hym selfe with that

which the poore should haue.

T. C. Pag. 153. Sect. 1.

And whereas M. Doctor sayth, that euery churche is not able to fynde a Curate (as he ter∣meth hym) and a Deacon, I haue before shewed, intreatyng of the Seniors, that the churches in the Apostles tymes myght best haue sayd this, beyng poore and persecuted, although I see not why the churche may not haue a Deacon or Deacons if mo be needefull, with as small charges as they may haue a collector or collectors.

Io. Whitgifte.

It is the Admonition that sayeth, Euery paryshe cannot be at that caste to haue bothe. Wherevpon I doe but aske this question, why they require them both in e∣uery paryshe, if euerye paryshe cannot bee at the coste to haue them both? Bylike you make small accompte of the Admonition, in that you read it not, or else you haue forgotten that this question is demaunded vpon their confession. But in deede I am of that opinion too, and haue before answered your obiection of the Churches in the Apostles tymes, as for our Collectors, they be suche as put not the Churche to one halfepenye charge, so could not your Deacons do.