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. 156. Sect. 2.

What conscience is there that bindeth a man to depart from his liuing, in that place where he liketh not of all the orders which are there vsed? Is it not inough to abstayne from them, if there be any euill in them, or to declare the vnlawfulnesse of thē, if his calling do suffer him, when as the reformation is not in his power? And if eyther of this absteyning, or declaration of thys vnlaw∣fulnesse of them, troubles be moued, there is no more cause why they should giue place, than the other which like of those disorders, yea there is lesse cause, for that they are not the causes of trouble but the other, and for that by their departure out of their places, roome is made for those which will lyke of those disorders, whiche the other misliked, whiche is to the hurte of that companie, or con∣gregation in suche places.

Io. Whitgifte.

If he be sworne to kéepe those orders kéeping his liuing: if as honest men as he is will lyke of them: If his equals, or rather betters, might supply his place: I thinke he ought rather to satisfie his othe, or to refuse his liuing, if he wyll auoyde periurie:

yea though there were no such méete persons to succéede him. But if the case be this, that a man shall directly sweare, eyther to doe such a thing by such a tyme, or to leaue his place, if by that time he neyther do the thing by othe required, nor leaue his place, but still vsurpe the same, at the least the space of fiue yeres: I thinke he ought to be displaced for periurie: whiche is a greater matter than eyther cappe or surplesse. I doe but nowe put a case, that men may vnderstande euery man that is displaced, not to be displaced without great and vrgent occasion. I woulde not enter into thys vayne, if I were not vrged. Therefore to answere in one worde for all, I haue put no man out of his liuing, but there is greater cause why he should be ashamed to cō∣playne of iniurie, than I, to doe according to my othe and duetie.