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.

Admonition.

Neyther yet iudging our selues, so exactly to haue set out the state of the Churche reformed as that nothing more could be added, or a more perfect forme and order drawne, for that were great presumption, to arrogate so muche vnto our selues, seeing that as we are but weake and simple soules, so God hath raysed vp men of profounde iudgement, and notable learning.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 139. Sect 3.

And yet in the beginning of your booke, you call it a true plat∣forme of a Churche reformed: and I dare saye you thinke it to be as perfect a forme of a Church, as al the best learned & godlyest men in the worlde could frame: for it is well knowne that men of your disposition, thinke commonly as well of them selues, as they doe of* 1.1 any man else, and better too. But we graunt vnto you, that you are so farre from setting downe a perfect state of a Churche reformed, that you maye rather be called confounders and deformers, than buylders and reformers.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Men thinke too well of themselues.