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.

Io. Whitgifte.

My speach is verie plaine and without all ambiguitie, I say there is a dozen Cathedrall Churches in England, the worst of the which Churches in learning shal incounter with all papists. &c. My meaning can not be so darke as you would séeme to make it: but bicause your vnderstanding is so dull, when any thing is spoken to the commendation of any other than of your selfe, I will more plainly declare my meaning: whiche is this, that there is not one of these dozen Churches, but hathe a sufficiente number of learned menne, to perfourme what so euer I haue promysed, howe so euer boastinglye,

which I acknowledge to be my infirmitie, but yet there vnto constreyned by the arro∣gancie of such, qui cupiunt soli videri aliquid esse. Your opprobrious speaches spoken of those Churches, as mere slaunders, and procéeding from a minde ouercome with en∣uie, and contempt of other, I passe ouer, affirming still the same that is conteyned in mine Answere to the Admonition, the which you may wel snap and bite at in words, but in déede you shall neuer be able to steyne those places: and whatsoeuer you pre∣tende to the vniuersities, yet your good will is as much towardes the one as it is to∣wardes the other, they both depending vpon one thréede.

But if there be abuses in hir Maiesties Chappell (as you suppose) why haue you not sought the reformation thereof orderly? Why haue you sought it tumultuously? why haue you libelled agaynst it? why haue you sought it with spitefull wordes, with disquieting the Church, without all dutie and order?