Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 225. Sect. 2. 3.
You say all these come from the Pope, &c. It is not materiall frō whence they come, so they be good, profitable, & necessarie, for the maintey∣ning of religion, learning, wise & learned men: but I pray you from what Pope came they? or in what time did the Pope inuent them? I tolde you before that such places and Colledges were in Augustines* 1.1 time, & that he both hath the name of M. Deane, and alloweth of his office. If you had redde any auncient learned Authors (as your wri∣tings declare you haue not) then shoulde you finde that Collegiate churches be of great antiquitie, euen since the yeare of our Lord. 235. But what can you speake agaynst Cathedrall churches, which you may not as well speake agaynst the Colledges in the vniuersities? They were not in the Apostles time neyther yet in the primitiue* 1.2 Church: must they therefore now be dissolued? your meaning is be∣like to bring all to confusion and barbarisme.
You say, no reformed church in the worlde knoweth them, wherein I thinke you speake more than you know. Can you name any reformed church that hath plucked them downe? Peraduenture in diuers places where the gospell is now preached, they had neuer such rewards for learning. But what haue we to do in such cases with other reformed churches? we haue to consider what is most meete for this church, and state: & not to follow other, as though we were children: I see no cause why other reformed churches should not rather follow vs, than we them, seing in no respect we be inferiour to them. Well, to conclude, your wordes be but vaine, and your proofes none at all: and therfore I doubt not but Cathedrall churches shall be able to with∣stande both your opprobrious speaches, & the greedinesse of all their aduersaries, so long as it shall please God to blesse this land with so vertuous & learned a Queene, & so wise and discrete counsellours.