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. 169. Sect. 2.

And whereas M. Doctor sayeth they may not be husband men, craftes men. &c. and yet may haue ciuill offices, I thinke far otherwise, that although neyther be lawfull, yet the one were more tollerable than the other. For seing after the ministerie of the worde there is no calling vnder the sunne weightier, & which requireth greater exercise of the minde, than the office-of the magistrate, it is agaynst all reason to lay this heauie burthen vpon a man, that is already loden, and hath as much as he is able to beare. It were more equall if they will needes adde vnto the weight of this burthen, to laye some lighter charge of exercising a handy crafte, than to breake his backe with the charge of a ciuill Magistrate.

Io. Whitgifte.

These wdrldly affayres of husbandrie, occupations, &c. must néedes withdrawe

him from his booke & so make him more vnapt to do his dutie: and they be not at all incident to his office, nor méete for his calling: but the Ciuill offices, that I speake of be both méete for his calling, perteyning to discipline, and helpes to his office & fun∣ction, as I haue sayde: wherefore they be so farre from breaking his backe, that they make the rest of his burthen a great deale the easier.