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.

Ansvvere to certayne Articles. &c.

4. Lin. 9. They hold that a Bishop at no hande hath authoritie to ordeyne ministers. This Article you confesse to be truely gathered: but now you make this glosse (not alone) and yet in their Admonition it is in flat termes, that the ordering of mynisters doth at no hand apperteyne to Bishops.

6. Lin. 28. They will haue the mynisters at theyr owne pleasure to preach without lycence. This is true by your owne cōfessiō, for you will haue no other licēce, but your calling to the ministerie, which must be (as you say) by the congregation. Here you shut out both the Princes licence, and the Bishops.

7. Lin. 13. fol. 17. Lin. 6. pag. 1. Whatsoeuer is set down in this Article is manifestly affirmed in the Admonitiō, & your answere to it is fri∣uolous, and nothing to the purpose. For in the firste parte of the Ad∣monition▪ Fol. 2. pag. 1. These be the wordes: In those dayes knowne by voice, learning & doctrine: now they must be discerned frō other, by Popish & Antichristian ap∣parell, as cap, gowne, tippet, &c. And in the second part speaking of the appa∣rell prescribed to ministers, they say on this sort: There is no order in it but confusion: no comelinesse, but deformitie: no obediēce, but disobediēce both against God and the Prince. Are you not then ashamed to say, that this Article (They

will haue the mynister discerned from others by no kinde of apparell, and the apparell ap∣poynted they terme Antichristian, and the apparell appoynted by the Prince, disobedience agaynst the Prince) is falsified?

Fol. 4. Lin. 1. Pag. 2. They will haue all Archbishops, Bishops, Archdeacons, &c. together with their offices, iurisdictions, courtes, and liuings cleane taken away, and with speede remoued. You say that this is falsified in parte, bicause there is left out Lords grace, Iustice of peace, and Quorum, &c. Surely the Article is truly collected in euery poynt, and playnely affirmed in the. 2. leafe of the first parte of that Admonition. As for your gibing wordes that follow, they be but winde: I warrāt you the cōfutatiō will abide the light, & the Author will shew his face, which you are ashamed to do.

9. Lin. 9. The Article is truly collected: looke in the first parte of that Admonition, Fol. 2. Pag. 2. & Fol. 3. And in the second part of that Admonition. Fol. 1. pag. 2. Fol. 5. pag. 1.

17. Lin. 12. The collection is true: for their wordes be these: They simply as they receyued it from the Lorde, we sinfuily mixed with mans inuentions and de∣uises. And therfore you vntruly say, that it is falsified.

19. Lin. 16. They will haue no Godfathers nor Godmothers, you say that this Article is also vtterly falsified: what meane you so to forget your sslfe Is it not thus writtē in the first part of y^e first Admonitiō, 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉o. 3 pa. 2.* 1.1 And as for Baptisme it was enough with them if they had water, and the partie to be bapti∣sed, fayth, and the mynister to preache the worde, and mynister the Sacramentes. Nowe we must haue surplesse deuised by Pope Adrian, Interrogatories mynistred to the infant, Godfathers and Godmothers brought in by Higinus, &c? Howe say you? are not Godfathers and Godmothers here disallowed? wherefore be they else in this place recyted? or why are they here ascribed to Pope Hi∣ginus? will you now allow any thing in the Church inuented by the Pope? In deede in the second edition of this firste Admonition, these wordes, Godfathers and Godmothers brought in by Higinus, be cleane left out, as I haue before noted. Wherfore eyther you haue not redde the di∣uersitie of their editions, or else you are very impudent.

22. Fol 8. in fine. I maruell why you say, that this collection is fal∣sified? Looke Fol. vlt. pag 2. of the first part of the Admonition.

Notes

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  Godfathers and Godmo∣thers once disallowed & after recāted.