And as for the truth of the cause, and wresting and mangling of the Scriptures, in most places where they are sayde to mangle and wrest, and how he hath answered the r〈1 line〉〈1 line〉quest of the Exhorta∣tion, which is, to confute the Admonition by the Scriptures, and how truly, 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ptly, and learnedly, M. Doctor hath behaued himself, in citing of the old Councels, and fathers: I leaue it to be estee∣med, partly of that which I haue sayde, and partly by the deeper consideration of those, which by∣cause they can better iudge, may see further into M. Doctors faults-and rapfodyes than I can Al∣though the truth is, that I haue bicause I would not make a long booke, by heaping of one repre∣hension vpon an other, contented my selfe rather to trip, as it were, and to passe ouer with a light
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.
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- 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.
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- Whitgift, John, 1530?-1604.
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- Anno. 1574.
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- Episcopacy -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15130.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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foote, the heades and summes of things, than to number the faults, which are almost as many as there are sentences in this booke, more I am sure than there are pages.
I haue confuted both them and you, according to the giftes and grace that God hath gyuen mée, with suche authorityes both of Scriptures and other lear∣ned Auth ours, as is fitte to be vsed in the decyding of suche controuersies. And I am well assured that you haue not omitted the least blot in my booke: and for the most part you haue feyned (agaynst your owne knowledge) those to be whiche are not. I refuse no mans iudgement of my dealing with the olde Councels and fathers, that is learned and will speake without affection what he thinketh. Your hyperbolicall conclusion or figure of lying, where with you close vp your booke, I am well vsed vnto, and therefore it doth nothing trouble me, but remayneth as a certaine note of the spirite that possesseth you, which is the spirite of vntruth.