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.

5 That excommunication pertayneth not to any one man in the Churche.

M. Caluine in his Institutions. 4. booke, and 11. Chapter, and. 6. Section, teacheth that excommunication porteyneth not to one man, and that it was to wicked a facte that one man taking the authoritie which was common to other, to hymselfe alone, opened a waye to tyrannie, tooke from the Churche hir right, and abrogated the Church Senate, ordeined by the spirite of Christe. And in the. 12 chapter and. 7. Section, he sayeth further that it ought not to be done without the knowledge and approbation of the Churche.

Io. Whitgifte.

Wée graunte that no one man ought to take that vnto hym selfe which doth not apperteyne vnto him: but I haue proued Tract. 18. that excommunication perteineth to Byshops, and that this Church of England hath consented there vnto: wherefore M. Ca〈1 line〉〈1 line〉uine speaketh against that excommunication whiche the Pope violently and tyrannically vsurpeth, and not against this whiche our Bishoppes in this Churche of Englande, both by the lawes of God and consent of the Churche exercise. I speake of the thing it selfe and not of the abuse.