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.

Bucer in his firste booke of the kingdome of Christe the. 15. chapter, lamenteth that there were found amongst those which are counted of the forwardest Christians, which woulde not haue the same discipline vsed nowe, that was in the times of the Apostles, ob∣iecting the differences of times, and of men.

Io. Whitgifte.

There is nothing in that chapter that maketh any thing wyth you, or against me: for who denyeth, but that the discipline that Christe hath appoynted ought to be mainteined and kept in his Church: our question is of the manner of executing it, of the persons, and of certaine other circumstances, whereof M. Bucer in that chapter speaketh not one worde: and that the Reader may vnderstande howe you seeke to delude him, I will recite the wordes of M. Bucer in that chapter, wherein he comprehendeth al that which is spoken in the same chapter touching this matter. Out of all these testimonies of the holy Scripture concerning Christes kingdome, they that beleeue the worde of God shall easily vnderstande, that what soeuer Christe the Lorde bath commaunded vs and appoynted, the same to bring a sure and great helpe to our saluation, if it be so obserued as be bath

commaunded and appointed it: and that in all ages howsoeuer men and times doe varie: neyther can wee wittginly for any cause intermitte or neglecte any of them, but we muste therewith refuse and despise Christe himselfe, and his whole kingdome. All which I graunt: and they touch not a∣ny thing nowe in controuersie. Surely these be but slender testimonies to proue that there ought nowe to be the same regiment of the church, whiche was in the Apostles times, if you speake of the externall regiment, which only is now in question.