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.

The Epist. of T. C. Sect. 2.

The offences which are taken herein, be either in respecte of the cause, or in respect of those whiche seeke to defende, and promote the cause. The cause is charged fyrste with newnesse and strangenesse, then as author of confusion, and of disorder, and laste of all as enimie to Princes, magistrates, and common wealthes. For the fyrst, besydes that it is no sufficient chalenge, to say it is new and strange, there is no cause why it should be counted newe, which is confessed of those whiche myslyke it, to haue bin for the most part vsed in the Apostles tymes, nor why it should be esteemed strange, which is vsed now farre and neere, of this & that syde the sea, and of ne straun∣gers, but of those which are of the houshold of fayth. And it shal more largely appeare in this boke, that this is no innouation, but a renouation, and the doctrine not new, but renued, no stranger, but borne in Sion, wherevnto (it being before vniustly banished) ought now of right to be restored.

Io. Whitgifte.

Snrely the offences are taken bothe in respecte of the persons, and of the cause: Neither is eyther the persons, or the cause charged with any thing by mée, but I am readie eyther to proue it, or to retract it. The antiquitie of it, and the straungenesse wée must referre to be iudged of the Reader, when we haue both written what we can. In the meane tyme I suppose that youre deuises with the circumstances, will appeare not only not to be auncient, but verie straunge and lately deuised: although in suche matters antiquitie is not sufficient to proue a thing conuenient, excepte it agrée with the circumstances of tyme, place, and persons, much lesse necessarie, vn∣lesse it be in matters pertayning to saluation, as shall hereafter (God willing) more largely be declared: where also it will appeare, that many of your assertions tende not to renouation, but innouation, and that they were neuer eyther borne in Sion, or méete for Sion.