A18078:107
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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We make no separation from the church / we go about to separate all those things / that offend in the church / to the end that we being all knit to the sincere truth of the gospel / might afterwards in the same bond of truth / be more nearly and closely joined together. We endeavour that every church having a lawful pastor / which is able to instruct / all might be ranged to their proper churches / whereas divers / onles they go to other then their own parishes / are like to hear few sermons in the year / so far are we from withdrawing men from their ordinary churches and pastors. Let him that inveigheth against any pastor without good cause / bear the punishment: as for inveighing against heaping of living upon living / and joining steeple to steeple / and non residence / and such ambition and tyranny / as beareth the sway in divers Ecclesiastical persons / if the price of the pacification / be the offending of the Lord / it is better you be displeased / then God be offended.
VVe make no seperation from the church / we go about to seperate all those thyngs / that offend in the church / to the end that we being all knit to the sincere truth of the gospell / might afterwards in the same bond of truth / be more nearely and closely ioyned together. VVe endeuor that euery church hauing a lawfull pastor / whych is able to instruct / all myght be ranged to their proper churches / wheras diuers / onles they go to other then their owne parishes / are like to heare few sermons in the yeare / so farre are we from withdrawing men from their ordinary churches and pastors. Let him that inueigheth against any pastor without good cause / beare the punishment: as for inueighing against heaping of liuing vpon liuing / and ioyning steeple to steeple / and non residence / and suche ambition and tiranny / as beareth the sway in diuers Ecclesiasticall persons / if the price of the pacification / be the offending of the Lorde / it is better you be displeased / then God be offended.