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…

Now you carry us from the Anabaptists in Europe / unto the Donatists in Africa / & you will paint us with their colours / but you want the oil of truth / or likelihood of truth / to cause your colours to cleave / & to endure. The Lord be praised / that your breath / although it be very rank / yet it is not so strong / that it is able / either to turn us / or change us / into what forms it pleaseth you. I shall desire the reader / to look Theod. lib. 4. De fabulis haereticorum, and Augustine / ad quod vult Deum, and in his first and second books / against Petilian's letters / where he shall find of these heretics / that by comparing them with these / to whom M. Doctor likeneth them / the smoke of this accusation might the better appear: for these slanders are not worth the answering. To this division from the churches / and to your supposed conventicles / I have answered. They taught that there were no true churches but in Africa / we teach nothing less / than that there is no true church but in England. If the churches be considered in the parts / whether minister / or people / there is none pure & unspotted / and this is the faith of the true Church / and not of the Donatists: If it be considered in the whole and general government / and outward policy of it / it may be pure and unspotted / for any thing I know / if men would labour to purge it. The Donatists van ted them selves to be exempted from sin / and what likelihood is there between any assertion of the authors of the Admonition / and this fancy of the Donatists. To the last point of no compulsion to be used in matters of religion denying it to be true / I reserve the further answer to another place.