A18078:144
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.
To the seventh.
To the seuenth.
I answer that * Doeg / when he said that David came to Abimelech / said 1nothing but truth / and when they that witnessed against Christ / that he said / * destroy the temple / and in three days I will build it up again / said nothing 2but that our saviour Christ said: But yet Doeg was a slanderer / and the other false witnesses: because the one spake it of mind to hurt / & the other understood it of an other temple then our saviour Christ meant it. So although you do in part rehearse their words / yet taking them contrary to their meaning (which might easily appear by the circumstances) I see not how you can be free from these faults / unless it be done ignorantly / which I wish were true for your own sake. And here I will desire thee (gentle reader) to mark with what conscience this man saith / that they are joined and confederate with papists against the church. The papists mislike of the book of common prayer / for nothing else / ⟨p. 20⟩but because it swerveth from their mass book / and is not in all points like unto it. And these men mislike it / for nothing else / but because it hath too much likelihood unto it. And judge whether they be more joined with the papists / which would have no communion nor fellowship with them / neither in ceremonies / nor doctrine / nor government / or they / which forsaking their doctrine / retain part of their ceremonies / and almost their whole government: that is / they that separate them selves by three walls / or by one: they that would be parted by the broad sea from them / or which would be divided by narrow water / where they may make a bridge / to come in again / and displace the truth of the gospel / as they have done in times past: They that would not only unhorse the Pope / but also take away the stirrups / whereby he should never get into the saddle again / or they which being content with that that he is unhorsed / leave his ceremonies & his government especially / as stirrups / whereby he may leap up again / when as occasion serveth: They that are content / only to have cut the arms and body of the tree of antichristianitie / or they which would have stump and root all up.