A18078:153
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.
Therefore all these / and whatsoever else wandering words / I shall meet / with in this book / I mean (by God his grace) as dead things / and nothing worth / to bury with silence / and will answer to those things / which touch the matters that lye in controversy between us. And as for the unlearnedness / blind zeal / malice / intolerable pride / contempt of all good orders / and twenty such more things / wherewith M. Doctor chargeth us / if our life & conversation doth not confute them sufficiently / our words & profession of our selves / will not do it. And therefore / we will first stay our selves with y• testimony of our own consciences / & then in the equity of the judgement of all those / which shall indifferently consider these things / y• we are charged with. And as for the sword / that is so hotly & hastily called for / we hope it be in their hands / which will use it better / then they are by you directed.
Therefore all these / and whatsoeuer else wandering words / I shall meete / with in this booke / I meane (by God his grace) as dead things / and nothing worth / to bury with silence / and will answere to those things / which touch the matters that lye in controuersie betwene vs. And as for the vnlearnednes / blind zeale / malice / intolerable pride / contempt of al good orders / and twentie such more things / wherwith M. Doctor chargeth vs / if our life & cōuersation doth not confute thē sufficiently / our words & profession of our selues / wil not do it. And therfore / we wil first stay our selues with y• testimony of our owne consciences / & thē in the equity of ye iudgemēt of al those / which shal indifferētly cōsider these things / y• we are charged with. And as for ye sworde / that is so hotly & hastely called for / we hope it be in their hāds / which wil vse it better / then they are by you directed.
To come therefore unto the matter / out of the places of the. 20. of Matthew / and the 22. of Luke where our saviour Christ / upon occasion of the inordinate request of the sons of Zebedee / putteth a difference / between the civill and ecclesiastical function / he placeth the distinction of them in two points / whereof the one is / in their office / the other is in their names and titles.