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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 last reason.
Last of all you conclude that our saviour Christ in the 20. of Matthew / reproveth the ambition of the sons of zebedee / and in the 22. of S. Luke all the rest of the Apostles. I grant you / he doth so / and that could not be done better / then in telling them / that they desired things not meet for them / and which would not stand with their calling. And if as you say the ambition only was reprehended / and the desire of rule to oppress others with / the answer you attribute to our saviour is not so fit. For they might have replied and said that he forbade tyrannical rule and oppression of their inferiors / but they desired that which was a moderate and well ruled government. And seemeth it unto you a probable thing / that S. Luke meaneth tyrants and oppressors / when as he saith / they are called beneficial or gracious Lords? men do not use to call oppressors / liberal or bountiful Lords. Neither is it to be thought of all the Apostles / that they desired rule one over an other / to the end that they would use cruelty / or tyranny / or oppression / one over an other: for that were to do them great injury. Besides that it is said / that the rest of the disciples disdained at the two brethren / which they would not have done / if they had had any purpose or mind to have oppressed them. For then they would have contemned them / rather then have disdained them / if they had broken out into such gross faults. For Aristotle teacheth that nemesis (which is the same that aganactesis is / the 1verb whereof the Evangelist useth) is against those / that are supposed of them that bear the disdain / to be lifted up higher and into better estate then they are worthy of: which agreeth with that interpretation which I have alleged / and can not agree with the other / which you set down. For who (speaking properly) would speak after this sort. The residue of the Apostles disdained at the two brethren / or thought them unworthy that they should bear tyrannical rule over them.