A18078:171
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.
And if you mean by matters of faith and necessary to salvation / those without which a man cannot be saved: then the doctrine that teacheth there is no free will / or prayer for the dead / is not within your compass. For I doubt not / but divers of the fathers of the Greek church / which were great patrons of free will (at lest as their words pretend) are saved holding the foundation of the faith / which is Christ. The like might be said of a number of other / as necessary doctrines / wherein men being nursled / have notwithstanding been saved. Therefore seeing that the point of the question lieth chiefly in this distinction / it had been good that you had spoken more certainly and properly of these things.
And if you meane by matters of fayth and necessary to saluation / those without which a man cannot be saued: then the doctrine that teacheth there is no free will / or prayer for the dead / is not within your compasse. For I doubt not / but dyuers of the fathers of the Greke church / which were great patrons of free wil (at lest as their wordes pretende) are saued holding the foundation of the fayth / which is Christ. The lyke might be sayd of a nomber of other / as necessary doctrines / wherein men being nusled / haue notwithstanding bene saued. Therefore seeing that the poynt of the question lyeth chiefely in this distinction / it had bene good that you had spoken more certainely and properly of these things.
But to the end it may appear / that this speech of yours / doth something take up & shrink the arms of the scripture / which otherwise are so long & large: I say that the word of God containeth the direction of all things pertaining to the church / yea of what soever things can fall into any part of mans life. For so Solomon saith / in the second chapter of the Proverbs. My son / if thou 1receive my words / and hide my precepts. &c. Then thou shalt understand ⟨p. 27⟩justice and judgement / and equity / and every good way. S. Paul saith that