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…

Because I will not draw the reader willingly into more questions then are already put up / I will not stand to dispute / whether the Lords day which we call Sunday (being the day of the resurrection of our saviour Christ / and so the day wherein the world was renewed as the Jews sabbath was the day wherein the world was finished / and being in all the churches in the Apostles times as it seemeth used for the day of the rest and serving of God) ought or may be changed or no. This one thing I may say / that there was no great judgement to make it as arbitrary and changeable / as the hour and the place of prayer. But where was your judgement / when you wrote / that the scripture hath appointed no discipline nor correction for such / as shall contemn the common prayers and hearing the word of God? What church discipline would you have other then admonitions / reprehensions / and if these will not profit excommunication? and are they not appointed of our saviour Christ. ¹There are also civill punishments / and punishments of the body likewise / appointed by the word of God in divers places / in Exodus. He that sacrificeth to other gods / and not to the Lord alone / shall dye the death. And in Deuteronomy. Thou shalt burn out the evil out of the middest of thee / that the rest may ²hear & learn and not dare do the like. The execution of this law appeareth in the Chro. by king Aza / who made a law / that all those that did not seek the Lord should ³be killed. And thus you see the civill punishment of contemners of the word & prayers.

Because I will not draw the reader willingly into more questions then are already put vppe / I will not stand to dispute / whether the Lordes day which we call Sonday (being the day of the resurrection of our sauiour Christ / and so the day wherein the worlde was renued as the Iewes sabboth was the day wherein the world was finished / and being in all the churches in the Apostles times as it seemeth vsed for the day of the rest and seruing of God) ought or may be changed or no. This one thing I may say / that there was no great iudgement to make it as arbytrarie and chaungeable / as the houre and the place of prayer. But where was your iudgement / when you wrote / that the scripture hath appoynted no discipline nor correction for suche / as shall contemne the common prayers and hearing the word of God? VVhat churche discipline would you haue other then admonions / reprehensions / and if these will not profitte excommunication? and are they not appoynted of our sauioure Christe.