A18078:200
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.
But if this epistle and others of M. Bucers with his notes upon the book of Common prayer / which are so often cited / and certain Epistles of M. Peter Martyr were never printed (as I can not understand they were) then besides that you do us injury / which go about to prejudice our cause by the testimonies of them / which we can neither hear / nor see / being kept close in your study: you ⟨p. 34⟩also do your cause much more injury / whilst you betray the poverty and nakedness of it / being fain to ransack & rifle up every dark corner / to find some thing to cover it with. Therefore it were good / before you toke any benefit of them / to let them come forth / and speak their own testimonies in their own language and full out. For now you give men occasion to think / that there are some other things in their Epistles / which you would be loth the world should know / for fear of fall of that / which you would gladly keep.
But if this epistle and others of M. Bucers with his notes vpon ye boke of Common prayer / which are so often cited / and certaine Epistles of M. Peter Martyr were neuer printed (as I can not vnderstand they were) then besides that you do vs iniurie / whych go about to preiudice our cause by the testimonies of them / which we can neither heare / nor see / being kept close in your study: you ⟨p. 34⟩also do your cause much more iniurie / whilest you betray the pouerty and nakednes of it / being faine to ransake & rifie vp euery darke corner / to finde some thing to couer it with. Therefore it were good / before you toke any benefite of them / to let thē come forth / and speake their owne testimonies in their owne language and ful out. For now you geue men occasion to thinke / that there are some other things in their Epistles / whych you would be lothe the world should know / for feare of fall of that / which you would gladly keepe.
There is no man that faith / that it ought to be permitted to every person in the church where he is minister / to have such order or discipline / or to use such service / as he listeth / no man seeketh for it. But to have the order which God hath left in those things which the word precisely appointeth / and in other things to use that / which shall be according to the rules of S. Paul before recited / agreed by the church / and constrained by the Prince.