A18078:210
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.
I will not be long / where as you say / that they had nothing but was determined by the law: and we have many things undetermined and left to the order of the church / I will offer for one that you shall bring / that we have left to the order of the church / to show you that they had twenty which were undecided of by the express word of God. For as their ceremonies and sacraments are multiplied above ours / so grew the number of those cases which were not determined by any express word / and therefore▪ I will conclude / that for so much as we have the same laws to direct us in the service of God / which they had / beside that / a noble addition of the new Testament to make things more manifest / and to bring greater light unto the old Testament / we have also precise direction of our religion as they had / and therefore those places of Deuter. stand in as great force now touching the government of the church / as they did then.
I wil not be long / where as you say / that they had nothing but was determined by the law: and we haue many things vndetermined and left to the order of the churche / I will offer for one that you shall bring / that we haue left to the order of the church / to shew you that they had twentie whych were vndecided of by the expres word of God. For as their ceremonies and sacraments are multiplied aboue oures / so grewe the nomber of those cases whych were not determined by any expres worde / and therefore▪ I will conclude / that for so muche as we haue the same lawes to directe vs in the seruice of God / whych they had / beside that / a noble addition of the newe Testament to make things more manifest / and to bring greater light vnto the olde Testament / we haue also precise direction of our religion as they had / and therfore those places of Deuter. stand in as greate force nowe touching the gouernment of the church / as they did then.
And as for the judicial law / for as much as there are some of them made in regard of the region where they were given / and of the people to whom they were given / the Prince and Magistrate keeping the substance & equity of them ⟨p. 36⟩