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…

But in the end you agree that they / should be tried / so that now the question standeth only / how and by what means: wherein you for your part say / that the book of ordering ministers / is a sufficient and good rule. I have red it / and yet I can not commend it greatly. But you will say / not with judgement or indifferency. I will promise you with this indifferency / that I wished / that all that is there / were good and convenient / and such as I might say unto / so be it. With what judgement I do disallow it / I leave it to all men to esteem upon these reasons.

But in the ende you agree that they / shoulde be tryed / so that nowe the quection standeth only / howe and by what meanes: wherein you for your part saye / that the booke of ordering mynisters / is a suffycient and good rule. I haue red it / and yet I can not commende it greatly. But you will say / not wyth iudgement or indifferencie. I will promise you with this indifferencie / that I wyshed / that all that is there / were good and conuenyent / and such as I myght say vnto / so be it. Wyth what iudgement I doe disalow it / I leaue it to all men to esteeme vpon these reasons.

First / that the examination of his doctrine / wholly / and partly of his life / is permitted to one man. For considering of the one part the greatness of the charge that is committed unto the ministers / and the horrible peril that cometh unto the church by the want of those things that are required in them and of the other part weighing the weakness of the nature of man / which although he seeth many things yet he is blind also in many / and that even in those things which he seeth / he suffereth him self to be carried away by his affection of love or of envy. &c. I say / considering these things it is very dangerous / to commit that to the view and search of one man / which may with loss danger and more safety be referred unto divers. For herein the proverb is true / plus vident oculi quam oculus.¹

First / that the examynation of hys doctryne / wholely / and partly of hys life / is permitted to one man. For consydering of the one parte the greatnesse of the charge that is committed vnto the mynisters / and the horrible pearill that commeth vnto the church by the want of those thinges that are required in them and of the other parte wrighing the weakenesse of the nature of man / which althoughe he seeth many thinges yet hee is blynde also in many / and that euen in those thinges which he seeth / he suffereth hym selfe to be caryed away by his affection of loue or of enuie. &c. I say / considering these thinges it is very daungerous / to commit that to the view and searche of one man / which may wyth losse danger and more safetie be referred vnto dyuers. For herein the prouerbe is true / plus vident oculi quam oculus.