A18078:231
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.
Fourthly / for that albeit the church is demanded whether it have any thing to object / yet that church whereof he is to be pastor / & which it skilleth especially that he be fit / is not demanded / and which would (because it standeth them upon) inquire diligently of him.
Fourthly / for that albeit the church is demaunded whether it haue any thing to obiect / yet that church whereof he is to be pastor / & which it skilleth especially that he be fitte / is not demaunded / and which would (because it standeth them vpon) inquire dyligently of hym.
Again / they are demanded / which can object nothing of his insufficiency / when for the most part they never see nor heard of before / as one that came of one day unto the town / and goeth away the next.
Agayne / they are demaunded / which can obiect nothing of his insufficiencie / when for the most part they neuer see nor heard of before / as one that came of one day vnto the towne / and goeth away the next.
Further / they have no reasonable space given them / wherein they may inquire or hearken out of his honest conversation: and have some experience of his soundness in teaching and discretion and judgement to rule his flock. But if as soon as ever it be said / to those that are strangers that they should object against them / no man stand forth to object any thing / forthwith he is made a minister. And these are those things wherein I think the book of ordering Ministers faulty / touching the trial and examination of the ministers / which self same things are likewise of the trial of the Deacon. And so you see / that besides the faults of those that execute the law / that there be faults in the laws themselves / and therefore the cause is truly assigned / although you see it not.