A18078:239
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.
If I should stand with you / whether Peter his forswearing that he knew not Christ / were a greater fault then to go from the gospel to idolatry / and there in / for some long space to continue / as the Levites did / I should trouble you. For if a man / suddenly and at a push / for fear / and to save his life / say and swear he is no christian / and the same day repent him of his fault / although it be a great and heinous crime / yet it seemeth not to be so great / as his is / which not only denieth Christ in words / but doth it also in deeds / and worshippeth Antichrist / and continueth in that worship / not a day / but months / and years.
If I should stand with you / whether Peter his forswearing that he knew not Christ / were a greater fault then to go from the gospell to idolatrie / and there in / for some long space to continue / as the Leuites dyd / I shoulde trouble you. For if a man / sodenly and at a push / for feare / and to saue his life / say and sweare he is no christian / and the same day repent him of hys fault / although it be a great and haynous cryme / yet it seemeth not to be so great / as his is / which not only denyeth Christ in words / but doth it also in deedes / and worshippeth Antichrist / and continueth in that worship / not a day / but moneths / and yeares.
But I will answer you / that even as our saviour Christ called S. Paul in the heat of his persecution / & when he was a blasphemer unto the Apostleship / so he having the law in his own hands / and making no laws for him self / but for us / might call S. Peter also to that function / which had thrice denied him.
But I wil answere you / that euen as our sauiour Christ called S. Paule in the heate of his persecution / & whē he was a blasphemer vnto the Apostleship / so he hauing the law in his owne handes / and making no lawes for him selfe / but for vs / might call S. Peter also to that function / which had thrise denyed him.