A18078:241
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 as it is not lawful for us / to follow the example of Christ in calling of Paul / by admitting those which are new converted / having a contrary precept given / that no * new plant / or green christian / should be taken to the ministry: 1So is it not lawful / to follow that example of our saviour Christ / the contrary being commanded / as I have before alleged. For albeit the examples of our saviour Christ be to be followed of us / yet if there be commandments general to the contrary / then we must know / that it is our parts to walk in the broad and beaten way / as it were the common causey of the commandment / rather then an outpathe of the example.
But as it is not lawfull for vs / to follow the example of Christ in calling of Paul / by admitting those which are new conuerted / hauing a contrary precept geuen / that no * new plant / or greene christian / should be taken to the mynisterie: 1So is it not lawfull / to follow that example of our sauiour Christ / the contrary being commaunded / as I haue before alledged. For albeit the examples of our sauiour Christ be to be followed of vs / yet if there be commaundementes generall to the contrary / then we must know / that it is our partes to walke in the broade and beaten way / as it were the common caussie of the commaundement / rather then an outpathe of the example.
I know Ambrose was taken newly from Paganism / to be bishop of Milan / for the great estimation & credit he had amongst the people / but besides that I have showed / that such things are unlawful being forbidden. The errors and corrupt expounding of scriptures / which are found in his works / declare that it had been more safe for the church / if by study of the scriptures / he had first been a scholar of divinity / or ever he had been made doctor. There may be more examples showed out of that / which you call the primitive church / to the contrary of that which you say. For when they used often times against those that had so fallen such severity (in deed extreme and excessive) that they were never after / until their deaths admitted to the Lords table: I leave to you to think / whether they would then suffer any such to execute the function