A18078:263
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.
This I confess that the Greek Ecclesiastical writers / have sometimes ⟨p. 46⟩used it so / but you must remember that S. Luke could not learn to speak of them that came two or three hundred years after him / but he borrowed this phrase of speech of those that were before him / and therefore speaketh of elections as they did. So that you see this shift will not serve.
Thys I confesse that the Greeke Ecclesiasticall wryters / haue sometimes ⟨p. 46⟩vsed it so / but you muste remember that S. Luke coulde not learne to speake of them that came two or three hundreth yeares after him / but he borrowed thys phrase of speache of those that were before him / and therfore speaketh of elections as they did. So that you see thys shift will not serue.
Let us therefore see your third: which is / that although the Churches consent was then required / yet is it not now / and that it is no general rule / no more then (say you) that all things should be therefore common now / because they were in the Apostles time.
Let vs therfore see your third: whych is / that although the Churches consent was then required / yet is it not nowe / and that it is no general rule / no more then (say you) that all things should be therfore common now / because they were in the Apostles time.
The authors of the Admonition / with their favourers / must be counted Anabaptists / no one word being showed which tendeth thereunto / you must accuse them which confirm that foundation whereof they build their community of all things / which is one of their chief heresies. If I should say now that you are like to those that row in a boat / which although they look backwards / yet they thrust another way / I should speak with more likelihood than you have done. For although you make a countenance / and speak hotly against Anabaptists / yet in deed you strengthen their hands with reasons. But I will not say so / neither do I think that you favour that sect / but only the whirlwind and tempest of your affection bent to maintain this estate / whereby you have so great honour and wealth / driveth you upon these rocks to wrack your self on / and others.