A18078:302
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 if councils be of so great authority to decide this controversy / then the most famous council of Nice will strike a great stroke with you / which in an Epistle that it writeth unto the Church of Egypt (as Theodoret maketh mention) speaketh thus. It is meet that you should have power both to choose any man / and to give their names which are worthy to be amongst the clergy / and to do all things absolutely according to the law and decrees of the church. And if it happen any to dye in the church / then those which were last taken / are to be promoted to the honour of him that is dead / with this condition / if they be ⟨p. 54⟩worthy / and the people choose them / and the bishop of the city of Alexandria together giving his consent / and appointing them.
But if councelles be of so great authoritie to decide thys controuersy / then the most famous councell of Nice will strike a great stroke with you / which in an Epistle that it wryteth vnto the Church of Egipt (as Theodoret maketh mention) speaketh thus. It is meete that you should haue power both to chuse any man / and to geue their names which are worthy to be amongst the clergye / and to doe all things absolutely according to the law and decrees of the churche. And if it happen any to dye in the churche / then those which were last taken / are to be promoted to the honor of him that is dead / with thys condition / if they be ⟨p. 54⟩worthy / and the people chuse them / and the bishop of the citie of Alexandria together geuing his consent / and appoynting them.
An other of the famousest councils / called the council of Constantinople / which was gathered under Theodosius the great (as it is witnessed by the * Tripartite 1story) in an Epistle which it wrote to Damasus the pope / and Ambrose and others / saith thus. We have ordained Nectarius the bishop of Constantinople / with the whole consent of the council / in the sight of the Emperor Theodosius beloved of God / the whole City together decreeing the same. Likewise he saith that Flavian was appointed by that synod / bishop of Antioch / the whole people appointing him.