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…

You ask farther / that if a man should not preach before he have a pastoral charge / what they will answer unto Phillip and Epaphroditus / whereby your meaning is belike / that although they be no pastors / yet they may be evangelists which go about the country here and there▪ But this office is ceased in the church / as the apostles is / saving that sometime the Lord doth raise up some extraordinarily / for the building up of the churches which are fallen down / & pulled up by the foundations / as I have showed somewhat before. And that it is ceased / it may appear by these reasons.

You aske farther / that if a man should not preach before he haue a pastoral charge / what they will answere vnto Phillip and Epaphroditus / wherby your meaning is belike / that although they be no pastors / yet they may be euangelists whych goe about the countrey heere and there▪ But this office is ceased in the church / as the apostles is / sauing that sometime the Lord doth raise vp some extraordinarily / for the building vp of the churches whych are falne downe / & pulled vp by the foundations / as I haue shewed somewhat before. And that it is ceased / it may appeare by these reasons.

First / for because all those that the scripture calleth precisely Evangelists / (which are only Phillip and Timothy) had their callings confirmed by miracle / ¹and so it is like that Titus / and Silvanus / and Apollos / and if there were any other / had their vocations after the same manner confirmed / but there is no such miraculous confirmation now / therefore there is no such vocation. For albeit those that God hath raised up in those dark times / and overthrows of the church / whereof mention is made before / as M. Luther. &c. had not their •allings always confirmed by direct and manifest miracles of hearing or raising up from the dead: yet the marvellous success and blessing that the Lord gave unto their labours / were sufficient seals unto all men / that although they had no ordinary calling / nor by men / yet they were sent of God? That I speak nothing of the miraculous deliverances that some of them had out of dangers / by warning given of perils by those which were never seen before nor after / and by such like wonderful means / as are to be seen in stories.