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…

Now again / if there should be any Evangelist / who should ordain him? you will say the Bishop. But I say that cannot be / that the greater should be ordained of the less. For the Evangelist is a higher degree in the church / then ¹is the bishop or pastor. And if he be so / why hath he not his estimation here in the Church above the Bishop or Archbishop either? for the Archbishop is but a Bishop / or why doth not he ordain Bishops as Timothy and Titus did / which were Evangelists / being one point of their office as * Eusebius ²declareth.

Nowe againe / if there should be any Euangelist / who should ordaine him? you will say the Bishop. But I say that cannot be / that the greater shoulde be ordained of the les. For the Euangeliste is a higher degree in the churche / then ¹is the byshop or pastor. And if he be so / whye hathe he not hys estimation heere in the Churche aboue the Byshop or Archbyshop eyther? for the Archbyshop is but a Byshop / or whye dothe not he ordaine Byshoppes as Timothe and Titus did / whych were Euangelistes / being one poynte of their office as * Eusebius ²declareth.

1. 1Heb. 7. 7.
2. 2Euseb. lib. 3. cap. 37.

Again / if there be in every church a pastor / as S. Paul commandeth / what should the Evangelists do? for either that pastor doth his duty / and then the Evangelist is superfluous / or if he do it not / then he is no lawful pastor / and so ought he to be put out / & an other to be put in his stead. And where the pastor doing his duty can not suffice / there the scripture hath given him an aid of the doctor / which for because his office consisteth in teaching doctrine / to this end y the pastor might not be driven to spend so much time in propounding the doctrine / but might have the more time to employ in exhorting and dehorting / & applying of the doctrine to the times and places / and persons / it is manifest that he also is tied to a certain church. For how could he be an aide unto the pastor to whose help he is given / onles he were in the same church where the pastor is? And that the Evangelists office hath been so taken as a function that endured but for a time / it may appear first by that which Eusebius writeth / speaking