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 that I have proved that there are no Evangelists / Prophets / or Apostles / and that the ministries of the word which remain / are limited unto certain places / I will take that which you grant / that is / that the pastor or bishop / ought to have a special flock. And demand of you wherefore he should have it? is it not to attend upon it? and can he attend upon it / onles he be resident and abiding upon it? but he can not be abiding upon it / if he go from place to place to preach where he thinketh necessary: therefore being pastor or bishop of a congregation allotted unto him / he may not go from place to place to preach where he thinketh good / much less to have a mastership of a college in one corner of the land / a deanery in an other / and a prebend in the third / and so be absent from his pastoral charge in such places / where either he preacheth not / or needeth not to preach / those places being otherwise furnished without him. For them how is this difference kept between the pastor & other ministers / that the one is tied to a place / & the other is not. For if you say that it is in that he shall preach more at his flock / then at other places / I answer that the Evangelists and Apostles did tarry longer in one place then in another / & taught some congregations years / when they did not other some months. And therefore they say nothing / which allege for the non residence of pastors / that S. Paul called Timothy & Titus from Ephesus and Crete. For first they were Evangelists and no pastors / then ¹they went not of their own heads / but called of the apostle which was a chief governor of the church. And thirdly they went not / but having other sufficient put in their place / as it appeareth in their several Epistles / so that if that place make any thing / it maketh not to prove the non residencie / but rather whether a minister may be translated from one church to an other.

Now that I haue proued that there are no Euangelists / Prophets / or Apostles / and that the ministeries of the worde whych remaine / are limited vnto certaine places / I will take that whych you graunte / that is / that the pastor or byshop / ought to haue a speciall flocke. And demaund of you wherfore he should haue it? is it not to attend vpon it? and can he attend vpon it / onles he be resident and abiding vpon it? but he can not be abiding vpon it / if he go from place to place to preach where he thincketh necessary: therfore being pastor or bishop of a congregation allotted vnto him / he maye not goe from place to place to preache where he thinketh good / muche les to haue a mastership of a colledge in one corner of the land / a deanrie in an other / and a prebend in the third / and so be absent from his pastorall charge in such places / where either he preacheth not / or nedeth not to preach / those places being otherwise furnished wythout him. For thē how is this difference kept betweene the pastor & other ministers / that the one is tied to a place / & the other is not. For if you say that it is in that he shall preach more at his flocke / then at other places / I answer that the Euangelists and Apostles did tary longer in one place then in another / & taught some congregations yeres / when they did not other some monethes. And therefore they say nothing / whych alledge for the non residence of pastors / that S. Paule called Timothe & Titus from Ephesus and Crete. For first they were Euangelists and no pastors / thē