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 if any man will say / that in such great scarcity of pastors / it is good that when a man hath travelled in one place / and removed them from superstition / and brought them to believe in God through Christ / to go to an other place / and assay also to draw them from idolatry: First I urge that which I did before / which is the calling wherein every man must abide / and without y• which no man ought to attempt any thing. Then I say that it is as hard a province / & as painful a thing unto the pastor / as acceptable and precious a work unto the Lord / to keep those which are gotten / as to get those which are not gotten / and that that saying is fulfilled here (if in any thing else.)

Nowe if any man will say / that in suche great scarcitie of pastors / it is good that when a man hath trauelled in one place / and remoued them from superstition / and brought them to beleue in God through Christ / to goe to an other place / and assay also to draw them from idolatrie: First I vrge that whych I did before / whych is the calling wherin euery man must abide / and wythout y• whych no man ought to attempt any thing. Then I say that it is as hard a prouince / & as painfull a thing vnto the pastor / as acceptable and precious a worke vnto the Lord / to keepe those whych are gotten / as to gette those whych are not gotten / and that that saying is fulfilled heere (if in any thing else.)

Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri.

It is as great a virtue to keep that which is already gotten / as to have got it.

It is as great a vertue to kepe that whych is already gotten / as to haue got it.