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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.
Reply › Answer to the. 50. and. 51. pages.Reply › Answere to the. 50. and. 51. pages.
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.
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.
For we know that after that the devil perceiveth / that men are pulled out of the power of darkness / into the glorious light of the gospel / he sweateth and laboureth by a thousand means to destroy them / & bestirreth him self more then / then in the time of their ignorance / and in stead of that one chain of ignorance / and want of the knowledge of god / he layeth a thousand traps for them / to snare them with. So that the continual danger that the church is in / doth as it were speak unto the pastor in the common proverb. Sparten hen claches kosma: that is / look diligently to that charge which thou haste received. For / if the watchman should forsake the City / whereunto he is appointed / and go and watch in an other / where he is not called / although he save that / if he lose the other / he shall not therefore escape the punishment of betraying the other city / where he was placed watchman.
For we know that after that the deuill perceiueth / that men are pulled out of the power of darknes / into the glorious light of the gospel / he sweateth and laboureth by a thousand meanes to destroy them / & bestirreth him selfe more then / then in the time of their ignorance / and in steade of that one chaine of ignorance / and want of the knowledge of god / he layeth a thousand traps for them / to snare them with. So that the continuall danger that the church is in / dothe as it were speake vnto the pastor in the common prouerbe. Sparten hen claches kosma: that is / looke diligently to that charge whych thou haste receiued. For / if the watchman shoulde forsake the Citie / wherevnto he is appoynted / and goe and watche in an other / where he is not called / althoughe he saue that / if he lose the other / he shall not therefore escape the punishment of betraying the other citie / where he was placed watchman.