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…

The causes why we are loth to meddle with them / are not as many are borne in hand / because that we think any pollution so to stick to the things ⟨p. 72⟩them selves / as that the wearing of them had any such power to pollute & make unclean the users of them: neither yet only because the papists have superstitiously used them / but because they having been abominably abused by them / have no use nor profit in those things or ends / wherein and whereunto they are now used. And further that they are also hurtful / being monuments of idolatry / whereas to bring them in and establish them / it behoveth that there should some manifest profit of them appear. For it is not enough to say it is indifferent in the own nature / Ergo meet to be done: but as the circumstances of the times and persons and profit or hurt of our brethren do require / or not require / so must it be done / or not be done. For in these things which are called indifferent / God will have the use of them to be measured / that it be referred first to his glory / then to the profit of others. Now / that they are not profitable and hurtful / it also may appear if we consider them by all the kinds of men in the realm.

The causes why we are lothe to meddle with them / are not as many are borne in hand / because that we thincke any pollution so to sticke to the thinge• ⟨p. 72⟩them selues / as that the wearing of them had any suche power to pollute & make vncleane the vsers of them: neyther yet only because the papistes haue superstitionsly vsed them / but because they hauing beene abhominably abused by them / haue no vse nor profite in those thinges or endes / wherein and whereunto they are now vsed. And further that they are also hurfull / being monuments of idolatrie / whereas to bring them in and establishe them / it behoueth that there shoulde some manyfest profite of them appeare. For it is not enoughe to say it is indifferent in the owne nature / Ergo meete to be done: but as the circumstances of the times and persones and profite or hurt of our brethren do require / or not require / so must it be done / or not be done. For in these thinges which are called indifferent / God will haue the vse of them to be measured / that it be referred first to his glory / then to the profite of others. Now / that they are not profitable and hurtfull / it also may appeare if we consider them by all the kindes of men in ye realme.