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…

For want of store / and to make a long book / here is S. Johns mitre rehearsed thrice in one leaf to the same purpose / and in the same words. And because it was not enough that M. Bullinger / and M. Martyr should speak of them / you have prevented them both / least you should have seemed to have brought nothing. If this be not Coleworts twice sodden / I can not tell what is.

For want of store / and to make a long boke / heere is S. Iohns miter rehearsed thrise in one leafe to the same purpose / and in the same wordes. And because it was not enough that M. Bullinger / and M. Martyr should speake of them / you haue preuented them both / least you shuld haue semed to haue brought nothing. If this be not Coleworts twise sodden / I can not tell what is.

You ask whether the christian magistrate may enjoin a several kind of apparel to the ministers. Either the cause is too weak which you defend / or else it hath gotten an evil patron / which would so gladly shift it / and change it with an other. For this is an other question which you speak of. For although that be granted unto you / which you demand / yet you can not conclude your cause. For all be it the magistrate may command a several apparel / yet it followeth not that he may command this kind of popish apparel / and therefore what manner of argument is this of yours / the magistrate may command a ⟨p. 74⟩several apparel / therefore he may command this. The college walls will tell you / that a man can not conclude from the whole to the part affirmatively. So you see I might let you fish / and catch nothing / but I am neither afraid / nor ashamed / to tell you the truth of that you ask / so far forth at least as I am persuaded. I think therefore it may be such a kind of apparel / as the magistrate commanding it / the minister may refuse it / and such it may be / as he may not refuse it. But whatsoever apparel it be / this commandment can not be without some injury done to the minister. For seeing that the magistrate doth allow of him / as of a wise / learned / and discrete man / and trusteth him with the government of his people in matters between God and them / it were somewhat hard not to trust him with the appointing of his own apparel / and he is probably to be supposed that he hath discretion to wear his own gear comely / and in order / that is able to teach others / how they should wear theirs? and that he should be able to do that by his wisdom / and learning / that others do without learning and great store of wisdom / & that he should keep order and decency in apparel / which hath learned in the school of Christ / which they do that had never other schoolmaster / then common sense and reason? And if any minister be found to fault / in going either dissolutely / or to exquisitely and delicately / then the Magistrate may punish him according to the disorder wherein he faulteth.