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 the holy ghost in Figures and Tropes doth so carefully / and as a man may speak / curiously comprehend all things: in the truth it self / how much more is it to be thought that he hath performed this? If in the shadows / how much more in the body / if he have done this in earthly things / and which are perished / how is it to be thought that he hath not performed it in heavenly / and those which abide for ever? And then tell me what are those times / of which it was said / the Messiah when he cometh / will tell us all? Is it a like thing ¹that he which did not only appoint the temple and the tabernacle / but the ornaments of them / would not only neglect the ornaments of the church / but also that / without the which (as we are borne in hand) it can not long stand? shall we think that he which remembered the bars there / hath forgotten the pillars here? or he that there remembered the pins / did here forget the master builders? should he there remember the besoms / and here forget Archbishops / if any had been needful? there make mention of the snuffers to purge the lights / and here pass by the lights them selves? ⟨p. 85⟩And to conclude / that he should make mention there of the moats / and here say nothing of the beams? there reckon up the gnats / here keep silence of the Camels? what is this else / but that which Aristotle saith / ta mikra horan kai ta megala paroran: that is / to look to small things / and not to look to great / which if it can not fall into the Lord / let it be a shame to say that the chief pillar and upholder of the church / is not expressed in the scripture / nor can not be concluded of it.

Nowe if the holy ghoste in Figures and Tropes dothe so carefully / and as a man may speake / curiously comprehende all things: in the truthe it selfe / howe muche more is it to be thought that he hath performed this? If in the shadowes / howe muche more in the body / if he haue done this in earthly things / and which are pearished / how is it to be thought that he hath not performed it in heauenly / and those whych abide for euer? And then tell me what are those times / of which it was sayd / the Messias when he commeth / will tell vs all? Is it a like thyng ¹that he whych did not only appoynt the temple and the tabernacle / but the ornaments of them / woulde not only neglecte the ornamentes of the churche / but also that / wythout the whych (as we are borne in hand) it can not long stande? shall we thinke that he which remembred the barres there / hathe forgotten the pillers heere? or he that there remembred the pinnes / did heere forget the master builders? shoulde he there remember the besomes / and heere forget Archbyshops / if any had bene needefull? there make mention of the snuffers to purge the lights / and heere passe by the lightes them selues?