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…

And first of all / I would gladly ask them / with what advise they have laid on a greater burden and weight of the archbishops and archdeacons shoulders / then the apostles were able to sustain?

And first of all / I would gladly aske them / with what aduise they haue layde on a greater burden and waight of the archbishops and archdeacons shoulders / then the apostles were able to sustaine?

Secondarily / I ask with what boldness / and upon the confidence of what gifts / any man dare take upon him both that which the apostles did / and more too? Then I say that it is too too unskilfully done / to separate order / and discipline from them that have the ministry of the word in hand / as though the church ⟨p. 87⟩without archbishops and archdeacons / were a confused heap / and a disordered lump / when as S. Paul teacheth it to be without them / a body consisting of ¹all his parts and members / comely knit and joined together / wherein nothing wanteth / nor nothing is too much. Doth it not pertain to order / that the apostle saith / that God hath set first apostles / secondly prophets / thirdly teachers? ²are not these words (first / second / third / differences of order? if this be not order / surely I know not what order is. And yet neither archbishop nor archdeacon author of this / and it was kept also before they were hatched.

Secondarily / I aske with what boldnesse / and vpon the confidence of what giftes / any man dare take vppon him both that which the apostles did / and more too? Then I say that it is too too vnskilfully done / to seperate order / and discipline from them that haue the ministerie of the word in hand / as though ye church ⟨p. 87⟩