A18078:48
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.
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.
All these accusations / as well against the cause / as the favourers thereof / albeit they be many and divers / yet are they no other / then which have been long sithens in the Prophets / Apostles / and our saviour Christs / and now of late in our times objected against the trueth / and the professors thereof. And therefore / as the sun of the truth then appeared / & brake through all those clouds / which rose against it / to stop the light of it: so no doubt this cause / being of the same nature / will have the same effect. And as all those slanders could not bring the truth in disgrace / with those that loved it: so the children of the truth / through these untrue reports / will neither leave the love of this cause / which they have already conceived: nor yet cease to enquire diligently / and to judge indifferently / of those surmises / which are put up against it.
All these accusations / as well agaynst the cause / as the fauourers thereof / albeit they be many and dyuers / yet are they no other / then which haue bene long sithens in the Prophets / Apostles / and our sauior Christes / and now of late in our tymes obiected agaynst the trueth / and the professors therof. And therefore / as the sunne of the truth then appeared / & brake through all those cloudes / which rose agaynst it / to stoppe the lyght of it: so no doubt thys cause / being of the same nature / will haue the same effect. And as all those slaunders could not bryng the truth in disgrace / with those that loued it: so the children of the truth / through these vntrue reportes / will neyther leaue the loue of thys cause / which they haue already conceaued: nor yet cease to enquire dyligently / and to iudge indifferently / of those surmises / which are put vp agaynst it.
Moreover / seeing that we have once overcome all these lets / and climbed over them / when they were cast in our way / to hinder us from coming from the gross darkness of popery / unto the glorious light of the gospel: there is no cause / why now they should stay our course to further perfection / considering / that neither the style is higher now / then it was before (being the very self same objections) and in all this time / we ought so to have grown in the knowledge of the truth / that in stead of being then able to leap over a hedge / we should now have our feet so prepared by the gospel / that they should be as the feet of a hind / able to surmount even a wall if need were.