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Name: A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…
Author: Thomas Cartwright

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.

Thomas Cartwright 1535–1603printed by John Stroud?, 1573

[4], 224 p. · 181k words · STC 4712 · ESTC S120563

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:482p. 90

We read in the Acts / that all the Gentiles were commanded to conform ¹them selves unto the Jews in the abstaining from blood and strangled meat for a time / but we can never find that the Jews were commanded to conform them to the Gentiles in their ceremonies / the reason whereof is / because the one was sometimes the law of God / and therefore he that had conscience in it / was to be borne with / and the other came from men / and out of their forge / which the Lord would never give so much honour unto / as to make other men by any means subject unto them.

We reade in the Actes / that all the Gentiles were commaunded to conforme ¹them selues vnto the Iewes in the abstayning from bloude and strangled meate for a tyme / but we can neuer finde that the Iewes were commaunded to conforme them to the Gentiles in their ceremonies / the reason wherof is / because the one was sometymes the law of God / and therefore he that had conscience in it / was to be borne with / and the other came from men / and out of their forge / which the Lord would neuer geue so much honor vnto / as to make other men by any meanes subiect vnto them.

1Act. 15. 29.

:483p. 90–91

But what if there were no such offices amongst the Gentiles & Pagans / as Archiflamines / or Protoflamines? whereof before I show the conjectures which I have / I must give the (gentle reader) to understand / that I am not ignorant that there are divers which say there were such offices amongst the Gentiles / and namely here in England / that there were. 25. Flamens / and three Archiflamines / whereof were made three archbishops / of London / Canterbury / and York / and. 25. Bishops / as Platina hath in the chapter Eleutherius: And Galfridus Monemutensis in his second book and first chapter. And Lombard in his fourth book speaketh of it / as of a general thing that was in all places where Paganism was. But if so be that the religion of other Pagans did follow / and was like unto that of the Romans (which is very probable) they being then the rulers of the whole world in a manner / unto whose example all men do lightly conform them selves / even without commandment / then there is great likelihood / there were no such archiflamines / or protoflamines out of Tully / which showeth that there was amongst the Romans divers kinds of priests / whereof some were called flamens / of a several attire which

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