A18078:501
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.
And I am moved so to think. First / because it is not like / that one only ordained bishops / being contrary to the old Canons of the best councils / but that there were other / and that this whom Ambrose calleth archbishop / did gather the voices. &c.
And I am moued so to thincke. First / because it is not like / that one only ordained byshops / being contrary to the olde Canons of the best councelles / but that there were other / and that thys whome Ambrose calleth archbyshop / dyd gather the voyces. &c.
Secondly / because it was very unlike / that there was any absolutely / above S. Ambrose / in those parts where he complaineth of evil bishops / or ministers made.
Secondly / because it was very vnlike / that there was any absolutely / aboue S. Ambrose / in those partes where he complaineth of euill byshops / or ministers made.
Thirdly / for that Ambrose in an other place (which you after cite) dividing all the church into the clergy and laity / doth subdivide the clergy into bishops / elders / and deacons / and therefore it is not like that there was any which had any continual function of archbishop. But as he was called choregos or leader of the dance / which cometh first / and after coming in again in the second or third place / is no more so called: so that bishop was called archbishop / which for the time present did gather the voices of the rest of the bishops / which he by & by laid down with the dissolving of the meeting. And that this is not my conjecture only / that there was no ordinary or absolute archbishop / let the Centuries be seen / which allege that place of Ambrose / to prove that the office of an archbishop / was not then come into the church / which was. 400 years after Christ / and more also.