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 unto the end that these testimonies might be more authentical / & have some weight in them / M. Doctor addeth / that hitherto antichrist had not invaded the seat of Rome. You shall have much a do / to prove that antichrist had not invaded the sea of Rome / when your Clement / Anaclete / Anicete / and Damasus wrote. Nay / it is most certain / that then he had possessed it. But what is that to the purpose / although there was no one singular head appeared / or lifted up / yet corruption of doctrine / and of the sacraments / hurtful ceremonies / dominion and pomp of the clergy / new orders and functions of the ministry / which were the hands that pulled him / the feet which brought him / the shoulders that lifted and heaved him up into that seat / were in the church. Neither / while you do thus speak / do you seem to remember that this monster needed ⟨p. 97⟩nine months / but almost nine hundred years / to be framed and fashioned / or ever he could with all his parts be brought to light. And although the Lover of this antichristian building were not set up / yet the foundations thereof being secretly / and under the ground laid in the apostles times / you might easily know / that in those times that you speak of / the building was wonderfully advanced and grown very high. And being a very dangerous thing to ground any order or policy of the church upon men at all / which in deed ought to have their standing upon the doctrine and orders of the apostles / I will show what great injury M. Doctor doth / to send us for our examples and patterns of government to these times / which he doth direct us unto.

And vnto the ende that these testimonies might be more autenticall / & haue some waight in them / M. Doctor addeth / that hetherto antichrist had not inuaded the seat of Rome. You shall haue much a do / to proue that antichrist had not inuaded the sea of Rome / when your Clement / Anaclete / Anicete / and Damasus wrote. Nay / it is moste certaine / that then he had possessed it. But what is that to the purpose / althoughe there was no one singulare head appeared / or lifted vp / yet corruption of doctrine / and of the sacraments / hurtful ceremonies / dominion and pompe of the cleargye / newe orders and functions of the ministerie / whych were the handes that pulled hym / the fete whych brought him / the shoulders that lifted and heaued him vp into that seate / were in the church. Neither / while you doe thus speake / doe you seeme to remember that this monster needed ⟨p. 97⟩