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…

Cyprian (saith he) speaking of the office of an archbishop. &c. Onles (good reader) thou wilt first believe that Cyprian speaketh of an archbishop / and haste before conceived a strong imagination of it / M. Doctor can prove nothing. Aristotle sayeth that uncunning Painters / write the names of the beasts which they paint in their tables / for because otherwise it could not be known what they paint: so M. Doctor mistrusting that the archbishop will not be known by his description / writeth first the name of that he will paint out.

Cyprian (sayth he) speaking of the office of an archbyshop. &c. Onles (good reader) thou wilt first beleue that Cyprian speaketh of an archbyshop / and haste before conceiued a strong imagination of it / M. Doctor can proue nothing. Aristotle sayeth that vncunning Painters / wryte the names of the beastes whych they painte in their tables / for because otherwise it coulde not be knowne what they painte: so M. Doctor mistrusting that the archbyshop will not be knowne by his description / wryteth first the name of that he wil paint out.

This is it which we strive about / whereof the controversy is / and this M. doctor taketh for granted. He accuseth the authors of the admonition / for faulting in the petition of the principle / or desiring to have that granted which is denied / & yet I am sure / that in the whole admonition / there is not such a gross ⟨p. 99⟩petition as this is. Where / or in what words doth S. Cyprian speak of the office of an archbishop? And here by the way it is to be observed of the reader / how near a kin the Pope and the archbishop be. For this office is confirmed by the same places / that the popes is / the places and arguments which are brought against him / are solved with the same solutions that they use / which maintain the papacy. For these places of Cyprian be alleged for the popes supremacy / and in deed they make as much for the Pope / as for the archbishop. For / although they be two heads / yet they stand upon one neck / and therefore the reformed churches which cut right / did strike them both of at one blow. In neither of the sentences here alleged out of Cyprian / nor in all his works / as hath been before noted / is there one word of an archbishop / and yet M. doctor sayeth that he speaketh of an archbishop.