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…

An answer to that which is called a brief examination of the reasons used in the Admonition to the Parliament.

An answere to that which is called a briefe examination of the reasons vsed in the Admonition to the Parliament.

IF the scriptures had been applied to the maintenance of the abomination of the mass / and some other of the grossest of antichristianitie / you could have said no more / nor used vehementer speech then this / that they are most untollerably abused / and unlearnedly applied. And then where is charity / which ¹covereth the multitude of faults / especially in brethren / when you do not only not cover them / but also take away their garments / whereby they are covered. I will not deny / but that there be some few places quoted / which might have been spared / but there are a great number / which (M. Doctor) tosseth & throweth away so lightly / which he shall perceive to sit nearer him / then he is / or at the least seemeth to be aware of. And to bring to pass that y• quotations in the margin might appear to the reader more absurd / M. Doctor hath besides the advantage which he taketh of the faults of the Printer / used two unlawful practices especially. Whereof the one is / that where as the admonition doth quote the ⟨p. 10⟩scripture / not only to prove the matters which it handleth / but sometimes also to note the place from whence the phrase of speech is taken. M. Doctor doth go about to make his reader believe / that those places which be alleged for proof of the phrase / are quoted for proof of the matter. The other practise is / that where the Admonition (for the shortness which it promiseth / and was necessary in that case) could not apply the places / M. Doctor presuming too much of the ignorance of his reader / thought he might make him believe / that any thing else was meant by those places / then that which they meant in deed / and for which they were alleged. And where you say the quotations are only to delude such. &c. I see you hold it no fault in your self / which you condemn so precisely in others / that is / to judge before the time / to sit in the conscience / to affirm definitely of their thoughts / contrary to their own protestation. But seeing you lift up our imperfections so high / and set them as it were upon a stage for all men to be looked of / to the discredit of the truth which we do maintain: You shall not think much / if your poverty be pointed unto / in those things wherein you would carry so great countenance of store.