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 whereas M. Doctor in both places of Cyprian / seemeth to stand much upon the words (One Bishop and priest) the reason thereof doth appear in an other place of Cyprian / most manifestly / and that it maketh no more to prove that ¹there ought to be one archbishop over a hole province / then to say / that there ought to be but one husband proveth / that therefore there should be but one husband ⟨p. 102⟩in every country or province / which should see that all the rest of the husbands / do their duties to their wives. For this was the case. A Novatian heretic being condemned / and cast out of the churches of Africa / by the consent of the bishops / & not able by embassage sent to them to obtain to be received to their communion and fellowship again / goeth afterwards to Rome / and being likewise there repelled / in time getteth him self by certain which favoured his heresy / to be chosen bishop there at Rome (Cornelius being the bishop or pastor of those which were there godly minded) whereupon it cometh / that Cyprian urgeth (one bishop / one priest in the church) because at Rome there was two / whereof one was a wolf / which ought not to have been there / considering there was but one church / which was gathered under the government of Cornelius. And therefore by that place of Cyprian it can not be gathered / that there ought to be but one bishop in one city / if the multitude of professors require more / and that all can not well gather them selves together in one congregation / to be taught of one man / much less can it serve to prove / that there should be but one in a whole diocese or province. I grant that in later times / and which went more from the simplicity of the primitive church / they took occasion of these words to decree / that there should be but one bishop in a city / but that can never be concluded of Cyprian's words / if it be understanded why he urgeth one bishop and one priest.

And whereas M. Doctor in both places of Cyprian / semeth to stand much vpon the wordes (One Byshop and priest) the reason thereof doth appeare in an other place of Cyprian / most manifestly / and that it maketh no more to proue that ¹there ought to be one archbyshop ouer a hole prouince / then to say / that there ought to be but one husbande proueth / that therefore there should be but one husbande