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 how cometh it to pas that S. Paul being at Rome in prison / and looking every day when he should give up his last breath / commended unto the church a perfect and an absolute ministry / standing of .v. parts / wherein he maketh ¹mention / not one word of an archbishop: and sayeth further / that that ministry is able to entertain the perfect unity / and knitting together of the church? Do not all these things speak / or rather cry / that there was not so much as a step of an archbishop / in the apostles times? And if you will say / that the apostles did ordain archbishops (as you have in deed said / & do now again) when as there is not one word in the writings of them / I pray you tell us / how we shall hold out of the church / the unwritten verities of the papists? for my part / if it be true that you say / I can not tell what to answer unto them. For our answer is to them / the apostles have left a perfect rule of ordering the church written / and therefore we reject their traditions / if / for no other cause / yet because they are superfluous / and more then need. Now this degree of archbishop / being not only not mentioned in the scriptures / but also manifestly oppugned / it is too bold and hardy a speech (that I say no more) to fetch the pedigree of the archbishop / from the apostles times / and from the apostles them selves. But all this time M. Doctor hath forgotten his question / which was to prove an archbishop / whereas all these testimonies which he allegeth / make mention only of a bishop / and therefore this may rather confirm the state of the bishop in this realm / than the archbishop. But in the answer unto them it shall appear / that as there is not in these places so much as the name of an archbishop mentioned / so except ⟨p. 106⟩only the name of a bishop / there shall be found very little agreement between the bishops in those days / and those which are called bishops in our time / & with us.

And how commeth it to pas that S. Paule being at Rome in prison / and loking euery day when he should geue vp hys last breath / commended vnto the church a perfect and an absolute ministery / standing of .v. parts / wherin he maketh ¹mention / not one word of an archbyshop: and sayeth further / that that ministery is able to entertain the perfect vnity / and knitting togither of the church? Do not all these things speake / or rather cry / that there was not so much as a step of an archbyshop / in the apostles times? And if you will say / that the apostles did ordaine archbyshops (as you haue in dede sayd / & do now againe) when as there is not one word in the wrytings of them / I pray you tell vs / how we shall hold out of the church / the vnwrytten verities of the papists? for my part / if it be true that you say / I can not tell what to answer vnto them. For our answere is to thē / the apostles haue left a perfect rule of ordering the church wrytten / and therfore we reiect their traditions / if / for no other cause / yet because they are superfluous / and more then neede. Now this degree of archbishop / being not only not mentioned in the scriptures / but also manifestly oppugned / it is too bold and hardy a speache (that I say no more) to fetch the petegree of the archbyshop / from the apostles times / and from the apostles them selues. But all thys time M. Doctor hath forgotten hys question / whych was to proue an archbyshop / wheras all these testimonies whych he alledgeth / make mētion only of a bishop / and therfore thys may rather confirme the state of the byshop in this realme / thē the archbyshop. But in the answere vnto them it shall appeare / that as there is not in these places so much as the name of an archbyshop mentioned / so except