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…

I see a man can not well serve two masters / but either he must displease the one / and please the other / or by pleasing of one / offend the other. For M. Doctor would fain please / and uphold both / and yet his proofs are such / that every prop that he setteth under one / is an axe to strike at the other. But that M. ⟨p. 114⟩D. delighteth always where he might fetch at the fountain / to be raking in ditches / he needed not to have gone to Justin Martyr for Proestos, when as S. Paul ¹calleth the ministers & Elders by this title. And if this place of Justin make for an archbishop / then in stead of an archbishop in every province / we shall have one in every congregation. For Justin declareth there / the Liturgy or manner of serving God that was in every church used of the Christians. And I pray you let it be considered / what is the office of that proestos, and see whether there be any resemblance in the world / between him and an archbishop. For he placeth his office to be in preaching / in conceiving prayers / in ministering of the sacraments. Of any commandment which he had over the rest of the ministers / or of any such privileges as the archbishop hath / he maketh not one word. It may be / that the same might have the preeminence of calling the rest together / and propounding the matter to the rest of the company / and such like as is before declared. As soon as ever you found proestos, you snatched that by and by / and went your ways / and so deceive your self and others. But if you had red the whole treatise / you should have found that he was proestos, of the people / for thus it is written in the same Apology / Epeita prospheretai to Proestoti ton adelphon artos. Afterward bread is brought to the president of the brethren calling the people as S. Paul doth continually brethren. And therefore these are M. Doctors arguments out of Martyrs place. There was a minister which did stand before / or was president of the rest in every particular church and congregation / therefore there was an archbishop over all the province. And again / there was one which ruled the people in every congregation / therefore there was one that ruled all the ministers through out the whole province.

I see a man can not well serue two maisters / but eyther he must displease the one / and please the other / or by pleasing of one / offend the other. For M. Doctor would fayne please / and vpholde both / and yet hys proufes are such / that euery prop that he setteth vnder one / is an axe to strike at the other. But that M.