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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…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the arguments them selves / they shall be seen what they be in their places / so shall also that be answered / which M. Doctor bringeth here for the Confutation / being straightway after / & in sundry other places repeated in this book. I will touch that which is not repeated / & that is / that M. Doctor maketh it an indifferent thing / for men / & women to receive the supper of the Lord clothed / or naked. This savoureth strongly of the sect of the Adamites.
For the argumentes them selues / they shall be seene what they be in their places / so shall also that be answered / which M. Doctor bringeth heere for ye Confutation / being straightway after / & in sondry other places repeated in thys booke. I will touche that which is not repeated / & that is / that M. Doctor maketh it an indifferent thing / for men / & women to receyue ye supper of the Lord clothed / or naked. Thys sauoureth strongly of the secte of ye Adamites.
S. Paul which commendeth the preservation of godliness and peace / unto 1the civil magistrate / doth also commend unto him the providing / that honesty be kept / and M. Doctor maketh it an indifferent thing / to come either naked / or clothed unto the Lords table: verily there is small honesty in this. And if the heathen which knew not god / did account it a filthy thing for a stage player to come upon the stage without a slop / how much more filthy is it / for a Christian / to come naked unto the Lords table? and the contrary thereof / is necessarily collected of the scripture / notwithstanding that M. Doctor sayeth otherwise. They which have heard M. Doctor read in the schools can tell / that he being there amongst learned men / never used to reduce the contrary arguments of the adversaries / to the places of the fallacions / and yet that was the fittest place for him to have showed his knowledge in / because there they should have been best understood: now that he professeth him self to be a doctor of the people / which because they have not learned these things / can not understand them / he dasheth out his Logic. What may be probably gathered hereof / I leave to every mans consideration: this is certain / that circumstances of place and persons / which he so often urgeth / are not well observed of him / when Logic speaketh in the church / and is mute in the schools: when things are handled more learnedly amongst the people / and more popularly amongst the learned. It is truly said / cakon esti to calon, en ti me kairoutiche. A good thing is evil / when it cometh out of season. But to observe what Art here is showed / I would gladly know what place of the fall actions / either an argument ab authoritate negative is / or of negatives by comparison. Aristotle setting forth places / whereunto all fallacions may be called / maketh no mention of these / and if these were fallacions / and were such as he imagineth them / they should be referred unto the former place / ab eo quod est secundum quid, ad id quod est simpliciter, for these reasons / the scripture hath it not / therefore it ought not to be / or the minister was known by doctrine / therefore by doctrine only / and not by apparel: