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 albeit things were in great purity in the days that Justin lived / in respect of the times which followed / yet as there was in other things (which appear in his works / and even in the ministration of the sacraments spoken of in that place) corruption / in that they mingled water and wine together / so even in the ministry / there began to peep out some thing which went from the simplicity of the gospel / as that the name of proestos, which was common to the elders with the ministers of the word / was (as it seemeth) appropriated unto one.

And albeit things were in great puritie in the dayes that Iustin liued / in respect of the tymes which followed / yet as there was in other things (which appeare in hys workes / and euen in the ministration of the sacramentes spoken of in that place) corruption / in that they mingled water and wine together / so euen in the ministerie / there began to peepe out some thing which went from the simplicitie of the gospel / as that the name of proestos, which was common to the elders with the ministers of the word / was (as it seemeth) appropriated vnto one.

Another of M. Doctors reasons / for to prove the archbishop / is / that Cyril maketh mention of an high priest / whereunto I answer / that he that bringeth in a priest into the church / goeth about to bury our saviour Christ / for although it might be proved that the word priest were the same with the Greeks presbyteros, yet (as shall appear in his place) is the use of this word (priest) for a minister of the gospel very dangerous. And as for him that bringeth in an high priest into the church / he goeth about to put our saviour Christ out of his office / who is proved in the Epistle to the Hebrews to be the only high priest / and ¹that there can be no more as long as the world endureth. And yet if all this were granted / you are not yet come to that which you desire to prove / that is / an archbishop. For if you look in Theodorete / you shall find this word ²archierosyne, which signifieth the high priesthood / to be nothing else but a bishopric / and in the. 7. chapter of that book / and so forth divers times / you shall have archiereus, taken for a bishop / as speaking of the council of Nice / he saith that there was. 318. archiereis, high priests. Now I think you will not say there were. 318. archbishops. If you do / you are confuted by all ecclesiastical writers that ever I red / which speaking of them / call them bishops.