A18078:597
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.
Master Calvin first is cited / to prove those offices of archbishop / primate / patriarch / the names whereof he can not abide / and as for him he approveth only / that there should be some ▪ which when difficult causes arise / which can not be ended in the particular churches might refer the matters to synods and provincial councils and which might do the offices which I have spoken of before of gathering voices. &c.
Maister Caluin first is cited / to proue those offices of archbyshop / primate / patriarche / the names whereof he can not abyde / and as for hym he approueth only / that there should be some ▪ which when difficult causes arise / which can not bee ended in the particulare churches might referre the matters to sinodes and prouinciall councels and which myght do the offices which I haue spoken of before of gathering voyces. &c.
But that he liketh not of those dominations and large jurisdictions or at all of the bishops or archbishops / which we have now / it may appear plainly enough / both in that place / when as he will have his words drawn to no other then the old bishops / shutting out thereby the bishops that now are / as also in other places / and namely upon the Philippians / where (reasoning against 1this distinction between pastor and bishop / and showing that giving the name of bishop to one man only in a church / was the occasion why he afterward usurped domination over the rest) he saith after this sort: In deed I grant (saith he) as the dispositions and manners of men are / order can not stand amongst the ministers of the word / unless one be over the rest / I mean (saith he) of every several and singular body / not of a whole province / much less of the whole world.
But that he lyketh not of those dominations and large iurisdictions or at all of the byshoppes or archbyshops / which we haue now / it may appeare playnly enough / both in that place / when as he will haue hys wordes drawen to no other then the olde byshoppes / shutting out thereby the byshoppes that now are / as also in other places / and namely vpon the Philippians / where (reasoning agaynst