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…

For I will omit that he speaketh there against all pomp in the ministry / all worldly superiority or highness / because I love not to write out whole pages / as M. Doctor doth out of other mens writings / to help to make up a book.

For I will omit that he speaketh there against all pomp in the ministery / all worldly superiority or highnes / because I loue not to wryte out whole pages / as M. Doctor doth out of other mens wrytings / to helpe to make vp a boke.

M. doctor closeth up this matter with M. Fox / but either for fear that the place should be found that there might be answer / or for fear that M. Fox should give me the solution which hath given you the objection / he would neither quote the place of the book / nor the book it self / he having written divers. You can not speak so much good of M. Fox / which I will not willingly subscribe unto. And if it be any declaration of good will and of honour / that one beareth to an other / to read that which he writeth / I think I have red more of him / then you. For I have red over his book of Martyrs / and so I think did never you. For if you had red so diligently in M. Fox / as you have ben hasty to snatch at ¹this place / he would have taught you the forgery of these Epistles / whereout you fetch your authorities / and would have showed you that the distinguishing of the orders of metropolitans / bishops / and other degrees / which you say sometimes had their beginnings in the apostles times / sometimes you can not tell when / were not in Higinus time / which was a. 180. years after Christ. I perceive you fear M. Fox is an enemy unto your archbishop and primate / & therefore it seemeth you went about to corrupt him with his praise / and to seek to draw him / if it were possible / unto the archbishop / and if not / yet at the least that he would be no enemy / if he would not / nor could not be his friend. You make me suspect that your praise is not hearty / but pretended / because you do so often & so bitterly speak against all those that will not receive the cap and surplice / and other ceremonies / whereof M. Fox declareth his great misliking. For answer unto the place / because I remember it not / nor mean not to read over the whole book to seek it / I say first as I said before / that there may be some thing before or after / which may give the solution to this place / especially seeing M. Fox in another place / proving the