A18078:643
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.
An other reason of this pomp and stateliness of the bishops was / that which almost brought in all poison and popish corruption into the church / and that is a foolish emulation of the manners and fashions of the Idolatrous nations. For as this was the craft of satan to draw away the Israelites from the true service of God / by their fond desire they had to conform them selves to the fashions of the gentiles: so to punish unthankful receiving of the gospel / and to fulfil the Prophesies touching the man of sin / the Lord suffered those that professed Christ to corrupt their ways by the same sleight of the Devil.
An other reason of thys pompe and statelynes of the byshoppes was / that which almost brought in all poyson and popishe corruption into the church / and that is a foolish emulation of the maners and fashions of the Idolatrous nations. For as thys was the craft of sathan to draw away the Israelites from the true seruice of God / by theyr fond desire they had to conforme them selues to the fashyons of the gentiles: so to punish vnthankefull receiuing of the gospell / and to fulfill the Prophesies touching the man of sinne / the Lord suffered those that professed Christ to corrupt theyr wayes by the same sleyght of the Deuill.
Galerianus Maximinus the Emperor to the end that he might promote the 1Idolatry and superstition whereunto he was addicted / chose of the choicest magistrates to be priests / and that they might be in great estimation gave each of them a train of men to follow them. And the christians and christian Emperors / thinking that that would promote the christian religion that promoted superstition / and not remembering that it is often times abominable before God / which is esteemed in the eyes of men / endeavoured to make their bishops encounter and match with those Idolatrous priests / and to cause that they should not 2be inferior to them in wealth and outward pomp. And therefore I conclude that seeing the causes and fountains from whence this pomp and stateliness of bishops have come / are so corrupt and naught / the thing it self which hath risen of such causes can not be good.